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January 26, 2017
Ministry As A Performance?
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’ve had a couple of funerals this week. And in the funeral I led yesterday — you can read the obituary here — the man we celebrated had been an accountant. And a pastor. Now: vocationally, he was an accountant. That’s how he’ll be remembered. But for three years Read the full article...
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January 25, 2017
A Half-Sentence For The Preacher’s Toolbox
People who are in grief want to talk about the person who has died. The want to speak the person’s name. They want to share memories. They want to laugh about the funny things the person said and did and believed. In pastoral ministry, one of the most important things you can say is, “Tell Read the full article...
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One Of The Most Important Half Sentences In The Life Of A Preacher
People who are in grief want to talk about the person who has died. The want to speak the person’s name. They want to share memories. They want to laugh about the funny things the person said and did and believed. In pastoral ministry, one of the most important things you can say is, “Tell Read the full article...
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January 24, 2017
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five (Or Six) Reflections From A Don Henley Concert
So this past Sunday, Julie and I left Charlotte immediately after the third service at Good Shepherd and drove down to Atlanta for a Don Henley concert. Wha-what? It was my Christmas present — maybe my best one ever. Henley, former drummer & vocalist of the Eagles, whose solo career contains my favorite music, had Read the full article...
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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Reflections From A Don Henley Concert
So this past Sunday, Julie and I left Charlotte immediately after the third service at Good Shepherd and drove down to Atlanta for a Don Henley concert. Wha-what? It was my Christmas present — maybe my best one ever. Henley, former drummer & vocalist of the Eagles, whose solo career contains my favorite music, had Read the full article...
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January 23, 2017
The “Habit Drop” Sermon Rewind
What I have below is an approximation of what was preached at Good Shepherd yesterday. That’s because what is below is better in written form that what the talk looked like on Sunday. Why? Because the metaphor in many ways became the message. The metaphor of an assembly in which we regard our bad habits Read the full article...
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January 20, 2017
Creatures Of Habit, Week 3 — Habit Drop
This object, placed on the Worship Center platform today, is at the center of Sunday’s message. What in the world is it and what does it have to do with “Habit Drop”? To discover that, it’s … Sunday. 8:30, 10, 11:30 at Moss Road. 10, 11:30 at Zoar Road. 11:30 Latino.
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January 19, 2017
Locating Some Intelligence Among The Dummies
My posts this week have been sharing the announcement that Abingdon Press will turn my sermon series Crash Test Dummies into a chapter book and small group resource in September of 2017. It will be the fifth such collaboration between the ministry at Good Shepherd and the publishers in Nashville. I have previously related the Read the full article...
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January 18, 2017
From “I Can’t Preach This!” To “Let’s Publish It!”
Yesterday in this space, I shared the good news that in September of 2017, Abingdon Press will publish my sermon series Crash Test Dummies as a small group resource and study guide. It will be the fifth such book in the last three years. Yet I also shared how the series almost never saw the Read the full article...
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January 17, 2017
And I Thought I Was The Crash Test Dummy
Some of you know this already and more of you don’t, but it’s now official: In September of 2017, Abingdon Press will release my book Crash Test Dummies: Surprising Lessons From The Book Of Judges. Here’s the cover art: Crash Test Dummies will accompany Head Scratchers, The Storm Before The Calm, The Shadow Of A Read the full article...
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