A Sermon on Our Gatherings and What They Mean
One of the the things I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about and reading about lately is our worship service. I tend to do this and then start reading a lot of books,…
Part 9 – Maybe We Both Can’t Afford to Be Wrong
Harry, I’ll be honest, I’m not really sure where you were going with your e-mail. It seemed sort of scattered and lots of vast assumptions about what I believe. Nevertheless, I’ll do my best to…
Part 8 – I Noticed You Are Associated With The Emergent Church
There is a lot more to go, I’ve probably lost most of my readers by now, but I think it’s important for folks (especially in Sarnia) to see the circle this is going in. There…
Do We Really Serve the Same God? A Sermon on Acts 25-27
We are entering in at Chapter 25 in Acts this morning. So there is a lot happening now in Acts. Paul is bound up in prison for at least two years. He is being used…
Street Preacher Survival Guide: A Downtown Sarnia First Friday Installation
See More Art Installations… With the arrival guide of street preachers downtown theStory wanted to offer some lightheartedness and clarification to the situation. There was way too many folks asking us what was going on,…
We Will Be Known By Our Scars: A Sermon on Acts 19-20
Acts was written by Luke as a second part to the Gospel of Luke. Acts is chronicling the spread of the church from the Ascension of Jesus to following Paul around on his different missionary…
Humans Would Never Publish The Bible: Conversation with a Street Preacher Part 7
Nathan Thanks for email. You have given me much to respond to that I thought it best to send a portion of all I want to say.One reason for slow replies is that I type…
Revealed Truth is Not the Bible, It’s Jesus – Conversation With A Street Preacher Part 6
Harry, I’m glad we can do this on e-mail now. It was getting difficult for me to read your handwriting ;) I would like to try to keep our conversations to some order just so…
You Can’t Afford to Be Wrong – Conversation With A Street Preacher Part 5
Harry (the Street Preacher) and I have officially moved to e-mail for our correspondence. Lots coming. Thanks again Nathan for your quick response. I do appreciate your response and your love and devotion to love others…
Conversation with a Street Preacher: Part 4
Harry, Thank-you for your response. I read your letter and I was a bit disappointed that you felt the need to compile biblical references. Not that references are bad, but rather I am trying to…
Conversation with a Street Preacher: Part 3 And If I Can Accept The Trinity, Why Not Anything Else?
Below is the second response from the street preacher. I think by this point he’s getting a bit scattered and not able to articulate what he needs to say. What I do find most interesting…
Relationship over Preaching: My First Response to the Street Preacher Part 2
I was happy to get a letter from Harry. To be honest, I’m disappointed at the inability of Christian leaders to carry on a conversation, be criticized and defend their beliefs in public. Generally the consensus from…
Asking Them To Leave: Conversation With a Street Preacher Part 1
The earliest I can remember the Street Preacher downtown Sarnia was back around Halloween of 2011. We were having a pirate themed Murder Mystery Party at theStory and some friends dressed as pirates came running…
Introduction: What To Do with Street Preachers in Downtown Sarnia
Over the last six months or so, our beautiful downtown Sarnia has been inhabited with a Street Preacher (the whole soapbox and everything) and an entourage of Street Preacher Disciples of a range of ages handing out…
Church Is Just Leaders and Followers
It seems that the church has created only two kinds of people. Leaders and followers. Leaders are people that produce content and then followers are those that consume that content. Leaders are usually on staff,…
How Did We Get Here? A Sermon on Acts 13
We are making our way through Acts at a fairly good pace and we are seeing how the gospel is starting to make its way to the ends of the earth. We are starting to…
What Are We Becoming? A Sermon on Acts 11
So this morning we are finishing up Acts 11. Because it’s fairly short and there isn’t too much exegetical work that I am going to do, we are going to take some time and try…
Travel Credit Card Comparison in Canada (TD VS SCOTIA)
My wife and I have had the luxury of traveling quite a bit over the last few years and a lot of that is thanks to our TD Infinite Visa. I did a bunch of research before…
The Art of A Good Leader
The best leaders are the ones who have convinced their congregations that by just doing the simple act of going to church on Sunday to hear them preach, that they are doing everything that they…
When You See Jesus, It Changes Everything: A Sermon on Saul’s Conversion (Road to Damascus), Acts 9:1-31
So after our two week break for Easter, we are coming back into the book of Acts. We’ve spent a lot of time more in liturgical settings with doing readings out loud, prayers out loud…