Here's why:  click on this link and watch the video.We played a slightly edited version of that bile-inducing footage during yesterday's message.  As you might imagine, the response was shock and disgust.And, I suspect, in some quarters the reaction...

Week 1 of Home was full of large crowds, high energy, and an exciting announcement.I wonder what Week 2 will provide as we go exploring in the Man Cave?Sunday.8:30.  10.  11:30.

I've been wondering about some things that people may think but are hesitant to say.  Including me.Here goes . . . .1.  If reversing 2,000 years of Christian teaching regarding sexual practice was the key to revitalizing the church as a whole, then the...

Some months ago, my cyber-friend John Meunier posted a marvelously brief summary of the heart of Wesleyan-Methodist thinking:All need to be saved.All can be saved.All can know themselves to be saved.All can be saved to the uttermost.Naturally, my first...

As many of you know, January 2013 at Good Shepherd will be all about Home: part sermon series, part Radical Impact Project, all leading to the concluding Sunday (January 27) where the entire Sunday offering will leave the church and buy a home for those precious,...

Yesterday we launched into Home, which is both a sermon series and a Radical Impact Project.  You can read more about it here.And the first message came from the concluding words of Jesus' Sermon On The Mount:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of...

Homes. We build them, we buy them, we decorate them, we renovate them, and sometimes we even tear them down. But we all know that a home is really the sum of the relationships that take place inside it – the complicated web of roles and responsibilities that we share...

We're putting an enormous amount of effort into this next series at Good Shepherd -- a month-long effort called, simply, Home.It's a multi-layered project, complete with meetings, prayers, meals, songs, devotions, a dedicated Facebook page with its own QR code, and a...

I've been thinking about the unique connections between preaching, salaries, and leadership recently.In most workplace settings, employees clearly work for those who pay their salaries.If you work in a large company, for example, you more than likely work for your...

I saw again yesterday morning why we at Good Shepherd have a Prayer Room in our church.At the conclusion of the 10:00 a.m. worship service -- I didn't preach but instead got to enjoy a fabulous-first-sermon-ever by Chris Thayer, our Director of Discipleship -- I found...