Amazing

You have to love that there is a book called this. How to Talk about Money Every Sunday: Without Talking About Money Here is the caption. Here’s an innovative way to instill in your congregation…

Driving on City Sidewalks

A good friend of mine here in Sarnia, Barry Mielke, has been working relentlessly the past few months to put together an EP to be released in France with Red Plane Records. (the site is…

Links for December 19, 2007

My friend was listening to CBC Radio and they were talking about Christmas. The one guy said that it’s easier to spend money than time, which is why he thinks we’ve seen such a rise…

Do Something Christmas

Every Christmas season I find myself getting angrier than I normally do. For some reason, come December I have stronger opinions and want to share them a little louder and more forceful. There are lots…

Thrice and Brand New

Darryl got us backstage, all access passes to the latest Thrice and Brand New concert in Toronto at Arrow Hall. I don’t think I want to go to show ever again unless it’s all access….

Links for Dec 12, 2007

I was interviewed at Rob Bell’s God’s Aren’t Angry tour in Grand Rapids, you can read the article here. He only took one line from what I said along with my friend John, but at…

Sign Is Up

Today our sign got put up. Thanks to Geoplast Signs in Sarnia for the amazing work. No more awkward stares through the front window wondering what in the world we are doing.

R.I.P.

Two of my friends and respected bloggers have decided that blogging isn’t for them, or they are tired of it or whatever other reason they came out with. I write this because I think they…

The New Space

Nov 1 we signed the papers and got a new space for theStory. We got it right downtown where we wanted to be. It’s been completely renovated from floors to ceilings to fire code and…

FINALLY

Finally, after holes and a lot of drilling we have the internet at our new space. Starting today, this is my second home and full time work space; being lenient on the meaning of full…

Links for November 26, 2007

I am doing a small test and have switched away from Firefox and moved to Flock. Mind you it is based on Firefox but apparently it has fixed a lot of the memory leaks. This…

The Quandaries of the West

We here in the West have it real hard. No wonder so many of us are unhappy, miserable, depressed and angry all the time. I’ve noticed this all the more in the last few months…

Where I’ve Been

I haven’t posted a thing in the last few weeks, and here is why (and it’s not because I’m giving up on blogging forever like some people.) 1. We got a new building(s) for theStory…

Links for November 02, 2007

Flash is a cool way to do web design. Most developers stay away from it because its very time consuming and it’s hard to have a site that is flash and also give you good…

Living in Community (Communes)

All this talk about renting or mortgaging got me thinking about other ways to ‘live.’ So I thought I would start another category at the side of this blog and keep at this for a…

Links for October 28, 2007

Joe, Jared and I are back from our new forms of church documentary tour around Ontario. It was a great time. You can read about it here and all the stops and churches we interviewed….