Gallery Lambton Moving Forward on Christina Street
Today was a big day for downtown Sarnia. A large number of downtowners went to a council meeting where they were deciding the fate of the new Lambton Gallery project. It’s been quite a long…
Children’s Ministry for a Non-Parent
People find it odd that I’m quite passionate about what we do with our children at our church and within my community. It’s because I don’t have any kids of my own. It doesn’t seem…
The World As It Is – Bones and Bonuses
The $100m ‘loan’ from the World Bank to Haiti could be paid off as a fraction of the banking bonuses paid in addition to enormous salaries. (ht)
Donlands and Mortimer with The Wilderness of Manitoba
The Sarnia music scene is unbelievable. For a city our size (73,000), we bring in some great bands and the people in Sarnia are awesome. Tonight was Empty Spaces 19th show and it was excellent. …
The Storyboard Print Shop for Downtown Sarnia
I’ve done quite a bit of design for theStory and for clients lately. I’ve also found myself in the downtown core of Sarnia for the last two years. Manley’s recently got out of downtown; our…
Our Apologies – Sarnia Downtown First Friday Exhibit
See More Art Installations… We’ve been wanting to get involved with the First Friday events downtown for quite a while now. First Friday is a downtown walk-a-bout of art exhibits and installations, music performances and…
Who Said It – My First IPhone App
I love technology and dipping my hand into whatever I can. With the IPhone taking the mobile world by storm I just couldn’t help but try to get in on the action. So after lots…
Building Houses and Planting Gardens: A Sermon on Jeremiah 29
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. …
The Crazy, Unbeaten, Narrow and Inconvenient Path
“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…
The Evolving Church: Kingdom Economy
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…
Christmas Eve Liturgy
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…
Taking Care of the Enviroment is Central to Being a Christian
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…
“Feeding the Poor” is the new “Going to Church”
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…
A Left Handed Infant: A Sermon for Advent
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…
Dreaming Unrealistic and Idealistic Dreams
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…
Intersections
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…
Funny Christian Videos That Are Actually For Real
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…
Expecting
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…
Early Church Father’s Thoughts on Money and Wealth
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…
Kids, The Elderly and Why We Have it Backwards
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…