I’ve stopped doing links on my site and moved over to Google Reader, Delicious and Twitter as a better way to share things I’m doing, reading and watching online. It’s much less time-consuming and less in your face if you aren’t interested. I’ve shared these videos via Google Reader, but I just think they are […]
Update: Here is my post on the Good News as part of the series I describe blow. I went to Los Angeles in October last year and I asked David Fitch if while I was there if there was anyone he recommended meeting, he pointed out JR Woodward so I gave him a ring and
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Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you? A rabbi in this time did not make these kinds of decisions on how stuff got divided. In fact, Jewish laws already had very specific
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Driving on City Sidewalks. My favourite band. Two of my best friends. The brilliant musicians behind the soundtrack of One Size Fits All? and their EP Where Angels Crowd to Listen got on the frontpage of Relevant today. Pretty cool step for them. You can read the article here. It was during the film Friday
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Each Easter Friday, Joe goes all out putting a service together than usually incorporates heavy imagery, liturgy and creative response. Today was no different. Today we followed a liturgy built by him, sang a few song, and then participated in the Eucharist together as a community. Below is the Powerpoint, which is basically the liturgy
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So here is a completely random experience that Ron and I had in Las Vegas. Ron saw an advertisement to shoot a gun at a range on some brochure. So like Ron does, he was telling everyone. Then one girl, Toni, who ran the Joomla conference, said we shouldn’t do that but shoot guns with
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I wrote this post putting my letter to the editor in the Sarnia paper about churches in Sarnia needing to step up and actually fulfill our mission to do what Jesus has called us to do. A guy from Sarnia found it, his blog is called Sarnia Skeptic. He commented on the post a few
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A while back I started doing a little bit of writing on my struggles with the consumeristic tendencies that I see in our society, myself and the church. I’ve got a few more posts to add to the list so I’ll be writing them over the next little while. Consumerism: The Myth of Reliability Consumerism:
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Update: My letter was printed in the Sarnia Observer on Wednesday April 1, 2009. Dan McCaffery of The Observer in Sarnia wrote a short little piece in the Observer yesterday. Unfortunately, I think all of our churches (ours included) are a little too busy with our own projects of creativity, building projects, “ministries”, programs, services,
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This month we are tackling some parables that have to do with money and possessions. We took this photo ourselves, it’s actually Joe’s hand, so it’s up for grabs to use under the creative commons license. I’m looking forward to the one about the rich fool the most which is my week later in April,
Tonight I went with some friends from theStory to watch Rob Bell’s latest talk tour series thing called Drops like Stars in Royal Oak, Michigan. It was a well done talk on the relationship between suffering and life, creativity and imagination. It was done in typical Rob Bell style. Smooth, great stories, funny at times
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watch out he is looking down again searching for peace while terrorizing those around him he tramples the innocent in his desperation to find his heart swaying back and forth from regret to anger trying to play his part look at all my needs they are so overwhelming give me time to work on myself
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I’ve really really been enjoying Geez Magazine lately. So much so that I put one of the articles from their past issue into our conference guide this year. And this issue I just got in the mail has been overly refreshing and exciting to read. It’s all writing of different people who have experimented with
Darryl, Chris, Steve and I are all working, drinking, eating extremely well (made my three meat spaghetti and some great tuna melts) and preparing for Saturday. We find we are much more prepared this year for everything that is happening which means we are actually going to be able to watch the Office tonight. Right
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This is an absolutely hilarious conversation (its scripted) between two guys about marketing a Messiah. You have to take a few minutes and listen to this. It is taken from the latest episode of Wiretap on CBC Radio. The episode is called 100 False Messiahs. I excerpted the really funny part below. Q: “what could
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Last month was called “A Good Reason to Throw a Party” where we took apart the party parables, like The Compassionate Father and his Two Sons, The Lost Coin and The Lost Sheep. In all three parables, when what was lost was found, a party was thrown. We also had a party challenge that month
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I went with Joe this week to Crossroads where they filmed Joe being interviews on 100 Huntley Street. It was an interesting experience to meet the people behind the camera and watch how this kind of television is done. I won’t leave any comments at this point, I’m sure that will come one day, but
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Here is an e-mail we got at Epiphaneia this week. I enjoyed it. Greetings Because your goals are against the Word of God and your aim is to bring about destruction of believers with misinformation, I will be praying that your stand against the truth of scriptures will come to nothing. Accepted in the Beloved
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Len linked to this article, which sent me off on a whole bunch of other reading along this topic and it has hit pretty close to home. I wrote a post a few months back on some thoughts I was having on paying pastors. This article has convinced me that we really need to think
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Since Thinker Labs is no more, I’m going to start posting all future designs (and possibly past ones) online for people to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License. Monthly we do a series at theStory and usually have some imagery that goes along with it and sometimes a film. We’ve always wanted to
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