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September 14, 2020
Help! I Need Somebody!” Week 3 — The “Reputation Defender” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message … Covered Naomi’s plan and Ruth’s brilliant execution of it from Ruth 3; Trusting in the interpretation of Sandy Richter, treated that encounter as Ruth’s proposal to Boaz; Recognized that a life in which “image is everything” is hollow indeed; Landed at this bottom line: When your motivation is the kingdom, your reputation
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September 10, 2020
#TBT — Six Degrees Of Stan Smith Separation
My friend and fellow Good Shepherd Staffer Shannon Schauber recently took a trip to Hilton Head Island, SC. While there, he took a tour of the lighthouse at Sea Pines Plantation, noticed this tennis-related display therein, decided I would probably know something about it, snapped the photo, and sent it to me. Got all that?
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September 9, 2020
“We Can’t WAIT For October 4!”
Yesterday my friend Fabian Avigliano sent me this message: What is the big deal about October 4? It’s when Good Shepherd returns to live, indoor worship as a community. The times are changed. The setting will be different. The expectations altered. But the Gospel is the same. Here’s what you need to know: PHYSICAL WORSHIP
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September 8, 2020
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Songs Involving Rivers
Julie and I spent the early hours of Labor Day hiking alongside the Catawba River. Which, of course, got me thinking: what are some good songs that capture the movement and mystery of rivers? Here they are: One. River, by Jason Isbell. This is the newest — and best — on this list as it
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September 7, 2020
Guest Blogger Ron Dozier: The “Embrace The Grace” Sermon Rewind
My friend and colleague Ron Dozier, who has served on staff at Good Shepherd since 2007, delivered the message yesterday. Called “Embrace The Grace” and coming from 2 Corinthians 8, here it is: 2 Corinthians 8:1-5, 9 “Turning Obstacles into Opportunities” I just finished preaching at a church in Kenya located in the heart
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September 3, 2020
#TBT — A Thoroughly Modern Texas Tennis Throwback
The CURRENT ISSUE of Inside Tennis Magazine , Texas Tennis History Issue, has a special cover from way back in 1977. That’s right. As part of an October 2020 issue celebrating Tennis History in the Lone Star State, the magazine included the cover of the 1977 Texas Tennis Association Yearbook and Guide. Here it is:
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September 2, 2020
When The Brewmaster Gave The Preacher A Theological Vocabulary Lesson
My son-in-law Nate Underwood is the Co-Founder and Brewmaster of the Harding House Brewing Company in Nashville. That’s him, third from right, in the photo below. The beers Nate creates are creatively crafted, uniquely local, and seasonally brewed. To those descriptors, we could add purposely religious. Huh? He often names his beers after well
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September 1, 2020
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Benefits For That Thing We ALWAYS Say (Not Book; Is Library!)
We say it a lot at Good Shepherd: the bible is not a book; it’s a library. We say it so much, in fact, that an elementary schooler in our church actually corrected her school teacher who had dared to refer to the bible as a book. “No ma’am,” the Good Shepherd student interjected. “It’s
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August 31, 2020
HelpI I Need Somebody!, Week 2 — The “I See Living People” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message … Benefitted from a mid-week bottom line upgrade … a helpful example of “sounding out the sermon” in advance, realizing the existing bottom line was ‘meh’ and a new one emerged; Began with the shared trauma of the middle school lunch room trauma that many of us share; Observed that the world is
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August 27, 2020
How A Good Shepherd Couple Has Endured Pandemic
Chris and Shevon Rowe are terrific. I think you’ll like their story: The Rowes COVID-19 Series "God has shown us that each day is a gift"Watch this amazing testimony of the Rowes about how God has blessed them during this season of COVID-19.#beautifulmarriage Posted by Good Shepherd Church on Tuesday, August 25, 2020
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