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Candid Conversation In A Crisis

You will have to wait a week for the sermon manuscript of Back When Cain Was Able (and I think it will be worth the wait). But that’s all because we interrupted Nooks & Crannies in light of this extraordinary moment in the city of Charlotte. Here are the notes and directions Ron Dozier and Read the full article...

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En El Mismo Lado De La Calle

Since December of 2012, our Latino Worship Community (as well as our Student Ministry) has been en el otro lado de la calle — on the other side of the street — in our Corner Campus.     And this coming Sunday, that season comes to a close as the Latino service moves en el Read the full article...

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Series, Interrupted

Most of you know how much I like sermon series. And how meticulous I am about both preparing and completing them. Yet, in light this extraordinary moment in our city and region, we are interrupting Nooks & Crannies this Sunday. There are many voices speaking into and over our crisis: some sober, some shrill, some respectable, Read the full article...

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A City In Crisis And A Church In Response

    As our city is in a state of emergency, the people of God are called to intervene and intercede. So the full color congregation of Good Shepherd is having a Special Service Of Communion, Prayer, and Healing For Our City tonight at 7 p.m. in the Moss Road Worship Center. Remembering that racial Read the full article...

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How Long?

Sort of feeling this song on Wednesday morning:  

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Text Messages (TMs) and Direct Messages (DMs) From A Monday

What an interesting assortment of text messages and Facebook Direct Messages I received yesterday. Here are the top five, keeping the authors/senders anonymous (with one exception): 5.  “There were so many times (during your Sunday sermon) that I wanted to throw my hand up and say, ‘Hell YES, Talbot!’ . . . but the church Read the full article...

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Nooks & Crannies Launch — “The Worser Part Of Valor”

Much of my early preparation for yesterday’s message happened while on a student mission trip earlier this summer.  So I didn’t have my books or my study aids. Instead, all I had was Genesis 2 & 3, a pen & paper, and some early morning quiet time. I think that process made the message a Read the full article...

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Nooks & Crannies, Week One — “The Worser Part Of Valor”

Nooks & Crannies  In thinking of the defining moments for families, we typically zero in on the big events:  weddings, funerals, anniversaries, vacations, and holidays. But what if families & relationships are not so much shaped by the spectacularly large but instead by the massively small? What if the real key to growing healthy marriages Read the full article...

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Spiritual By-Pass?

One of my friends who is quite open with me about his journey out of addiction and into recovery told me of a phrase the recovery community uses: The Spiritual By-Pass What is that? It’s the desire on the part of many addicts to receive ONE prayer, ONE pill, or ONE deliverance and voila! … Read the full article...

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My Preaching Red Dirt Road

One of my family’s favorite songs is Red Dirt Road by Brooks & Dunn. It is a song that, in the best of country tradition, you see as much as you hear.  More to the point, it speaks to origins, nostalgia, and home.  In our little family, we all have our Red Dirt Roads:  Mine is Read the full article...

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