how to read the Bible #3

Part 3 in a bible reading series
why we read the Bible

How to read the Bible

We’re experimenting with some teaching stuff  online.  Let  me know what you think about both format and content
Thanks and enjoy

if I say it out loud it will be real, right?

So I’m working on a book. It sounds silly even as I say it but I am and I want to finish it so I’m going to pressure myself by announcing it publicly. Feel free to ask me how it’s coming so I will feel stupid if my answer is that I haven’t touched in [...]

The best laid plans… #1

So we’re in a re planning thing for Bridgepointe. There are some church planters or aspiring or recovering church planters who end up here, so I’ll put the plan up in small parts for your perusal and ridicule. Enjoy.
What
What is a church?
We believe that the local church is a group of people called by and [...]

As of the last time I checked, I’m still alive

I’ve been on a blogging hiatus, or at least that’s what I’ll call it in retrospect. Mostly I’ve been tired and my brain hasn’t been functioning on a high enough level to share my thoughts with the world.
What has been encouraging is that there are still people who come to read stuff here. Not a [...]

The employer that shall remain nameless

So as I’ve mentioned before, I work for a large, multi-national coffee company that shall remain nameless. I know that they are a huge and potentially evil monolith, coating the world with sub-standard coffee products. I get it. I also get that I’ve got kids to feed. If you want to talk about how much [...]

how you know you’ve spent to much time in revelation

So we’ve been looking at revelation since September.
At work a common combination of items with taxes adds up to 6.67
One day this number came up on the till, and I announced to the customer and my co-workers “all together… 6.67. Ah, six six seven, the neighbour of the beast”
no one laughed

Preach it, brother

I preach. I like it.
There’s a certain peace and freedom that comes when you’re doing the thing that you were made to do. I don’t know if I’m any good at preaching. I know I’ve got a lot to learn, but I think I was made to do it.
Now, before I get letters, I don’t [...]

Poverty is an Issue

So the writ dropped today, and in Alberta we head to the polls March 3. Unfortunately, elections are treated like a bit of a formality here. The Progressive Conservatives have held power here for the last 37 years on the provincial level, and the Conservative Party holds sway at the federal level as well. Voter [...]

church planting sucks

Well, it doesn’t really suck. I actually love it, but there are definitely times when I wish I wish it was easier, or that the church that we’re dreaming of would magically appear next Sunday. But what kind of story would that be?
Here’s a top ten list of things I have learned so far about [...]