get your LOST on

There is an excellent moment on The Office where Andy invites Michael over to his place so they can get their LOST on. Tonight, after 8 long months, we finally get to do just that. Season 4 kicks off tonight, and I am pretty jazzed about it. Season 3 ended with a brilliant twist, basically [...]

i don’t want to be a hero

If Christian men are going to change from a pitiful, wimpy bunch of “really nice guys” to men who are made in the image of God, they must reexamine their preconceptions about who God is and recover their true “wild” hearts, writes bestselling author John Eldredge in Wild at Heart: Discovering a Life of Passion, [...]

raptor monday

The past couple of weeks have been pretty heavy on the old blog, so for the sake of mixing it up, today will be all about basketball, specifically the Toronto Raptors. Despite not having cable and only having watched a handful of games this season, I have been following them quite closely through the blogs [...]

food for thought

How many times have you heard the following:
There are problems with every church. You can critique and ask questions about your church all you want, but even if you were to go to another church, you would find the same old problems.
Personally, I am growing tired of that argument. Allow me to use the following [...]

responses to the salvation army conversation

More than a week after my post entitled on why i no longer attend the salvation army, it is still being viewed quite frequently, and comments are still rolling in. It has also been quite interesting to read some of the comments on xanga.com/trends_sa. My Sherlock skills have led me to uncover that this blog [...]

goal of the year [so far]

I know today is all about football [I take the Pats and the Pack, by the way], but this goal is to good not to be seen by every hockey fan out there. A goal scored earlier in the year by Jonathan Toews was nice, but Rick Nash has upped the [...]

new page

At the bottom of this blog, on the left hand side, you may have noticed that there was a fine picture of myself and my beautiful wife above a status box where I would frequently jot down a few notes regarding what was going on that day. I did that so as not to make [...]

Christian Ethics

I can’t pinpoint the moment exactly, but it was probably around the time that Lauren and I went and saw Stanley Hauerwas in Winnipeg that I began to get very interested in the subject of Christian Ethics. That is the focus of my future Master’s degree, and when I found out that there was such [...]

winter

Not a week after I discovered that Jon Foreman was going to be releasing some solo ep’s over the course of a year, I have now downloaded the afore posted about Fall and the just today released Winter. I can’t state enough how good these songs are. Whether you’re a fan of Switchfoot or you [...]

on why i no longer attend the salvation army

Over the past couple of weeks, I have had the opportunity to think about why it is that I no longer attend the Salvation Army. [For those who have no idea what the Salvation Army is, click here for some background info]. For about 20 years, the Army was all that I knew about church; [...]