Yesterday was a long and tiresome day. Not because I didn’t enjoy it but more because of the nature of what it held. I work at an awesome Baptist church in Sarnia and we went on a staff retreat kinda thing for the day. The staff at this church are amazing. They are so easy […]

I remember when the guy from Brownsville came from Bethel. There were two things that I remember from his whole time. 1. He told a story of some guy’s finger growing back in front of his very eyes. That was so freaky when I was that young that it never left my head. 2. He

When I wrote my last post I wanted to be especially careful because I know how important something like that is to people, including myself. So I hope I didn’t offend anyone. I changed the title of it because I don’t think the word selfish was the right word at all (as Enoch commented). Also,

I write this from a standpoint of never having someone extremely close to me die. I have had no real close experiences with close-ones coming to die, so maybe I’m uneducated and too inexperienced to write about this. I say this because I am not trying to be insensitive, and I want understanding, so please

Many churches that I have been to and grown up in over time have a common trait that has found its place in my book of traits that I think should change. No there isn’t such a book. After talking about what ‘ministry’ should be I think it’s important to expand on it a bit.

Have you ever noticed how we as Christians seem to suffice every thing that is done by a church with the word ministry? People say this is my ministry; that is my ministry. There are certain parts of our lives that we consider ministry. When asked what I want to do when I grow up,

Over the past few weeks, after going to see McLaren, having an interesting conversation with Brandon (pastor of the Embassy in Waterloo), an inspiring conversation with Darryl and his brother and Phil and Steph coming home I have found myself pondering church planting a lot more than usual. Brian Mclaren talked a lot about it

Hey everyone. My Celebrity Neighbor is published on The Ooze (www.theooze.com) this month. Check it out. The updated version of the article can be found here. I added to it before it got put in Canon 25.

Forget about deciding what’s right for each other. Here’s what you need to be concerned about: that you don’t get in the way of someone else, making life more difficult than it already is. I’m convinced–Jesus convinced me!-that everything as it is in itself is holy. We, of course, by the way we treat it

Some stats off an article for Risen Magazine. Amount spent on hair products annually in the US: 8 billion Americans spend 34 billion dollars a year on their pets 1.6 trillion dollars are spent annually on military weapons 20 billion dollars a year is spent to fight terrorism in the U.S. According to the World

Melissa’s post on my last entry set me up perfect for where I wanted to go on this one. So thanks Melissa. Her post said: “The moment one says the “sinners prayer” may not determine ones salvation, but I wouldn’t underestimate the significance of the first time a person surrenders their life to Christ either.

First of all I would like to say to everyone that was at the Net Rally last night that I did pay for my concert ticket, they just weren’t allowing more people into the specific building. Also, I am not encouraging ten year olds to persevere to having sex. If you weren’t there, well I’ll

For those of you that are in Sarnia and interested in hearing me speak, I’m speaking at the Lambton Net Ralley on Friday (27th). It’s at Temple Baptist church @ 7:00. On another note, I designed some cool backgrounds for your computer desktop. They are the first few pics in My Designs under Photography above.

Last year I was hanging out with my cousin under the bridge. She’s from the USA and she’s obsessed with our French fries and the view under the bridge that leads over to the States. We were talking about the university life and telling stories. It was a good time. I forget exactly where the

I just got back from a great night of watching Star Wars with Jen and hanging out with some other friends at Crabby Joes. I can’t go without commenting on a movie such as Star Wars before I go to bed. There were plenty of things to note from the movie. The character progression of

I need you all to do me a favour. A few friends and I are working on a business proposal to run annual conferances in Ontario, we want to attatch a recent survey to the proposal and we are looking to get over 1000 people to fill this out. If you can take less than

I’m reading through Tom Harpur’s The Pagan Christ. I’m having a hard time reading more than a few pages at once. I don’t usually have this kind of trouble reading. I can usually start and finish within four or five days. Though this one is different. So far he is arguing that nothing in the

You may have or may not have noticed that over half of my entries since Christmas have been about church and community. I’ve been really stretched a lot in this time in my understanding of what a church should look like. The more I study the more I realize how far we are from the

We’ve all seen the diagrams like the one directly below. Some people probably even use something like this for witnessing, that’s another blog though. (I drew these diagrams by myself. that’s why they are so poorly done.) We are standing at the fork in the road and we need to make a decision. Will we

I went and saw the new movie out, called Kingdom of Heaven starring Orlando Bloom. It was a great movie, good graphics and acting. Sometimes I’m bad at missing the point of movies and I usually grab things out of them that aren’t there. Jerusalem was a great place. It was a place where Christians