What is a Pastor? Pastors: Sunday Production Coordinators Pastors: Making Sure Our Programs Happen Since I was a kid, my only experience with the pastor of my church was on Sunday. I watched him get up front and preach, or do announcements and then shake my hand on my way out the door. This is […]
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I just thought this was such a great idea. Instead of giving up luxuries why don’t we give up something that actually helps the world around us for lent. It’d be great if more churches did this every year. (ht)
Throughout high school I loved wearing skater clothes. I always struggled hard to make sure I had an O’neil hoodie or Quicksilver pants or Etnies Shoes. I would search the clothing stores for tags; the style didn’t matter cause I figured it was in if it had the tag that I knew I liked. Why
What is a Pastor? Pastors: Sunday Production Coordinators Pastors: Making Sure Our Programs Happen There are three of us planting theStory, a church plant here in Sarnia. I was 17 or so when I first decided I wanted to plant a church in Sarnia, and my ideas of what the church would look like, let
Things have been moving quite quickly here in Sarnia lately. It explains why I haven’t been posting as much as I want and why when I do post it from what I prepared for somewhere else. Here is an update on where my time has been which may or may not effect you. Rachel and
This is the message I spoke this morning at theStory, I hope that eventually we can podcast these and especially try and figure out how to podcast it with the discussion, because that is always the best part. This is my message before the discussion, though I almost always would change it after the other
This is one of the coolest sites I’ve seen in a long time. User based t-shirt designs. If you have a minute check out my friends t-shirt design here and give him a high ranking. He’s a good friend of mine that is going to school for graphic design, and I thought it was a
Blessing is the lube of God working in the world. I used that phrase the other day and got funny looks from everyone, and of course it wasn’t assumed that I meant anything about car parts. So a better way to express it is that blessings are the middle man between God and what he
The word blessing comes up a lot in Genesis. Jacob spends his life wanting it, and then ends his life giving it. God sets up the whole book starting twelve chapters in on blessing nations, not to mention the blessing of creation before that. Everyone wants a piece of this blessing that God is giving
Sometimes I like to take a look at a situation and then split people up into two categories so I can understand them better. So like for instance, there are two kinds of people introverts and extroverts. The fact that I understand something like that gives me tons of insight into people’s lives that I
Through our study of Genesis at theStory, no story has stuck out to me like that of Jacob’s narrative. Maybe its because I don’t see a lot of redeemable qualities in his life. He’s a swindler and deceiver from the start and my heart always ends up going to Esau who seems like he was
The film that I’m working on with some friends called Ugly Lights was recently showcased in the localaper. They did a full page spread on the film and our work on it. Check out the article here or read it below. There was some cool pictures too that maybe I’ll post later. When the lights
N.T. Wright in Time magazine talking about his new book and hinting that Christians may be wrong about the way they look at heaven. You don’t say. ———————– If you are depressed, don’t go shopping. Studies show that sad people are more prone to spending. This was a short but great article. ———————– I’m almost
Every year my life gets more complicated. I’m trying to think back to the days where I wasn’t kept on track by a calendar, because I didn’t make appointments and my only commitment was to go to recess early for a basketball game. Now as the years pile, so does the responsibility. I’m married now,
Another Post I wrote: When Leaders Fail At Leading: What Next? Got talking about leaders again last night and it revisited the entire issue all over again. I never stop struggling with this issue and I don’t know why. Sometimes I think it’s because I’m power hungry and want to be in positions that were
I’ve been using b2evolution for my blog software since the beginning, I picked it randomly when I really didn’t know anything about it and haven’t gone back. So far its done everything I’ve ever needed it to do. However, I’ve been thinking about moving to WordPress, so I was doing some experimenting last night and
I picked up this week’s issue of Maclean’s magazine and was drawn in by an article on boy children called How to Fix Boys. There was one quote in there while interviewing Leonard Sax that really stuck out to me on how pretty girls end up being better off. The fact is, the coed school
This story that Jesus tells I think is one of his more brilliant ones. At least it is one of my favourites. Two sons are told to go work by their father. One says he’s not going to and then later changes his mind and goes and does it. The other one says he is
One of the hardest things to do as Christians is to finally see “non-Christians” as equal human beings especially if, like me, you grew up in the egotistical spirituality that I did. It was our job as Christians to help, save and direct those that weren’t Christians. It was our job to be the moral
I have been out of the blogging world lately, haven’t been reading much nor writing much. Life is happening and keeping me busy. I’m putting together a feature length film with some friends called Ugly Lights, been working on some new web jobs, spoke at a retreat, doing stuff with theStory and lots of other