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July 31, 2017
Unhappy Campers, Week 4 — The “Wildwood” Sermon Rewind
Below you will find my sermon from July 23, the final message in the Unhappy Campers series called “Wildwood.” Due to Sunday travel, unfamiliarity with a new laptop, and lack of time, I did not post this last week. So, with Ron Dozier preaching at Good Shepherd yesterday (July 30), this gives me a chance
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July 27, 2017
Talks & The Talking Talkers Who Give Them
I spent both Monday and Wednesday afternoons in Ocean Grove, NJ with this group of student ministry interns. In between their programming, counseling, and shepherding of the teenagers who are part of this Jersey Shore based camp meeting, they gave several hours of continuing education time to me, their continuing educator. Most of the
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July 26, 2017
Some Time With A Benevolent Czar
On Tuesday night, I had dinner with David Benjamin, who was my tennis coach at Princeton University from 1980-1984. Here we are at a local Princeton eatery: As I shared in an earlier post, I am in the Garden State this week preaching and teaching at the Ocean Grove Campground. So after I completed my
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GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY (Well, Close Enough)
GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK, NJ (well, close enough) A small handful of you will get the rock reference in the post’s title. The rest of you will lament your lack of education. I don’t normally post “on location” when I am out of town, but this is too much fun. I am at the Jersey
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Sovereignty & Money
John Piper said it this way: “He (Jesus) said more about money than he did about heaven and hell because where your treasure is there will your heart be also. So why do we have money? Money is God’s idea, what’s it for? Here’s the reason we have money: we have money to use it
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July 25, 2017
TOP FIVE TUESDAY — Top Five Reflections From A Carolina Cross Connection Trip
TOP FIVE TUESDAY — Top Five Reflections From A Carolina Cross Connection Inc. Student Mission Trip I spent last week at Camp Loy White in rural Cleveland County, NC as part of a Good Shepherd Church Student Mission Team who in turn joined the larger Carolina Cross Connection Project. The mission of CCC is
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July 21, 2017
Unhappy Campers, Week 4 — Wildwood
One of my favorite of the classic Southern Gospel Camp Meetin’ Songs is The Church In The Wildwood. Here ya go: This Sunday, we won’t necessarily be that church in the wildwood, but we will explore a wild story from Numbers 17 that begins with wood and leads to resurrection. Huh? To see what
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July 20, 2017
The Social Solitude Of Preaching
Preaching is an intensely solitary activity. Preaching is a thoroughly social exercise. Which is it? Solitary or social? Yes. My own process of preparation is wholly wrapped in solitude. I study, I jot, I brainstorm, I fret, I pray, I get excited, I become depressed, I write . . . all on my own. At
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July 19, 2017
The Methodists Made A Video About US!
The Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church (that’s a mouthful, but that’s where I have spent my professional life and that’s the denominational entity of which Good Shepherd is a part) recently made and posted a video about our church. The motivation behind their interviews and videography? To give the people of our
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July 18, 2017
TOP FIVE TUESDAY — Top Five Benefits Of Reading The Bible NOT AS A BOOK BUT AS A LIBRARY
If you’ve been to Good Shepherd more than once or twice, you have not doubt heard some form of this worship ritual: The bible is not a book; it’s a library, a collection of books. We believe it’s a library unlike any other library on earth in that its words are God-breathed and therefore filled
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