“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…
Disney Princesses: Is It Really Normal That All Little Girls to Want to Be One?
Phil Nellis posted this image on Google Reader today. Funny, Rachel and I spent the entire dinner talking about this exact issue. Do we really want our kids to want to become like these princesses…
Consume or Create
After reading through Andy Crouch’s talk on practices and purchases, and wrestling with some ideas surrounding church planting, I’m beginning to see a major dichotomy that I hadn’t seen before. The split is now glaringly…
Empty Spaces at theStory with Emily Brown and The O’Darling
One of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a long time with our space here downtown is use it as a venue. This past weekend was our first show that we hosted. I…
Tabled.ca – Communion for Anyone
In working with Joe over the last number of years I have learned to respect his creative ways of doing things. I do not think like him nor do I connect to my faith through…
A Sermon on Freedom, Opportunity and the Disciplines
This is the sermon I spoke on Sunday, the first analogy in italics is what I did at the beginning of the message to illustrate the point. This month we are talking about rhythms in…
Jay Bakker Quiets a Church over Homosexuality
I found this video on Stupid Church People, this was just kind of crazy. I don’t even know what to make of it. I don’t know if Bakker should have been there spreading this agenda,…
Community for the Homeless
CLICK HERE TO SEE MY IDEA I have been playing around with this idea over the past few months in my head. Then I found this Aviva Community Fund group that helps make ideas happen. …
Causing Someone to Stumble is Overrated
I’m going to make a new law, that is inspired by Godwin’s Law. Read about it first if you don’t know what it is. Here is my stab at one. The more one disagrees with…
Couch on Road at Night
I know, brilliant title. A few weeks ago, Troy and I decided that putting that couch in the middle of the road could make for some fun pictures one night. We were right. That’s what…
Heaven is Intersecting Earth: A Sermon on Heaven
Joe and I tag teamed this message. Basically I tried to summarize the entire story of what God has been up to through the biblical narrative and how all along he has been bringing heaven…
The Balloon and Catching the World’s Attention
While not the point, this is particularly relevant to us in Sarnia, including myself, in regards to the Moon the Balloon protest. It’s a great comic that helps show the ridiculousness of the value we…