The Great Divide Between Atheists and Theists
I haven’t run into too many atheists that think or admit that there are smart theists in the world. I haven’t run into too many theists that would call an atheist intelligent or thoughtful. What…
Author: Nathan Colquhoun
I’m Losing Interest In Preaching But I Feel Like I Shouldn’t
Preaching is slowly becoming this dreary thing that I can’t help but thinking of it as an empty routine. I enjoy formulating arguments, doing research and thinking about theology a lot. I enjoy reading and…
Google Apps Is No Longer Free 2012
For almost all of my clients, and my own personal domain, I setup Google to manage all my e-mail. For the last number of years they have offered up to ten free accounts for Google…
The Difference Between Owing Someone A Favor And Owing Someone A Debt
By far the book of 2012 for me (it possibly has taken me 8 months to read it, I’m not great with history). Nevertheless, this book was phenominal and eye-opening. Debt: The First 5,000 Years…
Export Notes and Highlights from PDF on Your Kindle
Every once in a while I run into a snag with using cloud based technology or web based apps. Namely, the company that runs the software can make changes whenever they want and then you…
Is Church Planting Just A Phase?
theStory is about 6 years old. It functions decently and is slowly being taken over by the community that it consists of. We no longer have a ‘senior pastor’ and the leadership team is taking…
Rowan Williams on Contemplation, Evangelization and Self Congratulation
I found this from something Mirosalv Volf shared tonight and thought it was jam packed with brilliance. It is the text of Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England and the Anglican Communion,…
God’s Future Has Burst into the Present – A Sermon on Resurrection and Hope
We have been in a series right now entitled Results May Vary. The idea being that even as we move along in our lives and understand what our role is that the results will always…
A Sermon On Stewardship And Not About How You Spend Your Money
We finally got our write-up for our series finished and we left it up there when you were walking in just so you could get a grasp on what we are trying to do with…
Preaching As The Grand Reminder
I’ve now got a solid six years or so under my belt of preaching sermons to a pretty broad group of Christians at my home church in Sarnia. You can read all my sermons, as…
Change or Community
Sometimes I feel like there a choice to make between change and community. I don’t mean change ambiguously. I mean changing from good to bad, wrong to right, oppressing to liberating, lazy to productive, hateful…
A Sermon on Our Gatherings and What They Mean
One of the the things I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about and reading about lately is our worship service. I tend to do this and then start reading a lot of books,…
Part 9 – Maybe We Both Can’t Afford to Be Wrong
Harry, I’ll be honest, I’m not really sure where you were going with your e-mail. It seemed sort of scattered and lots of vast assumptions about what I believe. Nevertheless, I’ll do my best to…
Part 8 – I Noticed You Are Associated With The Emergent Church
There is a lot more to go, I’ve probably lost most of my readers by now, but I think it’s important for folks (especially in Sarnia) to see the circle this is going in. There…
Do We Really Serve the Same God? A Sermon on Acts 25-27
We are entering in at Chapter 25 in Acts this morning. So there is a lot happening now in Acts. Paul is bound up in prison for at least two years. He is being used…
Street Preacher Survival Guide: A Downtown Sarnia First Friday Installation
See More Art Installations… With the arrival guide of street preachers downtown theStory wanted to offer some lightheartedness and clarification to the situation. There was way too many folks asking us what was going on,…
We Will Be Known By Our Scars: A Sermon on Acts 19-20
Acts was written by Luke as a second part to the Gospel of Luke. Acts is chronicling the spread of the church from the Ascension of Jesus to following Paul around on his different missionary…
Humans Would Never Publish The Bible: Conversation with a Street Preacher Part 7
Nathan Thanks for email. You have given me much to respond to that I thought it best to send a portion of all I want to say.One reason for slow replies is that I type…
Revealed Truth is Not the Bible, It’s Jesus – Conversation With A Street Preacher Part 6
Harry, I’m glad we can do this on e-mail now. It was getting difficult for me to read your handwriting ;) I would like to try to keep our conversations to some order just so…
You Can’t Afford to Be Wrong – Conversation With A Street Preacher Part 5
Harry (the Street Preacher) and I have officially moved to e-mail for our correspondence. Lots coming. Thanks again Nathan for your quick response. I do appreciate your response and your love and devotion to love others…