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May 21, 2019
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five (Or More) Unrelated Odds & Ends
I work on two messages per week . . . researching and writing one that I will preach in eight to ten weeks and then internalizing one that I will deliver on the upcoming Sunday. For some reason, I’ve never gotten the two confused. Of all the doctrines that different Christians hold, dispensationalism with its secret
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And It Came To Pass …
Here I am with Laura Raiford, helping to celebrate her Master’s In Christian Counseling degree from Gordon-Conwell Seminary here in Charlotte. It’s actually a journey that started in 2002. At that time she was Laura DePalma, somewhat new in her faith, and made an appointment with me to talk over some life decisions she was
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May 20, 2019
#Brave, Week 4 — The “The More Things Stay The Same, The More They Change” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message: Hinged on two architectural details in John’s description of the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21; Poked a bit of “fun” at the all-too-Methodist combination of inflexible methods and flexible message; Gave shoutouts to Thomas Oden (T.O. for short in theological circles) and Winfield Bevins; Landed at this bottom line: When God brings what
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May 16, 2019
#TBT — Kindergarten At Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Spring, 1968
Here is my kindergarten class picture from the spring of 1968. You should be able to identify which one is me. I remember I had a crush on the teacher, but I can’t remember her name. Maybe Marc Whitman Taubenfeld can help me out.
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May 15, 2019
The Spiritual By-Pass
One of my friends who is quite open with me about his journey out of addiction and into recovery told me of a phrase the recovery community uses: The Spiritual By-Pass What is that? It’s the desire on the part of many addicts to receive ONE prayer, ONE pill, or ONE deliverance and voila! …
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May 14, 2019
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Reasons We Have A “Bible Lifting” Moment At Good Shepherd
Our photography team caught this moment during a recent Good Shepherd worship gathering. It’s that moment where, just before I pray and preach, I invite the congregation to lift their bibles (or their worship programs or phones or iPads … wherever they have the words of Scripture). I acknowledge that this is a strange thing
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May 13, 2019
Brave, Week 3 — The “What To Do When Your Hotel Room Number Is 666” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message … Reiterated that Revelation CAN’T mean to US something that it did not mean to THEM; Assured listeners they don’t need to spend any time worrying about the identity of ‘666’ or the look of the ‘mark of the beast’; Instead pointed out that the issue for Revelation’s first audience had to do
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May 9, 2019
When You’re Part Of A Book That’s #1 Before It’s Even Released
How’s that for the title of a blog post? I am one of twenty-four authors asked to contribute a chapter to a new book about the murky future of the United Methodist Church. Called Where Do We Go From Here?, the book is the brainchild of Kevin Slimp, the President of Market Square Books, a
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May 8, 2019
A Healing Service, A Widow, A Book, A Truth
This past Monday evening, we had our monthly healing service at Good Shepherd. And the most interesting thing happened. A woman who is actually a member of another United Methodist Church in Charlotte came and as the service wound down, she made her way to my prayer station. After introducing herself, she said that she
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May 7, 2019
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things That Give Me A LITTLE MORE COMFORT Than They Should
Some years ago, I turned a “Top Five Tuesday space into a confessional of sorts — I came clean on five of the ways I’m more than a little anal-retentive. In that same vein, I’ve noticed that as I get older, there are certain things in life that bring me little more comfort than they
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