Ghana with the FMCIC
Troy and I had the opportunity to go with the FMCIC to the Ghana Mission this past month. The FMCIC is coaching and working with some Ghana pastors and giving them the tools necessary to…
Costa Rica Pictures from 2012
Rachel and I went to Costa Rica with our friends Brandon and Beth Huybers. This was strictly a vacation. Couldn’t have picked a better place that was friendly to tourists but still wrapped in adventure…
Good News in The Last Place You’d Expect to Find It: A Sermon on Acts 8:4-8:25
As we start to unfold this story of the first Christians we are picking up on some important themes, and not only that, we are starting to see that everything is connected. Everything from Genesis…
William Willimon on Communities Defining Themselves
“What do we make of an evangelism, which, while including even the Samaritans, does not hesitate to exclude those like Simon who do not fit the lifestyle or theology of the community of the Spirit?…
God Speaks Through Difference: A Sermon on Acts 6:8-8:3 (The Sermon and Stoning of Stephen)
As we work our way through Acts we are starting to get a hold on what was going on with the very first Christians. This is a well articulated story of how this news of…
Iceland at First Friday
See More Art Installations… Steph and I are displaying our Iceland photos at the March 2012 First Friday downtown Sarnia. We’ll also be showing our Iceland video. The first shot below is from Steph and…
Evangelism by Jealousy
The longer I stick around this evangelical world, the more I tend to put up a wall to the language of ‘evangelism.’ I don’t know if I buy seeking conversions to my faith and trying…
Politics, The Kingdom of God and Our Ultimate Goal
Tonight, in a debate amongst friends, I asked the question towards the end: “what should the ultimate goal of society be?” The answer from the more conservative folks was “freedom.” I realized at that point…
Fra Angelico Responds to John Piper
Turns out that Fra Angelico, an Italian painter from the 1400’s has a response to John Piper and his whole masculine Christianity. Here in this painting Jesus is praying in Gethaname, the disciples are sleeping…
God Has Given Christianity A Jesus Feel
Rachel Held Evans challenged to male bloggers last week in response to John Piper’s statement at the Desiring God conference that “God has given Christianity a masculine feel”, which she thought was “a strange way…
From Consuming Things to Consuming Experiences
I’ve noticed a trend. In my response against consumerism and hating collecting items or my opposition about buying unnecessary goods, I have caught myself falling for another kind of consumption that isn’t healthy. It’s the…
Should We Choose Our Leaders By Lot?
“Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.” – Acts 1:26 Right now at theStory we are in Acts, we’ll probably be there for another…
Should Multisite Churches Exist?
Something in a conversation I had tonight sparked this post, there is nothing of substantial value in this post, it’s just me ranting. Fitch has an excellent post on this topic here if you want…
The Only Way To Win Is To Not Play
I’m not sure what it is, but I seem to make my way into the public sphere a lot. Even as a kid, my neighbour was one of the journalists for the local paper and…
The Shift Towards Collaborative Consumption
In the past fifty years, we have consumed more goods and services than in all previous generations put together. September 2007 is when I posted an idea I had to start sharing things. It was…
Entering Into God’s Story and Out of the Story of Money: A Sermon on Acts 4:23-37
Allright so Joe spoke last week about how John and Peter were taken in and questioned by the high priest and Sadducees. Basically what happened is you have John and Peter and they are running…
Photos from Turkey
It took forever to get these up but here are some photos from our Turkey Trip. You can see the whole set here.
I Am In Turkey
No real reason, just a good collision of fortunate events and here I am for two weeks.
The Gospel Embodied in Community (A Sermon on Acts 2:42-47)
Remember where we came from last week. Peter has just finished the speech of all speeches connecting the dots of how the hope of Israel is realized in the death and Resurrection of Jesus. You…
On Movements and Moving Speeches (A Sermon on Peter’s Speech in Acts 2)
Movements have happened all over the world. They all have different characteristics and accomplish different tasks. Movements never mean that everything changes from that moment on definitely. However, a movement, or the day a movement…