So this past Sunday, Julie and I left Charlotte immediately after the third service at Good Shepherd and drove down to Atlanta for a Don Henley concert. Wha-what? It was my Christmas present — maybe my best one ever.  Henley, former drummer & vocalist of the Eagles, whose solo career contains my favorite music, had Read the full article…

What I have below is an approximation of what was preached at Good Shepherd yesterday. That’s because what is below is better in written form that what the talk looked like on Sunday. Why? Because the metaphor in many ways became the message. The metaphor of an assembly in which we regard our bad habits Read the full article…

This object, placed on the Worship Center platform today, is at the center of Sunday’s message.     What in the world is it and what does it have to do with “Habit Drop”? To discover that, it’s … Sunday. 8:30, 10, 11:30 at Moss Road. 10, 11:30 at Zoar Road. 11:30 Latino.

My posts this week have been sharing the announcement that Abingdon Press will turn my sermon series Crash Test Dummies into a chapter book and small group resource in September of 2017.  It will be the fifth such collaboration between the ministry at Good Shepherd and the publishers in Nashville. I have previously related the Read the full article…

Yesterday in this space, I shared the good news that in September of 2017, Abingdon Press will publish my sermon series Crash Test Dummies as a small group resource and study guide.  It will be the fifth such book in the last three years. Yet I also shared how the series almost never saw the Read the full article…