Jon’s Dad

One of my closest friends, Jon Eastman has been having quite a rough year. His brother died a few months ago, and his dad passed away yesterday. His dad has been fighting off cancer in…

Pentecost Sunday

Acts 2:38-47 (The Message) Cut to the quick, those who were there listening asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers! Brothers! So now what do we do?” Peter said, “Change your life. Turn to God…

New Temple Website

To shift the attention off one church for a little while. Last year I interned at Temple Baptist Church in Sarnia working with the staff there. It was a great summer where I learned a…

Pentecost/Law/Spirit

This was a great (but extremly long) article on Pentecost and comparing it with the Tower of Babel and all kinds of other great parrallels between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Links for June 02, 2006

The “person” I live with Pernell has a serious back problem. His wife doesn’t know what to do, she posts her agony here. The good part is he is a lot nicer to me, the…

Apology

After speaking to a number of people that I respect regarding the previous post on the Sarnia Revival, I’ve come to believe that some of the things I said were not said gracefully, or at…

FRWY Picnic @ the Buceks

We just had a picnic at the Buceks for the FRWY and I didn’t move much and just took a bunch of pictures trying out both lenses and different settings. Krista let me try out…

Freedom from Quiet Time Guilt

Andrew linked to a good article on The Freedom from Quiet Time Guilt. This was something that for about ten years of my life was heaped on me. I never did enough quiet time. I…

Church Plant Networks

Today I went to a church plant network meeting. There are church planters from all around that come together to encourage each other, challenge each other and hold each other accountable. It’s only been the…

I Feel Insulted

My toilet read right now is The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning the visual addition. I bought it originally for the amazing art and graphic design that was all throughout it but I started reading…

Not Walking Away

For those of you that are unaware. It was disclosed to the Westside Kings Church in Calgary a few weeks ago that their senior pastor had been having an affair. This was a blow to…

The Phils

My friend Phil Prendergast, on his new blog, that I designed is posting often. He just wrote a post on building relationships in a suburban church, it was good. Check it out here. On another…

Faith Can’t Be Wrong

The idea of faith has always been one that baffles me. I’ve heard the word tossed around and used in many different contexts. If you have enough faith you will be healed. As if it…

Church Planting Learning Party

As part of my stay here at the FRWY, I am working alongside of Pernell and a few networks to put together a day that reaches out to church planters and those that are into…

Reads

A few good finds… Fredricca Matthews Green has a great article on young people that get married and sexual desires of young people via. I really appreciated this article because I think she’s saying thing…

Sarnia Revival

This weekend I got to go home for a bit back to Sarnia. I posted a review/open letter here. There is some stuff going on in Sarnia at my home church that has been stirring…