Yesterday, near the beginning of our worship gatherings, we announced the amount of the previous week's financial offering.See, we spent the month January teaching about the scourge of domestic sex trafficking of under-age girls, the complicity of many church men...
We are plugged in, aren’t we? We’ve got mobile phones, portable tablets, and all-purpose laptops. If anything happens anywhere in the world – or even just right around the corner – we’re going to know about it. But what if in all that communication with the...
I guess I feel like the timing was providential.Wait, that makes me sound . . . Calvinist.So the timing was . . . prevenient.Timing of what? The report I received this week from some of our partners in ministry in eastern India regarding a baptism. A...
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...