Links for October 14, 2006

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…

Small is the New Big

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.”…

Jared, Al & Gary

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…

Pastors Conference & Postmodern Tracts

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…

Pastors Conference

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…

Links for Oct 02, 2006

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…

Engagement Story

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…

Engaged

I got engaged tonight! Rachel is stuck with me now. She said yes. Details to come…

theStory Inside the City

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…

Technology Isn’t Evil

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…

Links for Sept 26, 2006

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…

Wired Parish

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…

Links for Sept 22, 2006

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…

E-mail and Conflict

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…

Spirituality and Technology

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…

Proving Myself Right

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…

The Pastor Role

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…

Revivalism

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…