Yesterday my friend Fabian Avigliano sent me this message: What is the big deal about October 4? It's when Good Shepherd returns to live, indoor worship as a community. The times are changed. The setting will be different. The expectations altered. But the Gospel...
Julie and I spent the early hours of Labor Day hiking alongside the Catawba River. Which, of course, got me thinking: what are some good songs that capture the movement and mystery of rivers? Here they are: One. River, by Jason Isbell. This is the newest -- and best...
My friend and colleague Ron Dozier, who has served on staff at Good Shepherd since 2007, delivered the message yesterday. Called "Embrace The Grace" and coming from 2 Corinthians 8, here it is: 2 Corinthians 8:1-5, 9 "Turning Obstacles into Opportunities" I...
The CURRENT ISSUE of Inside Tennis Magazine , Texas Tennis History Issue, has a special cover from way back in 1977. That's right. As part of an October 2020 issue celebrating Tennis History in the Lone Star State, the magazine included the cover of the 1977 Texas...
My son-in-law Nate Underwood is the Co-Founder and Brewmaster of the Harding House Brewing Company in Nashville. That's him, third from left, in the photo below. The beers Nate creates are creatively crafted, uniquely local, and seasonally brewed. To those...
We say it a lot at Good Shepherd: the bible is not a book; it’s a library. We say it so much, in fact, that an elementary schooler in our church actually corrected her school teacher who had dared to refer to the bible as a book. “No ma’am,” the Good Shepherd...
Yesterday's message ... Benefitted from a mid-week bottom line upgrade ... a helpful example of "sounding out the sermon" in advance, realizing the existing bottom line was 'meh' and a new one emerged; Began with the shared trauma of the middle school lunch room...
Chris and Shevon Rowe are terrific. I think you'll like their story: https://www.facebook.com/GoodShepherdCharlotte/videos/352367875924312/
Not long ago, I read Psalm 48:9 as part of my weekend version of starting the day in the Word and not in the world. Here's what it says: "Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love." So what happened when I meditated on his unfailing love? I...
I've spent more time than you might suspect in traditional churches. After all, when I first started going to church there were no other options! So I've spent time in high church Presbyterian, middle church Methodist, low church Baptist, and all points in between....