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February 12, 2018
One Sixty-Seven Launch: The “What A Fool Believes” Sermon Rewind
Planning. Praying. Dreaming. Scheming. Empowering. Aligning. That’s why I am so excited about One Sixty Seven: everyone is aligned. Children, teens, G3 groups, existing LifeGroups, Sunday worship, and daily blogs. All aligned. That alignment showed through this weekend as 210 students and volunteers had a One Six Seven retreat, as we began the grand G3
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February 9, 2018
“One Sixty-Seven” Launch — “What A Fool Believes”
Whew. I’ve been dreaming, scheming, planning, preparing, and praying over the One Sixty-Seven series for months now. We have 130 G3 groups signed up already. Our Children’s Ministry has customized its own curriculum so that what the young ones learn in the K Zone parallels what their parents are hearing in the Worship Center. Our
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February 8, 2018
Writing Your Prayers
Earlier this week, I received this email from a Good Shepherd friend. The email came in response to a section of Sunday’s sermon on Psalm 13 in which I mentioned that for the past 18 months I have been writing the majority of my prayers. (If you think that is somehow less spiritual than speaking,
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February 7, 2018
Simplify The Message; Multiply The Impact Launches
This group of 16 preacher friends from Western North Carolina Methodism descended on Good Shepherd yesterday for the launch of an eight month workshop I am leading called Simplify The Message; Multiply The Impact. Everyone who signed up showed up. That’s no small victory. For the bulk of 2018, this group will gather on the
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February 6, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things You Might Not Know About Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe died twenty-five years ago TODAY — February 6, 1993. I remember weeping when the news came over television. Ashe had contracted the virus that causes AIDS while undergoing open heart surgery in the days before they tested blood (late 70s), and revealed his illness mere months before he died. So, in his honor,
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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Facts About Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe died twenty-five years ago TODAY — February 6, 1993. I remember weeping when the news came over television. Ashe had contracted AIDS while undergoing open heart surgery in the days before they tested blood (late 70s), and revealed his illness mere months before he died. So, in his honor, here are five things
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February 5, 2018
Practicing The Presence, Week 5 — “When God Sends Crickets”
Yesterday’s message concluded the Practicing The Presence series with an in-depth look at Psalm 13. It began with an acknowledgment: God is emotionally secure. He is so emotionally secure, in fact, that he inspires biblical texts that question his existence or competence or both. It all led to this bottom line: God delays answers to
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February 2, 2018
Practicing The Presence, Week 5 — “When God Sends Crickets”
There are times when you pray and it seems as if this is God’s response: Zip. Zero. Nada. What’s going on? In matters both tragic and trivial, what is happening with all those unanswered prayers? How in the world can we practice his presence when we feel his absence? That’s how we are winding up
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February 1, 2018
#TBT — Highland Park High School Tennis Team, 1977
Here I am, second from the left on the front row, as a freshman on the Highland Park High School tennis team in January of 1977. Why the sad face? Well: 1. I was a freshman. 2. The bangs. 3. The racket. I was using a Spalding World Open and, well, there’s a reason Spalding
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January 31, 2018
METHOD, Meet MATERIALS
Our upcoming One Sixty-Seven series (Feb. 11 to March 4) will take place at the intersection of method and materials. Method The method for the series and its supporting LifeGroup project is something called Grab, Gather, Grow or G3. G3, which has been popularized by Jim & Jennifer Cowart of Harvest UMC in south Georgia,
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