a blessing for Coldplay

I’ve decided to start a series of blessings here. You can read the first one here. So much of what we read on blogs is angry and complaining about stuff, and that’s fine, the medium lends itself to that. But ranting tends to not be a healthy activity for me. I end in cycles [...]

I’ve been published, but without the Penis

I’ve been published over at wreckedfortheordinary.com. You can check it out, but if you want the version with the word penis in it you’ll have to read it here.
In case you’re wondering it amuses me to write the word penis often enough to get false traffic here. If you googled penis and found me Jesus [...]

A blessing for the listen bird person

I’m a graffiti fan. Not so much if it’s on my house or fence or car, but I do appreciate it if there is thought and effort put into it. I’ve never done it, nor have I really done any of the other elements of hip hop, but it’s an integral part of the urban [...]

Stuff I read

I’ve been reading GQ for the last five or six years now. They’re hit and miss like any magazine, but I’ve come to trust on of their writers, Andrew Corsello.
Here is an article he wrote and an interview out of it.
The Other Side of Hate
Interview

Book Update… no seriously, a book update

Okay, A couple of people have been asking, so here goes. I am writing the book. It’s coming okay. There’s other things going on, so it’s coming.
Please remember, the point of this deal is for me to right the book, not to publish a book. If I can actually write and finish the bloody thing [...]

I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my…

Heart?
A couple of blocks from our house is a very cool little grocery store, the Italian Centre (make sure you check out their web page) We go there fairly often because it’s close and it’s possibly the coolest grocery store on the planet (they sell Proraso for you straight razor afficionados) and they give my [...]

There are more important things about who you are than how you feel about penises or What I wish I had said to the girl on pride day

I said that in a sermon not to long ago. Yet another reason why I like church planting. I can say the word penis with fear of reprisal.
On Pride Day this year Bridgepointe Church went down to Churchill Square to hand out bottles of water. Now, while I realize the silliness of bottled water and [...]

How to read the Bible #2 : Where to start

#2 in our Bible Reading series

Amazon, I love you

Thank you, Amazon. You are never ending source of books and amusement. Thank you for recommending this book

because I own this book

keep the recommendations coming

Bring me your broken, worn out, sucky church planters yearning to…

I love how any combination of “church failure” “church plant failure” “church sucks” or the like bring people to my blog. By far the most popular thing I have written for internet perusal is Church Planting Sucks. I know writing about it will make it even even more common, but whatever. It’s about time someone [...]