In honor of the recently completed London Olympics, today’s Top Five salutes the original British Invaders: the Beatles. It’s almost sacreligious to say, but I’ve never been an especially ardent fan. While I admit that they are by far the most influential and enduring of all rock bands, my personal tastes have leaned more towards the Rolling Stones, Led Read the full article…
I didn’t exactly preach the sermon Your Money Or Your Life, our second installment of Money Talks. Instead, I facilitated the conversation for those who actually did the teaching: Jason Handschumacher and Kelly Starnes. Who are they? Not hired guns. Not preachers-in-training. Not even experts for a day. Instead, they are regular people from the Read the full article…
Here’s the way it was with Jack Benny: Are you “thinking it over” as well? We’ve come up with a creative way to talk about money, stuff, time, and faith this coming Sunday. I’m glad to be part of it and think you will too. Sunday. 8:30. 10. 11:30.
While these aren’t all the lessons I’ve learned in 23 years of full-time parish ministry, they are the ones freshest on my mind this week . . . People like it when you remember their names. The more digital our culture becomes, the more effective are hand-written notes. Breath mints and deodorant are under-rated tools Read the full article…
As a lot of you know, we take the ministry of funerals very seriously at Good Shepherd. I’ve blogged about it here and here. But in talking with other staffers here about how to design and deliver a eulogy that is helpful, faithful, and redemptive, we’ve landed at some new language that helps articulate an old Read the full article…
