Author: Nathan Colquhoun

Sarnia Water Sports

My friend Tim Nixon has started up a company here in Sarnia, called Sarnia Water Sports. He will take you out and give you wakeboard or water-ski lessons. It’s a great idea for a city…

Those that Will Not and Are Not

Grace is a tricky thing, mostly because it depends a lot on the person giving the grace as opposed to the one receiving it. So like we always do, we devise schemes and formulas about…

New Design

Because this was an extremely busy week, and next week is even busier, I took the time to that I didn’t have and wasted it on something that I didn’t really need to do. I…

Links for May 23, 2008

Dave is blogging now here, and his blog is called Awesome Internet Site. I usually enjoy what he has to offer to the world. ———————– Lately I’ve been into documentaries and fun films, here is…

Sharing My Stuff

Stuff has been on my mind lately. I’m amazed at how much happiness it can bring to someone. Watching my wife’s face as her bedroom gets decorated, watching my own face when I get a…

Ugly Lights Premiere Tonight

Tonight is the Ugly Lights Premiere. Should be an awesome night. If you are going to miss tonight, you can always get tickets for Thursday or Friday. Friday night, Driving on City Sidewalks (Darryl and…

Trying to Burst Another Bubble

I grew up Pentecostal, and I was indoctrinated from an early age. Because of my upbringing with my parents though I was taught to not just do whatever someone told me to do, ask a…

New Thinker Labs

For those of you that run church, or organize services or plan events will be interested in this if you didn’t already know. Thinker Labs is where Joe, myself, Jeremy and a number of other…

Movie Getting Some Press Coverage

Our movie was in the paper again. The ‘Lights’ come up; locally made film shown later in May Posted By TARA HAGAN A group of local 20-somethings are finally ready to unveil their first feature…

A Temporary Diversion

The longer I have this blog the more I think I have less and less to say. So many books I’ve read lately, I walk away agreeing strongly with the words that they write but…

What is Taking up my Time

My blog is just taking a hit lately. I find myself thinking and struggling like never before but just not the time to get it all out there. I’m not shutting it down, and hopefully…

Can you Misname God?

Today at theStory we talked about naming God. The thing that stole most of the discussion was “what dangers, if any, are there in misnaming God.” So this post will sort of be my answer…

Ugly Lights Tickets on Sale

The movie called Ugly Lights that I’m working on with some friends is finished. You can see that Darryl and Joe (the two guys I planted theStory with) are actors in it. We sent it…

Tolerating Intolerance

One of the flags that new churches wave right now is that of tolerance. We love to tolerate other people’s beliefs and perspectives. We find value in everyone and where they are coming from. I…

Good Songs to Sing At Church

Update: We’ve created a list on Grooveshark of a bunch of the songs we sing at church, you can listen to them all here. At theStory we try to sing songs that are honest and…

Pastors: Making Sure Our Programs Happen

What is a Pastor? Pastors: Sunday Production Coordinators Pastors: Making Sure Our Programs Happen Pastors spend a lot of time coming up with programs and program ideas, getting people to run them and making sure…