A 'Bad' Man

I've got to change the channel on my alarm clock/radio. I've had two early starts this week and used the alarm to get up. I hate the 'Red-Alert!' buzzer on my alarm clock; waking up to that always puts me in a bad mood, so I set it to radio. I must have been listening …

Wordless Wednesday: The Last Supper Redux

Attractional Church Gone Horribly Wrong

Missional church is a difficult thing to define.  You can sometimes capture it by saying what it isn't.  At the risk of being simplistic, you could say that Missional isn't Attractional.  Attractional church is the mindset that what has created the current crisis in your church is poor promotion of your church.  If you advertised, …

Modern Day Resurrection

This week has provided a vivid picture of deliverance, redemption and resurrection.  It is the sort of thing that happens and people need to think about for a while before the different images come together.  Watching the event in real time was another one of those "Jetson Moments" (kinda like when I got my Kindle) …

A Community Made of Stories

Last Thursday I had the unexpected pleasure of running into a wonderful friend that I had not see in probably fifteen years. Her name is Elaine and she was one of the 'Lunch Bunch,' a group of students I got to know when I went to Brock University. The Lunch Bunch started like this: I …

September Sailing

This past week I went out on the boat for one of those pathetic sails that sailors do in late September to justify not taking their boat out of the water at the end of August. At the end of the summer you say to yourself, "No, I'll go out a couple of times next …