What role does any kind of higher love play in marital love? What place, if any, does shared faith play in strong marriages? And — here’s the most interesting thing — how can a church have a message about marriage that’s geared in many ways to people who are single? Those are some of the Read the full article…
The date: Fall, 1975. The setting: Annual School Picture. The school: McCullough Middle School, Dallas, Texas The grade: 8th The subject: Me. The question: What in the world was I thinking?
Here’s how Luke tells the story of the Send Off Party for Barnabas and Saul (later Paul) on one of their missionary journeys: 1 Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. 2 While they Read the full article…
A lot of you know this already, but I’ll repeat it again: I love the Steele Creek section of Charlotte. We’ve lived in the same house since our arrival at Good Shepherd in 1999, and I like almost everything about this unique corner of our region. Yet I have been thinking this week about how Read the full article…
Sometimes, all you have to do is read the bible publicly and people will laugh. That’s what happened yesterday. Most of the erotic imagery within The Song Of Songs is so alien to the landscape of our lives that it strikes our modern eyes and ears as a bit . . . . ludicrous. And Read the full article…
