The Good News Series
Update: Here is my post on the Good News as part of the series I describe blow. I went to Los Angeles in October last year and I asked David Fitch if while I was…
The One About the Rich Fool (A Sermon on Luke 12:13-21)
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you? A rabbi in this time…
Driving on City Sidewalks on Relevant
Driving on City Sidewalks. My favourite band. Two of my best friends. The brilliant musicians behind the soundtrack of One Size Fits All? and their EP Where Angels Crowd to Listen got on the frontpage…
Tabled on Easter Friday
Each Easter Friday, Joe goes all out putting a service together than usually incorporates heavy imagery, liturgy and creative response. Today was no different. Today we followed a liturgy built by him, sang a few…
Shooting Guns in the foothills of the Black Mountains, Arizona
So here is a completely random experience that Ron and I had in Las Vegas. Ron saw an advertisement to shoot a gun at a range on some brochure. So like Ron does, he was…
Skeptic Shares his Thoughts on theStory
I wrote this post putting my letter to the editor in the Sarnia paper about churches in Sarnia needing to step up and actually fulfill our mission to do what Jesus has called us to…
Consumerism: Deals, Coupons and Saving Money
A while back I started doing a little bit of writing on my struggles with the consumeristic tendencies that I see in our society, myself and the church. I’ve got a few more posts to…
Letter to the Editor About Churches Banding Together
Update: My letter was printed in the Sarnia Observer on Wednesday April 1, 2009. Dan McCaffery of The Observer in Sarnia wrote a short little piece in the Observer yesterday. Unfortunately, I think all of…
Uncommon Cents
This month we are tackling some parables that have to do with money and possessions. We took this photo ourselves, it’s actually Joe’s hand, so it’s up for grabs to use under the creative commons…
Owning Vs. Possessing (You Can’t Have Both)
Tonight I went with some friends from theStory to watch Rob Bell’s latest talk tour series thing called Drops like Stars in Royal Oak, Michigan. It was a well done talk on the relationship between…
Safe From People Not Like Me
watch out he is looking down again searching for peace while terrorizing those around him he tramples the innocent in his desperation to find his heart swaying back and forth from regret to anger trying…
Great Writing
I’ve really really been enjoying Geez Magazine lately. So much so that I put one of the articles from their past issue into our conference guide this year. And this issue I just got in…
2 Days Until The Conference
Darryl, Chris, Steve and I are all working, drinking, eating extremely well (made my three meat spaghetti and some great tuna melts) and preparing for Saturday. We find we are much more prepared this year…
Marketing the Messiah
This is an absolutely hilarious conversation (its scripted) between two guys about marketing a Messiah. You have to take a few minutes and listen to this. It is taken from the latest episode of Wiretap…
A Good Reason To Throw A Party
Last month was called “A Good Reason to Throw a Party” where we took apart the party parables, like The Compassionate Father and his Two Sons, The Lost Coin and The Lost Sheep. In all…
One Size Fits All on 100 Huntley Street
I went with Joe this week to Crossroads where they filmed Joe being interviews on 100 Huntley Street. It was an interesting experience to meet the people behind the camera and watch how this kind…
Thanks for Your Prayers
Here is an e-mail we got at Epiphaneia this week. I enjoyed it. Greetings Because your goals are against the Word of God and your aim is to bring about destruction of believers with misinformation,…
The Revolution (Church/Body of Christ) Will Not Be Funded
Len linked to this article, which sent me off on a whole bunch of other reading along this topic and it has hit pretty close to home. I wrote a post a few months back…
Letters From the Future
Since Thinker Labs is no more, I’m going to start posting all future designs (and possibly past ones) online for people to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License. Monthly we do a series…
The One About the Net (A Sermon on the Parable of the Dragnet in Matthew 13:47-50)
This morning we are going to start with some journal writing instead of singing. We are jumping into a pretty tough parable to digest here and so to set us in the proper mindset I…