We sent this notice to the people of Good Shepherd yesterday: Dear Good Shepherd Family, I have a staff announcement for you today that defines the very term “bittersweet.” After more than eight years on our team, John Pavlovitz has accepted a position on the pastoral staff at Journey Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. Read the full article…
If you’ve spent any time at all in church, you know we usually conclude our prayers with: InJesusNameAmenAs if it is really just all one . . . long . . . word. But what does it actually mean to pray “in Jesus’ name”? Is it merely a formula to distinguish Christian prayers from the prayers Read the full article…
At church this past Sunday, I saw a high school senior in our congregation who had a Rush book bag. I thought maybe it was a different “Rush” (Limbaugh, maybe?) or that it was a joke. So I asked her about it. Sure enough, she’s a fan. Someone born in 1996 is a fan of Read the full article…
Here’s a sense of what happened this weekend at Good Shepherd: OCC”>http://vimeo.com/53020722″>OCC TIMELAPSE PROMO from GSUMChttp://vimeo.com/gsumc”>GSUMC> on Vimeo.https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo.>While that time lapse was from our 2012 emphasis, the experience was much the same this year. Our goal is to “Fill A Truck” . . . and to exceed the 2,800 boxes the people of our Read the full article…
Throughout the Not A Fan series, we’ve tried to give the people of the church some concrete, tangible ways to follow up on the Sunday morning conversations. That’s why we offered the Reveal class. People are now pursuing Jesus by digging into his Word. It’s why we concluded last week’s One With Them experience by Read the full article…
