When you grow up in a Roman Catholic family in New York City, becoming a pastor’s wife is simply not on your radar. Yet that’s what happened to my wife, Julie. To say she is not a “typical” pastor’s wife would be an understatement.  She doesn’t play the pipe organ, bake with the auxiliary (whatever Read the full article…

Here is our faith-sharing tool for this Sunday’s culmination of Every Life Counts. Yep.  Movie tickets. The goal of the series has been to equip, enable, and inspire the people of Good Shepherd to share the gospel.  That’s why our teaching has centered on 1) one question to help one person take one step closer to Read the full article…

Blogger, pastor, and statistical analyzer Len Wilson has compiled a list of the 25 fastest growing large (over 1,000 per Sunday) United Methodist Churches in the USA. You might recognize #19.  And since our 2014 attendance jumped to 1,974, our five year growth rate would move to 28% by the most recent statistics. Anyway, I admire Read the full article…

On Sunday evening, I received the following text message from my 22 year old son Riley, a college senior at UNC-Chapel Hill.  I knew he was on his way to a spring break trip in northern Florida.  (Now, before you read what’s below, imagine all the messages a college student on the way to a Read the full article…

Here are the preachers from yesterday at Good Shepherd:     That’s Eleanor Barley, Bryant Pressley, and Shekinah Carpenter.  All three gave encouraging words about just who had invited them into a living relationship with Jesus Christ.  And in each case it was not a celebrity:  Eleanor’s bible study friend, Bryant’s girlfriend-soon-to-be-wife, and Shekinah’s parents. Read the full article…