The Thursday After

This is a departure from the blog’s stated purpose of ‘riffing off Sundays at WMB’, and rather riffs off recent news. I’m troubled by the news. I’m interested in what it is, but much more interested in what it means and therefore how to respond. First, its tempting to vilify particular leaders as bad. That’s,… Read more ….

We are in week 3 of looking at what Christ’s body (the church) is designed to be. So far we have done “gather”, “go” and today its “serve”. What do you think of with the word “serve”. Does it bring to mind a restaurant, Downton Abbey’s servants, or maybe “serving your country”, or jury duty,… Read more ….

John Lennon’s most successful solo song is Imagine. Imagine is a completely memorable almost hymn-like song which asks you to imagine a world where we are all one – without countries, politics, religious differences and materialism to separate us. It’s been covered countless times, played after tragedies and even used in Olympic ceremonies. In case… Read more ….

We’re continuing our stroll through Colossians at WMB. Today Adam talked us through 1:24-29. Our stroll through Colossians is a good prompt for me to become familiar with the book. I’ve come across a few things that are helpful and share them in case they are helpful for you. Reading through I’ve taken Jeff’s encouragement… Read more ….

I enjoy reading and listening to Richard Feynman, the famous and colourful American theoretical physicist. I particularly like his line “If you can’t explain something to a first year student, you haven’t truly understood it”. I have found this to be true, both when others explain things to me and when I try to explain… Read more ….

Today at WMB (Waterloo), Adam spoke about how sharing the gospel made sense within the context of a relationship with someone. He shared from his own journey in learning this and he shared from Acts 17, how Paul when he got to Athens was curious about what people where thinking and spent time in the… Read more ….

On Sunday January 7, we at WMB spent time in Genesis 1. I love Genesis 1. It is such a wonderfully crafted story that you can spend hours thinking about it. If I had to credit my love of Genesis 1 to only one thing, it would be this video. There’s lots of podcasts, ponderings… Read more ….

I got the email that WMB is going to spend the next 7 weeks delving into the Genesis scroll (Jan 7: Creation; Jan 14: Fall; Jan 21: Noah; Jan 28: Babel; Feb 4: Abraham; Feb 11: Canaan; Feb 18: Joseph). That seems fitting at the beginning (or genesis) of a new year. Genesis is an… Read more ….

Back. After a looong hiatus. Today at WMB Waterloo (video) we looked at Jesus advice to love everyone as recorded in the sermon on the mount (Matthew 5). But before we go there, where have we come from? Over the summer, WMB looked at (use your favourite word) the yoke, habits, practices, disciplines or life-rule… Read more ….