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Methodism; Asbury Seminary
Becoming What We Be
January 5, 2012 0

I’m reading a terrific little monograph by Asbury Seminary President Timothy Tennent called This We Believe: Meditations On The Apostle’s Creed. (By the way, I received the book as a gift through the mail and in spite of several internet searches can’t locate a way for you to buy it yourself. When it becomes available, Read the full article…

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Pastoring; Leadership
Preaching To Preachers
January 4, 2012 1

We have a number of pastors who attend Good Shepherd. Some of them are missionaries who have returned from overseas and are in the midst of discerning their next steps in ministry. Others are pastors-in-training, studying either at bible college or seminary and in search of a spiritual home while preparing for a lifetime of Read the full article…

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Personal
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Paul Simon Songs
January 3, 2012 2

Paul Simon has been on my mind this holiday season. Part of it has to do with his “Getting Ready For Christmas Day,” an infectious tune he released in the spring of 2011. The other part of it is because my son Riley gave me a CD copy of Graceland for Christmas. Graceland won the Read the full article…

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Good Shepherd
Forward To The Past
December 30, 2011 0

That’s what we’re doing on January 1. One service only at 10 a.m. It will help explain so much of why we do what we do here.

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Good Shepherd; Personal
Numerical Milestones
December 29, 2011 3

2011 was a year full of milestones for my family and for our church. Some of those milestones are best captured by the numbers . . . Four. That’s how many sets of reading glasses I now must have scattered around my life. One for the kitchen table to read the newspaper, one on my Read the full article…

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