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Guest Blogger Chris Thayer — The “The Waiting Is The Hardest Part” Sermon Rewind

Julie and I took off on Christmas Day for several days away, and so Chris Thayer, our Zoar Campus Pastor, preached “live” at Moss and via hologram to Zoar. I gave Chris some unusually specific direction for this message — he knew he was concluding the series Wait For It, and he knew his message

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Wait For It, Week 5 — “The Waiting Is The Hardest Part” This Sunday

Well, you could hardly have a Good Shepherd series called Wait For It and NOT title one of the Sundays “The Waiting Is The Hardest Part,” could you? So this Sunday both the sermon series AND 2018 wind up with a message called exactly that. We have our NORMAL Sunday time schedule this week …

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Christmas And The End Of Tactility (And Is That Even A Word?)

This Christmas made me think of the one when I was 16, in Dallas, and ALL I wanted was the cassette tape of Led Zeppelin’s Houses Of The Holy album.  That was IT. (Unfortunately, in a behavior pattern that continues in many respects to this very day, I didn’t tell anyone what I wanted and

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Two Sermon Rewinds In One Week?! Yep! The “The Wait Is Over” Sermon Rewind (Christmas Eve)

This is an unusual preaching week, which means it is also an unusual blogging week. Sunday’s message in the Wait For It series was called Worth The Wait and I was delighted to see the impact it at on so many lives in our church. Then for Christmas Eve the series went to The Wait

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“Wait For It” Week 4 — The “Worth The Wait” Sermon Rewind

Yesterday’s message … Came from Galatians 4:1-7, not a section of Scripture normally associated with Christmas; Celebrated how Paul reveals that family as much as forgiveness is at the heart of faith; Led to this bottom line:  You can stop fighting for approval and start living from it. That bottom line led to a closing

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Merry Christmas From Us 2018

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HOW JOHN THE EVANGELIST WAS LIKE JOHN THE NOVELIST

One of my favorite novelists is John Irving. He’s the author of books that are both critically acclaimed and wildly popular, such as The Word According To Garp, A Prayer For Owen Meany, and The Cider House Rules. Most Irving novels blend high hilarity, deep pathos, and improbable plot twists to craft narratives that are

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A Christmas Tree Ornament From Someone Who GETS Me

I found this ornament on my desk this week. And I thought:  “There’s someone who understands what makes me tick.” It’s an ornament based on the Wait For It Series. And it has my Sunday morning Breakfast Of Champions. What more could I want?  

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things I’d Want To Do If I Didn’t Preach

When I went to college, ministry was not on my mind.  I had headed up north for school, recognizing that pro tennis was likely not going to work out, and therefore I should get a top notch education.  After that? Law school is what I figured.  My father had been a law professor, an older

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Wait For It, Week 2 — “The Waiting Game” Sermon Rewind

Yesterday’s message was ORIGINALLY supposed to be delivered last Sunday, December 9, but we of course were snowed out. Yet I knew we HAD to present this one.  Why?  Well, I liked the exegetical work on Jeremiah 33.  I liked the metaphor of wood.  I liked the bottom line.  But I loved the video that

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