Christmas Eve sermons are a challenge. For one . . . what can you say that people haven’t heard before? For two . . . should you even say anything that people haven’t heard before? For three . . . how best approach the evening?  Gently? Boldly? Evangelistically?  Cleverly? I’ll let you see how — Read the full article…

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Here’s an unusual Top Five Tuesday . . . the five best things that happened in church this past Sunday at Good Shepherd. 1.  Chris Macedo & Team’s haunting, chilling, gorgeous version of Christmas Hallelujah.  So good, in fact, that I want to give you the chance to experience it again:   2.  Dozens of Read the full article…

Thrones has kind of taken me by surprise. In a good way. We’ve had salvations, we’ve had tears, we’ve had anointed music, and yesterday we had this as a bottom line: Incomplete knowledge doesn’t prevent complete surrender. ——————————————————————————————————————————- I am getting ready to tell you about something in which I have absolutely NO experience; something Read the full article…

This is not a political statement:   Instead, this is what Jesus looked like when his mother Mary and her cousin Elizabeth had a remarkable conversation we find in Luke 1:39-45. I can’t wait to dig into that passage with you on Sunday.  We’ll excavate and then celebrate the truths it contains and patterns it Read the full article…