I spent a good chunk of yesterday at Clemson University speaking with a group of students from the Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity. The trip and the talk was the brainchild of Clemson student and DSP officer Cory Brooks whom I have known since he was four years old...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Required Resources For “Simplify The Message & Multiply The Impact”
As a lot of you know, the Western North Carolina United Methodists invited me to lead a monthly preaching workshop (technically called a "cohort") for sixteen emerging and established pastors in our area. I am both excited about and energized by the assignment. You...
One Sixty-Seven, Week 2 — The “The Oldest Religion In The World” Sermon Rewind
For sometime now, I have been amazed/saddened/perplexed at all the ways people say to God (in so many words): I know better. So I put it into a sermon. Labelling the serpent's seed of doubt in the woman's mind as the Oldest Religion In The World, I walk the people...
One Sixty-Seven, Week 2 — “The Oldest Religion In The World”
Well, what is it? What is the "oldest religion in the world"? Is it Christianity? No. Older. Judaism? No. Older. Hinduism? No. It's old, but there's something older. Idol worship? No. That's really old, but there's something older. To see what is the oldest religion...
#TBT — State Title, 1978 … Happy Story With A Sad Ending
Here is the Park Cities News from May 17, 1978: The photo and the accompanying story came in the aftermath of a Texas high school doubles state championship that Chris Doane and I won on behalf of Highland Park High School in Dallas. He was a senior, I was a...
The WORST Question To Ask In A #BibleStudy
We write a lot of LifeGroup questions at Good Shepherd. In fact, we have a For Further Conversation section in our Sunday morning worship bulletin virtually every week -- and many of our LifeGroups use that material (and the sermon that prompted it) as their...
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things I’ve Learned This Week
A week of random learning and unexpected realizations, summarized right here. Here are the Top Five Things I've Learned JUST This Week: Good Shepherd sermons are now available as podcasts at the iTunes store. Wha-what?! 2.Roger Federer will achieve the #1...
One Sixty-Seven Launch: The “What A Fool Believes” Sermon Rewind
Planning. Praying. Dreaming. Scheming. Empowering. Aligning. That's why I am so excited about One Sixty Seven: everyone is aligned. Children, teens, G3 groups, existing LifeGroups, Sunday worship, and daily blogs. All aligned. That alignment showed through this...
“One Sixty-Seven” Launch — “What A Fool Believes”
Whew. I've been dreaming, scheming, planning, preparing, and praying over the One Sixty-Seven series for months now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYj247kOx4&list=PL7-AUK00EOsrhl392uAe8icIeyVT9LSEZ We have 130 G3 groups signed up already. Our Children's...
Writing Your Prayers
Earlier this week, I received this email from a Good Shepherd friend. The email came in response to a section of Sunday's sermon on Psalm 13 in which I mentioned that for the past 18 months I have been writing the majority of my prayers. (If you think that is somehow...