As we dive headlong into the Christmas season and its nativity stories, I have found myself in a couple of different settings explaining how each Gospel begins. Because I believe that how each begins also shapes how each one ends.  Let me show you what I mean. Matthew begins with a trip through Jesus’ family graveyard Read the full article…

Here is our 2015 Christmas Card:  

I love hearing people talk. Especially when, with the best of intentions, they get important words just a little bit wrong. So here are five of my favorite most mispronounced words: 1.  It has to begin with a personal story.  When I was 17, I was captain of our high school tennis team and as Read the full article…

With the way my mind and my psyche work, I very rarely have last-minute inspirations. Yet yesterday, while eating breakfast at 5:45 in the morning, I had one.  I realized how we needed to bring the service to a close. Here’s the bottom line of the message you’ll read below:  Jesus FEELS joy when we Read the full article…

The last few years at Good Shepherd have been highlighted by a number of Sunday mornings in which we used the sermon time to give plain proclamation of what it means to be saved by grace and then used the response time to give a clear invitation for people to enter into that salvation experience Read the full article…