August 18, 2008Over five years ago I adopted this mission statement for my life - To live by faith, to cultivate love, and to be a voice of hope.
I wrapped up my degree in May and gave myself a blank slate to work from going forward (even though I had planned the next thirty years of my [...]
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June 11, 2008Reggie McNeal addresses the Reformed Church in America’s One Thing leadership conference and speaks about the similarities between now and the beginnings of Christianity.
If you liked that post, check out…Obliterating the Pastorate & Multiplying Impact by Lon on October 8th, 2008Thinking Missionally… by Lon on September 30th, 2007Plugs and name dropping… by Lon [...]
April 10, 2008At The Nova Experience this weekend… Erwin McManus just spoke on Acts 17. I think this must be the 6th time I’ve heard him speak on it. Still, he manages to keep it fresh and squeeze further insight from it.
A few interesting side remarks he made…
He indirectly alluded to Mosaic being like Rob [...]
March 30, 2008I just made a visit to my old elementary school, and turns out my old grade six teacher is still teaching there. I ended up being asked to come back and speak to the school about future possibilities as a returning student.
It reminded me of the incredible need for intentional living. Too often [...]
March 26, 2008If the Missio Dei is the mission of God what might the missio humanitas be?
What does that look like for those inside and outside the church? the powerful and the powerless?
If you liked that post, check out…Urbana… by Lon on January 4th, 2007Transformational preaching… by Lon on January 16th, 2007Global Water Crisis by Lon on [...]
March 5, 2008Recently I finished a relatively old urban ministry book - Ray Bakke’s “a theology as big as the city“. This book rocks, and is filled with insights on God’s love for the city and our roles in it.One practical and disputable insight I’ve been mulling over comes from this quote of his “The local [...]
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January 25, 2008To illustrate my last post.
Eight years ago, I spent a summer living in a house (supposedly an old brothel that had been renovated, but that’s another story) with five other guys. It got so dirty with our lack of cleaning, by the end of that summer, there were foot-high mushrooms growing out of the [...]
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January 3, 2008I’ve been chewing on Alan Hirsch’s latest book, The Forgotten Ways, over the past few months. It’s somewhat of a follow up to The Shaping of things to come by Hirsch and Michael Frost.
It’s a fairly dense read and Alan coins a number of new terms, which might be why it took me so [...]
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December 5, 2007(I took this at the Museum of Play - Quote is by GK Chesterton who wrote “Orthodoxy” almost a hundred years ago)
Do you ever hear from seasoned leaders sharing about how they worked their butt off and grinded it out during their earlier years? How they invested, and labored, and pushed boundaries, and poured [...]
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November 28, 2007Yesterday a life group I’m a part of helped out at the “Out of the cold” program which shelters, feeds, and clothes some of Toronto’s homeless. A few thoughts:
I arrived late, and really didn’t help out in any way. Yet one of the ‘clients’ insisted to thank me, and that I was still [...]
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