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...

Well, advance copies of these arrived in my office a few days ago. In my right hand you see The Shadow Of A Doubt and in my left hand is The Storm Before The Calm.  Both have an official release date of September 15, 2015, but Abingdon Press was kind enough to send me...

During the height of his Reformation battles, Martin Luther reportedly said, "Here I stand; I can do no other."  With slightly lower stakes and sometimes lesser motivations, popular musicians have turned their songs into the same kind of statements.  These songs...

Sunday's sermon brought out the English major in me. Huh? By that I mean it all hinged on John's use of language -- his wordplay, really -- in describing the circumstances around Peter's three-fold denial of Jesus.  At every turn in the story, Peter is either a...

What do Elton John . . . . . . the Gospel of John . . .     . . . and the Movementum series have to do with each other?   Quite a lot, as you'll see on Sunday. 8:30.  10.  11:30.

We're adding a parking lot. We're remodeling buildings. We're hiring staff. We're mobilizing volunteers. We're praying over the site. We're replicating what it means to invite all people into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. We're getting ready for Good...

From the ages of 8-18, I had one goal in life: to become the number one tennis player my age in the state of Texas. The good news is that it actually happened. After a string of second place finishes, I finally won it all when I was 17. I liked it well enough that I...

Listen below are some biographies I have read and thoroughly enjoyed in recent years. I'm not including either autobiographies or memoirs in this list -- primarily because there are a lot more Tuesday ahead for which I must find top five something. So here we are with...