It will be interactive and inspiring. It will be participatory and passionate. It will be educational and edifying. It will be the Body of Christ better understanding the body of Christ. Thank-A-Thon. Sunday. 8:30, 10, 11:30 at Good Shepherd Moss Campus. 9, 10:30 at...
When you pastor a church with a mission of inviting all people into a living relationship with Jesus Christ ... And when you believe how people respond to Jesus is decisive not only in history but for eternity ... Then this question assumes a new urgency: When are...
Yesterday's message ... Began with a tug of war demonstration; Explored Paul's use of jealousy to motivate the Corinthians to generosity; Paved the way for the people of Good Shepherd to offer prayerful pledges of their support in 2019; Landed at this bottom line: ...
This Sunday, I will begin my message in a way I have never begun a message before. Never. But I can't tell you what it is. You'll need to be there in person. It's ThanksLiving, Week 3, and it's called What A Privilege To Carry. Sunday. 8:30, 10, 11:30 at the Moss...
This comes from my high school yearbook (called "The Highlander") when I was a senior in 1980. I I I I won the Intramural Ping Pong -- er, table tennis -- Championship. I know adidas was super glad to get the free publicity.
Last Sunday (November 11) was my first message in 2018's ThanksLiving series. The bottom line I eventually uncovered/discovered has some real "stickiness" to it, but the process of arriving there was anything but simple. Here's what I mean. I first had the Scripture...
I have a confession: earlier in my ministerial career I treated any conversation about church mission statements with the dreaded eye roll. "Not again," I thought. "There goes someone pontificating about mission and vision, which if you ask me is just a lot of talk...
Yesterday's message ... Led to a nerve-wracking yet liberating "open mic" time; Raised the possibility that the nine people with with leprosy who DIDN'T come back in Luke 17 might not have had healing that endures; Taught that nothing happens by accident in Luke...
As we anticipate the Christmas season and its nativity stories, I have found myself in a couple of different settings explaining how each Gospel begins. Because I believe that how each begins also shapes how each one ends. Let me show you what I mean. ...
Yesterday, I posted about the Weekend Wedding of our daughter Taylor to Nate Underwood in Nashville, Tennessee. As part of our trip to Nashville, Julie and I dropped by the United Methodist Publishing House, to meet Brian Sigmon, a young man twenty years my junior (!)...