Conversation with a Street Preacher: Part 4
Harry, Thank-you for your response. I read your letter and I was a bit disappointed that you felt the need to compile biblical references. Not that references are bad, but rather I am trying to…
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Conversation with a Street Preacher: Part 3 And If I Can Accept The Trinity, Why Not Anything Else?
Below is the second response from the street preacher. I think by this point he’s getting a bit scattered and not able to articulate what he needs to say. What I do find most interesting…
Relationship over Preaching: My First Response to the Street Preacher Part 2
I was happy to get a letter from Harry. To be honest, I’m disappointed at the inability of Christian leaders to carry on a conversation, be criticized and defend their beliefs in public. Generally the consensus from…
Asking Them To Leave: Conversation With a Street Preacher Part 1
The earliest I can remember the Street Preacher downtown Sarnia was back around Halloween of 2011. We were having a pirate themed Murder Mystery Party at theStory and some friends dressed as pirates came running…
Introduction: What To Do with Street Preachers in Downtown Sarnia
Over the last six months or so, our beautiful downtown Sarnia has been inhabited with a Street Preacher (the whole soapbox and everything) and an entourage of Street Preacher Disciples of a range of ages handing out…
Church Is Just Leaders and Followers
It seems that the church has created only two kinds of people. Leaders and followers. Leaders are people that produce content and then followers are those that consume that content. Leaders are usually on staff,…
How Did We Get Here? A Sermon on Acts 13
We are making our way through Acts at a fairly good pace and we are seeing how the gospel is starting to make its way to the ends of the earth. We are starting to…
What Are We Becoming? A Sermon on Acts 11
So this morning we are finishing up Acts 11. Because it’s fairly short and there isn’t too much exegetical work that I am going to do, we are going to take some time and try…
Travel Credit Card Comparison in Canada (TD VS SCOTIA)
My wife and I have had the luxury of traveling quite a bit over the last few years and a lot of that is thanks to our TD Infinite Visa. I did a bunch of research before…
The Art of A Good Leader
The best leaders are the ones who have convinced their congregations that by just doing the simple act of going to church on Sunday to hear them preach, that they are doing everything that they…
When You See Jesus, It Changes Everything: A Sermon on Saul’s Conversion (Road to Damascus), Acts 9:1-31
So after our two week break for Easter, we are coming back into the book of Acts. We’ve spent a lot of time more in liturgical settings with doing readings out loud, prayers out loud…
Easter (Resurrection) Sunday Liturgy
We all met 15 minutes before sunrise at the local beach. We had a big campfire roaring as people showed up. After the liturgy we went back to our space and had a pancake breakfast….
Good Friday Liturgy – 5 Stages of Grief
Here is our Good Friday Liturgy from 2012. Each section was read by a different member of our community including children from gr. 5 and up. The Resurrection Sunday liturgy can be found here. [Introduction] Before we…
People Don’t Just Change: The Purpose of Sermons
One of things that I have grown to realize about people, is that they don’t change. One of the things that I have grown to realize about myself is that I don’t change either. Another…
Evangelism, Ethiopians and Eunuchs: A Sermon on Acts 8:26-40
So we are still in the book of Acts, we’ve been here since October and we are only still in chapter eight. As we go through Acts we are starting to see the story unfold…
Universalization of the Gospel
“One of the major themes throughout Luke-Acts is the universalization of the gospel — that it is for all people from the last, least and lost to the first, most and found. This is a…
Ghana with the FMCIC
Troy and I had the opportunity to go with the FMCIC to the Ghana Mission this past month. The FMCIC is coaching and working with some Ghana pastors and giving them the tools necessary to…
Costa Rica Pictures from 2012
Rachel and I went to Costa Rica with our friends Brandon and Beth Huybers. This was strictly a vacation. Couldn’t have picked a better place that was friendly to tourists but still wrapped in adventure…
Good News in The Last Place You’d Expect to Find It: A Sermon on Acts 8:4-8:25
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…
William Willimon on Communities Defining Themselves
“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?…