Category: general discussions

Here is the list of Bible readings for July 2008:

hello thank you very much for your support the first week has been a little difficult adjusting to the differences around here. we had our orientation week this week and got to know the area we will be working in. we are just getting ready to leave for our homestays this weekend me and kelly…

Tim has been posting some pictures on his facebook page, but you do need to sign up with Facebook to see them. We are still waiting for an email update, but we did get this personal email: “We are slowly getting the internet figured out but we are definatly having our problems we have been…

This article raises interesting and challenging thoughts on leadership today. N.S. “How a Movie from our Childhood Can Help us Understand the Changing Nature of Leadership in the Postmodern Transition” By Brian D. McLaren OK, I admit it. I spent most of the 80’s and early 90’s wishing I could be just like Bill Hybels, Rick…

I met today with Nancy, an advocate for fair trade in the Sunderland, ON area. Our meeting was for me to connect this work with our SERVE and Encounter week (Jun 30-Jul 4), with the theme “Right The Wrong”. We sat outside at Katie’s Coffee House in Sunderland, enjoying a beautiful day and very friendly…

Linda Wielinga sent me this story which struck me as interesting, a neat God moment as it made me think of myself and what a slow learner I am. How many times do I keep bumping into those things that are no good for me, and yet I foolishly persist in doing it again… and…

Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger have been studying the emerging churches movement (if you don’t know what it is, read the book, its hard to explain). As I read their book I am finding that, apart from some occasional discomfort on how emerging churches apply their ideas, I am often resonating with what they stand…

Wow, not only have I been in Port Perry for 10 years, the first Tim Horton’s here in Port Perry is also celebrating their 10th anniversary. But now I am leaving… For the last 10 years I have been going to Tim Horton’s almost every morning for my own quiet time, sitting in the same booth. But…

Some of you may have sensed that I have a bit of a beef with ‘church’. I probably need to clarify, its not so much with a specific church (I love my present church, and also my new church). My beef is with the concept of church as it has been distorted from its original…

We commissioned our new church leaders [Sunday, June 1, 2008] and I used the words of 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28. Some of the observations and applications I made were: Paul writes this letter to a part of Jesus’ missionary team in Thessalonica, a new community of Jesus followers facing great persecution yet standing firm. He urges them to respect their…