Sharing My Stuff

Stuff has been on my mind lately. I’m amazed at how much happiness it can bring to someone. Watching my wife’s face as her bedroom gets decorated, watching my own face when I get a…

Ugly Lights Premiere Tonight

Tonight is the Ugly Lights Premiere. Should be an awesome night. If you are going to miss tonight, you can always get tickets for Thursday or Friday. Friday night, Driving on City Sidewalks (Darryl and…

Trying to Burst Another Bubble

I grew up Pentecostal, and I was indoctrinated from an early age. Because of my upbringing with my parents though I was taught to not just do whatever someone told me to do, ask a…

New Thinker Labs

For those of you that run church, or organize services or plan events will be interested in this if you didn’t already know. Thinker Labs is where Joe, myself, Jeremy and a number of other…

Movie Getting Some Press Coverage

Our movie was in the paper again. The ‘Lights’ come up; locally made film shown later in May Posted By TARA HAGAN A group of local 20-somethings are finally ready to unveil their first feature…

A Temporary Diversion

The longer I have this blog the more I think I have less and less to say. So many books I’ve read lately, I walk away agreeing strongly with the words that they write but…

What is Taking up my Time

My blog is just taking a hit lately. I find myself thinking and struggling like never before but just not the time to get it all out there. I’m not shutting it down, and hopefully…

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…

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…

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…

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…