The Church’s Charlie Sheen

This past weekend much of the world’s chatter online and around town was about the Academy Awards and the seeming insanity of one Mr. Charlie Sheen as he seemed to appear on every major – and minor – media outlet in the world to spout nonsense and just generally get noticed again.  As I am [...]

Look at me, I’m a readerer.

Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens by Neil Cole My review rating: 4 of 5 stars I loved this book. Cole’s ideas about the church being an organic living entity rather than a mechanical machine really ring true. His ideas about the simplicity of sharing one’s faith and “doing church” really resonated with me [...]

Jesus isn’t dead, but it looks like his body is dying

It’s been said that children are the future, but what at what point does the future have to finally become the present?  This past Sunday night Swift Current held it’s annual ecumenical prayer service, and this year it just happened to be held at our church.  It’s supposed to be a time when people from [...]

Where everybody knows your name . . .

I guess making an allusion like this may show my age a bit, but old men like me are allowed to wax poetic about the good old days once in a while; after all I did turn 28 today.  Don’t you all wish that you had a place like Cheers to go to?  Even if [...]

I’m Trippin’

Forgive me for the pathetic late 90′s slang, but I thought it would at least get your attention.  I’m going to be heading out on a youth retreat this weekend to West Bank Bible Camp with the kids from our youth group.  It’s going to be a fairly intense spiritual retreat with a focus on social [...]

Beat The Clock . . . a career choice?

Those of you have known me for a while now know that I love listening to news talk radio.  When I still lived in Regina I was a regular listener and caller to news talk 980.  One of my most noteworthy calls was into Dave Arnold’s morning show to play the “Beat the Clock” game.  [...]