I thought I was really going to miss The Path Of Most Resistance. But I guess I don’t. This message hit home with a lot of folks, and, coupled with some dynamic musical responses, proved to be an entree for people to enter into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. Bottom line:  We over-identify with Read the full article…

Finished Business While hanging on the cross and in the throes of death, Jesus called out: “It is finished.” But just what got “finished” in that moment?  What was completed in the last week of Jesus’ life on earth that could not have been accomplished any other way? Those are some of the questions we’ll Read the full article…

Some random, disconnected thoughts on the first Thursday of March Madness . . . . At Good Shepherd, we have to take care that we don’t “brand the bullets & forget to brand the gun”; which means, as one expert told us, don’t spend so much time promoting individual sermon series that the church itself Read the full article…

I spent the last couple of days in what’s called The Triangle of North Carolina (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill), leading a cadre of students from the Duke Divinity School in a workshop called Sermons That Pop & Series That Stick. Wha-what?! The reason that is moderately interesting is that I am an alum of Asbury Theological Seminary Read the full article…

Time change Sunday. Snow storm Sunday. But not so much snow we’d cancel church; just enough so that attendance would be dramatically impacted (halved). So what do you do? Give the people who show the best you got. And I like the message a lot as it takes Romans 8:18-23 IN CONTEXT and serves up Read the full article…