As a lot of you know, Julie, Taylor, Riley, and I spent last week together on a beach vacation.  Yes, we’re grateful, pleased, and surprised that a 22-year-old living in Atlanta and a 19-year-old home from college for the summer are still OK with spending a week with their parents.  A cynic might say that’s Read the full article…

As you read this post in air conditioned comfort & surrounded by the latest technology, 30 Good Shepherd missionaries are serving under-resourced persons in Ecuador and Haiti. Both groups are working with our partners at Samaritan’s Feet to distribute shoes and share the gospel as they take seriously inviting all people into a living relationship with Read the full article…

What’s the saying?  Back In The Saddle? That’s what I’ll be this Sunday. After two weeks of not preaching, I’m ready to pick Upgrade back up by talking about . . . blood. I can’t wait. The Blood Upgrade from Hebrews 9. Sunday. 8:30.  10.  11:30.

Now back in the 1990s, I loved Promise Keepers. The stadium worship was authentically full color, the challenge to men was urgently necessary, and the response in our Mt. Carmel congregation was immediate and heartfelt.  In our little church and around the world, Promise Keepers helped men become better followers of Jesus, better husbands, better Read the full article…

Since I spent yesterday confessing songs to you that I probably shouldn’t like but do anyway, I thought I’d fill in some other gaps today. Here are some secrets I should probably keep . . . but just for today, I won’t: I wear two pair of socks to work everyday.  A pair of thick, Read the full article…