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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Eric Clapton Songs
September 18, 2012 1

In honor of one of my favorite people on earth, I give this Tuesday’s list to Eric Clapton. Julie and I actually saw him in concert in Madison Square Garden back in 1986.  In other words, shortly after the extinction of the dinosaurs and before the invention of the iPod. The list comes primarily from Read the full article…

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Lowlifes On Film
September 17, 2012 0

Here’s the video John Pavlovitz used to wind up his message yesterday. The story actually began a month before the video was shot, when our Student Ministry went to Eastern North Carolina on its U-Haullelujah mission trip. While ministering in the hamlet of Cameron, NC, Lauren Roberts, one of our student leaders, had a moving Read the full article…

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Lowlife Week 2 — Friends In LOW Places
September 14, 2012 0

You’ll be so blessed. You’ll be so blessed by the music. You’ll be so blessed by the choir. You’ll be so blessed by the atmosphere. And most of all, you’ll be so blessed to find out what kind of people make up Good Shepherd. Friends In LOW Places. Sunday. 8:30.  10.  11:30.

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Surgery, Serendipity, And A Very Small World
September 13, 2012 1

In the summer of 1983, just before my senior year in college, I taught tennis at a place called Camp Of The Woods in Speculator, New York. Two of us were hired for the tennis program that summer; my partner was a Hong Kong-born, pre-med student and varsity player at Wheaton College in northern Illinois. So almost Read the full article…

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Methodist Experiment
September 12, 2012 1

During each session of our First Step Membership Exploration class, I conduct an experiment. And while the people in the class change, the results of the experiment never do. Here it is.  At the beginning of our third evening together, I ask the group, “what do Methodists believe?” The answers are always some variation of the following: Read the full article…

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