Have you ever found yourself good at something, that you’d rather not be good at?
As my time at seminary is wrapping up, I’ve found myself disturbingly good at churning out papers. I’ve been a straight-A student for the most part, but what does that really mean in the real world, or better yet, in [...]

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courtesy of Ray from when we were in Pennsylvania.
Here’s what I’ll be doing the next eight months
1. Wrapping up my final four courses in seminary at Tyndale - Urban Ministry I & II with Rick Tobias (CEO of Yonge Street Mission), Advanced Preaching, and possibly the art of teaching.
2. Helping lead Mosaic Baptist (A new [...]

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I’ve just been thrilled reading the Scriptures recently.  I think it might be because I’m not currently in school and studying the Bible.  Rather I’ve simply been allowing for it to speak again.
The audacity of some of the things written in these sacred scriptures are just mind-blowing.  It’s sad that so often the academia of [...]

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For five years I’ve waited and asked the administration for a church planting course at Tyndale Seminary. It still hasn’t happened. Church planting courses are in our academic calendar, but they haven’t been offered supposedly due to a lack of interest. This semester I decided to enroll as a visiting student to [...]

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Yesterday I read “Tracks of a fellow struggler” by John Claypool for a crisis counseling course I’ll be taking next semester.
It was especially moving for me as it was the reflections of a pastor who watched his eight-year old girl die of leukemia.
Here are a few contextless snippets:
It has taken this long to get to [...]

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Stellar’s still completely consuming my life these days, but here’s a portion of an article I recently wrote for the seminary newsletter.

The church is dying in North America. Most churches won’t acknowledge this because there’s still enough money to keep the lights on. Half of all churches did not connect a single person [...]

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…is the Crack-Cocaine of this generation of Christians.
(posted around my seminary currently)
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Rick Tobias, CEO of Yonge Street Mission in downtown Toronto, teaches my Youth at Risk class.
Rick stated that “We abandon our kids when they abandon our values. Whether they are gay or chemically dependent, they are still our children and worthy of our love.”
How easy is it for us to withdraw our love when people [...]

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One of the 8 papers I wrote in the past 2 weeks was a reflection exercise for my “Youth at Risk” course on the movie “Kids“. If you haven’t seen this, it’s as close to child pornography as it gets.
People actually wrote letters to our seminary president to not allow our prof. to show [...]

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Been totally drained, finally settling back into some level of functional normalcy today.
- monday I had classes from 8:30am-9:30pm. Arrived in Ottawa near 2am.
- Woke up at 6am to make it to Montreal for the IMN regional 9am-5pm.
Drove back to Ottawa by 8pm. Crashed after hanging with Andrew & Lisa at midnight.
- Wednesday. [...]

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