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….
Living on Less
Every year my life gets more complicated. I’m trying to think back to the days where I wasn’t kept on track by a calendar, because I didn’t make appointments and my only commitment was to…
Good and Bad Leaders
Another Post I wrote: When Leaders Fail At Leading: What Next? Got talking about leaders again last night and it revisited the entire issue all over again. I never stop struggling with this issue and…
Web Stuff
I’ve been using b2evolution for my blog software since the beginning, I picked it randomly when I really didn’t know anything about it and haven’t gone back. So far its done everything I’ve ever needed…
Pretty People Make It
I picked up this week’s issue of Maclean’s magazine and was drawn in by an article on boy children called How to Fix Boys. There was one quote in there while interviewing Leonard Sax that…
The Parable of the Two Sons
This story that Jesus tells I think is one of his more brilliant ones. At least it is one of my favourites. Two sons are told to go work by their father. One says he’s…
The Great Divide
One of the hardest things to do as Christians is to finally see “non-Christians” as equal human beings especially if, like me, you grew up in the egotistical spirituality that I did. It was our…
Links for January 10, 2007
I have been out of the blogging world lately, haven’t been reading much nor writing much. Life is happening and keeping me busy. I’m putting together a feature length film with some friends called Ugly…
Casting Call In the Paper
Producers casting for movie actors By CATHY DOBSON A group of budding young producers are holding a casting call this Friday and Saturday in preparation for its first feature-length film. Men and women aged 18…
Casting Call
A few friends and a few people I barely know are in the process of putting together a feature length film here in Sarnia called Ugly Lights. We aren’t giving out any details right now,…
Links for Christmas and the Year End for 2007
Brian Walsh laments on Christmas ———————– Dave Hoyt-Walterhouse laments on Boxing Day ———————– Jonny Baker with a Christmas quote from Maggi Dawn ———————– Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007 ———————– As promised, here…
Wondering If I Still Believe
God rest ye merry gentlemen Let nothing you dismay Remember Christ our Saviour was born on Christmas day To save us all from Satan’s power when we were gone astray Oh tidings of comfort and…