Rachel and I are getting married in less than 8 hours. Can’t wait. We had an awesome bachelor party last night (pics to come). It’s been an awesome few last days, I love my friends and its only going to get better with the potluck. For any of you that are interested you can see […]
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Protesting for a long time has always rested uneasy with me. It’s the same feeling I get when I think about gospel tracts. The feeling is pretty basic. It’s not rage or anger or even bitterness but just apathy. I don’t think it works so I don’t do it. This could be something that is
Rachel and I are getting married in five days and a lot of time has gone to getting the house ready, getting wedding stuff done and trying to work at the same time. It will all slow down soon enough, so the posts will be more frequent then. In the meantime, here is a few
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Interesting post on the Two Christianities: Externally-Motivated and Internally-Motivated. (ht) ———————– While Tim Challies and I don’t always see eye to eye (he’s a Reformed blogger out of the Toronto area) this post caught my attention when him and his massive following of readers try to figure out if error in doctrine is a sin?
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The Upside-Down World of the Parable of the Talents by Sylvia Keesmaat It was one of those days that a teacher lives for. My class and I were reading biblical interpretations by African biblical scholars and for our closing reflection we were reading and pondering the parable of the talents in Matthew 25 and Luke
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Below is my rough transcript for what I shared at the Cultivate Gathering this weekend. This a long one to read, but hopefully it gets you thinking. I wanted to come at it from something that I was currently trying to understand and grasp a hold of as opposed to something that I give the
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Remember when we went out taking pics here. Here is Barry’s pics and here is Matt’s Pics ———————– Something we have been trying lately at theStory is been doing our teaching with room for conversation to happen amidst the teaching, to interact with each other and the one who is teaching. Bob throws a few
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This Saturday is the Cultivate Learning Gathering at the FRWY in Hamilton. I helped run it last year with Pernell as part of my time spent with him and we thought it was a great event overall and were excited to do it again this year. While I’m a lot more hands off this year,
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A freakin great quote. And yet the early church grew and grew and grew, even without intentional evangelistic strategy or ministry. How? By being the most attractive community in the Roman Empire. Read More… ———————– This is why I love Family Guy. ———————– This comic is funny and true, and sometimes i get frustrated having
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I went to the Simple Way in Philadelphia a few months ago and we met two guys there named Robb and Tim. They were nice and super friendly and welcoming. Robb sent me this piece he wrote that has been unpublished thus far I believe but I thought it was really creative and held a
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My mom is one of my best fans for this blog. She is running in a bike ride and actually turned down going to Europe for this bike ride (why I’ll never understand) so it means a lot to her. She wanted me to mention something on this site that you can give her money
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Joe finally posted about Good Friday, and I know you all were waiting for so long. He posted on his site and then a more practical version of what we did on thinkerlabs.
On Good Friday we had a service (Joe posted here and a more practical version of how we did it here. We went through the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) and followed the crucification story, while following our own stories and grieved the human condition together. We left with the
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Ron wanted to borrow a truck, and his friend said “what’s mine is yours” and what he thinks about that. ———————– The French are doing an advertising campaign to raise awareness for AIDS. It’s pretty gruesome, but yet still quite creative. Don’t click here if you are offended easily, the pictures are a bit sexual.
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I’m starting to realize two types of people or at least two extremes where people fall. This is one of those things where I don’t think it’s that important to find that strong of a balance in them both but instead maybe its accepting who you are and doing well in it and depending on
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* Rachel and I got our apartment today. We spent the entire day with our moms and a few friends painting and moving all of our crap in. A big thanks to my mom, Rachel’s mom, Rachel and her sister Danielle for spending the day painting. Another big thanks to Aaron, Shaun, Darryl, Joe and
A friend of mine from Stratford was telling me about his new church thing that he’s doing. He was talking about their values of their conversation time. He talked about their values of acceptance and a few other things that they all deemed as important when they dive into the dialogue. Then he said something
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Here is a post I wrote about the conference. Here is a list of links of people who blogged about the day. One of our surprises this year was that we got two videos too welcome and get people excited about the conference. The first one was from Rob Bell where we took it at
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Chris blogged a bit about the conference here. You can find updated links to posts about the conference here. ———————– A women’s shelter is closing in Oshawa cause of lack of money. If you can, do something about it, we’re thinking on our end. Let us know if you have any ideas. ———————– I have
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Here is the two videos we showed at the conference. Here is a list of links of people who blogged about the day. The Evolving Church: Restoring Justice is over and it was a great success. Instead of writing about the whole day, here is a few things that you might not have known. –
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