In lieu of a Top Five Tuesday (or Sermon Rewind Monday), I give you Sunday’s Sing Spiritually worship gathering from Good Shepherd. Sing Spiritually was the culmination of Wake Up Call and was noteworthy for a number of reasons: Instead of a sermon, we had a guided experience of singing & teaching, scripted and filmed by Read the full article…

I love it when a series takes me by surprise. And Wake Up Call has done just that. People have resonated with the calls to ministry, the invitations to community, and the urging to awaken to the ongoing power and ministry of the Holy Spirit. And then it concludes Sunday by exploring and experiencing the Read the full article…

  During a Next Step group, a woman made the most interesting observation about Good Shepherd:This is not a big church.  It’s a church where a lot of people belong. And I did what I always do in a situation like that:  exclaimed “that will preach!” and then wrote it down to keep for future use. Read the full article…

Reaching into my bookcase recently, I was startled to pull out these two gems that helped move me to United Methodist ministry.  I honestly thought I had loaned them out to someone who neglected to return them . . . but there they were, right where I had left them in my bookcase. Albert Outler Read the full article…

On Sunday evening, we celebrated the outdoor baptism of some of our favorite Good Shepherd people. We explained to the families, friends, and supporters that baptism is the entire Easter weekend in an instant:  dying with Christ, buried in death, and then, gloriously, united with him in resurrection.  Paul says it this way in Romans Read the full article…