Sometimes it’s easy to feel as if the whole world is against you. When you have a run of difficulty in life, it’s tempting to believe that forces beyond your control have lined up to rob you of meaning, purpose, and happiness. But what if the reality was much different than that?  What Read the full article…

Yesterday, my friends at Wesleyan Accent (www.seedbed.wesleyanaccent.com) published an original piece I wrote for them on a pastoral approach to addiction to pornography. Here it is, slightly amended: ————————————————————————————————————— It happened again a few months ago. A young man made an appointment with me at the church, came into my office at the expected time, sat Read the full article…

Maybe it was the climactic scene from Sunday’s Lose To Gain short film. Or maybe it was the lovely story I heard at Tuesday night’s All You Sons And Daughters concert. Or maybe it was the realization of how many male staffers at Good Shepherd are dads with daughters. Or maybe it was the simple truth Read the full article…

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 that compensates for not doing much work.” Now:  I did Read the full article…

If you’ve been to Good Shepherd for more than five minutes, you know that we are all about “inviting all people into a living relationship with Jesus Christ.”  We say it, we repeat it, we preach it, we publish it, and one of these days we may even sing it. What you may not know, Read the full article…