We’ve spent this entire year in Philippians and it’s been a pretty fun ride. We have a better understanding of the kind of letter that Paul is writing, who he writing to, what kind of…
What is one to do when they feel its good and right to a more social/communal gospel such as living in close quarters, same neighbourhood, same house as others who call themselves Christians but whenever…
Expectation always ends up ending bad. The person with the expectations ends up being disappointed and the other ends up feeling inferior. Leaders with expectation end up getting burnt out and burning bridges with everyone…
One of the main struggles I find in relationships, especially one’s that I am in, is striking up a healthy balance of accountability. I find this especially tough in being a leader of a church…
I struggle with evangelism because it always seem so disingenuous. The only people I know that have ever come to consider themselves Christians who were not born into it were not the direct results of any evangelism techniques that we…
For a while I thought that I would want to go get a Masters in Economics of some sort. After seeing the kind of impact that economics has on all of our lives, my interest…
I’ve been changing lately, or at least I like to think I am. I don’t like changing, or having realizations about myself, because it usually means that someone else was right and I was wrong….
I’ve been paying more attention lately to our language around work and vocation. I’m realizing patterns that I think are embedded pretty deep within us and serve to rule our lifelong actions rendering us unable…
Growing up Pentecostal I was scared of liturgies, sacraments, common books of prayers and funny hats. I spouted of the regular indoctrinated statements of any good charismatic; assuming these churches had no spirit, and didn’t…
I don’t think we take the church nearly serious enough. Not even close. Church is still just a place we go to on Sundays to fulfill some sort of empty void that we only really…
Let’s give ourselves a little bit of perspective before we jump into our part of Philippians today. The church in Philippi started with a group of women who because there was no Jewish Synnagogue, would…
This Post will get added to my ongoing collection of thoughts of Money and the Church. All my life I’ve been raised that I should never spend money if I don’t have to, always look…
My favourite people in the world are in a band and it’s good. They are playing this Friday Night at the Trinity. You should go.
I am an amateur in terms of beer. But this past year has been one of a great awakening. I’ve discovered new and exciting flavours that I didn’t know existed. I was always skeptical of…
See More Art Installations… This was our First Friday exhibit we setup tonight. Thoughts?
I am not a good reader. I don’t jump into books very well, I’m not into fiction and I have way too much energy to sit down and make myself read. That said, I love…
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This is part of a series entitled Confessions of a Church Planter, all the posts from this series are listed below. I wrote a post two years ago entitled Thoughts on Paying Pastors. I just re-read it…
All right, so here we go again, and its Christmas. Joe last week talked about the announcement of Christ and what it means for an announcement to come like it did in its form and…
So we ran our Eighth Letter conference a few months ago in Toronto. It was good times. After the conference a bunch of us went to a pub in Toronto and hung out with Peter…