How You Know Good Shepherd Is A Full Color Church

I received this email on Friday morning, July 8 and considered sharing it with the congregation yesterday. Ultimately, I opted not to. Perhaps the written form is better.   (My regular sermon rewind post will appear on Tuesday.)   On this day when my heart...

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I Get No Respect At Good Shepherd . . .

Here was the GS Feed from this past Sunday . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1sE_kxCLY&feature=youtu.be   So, am I funding my own insurrection? Or is something more beautifully benign at work? I report, you decide.

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You Only Get Rid Of . . .

I bet this happens in your life because I know it happens in mine. Somewhere in your house—or your workplace, or your car—stuff collects. For me, it’s the garage. Things just seem to collect in my garage. And in my case the “stuff” is usually little slips of paper:...

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The “Gideon Is More Than A Hotel Bible” Sermon Rewind

I felt so good about Sunday's sermon that I considered giving it on a Sunday other than the 4th of July weekend. But then I realized that God knows what he is doing, and that he would ensure those who needed the message the most would experience with clarity. So I...

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To Illustrate? Or Animate?

We preachers spend a lot of time and energy trying to bring life to our sermons through what have historically been called illustrations. Donald Grey Barnhouse, longtime pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, compiled the most famous collection of such...

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Crash Test Dummies Launch — “Last Things First”

You’ve seen them, haven’t you? They ride in the front seats of expensive cars and drive headlong into a brick wall. And then they do it again And again. They’re crash test dummies. Why do they keep doing the same dumb thing over and over again? Why do we?...

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Inviting All People . . . In All Places

In the picture below, you will see our India ministry partners alongside six young people with whom they were able to celebrate baptism.   The young people who were baptized live a region of known for worship of a particularly "powerful" native goddess.  Locals...

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