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February 28, 2017
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Songs From The 90s
Ah, the 90s. The end of mullets. The beginning of grunge. The end of McEnroe & Connors and the beginning of Sampras & Agassi. The end of VHS & cassette and the beginning of CDs, DVDs, and even the internet itself. So . . . what’s the soundtrack from those years? Here are my Top Read the full article...
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February 27, 2017
Some Really Odd Joy — A “Path Of Most Resistance” Sermon Rewind By Guess Blogger And Preacher Ron Dozier
Ron Dozier, our Pastor Of Missions & Community Impact, delivered Week 3 of The Path Of Most Resistance yesterday. Based on James 1:2-5, his message was called Some Really Odd Joy and landed at this bottom line: There is treasure in your trial, so trust. Ron’s wordsmithing comes through both in written and in spoken Read the full article...
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February 23, 2017
#TBT — Summer, 1981, Or “When Headline Writers & Journalists Don’t Communicate”
This very nice piece below appeared in the late, great Dallas Times-Herald sometime in the summer of 1981. During that break between my freshman and sophomore years in college, I played a number of tournaments around my native Texas. A sportswriter looked me up, liked my story of college choice, and put together a flattering Read the full article...
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February 22, 2017
A Living Relationship With . . .
. . . Jesus Christ. That’s how most of us at Good Shepherd have grown accustomed to completing that sentence. We consciously chose the word “living” rather than “personal” (the more common term in most evangelical circles) because “personal” too easily devolves into “private” and there is nothing private or solitary about faith in Jesus. Yet Read the full article...
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February 21, 2017
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Steps In First Time Guest Follow Up
How’s that for a technical blog post? But aside from posts about playing tennis or delivering sermons, this is probably the activity on which I have spent the most time. Because we take our guests seriously at Good Shepherd, and we do what we can to ensure they come. Here’s our process: 1. Obtain Connection Read the full article...
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February 20, 2017
The “This Will Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You!” Sermon Rewind
Oh, what a dilemma. Does God allow pain in our lives or does he cause it? Wesleyan Methodists are traditionally much more comfortable with the former while Calvinists often embrace the latter. But what does the author of Hebrews say? Among other things, that’s a topic that week two of The Path Of Most Resistance Read the full article...
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February 16, 2017
#TBT — Davis Family, Fall, 1998
Here we are in the fall of 1998 in the living room of the parsonage at Mt. Carmel Church in Monroe, NC. Riley was then six and Taylor was nine. Julie and I were . . . 19 years younger than we are now!
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February 15, 2017
The Idol Of Clergy Self-Care
This post is not likely to make me many friends in United Methodism. But here goes: the current mantra in UMC circles of “clergy self-care” has moved from concern to caricature to idol. Over the last couple of years in my Annual Conference, we have heard lectures, been given books, received mailings, and taken part Read the full article...
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February 14, 2017
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Rock Love Songs
What other kind of list could I possibly compile for Valentine’s Day? And no, “Feel Like Makin’ Love” didn’t make the cut. Nor did “Whole Lotta Love.” Or even “Love Gun.” To make the list, a song has to have at least a little subtlety as well as the recognition that love itself involves a Read the full article...
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February 13, 2017
The First Step On “The Path Of Most Resistance”: The “Spoiler Alert” Sermon Rewind
Oh, what fun it was to deliver this message. I had the multi-faceted privileged of . . . Digging deep into Romans 5:1-5; Showing a clip from a pro tennis match I won in 1984 (yes!); Letting people know that “Jaws” is not a good date movie; Leading a demonstration with a batter, waffle iron, Read the full article...
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