I thought I would throw on the blog an archive of all our e-newsletters. They have been a little more detailed than the blog has in the last 6 months, so for those of you who would enjoy a retrospective of the last year of our journey in 10 instalments, read on! February 2009 March [...]
Who knew? At the same time as a famous Christian blogger, Anne Jackson endeavoured to rekindle her passion for cycling I too began a journey back to a bicycle. I don’t have her literary gifts, but my story goes like this: I got a bike when I was young. Living in a pretty big city [...]
In an effort to prepare for licensure with the Grace Brethren, I have been working on memorizing Scripture. I’ve always just kid of absorbed Scripture incidentally, which has given me a lot of the Word in my heart but without address. Heh. Kind of like how people were before the invention of chapter and verse, [...]
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So, yeah, Mark Driscoll. As I was watching a couple of his newer sermons, what I really enjoyed and admired is there are elements of theology that are very important for people to grasp, like how salvation works, that he has so systematized that he can just work it into his message at will. I [...]
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I encountered this article in a 2000 issue of a Church Planting newsletter produced by Outreach Canada. Definitely food for thought. What did you do last summer? At first you may think what Alan Braun did last summer can’t be reproduced. But perhaps it can… Large Volunteer Core Recruited Alan is pastor of Abundant Life [...]
I was reading another few pages from Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer this morning, and in the early going he rides the importance of cultural exegesis hard. I was already familiar with the concept as I just took a course this spring on “Christianity and Culture” from Bruce Guenther over at ACTS (awesome course [...]
It occurred to me the first post I did on how we got here, I didn’t really get into much detail about how we leaped from a short term missions trip to Rwanda to where we are right now. The real impetus came in the fall of 2006. We heard there was a church planting [...]
Shane was a boy from the Edmonton area, just moved to the coast to follow his roots and keep a promise to God that he would take Bible College for a year. He liked the outdoors, but also computers. He joked before he left Alberta behind that he was “going to the coast to meet [...]
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