Tuesday ended up being a good night for me at Good Shepherd. And there are two reasons for that assertion — one planned and one spontaneous. First as I walked to my car, I saw three young men in the Good Shepherd parking lot. As I drove near them, I noticed they were from India. Read the full article…
We preachers spend a lot of time crafting the opening moments of our sermons. Or, if we don’t, we should. Because it is in those moments that you either capture your listeners’ attention or lose it. In the opening you either establish common ground with the congregation or you create distance from it. At the Read the full article…
Yesterday’s message featured … A stand-alone door on wheels that was an indispensable prop; A slight window into how United Methodist preachers behave around authority; A title from a Charlie Rich (or was it Charlie Pride?) country music song; One of my strongest bottom lines: Treat the people you LOVE as well as you treat Read the full article…
One of the guys in my LifeGroup brought me this gift earlier this week. It’s the perfect concept for a book and the perfect gift for this pastor.
Whew. The opening page of John Piper’s Seeing And Savoring Jesus Christ. Heavy, mind-boggling, soul-stretching stuff, and I for one am grateful to have the chance to read it. Now Dr. Piper doesn’t just love Wesleyan-Arminians, but we have so much to learn from his ability to express Christology.
