Can you Misname God?
Today at theStory we talked about naming God. The thing that stole most of the discussion was “what dangers, if any, are there in misnaming God.” So this post will sort of be my answer…
Ugly Lights Tickets on Sale
The movie called Ugly Lights that I’m working on with some friends is finished. You can see that Darryl and Joe (the two guys I planted theStory with) are actors in it. We sent it…
Genesis In Context: In Light of the Enuma Elish
This is the message that I spoke on Sunday. It was heavily discussion based once we jumped into comparing the Enuma Elish with Genesis, but here are most of the things that came up and…
Tolerating Intolerance
One of the flags that new churches wave right now is that of tolerance. We love to tolerate other people’s beliefs and perspectives. We find value in everyone and where they are coming from. I…
Good Songs to Sing At Church
Update: We’ve created a list on Grooveshark of a bunch of the songs we sing at church, you can listen to them all here. At theStory we try to sing songs that are honest and…
Everyone’s Perspective is Right
I wrote a post back in August called a Sympathetic Look at Difference and I think this post is going to be similar but make a lot more sense of what is going on in…
Pastors: Making Sure Our Programs Happen
What is a Pastor? Pastors: Sunday Production Coordinators Pastors: Making Sure Our Programs Happen Pastors spend a lot of time coming up with programs and program ideas, getting people to run them and making sure…
Pastors: Sunday Production Coordinators
What is a Pastor? Pastors: Sunday Production Coordinators Pastors: Making Sure Our Programs Happen Since I was a kid, my only experience with the pastor of my church was on Sunday. I watched him get…
Going Green For Lent
I just thought this was such a great idea. Instead of giving up luxuries why don’t we give up something that actually helps the world around us for lent. It’d be great if more churches…
Brands that Give us Value
Throughout high school I loved wearing skater clothes. I always struggled hard to make sure I had an O’neil hoodie or Quicksilver pants or Etnies Shoes. I would search the clothing stores for tags; the…
What is a Pastor?
What is a Pastor? Pastors: Sunday Production Coordinators Pastors: Making Sure Our Programs Happen There are three of us planting theStory, a church plant here in Sarnia. I was 17 or so when I first…
Shameless Updates
Things have been moving quite quickly here in Sarnia lately. It explains why I haven’t been posting as much as I want and why when I do post it from what I prepared for somewhere…
Misconceptions of Blessings
This is the message I spoke this morning at theStory, I hope that eventually we can podcast these and especially try and figure out how to podcast it with the discussion, because that is always…
Links for March 07, 2008
This is one of the coolest sites I’ve seen in a long time. User based t-shirt designs. If you have a minute check out my friends t-shirt design here and give him a high ranking….
Blessing: The Middle Man
Blessing is the lube of God working in the world. I used that phrase the other day and got funny looks from everyone, and of course it wasn’t assumed that I meant anything about car…
Blessing: Not Just What We Get
The word blessing comes up a lot in Genesis. Jacob spends his life wanting it, and then ends his life giving it. God sets up the whole book starting twelve chapters in on blessing nations,…
Live to Work or Work to Live
Sometimes I like to take a look at a situation and then split people up into two categories so I can understand them better. So like for instance, there are two kinds of people introverts…
Jacob’s Name Change
Through our study of Genesis at theStory, no story has stuck out to me like that of Jacob’s narrative. Maybe its because I don’t see a lot of redeemable qualities in his life. He’s a…
Ugly Lights in the Newspaper
The film that I’m working on with some friends called Ugly Lights was recently showcased in the localaper. They did a full page spread on the film and our work on it. Check out the…
Links for Febuary 8, 2008
N.T. Wright in Time magazine talking about his new book and hinting that Christians may be wrong about the way they look at heaven. You don’t say. ———————– If you are depressed, don’t go shopping….