Today I had the opportunity to go over to Thistledown Baptist Church and see Paul Martin present a paper on the Emergent Church. It was extremely well articulated, fair, humble and an overall well done paper of what the emergent church portrays about themselves and how we should react to it. He is posting his […]
Well the conference is over. After everything is said and done I would say that it was a major success. We heard good reports all around (of course not without a few negative remarks) and the “vibe of the place felt great” (quote from PAOC’s George Werner). There are a bunch of pictures here. A
Today is a major marker in the history of my life. I had 70 pages of paper in my hand a few hours ago and they were all delivered to the respective classes. That means I’m done for the school year except one minor exam. I am one happy person. There is a post that
Bill Dahl was kind enough to ask me to write an article for his new website, The Porpoise Diving Life. He was even kinder to publish it. This article is a brief summary of a book that I hope to write one day. Read the article here.
I have noticed something about myself that caught me off guard today. I came under the impression once that there is a person I know that thought I was insecure. At first I thought this was kind of funny. I have never been called insecure before, at least not to my face. It still wasn’t
I am reading the Great Giveaway right now by David Fitch, and I am loving this book. He is a very articulate writer and through his book explains how the evangelical church has given away itself, its practices and its way of showing itself to consumerism and culture surrounding them. He raises numerous great points
I put out 6 pages of my 25 page paper this afternoon, and its quite interesting how the free will and determinism debate started with the philosophers, went to the religious thinkers and is now in the hands of scientists. My goal is to show how Science and Religion are trying to answer the same
It’s 1am, and the family left a few hours ago, the funeral for my great-grand mother is over (she lived till 96, and lived to be a great great grandmother). I’m heading back to Toronto at 5am, so 4 hours. Some links that I ran across. Since I posted on the McLaren and Driscoll posts
Today marks a new day in my life. I got a new Camera. The Canon Digital Rebel. I also got a lense and my mom’s friend is letting me use her old Canon lenses to figure some things out. So this is a new stage of my life. Now i just have to learn what
I went back to Sarnia yesturday because my great grandma passed away. She was 96 years old. Lived a long and prosperous life. So we are all here spending time as a family. It’s good to be back in Sarnia even though its under these circumstances. I’ll be back in Toronto on Wednesday.
After a long hard day of work of getting the conference all together I’m looking forward to going to this Resonate Echo gathering with Brian McLaren, I’m glad Resonate jumped on this and got him. So if you aren’t coming to see McLaren because of price, this will make more sense to you and will
Evangelism: Gospelizing the Gospel In light of the comments on my last evangelism post, I thought I should elaborate a bit and take it one step further. The main concern I think after reading through the comments is two-fold. One, that evangelism has always existed using words. Which Tom you are right, I worded that
This almost deserves to be my favorite quote of this year so far. I think it sums up so much of my frustrations in my conversations with other Christians. It is also something that I have really learned to do a lot better since attending a secular university. TallSkinniKiwi quotes Dan Wallace from an interview
Around apartment 109 (where I live) you’ll notice all kinds of trends. Most of them like darts, poker, James bond for N64, NHL 95 for Sega, the apartment 109 website, us believing Jon was actually going to leave chapters, homework, Google ads, a bar in our living room and the list could go on for
In preparation for my last push of the school year my posts have been a little bit slow, so I want to keep at least it updated on what I’ve been reading and link you to some good reads. I’m reading David Fitch’s The Great Giveaway right now, he also has a blog and a
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My friends/roomates Trevor Potter and Jon Eastman are doing a good thing. They are going on a walk for MS. If you know them and want to pledge them some cash, or you don’t know them and you want to give them money anyway. Click here and it will take you to the site where
A few good posts I’ve run across A series on the bible, found through Transforming Sermons Great post on defending emergent in regards to the “nailing jello on a wall” concept Long article on the bible and how Gutengurg took it from us I’m part of this NCAA pool. I don’t like basketball, playing or
Quote from Adversia One of the Great Things About Being Justified by God is that it frees us from the need to justify ourselves by our theology. It permits us to call our theology into question without thereby undermining the foundation of our faith and confidence. When our justification is in God’s hands we are
I did an interview with Derek Webb in September, and I recorded it on my laptop so I could go and type it out properly after. I thought I would make it available as a podcast for all those that are interested. For those of you that don’t know. Podcasts are audio files that you