1. I like the title. 2. It's an important subject. 3. Drumroll please . . . it for sure has my favorite promo video of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9qupwemqNA Sunday. 8:30. 10. 11:30. Who will you invite?
A few years ago, I bought The Collected Sermons Of Fred B. Craddock. Craddock, who died earlier this year, was a long-time professor of preaching at Emory University's Candler School Of Theology. So, coming from a graduate of Asbury Seminary, this post is almost like...
In her memoir Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake, Anna Quindlen offers these reflections on marriage, longevity, and parenting: If a marriage is to endure over time, it has to be because both people within it have tacitly acknowledged something that young lovers might...
I missed church on Sunday. But I had a really good reason to do so. Julie and I spent this weekend in Queens, New York, taking in two full days of the US Open tennis tournament. With all the travelling Julie does for her job, both flights and accomodations were...
This ad came in an e-blast from Christianity Today magazine: The opening line makes me sound kind of like preaching's Stephen King, but I kinda like it.
Romans 1:16-17 is a clarion call for New Testament Christians. It also sets the agenda for the rest of the letter: 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the...
I'm going to be a bit arbitrary here: "contemporary Christian" music really started in the 1970s. That's when churches and their leaders first discovered that if they could communicate gospel truths in the (relatively) new medium of pop/rock music, they could reach...
I had a sermon yesterday. It was even pretty good. But it did not compare with the video that closed it. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPlKB7B9zY Leaving your mark isn't about what you accomplish; it's about who you influence.
This Sunday evening, scores of folks will Take The Plunge into the waters of baptism at Good Shepherd. Many of them have explained to us in writing why they want to go public by getting wet. Here are a few of the reasons: From 8 year old: Jesus died on...
A friend recently gave me a copy of Andrew Murray's Abide In Christ. Murray was a South African pastor and author from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and this particular work is a classic devotional treatment of Jesus' words in John 15. While doing my...