I got engaged tonight! Rachel is stuck with me now. She said yes. Details to come…
It is odd, encouraging and a bit scary to me that more people all over the world that read occasionally on the internet have a better idea of what’s going on with our church plant (theStory) than my neighbour does. In fact, I don’t think my neighbour knows that I’ve started a church. There are
I’ve been trying to understand better what the kingdom of God is like. I’ve read through the parables, and they all amaze me. Here is a few things that are shaped by the parables that I read that help me understand what maybe the kingdom of God (heaven) is like. Let us say there is
My books haven’t come from Amazon yet, which is putting me behind for my Spirituality and Technology class, but I need to get blogging on my experiences with it, so I’ll talk a bit about the last class. There were a few things that I noticed last class that I think I can better summarize
Jspot links to yet another hilarious video by Stephen Colbert. This one is all about the Jewish “Day of Repentance” and his response. ———————– Jerry Falwell doesn’t stop. “He was calling Hillary Clinton a demonic figure and openly arguing that God is a Republican.” LA Time has more ———————– I follow this guys photoblog and
Wired Parish is a new site online that offers podcasts at a subscription rate online. For around five or six bucks a month you can have access to some of the best podcasts available online (like Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet, Rob Bell and all sorts of other names that you’ve never heard of but you
Jonny Baker linked to a site that prints your Flickr photos into business cards. I thought it was a cool idea if you want to have 100 different business cards all printed at once. Moo is the site name and since I was a Flickr Pro user I got to try out ten for free,
“I don’t want you to organize some amazing thing on Sunday for me to experience this as church.” These are the words that poured out of a girl at our second meeting as a new church plant. These are the words that as a team that has been planning this church plant for almost two
For about twenty-one years now I have watched people try and resolve conflict. I start to notice that some are better than others at it. Others don’t resolve it at all. Everyone has their own ways of dealing with it. I grew up in an interesting generation where most my age would resolve conflict using
I’m currently in a class this year at York that requires me to keep blog entries on my thoughts on the current readings and my interactions with other things in the course. Instead of starting up a second blog just for that I thought I would just add a category and post them on the
I have this uncanny desire to prove myself right. There is something about being right that gives me some sort of fulfillment and peace to what I am doing or saying. For instance, I have been back and forth about my school options for the past two years, ever since I transferred over to York.
I’m starting to wonder if the place of a pastor needs to change drastically within the context of our churches today. I don’t think its working. More and more pastors are falling into burn-out, affairs and other unmentionables and churches are closing down week after week. We’ve elevated the pastor to a position which isn’t
I was reading Next Reformation, and this quote was his latest post. Guess I’m not the only one in the world that thinks its dangerous, and maybe some of the things I said in my open letter make some sense. “By now it is becoming possible to see that the most unfortunate result of revivalism
Joe posts some thoughts on our first gathering as theStory and also pictures of the place we are looking to have gatherings in the future; an old United church that wants to give it to us for 33 bucks a week and we get to leave our stuff there all week. ———————– Bob Hyatt has
After it was all over, Joe, Darryl and I were sitting there and I looked at them and I said “well, we did it, we just planted a church.” (theStory) I don’t have a clue what that means. I don’t know how to plant a church. I don’t even know if that’s what we are
It is 9:46, and in an hour and a bit, theStory begins. So much time, energy, dreaming, upsets and excitement has gone into what is starting in an hour and a bit. For over four years now, I have been saying that I was coming back to Sarnia to plant a church. I didn’t know
The Sarnia Revival has been a source of discussion a bit on this blog. A lot of it came from a post that I wrote here about my experience there and some thoughts to go with it. So I’ve been keeping up to date with what has been going on and plan to attend again
I’m starting to have doubts about the ‘evangelical church.’ Despite all the quotes we’ve all heard like “the church is a whore but she is my mother” and other likewise, I’m growing more skeptical as my experiences start to find themselves enveloped by its large wings. I have a feeling that when Jesus comes back,
Margie Goodyear (the family I lived with in the summer) shares a remarkable story about the scratching noise we heard in her roof over the summer. I couldn’t believe it when I read it and I’m kinda freaked out now that it wasn’t just the mice that we thought it was. Wanna know what it
This trailer for an upcoming film called Jesus Camp freaks the hell out of me. Literally. What is going on? Why does it seem like the main message of this film is so different then the main message of Jesus. It’s stuff like this, that gives reason for my next post that has been brewing