How's that for a title? Five songs sung by artists for whom I have no special, enduring fondness. Yet songs which, no matter when I hear them, I listen all the way through as if they were from the Eagles themselves. So there they are. Five songs of random greatness:...

Yesterday's worship gathering at Good Shepherd led to a LifeGroup Launch event on Sunday morning. In previous years, we have held these events on either a Monday or Tuesday night. That was even my tentative plan for ReGroup. But then several staffers came up with a...

During a recent address in Dallas, Texas, Dr. Jason Byassee, professor of homiletics at Vancouver School of Theology and a clergy member of the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, shared this thought: In the mainline we have pushed...

This came across my desk recently, having been written by a Good Shepherd young adult on the back of a Comment Card.

This week, a large number of students who have grown up at Good Shepherd ventured off to college. Many of them headed to Clemson, others to UNC or NC State, a few to USC (the one in Columbia, South Carolina, not Los Angeles, California) and still others stayed in the...

Yesterday's message ... Hinged on the idea that the ancient Israelites "lost" portions of Scripture because ultimately they didn't "like" them;Hypothesized that memory is tied to motivation while forgetfulness is linked to inconvenience;Re-iterated a theme from many...

Looking through some old files on Wednesday, I found this piece from a 1966 edition of the Dallas Times Herald that I had never seen before. As I read it, I realized that this little conversation is exactly the kind of thing my mother would find witty enough that...

As we continue to navigate what we want Good Shepherd to do and be and how we want it to feel, the following distinction keeps roaming around in my head: Are our experiences therapeutic or theocentric? Now those are big sounding words but they actually communicate...

There are some things about which I have irrational fears. These are the kinds of things that keep me up at night or give that sinking feeling in my stomach if I'm already awake. So here they are: 5. That I'll drive up one Sunday and NO ONE will be at church. Of...

Yesterday's sermon ... Began with 'the most jarring phrase' in the biblical library;Paused for the Apostle's Creed;Contrasted that which sizzles with that with substance;  Included invitations for a daily email of Reading Prompts for Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians,...