"Faith is critical to all innovation. Without faith, it's suicidal to be a leader, to act like a heretic. Religion, on the other hand, represents a strict set of rules that our fellow humans have overlaid on top of our faith. Religion supports the status quo and encourages us to fit in, not to stand out."
-Seth Godin, "Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us"
Bart is...
- ...a follower of Jesus, the lover of Elizabeth, the dad of Sarah, Silas & Ephraim, a resident of Medicine Hat, Alberta, the associate pastor and worship leader for Grasslands Church, a Texan through-and-through and a Dallas Cowboys Fan.
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Recent Reads
Francis Chan: Erasing Hell: What God said about eternity, and the things we made up
May 2012Mike Howerton: Glorious Mess: Encountering God's Relentless Grace for Imperfect People
March 2012Debra Eve: Later Bloomers: 35 Folks Over Age 35 Who Found Their Passion And Purpose
March 2012Neil Cole: Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens
March 2012Bill Hybels: The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond
February 2012Cynthia Ruchti: They Almost Always Come Home
February 2012Tony Morgan: Developing a Theology of Leadership
February 2012J.A. Konrath: The List
February 2012Eddie Gibbs: Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures
February 2012
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May 21, 2011
The Tooth Fairy Lives in Australia
Ephraim lost his first tooth today. He was goofing around with a loose one at breakfast this morning and it just flipped out onto the floor. He was pretty surprised.
Silas told Ephraim that he believes that Andrew Wood is the tooth fairy (it has something to do with the fact that Andrew was at our house the last time Si lost a tooth and found a reward under his pillow).
This fact has Ephraim a bit worried because Andrew is now attending Bible college in Australia. There's very little chance he'll make it to Alberta in time to exchange a tooth for a twoonie!
May 18, 2011
Quite a Spectacle
They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And in the case of nearsightedness, Silas inherited his daddy's genes.
Silas got his first pair of glasses today. After months of complaining that the whiteboard at school was "fuzzy" we finally pulled the trigger on getting corrective lenses.
We had Si's eyes tested a couple of times over the last 18 months, with the diagnosis being that he was borderline in need of glasses. But last week when Si and I were driving down South Boundary road, I asked him if he could see the horses in a field about 200 yards away.
He told me, "Yes, Daddy. I can see them."
Problem was, they weren't horses. They were cows.
Interestingly, it was my inability to tell the difference between livestock and horses that brought my vision issues to my parents' attention. And just like Silas, I was in the 3rd grade. My parents figured that I was having trouble seeing or I was really dumb (not being able to tell the difference between cows and horses). But because I was a straight-A student, they leaned toward it being a vision issue. And they were correct!
