I have an article featured on Next-Wave for Octobers issue. I should have linked to this before, but I forgot, so check it out while its still on the main page. It’s called Paying to Follow Christ. ———————– Dan Kimball’s thoughts… In a small church, the “pastor” is slave to the people and their opinions […]
Reminiscing on my times of growing up in church I’m haunted of the idea of what I thought was a Christian. We would bring our friends to church in hopes that they would raise their hands and ask Jesus into their hearts. We would feel exceptionally spiritual if we could lead someone in the sinner’s
All the artwork that I will be doing for theStory and have been doing, along with the videos that we edit will be availble for free on Thinker Labs – an open source experiment. The artwork will have the PSD files so you can edit them with your own information. Of course, if you want
Along with church planting is dealing with shattered dreams and ideals. Whether they are dreams of a few days or dreams of a few years, they all don’t, if any go as planned. Since we have started thinking about planting theStory we have tossed around the idea of having a storefront in downtown Sarnia as
The Daily Scribe – a online community of religious bloggers from all sorts of faith that I had a significant role in as a member of its leadership team has officially shut down (but now apparently its not shut down). I think this is one issue I won’t take a stand on publicly as it
Andrew Fulford on his problem with narrative theology. I hope he expands more on this later. It is simply false to imply the Bible is just a narrative that guides the Church. The Bible is not just a Shakespearian play to be adapted in the 5th act. How does one read Proverbs and say that?
My favourite comedian, Stephen Colbert put Sarnia on the map on his show a couple days ago by talking smack about our OHL team, the Sarnia Sting, who are first place in our division. I got to go to the game tonight where we beat out Stephen Colbert’s favourite team, the Saginaw Spirit. It’s his
This main picture above is in honour of my lovely fiance, Rachel Pede, soon to be Rachel Colquhoun. Wedding plans are well on their way. Most old churches, ok ALL old churches mandate that we use their minister to do the wedding, which sucks because we really wanted to do it in an old sanctuary.
Mike Todd is talking about the campaign to help stop Aids with Bono and Oprah. Buy stuff and certain amount of profit goes to help by meds and such. I’m with Mike on his thoughts. It’s depressing to know that we are now using our culture’s defects to market love. If companies really cared about
A question I can’t get rid of. What’s more important. The love of truth, or love for people? What needs to come first. Do they go hand in hand? If you had to choose from knowing everything right, perfectly, no flaws in your theology or being able to love everyone, even those that you hate,
Labels cause a lot of grief depending on who is using them and who they are labelling. I realized this tonight when a friend of my parents was hung up on the idea that he was a gentile. I think he really had a great point. While this is something that I never really thought
187, 000 workers sue Walmart. Nice. I should have gotten my co-workers together to sue Wendy’s. I know I worked too much for them. Via. ———————– Travelling? Here is a website called Couchsurfing that is dedicated for you to find free couches to stay on while your travelling around. Very cool. Via. ———————– TallSkiniKiwi on
Take my Mark Driscoll Quiz (4 Questions to See if he will ever write about you in the future) I normally wouldn’t take on a superstar like Mark Driscoll, but I thought that this article was pointless and ridiculous. It’s easier to call out local people and people who aren’t loved by so many people,
It has been a long time since I posted regularly and it’s because I’m busy, tired and thinking way too much about what’s going on. So I thought I’d throw up a few links to keep everyone interested and soon I will be posting some new thoughts and experiences I’ve been having. Phil, my friend
Whenever someone would make a joke another person’s “size.” To keep it PG, I’m not talking about their height. Darryl would always concsole them with a reply like “don’t worry, small is the new big.” I think we all can learn, especially pastors, from this gem of advice. Instead of all kinds of pastors from
We just finished our trip to Wesley Acres for the Free Methodist Pastors conference. It was quite a trip and I’m really glad I got to go. The parts that impacted me the most were just being able to spend some time with other church planters and pastors from around Ontario a bit. I met
Joe, Darryl and I are here at the Free Methodoist pastor’s conference. We’ve been spending a lot of time with different church planters/pastors from around the province. We drove up a day early to hang out with Jared, Gary and Al in Kingston and spent time in a couple different pubs listening to story after
Four weeks into a church plant and we are already going to a pastors conference. This is looking promising. Darryl, Joe and I are heading out to Kingston this morning and spending three days with all kinds of other Free Methodist pastors from around Ontario at their Fall Ministers Retreat. It should be a good
Finally a great video made ripping into Mac’s. Honestly, this video is hilarious. I concurr with the whole video. Very well done. Via Jeremy. ———————– The Daily Scribe’s new site is up and running and its looking great. ———————– Guess I’m not the only one who is inclined to piss people off just because you
So I’m finally engaged. Rachel has always loved kids books and she loves children (though she doesn’t want her own….YES!). So I wrote her a kids book of our story. I tried to rhyme it at first but it wasn’t working so I just started writing and did a lot of editing and tried to