Two days from now I won’t be blogging, but I will be eating. Odds are, so will you. Food is on our mind this week, and for two primary reasons: 1) we’re fixing to remember the Pilgrims’ faithfulness as well as our blessings, and 2) Hostess is, temporarily at least, out of business. So with Read the full article…
The year 2012 at Good Shepherd has been highlighted by a number of Sunday mornings in which we used the sermon time to give plain proclamation of what it means to be saved by grace and then used the response time to give a clear invitation for people to enter into that salvation experience on Read the full article…
On November 5, I shared with you how our church was able to make 2,000 Operation Christmas Child Shoe Boxes disappear. You can read about it here and then watch it here: OCC TIMELAPSE PROMO from GSUMC on Vimeo. Well, this Sunday as we celebrate Gospel Decision, the key is to make all those boxes Read the full article…
In the fall of 1987, in my first semester of my first year at Asbury Seminary, I met with two ordination representatives from what would ultimately become my annual conference in the United Methodist Church. At the end of the interview, one of them pulled me aside and said, “I’m not telling you that you Read the full article…
It’s the number worn by Dick Butkus, maybe the meanest middle linebacker of them all. It’s the number of the confessional Psalm written by King David after his affair with Bathsheba and subsequent murder-by-military-sacrifice of her husband Uriah was uncovered. Psalm 51:10-12 in turn became the inspiration for “Create In Me A Clean Heart,” one of the most popular Read the full article…
