August 2007

A few updates…

This week I visited Sanctuary downtown Toronto which is doing incredible work that I just love. I’ll have to share more of what I learned there sometime. This weekend I’ll be speaking at Mosaic Baptist. Towards the end of the month I’ll be speaking at East Toronto Chinese Baptist Church and Chinese Evangelical Alliance Church [...]

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Blessings?

Ever wonder if what we call blessings from God, might actually just be greed, selfishness, and sin on our part?

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Parenting…

Do you have friends who’ve had children and it seems like they’ve given up on living their own lives? Everything is suddenly about their children, and its as if they’ve transferred all of their own hopes and dreams onto these unsuspecting kids. Sometimes I’m tempted to just throw in the towel myself, just be a [...]

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Neighborhoods…

Yvonne and I have been looking into new neighborhoods.  We’ve been doing some street walks downtown as the urban core has been pulling at our hearts. For us it simply makes more sense to be living in a more local context, commuting less, and working and playing in a common community.  It also makes less [...]

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Facebook…

If you’re not on it, I just don’t know why… Of all the social networks – myspace is too messy, friendster‘s too old-school, linked-in is a bit too business oriented, and google-sponsored socialstream is still just a dream – facebook is clean and it works well. One in three Canadians use it, and Toronto has [...]

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