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CLICK HERE TO SEE MY IDEA I have been playing around with this idea over the past few months in my head.  Then I found this Aviva Community Fund group that helps make ideas happen.  So since there was a countdown I thought I would take some extra time and make out a rough draft […]

I’m going to make a new law, that is inspired by Godwin’s Law.  Read about it first if you don’t know what it is.  Here is my stab at one. The more one disagrees with and is offended by a belief of a fellow believer the more likely they are to accuse them of causing

While not the point, this is particularly relevant to us in Sarnia, including myself, in regards to the Moon the Balloon protest.  It’s a great comic that helps show the ridiculousness of the value we put on the things we think and care about.

Nothing better than a church and business mix. This is a sign that a downtown friend took for me on his phone. This is a new local church plant. Awesome. While I won’t claim to be doing it all right, I’m just fascinated at how many different things on this sign were the exact opposite

I was able to make it to the morning block of films for the Bluewater Film Festival.  Ugly Lights was shown in this block along with a few other great films.  Here is an article about the festival and the great turn out they had.  Maybe we’ll have our next film done by next year’s

I’m doing a message on hell tomorrow, and it’s just very difficult to come to any sort of conclusion on this topic.  I’ll post my message next week, but in the meantime, here are some of the conclusions that I think I’m coming to. Hell is the opposite of the Kingdom of God The Kingdom

Rachel and I bought an ebike at the beginning of last summer.  It was her idea to get it, but it basically ended up being mine because I used it as our second vehicle the last two summers.  It cost us $1200 after taxes. It has easily saved us at least that much in gas

This guy is awesome. Sort of reminds me of the experiments I read about that Shaine Claiborne did. I’ve always wondered how to successfully get entire groups of people thinking outside the box and challenge them. This is in sort of a modern day Guerrilla Theatre. These guys did it well. Sarcasm was a major

I thought this dream was over. Apparently not. Ugly Lights (you know that movie I made with a few downtown folk almost two years ago) has got accepted into the Blue Water Film Festival in Port Huron. Here is an article about it in The Times Herald in Port Huron. Here we go again, I

Richard Rohr was on CBC’s Tapestry yesturday. It was an excellent interview, and he really got me thinking. This whole thing on non-dual thinking really resonated with me. It is sort of along the same lines of Will Braun’s article in the latest Geez magazine about needing to be right and being zealous about the

My wife, Rachel, is doing her Masters of Nursing and Nurse Practitioner at the University of Western. She got really excited about an article she was ready so I picked it up and read it, and I was blown away by how powerful it was. The article was Vicente Navarro’s speech to the Eighths European

I grew up collecting hockey and baseball cards. I had thousands upon thousands of them. A bunch of them are still in my basement, rotting away, worthless to me. I’ve collected other things in my lifetime and still collect some things, such as magazines, music, books or stickers. Lately though, I’m starting to find the

Have you noticed how language has become increasingly more awkward when we are speaking about salvation? Even just today I was talking with a well respected leader in the Free Methodist church and he seemed to find trouble coming up with the words to ask us how many “new converts” we’ve had at theStory. He

I’ve been noticing a trend with blogging lately that has lead me to either really enjoy a blog or come close to unsubscribing to their blog all together.  I realize I am guilty of many of the things that makes someone want to unsubscribe, but I thought I would throw them out there anyway. There

Was everyone aware that Zondervan is owned by Harper Collins?  Harper Collins is owned by Rupert Murdoch who also conveniently owns Fox, Fox News, Myspace.com, Wall St Journal, The Sun, Down Jones, News Corp.  That actually pisses me off quite a bit.  I don’t know what it is, but I was hoping there was a

I’m sitting on my computer right now at theStory’s space and outside the window there is about 1000 people listening to a band, there is a drinking area, art exhibitions everywhere and First Friday is in full motion. It’s great. I love being a local community planted right in the middle of everything. I’ve had

Someone posted this article by John Piper to a recent post of mine on homosexuality. At first reading, I thought all the references to the tornado was a joke or at least a clever analogy. It wasn’t. Scott McKnight posts about it and asks some good questions and his post is full of comments worth

The Moon the Balloon protest happened this afternoon that I talked about here. I don’t think they got near the amount of people they were hoping for showing up, and only about half the people that showed up actually participated. It was funny and a good idea nevertheless. The balloon wasn’t up anyway. Apparently it

I’m loving how offensive Jesus was to the religious authorities of his day. He comes from Nazareth, his disciples are nobodies, he talks to a Samaritan and makes one a hero of his story, he eats with the wrong people, he turns water into wine and then he dies a miserable shameful death. However, one