I’m preaching through a two week message on Ephesians 2:10 - the idea of being God’s living artwork. This past Sunday I passed out play-doh to each person in the community and had them shape and express thoughts through them.
I also pointed out how if they looked up close, they’ll find their fingerprints all [...]

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One of the people I respect most in life just resigned from ministry.
I don’t have any words to describe how I feel.
Update: Thanks for those of you who have messaged me about this, or are close to the situation and have been following along.  I won’t be blogging further regarding this, but if you’d like [...]

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The WCA is launching a new 3-day event in Canada called the Nova Experience.
The NOVA Experience - a brand new day!
April 10-12, 2008 - Doubletree International Plaza Hotel, Toronto, ON
A new dawn is here for the local church in Canada, bringing the promise of a brighter morning, full of hope, full of mercy, and full of [...]

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I attended a Landmark Education seminar last week. It’s a fairly global movement that focuses on self-development and life-fulfillment.
If you google them there’s quite a bit of controversy regarding their techniques, whether they’re a cult, lawsuits, pyramid-schemes, etc.
I won’t get into that, only to say that my experience was positive for the most part.
I [...]

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Brian J. Walsh and his wife Sylvia C. Keesmaat were recently invited to Mars Hill, Grand Rapids, to discuss their latest book.
Colosssians Remixed - A problem we face today is that we have become numbed and blinded to the empire of our day. It is not as apparent to us and so it needs to [...]

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Yvz and I were leading a workshop on dating recently… and I think something arguably profound actually came out of my mouth. In discussing finding ‘the one’ and when you’re ‘ready’ and how we know what love is… I said…
If you can honestly love someone even if nothing about that person should ever change, [...]

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After deciding earlier that I would let school slide a bit, so that I could do ‘more important’ things with my life, I got slammed on my last assignment.
I still don’t really care for my grades, but my urban ministry prof, one I greatly admire, called me out on it, and wrote this to me:
Lon; [...]

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The latest TED talk I’ve watched on Greening the Ghetto. Let me know what you think if you ever get around to it.

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A month ago, I preached a message highlighting what I call a ‘theology of new‘ of how God and humanity are to in many ways to be involved with ‘making all things new’.
The only real ‘new’ thing for me today is I’m not in Montreal with some friends participating in Makers of Fire right now [...]

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An amusing and intriguing statement I just noticed from one of my friend’s facebook profile
Religious Views: “I don’t believe that you believe“
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