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...

I have recently realized that much of my bible reading is in order to prove a point.  If I am in a religious or political or cultural debate with someone, for example, then I'll just pull out my Scriptures, point out the relevant verses, and voila!  Point...

In December of last year, the Kennedy Center Honors Program paid special tribute to Led Zeppelin as part of its annual show.And the highlight of that particular segment was the version of Stairway To Heaven led by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart.  The Heart...

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,...