The Bible & Homosexuality: Enough with the Bible Already Kinnon on Keller on Fitch on Kimball on Missional Growth? I really enjoyed this issue of Geez that just came out. Phil Nellis has a bunch more artwork out. Check it out. Loved this one. Top 100 Sites of 2008 Good gift ideas (a little to […]
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This is the message I gave on Sunday. I started off reading a very specific prayer. The prayer I read. God we thank-you that we are saved, and redeemed by your blood. We thank-you that you have blessed us and given us every good gift. We thank-you that you have saved us from the torment
I wrote this post after which gives some more thoughts on the matter. The Revolution (Church/Body of Christ) Will Not Be Funded Since starting theStory Joe, Darryl and I have wrestled a lot with the idea of salary and if a church should pay its pastor, go bi-vocational or make an income completely separate from
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A good friend of mine makes her own Jewelery. It looks pretty sweet and if you ask me a great present for someone for Christmas and your helping out artists (she’s from Guelph). So buy some here. Her stuff is called Emma Designs. Fuck the poor (ht) Top 5 Ways for Ministries to Get Over
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Finally, the documentary has been shot, edited and completed. It is called One Size Fits All. It is now in the hands of the printers to be shipped here for December 3. For the last year and a bit Joe has laboured over this documentary traveling across Canada interviewing people at churches that are doing
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Buy Nothing Day – I’ll be participating. I Was Never ‘Called’ to Journey Alongside of Poor People – I’ve heard that excuse a million times. Brilliantly written, especially the intro. It’s about security. (ht) Great post on being unequally yoked, he really takes the imagery to a great place. 3 and 12 and 120
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Every year it seems to be a tradition for me to write some posts hating on and ranting on Christmas. Here is the posts from previous years. I’m sure I’ll write about something in the coming month. Links for Christmas and the Year End for 2007 Wondering If I Still Believe Do Something Christmas Miroslav
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This past weekend Rachel and I took off to go see the screening of Ordinary Radicals (trailer below) in Toronto at the Bloor Cinema. I was pleasantly impressed by the film. Great story-telling. Beautiful perspective. Good cinematography. Amazing message. Then since Shane was in town for the Promise Keepers conference (which my dad was coincidentally
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Last weekend at Cultivate I sat on a panel about Innovation. So naturally I let my mind wander for a little while on what innovation is and more importantly am I innovative? I could have easily sat on the panel and just given examples of a few creative ideas I have had in my lifetime.
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Joe found this site so we are going to Evernote a try. It collects and remembers everything for you and its best feature is probably the image to text recognition, so it will along everything else index all my pdf files full of quotes I have which is great. (ht) ———————– Primer on today’s Mission
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When you are in Los Angeles, you are not short for one moment options for churches to attend or be part of. This week I attended three different gatherings. Spent Thursday night at Angelus Temple with Benny Perez, then Sunday at Mosaic with Erwin McManus and Kairos with JR Woodward and Greg Larson. I basically
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It’s been an interesting trip so far to the Dream Center. I find myself going through ups and downs about how I feel about almost every issue. It’s beautiful to see so many people rallied together for the cause of taking care of their surrounding community. The parts that continue to fascinate me are the
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Yesterday I flew to LA to come and spend a week at the Dream Center. I came with my friend Rob. Basically the Dream Center is a place where a church bought out an old hospital and have transformed it into a massive (and I mean massive) rehab/discipleship/justice center. It really is quite beautiful in
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We have a new website for theStory. This one is a lot more functional and user friendly. The website will now manage our library that we are trying to start that will host everyone’s books and not just books in a central spot. The site will also manage all the ATIC things we are trying.
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Best quote I’ve read to date on universalism, and beautifully sums up what I have been trying to describe for the last for years and usually get someone mad at me. “I am and I am not a universalist. I am one if you are talking about what God in Christ has done to save
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This video cracked me up. [youtube]vbIGbZ6gq_Y[/youtube]
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Here is the rough transcript of the message I gave on Sunday. It’s pretty quote heavy, but it ended up working out pretty good because of the amount of people we had, the discussion was great for it. Today is our intro week to the parables. So I’ve taken it upon myself to prep us
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This is the church right across the street from me. They just installed a new sign and are having a sign dedication service. I wonder though if they are allowed to use the sign before they dedicate it? I wonder what other things we can waste our time doing? Maybe taking and posting images like
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I’ve never really been a fan of voting, and so I fully understand if you are not. I incline a lot stronger to not voting than I do to voting. However, this year I’ve found myself a lot more caught up in the politics of everything. Rachel found this amazing summary of all the parties,
I’ve always enjoyed Naomi Klein and what she writes. She was recently on Colbert Report here and thought this was a great article on the current financial crisis. ———————– I’m just starting to read around the Jesus Manifesto site a little bit. I thought these two satire article were pretty hilarious. Hey, I care about
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