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March 24, 2020
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five New Phrases In Our Common Language
Have you noticed that over the last few weeks our world has changed? Not only that, but our language has changed with it. There are five words/phrases that barely existed three weeks ago, and now they govern our conversations. They have their own hashtags. Many of us regard ourselves as experts on them, even though
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March 23, 2020
The “House Arrest” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message … Was delivered to a “studio audience” of 10 but a digital one of many more than that; Had a title inspired by something Ron Dozier mentioned during a quick video devotion last week; Had a bottom line borrowed liberally from Luke Mitchell … a case of student becoming sensei!; Concluded with digital
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March 19, 2020
#TBT — March, 1996
Since there is no March Madness year, how’s this throwback for that time for those of us with an alma mater in New Jersey, March was the maddest of them all. UCLA was the defending national champion, by the way.
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March 18, 2020
How I Answered Five Questions About Preaching
As part of its ongoing Leadership Development process, the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church asked five of its preachers to answer five specific questions about the craft. The column released late last week, but may have been overlooked just a tad by other news and graver concerns. Yet here are the
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March 17, 2020
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Reflections On The Passing Of A Charlotte Legend
Lost among the upheaval of All Corona All The Time was yesterday’s death of one our city’s most dignified characters, Ty Boyd. He was 88. Here are five things you should know about this Charlotte legend: One. Boyd was the morning host on WBT radio from 1961 to 1973, later moved to television, and still
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March 16, 2020
Double Sermon Rewind
With the surreality of our current situation which led to Livestream worship only, here’s what we did: We recorded two welcomes — one from April Portrais, our communications director, and one from me. Then we pointed to a sermon originally preached in the summer of 2019 but with a title and a theme even more
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March 12, 2020
Sermon Killers
Preachers: you don’t want to walk people through a sermon outline. You want to take them on a sermon adventure. Crafting such an adventure requires tension, uncertainty, and intimacy. It also requires avoiding a couple of very common sermon killers. Let’s make sure we don’t commit sermon suicide, shall we? Sermon Killers Sermon Killer Number
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March 11, 2020
Pastor Preaching Workshops with Guest Luke Mitchell
Last year, I spent three days in Orlando, Florida, at a Wesleyan Covenant Association’s gathering for pastors. It was three days of worship, education, information, encouragement, and fellowship. I talked with quite a few pastors during that event, but my conversation with good friend (and new father) Luke Mitchell of Hillsdale UMC near Winston-Salem caught
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March 10, 2020
TOP FIVE TUESDAY — Top Five Things To Know About Why And How THESE PEOPLE Represented You In India
In the photo below you will see our just-returned India 2020 mission team. From left are PR Misra (Indian host whose brother JR is a long time GSUMCer), James-Michael Smith, Brooke Presley, Linda Land, Anju Misra (PR’s wife), Doug Berryhill, and Chris Thayer. Why did we send this motley crew cosisting of both GS staffers
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March 9, 2020
The Problem Of God, Week 3 — The “The Problem Of Hypocrisy” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message … Began with an anecdote from my father’s early years in Akron, Ohio; Depended on the building block of “when it’s your time at the judgment seat, no one will ask you what SOMEONE ELSE did with Jesus”; Used “Checkpoint Charlie” at the former Berlin Wall as an example of what a world
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