Helping to be Helped
An often used cliché that we use when telling stories is that when we go to help someone really they ended up helping us. There are two reasons why I never did understand this form…
Author: Nathan Colquhoun
Links for December 8, 2006
Ron has a very informative post on the Sarnia – Fort McMurray relationship with oil. He works for Suncor and they fly him there every once in a while to do some work. ———————– Pernell…
John Stewart on Crossfire
I like John Stewart. I watched this about 3 months ago, then Dave e-mailed it to me again today, I had to link to it. They asked John Stewart what politician gives him the most…
Photoshoot in Sarnia #2
Barry and I went out again this week to snap some more pictures. It wasn’t the only thing I snapped though, I broke two tripods and the third one was broken already. I’ll just blame…
How Do We Change This Horrible System
Sometimes I feel sick to my stomach when I hear stories about how little it takes to help someone, and yet they remain unhelped. Rob Bell tells a story about this women who got a…
Links for Dec 01, 2006
The picture above is one that I took in my friend’s backyard in August 2004. See all the pics here. His name is Scotty Maidman, and tomorrow I’m going to see him race at the…
Getting Ahead
I realized again last week how much our language really signifies how bad of a state our culture is in. This time I noticed it in the words “getting ahead.” When we are trying to…
Links for November 26, 2006
There was little interest in Sarnia poverty tour only a few local politicians show up for awareness event. I didn’t know about this was available at all, I’m wondering if it was open to the…
Links for November 21, 2006
(via Bob) Remember Kramer from Seinfield? Well he had a little explosion on a stand-up act he was doing and made quite some brutal racist comments. Here is the video of the comments (*Warning, don’t…
A Few Updates
There was some sort of problem with my server and I lost my last post, which is annoying as always, and I’m feeling too lazy to post it right now, maybe in a few hours….
Links for November 20, 2006
Why my friend Andrew is not a Buddhist. I’ve basically came to the same conclusion as he has, but also, I find Buddhism is all about eliminating desire instead of enhancing/fulfilling it which seems to…
The Simple Kingdom
Last night I couldn’t sleep and having to leave at 5am for the Free Methodist Class that I’m sitting in right now it only seemed normal with my sleep patterns to be up at 2am…
Questions on Community
The idea and the word community has become sort of a buzz word in my life in the past year or two lately. Everything is about building community and I want to have meaningful community;…
Links for November 14, 2006
The Evolving Church (a conference that three friends and I ran in Toronto) happened back in April and 100 Huntley Street took a bunch of footage there and did interviews. Finally, 8 months later, they…
Dating and Consumerism
I’ve been talking to my friends a lot about dating lately. Many of my friends are married already, and some are engaged and then there are the few that are still in the dating process….
Government, Sam Harris and Religion
Two things that I want to reiterate from the class tonight. (This post is meant for my Spirituality and Technology class) 1. I made the mistake of bringing up a topic tonight that I didn’t…
Links for November 08, 2006
Tim Challies writes a phenomenal post on the Tedd Haggard scandal. I’m so very impressed by this post, it was written very humbly and wisely. ———————– We just did a month on hospitality at theStory…
Subjective Beings and Objective Truth
A large part of my problem with the idea of absolute truth is that usually after one makes an argument for absolute truth are the things that they take by faith. For instance, the fact…
It’s True If It Makes Sense (Logic)
So I think most agree that real truth exists. The question now lies in how about we determine that that is. What is real truth? Is it logic, emotion, the Bible, Jesus or some kind…
Links for November 06, 2006
Phil gets nominated and then wins the pastors appreciation award for Grace 105.9 FM. He makes me proud. ———————– Haggard admits to buying Meth. Article Here | Video Here Driscoll blames the wife. Here is…