Yesterday's message ... Came from my friend and colleague Devin Tharp, our Family Ministries Pastor and Team Leader of the Beautiful Marriage Movement; Interrupted the "Famous Last Words" series so that Devin could share freely and personally; Was delivered...
This is "Team Texas" from the National Intersectional Championships held on the campus of TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, in July of 1979 There I am on the far left, looking younger and skinnier and shorter than all the others. Because I was. Nevertheless, after some...
Welcome Andrea Rouse We are pleased to announce that Andrea Rouse has joined the GS staff as a Student Ministry Coordinator, where she will be working with Mathew Hargett as they invite all students into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. Her first day will be...
In honor of the upcoming Fourth Of July holiday, here are my five favorite songs with an "American" theme. Rock songs are rarely "pro-American" -- we've got Toby Keith for that -- but more often convey an ambiguity about the distance between American ideals and...
Yesterday's message ... Acknowledge a bible verse I don't like very much; Included a rare "please write these three things down" moment regarding leadership; Built to a poignant video that shows what Good Shepherd At Home is like during pandemic; Led to this bottom...
Our Communications Team is chronicling how the people of Good Shepherd have grown in their living relationship with Jesus Christ during pandemic. So today ... meet the Stoltenbergs: https://www.facebook.com/GoodShepherdCharlotte/videos/1161412037585639/
In speaking with a preacher friend recently, I mentioned that the early part of every sermon needs to surface a problem that needs to be solved or expose an itch that needs to be scratched. Really, then, sermon openings invariably involve predicaments. I want the...
Last Wednesday I had cataract surgery. Quick backstory: I have worn contact lenses since I was 16 ("You mean you're supposed to be able to SEE the individual leaves on trees? Who knew?!"). About six years ago, I began to need reading glasses for "close in" vision;...
Yesterday's message ... Coined a new song: "Insulting Grace." Trademark efforts to come; Offered reflections on Muddy Methodist Theology from a generation or so ago; Encouraged listeners to be out of step with current culture as long as they are in touch with...
This happened 40 years ago this week: It's from the finals of the 1980 Texas Sectionals Championship for Boys' 18-and-under at the McFarlin Tennis Center in San Antonio. I won the match and the tournament by beating Neil Adams 6-4, 6-2. As far as I can tell, I am...