We All Have Crashed

I just finished watching Crash. It was a newer movie and it was confronting the racial situation in America. I really wasn’t prepared for what I saw, but nonetheless it made me think about stuff…

Trip To The Carribean

*Note* This is an extremely long post, and you probably won’t care much about it. It’s more posted for family members and those that wanted a summary of what went on. This past Christmas break…

Paying to Follow Christ

Tonight I went to the FRWY in Hamilton, a church that I’m growing to love more and more every time that I spend time with them. There was a panel discussion tonight and they were…

New Design

Because I love to procrastinate. I have re-designed my website. It was a time for a change. I was getting bored of black and well the design was pretty chauchy before. I’m happy with this…

Who Do You Want In Your Church?

I’m struggling with something lately. I’m trying to figure out what I would prefer. (and to note, maybe preference is the wrong word choice here, but I’m trying to find out what we think constitutes…

Tagged Again

Four Jobs I’ve Had Wendys (Flipping Hamburgers) Datatek (Building Computers) Churches (Trying to Preach) School (Overseeing Computers) Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over I hate watching movies over and over but if i…

T-Shirts and Evagelism

I just read an article by Dan Kimball that I thought was really good. It really affirmed and encouraged me about the upcoming church plant in Sarnia. You can read it for yourself by clicking…

A Challenge

I’ve been challenged by my friend Amanda Maurice to “to take a break from the Seriousness about church planting and engage the joke.” I cannot turn down a challenge. This blog can’t be all that…

Nicotine and its Predecessors

Addiction is one of those phrases that when we hear it we automatically think of nicotine and its ramifications on our pour great aunt who could never give up on her nasty habit. None of…

Church Plant Meeting

I’m going home for the weekend for our first official church meeting for the new church that we are planting in Sarnia. This is a huge step for a lot of us seeing as Joe…

Addition to the Post Before

This goes along with the post before it. I was reading the back of Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell (rated in my top 5 books read in 2005) and it resonated with me with what…

Explaining the Blog

I don’t think that I’ve seen or experienced as much criticism/encouragement in my life than in the past year and a little bit. So what changed that brought on so much opinion from everyone around…

Reduced to a Program

Lately there seems to be some sort of program for everything that we do. There are programs for worshipping God, teaching the bible, serving the poor, being with the children, building community and taking communion….

Jamaican Culture

Jamaica was an interesting trip. It was one of the stops on the cruise, one of the three islands that we are going to stop at. I’ll wake up tomorrow morning on the coast of…

On a Cruise

I’m leaving on a cruise today with my entire extended family on my Mother’s side. I may or may not have online access. Happy New Year to everyone!!!

Church: Focusing Outside

Dr Phil… *** NOTE *** I never thought I would ever start a blog with those words, but here we are a few days before the turn of the year and I’m starting it with…