Ron Pede (Rachel’s Uncle) passed away yesterday Jan 03, early in the morning. He went peacefully with Liz and his sister by his side. Please keep the family in your prayers over the next few days as all the other arrangements are taken care of and thank-you for your prayers so far. Below is a […]
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Right now Rachel‘s uncle is in palliative care and he’s been given only a day or two to live. Her Uncle Ron is a strong man who has had its ups and downs in life and is now sitting in the hospital with many of the ones that are closest to him. He isn’t talking
I have been using b2Evolution since I started this blog and that's mostly because I didn't know any better. I didn't know what a blog was besides what I saw on blogger. However, now over two years later I have never been happier with this blog engine and I only use half the features. The
When I was seventeen or eighteen, Relevant Magazine was just starting up their website to launch their magazine. I was subscribed to it right away and devoured its pages. Everything I read was ‘relevant’ and it was what I needed at the time. The conversation about following Jesus, understanding culture and living intentionally was exactly
A large list of theological websites, theologian website and heretical websites, helpful if your interested or doing research. ———————– Gay nativity scene ———————– Dave Blondel posts of a video he did for Christmas last year, we showed it at theStory on Christmas Eve cause we thought it was amazing. ———————– A women fails a gender
Pernell quoted a timely message from Miroslav Volf that I think fits with the post below “When Christians take the Christmas narrative seriously, the practice of gift-exchange within a closed circle of family and friends becomes problematic. If our lives are to mirror the ways of God, then we must break open the closed circle
Partly its because I’m a rebel and I hate anything that everyone likes or finds meaningful. I like to go against the grain and be difficult and annoying. However, I think there is a lot of reasons to hate Christmas. The first reason is the obvious reason; its the gifts. I hate how Christmas has
I’ve been really bad at posting on here in the last month or so because I’ve been switching all 30 or so of our websites over to our new server, I’ve gone to Florida for a week and been all over South-western Ontario and its all been quite draining. I’m planning on toning it down
Pernell wrote an open letter to theStory about his thoughts, positive and negative of his experience here. ———————– NT Wright at Calvin College. (ht) ———————– A funny video of the song “Let the bodies hit the floor” with Benny Hinn letting bodies hit the floor as the video. (by funny I mean creepy) ———————– What
This morning I went with Rachel to check out a church down here in Florida. I figured since we were way down south that we would search the internet for some sort of church that would be an interesting experience and are doing good things in their city. The church we found was called Watermark
Well I’m heading down South for the fourth time this year. I can’t complain. Rachel and I are going to visit my grandparents near Tampa. I will hopefully be able to post pics and a bit from there and answer e-mails, but maybe not, no guarantees. Enjoy your time in the cold, if your in
An often used cliché that we use when telling stories is that when we go to help someone really they ended up helping us. There are two reasons why I never did understand this form of thinking or talking. One, I thought it was hypocritical, or at the very least misleading. We say we are
Ron has a very informative post on the Sarnia – Fort McMurray relationship with oil. He works for Suncor and they fly him there every once in a while to do some work. ———————– Pernell links to this video of a group of elder people singing Coldplay’s Fix You. The guy is on oxygen, sitting
I like John Stewart. I watched this about 3 months ago, then Dave e-mailed it to me again today, I had to link to it. They asked John Stewart what politician gives him the most material, while he’s on Crossfire a show he beleives aids the politicians, not the people. His answer: “The absurdity of
Sometimes I feel sick to my stomach when I hear stories about how little it takes to help someone, and yet they remain unhelped. Rob Bell tells a story about this women who got a small business loan and how it transformed her life and her families life and was able to provide for the
The picture above is one that I took in my friend’s backyard in August 2004. See all the pics here. His name is Scotty Maidman, and tomorrow I’m going to see him race at the Skydome (Rogers Center) for SuperCross. It should be a fun day. ———————– I don’t know if you’ve heard of www.themilliondollarhomepage.com
I realized again last week how much our language really signifies how bad of a state our culture is in. This time I noticed it in the words “getting ahead.” When we are trying to get ahead we mean we go to a reputable school, get a good job, get financially stable, get married, have
There was little interest in Sarnia poverty tour only a few local politicians show up for awareness event. I didn’t know about this was available at all, I’m wondering if it was open to the general public at all? ———————– The link that I posted below for Scrubs recently went dead, so here is the
(via Bob) Remember Kramer from Seinfield? Well he had a little explosion on a stand-up act he was doing and made quite some brutal racist comments. Here is the video of the comments (*Warning, don’t watch if your easily offended). Then here is the video of him apologizing on the David Letterman show. I love
There was some sort of problem with my server and I lost my last post, which is annoying as always, and I’m feeling too lazy to post it right now, maybe in a few hours. However, in light of the crazy amount of business that Storyboard Solutions has been getting we are upgrading to our