First Serve is back. It’s one of the best things we do at Good Shepherd as several hundred of us fan out in ministry on the first Saturday of each month. You can see the different ministry options and sign up for the one that stirs your adrenaline here. And for the men, we’re having Read the full article…
To say that Hagar is not a biblical hero is something of an understatement. We easily preach sermons on Abraham, Moses, Ruth, and even Jacob. But Hagar? Not so much. She’s a maidservant for goodness sakes. She’s “the other woman” — in a sense used by Abraham for procreation purposes when it appeared Sarah was Read the full article…
The book I am currently reading (not listed in Books I Like on the left, by the way) contains this sentence: A tough customer who was determined to leave it all on the field, Somerville, like many of his teammates, played way above his head. Let’s see. That’s three cliches in one sentence. A tough Read the full article…
I don’t ride horses, wear cowboy hats, hunt deer, or eat barbecue brisket. But I am Texan. It’s hard to understand if you’re not from there, but if you are you know what I mean: it’s always home. So I was excited to travel there this past weekend with my 18 year old son Riley Read the full article…
While I was away this weekend (more on that trip tomorrow), we showed this in Sunday’s worship: Rebecca Grayson then followed that with a killer sermon called “The Love Laboratory.” Something else interesting happened in worship yesterday: we received an award from Adam Neal of the United Methodist Church’s General Board Of Global Ministries for Read the full article…
