As some of you know, we will soon be looking for someone to head up our Discipleship ministries at Good Shepherd. After five years on staff, James-Michael Smith will be leaving us at the end of April to prepare for and then pursue his PhD. But I’ll blog more on that and on him later. Read the full article…
Words have power. They can wound and cripple. They can heal and inspire. They can drive us to our knees or lift us off the ground. Wherever we find ourselves, wherever we are in our story, we have been shaped by the words spoken into our lives. You’re no good. You are beautiful. You’ll never Read the full article…
People sometimes say I look like Coach K. In fact, at Chick Fil-A on Wednesday night, the young man serving me my CFA sandwich, large fries, and fruit cup (see, the fruit balances out the fries), told me I look like Coach K. “You get that a lot?” was his follow up question. Well, sorta. Read the full article…
Good Shepherd’s focus on simplicity is changing how we do serving ministries. We want to give the people of the church a simple, monthly, meaningful serving opportunity through what we call First Serve. The concept is similar to our Pathfinder approach to small group ministry. With Pathfinder, if you want to get involved in group Read the full article…
In yesterday’s post, I drew a link between a church’s complexity and its mediocrity. Unfortunately, the typical Methodist Church is an inherently complex being. Here are just a few examples of the intricacies of the system: The pastor-in-charge reports to four different entities: the Church Council, the Pastor-Parish Relations Committee (ours is called the SPRT, Read the full article…
