On Monday night of this week, our own Devin Tharp asked me to spend some time with the Student Leadership Team of Good Shepherd Student Ministries. He asked me to talk to a group of leaders.  About leadership. Now: those of you who know me well know that I don’t read books by John Maxwell.  Read the full article…

This past Friday, my 23-year-old son Riley came home to Charlotte so that he and I could attend a Jason Isbell concert at Ovens Auditorium together. Who? In trying to answer that question over the last several days, I realized:  Isbell is what Flannery O’Connor would sound like if she could sing.  The characters in Read the full article…

After yesterday’s message I got a note from a colleague thanking me for “teaching people to understand the narrative through the lens of the narrator.” I consider that really high praise. In this case, my friend was remarking on the fact that the questions we bring to the wedding in Cana story in John 2 Read the full article…

When is a miracle not a miracle? When one word changes everything. When will you learn what that one word is? Sunday. 8:30. 10.  11:30 in English. 11:30 Latino.  

For a couple of isolated yet lengthy chunks of time on Tuesday and Wednesday, I was working on a sermon. (OK, I was working way ahead, on one of the later sermons in the upcoming The Light At The Beginning Of The Tunnel series.  This one will be called “Final Light.”) Anyway, in spite of Read the full article…