This morning we are going to start with some journal writing instead of singing. We are jumping into a pretty tough parable to digest here and so to set us in the proper mindset I want us to center around this idea: It is so easy to talk about where someone else is going after […]
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Love this post by Dan. Dan has always been able to articulate my heart in ways that I can’t. So while I write a legalistic post about all the things that annoy me and we should get rid of that ends up getting interpreted as me being legalistic, idealistic and judgmental; Dan goes and writes
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This blog plays a very specific role in my life. I use it as a tool to bounce off my ideas and thought processes to friends, family, those that are walking with me and the general public. We live in an interesting age where I have the ability to do this and get feedback from
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Some of these may come off as ridiculous, and some of them are just that in a culture and society like ours. Some of them may come off as judgmental, but I hope you can be challenged and not offended. Here is a list, that I am sure will grow over time of some of
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Authenticity, for me, is doing what you promise, not “being who you are”. Great little post by Seth. When we were in South Africa and Swaziland I was amazed at how many children and people had cell phones. One child would have no family, barely a home, but he would have a cell phone. It
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I just found a $20 Gift Card to ITunes in my drawer. Unused. So in the spirit of our awesome conference in March, the first person who purchases a ticket for the conference and then leaves a comment on this post will win it. I’ll confirm that you did just purchase your ticket (after reading
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I’m feeling sort of sluggish today. Its a accumulation of a lot of things, and I realize no one really wants to read a post that starts with the phrase “I’m feeling” but today I got the impression that I wasn’t alone. Perhaps it’s just the dreary weather outside or it’s that time of the
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A Tale of Two Realities by Zaya Kuyena. This was posted by my friend Zaya who has been a great supporter of our conference but shares some struggles with conferences like ours; struggles that I have but aren’t nearly as central to my heart. So this was a good post and needed. Suggestions from the
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The price of experience. Really interesting observation. New church downtown Toronto If you are in Toronto on Feb 15, make sure you go to Love Comes Down. Click for more info. Lon is a cool guy that is really doing some great things in the Toronto area. Offset your emissions. It sucks that once again
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Last month, the four of us Epiphaneia guys sat down to meet about the upcoming conference. We decided that it would be fun to do a commercial this year for the conference. So over lunch we came up with this idea for a commercial and it was fun to see what we imagined. My friends
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“Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.” “Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not
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This month we have tackled some of my favorite parables that Jesus tells. The Good Samaritan is a beautiful story about this guy who should not in any sort of way been a hero becoming one. It’s about God doing away with the way that we put people into categories and showing us that his
I don’t really follow Twitter accounts. I find them annoying and usually uninformative. There are very few people in this world that I want to have minute by minute updates on their lives and none of those people use Twitter. With that being said, if people used Twitter like Leonard Sweet does, as Michelle points
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In an effort to make my life even more organized online I am in the process of migrating this blog over to WordPress. When I first started this site I didn’t even know what a blog was and I installed a b2evolution script and thought it was a cool idea. I just picked the first
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I follow politics very little, so my views are probably tainted and not worth reading. However, I’m tired of Obama already. He isn’t even president yet and we’ve already seen the tears, songs, crazy expensive inauguration and his recipe book. I’m just tired of it. I’m tired of us all believing the lie that this
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This is just wild. (ht) It’s like Jesus is saying “hey, look I know it’s supposed to cost you something to go where no one else will go, but here I’ll make it easy for you, I won’t make it cost you anything out of your pocket, just give up your life and go here,
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I’m not a big book reader. I do my best, and when I find a good book it’s difficult to put it down, but I am far from considering myself well read. But this past year was a very significant year in reading for me because of how we are doing our message series with
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So I made a movie a few months back called Ugly Lights, with two friends. Mark Tetreault and Michael Higgins. While I have taken a break from moving making for the time being (but not the future, hint hint) these two guys have not. Mark put together another shorter full length movie called The Comic
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Rachel and I have been married for a year and a half now. It was agreed upon that she was going to change her last name to mine, with no force on my behalf added to the equation whatsoever. (For all those feminists types, it was completely her choice and I in no way think
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The kids at theStory put together a quick video for the Christmas Eve service, it was well received and hilarious (probably mostly because they are our kids.) Joe’s documentary was in the Observer today. A view of alternative churches celebrating faith By TYLER KULA, THE OBSERVER Joe Manafo spent 18 months travelling the country to
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