Nathan Colquhoun

Our labels keep us safe They help us identify those who are out to get us The murderers The thieves The lazy The contagious The insulting They give us confidence that we know people They give us peace knowing we aren’t like them They give us common ground to fight the same enemy Your only [...]

The basic formula for leadership in the church (especially church planting) is this: 1. See a need to start something 2. Find a solid, well liked, person who people follow or be that kind of person yourself 3. Invest in that person so that they can maximize their following Now, a few things about this [...]

May we know your story So we can be good storytellers to our children and the rest of the world May we live your story every day through our words and lives Teach us kingdom values of Repentance, Forgiveness, Peace, Joy, Grace and Faith May our children grow into their identity as Christians Not so [...]

Light, I'll Call Your Name Out Darkness by Grey Kingdom Sometimes I listen to an album for the first time and I know it’s going to get played a lot. That is the case with Grey Kingdom. I’m far from a talented writer and so I don’t really have a lot of fancy words to [...]

I was raised in an environment where it was obvious that the Bible and everything it said was completely ‘true’ and literally word for word what happened and the ultimate guide to life for any hard questions we have.  Not sure what to do about some current moral issue?  Look in the Bible, you will [...]

In light of the news of Tim Bosma my heart breaks for the world. The Peace of Wild Things BY WENDELL BERRY When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and [...]

This morning I thought we would get into something that we probably won’t stumble across too often if we are doing exegetical series and sticking to specific texts. We have the freedom to explore a bit more and face more directly into some of the questions and challenges of our day today. So this morning, [...]

This is a question I’ve wrestled with for a long time. When you desire to be inclusive and make people feel welcomed and show grace to all it becomes a very difficult question to ask when you are talking about discipline. I’m not talking about Mark Driscoll style discipline of impersonal letters and bureaucratic paperwork. [...]

See More Art Installations… This week for First Friday downtown Sarnia we are putting together our first ever Bake Sale To Solve World Hunger. We’ll have tons of tasty treats for sale from our very own in house baker and they will only be $0.25 each! We will keep track of how our proceeds are [...]

I’m currently reading Looking Forward: Participatory Economics For the Twenty First Century which is basically a book about companies and organizations that have no hierarchy. It’s brilliant. It got me thinking. You know how there is the Rolling Jubilee and Google Will Eat Itself two organizations that basically use money for purposes that either topple [...]