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February 27, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things You Need To Know About Greta Van Fleet
They’re evocative yet original. They’re derivative yet authentic. They’re reminiscent of yet different from. They’re Greta Van Fleet, and they had me at hello. Here are five things you need to know about the Michigan-based band that has the percussive power and sonic boom of the first four Led Zeppelin albums. Yet they’re not Zeppelin
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February 26, 2018
#OneSixtySeven, Week 3 — The “We Are All Just Prisoners Here Of Our Own Device” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s sermon … had a title I’m proud of: We Are All Just Prisoners Here Of Our Own Device; had a subject that needs addressing: our devices; had a bottom line that was a major improvement over the original one written — why be captive of the urgent when you can be captured by the
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February 22, 2018
Words Make Worlds
A high school senior from Good Shepherd shared her application essay to a national Christian college. You’ll see how Good Shepherd language has deeply shaped her Christian identity: My personal faith and beliefs will contribute to [the college’s] mission because of the foundation of the church I was raised in. For as long as I
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February 21, 2018
Leading When Leadership Isn’t Your Thing
I spent a good chunk of yesterday at Clemson University speaking with a group of students from the Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity. The trip and the talk was the brainchild of Clemson student and DSP officer Cory Brooks whom I have known since he was four years old as both neighbor and member of
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February 20, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Required Resources For “Simplify The Message & Multiply The Impact”
As a lot of you know, the Western North Carolina United Methodists invited me to lead a monthly preaching workshop (technically called a “cohort”) for sixteen emerging and established pastors in our area. I am both excited about and energized by the assignment. You can read more about it here. As you note on the
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February 19, 2018
One Sixty-Seven, Week 2 — The “The Oldest Religion In The World” Sermon Rewind
For sometime now, I have been amazed/saddened/perplexed at all the ways people say to God (in so many words): I know better. So I put it into a sermon. Labelling the serpent’s seed of doubt in the woman’s mind as the Oldest Religion In The World, I walk the people of the church through Genesis
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February 16, 2018
One Sixty-Seven, Week 2 — “The Oldest Religion In The World”
Well, what is it? What is the “oldest religion in the world”? Is it Christianity? No. Older. Judaism? No. Older. Hinduism? No. It’s old, but there’s something older. Idol worship? No. That’s really old, but there’s something older. To see what is the oldest religion in the world, it’s … Sunday. 8:30, 10, 11:30 at
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February 15, 2018
#TBT — State Title, 1978 … Happy Story With A Sad Ending
Here is the Park Cities News from May 17, 1978: The photo and the accompanying story came in the aftermath of a Texas high school doubles state championship that Chris Doane and I won on behalf of Highland Park High School in Dallas. He was a senior, I was a sophomore, and during that spring
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February 14, 2018
The WORST Question To Ask In A #BibleStudy
We write a lot of LifeGroup questions at Good Shepherd. In fact, we have a For Further Conversation section in our Sunday morning worship bulletin virtually every week — and many of our LifeGroups use that material (and the sermon that prompted it) as their curricula. And, happily, many of those questions have been included
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February 13, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things I’ve Learned This Week
A week of random learning and unexpected realizations, summarized right here. Here are the Top Five Things I’ve Learned JUST This Week: 1.Good Shepherd sermons are now in podcast form, available at the iTunes story. Wha-what?! 2.Roger Federer will achieve the #1 ranking in the world if he makes the semi-finals of this week’s
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