I’m tired of big monster churches, leaders and organizations not caring about the small and insignificant. It’s everywhere. This conference has been going on in the States for the last few years. It’s called Q….
The title says it all really. I’ve been wrestling with this, publicly even, for a while now. I’m just realizing that no matter how hard I try to create a name for myself, my friendships…
This is one of my favourite parables. I’ve brought it up over and over again here on Sunday mornings and because I think in it lies truths that we all need to hear over and…
Well Rachel and I crossed yet another item of her Things Before I Die (or what some call Bucket List). We went skydiving today. We found a place that let us free fall for 30…
I’ve stopped doing links on my site and moved over to Google Reader, Delicious and Twitter as a better way to share things I’m doing, reading and watching online. It’s much less time-consuming and less…
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…
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. 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…