Church: Evangelical Church -(=) Jesus’ Church
I’m starting to have doubts about the ‘evangelical church.’ Despite all the quotes we’ve all heard like “the church is a whore but she is my mother” and other likewise, I’m growing more skeptical as…
I’m starting to have doubts about the ‘evangelical church.’ Despite all the quotes we’ve all heard like “the church is a whore but she is my mother” and other likewise, I’m growing more skeptical as…
Margie Goodyear (the family I lived with in the summer) shares a remarkable story about the scratching noise we heard in her roof over the summer. I couldn’t believe it when I read it and…
This trailer for an upcoming film called Jesus Camp freaks the hell out of me. Literally. What is going on? Why does it seem like the main message of this film is so different then…
The idea of authority has always been something that has continually been running through my head. I had a few authority figures that should never have been in authority positions and a few others that…
Apparently Rachel’s family goes to bed earlier than I expected on vacation (I guess two hours of sleep stuffed in a car doesn’t equal a good nights sleep). And I also discovered that way up…
I am on vacation for the next week and few days. In that time I am going to be moving into my new apartment and then heading out with my girlfriend and her parents to…
I’ve been torn lately. I’m struggling with how to look at things that are happening to people around the world. I brought this up in the car on the ride home with Rachel and Darryl…
I don’t think I’m done with this yet. I talked a bunch about how consumerism has so infected the church that now we think it’s normal to think like a consumerist and follow Jesus. I…
I just absolutly love this title “How then Shall We Kill,” it is loaded with meaning that I love. dCOMPOSE has three posts on the death penalty with this title. Part 1, Part 2, Part…
I just finished reading Spencer Burke’s book A Heretics Guide to Eternity. It was an enjoyable and easy read overall. His thesis could probably be summed up in a few sentences found on page 61……
This is just too good. Walter Brueggemann, a renowned 72 year old theologian, has his own myspace, and the song that plays when you load it up….”Damn it feels good to be a gangster” Found…
I grew up going to the same private school as the Edwards family. She was a mom raising four children on her own, twin young boys with two older sisters. We called her Flo, she…
During the justice section at Cultivate, I sat with a group that talked about political systems. It was a great conversation that talked about how these political systems like consumerism, materialism, welfare, social programs and…
My good friend and roomate Nathan Shurr has started up his own set of daily links on his blog. Something I’ll be definitely keeping an eye on because he usually points me to some great…
Here are some links to people that took pictures throughout the day at Cultivate. My Pics | 61 pictures Mike Todd | 1 interesting pic Jared Siebert | 106 pictures Also, the podcasts are all…
After 12 hours on Saturday at Cultivate I just needed to withdraw for a while and take a break, so I did and went home to Sarnia and got to go to theStory BBQ and…
Cultivate is going well so far. Pernell and Jared I know are both blogging here and there so check out their sites, I’m probably not going to say much. Podcasts will be available soon of…
The Cultivate Gathering starts in about 6 hours. Jared and myself are going to do our best to record as much as possible, at least the beginning presentations to make available for podcast that will…
As part of The Daily Scribe, a majority of us are doing the Scribe Jamboree, where we take some of our favourite posts over the week off the Daily Scribe and link to them every…
There are a lot of things nowadays that separate us from what we should be attached to. We seem to detach ourselves from any kind of responsibility and justify it (of course) in our heads…