Here is our faith-sharing tool for this Sunday's culmination of Every Life Counts. Yep. Movie tickets. The goal of the series has been to equip, enable, and inspire the people of Good Shepherd to share the gospel. That's why our teaching has centered on 1) one...
From Len Wilson: The Top 25 Fastest Growing Large United Methodist Churches In The USA
Blogger, pastor, and statistical analyzer Len Wilson has compiled a list of the 25 fastest growing large (over 1,000 per Sunday) United Methodist Churches in the USA. You might recognize #19. And since our 2014 attendance jumped to 1,974, our five year growth rate...
Top Five Tuesday — How A Text Message With My Son Leads To Top 5 Rock Frontmen
On Sunday evening, I received the following text message from my 22 year old son Riley, a college senior at UNC-Chapel Hill. I knew he was on his way to a spring break trip in northern Florida. (Now, before you read what's below, imagine all the messages a college...
Will You Be Next? A Sermon I DIDN’T Preach But The People Of Good Shepherd Did
Here are the preachers from yesterday at Good Shepherd: That's Eleanor Barley, Bryant Pressley, and Shekinah Carpenter. All three gave encouraging words about just who had invited them into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. And in each case it...
Every Life Counts, Week 4 — Will You Be Next?
Lord knows . . . I love my routines. And just getting back from India makes me eager to step back in to them For example, did you know that I have not had a Nutrageous since February 22? So I had one for breakfast this morning. No, make that two. Anyway, my love for...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things You Might Not Have Known About Theodore Roosevelt
For the last couple of months, I have been reading Edmund Morris' biographical trilogy of Theodore Roosevelt: The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt. I have never paid much attention to our 26th president but once I got started on these...
Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” As You’ve Never Heard It Before
I am in India. Kashmir is in India. Ergo -- Led Zeppelin on xylophone. You're welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYuOZnAqQCY#t=132
#TBT — The Older I Get, The Better I Used To Be
This is one of my favorite "old" tennis pictures of them all. It was October of 1979, this event was in San Antonio, Texas, I am wearing all adidas clothes, and I won the whole tournament. I don't know who took the photo, but I remember feeling on top of the world...
How India Wakes Up
As you read this, my friend James-Michael Smith and I are in Bhubaneswar, India, preparing to work with two different pastoral networks. Here are some reflections about "waking up in India" that I summarized on my second trip here back in 2012. One of our hosts here...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things You See In India You Don’t See In The U.S.A.
As you look at this post, I am with my friend and colleague James-Michael Smith in Odisha State, India, preparing to work with two different networks of indigenous pastors here. While in India, we won't see the Taj Mahal. We won't see the Sisters Of Mercy mission in...