Why my friend Andrew is not a Buddhist. I’ve basically came to the same conclusion as he has, but also, I find Buddhism is all about eliminating desire instead of enhancing/fulfilling it which seems to nullify any sort of purpose. ———————– David Fitch on Why Sometimes you Just Need a Building. Articles like this are […]
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Last night I couldn’t sleep and having to leave at 5am for the Free Methodist Class that I’m sitting in right now it only seemed normal with my sleep patterns to be up at 2am watching The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. On The Daily Show, John Stewart was interviewing the 2006 Nobel Prize
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The idea and the word community has become sort of a buzz word in my life in the past year or two lately. Everything is about building community and I want to have meaningful community; not just a place to show up on Sunday. In fact the best way to evangelism is in community and
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The Evolving Church (a conference that three friends and I ran in Toronto) happened back in April and 100 Huntley Street took a bunch of footage there and did interviews. Finally, 8 months later, they put some on their show. You can see it below with features by Brian McLaren, Donald Miller, Chris Seay and
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I’ve been talking to my friends a lot about dating lately. Many of my friends are married already, and some are engaged and then there are the few that are still in the dating process. For those of you that don’t know, the dating process is when you are looking for a mate. You weigh
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Two things that I want to reiterate from the class tonight. (This post is meant for my Spirituality and Technology class) 1. I made the mistake of bringing up a topic tonight that I didn’t really understand and it showed as soon as I was challenged. So I figure that if I explain it a
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Tim Challies writes a phenomenal post on the Tedd Haggard scandal. I’m so very impressed by this post, it was written very humbly and wisely. ———————– We just did a month on hospitality at theStory and this post was long those lines by Radical Torah about the hospitality that Abraham had. Then I also stumbled
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A large part of my problem with the idea of absolute truth is that usually after one makes an argument for absolute truth are the things that they take by faith. For instance, the fact that God exists is an absolute truth, anyone who believes that fact to be true has to take it by
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So I think most agree that real truth exists. The question now lies in how about we determine that that is. What is real truth? Is it logic, emotion, the Bible, Jesus or some kind of manifestation in our minds? How do we determine this? I took an epistemology class and we used logic to
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Phil gets nominated and then wins the pastors appreciation award for Grace 105.9 FM. He makes me proud. ———————– Haggard admits to buying Meth. Article Here | Video Here Driscoll blames the wife. Here is his actual article. Maria talks about the role judgment plays in our lives and how prevalent it is because of
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Because I don’t want much TV I’m a little late on the cool commercials. This one was pointed out to me yesterday and I still can’t get over how well it was done and the kind of truth that is shares. [youtube]hibyAJOSW8U[/youtube]
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The statement in the title above has been completely misrepresented, misinterpreted, over-used and used to attack a lot in the past four years. My philosophy professor at Tyndale, my favourite professor at Tyndale, simply dismissed the whole concept of relative truth by looking at the statement “what is true to you isn’t true to me”
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This is no small news. Tedd Haggard has been accused of having gay relations for the past three years. (Linked from Ron) Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member association Thursday after being accused of paying the man for monthly trysts over the last three years. Here are some more articles. Time.com
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Lewis and I were up late last night surfing around the internet and he stumbled across these videos. These are hilarious. Here is one of the eight. [youtube]KtaHYrgqW5E[/youtube] ———————– Squirrels freak me out, they always have. They are creepy and I always have this fear of them jumping on to my face and latching on
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Barry and Natalie finally had Parker Mielke, eight days overdue. Read the story here.
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Tonight in our Spirituality and Technology class a lot of subjects were brought up and discussed and while it’s quite hard to follow the conversation everywhere, because I have no clue what they are talking about, a few issues did stand out and I thought I’d ponder them out loud to try and tease out
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I’m sitting in the library at York doing some reading for class and doing some other misc surfing and reading and a few things have stuck out completely randomly and I’m not sure why. The other side of hatred is understanding. It is harder to hate anything that you understand. read entire article here. –
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David Fitch was here in Sarnia yesterday and we spent some time talking about the joys and struggles of church planting and we also officially published and finished developing his new website, all still hosted with blogger which is kind of cool, hopefully the new Blogger starts to offer some better controlling of unique pages
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For the record. The building I talked about here, that would make a beautiful addition to the mission of theStory has just dropped in price. It was listed at $240,000 and now is listed at $180,000 and the real estate agent just called us and said that if we could make an offer around $150,000
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I’m in the middle of updating my blog engine. I’m sticking with b2evolution for a bit longer. I was close to switching to WordPress, but I thought I would give this a go one more time. To upgrade I had to completely delete my old setup and reinstall the new program and that was quite