I’m beginning to become more aware of one of my flaws. It’s making me feel more uncomfortable the more it’s unveiled. It all started in Halifax. We were sitting around a pub, everyone was sampling new beers (because they had hundreds to choose from) and I was gulping down a cold glass of water complete […]
Walking through the hallways of York makes you feel small. A school of over 40, 000 people is a new country compared to what I have ever been used to. I’m used to schools where I know 90% of the people that walk through the halls, and I’m usually in some type of leadership role
A lot of people have been asking me what books I’m reading this school year, expecting to hear something about the emergent church, church planting or maybe some kind of postmodern answer like ‘there is no truth in books, only in relationships.’ I think that I probably would have given one of those answers more
I was just lying in bed a minute ago, and then I jumped out of bed with an idea I wanted to write about before o nodded off. I hopped over to Darryl to wake him up and try to convince him that he was just sleep walking; he wouldn’t believe me. Then I yelled
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It’s 2:55am and I told myself I would be laying in bed by 12:00, 12:30 at the latest. I layed on my blankets around 12:50, so I wasn’t too far off my mark. It’s way too hot to actually get under my covers. After about twenty minutes of not being able to stop thinking, or
Today was my first day at York University. I must say that after only sitting through two introductory classes I know that I’m in for what seems to be a lot different of an experience. I don’t know what I expected considering I am switching from a five hundred person Christian university to a forty-thousand
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I’ve enjoyed the reaction I get from people here in Toronto when I inform them that I’m not going to a church on a Sunday morning. One person said ‘that’s not too good of an idea.’ The other looked at me with sort of a confused, he must be back-slidden kind of look. I told
Growing up with Christian parents you go to church. Fortunately and unfortunately I was blessed and cursed with this habit engrained into my weekly schedule. To wake up on a Sunday morning without going to church never ceased to leave you a little bit empty and needy inside. Even when my parents stopped going to
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Yesterday I went for a stroll downtown Toronto on my way to Hamilton and I was trying to aim myself toward Union Station. The easiest way to do this of course is by looking for the CN Tower and walk towards it. You think this would be easy since the CN Tower is the tallest
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1. You shall tithe 10% of your net income 2. You shall go to a church service every Sunday 3. There shall be preaching from ‘the word’ every Sunday 4. You shall dress up when you go to these services 5. You shall be water baptized 6. You shall only be water baptized once 7.
Darryl brought this point up last night and it struck me interesting and worthy enough to be posted. Since Darryl doesn’t have his own blog I’ll just get the ideas across. If you think Darryl should get his own blog (because he’s way more insightful and creative than me) e-mail him, [email protected]. After I had
The Ooze published two of my articles in the past few weeks. Check them out here. Gethsemane Truth Unveiled
I think my new favourite line that I absolutely hate is ‘I don’t like them.’ I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this line escape from people’s mouths. It’s come from mine too, more times than I would like to admit to. However, over the past little while as my patience, self-control and
I’m glad God is stretching me. Today I realized an important lesson that he has slowly worked into me that once was a struggle at one time. I was talking to a friend of mine tonight over 29 cent wings at Crabby Joes and he was telling me how well my old church was doing.
Since the summer began I’ve been fasting Pepsi. This would seem like an odd thing to fast to most people. I gave that and MSN up for this past Lent also. I’m not saying this to brag, heck, its Pepsi. So far for the summer I’ve been clean, not bad considering there is only a
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Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of going out to breakfast with Nick and his dad, seeing that Nick was in town for a day. For some reason he and his dad got into a conversation about oxygen filters or something like that in trucks: a certain clue that I wasn’t much part of that
MSN Messenger seems to be the new craze. Well not exactly new to me, I’ve always been on it, but in the world it’s new in the last decade or so. The more I experience this MSN life the more I realize what a direct product it is of our culture. Over the past fifty
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“A Christian doesn’t avoid the questions; a Christian embraces them. In fact, to truly pursue the living God, we have to see the need for questions. Questions aren’t scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.” – Rob Bell – It’s been
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So I got a CD of 600 wedding pics from Phil’s wedding. I uploaded 300 of them on my MSN Space thingy, cause it’s free and its a lot of space. check them out here. http://spaces.msn.com/members/nathancolquhoun/
For any of us that have grown up in the church we’ve probably heard the ‘resting’ sermon a million times. We’ve been told that we should rest because even God thought it was necessary to rest on the seventh day. We’ve been told to respect the Sabbath. To not head in the direction of burn-out.