Just over a week ago, a leader at Soul mentioned to me that it was about 8 years ago that we were meeting at my house praying about this thing called Soul Sanctuary and asking God to bless and guide and provide a place for us to gather. Now, we find ourselves so blessed [...] Read more »
GITM-Deck The Halls
Today is the fourth Sunday of Advent and the theme is Peace. How are you doing with that concept today? Are you experiencing peace or is it the farthest thing from your mind? Today, I decided to conclude our GOD on the Big screen series with the movie Deck the Halls, starring Matthew Broderick and [...] Read more »
Building The Vision
As you or may not know, we have an offer to purchase in the works for a facility and almost 5 acres of land. Here is the plan: We need to raise as much cash as possible so that our mortgage is small. Simple enough! We have one month to raise our goal amount of [...] Read more »
GITM-ELF
This is a “forget your trouble film” Read more »
GITM-A Charlie Brown Christmas
This is not just a Christmas Special. This is the Christmas special. This special has nonetheless gone on to become one of the most iconic Christmas works of all time. It’s also one of the most successful of all time, having been reliably on TV from its debut until today Read more »
GITM-The Social Network
The Social Network is the fictionalized account of the early days of Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who is well-known for his social awkwardness and prickly interactions with colleagues and the media. Read more »
GITM-Inception
Inception deals with dreams and dreams within dreams, and dreams within dreams within dreams and dreams within dreams within dreams within dreams….You clear? Great, let’s pray and go home. Read more »
A Blog Post You MUST Read!
My friend Rob Dale has shared a personal story that you need to read! http://www.robdale.ca/?doing_wp_cron Read more »
Book Review
I enjoy reading a good biography, I even like watching them on A&E even more. So, I got an offer to review what thought was the Ed Thomas story…I was strangely thinking Wendy’s!!! DUH! That is DAVE THOMAS….however I saw the cover of the book The Sacred Acre and I immediately thought of “Friday Night [...] Read more »
GITM-The Adjustment Bureau
Predestination, election, free will, choice, do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? These are questions that has plagued people for centuries and we see this question played out as we look at GOD on the Big Screen in the Adjustment Bureau. Read more »
God in the Movies (A Beautiful Mind)
When you see someone standing with the help of crutches, you have immediate empathy and immediately understand, to some degree. You might wonder what happened to me and hope that I will get better. These crutches are a visible sign of my illness so to speak. Mental illness that has no visible signs. Mental illness [...] Read more »
God in the Movies (The Kings Speech)
This is the story of a wounded man who finds himself; a man on a quest, searching for his true voice and we have seen this played out in many other movies. Although of royal blood, the Prince, the Duke of York, The King, also known as Bertie, is everyman, everywoman; anyone who has known [...] Read more »
A way you can help!
Most of us have a car and that car needs gas. Here is a simple way that anyone and everyone can help contribute to our fund raising efforts to buy our piece of land. When you need to fill up go to Red Rivier Co-op and put it on our number 0343680 Don’t make the [...] Read more »
God in the Movies (School of Rock)
Whether people intend to or not, I am of the mind that God’s story sneaks into places. His salvation story and truth sneaks in all over the place including the movies that we watch in the theatre or on TV. God is really a silent character in every story. Think about the most godless movie [...] Read more »
Building Update:
I will be doing a flurry of blogposts as things are moving here at Soul Sanctuary fairly fast. As you or may not know, we have an offer to purchase in the works for a facility and almost 5 acres of land. Here is the plan: Very simply we need to raise as much cash [...] Read more »