Jesus Is The Reason For the Season, and Also the Reason You Are Going to Hell
Brought to you by our friends at Landover Baptist, thanks for the link Chris Lewis and Bekki Garrison.
Pastors, Salaries, Leaders and Budgets
This is part of a series entitled Confessions of a Church Planter, all the posts from this series are listed below. I wrote a post two years ago entitled Thoughts on Paying Pastors. I just re-read it…
Waiting Well – A Sermon on Advent
All right, so here we go again, and its Christmas. Joe last week talked about the announcement of Christ and what it means for an announcement to come like it did in its form and…
Peter Rollins on The Drew Marshall Show
So we ran our Eighth Letter conference a few months ago in Toronto. It was good times. After the conference a bunch of us went to a pub in Toronto and hung out with Peter…
Downloading (Stealing?) Rather Than Channel Surfing
I’m tired of the onslaught of advertising myself, I can’t even imagine what we’ve done to our children at this point by exposing their fragile minds to the brilliance of the marketing system who are out to…
Local Internet
As the Internet grew and my time on it grew as well I always found it a great way to meet people, build relationships with people that I couldn’t normally be around and constantly be…
Planting a Church And…
This is my first post in my Confessions of a Church Planter series. When Darryl and I first were throwing around the idea of starting a church we went to a conference in Toronto called…
Confessions of a Church Planter:An Introduction
I’ve been around the church planting scene now for five years and I’ve been noticing trends amongst church planters, habits in myself and reactions by regular church folks that I think I can offer some…
Relationships From The Bottom Up
I’ve wrestled with the idea of authority all my life. I’ll attribute it to my so called rebellious nature, but mostly it’s because I can’t stand not thinking for myself and being told what to think. I…
Submission as Subversion – A Sermon on Colossians 3:18-4:1
We have now spent a month and a half inside of Colossians and we’ve pretty much been going in the same direction all along. Paul was writing to a church in Colossi and helping them…
Iceland Video
Steph and I tried to hit record on our cameras whenever we could. Obviously we weren’t using any stabilizing gear, or even a tripod, but I’m still glad we did it. Video helps show what…
Iceland Photos
Some friends and I went to Iceland last week. It was more of a spur of the moment decision after watching Sigur Ros’ documentary called Heima, which is the most remarkable cinematography I’ve seen in…
Guest Post: theStory, Sarnia: A Ridiculously Abbreviated Reflection on Chapter One
This is a guest post by Joe Manafo. Joe and I started theStory (a church in Sarnia, Ontario) four years ago together. Since he has given up on some aspects of technology (oddly, Twitter is…
Iceland Teaser
Because we dont have internet I haven’t been able to update my site on our Iceland trip, but here is a little teaser.
The Contrasted Imagination – Sermon on Colossians 1:15-23
Above is my presentation, and below is the transcript from my message this week. Last week Joe convinced us that our culture is much like that of Rome’s. The first part of chapter one in…
Family Thanksgiving
Rachel loves to take photos. I like to be behind the camera. So after getting the cheesy hanging from the tree and peeking out from trees shots out of the way, we started to get…
Using Prezi for Sermons
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the RSA Animate films; they are brilliant. They somehow manage to take highly intellectual lectures and turn them into enjoyable 10 minute sessions of learning. By drawing and…
One Size Fits All? Available Now Online For Free
Joe’s documentary, One Size Fits All? is online now in it’s entirety. The DVD’s are all sold out and so we thought it would be generous to offer it to everyone. Here it all is…
Why Giving to the Poor Is No Longer a Legitimate Christian Response
Maybe I’m skeptical, ignorant, or taking way too much liberty in writing a post like this. I’ll never know if I don’t post it though. Here is my thought; giving to the poor in our…
My Brilliant Wife
Since I’ve been married, I have tried to explain to Rachel why I am so brilliant. I say, “listen, I am an idiot, and you are brilliant, but you married me, so that makes you…