Skeptic Shares his Thoughts on theStory
I wrote this post putting my letter to the editor in the Sarnia paper about churches in Sarnia needing to step up and actually fulfill our mission to do what Jesus has called us to…
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Consumerism: Deals, Coupons and Saving Money
A while back I started doing a little bit of writing on my struggles with the consumeristic tendencies that I see in our society, myself and the church. I’ve got a few more posts to…
Letter to the Editor About Churches Banding Together
Update: My letter was printed in the Sarnia Observer on Wednesday April 1, 2009. Dan McCaffery of The Observer in Sarnia wrote a short little piece in the Observer yesterday. Unfortunately, I think all of…
Uncommon Cents
This month we are tackling some parables that have to do with money and possessions. We took this photo ourselves, it’s actually Joe’s hand, so it’s up for grabs to use under the creative commons…
Owning Vs. Possessing (You Can’t Have Both)
Tonight I went with some friends from theStory to watch Rob Bell’s latest talk tour series thing called Drops like Stars in Royal Oak, Michigan. It was a well done talk on the relationship between…
Safe From People Not Like Me
watch out he is looking down again searching for peace while terrorizing those around him he tramples the innocent in his desperation to find his heart swaying back and forth from regret to anger trying…
Great Writing
I’ve really really been enjoying Geez Magazine lately. So much so that I put one of the articles from their past issue into our conference guide this year. And this issue I just got in…
2 Days Until The Conference
Darryl, Chris, Steve and I are all working, drinking, eating extremely well (made my three meat spaghetti and some great tuna melts) and preparing for Saturday. We find we are much more prepared this year…
Marketing the Messiah
This is an absolutely hilarious conversation (its scripted) between two guys about marketing a Messiah. You have to take a few minutes and listen to this. It is taken from the latest episode of Wiretap…
A Good Reason To Throw A Party
Last month was called “A Good Reason to Throw a Party” where we took apart the party parables, like The Compassionate Father and his Two Sons, The Lost Coin and The Lost Sheep. In all…
One Size Fits All on 100 Huntley Street
I went with Joe this week to Crossroads where they filmed Joe being interviews on 100 Huntley Street. It was an interesting experience to meet the people behind the camera and watch how this kind…
Thanks for Your Prayers
Here is an e-mail we got at Epiphaneia this week. I enjoyed it. Greetings Because your goals are against the Word of God and your aim is to bring about destruction of believers with misinformation,…
The Revolution (Church/Body of Christ) Will Not Be Funded
Len linked to this article, which sent me off on a whole bunch of other reading along this topic and it has hit pretty close to home. I wrote a post a few months back…
Letters From the Future
Since Thinker Labs is no more, I’m going to start posting all future designs (and possibly past ones) online for people to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License. Monthly we do a series…
The One About the Net (A Sermon on the Parable of the Dragnet in Matthew 13:47-50)
This morning we are going to start with some journal writing instead of singing. We are jumping into a pretty tough parable to digest here and so to set us in the proper mindset I…
Doing Things That We Shouldn’t
Love this post by Dan. Dan has always been able to articulate my heart in ways that I can’t. So while I write a legalistic post about all the things that annoy me and we…
Understanding this Blog a Little More
This blog plays a very specific role in my life. I use it as a tool to bounce off my ideas and thought processes to friends, family, those that are walking with me and the…
List of Things That We Can and Should Do Without
Some of these may come off as ridiculous, and some of them are just that in a culture and society like ours. Some of them may come off as judgmental, but I hope you can…
Links for Feb 18, 2009
Authenticity, for me, is doing what you promise, not “being who you are”. Great little post by Seth. When we were in South Africa and Swaziland I was amazed at how many children and people…
ITunes $20 Gift Card Giveaway
I just found a $20 Gift Card to ITunes in my drawer. Unused. So in the spirit of our awesome conference in March, the first person who purchases a ticket for the conference and then…