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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Because we dont have internet I haven’t been able to update my site on our Iceland trip, but here is a little teaser.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Been reading a few links and been in some conversation from/with Jonathan Brink, James Kingsley and Darryl Silvestri lately which has got me thinking a bit about leadership. I’m going to go out on a…
This is my contribution to the Eighth Letter conference we are running coming up in October. Thanks to Rachel for organizing a Syncroblog of all the letters. To The Church in North America It’s odd…
Of all the commandments of Jesus, the one that I see as most revolutionary is the one to love your enemies. Not only is the idea of loving enemies a hard one, it’s completely foreign…
It keeps us from turning commands found there into isolated rules of principles that are assumed to have special status because they are in the Bible. Rather is proposes that Christians (and we hope others)…
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Many Christians demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. … I haven’t heard one of them demand that the…
I’m reading this book right now called Mistakes were Made but not by Me and it is changing the way I interact with people and view them from a distance. We can be quick to…
This might come as a redundant post to where many people have already landed. I think though I’ve finally placed my finger on why children’s ministry at my church and the other churches I’ve worked…