I spend last weekend in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where Julie and I attended my niece’s wedding. My niece is the daughter of my brother, the one who was recently elected a District Judge. You can read that post here. But weddings usually make people cry. So do funerals. Before this weekend, the last time my Read the full article…
This is a picture of Eben Joseph Whisonant. He’s in Vietnam now. Soon he’ll be home in the Carolinas. Our very own Cathy Whisonant is there today, deeply involved in the process of adopting him. Shortly, she’ll bring him home to his new family at Good Shepherd. Cathy is already starting Eben out on the Read the full article…
Tonight we’ll have close to 700 kids at the church. We’ll have many others who are kids at heart. If last year is any indication, a lot of those kids will understand and trust Jesus for the very first time because of KidzBlitz Live. And that makes all the planning, advertising, toilet-papering, and praying worth Read the full article…
With the economy in such turmoil and so many people uncertain about their own jobs, we almost didn’t do any kind of stewardship campaign this fall. I’m glad we did. Oddballs built to that Sunday in which we asked people to make estimates of their giving to God through the church in 2009. We went Read the full article…
A friend told me not long ago that he feels Good Shepherd is trying really hard to be a “cool” church. Ouch. With love, but ouch. It probably hurts so much because there is more than a grain of truth in it. The language we use, the songs we sing, the visuals we display . Read the full article…
