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September 8, 2017
Where Apples Fall, Week 2 — “Falling Apart”
The Where Apples Fall series is designed to reinforce our core value that faith starts at home. It’s not like faith starts at church and you hope to bring it from church to your house; it’s the reverse: it starts at home and gets a weekly tuneup at church. All that is why we do
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September 7, 2017
Animating Versus Illustrating
We preachers spend a lot of time and energy trying to bring life to our sermons through what have historically been called illustrations. Donald Grey Barnhouse, longtime pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, compiled the most famous collection of such sermon helps in a book titled, appropriately enough, Let Me Illustrate. Illustration I have found
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September 6, 2017
A White Supremacist’s Worst Nightmare …
A friend of mine is reading an early copy of Crash Test Dummies. Late last week, he sent me a text that said excitedly, “The prayer on page 41 of the book reminds me of that pastor who said that the biblical view of heaven is a white supremacist’s worst nightmare!” I didn’t remember the
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September 5, 2017
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Steely Dan Songs
In honor of the death this past weekend of Steely Dan’s Walter Becker, here is a reprise of a 2014 post involving my five favorite Steely Dan songs. Interestingly, my original post drew a strong reaction from my mom — she’d never heard of Steely Dan but could not stop listening to the referenced tracks.
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September 1, 2017
Where Apples Fall Launch — “The Harder They Fall”
Where Apples Fall “Well, THAT apple sure didn’t fall from the tree!” It’s one of the most common ways of describing the incredible influence that parents have on their children. Influence that parents wield knowingly and unknowingly, to great impact and to lasting damage. We know that faith starts at home at Good Shepherd. That’s
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August 31, 2017
Learing To Love A Book I Used To Hate
That book that I now love but used to hate? Judges. As in, a book in the library that is the bible. For years, my only familiarity with the book of Judges was the fact that Lyle Lovett once made an album called JoshuaJudgesRuth, which I thought was a clever name for a country record
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August 30, 2017
Gideon The Thief
Many of you know Gideon from the name that is on the cover of your hotel bible, as well as the organization that put it there. I suspect that fewer of you know, however, that the Gideon on the inside of your bible is actually much more interesting than the one on the cover. And
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August 29, 2017
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Ways To Throw A Tennis Racket
In honor of this year’s US Open, which began yesterday and runs through September 10, I want to devote this space to something quite near to the heart of every serious tennis player: the art of throwing (or simply abusing) a tennis racket. Yes, it’s an art. With different techniques, different reasons, and, as you’ll
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August 28, 2017
The “High Water Sunday” Sermon Rewind
Sunday’s message . . . Shifted the focus from hell to high water; Dealt with a weird section from I Peter 3, a section that has influenced some weird sects as well as two different versions of the Apostles’ Creed; Pointed out the irony in Peter’s claim that the waters of Noah’s flood now symbolize
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August 25, 2017
Hell Or High Water, Week 4 — High Water Sunday
It’s almost here. After three weeks of hell, a focus on the high water part. I promise you that it will be unlike any other Sunday we’ve ever had at Good Shepherd. The water has been warmed, the towels are ready, and the Holy Spirit has already shown up. Now he’s just waiting to make
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