I have noted with many of you before the difference between people who "think to talk" and those who "talk to think." Think to talkers ponder, meditate, and plan what they are going to say before they ever say it. Talk to thinkers process their thoughts verbally. ...

On a weekend in which we wrestled with sub-human acts across the globe, in the Good Shepherd Worship Center we focused on what it means to be a human being. Specifically, I tried to make a connection between the feel good generosity event known as Operation Christmas...

So this is the Sunday. We receiving our Operation Christmas Child boxes. We gave them out two weeks ago, along with the reminder that you're touched locally so you can touch globally. And now, as human beings, you can do just that. If you weren't with us on November 1...

Some things you just don't see anymore  . . . . . . A wooden tennis racket (Wilson Jack Kramer!); . . . Short shorts.  Really short shorts; . . . A one-handed backhand; . . . All that hair.  

Last night, we had our Zoar Impact Gathering, a meeting designed to set the vision and recruit high impact volunteers for our new campus on Zoar Road. The highlight of the evening was the talk given by Chris Thayer, who is the Campus Pastor for the site.  I was more...

As a lot of you know, I write these sermons eight weeks out. When I finish writing one, I put it in my "Sermons In Progress" file and then essentially don't look at it again until the Monday before I am to preach it the following Sunday. So for "Human Nature," I wrote...

During a hospital visit some time ago, a young woman said quietly to me, “I like the church because there are all different races there. I wouldn’t want to go to a church that was just all white or all black.” Music to my ears, of course. And then she said something...

As I posted last week, my friend and colleague James-Michael Smith is leading "Let's Talk About Sex," a four week class on developing a mature, biblical sexual ethic. Last night's session focused on The Song Of Songs and was titled, appropriately enough, Hot Bible...

Many if not most of you have never heard of Mike Campbell, who is the lead guitarist of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers. He didn't play The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock like Jimi Hendrix. He didn't play the mind-bending solo on Heartbreaker like Jimmy Page. No one ever...