One day awhile back, I looked out the front door of our church and saw a man whom I did not know using his smart phone to take pictures of our facility. I was immediately alarmed. Is he casing us out so that he can break in and rob us later? Plotting an attack of Read the full article…

How do you fit insights from the latest Great American Novel, the recovery community, Psalm 37, and some wordsmithing around “explanation & excuses” all into the opening message a series called Love Handles? Well the result is below. I knew from reading Nathan Hill’s The Nix that memories get etched into the biochemistry of our Read the full article…

Love Handles  Some of us have them. Some of us hold them. Some of us want to get rid of them. They’re love handles. But they’re actually more than a part of our mid-section. They’re the source of a question:  do you have a handle on love?  Romantic love?  Family love?  Parental love?  Friendly love? Read the full article…

I’ve got to confess something this morning. No, it’s not that.  Lord knows, there’s enough folks already caught up in that these days. No my confession is this: when people talk about leadership and bible and church in the same sentence, I usually respond with an eye roll.  Or a sigh. That’s in part because Read the full article…

A number of people at Good Shepherd for whom I have the greatest respect share a common characteristic:  they have an exalted view of Christ. In academic terms, they have a high “Christology” — doctrine of Christ. For example, one of my Good Shepherd friends will respond with a loud “Amen” simply upon hearing the words Read the full article…