Starting this Saturday, March 7, SPS Habitat will be having a regular open house on site at 1800 Fairview Street in NE Olympia (between Miller and Ethridge Streets, very near the Olympia Little Theater on Miller). These open houses will take place between 9:30-11am on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of ea...

Hard work deserves recognition - and high school is no cake-walk!  Celebrate the achievements of your graduate and invite family and friends to join you with this clean & simple graduation invitation.  A pastel background and slender borders emphasize elegant text and a photo of the graduate.Â...

Hard work deserves recognition - and high school graduation is a big deal!  Celebrate their achievements with this elegant, modern black & white graduation announcement.  Black is the backdrop for white embellishments and understated black text.  A photo of the graduate makes the invitation c...

WARNING: Creating this entry before having breakfast has caused me serious internal damage, eternal stomach growling and pains together with loss of water through drool. Please proceed with caution Nicholas decided one day that he wanted to show off his father’s awesome cooking that he’s...

With less than a week till our little one’s birth date I have tried to put some things in place so that I can really enjoy the new life God has blessed us with. It is well known that as Canadians we have to work a lot harder (or more) than our friends to the south since we pay a little more in...

My wife asked me while I was reading this book if I have read many female voices in the whole emergent discussion, and I had to say that I had not. It’s not because I have avoided reading women, it is just that there are not many voices out there that are being heard. It’s not that they ...

Although I am hoping to begin reviewing some books I have already read this upcoming year (sounds like a good resolution) I just finished Mark Scandrette’s book Soul Graffiti. I met Mark in 2007 at Soularize in the Bahamas and had a good chat about his life in San Francisco and some of the com...

We had a great chat at toh on Sunday on our doubt night and I want to make a quick comment about one of the questions concerning whether verbal affirmation/ belief of the message of Jesus is adequate to consider oneself saved. Maybe it was something in the reading of this passage or the understandin...

I carry this burden sometimes that in my desire to truly create a church that reflects the best of my neighbourhood and (in some way) my country (this would be an entirely different conversation on how you would actually define Canada, and where would that be found in a universal way) I hurt and/ or...

I have heard it said quite often from Christians (and some others), “I am not into church” or “I don’t do church well” or “I’m okay Jesus, but not church.” In fact as a church planter I think I hear it more than a lot of people. I want to say that for ...