Julie and I took off on Christmas Day for several days away, and so Chris Thayer, our Zoar Campus Pastor, preached "live" at Moss and via hologram to Zoar. I gave Chris some unusually specific direction for this message -- he knew he was concluding the series Wait For...

Well, you could hardly have a Good Shepherd series called Wait For It and NOT title one of the Sundays "The Waiting Is The Hardest Part," could you? So this Sunday both the sermon series AND 2018 wind up with a message called exactly that. We have our NORMAL Sunday...

This Christmas made me think of the one when I was 16, in Dallas, and ALL I wanted was the cassette tape of Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy album.  That was IT. (Unfortunately, in a behavior pattern that continues in many respects to this very day, I didn't tell...

This is an unusual preaching week, which means it is also an unusual blogging week. Sunday's message in the Wait For It series was called Worth The Wait and I was delighted to see the impact it at on so many lives in our church. Then for Christmas Eve the series went...

Yesterday's message ... Came from Galatians 4:1-7, not a section of Scripture normally associated with Christmas; Celebrated how Paul reveals that family as much as forgiveness is at the heart of faith; Led to this bottom line:  You can stop fighting for approval and...

One of my favorite novelists is John Irving. He's the author of books that are both critically acclaimed and wildly popular, such as The Word According To Garp, A Prayer For Owen Meany, and The Cider House Rules. Most Irving novels blend high hilarity, deep pathos,...

I found this ornament on my desk this week. And I thought:  "There's someone who understands what makes me tick." It's an ornament based on the Wait For It Series. And it has my Sunday morning Breakfast Of Champions. What more could I want?  

When I went to college, ministry was not on my mind.  I had headed up north for school, recognizing that pro tennis was likely not going to work out, and therefore I should get a top notch education.  After that? Law school is what I figured.  My father had been a law...

Yesterday's message was ORIGINALLY supposed to be delivered last Sunday, December 9, but we of course were snowed out. Yet I knew we HAD to present this one.  Why?  Well, I liked the exegetical work on Jeremiah 33.  I liked the metaphor of wood.  I liked the bottom...