The Unfinished Shepherd

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The Unfinished Shepherd

Digging Deeper Questions

May 28, 2024

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"He started something good, and I’m gonna believe it.

He started something good, and He’s gonna complete it.

So, I’ll celebrate the truth. His work in me ain’t through.

I’m just unfinished.

So, I’ll celebrate the truth. His work in me ain’t through.

I’m just unfinished."

These are the lyrics I heard as I reached the crest of a hill on a beautiful spring morning walk. My view at that moment, combined with Mandisa belting out “Unfinished” from the iPhone strapped around my waist, stopped me in my tracks...

Why Faith and Worry Can't Coexist

July 30, 2024

“Faith and fear cannot coexist.” If I heard that reminder from my spiritual mentor, Helen Patterson, once I heard it a thousand times over the course of the 20+ years that she gently, consistently, and faithfully shepherded me. One of us with a conservative spiritual background, the other with more Pentecostal leanings. One of us young, the other with a full head of white hair. One of us neat and tidy, the other a bit scattered (but never showing it!)...

Called: Part 2

July 16, 2024

We recently paused to reflect on I Corinthians 1:9 – “God is faithful; you were called by him into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” There is no question that our primary and most essential calling as Christians is into a full, no barriers relationship with our God. Yet there seems to be more....

Called: Part 1

June 25, 2024

It was 6:15 AM, and as I walked the streets near my home, passing purple-blue hydrangeas and lavender buzzing with bumblebees, I was thinking about calling. Calling was on my mind for more than one reason. The Presence Point tag line, Live Into Your Calling, was one of course. A note I jotted into my journal a few weeks before was another. At the time, I was cataloguing some concepts I wanted to understand better. “What is a true, biblical understanding of calling?”