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…
Doing Things That We Shouldn’t
Love this post by Dan. Dan has always been able to articulate my heart in ways that I can’t. So while I write a legalistic post about all the things that annoy me and we…
Understanding this Blog a Little More
This blog plays a very specific role in my life. I use it as a tool to bounce off my ideas and thought processes to friends, family, those that are walking with me and the…
List of Things That We Can and Should Do Without
Some of these may come off as ridiculous, and some of them are just that in a culture and society like ours. Some of them may come off as judgmental, but I hope you can…
Links for Feb 18, 2009
Authenticity, for me, is doing what you promise, not “being who you are”. Great little post by Seth. When we were in South Africa and Swaziland I was amazed at how many children and people…
ITunes $20 Gift Card Giveaway
I just found a $20 Gift Card to ITunes in my drawer. Unused. So in the spirit of our awesome conference in March, the first person who purchases a ticket for the conference and then…
Sometimes I Feel Like I’m The Only One That “Gets It”
I’m feeling sort of sluggish today. Its a accumulation of a lot of things, and I realize no one really wants to read a post that starts with the phrase “I’m feeling” but today I…
Links for February 09, 2009
A Tale of Two Realities by Zaya Kuyena. This was posted by my friend Zaya who has been a great supporter of our conference but shares some struggles with conferences like ours; struggles that I…
Links for February 3, 2009
The price of experience. Really interesting observation. New church downtown Toronto If you are in Toronto on Feb 15, make sure you go to Love Comes Down. Click for more info. Lon is a cool…
Evolving Church Commercial
Last month, the four of us Epiphaneia guys sat down to meet about the upcoming conference. We decided that it would be fun to do a commercial this year for the conference. So over lunch…
When the Damned Get Ushered In
“Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.” “Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “No one who…
The One About Crunching Numbers (A sermon on The Parable about Building a Tower and Going to War)
This month we have tackled some of my favorite parables that Jesus tells. The Good Samaritan is a beautiful story about this guy who should not in any sort of way been a hero becoming…
Links for January 27, 2009
I don’t really follow Twitter accounts. I find them annoying and usually uninformative. There are very few people in this world that I want to have minute by minute updates on their lives and none…
Site Maintenance Details
In an effort to make my life even more organized online I am in the process of migrating this blog over to WordPress. When I first started this site I didn’t even know what a…
Obama is our Next Messiah
I follow politics very little, so my views are probably tainted and not worth reading. However, I’m tired of Obama already. He isn’t even president yet and we’ve already seen the tears, songs, crazy expensive…
Links for January 9, 2008
This is just wild. (ht) It’s like Jesus is saying “hey, look I know it’s supposed to cost you something to go where no one else will go, but here I’ll make it easy for…
Top 3 Books of 2008
I’m not a big book reader. I do my best, and when I find a good book it’s difficult to put it down, but I am far from considering myself well read. But this past…