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Ending Church

The Church exists by mission as fire exists by burning – Emil Brunner A while back my 3-year old daughter drew a picture on the whiteboard and turned to me exclaiming “Daddy look at my beautiful drawing!” I quickly said “Let’s go show mommy”, but before I could get her she wiped it away. I [...]

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5 Minutes to change the world

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This is a re-post from one of my recent favorites on Seth Godin’s blog earlier this year that has yet to leave me. You Rock. This is deceptive. You don’t rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it’s a self-defeating goal. [...]

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Can I get a witness? (why people twitter)

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There’s a lady I know that shares about her hardships and broken marriage to strangers everywhere she goes. Her son tells me that it’s so people know she existed. She wants people to know that she was here. Not that she was so great or so miserable, but that someone else knew pieces of her [...]

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Why the city can kill you

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Continuing the last few posts on “God’s bias for the city”, “why cities matter” and “why Toronto matters“; much of what makes cities great is also what makes cities dark and depressing. Cities amplify the best, but also the very worst, of humanity. City centers are fueled by individual self-interest.  Everybody goes to the city [...]

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Before it was cool…

Just to follow up on my last post “Stop donating to Haiti?” which received quite a number of hits – my very general take is to go ahead and exercise your god given wisdom, but don’t let any amount of theorizing stop you from giving when it’s in your heart to do so. I wanted [...]

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Suburbia – Designed to avoid community?

What might Jesus say to suburbia today? Introducing Jake Belder, a fellow Canadian living in Florida right now. I feel that in many ways suburbia is like the antithesis of how God intended us to live. Where we were meant to live in community, we find rampant individualism. Where we were meant to give of [...]

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Questions on Christ & Mission…

Some random questions I’m sure plenty of you have interesting responses to… What’s the difference between a Christian and a humanitarian? What do you love more? Christ or the Cause of Christ? What would you be doing if you couldn’t be the hands and feet of Christ? ie. you were just a head being pulled [...]

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What I do…

Over 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 [...]

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