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…
Warning: This is an extremely nerdy post which most of my readers will care nothing about. This has been a long time coming. When I first started my site in 2004, I didn’t really know…
Someone posted this article by John Piper to a recent post of mine on homosexuality. At first reading, I thought all the references to the tornado was a joke or at least a clever analogy….
When you view the Bible as a book that fell out of heaven, then the Psalms become nothing more than abstract theological, scientific and historical statements. It is crucial that when we read different parts…
The Moon the Balloon protest happened this afternoon that I talked about here. I don’t think they got near the amount of people they were hoping for showing up, and only about half the people…
I’m loving how offensive Jesus was to the religious authorities of his day. He comes from Nazareth, his disciples are nobodies, he talks to a Samaritan and makes one a hero of his story, he…
I love parables. Spending 8 months in Jesus’ parables only made me love them more. I thought I would try my hand in my own. Taking a few queues from the Good Samaritan. A young…
Sarnia is a unique town because we are a border town to Port Huron, Michigan. So many Sarnians jump onto the Bluewater Bridges and head over for cheap shopping, concerts and to pick up EBay…
Shane and Charity have become really close to Rachel and I over the last few years. I invited them to our wedding before Rachel even knew them because as I told Rachel, I knew we…
One of the conversations I get into quite a lot with those that are about ten years and older than myself is blogging and why I do it. Most don’t comprehend it and think that’s…
N.T. Wright is one of my favourite theologians. He inspires a lot of my favourite authors and has gone out of his way to try and help the regular listener, like myself, understand his deep…
Here is another needed post to this conversation. This one is by David Fitch and nails it. Thanks for writing this David. He also has another post on the topic which is a good read…
I have always loved Walter Wink’s approach to controversial issues and his perspective on the world. He was my big excitement for our Amidst the Powers conference this past year. This post did not let…
We spent 8 months in the parables over the last months at theStory. One parables that really stuck out to me was the parable of the wheat and the weeds. This parable flies in the…
I had the pleasure of doing Matt and Bree’s wedding photos last Saturday. July is a month of weddings, I’m doing three of them so I’ll be posting some highlights of the others this month…