I’ve had a gnawing sense recently that churches in general and this church in particular need to take more care to avoid enabling unhealthy behaviors. With the best of intentions, we can reinforce behaviors and patterns in people that do much more harm than good. For example . . . When a church allows Read the full article…
Rock & roll and the piano have long had an uneasy relationship. With apologies to Jerry Lee Lewis, the genre has from its beginnings been driven almost exclusively by the combination of guitar and drums. If the piano or keyboard play any role in most rock songs, it’s usually a complementary one. Yet there come Read the full article…
At Good Shepherd, we have a how that goes along with our what. The big what around here is our mission: Inviting All People Into A Living Relationship With Jesus Christ. We love those words and that focus. But in developing that mission, we also took some time to spell out how we will accomplish it. Read the full article…
For the first time ever, the blog is telling you not to come to church Sunday morning. Here’s what’s going on instead: To download the home worship resources, go to www.gsumc.org.
In the middle of a General Conference week, with all the built-in rancor of that event accelerated by social media commentary, it’s easy to be critical of the Methodist family. My previous two posts have even been mild examples of such negativity. Yet something happened last weekend that reminded me of the richness of our Read the full article…
