When does a sermon begin? After the public reading of the Scripture? After the prayer? After a really cool solo? It’s actually the wrong question. The better question is where does the sermon begin? Not when, but where. There is an easy answer to that question: in the parking lot. See, the entire Sunday morning Read the full article…
We have this ministry called Bless This House. It involves getting the addresses of recent house closings in our area from the Sunday Charlotte Observer, and then sending out pairs of people (going out in twos — that’s biblical!) to welcome the new movers to southwest Charlotte. While there, we give the gift of a Read the full article…
If you don’t write it down, it doesn’t happen. I’m learning this as a leader and as a preacher. A great failure of leadership is lack of clarity in expectations. I know this is true because there have been plenty of times in leading this team at Good Shepherd that my expectations were murky at Read the full article…
Both Hinduism and Buddhism teach that karma is the ironclad law of human existence: what goes around, comes around. Whatever moral energy you put out into the universe — positive or negative — you will then receive a corresponding reward or punishment. In Eastern thought, karma operates not only in this life, but even more Read the full article…
This is my son Riley. He is a rising junior at Charlotte Christian School, and today he begins two-a-day practice with the football team there. I can post his picture on my blog because he would never in a million years read my blog. Today he’ll practice from 8-11 in the morning and then again Read the full article…
