Here’s what a Good Shepherd friend put up in her office following Sunday’s sermon. If God is for us who can be against us? Answer: No one.  No thing.  No how.

As a lot of you know, James-Michael Smith and I traveled to Odisha State, India from February 22 to March 5.   This is the fourth time Good Shepherd has ministered in this area, and each time our emphasis is on training and encouraging local pastors to do the work of ministry in their towns Read the full article…

Remember albums? Remember when song choice and song order mattered? Remember when artists wanted to tell a story with how they arranged their music and so a record’s  closing song carried special significance? I do. So here they are: my Top Five Album Closers of them all. 1.  The Beatles, Golden Slumbers Medley from Abbey Read the full article…

To start 4U, a series drawn entirely from Romans 8:31-39, we imagined what it was like for Paul to DICTATE his letter to Tertius, his scribe (see Romans 16:22 for that). This is actually how most of the letters in the New Testament got written . . . I mean, spoken.

Most people who give the subject any thought (and that’s not “most people” to begin with) assume that St. Paul wrote his New Testament letters by sitting down and composing them on pen and parchment. But that’s not what happened.  Instead, we know from the closing chapters of several of his epistles that he dictated his letters to Read the full article…