Yesterday's message ... Allowed me to introduce our local partners in No Longer Slaves, Lily Pad Haven Ministries.Drew from God's words through Malachi to the children of Israel;Focused on the image of the Refiner's Fire.Led to this bottom line: God removes debris to...

Forget Head Scratchers. My REAL first book was "University Park Football" and had a release date of Fall, 1968. The book tells about a game involving the University Park Mustangs (we lived in the Dallas enclave of University Park and my to-die-for team was the SMU...

I practice my sermons before I deliver them. Every day. I've been doing it for as long as I've been preaching without notes, which is almost as long as I have been preaching. And then, while preparing the forthcoming book Simplify The Message & Multiply The Impact...

Recently, a United Methodist clergy colleague suggested in an online conversation that John Mellencamp is essentially a fraud, having gained his popularity because his manager must have given payola to various radio programmers to get his sons abundant airplay. That...

Yesterday's message ... Connected Galatian relapse with modern day human trafficking;Suggested that the sickening demand fueled in part by Christian men leads to the traumatized supply of girls trapped up modern day slavery; Reminded people who want one giant leap...

You know who was Born To Be Wild, don't you? It's in every fiber of my being, obviously. Actually, as part of our ministry of empowerment in South Asia, we distributed about 40 bicycles and two motorbikes. I reluctantly left this one here. Too bad. It was such a...

So proud of Dorothy Hobson and Linda Land who led multiple breakout sessions with both our ministry groups. Their conversations focused on inner healing and from the looks of things, they got some as well.

During a recent mission trip with a team from Good Shepherd, I had the extraordinarily good fortune to sit once again under the teaching of James-Michael Smith. James-Michael is a former staffer and current member of Good Shepherd while also developing an itinerant...

Along with Wayne Hobson, our Pastor of Congregational Care, I am currently on a teaching team in South Asia. To know Wayne is to love Wayne, and here is some of what I've learned from him when he takes us through First Peter. The beauty of God's word is that it never...

Did you know that over the last decade the people of Good Shepherd have given more than $700,000 to fight human trafficking? Did you know the more people are in slavery around the world today than at any other time in human history? Did you know that the scourge of...