Rob Wegner of Granger Church in Indiana coins a beautiful phrase in his book Share The Well:The Immensity Of SmallnessI love that. It reminds us that vision casting without an action plan is mere daydreaming. It assures us that every significant...
Both in my seminary preparation for ministry and then again in my early years of parish work, I heard certain voices of authorities offer specific morsels of wisdom that I took to be gospel truth. So I internalized them, repeated them, and practiced them in...
A critical part of the just-completed Home series was an exploration of the role men play in a healthy, functioning household.As well as an examination of the role men play in creating the sickening demand for underage girls that leads to the traumatized supply of...
You remember this. Dorothy, Toto, red shoes, and a nice witch:Click here. It's true. There really is no place like home.Which is what the grand finale of the Home series is all about. Providing a home that heals for some young girls who desperately need...
Among the many communications we have received about the Home sermon series and Radical Impact Project, the most moving was an email I received from a woman in our church.She shared about the impact of growing up in a home where her father watched and was ensnared by...
Here is what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how we expect it to happen in the Home series: What Is The Home Campaign?Home is both a sermon series and a Radical Impact Project that Good Shepherd is embracing in January of 2013. From the sermon side,...
Over the past week, I've waxed-almost-eloquent about Louie Giglio, United Methodist Bishop Melvin Talbert, John Hiatt, and the nature of Scripture.So today, I'm returning to something much more comfortable for Top Five Tuesday: my own indiosyncracies.Those...
I spent Friday night and Saturday morning at Bethelwoods Retreat Center near Rock Hill, SC, learning about leadership with the Board of Good Shepherd.Eight men and five women gathered together to sit under the tutelage of Good Shepherd member Brent...
Week Three is here.We've got a Facebook page, LifeGroup Liaisons, leadership meetings, and student projects.I can honestly say I've never worked more focused hours or with more personal discipline than on this project.And I've never liked being a pastor...
By now many of you may be familiar with the brouhaha over Louie Giglio's invitation to and subsequent withdrawl from from offering the invocation at President Obama's second inaugural ceremony later this month.Giglio was originally invited to give the prayer...