The Kingdom: Making Spectacles

Below is my rough transcript for what I shared at the Cultivate Gathering this weekend. This a long one to read, but hopefully it gets you thinking. I wanted to come at it from something…

Links for April 20, 2007

Remember when we went out taking pics here. Here is Barry’s pics and here is Matt’s Pics ———————– Something we have been trying lately at theStory is been doing our teaching with room for conversation…

Cultivate in Two Days

This Saturday is the Cultivate Learning Gathering at the FRWY in Hamilton. I helped run it last year with Pernell as part of my time spent with him and we thought it was a great…

Links for April 17, 2007

A freakin great quote. And yet the early church grew and grew and grew, even without intentional evangelistic strategy or ministry. How? By being the most attractive community in the Roman Empire. Read More… ———————–…

A Friend Named Levi

I went to the Simple Way in Philadelphia a few months ago and we met two guys there named Robb and Tim. They were nice and super friendly and welcoming. Robb sent me this piece…

Links for April 15, 2007

My mom is one of my best fans for this blog. She is running in a bike ride and actually turned down going to Europe for this bike ride (why I’ll never understand) so it…

The Train Tracks

Tonight, Barry, Matt and I went out and took photos on the train tracks in Sarnia. We call ourselves the Shutterbugs, Natalie calls us the Shutterbuggers. Either way we are getting shirts and if you…

Good Friday

Joe finally posted about Good Friday, and I know you all were waiting for so long. He posted on his site and then a more practical version of what we did on thinkerlabs.

Glimpse of Sunshine

On Good Friday we had a service (Joe posted here and a more practical version of how we did it here. We went through the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance)…

Links for April 07, 2007

Ron wanted to borrow a truck, and his friend said “what’s mine is yours” and what he thinks about that. ———————– The French are doing an advertising campaign to raise awareness for AIDS. It’s pretty…

Creating and Maintaining

I’m starting to realize two types of people or at least two extremes where people fall. This is one of those things where I don’t think it’s that important to find that strong of a…

A Few Updates

* Rachel and I got our apartment today. We spent the entire day with our moms and a few friends painting and moving all of our crap in. A big thanks to my mom, Rachel’s…

Grace to Change My Mind

A friend of mine from Stratford was telling me about his new church thing that he’s doing. He was talking about their values of their conversation time. He talked about their values of acceptance and…

Links for March 27, 2007

Chris blogged a bit about the conference here. You can find updated links to posts about the conference here. ———————– A women’s shelter is closing in Oshawa cause of lack of money. If you can,…

Today is the Evolving Church

Here is a post I wrote about the conference. Here is the two videos we showed at the conference. Here is a list of links of people who blogged about the day. It’s 1:00am At…

Evolving Church in 2 Days

Here is a post I wrote about the conference. Here is the two videos we showed at the conference. Here is a list of links of people who blogged about the day. The Epiphaneia team:…

Links for March 20, 2007

What is truth? ———————– This is a killer post based on a study done with seminary students. It talks about Relativism and if its really about what we believe or more the current context in…