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Out of the cold…

Yesterday 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 volunteering [...]

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Church re-distribution

Here’s another idea. What if we as church leaders weren’t so obsessed with building a quasi-kingdom of God through our local churches and instead did everything we could to connect our entire city to the Living God? How many of us are actually a part of metropolitan churches where we drive past thirty other churches [...]

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I declare – No Church Sunday

Another idea I’ve been tossing around, is the idea of intentionally not gathering as a church on sunday.  Being the the church that scatters.  Really, we’re not even suppose to be going to church, we are the church. We’ll be experimenting with physically not meeting up together and being the church on a Sunday morning [...]

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Pulling hearts out…

I’ve had this life metaphor in my mind the last while inspired by this unforgettable scene in “Indiana Jones and the temple of doom“. It’s where this cult leader uses his bare hands, ripping out the heart of another person, and allowing him to watch it still beating in his hands right before he dies. [...]

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Childhood Dreams…

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal [...]

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Thinking Missionally…

Great teaser on the missional church by Christine Sine,

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Know and love your city…

  I just re-read my last post and I hope it didn’t sound like ‘my city’ was any better than any of yours.  I believe God is looking to redeem every nook and cranny of all creation. Whether your city is diverse or not, urban or rural, or whatever else, where God has placed you [...]

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Makers of Fire – Montreal

The Makers of Fire is a FUTURE Oriented Think tank and Leadership Training Event that will becoming through Montreal in October this year.  It’s led by Alex McManus (brother of Erwin, Creator of Voxtropolis, and founder of the International Mentoring Network, amongst other things).  It’s $79 at the door, but I’ve got two tickets for [...]

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