Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 5 Constantly Updated Links to other Posts from other Bloggers This morning’s session main idea was on the topic of salvation and the way we look at it. He spent a good section of the talk going through verse after story in the scriptures that talked about how […]
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Part 1 Part 2 Part 4 Part 5 Constantly Updated Links to other Posts from other Bloggers Last night was on creativity, we had some poker and Olive Garden planned so I didn’t get a chance to blog and the wireless wasn’t working at the hotel. Last night Bell talked about creativity and gave a
Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Constantly Updated Links to other Posts from other Bloggers The second half of this first session was Rob Bell simply answering some questions. Here is a glimpse of some of the questions asked followed by some of their answers. I’ll just keep this in point form some
Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Constantly Updated Links to other Posts from other Bloggers Here we are at the Isn’t She Beautiful conference in Grand Rapids. We had to leave from Sarnia around 430am this morning and I will tell you, Darryl hasn’t showered in at least three days, and she isn’t
Chris summarizes some of his reading from a book called “The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity”. If it sounds interesting to you well then read this post, I’m becoming more and more drawn to this type of reading and understanding and is really pushing me outside my box
Money is this strange thing that continues to be front and center of my life whether I choose to acknowledge it or not. There are all sorts of things I want in life like freedom to do what I want when I want, to travel, to help people, to give people opportunity, to have a
Darryl had met a couple of Mormons on the street a few days ago and invited them over this morning to chat. It was weird being in a place of someone trying to convert you. It was only weird though because I understood what they were doing. I understand their motives, I understand their tactics
This morning at 5am, I was awaken to the all too familiar sound of Norwalk hitting the fourth and final roommate at our place, Darryl. This means we have to skip our classes again, its way to contagious to be around our classmates, and the last thing Tyndale needs especially is another Norwalk outbreak like
So as if I don’t have enough on my plate. I’m embarking in an adventure with Joe, Jared and Pernell to make a documentary on the church planting life here in Canada. Our plan is to travel across the country and video tape creative and unique expressions of the church in Canada, the people and
Randomlly created praise songs. Now this is hilarious. You take the name of someone “you love” and then something special for them and it creates a random poem. However, Pomomusings and Mark did it for Jesus with worship songs. This has got to say something. ———————– Phil did a cool creative piece with his youth
I’ve only been dating Rachel for 15 months and already I’ve managed to give her. 1. Mono 2. Lice 3. Norwalk Honestly, maybe I’m just an easily infected person, or maybe the jokes about my lack of showering have some sway, or maybe this is God’s way of testing our relationship. Just to ease everyone’s
A few interesting quotes from a paper I had to read for my Spirituality and Technology class. It was written by Roxanne Leslie Euben and called A Counternarrative of Shared Ambivalence: Some Muslim and Western Perspectives on Science and Reason. In genuine communities-“communities of memory,” he calls them-individuals do not use one another in pursuit
So four nights ago I came home to Ron’s puke all over the kitchen sink. He was pretty sick. I had to take a knife and swish it around the sink to let it all go down, then we shared a beautiful dinner of fish that he was trying to convince me would taste good
It is extremely important to know your way around the web. You need to know where to go when you need something instead of spending your time surfing, cause surfing is a time consumer when you need results. I wrote a post a little while back about some helpful sites in my computer saturated life.
Phil links to two great sites. Some weird videos called Clearification, but well done. You now can give micro-loans to help out people start up businesses in struggling countries. ———————– theStory‘s new video is now out. This is my favourite one yet. It is also available for download on thinkerlabs. Check it out below. [youtube]diMlNBY2DLk[/youtube]
1. Cropping is your friend. Most pictures need about 7/8 cut out of it for it to look right with what your trying to go for. You will be amazed how zooming in on the part of the picture you want, the off-centering it a bit will add to your design as opposed to just
Here is five helpful tips for Microsoft Powerpoint or a free open source piece of similiar software called Open Office Impress. 1. Never delete your presentation, I guarantee that slides from previous months, weeks or years will come in handy down the road. I can’t count how many times I simply copy and paste slides
Ever since Joe made me his workhorse when I was 14, I have been doing Powerpoint presentations, designs and imagery. I have gotten to be pretty quick at it and I’d like to believe my stuff is a lot better now than it was 8 years ago. I can build websites better and quicker than
After going to the conference I wrote some notes on it below. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Links to other Posts from other Bloggers A handful of us are going to Isn’t She Beautiful on Jan 22 and 23. It is a two-day conference in Grand Rapids on the local
This is a illustration done by Worldmapper that shows the distortion of wealth in the world and how its spread out. You can see all sorts of different and interesting stats that will really make your mind boggle. ———————– Shane Claiborne’s thoughts and response and Brian McLaren’s thoughts and response to the execution of Saddam