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May 25, 2018
#EyeRollers, Week 5 — “Be Perfect, Therefore”
A lot of blood has been shed and even more ink has been spilled trying to make sense of this Sunday’s eye roller from Matthew 5:48: Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Well, I don’t think I will shed any blood on Sunday, nor do I expect to spill some ink. But
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May 24, 2018
Wouldn’t You Like To Know?
The authors of the bible use incredible restraint. In contrast to our modern culture’s tendency towards too much information, the scriptural writers were masters of understatement. Perhaps that’s because the process of writing was both expensive and painful in ancient times. Maybe it’s because the people of antiquity didn’t devote as much energy to emotional
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May 23, 2018
Does What We Do Matter?
I find it helpful to check my own motives from time to time. I say that because I like people to come to church. And I have more than a few friends from Good Shepherd whom I will text, cajole, and encourage to attend service as the weekend approaches. In fact, if you think I’m
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May 22, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Benefits Of Seeing The Bible As A Library
We 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 a
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May 21, 2018
#EyeRollers, Week 4 — The “Turn The Other Cheek” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message … Dealt with the best-known and least-loved eye roller, turn the other cheek; Hinged on the reality that when Jesus speaks hypothetically in Matthew 5:38-42 become actual for him. He becomes the stories that he tells. This eye rolling section is an autobiographical preview of the Passion! Led to this bottom line: The
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May 18, 2018
Eye Rollers, Week 4 — “Turn The Other Cheek”
You don’t know how the right word at the right time can make all the difference. I spent much of this week in Austin (as you know if you read yesterday’s post) and while there of course spent some time internalizing this Sunday’s message. Then on Wednesday I needed to speak with a member of
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May 17, 2018
#TBT — Where I First Sensed A Call To #UMC Ministry
On Wednesday, as I wound up my three day visit with my mom in Austin (Betty Davis, age 102), I stopped by this church down the hill from where she lives. It’s actually the place where I first sensed that maybe I was supposed to be a pastor and even more specifically, a pastor in
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May 16, 2018
Flannery O’Connor & The Source Of Inspiration
This might be my favorite graphic ever. Favorite author articulating a treasured belief. Inspiration to write, create, build, or achieve never arrives in your life. It instead emerges from the hard work you’re doing when it comes to writing, creating, building, or achieving. Instead of waiting for it, work for it.
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May 15, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Classes I Didn’t Take In Seminary … But Probably Should Have
Most of you who read this blog know that I loved my time at Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. I was a student there from 1987-1990 and feel like it did a superb job of preparing me to be a preacher, a pastor, and a Christian. Given the choice, I would do it all over
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May 14, 2018
Eye Rollers, Week 3 — The “If You’re Angry You’re Subject To Judgment” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message …. Completely hinged on a twist in Jesus’ speaking in Matthew 5:21-26; when you notice what he does and how he does it, everything in the passage changes. Used a prop of the words YOUR ANGER and YOU ANGER placed on either side of me on easels. Included several personal refelctions that people
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