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Feeding the Fish
“We are so rich,” I said, filling the grinder, “these coffee beans come from the other side of the world!” For some inexplicable reason I woke up thankful this morning. I wish it happened more often. A...
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How a Statistician Images God
This morning I drafted the second chapter of my book; exploring the many different ways human beings image God (in the context of work). In one paragraph I wrote, “Your capacity for logic and reason,...
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Things Stylists say that make me think of God
I just spent the morning listening to interviews with and reading the words of four stylists (they’re helping me with Sunday’s sermon on God’s truth in their jobs). As I teased out their vocational...
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Is Working for the Common Good enough?
Here’s my most recent post at ThinkChristian (also the thesis for the book I’m working on).
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Early morning ice in the frozen Weaselhead mud
Here are a few pics I took this morning… new worlds in the ice that filled frozen mountain bike tracks.
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One way to preach science
Last month, a young scientist from our congregation had a paper published in Nature Neuroscience; one of the world’s top neuroscientific journals. My first thought on hearing the good news was, “I want...
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10 Best Things that happened to me in Pasadena this week
1. Waking this Sunday morning I realized that I got to be here. Because of the generousity of the Templeton Foundation (Scientists in Congregations) I was in sunny southern California, with old...
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Experiencing God at the arrivals level of LAX
This had to have been one of the oddest worship moments I’d ever had. Inhaling diesel fumes and surrounded by a rush of movement, I was en route to the ticket counter at LAX’s terminal two. And then I...
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Accepting Aslan into your heart
These moments can’t be planned… After a restless night’s sleep, I stumbled over to Edward’s room for a 7:00 am visit. He was already awake, sitting up looking at his new picture book, Edmund and the...
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Coming up at NHC!
May 26 – You Shall Not Steal – There all kinds of ways we steal (most of which we prefer to deny). Every time we do it we rob ourselves. Is there an antidote to this larcenous propensity? June 2 –...
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Preaching on how our brains process stress
I just sent this note to three scientists from our congregation (in preparation for a sermon on June 2). This is how a science sermon comes together. Feel free to respond yourself. “Thanks again for...
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Is your Jesus too small?
Later today I’m meeting with a couple who are struggling with a problem. She believes in the whole Jesus thing and he doesn’t. They want to go forward relationally, but don’t know if or how they can....
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Chrapitalism undressed
Just read this quote on the front cover of Books and Culture…(scathing). “… Don’t expect any breadth or grandeur from the Empire’s Christian divines. Across the board, the imperial chaplains exhibit...
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Preaching Formula One
Couldn’t help think of Abraham Kuyper while researching Formula One this morning… “There is not a single square centimetre of a Ferrari F1 car that has escaped the closest examination in pursuit of...
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Yesterday I met with an academic leader who is very interested in creating a course/class/cohort to teach pastors and church leaders how to preach from both of God’s books. Pretty exciting. So now the...
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God’s new bio-parable (written in ‘neuron’)
ThinkChristian just published this article on New Hope’s sermon on stress and the hypothalamus (based on a discovery by New Hoper Jackie Wamsteeker Cusulin)....
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A few (photo) gems for Sunday’s sermon on a Geologist
“Today we’re going to dig into God’s timeless, unchanging, rock loving truth in a Geologist.” (What is just wrote for Sunday’s bulletin). Here are a few quick shots I took at the rock and gems store...
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A River Being Itself
Yesterday, a friend on Twitter asked, “Is there a revelatory sermon on the theme “flood?” Or is the flood just ‘dark side?’” He wondered if there was anything God might be saying through Calgary’s...
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Should the Bow River be punished?
The other day I wrote that at least nobody in Calgary was blaming the Bow or Elbow rivers for the flooding. These rivers were just being themselves; doing what rivers do. Who would ever blame a river?...
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