I love this video our Worship Arts team made for our recent Night Of Worship.     Two highlights: 1. It shows the remarkable racial and ethnic diversity God has brought to our full on, full color church. 2. Yet the refrain regarding being a “child of God” serves as vivid reminder that our diversity Read the full article…

As many of you know, Glenn Frey was not my favorite Eagle, as that title goes to Don Henley. Nevertheless his voice was part of the soundtrack of my youth and his death two weeks ago left me with a certain melancholy. And some of the online tributes to him left me both frustrated and Read the full article…

So we had a healing service on a Sunday morning. Shorter sermon, less music up front, more music on the back end, and instructions to our Healing Prayer Team to pray sentence prayers over those who came forward. And boy did they come forward.  Streams of people at 8:30, 10, and 11:30. The two dominant Read the full article…

Here’s what’s happening:   The United Methodists in metro Denver challenged the United Methodists in metro Charlotte to a food drive contest. Because, you know, our two cities are competing in the Super Bowl. So we at Good Shepherd are going to be part of these food drive shenanigans. You know what’s even better?  We were going to Read the full article…

Not long ago, I began reading Paul’s first letter to Timothy. I’d estimate that I have read through I Timothy between 25 and 30 times over the past 35 years or so.  (Interestingly, I’ve never based a sermon series on it.) But in spite of all that reading, I’d never seen what I saw on Read the full article…