Here’s what’s up: Tonight, Friday, March 10 at 7 p.m., we’re having another Night Of Worship in the Moss Road Worship Center.  Full on, full color, all out Holy Spirit celebration. You won’t want to miss it. Saturday March 11 before you go to bed — SPRING FORWARD!  Make sure to advance your clocks / Read the full article…

Here’s a childhood picture I shared with our staff on our Whimsy-Centric Staff Meeting Day (everyone had to submit a baby picture and then we took turns guessing who was who).   Some highlights from this day: It was a Dinosaur Party because my mom didn’t want me to have a Batman Party.  I was Read the full article…

Over the last two weeks, we’ve had a new guest at Good Shepherd, a man who is in the middle of relocating to the Carolinas from another part of the country. On his first Sunday among us, Ron Dozier was preaching and I was sitting in the congregation.  Our new guest approached me before the service even began, Read the full article…

This blog title is a bit presumptuous as it suggests I’ve got it all figured out. Well, I don’t. Yet for a variety of reasons, Good Shepherd has long had financial health as a church. In the worst of the 2008-2009 recession, for example, we had our best of years up to that time in Read the full article…

So Peter’s advice to Christians threatened with persecution, execution, and annihilation is so absurd, so preposterous, so over-the-top in lunacy, that it must be true. Nestled in I Peter 4:16, it’s this:  “but praise.” The authorities are ransacking the church, you’ve seen your friends fed to lions or burned at the stake, you fear a Read the full article…