Thoughts on Paying Pastors

I wrote this post after which gives some more thoughts on the matter. The Revolution (Church/Body of Christ) Will Not Be Funded Since starting theStory Joe, Darryl and I have wrestled a lot with the…

Links for December 07, 2008

A good friend of mine makes her own Jewelery. It looks pretty sweet and if you ask me a great present for someone for Christmas and your helping out artists (she’s from Guelph). So buy…

One Size Fits All?

Finally, the documentary has been shot, edited and completed. It is called One Size Fits All. It is now in the hands of the printers to be shipped here for December 3. For the last…

Links for November 26, 2008

Buy Nothing Day – I’ll be participating. I Was Never ‘Called’ to Journey Alongside of Poor People – I’ve heard that excuse a million times. Brilliantly written, especially the intro. It’s about security. (ht) Great…

Ordinary Radicals and Cultivate

This past weekend Rachel and I took off to go see the screening of Ordinary Radicals (trailer below) in Toronto at the Bloor Cinema. I was pleasantly impressed by the film. Great story-telling. Beautiful perspective….

Innovation as Offensive Failure

Last weekend at Cultivate I sat on a panel about Innovation. So naturally I let my mind wander for a little while on what innovation is and more importantly am I innovative? I could have…

Links for November 10, 2008

Joe found this site so we are going to Evernote a try. It collects and remembers everything for you and its best feature is probably the image to text recognition, so it will along everything…

Pictures from LA

Here are some pictures that go along with my trip from the previous posts. The Dream Center (this maybe gives you a picture of half or so of it) Angelus Temple The warm-up rappers The…

Day 2 & 3 – Dream Center

It’s been an interesting trip so far to the Dream Center. I find myself going through ups and downs about how I feel about almost every issue. It’s beautiful to see so many people rallied…

Day 1 – Dream Center

Yesterday I flew to LA to come and spend a week at the Dream Center. I came with my friend Rob. Basically the Dream Center is a place where a church bought out an old…

New theStory Website

We have a new website for theStory. This one is a lot more functional and user friendly. The website will now manage our library that we are trying to start that will host everyone’s books…

Intro to the Parables

Here is the rough transcript of the message I gave on Sunday. It’s pretty quote heavy, but it ended up working out pretty good because of the amount of people we had, the discussion was…

Misfits come to Sarnia

I showed the poster on our wall here, and finally the Misfits came and have left. These guys are old, they formed in 1977. The place was FILLED with people under 20. I know nothing…

Sign Dedication Service

This is the church right across the street from me. They just installed a new sign and are having a sign dedication service. I wonder though if they are allowed to use the sign before…