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July 9, 2018
#BehindTheScenes Launches — The “Control Freak, Meet Trophy Wife” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message … Started a series on a book that I have avoided for 28 years: Esther; Continued a recent trend of devoting July to overlooked sections of the Old Testament; in 2014 it was “Lost & Found” from I Kings 17-19; in 2015 it was “On The Up And Up” from the Songs Of
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July 6, 2018
“Behind The Scenes” Launch: “Control Freak, Meet Trophy Wife”
What if we told you that there is a book in the bible in which God is never even mentioned? Not once. Did the writer omit God’s name from the script on accident? Or was it intentional? This summer, we’re looking at the book of Esther. A book where God is more producer than actor.
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July 5, 2018
What I Thought The Bible Was. What I’ve Learned It Is.
Until about 12-15 years ago, I thought of the bible like this: A collection pearls. Isolated jewels, verses that packed punch and meaning, the parts always greater than the whole. In this way of reading the bible, the book of Ephesians, for example, means little more than this gem from 2:8-9: 8 For it is by
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July 3, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Summer Songs
Guess what? Tomorrow’s the 4th of July. The midpoint of summer, at least emotionally if not technically. The time to take stock of what summer is all about. And to count down the top five summer songs. 5. The Lovin’ Spoonful, Summer In The City. 4. The Beach Boys, Surfin’ USA. I have never surfed
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July 2, 2018
Movers & Shakers, Week 4 — Guest Blogger Devin Tharp: “Leadership Math”
Movers & Shakers has been all about the intersection of leadership and ministries with the next generation. In other words, unleashing the latent leadership potential among the people of Good Shepherd so that those same people can influence the next generation of kids and students into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. That’s why it
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June 29, 2018
Movers & Shakers, Week 4 — Leadership Math
I think this was a real-time photo of one of the most important professional development sessions in the biblical library: Well, perhaps I exaggerate. But I suspect the encounter with Moses and his father-in-law Jethro looked something like that. And that encounter has everything to do with moving and shaking. It’s called Leadership Math and
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June 28, 2018
Some Things I Am Always A Fan Of …
A smattering of things whimsical and things weighty that I am always a fan of …. A one-handed backhand; SMU sports; A well designed sermon that teaches me something about the bible and then makes me cry; “The Boys Of Summer”; The fiction of Ann Patchett; Inductive Bible Study as taught at Asbury Seminary; Asbury
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June 27, 2018
Surrender, Impulses, And The Church
We all have impulses. And many of those impulses are not necessarily healthy. Impulses to speak when silence is the better option. Impulses to spend when saving is the wiser choice. Impulses to sex when either abstinence or faithfulness is the path of life. Impulses to selfishness when submission is the way of Jesus. Impulses to seclusion
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June 26, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Elements To A Good Week
The rhythm of a seven day week is so foundational to most of us that you’d think it was wired into creation from the very beginning. Oh, it was … ? Anyway, as a person who values … no, lives by … no, is radically dependent upon ROUTINE, I have realized there are several elements
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June 25, 2018
Movers & Shakers, Week 3 — The WE Team
Yesterday’s message … Gave me a chance to call the congregation “gullible” as they re-enacted Moses, Aaron, and Hur on the mountaintop in Exodus 17; Gave me another opportunity to help households realize how relentlessly their children are under attack by 21st Century culture; Gave me a forum to confess to former programming studipity —
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