Sometimes I Feel Like I’m The Only One That “Gets It”
I’m feeling sort of sluggish today. Its a accumulation of a lot of things, and I realize no one really wants to read a post that starts with the phrase “I’m feeling” but today I…
Author: Nathan Colquhoun
Links for February 09, 2009
A Tale of Two Realities by Zaya Kuyena. This was posted by my friend Zaya who has been a great supporter of our conference but shares some struggles with conferences like ours; struggles that I…
Links for February 3, 2009
The price of experience. Really interesting observation. New church downtown Toronto If you are in Toronto on Feb 15, make sure you go to Love Comes Down. Click for more info. Lon is a cool…
Evolving Church Commercial
Last month, the four of us Epiphaneia guys sat down to meet about the upcoming conference. We decided that it would be fun to do a commercial this year for the conference. So over lunch…
When the Damned Get Ushered In
“Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.” “Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “No one who…
The One About Crunching Numbers (A sermon on The Parable about Building a Tower and Going to War)
This month we have tackled some of my favorite parables that Jesus tells. The Good Samaritan is a beautiful story about this guy who should not in any sort of way been a hero becoming…
Links for January 27, 2009
I don’t really follow Twitter accounts. I find them annoying and usually uninformative. There are very few people in this world that I want to have minute by minute updates on their lives and none…
Site Maintenance Details
In an effort to make my life even more organized online I am in the process of migrating this blog over to WordPress. When I first started this site I didn’t even know what a…
Obama is our Next Messiah
I follow politics very little, so my views are probably tainted and not worth reading. However, I’m tired of Obama already. He isn’t even president yet and we’ve already seen the tears, songs, crazy expensive…
Links for January 9, 2008
This is just wild. (ht) It’s like Jesus is saying “hey, look I know it’s supposed to cost you something to go where no one else will go, but here I’ll make it easy for…
Top 3 Books of 2008
I’m not a big book reader. I do my best, and when I find a good book it’s difficult to put it down, but I am far from considering myself well read. But this past…
The Workshop – A Parody of “The Office”
So I made a movie a few months back called Ugly Lights, with two friends. Mark Tetreault and Michael Higgins. While I have taken a break from moving making for the time being (but not…
The Before and After Shots
Rachel and I have been married for a year and a half now. It was agreed upon that she was going to change her last name to mine, with no force on my behalf added…
Links for December 27, 2008
The kids at theStory put together a quick video for the Christmas Eve service, it was well received and hilarious (probably mostly because they are our kids.) Joe’s documentary was in the Observer today. A…
Links for December 23, 2008
The Bible & Homosexuality: Enough with the Bible Already Kinnon on Keller on Fitch on Kimball on Missional Growth? I really enjoyed this issue of Geez that just came out. Phil Nellis has a bunch…
The One About the Law Keeper and the Law Breaker (A Sermon about the Pharisee and the Tax Collector – Luke 18:9-14)
This is the message I gave on Sunday. I started off reading a very specific prayer. The prayer I read. God we thank-you that we are saved, and redeemed by your blood. We thank-you that…
Thoughts on Paying Pastors
I wrote this post after which gives some more thoughts on the matter. The Revolution (Church/Body of Christ) Will Not Be Funded Since starting theStory Joe, Darryl and I have wrestled a lot with the…
Links for December 07, 2008
A good friend of mine makes her own Jewelery. It looks pretty sweet and if you ask me a great present for someone for Christmas and your helping out artists (she’s from Guelph). So buy…
One Size Fits All?
Finally, the documentary has been shot, edited and completed. It is called One Size Fits All. It is now in the hands of the printers to be shipped here for December 3. For the last…
Links for November 26, 2008
Buy Nothing Day – I’ll be participating. I Was Never ‘Called’ to Journey Alongside of Poor People – I’ve heard that excuse a million times. Brilliantly written, especially the intro. It’s about security. (ht) Great…