Friendly and Welcoming Church Sign
Nothing better than a church and business mix. This is a sign that a downtown friend took for me on his phone. This is a new local church plant. Awesome. While I won’t claim to…
Nothing better than a church and business mix. This is a sign that a downtown friend took for me on his phone. This is a new local church plant. Awesome. While I won’t claim to…
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…
Joe talked about Genesis 1 and 3. The fact that for so long the church has allowed their story to start at Genesis 3, when sin comes into the picture. The problem is, when you…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I went and did a photoshoot for a McGuinty Government announcement this week at Lambton College. You can go to the post to see the photo, but more importantly it was cool to work with…
I thought this dream was over. Apparently not. Ugly Lights (you know that movie I made with a few downtown folk almost two years ago) has got accepted into the Blue Water Film Festival in…
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’…
Richard Rohr was on CBC’s Tapestry yesturday. It was an excellent interview, and he really got me thinking. This whole thing on non-dual thinking really resonated with me. It is sort of along the same…
My wife, Rachel, is doing her Masters of Nursing and Nurse Practitioner at the University of Western. She got really excited about an article she was ready so I picked it up and read it,…
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…
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…
David Bazan is currently my favourite lyricist. His lyrics are hard-hitting, truthful and makes your mouth drop. He also has come from a very similar background as me (religion and family) so I seem to…
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…
I’ve been noticing a trend with blogging lately that has lead me to either really enjoy a blog or come close to unsubscribing to their blog all together. I realize I am guilty of many…
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…
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…
I’m only a bit of the way through the latest Geez magazine and I just read an article that I’ve been meaning to mention now for a while. Nate Buchanan in Changing the Story of…