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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...