This past Sunday evening, I led Good Shepherd’s first Next Steps group of 2014. We bill Next Steps as an “exploring membership” group at our church, and we devote about eight hours over four weeks to plumbing the depths of what it means to be a Christian, a United Methodist, and a member of Good Read the full article…

We played this piece to open worship on Sunday: That video with those images will be the welcoming centerpiece of our Good Shepherd web site upgrade that we’ll unveil over the next month or so. In the meantime, it sure makes me glad to be part of this remarkable collection of people known as Good Read the full article…

We want Defining Moments to be a defining moment in the life of this church. And in the lives of the people who go here. Because we believe something highly significant is at stake in what we’re talking about. To find out what that is, come on Sunday.8:30.  10:00.  11:30.Panther fans:  Come on.  No one Read the full article…

Yesterday, I gave some challenges to the Good Shepherd staff regarding baptism.   And to lay out the foundation for that challenge, we looked at Romans 6:3-5:   3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism Read the full article…

Last night I wrote a blog to be published this morning. I wasn’t crazy about it . . . it was a bit convoluted, could appear as if I was patting myself on the back, and addressed a subject of interest to only the smallest minority of my readers. But I went to the “Schedule” Read the full article…