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July 13, 2016
What Someone Did With A First Time Guest Note
A new friend at Good Shepherd put their first time guest note on their refrigerator. And then snapped a photo of it to share with friends. All held up, of course, by a Good Shepherd refrigerator magnet.
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July 12, 2016
The “Appearances Can Be Deceiving” Sermon Rewind
As with most preachers, I had a dilemma on Sunday: preach the planned sermon or, in light of Baton Rouge, St. Paul, and Dallas, do something much different and focus on this national moment. I ended up doing some of both. After our Crash Test Dummies bumper played, I pointed out that we as a Read the full article...
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July 11, 2016
How You Know Good Shepherd Is A Full Color Church
I received this email on Friday morning, July 8 and considered sharing it with the congregation yesterday. Ultimately, I opted not to. Perhaps the written form is better. (My regular sermon rewind post will appear on Tuesday.) On this day when my heart is so very full from sorrow, grief, confusion, frustration and even Read the full article...
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July 7, 2016
I Get No Respect At Good Shepherd . . .
Here was the GS Feed from this past Sunday . . . So, am I funding my own insurrection? Or is something more beautifully benign at work? I report, you decide.
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July 6, 2016
You Only Get Rid Of . . .
I bet this happens in your life because I know it happens in mine. Somewhere in your house—or your workplace, or your car—stuff collects. For me, it’s the garage. Things just seem to collect in my garage. And in my case the “stuff” is usually little slips of paper: receipts, notes, or cards that somehow Read the full article...
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July 5, 2016
The “Gideon Is More Than A Hotel Bible” Sermon Rewind
I felt so good about Sunday’s sermon that I considered giving it on a Sunday other than the 4th of July weekend. But then I realized that God knows what he is doing, and that he would ensure those who needed the message the most would experience with clarity. So I prayed that a) people Read the full article...
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July 2, 2016
Crash Test Dummies, Week 2 — Gideon. More Than A Hotel Bible.
A lot of you have seen these in America’s hotel rooms: But who is Gideon and why does he have a bible distributing organization named after him? I’m not sure about that second question, but I’m quite interested in the first. Because like most of the characters in the book of Judges, Gideon is layered, Read the full article...
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June 30, 2016
To Illustrate? Or Animate?
We preachers spend a lot of time and energy trying to bring life to our sermons through what have historically been called illustrations. Donald Grey Barnhouse, longtime pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, compiled the most famous collection of such sermon helps in a book titled, appropriately enough, Let Me Illustrate. Illustrations I have found Read the full article...
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June 29, 2016
Podcasting With Seedbed On Building Good Sermon Series
At the 2015 New Room Conference, hosted by Seedbed Ministries, I led a seminar called Series That Pop And Sermons That Stick. So the Seedbed folks recently asked me if I’d do a podcast on the same topic. The result is below, with my friend and Methodist pastor colleague hosting a conversation on Building Good Read the full article...
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June 28, 2016
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things You DIDN’T Know Were Happening At Good Shepherd This Week
Churches are usually as quiet as, well, church mice in the days surrounding the 4th of July. But not here, and not this week. Instead, the people of this church are in the midst of a wide array of ministries this week, and I suspect that most of you don’t even know it’s happening. So Read the full article...
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