Bluewater Film Festival 2009

I was able to make it to the morning block of films for the Bluewater Film Festival.  Ugly Lights was shown in this block along with a few other great films.  Here is an article…

Conclusions on Hell

I’m doing a message on hell tomorrow, and it’s just very difficult to come to any sort of conclusion on this topic.  I’ll post my message next week, but in the meantime, here are some…

Nuit Blanche Toronto 2009 Pictures

Rachel took me to Nuit Blanche in Toronto for my birthday this year, and it was pretty awesome.  It’s an all night arts festival in the heart of downtown Toronto with over 130 exhibits.  It…

Canada E-Bike Pilot Over

Rachel and I bought an ebike at the beginning of last summer.  It was her idea to get it, but it basically ended up being mine because I used it as our second vehicle the…

Subversive Guerrilla Theatre

This guy is awesome. Sort of reminds me of the experiments I read about that Shaine Claiborne did. I’ve always wondered how to successfully get entire groups of people thinking outside the box and challenge…

Peace Leeches at Empty Spaces

The Peace Leeches were at Empty Spaces tonight and they rocked out pretty hard, I was super impressed.  I haven’t been doing much shooting lately, but I thought I would pull out the good ol’…

Thinking about Our Collections

I grew up collecting hockey and baseball cards. I had thousands upon thousands of them. A bunch of them are still in my basement, rotting away, worthless to me. I’ve collected other things in my…

The Bishop comes to Sarnia

Bishop Keith Elford came to Sarnia this past Sunday to ordain Barb Peterson and also joined us for our Sunday morning gathering at theStory.  He wrote about us in his latest bishop notes which was…

The Awkward Language of Conversion

Have you noticed how language has become increasingly more awkward when we are speaking about salvation? Even just today I was talking with a well respected leader in the Free Methodist church and he seemed…

Zondervan is owned by Harper Collins

Was everyone aware that Zondervan is owned by Harper Collins?  Harper Collins is owned by Rupert Murdoch who also conveniently owns Fox, Fox News, Myspace.com, Wall St Journal, The Sun, Down Jones, News Corp.  That…

Sarnia Downtown Re-Opening Party

I’m sitting on my computer right now at theStory’s space and outside the window there is about 1000 people listening to a band, there is a drinking area, art exhibitions everywhere and First Friday is…