We are spending a month in Jeremiah 29. Joe gave some background information on the chapter and helped us understand what exile was, where Israel found itself and how they were oppressed by the Babylonians. …
“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path and fearlessly following it.” -Ghandi “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road…
Well, it’s happening yet again, we are tackling our fourth conference in the last five years. This one is called The Evolving Church: Kingdom Economy and it’s on April 10, 2010 at People’s Church in…
This year, while Joe was off enjoying some much needed and deserved vacation time I led the Christmas Eve service. After reworking our liturgy from last year, here is what I ended up doing. Each…
Sarnia fanatical and conservative Christians seem to have a really large voice in Sarnia. It is unfortunate, because more times than not, I along with us at theStory, will get lumped in with all their…
Lately I was shown a status update on someone’s Facebook that said “Just got back from feeding the poor, feeling great, I was created for this.” I am positive, that if I was following the…
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined…. The people will rejoice…. For the yoke of their burden…
For some time now I have found that in many discussions have ended over and over again with being accused of being too idealistic or unrealistic. I find this hard to swallow. Are we not…
This was my favourite series we’ve done this summer. I spent a lot of time studying and preparing for this series, and I think we got people thinking outside of the box on the ideas…
Dan and I have stumbled across a few videos lately that at a first watching thought we were watching a joke. To our dismay, we found out they were real; as in these people were…
This was the first theme that we collaborated with using Google Wave. I’m not completely sold on it yet, but it has got potential. It certainly sped up the process. The Illustrator file is there…
I’m reading the book Faith and Wealth by Justo L Gonzalez. The book is basically a walk through history and a commentary on how people and eventually the church viewed wealth. It’s super heavy on…
After being in Florida for the past week, and watching as parents everywhere lavish their kids with every experience and material good, necessary and unnecessary, I can’t help but think that our culture has really…
Phil Nellis posted this image on Google Reader today. Funny, Rachel and I spent the entire dinner talking about this exact issue. Do we really want our kids to want to become like these princesses…
After reading through Andy Crouch’s talk on practices and purchases, and wrestling with some ideas surrounding church planting, I’m beginning to see a major dichotomy that I hadn’t seen before. The split is now glaringly…
One of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a long time with our space here downtown is use it as a venue. This past weekend was our first show that we hosted. I…
In working with Joe over the last number of years I have learned to respect his creative ways of doing things. I do not think like him nor do I connect to my faith through…
This is the sermon I spoke on Sunday, the first analogy in italics is what I did at the beginning of the message to illustrate the point. This month we are talking about rhythms in…
I found this video on Stupid Church People, this was just kind of crazy. I don’t even know what to make of it. I don’t know if Bakker should have been there spreading this agenda,…
CLICK HERE TO SEE MY IDEA I have been playing around with this idea over the past few months in my head. Then I found this Aviva Community Fund group that helps make ideas happen. …