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Coming To Life . . .
April 3, 2013 2

Here’s the video testimony that closed the sermon on Sunday: Not only is “that what a living relationship with Jesus Christ is all about,” that’s what being able to pastor and teach at a church where we are inviting all people into a living relationship with Jesus Christ is all about, too.We know there are many more Read the full article…

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five “Liturgical” Moments From Good Shepherd’s Easter 2013
April 2, 2013 3

It’s pretty easy to get caught up in the hoopla around a successful Easter weekend:  more people than ever before, jaw-dropping music, and a positive response to the message that was delivered once on Saturday and then four times on Sunday. You can see the service in its entirety here. But none of that represented Read the full article…

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Journey Of Stones, Easter Weekend — Rolling Stone
March 29, 2013 1

So we wind up our Journey Of Stones with an Easter experience called Rolling Stone. No, the band won’t sing Satisfaction. It won’t even do the Stones’ most theologically sophisticated song, Sympathy For Devil (it doesn’t mean what the title suggests). Instead, will dig into John 20, rivalry between the disciples, courage of the women, Read the full article…

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To Me Before Through Me
March 28, 2013 0

This coming weekend, as you might expect, I long for God to do something through me.  Through us, actually. I hope and pray that he takes our welcome teams, our music teams, our audio-visual volunteers, and ultimately the words of my sermon and through all of that conveys his love and hope to a whole lot Read the full article…

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A Sermon Through The Ears Of An Eight Year Old
March 27, 2013 1

Last Sunday, a proud father handed me these notes that his eight-year old daughter had taken during the sermon that morning: She caught all the highlights of the message.  And not a few of the asides, the “oh by the ways,” the throwaway lines that apparently find themselves into the ever churning brain of a bright eight-year-old girl. Read the full article…

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