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Impact: India

We showed this video on Sunday to give the people of Good Shepherd a ground level view of the impact their generosity makes in India.

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Good Shepherd Impact Report — Victor’s Story

One of my favorite highlights from the Impact Report:  

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Numbers From The 2017 Good Shepherd Impact Report

Here is Page 10 of the recently-released, hot-off-the-presses Good Shepherd Impact Report.   Here are the top five numbers out of that page full of … well, numbers. 1. For 2017, we have averaged 308 households per week giving to God through Good Shepherd Church.  That’s up from 292 households per week in 2016. 2.

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ThanksLiving, Week 3 — The “When NOT To Support Your Church” Sermon Rewind

So we wound up the ThanksLiving series with a message that had the unlikely title of “When NOT To Support Your Church.” So I spent some time there, attempted NOT to build a straw man I’d then easily knock down, and ultimately wound through Revelation 7:9-10 to land at this bottom line: You can support

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ThanksLiving, Week 3 — When NOT To Support Your Church

Huh? You’re titling a message — a message that will be coupled with the receiving of ThanksLiving Pledge Cards for 2018 — with a message called When NOT To Support Your Church?!?! Well, yes … yes, we are.  And the purpose WON’T be to set up a Straw Man of churches NOT like Good Shepherd

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Samson, Impulses, Recovery, Gospel

The story of Samson in Judges 13-16 is NOT the story of a really strong guy who gets a really hot girl because he has really cool hair. It IS the story of a man whose life ends tragically, buried beneath the rubble of his own consequences.  Consequences that come from a life where there

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Foundational Monotheism in Psalm 86

The first ten verses of Psalm 86 read this way: Hear me, Lord, and answer me,     for I am poor and needy. 2 Guard my life, for I am faithful to you;     save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God; 3 have mercy on me, Lord,     for I call to you all day long.

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Candy Bars

There is nothing quite like a good candy bar, is there? I remember when they cost a dime. I’d ride my bike up to the neighborhood Seven-Eleven Store, put a dime on the counter, and ask for a Baby Ruth. Those really were the days. It’s no exaggeration to say that candy bars have been

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ThanksLiving, Week 2 — The “No Words” Sermon Rewind

Paul was a wordsmith. While other biblical artists draw word pictures, Paul’s specialty is word “pile ons.”  He explains his words with more words.  He adds to his arguments with more words.  Words are his currency and he spends them well. And yet in 2 Corinthians 9:15, he runs out of words.  At the conclusion

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Passage To India

In preparation for our team’s recent India Mission trip, I drew this map of the sub-continent to help the team as I gave them a historico-geo-political history lesson in our on-the-plane briefing session.   You’re welcome. (Many of you have asked when we might give a report on the trip … Chris Macedo has produced

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