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#TBT — Before Blog, Before Books, The Was “The Trentonian”

Before I ever had a blog, before Abingdon Press ever started turning sermons into books, before even seminary … there was The Trentonian. Huh? Between 1985 and 1987, I was the tennis correspondent for The Trentonian, a tabloid-style daily serving Trenton, NJ and its surrounding towns, villages, and suburbs. My primary duty was the weekly

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Bible Lifting At Good Shepherd

Here’s a great shot taken as I was beginning my sermon this past Sunday at the Zoar Road Campus of Good Shepherd:   We’re one church in two locations.  Yet the mission, strategy, and values are identical at both locations and in both Spanish & English. So we lift the bible (which includes bibles people

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Tom Petty Songs

I had another Top Five Tuesday planned. But then Monday happened and Tom Petty died. So here’s a reprise of a post from 2011:  my Top Five Tom Petty Songs.   I admit that early on Tom Petty took some getting used to. First, there’s the voice. Unique. Sometimes he makes Bob Dylan sound downright

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Where Apples Fall, Week 5 — The “Falling Well” Sermon Rewind

You could have called it Switcheroo Sunday. Yesterday, we became one church on two campuses with THREE preachers. I preached live at our Zoar Road Campus (normally a video venue) while Chris Thayer preached live on our Moss Road Campus and Sammy Gonzalez held it steady en espanol. We shared the same bottom line while

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Where Apples Fall, Week 5 — “Falling Well”

You knew we’d get here, didn’t you? We’ve fallen apart, fallen alone, and even fallen hard, so it makes sense we’d take a look at what it means to fall well. To do so, we’re changing Testaments, changing strategies, and even changing perspectives. I think it’s going to be really good. Falling Well. Sunday. 8:30,

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Product Placement

Last night concluded a three-night Revival Series at the Morris Chapel United Methodist Church in Walkertown, NC, a bucolic town on the outskirts of Winston-Salem. I preached a two-night revival there in 2016 and was grateful for the return invitation and expanded schedule.  My long-time friend and colleague Dan Lyons is the pastor at Morris

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Preaching Without Notes

A lot of you have asked how it is that I give messages on Sunday mornings without using any notes. Actually, it’s not just Sundays … this week I’ve been preaching a revival up in Kernersville and those, too, I give without notes. Getting up and giving a message without notes involves the following: Working way

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Reflections About Being A Princeton Graduate

I went to Princeton for college. There.  I said it.  I don’t ever preach it out of fear that people will think “he’s a snob,” or “he’s an elitist,” or “he is an egghead” and I’ll lose whatever common ground I had developed with them. For those and other reasons, I generally keep it on

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Things About Being A Princeton Graduate

I went to Princeton for college. There.  I said it.  I don’t ever preach it out of fear that people will think “he’s a snob,” or “he’s an elitist,” or “he is an egghead” and I’ll lose whatever common ground I had developed with them. For those and other reasons, I generally keep it on

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Where Apples Fall, Week 4 — The “Falling Alone” Sermon Rewind

Sunday’s message … Marveled at Jacob’s resume of wrecked relationships; Actually included some “write these down” applications; Landed at a bottom line I like very much:  “What you stand for is never as important as who you stand with.” —————————————————————– I know you all well enough from conversation and from social media and from some

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