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Engagement Story

So I’m finally engaged. Rachel has always loved kids books and she loves children (though she doesn’t want her own….YES!). So I wrote her a kids book of our story. I tried to rhyme it at first but it wasn’t working so I just started writing and did a lot of editing and tried to […]

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theStory Inside the City

It is odd, encouraging and a bit scary to me that more people all over the world that read occasionally on the internet have a better idea of what’s going on with our church plant (theStory) than my neighbour does. In fact, I don’t think my neighbour knows that I’ve started a church. There are

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Technology Isn’t Evil

My books haven’t come from Amazon yet, which is putting me behind for my Spirituality and Technology class, but I need to get blogging on my experiences with it, so I’ll talk a bit about the last class. There were a few things that I noticed last class that I think I can better summarize

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Links for Sept 26, 2006

Jspot links to yet another hilarious video by Stephen Colbert. This one is all about the Jewish “Day of Repentance” and his response. ———————– Jerry Falwell doesn’t stop. “He was calling Hillary Clinton a demonic figure and openly arguing that God is a Republican.” LA Time has more ———————– I follow this guys photoblog and

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Wired Parish

Wired Parish is a new site online that offers podcasts at a subscription rate online. For around five or six bucks a month you can have access to some of the best podcasts available online (like Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet, Rob Bell and all sorts of other names that you’ve never heard of but you

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Links for Sept 22, 2006

Jonny Baker linked to a site that prints your Flickr photos into business cards. I thought it was a cool idea if you want to have 100 different business cards all printed at once. Moo is the site name and since I was a Flickr Pro user I got to try out ten for free,

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E-mail and Conflict

For about twenty-one years now I have watched people try and resolve conflict. I start to notice that some are better than others at it. Others don’t resolve it at all. Everyone has their own ways of dealing with it. I grew up in an interesting generation where most my age would resolve conflict using

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Spirituality and Technology

I’m currently in a class this year at York that requires me to keep blog entries on my thoughts on the current readings and my interactions with other things in the course. Instead of starting up a second blog just for that I thought I would just add a category and post them on the

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Proving Myself Right

I have this uncanny desire to prove myself right. There is something about being right that gives me some sort of fulfillment and peace to what I am doing or saying. For instance, I have been back and forth about my school options for the past two years, ever since I transferred over to York.

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The Pastor Role

I’m starting to wonder if the place of a pastor needs to change drastically within the context of our churches today. I don’t think its working. More and more pastors are falling into burn-out, affairs and other unmentionables and churches are closing down week after week. We’ve elevated the pastor to a position which isn’t

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Revivalism

I was reading Next Reformation, and this quote was his latest post. Guess I’m not the only one in the world that thinks its dangerous, and maybe some of the things I said in my open letter make some sense. “By now it is becoming possible to see that the most unfortunate result of revivalism

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Links for Sept 13, 2006

Joe posts some thoughts on our first gathering as theStory and also pictures of the place we are looking to have gatherings in the future; an old United church that wants to give it to us for 33 bucks a week and we get to leave our stuff there all week. ———————– Bob Hyatt has

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theStory Day 1

After it was all over, Joe, Darryl and I were sitting there and I looked at them and I said “well, we did it, we just planted a church.” (theStory) I don’t have a clue what that means. I don’t know how to plant a church. I don’t even know if that’s what we are

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An Hour and A Bit

It is 9:46, and in an hour and a bit, theStory begins. So much time, energy, dreaming, upsets and excitement has gone into what is starting in an hour and a bit. For over four years now, I have been saying that I was coming back to Sarnia to plant a church. I didn’t know

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Sarnia Revival on TV

The Sarnia Revival has been a source of discussion a bit on this blog. A lot of it came from a post that I wrote here about my experience there and some thoughts to go with it. So I’ve been keeping up to date with what has been going on and plan to attend again

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