2007

Toronto Blizzard…

For my audience around the world, yes it’s cold in Canada, and yes we do live in igloos, but only in the winter. Here’s our family braving the blizzard this weekend. We went out just for pics and kicks.

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True community…

I’ve been re-reading Houses that Change the World by Wolfgang Simson as I’ve been looking for more clarity going forward in life. Here’s a quote in the book by Art Katz, a Messianic Jew, where he speaks of true community Community life pulverizes your old ego in the power of the Spirit of God, and [...]

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Shopocalypse

Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.)

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Sacred and Secular

Within the emerging church over the past decade there has been a return to the use of icons, images, and rituals to help point people to God. After a long exodus of protestants sanitizing their churches and abandoning everything but the word of God, Church’s have been creating a more healthy, more tangible and more [...]

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Rob Bell’s First Message at Mars Hill

Without a doubt, one of the biggest draws to my site via search engines has been the Rob Bell resources page. Along the theme of thanking my readers, and thanks also to some digging and networking, I think I’ve got something many of you might be interested in. Contrary to popular legend, Rob Bell did [...]

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Virtual relationships…

I’ve been doing some thinking recently… (I do my best thinking with my Optimus Prime helmet on, video here). There are so many more people around the world who read my blog than people I connect with regularly in person. I’m guessing part of this is because if you’re in my regular circles, well, we [...]

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I’m damned

Several years ago I carved out a wooden cross and burnt our names on it declaring that we were joined by Christ. Not long after, I dropped it and broke it… and I’m the piece that broke off. How incredibly disturbing. Today I’m reminded that I’m damned… in every way you can think of it. [...]

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The call of the mall…

Some thoughts I jotted down while cross-boarder shopping and waiting in the dreaded cheesecake factory lines. like rats in a cage or mice in a maze wherever the sales sign lead I go where they say to go joyfully letting this wallet bleed what a steal we beat the system, got a better deal got [...]

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