On the last Sunday of November, 2015, we asked the people of the church to make this pledge: So here are my questions as the month of December winds down: 1. Did you make a "Pause Pledge"? 2. To what extent did you keep your "Pause Pledge"? 3. What...
Christmas Eve sermons are a challenge. For one . . . what can you say that people haven't heard before? For two . . . should you even say anything that people haven't heard before? For three . . . how best approach the evening? Gently? Boldly? Evangelistically? ...
Here's what we got:
Here's an unusual Top Five Tuesday . . . the five best things that happened in church this past Sunday at Good Shepherd. 1. Chris Macedo & Team's haunting, chilling, gorgeous version of Christmas Hallelujah. So good, in fact, that I want to give you the chance...
Thrones has kind of taken me by surprise. In a good way. We've had salvations, we've had tears, we've had anointed music, and yesterday we had this as a bottom line: Incomplete knowledge doesn't prevent complete surrender....
This is not a political statement: Instead, this is what Jesus looked like when his mother Mary and her cousin Elizabeth had a remarkable conversation we find in Luke 1:39-45. I can't wait to dig into that passage with you on Sunday. We'll excavate and then...
As we dive headlong into the Christmas season and its nativity stories, I have found myself in a couple of different settings explaining how each Gospel begins. Because I believe that how each begins also shapes how each one ends. Let me show you what I mean. Matthew...
Here is our 2015 Christmas Card:
I love hearing people talk. Especially when, with the best of intentions, they get important words just a little bit wrong. So here are five of my favorite most mispronounced words: 1. It has to begin with a personal story. When I was 17, I was captain of our high...
With the way my mind and my psyche work, I very rarely have last-minute inspirations. Yet yesterday, while eating breakfast at 5:45 in the morning, I had one. I realized how we needed to bring the service to a close. Here's the bottom line of the message you'll read...