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Monday, November 30, 2009 2 Comments
Here’s a scenario of something that was a fairly typical experience during the early days of being in the theater: I was approached by someone who was in our Sunday morning service for the first time. He asked to speak to me and told me that he thought we were “doing a really good thing [...]
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 No Comments
Paige, who attends Crosslands Church, texted me last night in response to a topic that came up in a university class. The question was, “What is sin?” Sin is hardly a popular word in our culture today. Many people consider that it is “breaking the rules.” But then the question is, which rules? Who holds [...]
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1 Comment
Okay, so I’ve been neglecting to address this. I was reading 2 Corinthians and came across this passage: “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have [...]
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Friday, November 20, 2009 4 Comments
So Michigan’s Pontiac Silverdome just sold to a Toronto developer for less than half of what we spent on our theater building. 80,000+ seats, 120 bathrooms, and oodles of parking. Why do I keep thinking–humongous church plant!?
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Sunday, November 15, 2009 2 Comments
Went the PromiseKeepers event for the first time this year. Great band, some really good speakers. I was really interested to hear Ted Dibiase’s story and I enjoyed Phil Cann (probably moreso because I met him a couple of times while living in British Columbia). Interestingly, the highlights for me were not about the speakers [...]
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 1 Comment
Since our office walls don’t go all the way to the ceiling, we have at least three methods of inter-office communication within our main office: telephone intercom, internet messaging (including email), and simply yelling over the wall. Since yelling over the wall involves the least work, that’s usually the default option. What happens, of course, [...]
Category: Around the office
Thursday, November 12, 2009 2 Comments
It would seem that God may be correcting one of my presuppositions about Him. In such a success driven world and culture my values get skewed quite easily. Often times while trying my best to make a tough decision in life I play out all my options in note form or verbally to a friend [...]
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3 Comments
And so I went to coffee with David today and we had a cool conversation for about an hour. I was surprised again to find out that some people are surprised to find out that we go out for coffee with people from the church (or not from the church), sometimes at the drop of [...]
Category: Around the office
Monday, November 9, 2009 2 Comments
Okay, I’m going to again defer what I said I was going to defer in the last post. On Sunday morning at Crosslands Church’s service, Gary Laing delivered a message about Jonah (the guy with the fish/whale from the Sunday School story). It’s interesting how the Sunday School version of the story is such a [...]
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Saturday, November 7, 2009 1 Comment
I was going to dive into some of the “us vs. them” passages in the Bible and see how we can reconcile those with a point of view that doesn’t distinguish between “us vs. them.” But Doug posted a response that echoed something I read in a book the other day, so I thought I’d [...]
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