Top 3 Books of 2008
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…
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The Workshop – A Parody of “The Office”
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 Before and After Shots
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…
Links for December 27, 2008
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…
Links for December 23, 2008
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…
The One About the Law Keeper and the Law Breaker (A Sermon about the Pharisee and the Tax Collector – Luke 18:9-14)
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…
Thoughts on Paying Pastors
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…
Links for December 07, 2008
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…
One Size Fits All?
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…
Links for November 26, 2008
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…
Previous Year’s Christmas Posts
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…
Ordinary Radicals and Cultivate
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….
Innovation as Offensive Failure
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…
Links for November 10, 2008
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…
Los Angeles Churches (Kairos, Mosaic and Angelus Temple)
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…
Day 2 & 3 – Dream Center
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…
Day 1 – Dream Center
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…
New theStory Website
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…
Robert Farrar Capon on Universalism
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…
Louis CK “Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy”
This video cracked me up. [youtube]vbIGbZ6gq_Y[/youtube]