Questions on Community
The idea and the word community has become sort of a buzz word in my life in the past year or two lately. Everything is about building community and I want to have meaningful community;…
Links for November 14, 2006
The Evolving Church (a conference that three friends and I ran in Toronto) happened back in April and 100 Huntley Street took a bunch of footage there and did interviews. Finally, 8 months later, they…
Dating and Consumerism
I’ve been talking to my friends a lot about dating lately. Many of my friends are married already, and some are engaged and then there are the few that are still in the dating process….
Government, Sam Harris and Religion
Two things that I want to reiterate from the class tonight. (This post is meant for my Spirituality and Technology class) 1. I made the mistake of bringing up a topic tonight that I didn’t…
Links for November 08, 2006
Tim Challies writes a phenomenal post on the Tedd Haggard scandal. I’m so very impressed by this post, it was written very humbly and wisely. ———————– We just did a month on hospitality at theStory…
Subjective Beings and Objective Truth
A large part of my problem with the idea of absolute truth is that usually after one makes an argument for absolute truth are the things that they take by faith. For instance, the fact…
It’s True If It Makes Sense (Logic)
So I think most agree that real truth exists. The question now lies in how about we determine that that is. What is real truth? Is it logic, emotion, the Bible, Jesus or some kind…
Links for November 06, 2006
Phil gets nominated and then wins the pastors appreciation award for Grace 105.9 FM. He makes me proud. ———————– Haggard admits to buying Meth. Article Here | Video Here Driscoll blames the wife. Here is…
No Wonder Our Perception of Beauty is Distorted
Because I don’t want much TV I’m a little late on the cool commercials. This one was pointed out to me yesterday and I still can’t get over how well it was done and the…
What is True to You is Not True to Me
The statement in the title above has been completely misrepresented, misinterpreted, over-used and used to attack a lot in the past four years. My philosophy professor at Tyndale, my favourite professor at Tyndale, simply dismissed…
Tedd Haggard Accused
This is no small news. Tedd Haggard has been accused of having gay relations for the past three years. (Linked from Ron) Rev. Ted Haggard resigned as president of the 30 million-member association Thursday after…
Links for November 02, 2006
Lewis and I were up late last night surfing around the internet and he stumbled across these videos. These are hilarious. Here is one of the eight. [youtube]KtaHYrgqW5E[/youtube] ———————– Squirrels freak me out, they always…
Parker Mielke is Here
Barry and Natalie finally had Parker Mielke, eight days overdue. Read the story here.
Open Source, Mac Culture and Change-Agents
Tonight in our Spirituality and Technology class a lot of subjects were brought up and discussed and while it’s quite hard to follow the conversation everywhere, because I have no clue what they are talking…
Two Quotes that Stuck Out
I’m sitting in the library at York doing some reading for class and doing some other misc surfing and reading and a few things have stuck out completely randomly and I’m not sure why. The…
Links for October 31, 2006
David Fitch was here in Sarnia yesterday and we spent some time talking about the joys and struggles of church planting and we also officially published and finished developing his new website, all still hosted…
Building Price Drops $80,000
For the record. The building I talked about here, that would make a beautiful addition to the mission of theStory has just dropped in price. It was listed at $240,000 and now is listed at…
Blog Upgrade
I’m in the middle of updating my blog engine. I’m sticking with b2evolution for a bit longer. I was close to switching to WordPress, but I thought I would give this a go one more…
Links for October 28, 2006
This video is absolutely ridiculous I found it linked through Finding Rhythm. It’s a video made from one of Kirk Cameron‘s dudes, Todd Friel, the Way of the Master host and they are completely off…
Night in Sarnia
Tonight Barry and I went around Sarnia in the rain, with our cameras and tripods to take pictures. It’s not very often I do something with the sole intent to take pictures but I we…