As we start to unfold this story of the first Christians we are picking up on some important themes, and not only that, we are starting to see that everything is connected. Everything from Genesis…
“What do we make of an evangelism, which, while including even the Samaritans, does not hesitate to exclude those like Simon who do not fit the lifestyle or theology of the community of the Spirit?…
As we work our way through Acts we are starting to get a hold on what was going on with the very first Christians. This is a well articulated story of how this news of…
See More Art Installations… Steph and I are displaying our Iceland photos at the March 2012 First Friday downtown Sarnia. We’ll also be showing our Iceland video. The first shot below is from Steph and…
The longer I stick around this evangelical world, the more I tend to put up a wall to the language of ‘evangelism.’ I don’t know if I buy seeking conversions to my faith and trying…
Tonight, in a debate amongst friends, I asked the question towards the end: “what should the ultimate goal of society be?” The answer from the more conservative folks was “freedom.” I realized at that point…
Turns out that Fra Angelico, an Italian painter from the 1400’s has a response to John Piper and his whole masculine Christianity. Here in this painting Jesus is praying in Gethaname, the disciples are sleeping…
Rachel Held Evans challenged to male bloggers last week in response to John Piper’s statement at the Desiring God conference that “God has given Christianity a masculine feel”, which she thought was “a strange way…
I’ve noticed a trend. In my response against consumerism and hating collecting items or my opposition about buying unnecessary goods, I have caught myself falling for another kind of consumption that isn’t healthy. It’s the…
“Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.” – Acts 1:26 Right now at theStory we are in Acts, we’ll probably be there for another…
Something in a conversation I had tonight sparked this post, there is nothing of substantial value in this post, it’s just me ranting. Fitch has an excellent post on this topic here if you want…
I’m not sure what it is, but I seem to make my way into the public sphere a lot. Even as a kid, my neighbour was one of the journalists for the local paper and…
In the past fifty years, we have consumed more goods and services than in all previous generations put together. September 2007 is when I posted an idea I had to start sharing things. It was…
Allright so Joe spoke last week about how John and Peter were taken in and questioned by the high priest and Sadducees. Basically what happened is you have John and Peter and they are running…