And here is why I don’t like calling myself a Christian. (ht) ———————– I asked Dan what his thoughts on leadership were. He answered on his site, some good stuff here. ———————– Does micro-credit help the developing world?
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Question: Should you draw or erase the line for someone else? Should you allow your sacrifices to be forced on other people in that they have to make the same ones without really deciding? Example 1: You and your friends live in an apartment. You meet someone on the street who is going through a
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This made me laugh out loud a number of times. The comments are probably the funniest. ———————– Looks like a conference I would enjoy. Anyone want to sponsor me to go? ———————– Hypocrisy of “Radicals” | This is good and I have thought about it often. ———————– Tim Challies offers his own thoughts on hell,
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Since my Uncle Larry died on Thursday I have been finding myself in an abnormal amount of conversations about death, hell, heaven and the afterlife. My Uncle Doug is a pastor in Connecticut, has been at the same church for 22 years and it all started with him. After seeing my hesitancy to the idea
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A few days ago my Uncle Larry had a heart attack. From my understanding of the story he was alone at home when he had it and had to crawl to a phone and then crawl to the front door to let the emergency team in. He was rushed to the London hospital where they
I took a critical reasoning class in Philosophy at Tyndale. We got a sheet of paper, that I still have to this day, that listed out all of the fallacies that people use when making arguments or statements about something. Like appeals to majority (if 90% of people believe something it must be true) or
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We’ve been talking a lot about humour lately and how old people have such a different humour than we do, and wondering if in 30 years when we get older if our kids will think our humour isn’t funny at all. Anyway, Rachel found this article about humour comparing older and younger, it was interesting,
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The more I desire to be active with my faith the more I realize the thin line between activism and self-absorbed acting. It’s a difficult line to see because part of me care very little about intent and thanks God that the action is there at all. For instance, a family goes to another country
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The past two months, while traveling and resting I have read a lot of books, well a lot for me anyway. It was a lot of reading on international development, foreign aid, economics and new technology (that being I read the Google Story). I was inspired by everything I read. My conceptions of third world
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We are running the Sarnia Short Film Festival here in Sarnia this year on October 6th. 7 minute maximum films need to be submitted by MiniDV or DVD by Sept 24. Submissions from any city will be accepted. A lot of the details are still being figured out, but we wanted to give everyone a
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I remember the first time I experienced a beggar on the street. It was in Toronto and he looked right at me and my friends, I was around 14 years old and he asked me for money. My first reaction was to give him whatever I had. He looked awful and smelled as bad. I
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This will be my last post about the trip. We start our trek back to London, England today, sleep at the airport, and then fly out tomorrow morning. It’s been a good ride so far but we are both exhausted and missing everyone back home. Especially now since Darryl is engaged!! Paris has been good.
Rachel posted about our 29th day, so I won’t. I will post a few pictures of the Eiffel Tower fireworks and such if they turned out later. Rachel also told a story of my Q-tip scandal, which she still hasn’t forgiven me for. Mostly because I’m not sorry apparently. Read her post here.
Yesturday I ran with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Check out what happened there the day before I did it (just to show you what I was up against.) I didn’t find out until after though. We arrived in Pamplona around 5:30 in the morning, and I ran around 8:00. At 7:00 there was still
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You can tell I’m getting frustrated with the foreign keyboards because the letters are all in different places, my posts are a lot shorter. I’m missing my laptop more than ever know. Rachel and I spent two days in Barcelona and tried to keep it chill as possible to avoid any more sickness. We saw
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Yesterday we spent the day in Nice, sitting on the beach (getting a wicked sunburn). We also got bored later at night so we went to see Ocean’s 13 in the small little theatre close to the beach. Great and comfortable seats, bad sound but only sat 50 people so it was more like your
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There was a change of plans since last post. After I posted Rachl was feeling even worse to we went to the hospital there and got her checked out. They kept her overnight there and ran tests. After everything they think it was an infection of some sort: She had an extremly high fever, pain
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Since the last post Rachel and I have gone to Rome and Florence. Rome was beautiful. It’s hard to describe how history that goes back that far makes you feel. The sisteen chapel is beautiful, and the Vatican is one hell of a place. We walked forever to get to the sisteen chapel and probably
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The last two days have been pure travel. Santorini’s beach will be missed, here is a picture below. We left Santorini at 10pm on Sunday night and its now 2pm on Tuesday, we don’t arrive in Rome until 9pm tonight meaning we have been travelling for the last 48 hours. Ferry from Santorini to Athens,
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Rachel and I have been in Santorini, Greece for the past three days. Santorini is beautiful. The houses are built into the thousand foot cliffs that the island is made up and it is supposed to be home to one of the most beautiful sunsets in the world. We have been relaxing a lot, reading,
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