My friend Lindsey Minaker from Tyndale has a CD out. I got it from her yesterday and I’m quite impressed. She wrote all these songs, so I thought I’d put one online for everyone to listen to. If you like it contact me [email protected] and you can get your own CD. I uploaded one of …
Last night I watched a really interesting movie. It was called The Village. It’s this story of this group of people who decided to seclude themselves off in a village and create their own little world. The people who started the village were extremely rich and paid the country to not allow planes to fly …
The concept of freedom is a funny one, and I think it’s something that one needs to be careful of before agreeing with. When one becomes saved Christians believe that they are free. This is understood because of verses like Romans 8:21, Galations 5:21, James 1:25. Many charismatics usually take these verses to mean that …
I’m reading a book right now called A Generous Orthodoxy by Bryan McLaren. It is probably one of the coolest ideas for a book I know, and he is one of my favourite authors. The headline for the book is this: WHY I AM A missional + evangelical + post/protestant + liberal/conservative + mystical/poetic + …
“Oh my God” is typically a phrase that a lot of Christians will look down upon, it’s right up there with “Jesus Christ.” When we hear it most of us Christians cringe because they are using God’s name in vain, something the bible condemns quite frequently. Personally, I think we as Christians focus way too …
My ex-youth pastor, now friend, who lives in Calgary, Dom Ruso married to Bev Ruso, (formerly Prendergast) working with Joe Manafo, wrote an article in the Youth Specialties Journal. It’s about youth ministry, and the leader’s studying and having a theology. It’s a great article. Check it out. http://www.youthspecialties.com/articles/topics/theology/oxymoron.php
This entry is inspired by my uncle who challenged me in my faith more than anyone else I know. It’s easy as Christians to get caught up in all the political mess that the churches have created, and even easier to get caught up in ourselves and our own issues and making everything about ourselves …
Hey everyone, I threw together a website for my magazine at the school. It’s Tyndale’s student magazine that i’m the editor and designer for. So you can read all the articles and stuff that are put in. Enjoy! www.nathancolquhoun.com/Canon
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what the church criticizes. You know all those things that are typically looked down on in the church as sinful or borderline (which is lukewarm so we should just stay away from them). One thing that has been criticized greatly is parties. Growing up I definitely got in …
The movie Saved with Mandy Moore was one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time. Most Christians would probably get offended immensely if they ever saw it. The entire movie is a parody of Christianity and its offsets. Most of the humour is probably against extreme conservatisms and extreme Pentecostalism, both deserving …
I said it before, and yet for some reason I feel the need to say it again. Loneliness is taking its toll on me. This is quite a strange feeling for me, and I’m very cautious of talking about. I don’t want to make it into a big deal because then it looks like I’m …
Talk about an odd night for me. It is New Years day, three hours into year 2005 and all I have are weird feelings. New Year’s Eve is a night when most guys with girlfriends are with them, and most girls with boyfriends are with them. I’m used to a night where all my friends …
This article was originally published by the Ooze, but I think it fits well with my last entry. I wrote this during a pretty hard time in my life about two years ago….click here to read it on the Ooze. After just getting through a really tough breakup and being scarred almost unbearably I have …
This New Year I have become increasingly aware of two things that are seemingly tied together: the ramifications of not tying up loose ends with friends after fights, and the idea of actually having enemies. I’ll be blunt here, I mostly see this in the opposite sex (females) but it comes up in a lot …
Tonight was one of those nights that takes you back five years and lets you remember all the good times you had. We had sort of a reunion get together of our youth group back when I first started entering youth (so I was in gr 9, so seven years ago) and a lot of …
With Christmas season just behind us, it leaves me still with jogged memories and fantasies that I had when I was child about previous Christmas’. This was the first Christmas that I asked for something I needed. I got a tool set and a dirt devil vacuum cleaner. My friend was telling me how he …
Lately I’ve been thinking about the whole idea of church, as you can tell because the last four entries have been about that. One of the key things one needs to do in attempting to change is first deconstruct what they are coming from then work on constructing something that learns from its history. The …
After writing three points about what I have noticed church has become I knew that there were a bunch more I could point out. I was talking with my friends tonight (something think that is happening a lot this break about this subject) and I started to understand something that put a lot of things …
One of my favourite sermons I have ever heard is by Erwin McManus. If you are interested, you can download it here. It’s not necessarily theologically without holes, nor is it a message that will send you running to the altar with tears filling your eyes. At the time I listened to it for the …
Tonight was great and it will be one of those nights that I will never forget. Kind of the opposite side of the spectrum from a few nights ago with the accident, but either way so far this week is going to be an unforgettable week. I went out to a local bar with Joe …
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