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apparently this is the most unwanted song ever.

i think you’ll agree. i couldn’t even make it half way.

peace.

this is your church.

christina and i have some cool things happening this summer.

1st of all, we’re taking a group of 10 students out to glace bay, nova scotia for 10 days from june 27-july 7. we’ll be working with dave and shirley sawler who are planting churches in cape breton. we’re really excited about this and it’s so cool to see the students getting excited as well. pray that God would continue to guide our steps.

2nd, we have this amazing opportunity.  for 3 weeks in august we’re heading to europe with greater europe mission to get our feet wet in the area of church planting, or as david fitch puts it, “seeding missional communities.” this is an area that christina and i have felt like the Lord might be leading us towards. we’ll spend the first week in hungary at a gathering of GEM’s church planters from all over europe. awesome. then the second two weeks will be spent walking the streets of paris getting a feel for the people there and getting involved in different things that God is doing there. here’s the kicker, all of our expenses are paid for. flights, trains, food, shelter. it’s paid. cool. so needless to say we’re pretty excited about this. i’ll be talking to the staff at church about this next week so be praying that they are supportive of this incredible chance we have.

it’s a lovely friday. get off the internet and go play.

peace.

there’s a theory going around that my wife’s nonna is actually the pope. i think you would agree. here are some reasons why nonna may be the pope:

1) she’s old.

2) she was born in italy, home of the vatican (coincidence? you decide).

3) she is a catholic.

4) she wears long flowing frocks/dresses/robes.

5) she is bilingual.

as if that isn’t enough, for all you doubters out there, enjoi the pictures.

can you tell who is nonna and who is the pope? neither can i.

i’ve seen a couple good flicks lately and a couple bombs. to begin with, hot rod. when this movie first came out i didn’t even have it on my radar of movies to consider seeing. it just looked terribly corny/predictable. however, recently i’ve heard lot’s of people raving about how funny it is. so, i fell to peer pressure and rented it. whelp, i was correct. it was bloody terrible. rod, played by the dude from SNL, was brutal. such a terrible part. to make matters worse, whoever wrote that script should be beaten with blunt objects. it’s not that i found it dirty or inappropriate, it’s just that it wasn’t at all funny. save your time and forget that this movie ever happend.

last night, christina and i went and checked out ‘run, fatboy, run’. this movie stars simon pegg from shaun of the dead and hot fuzz. it was actually a very good movie! probably the best romantic comedy i’ve seen. pegg is hilarious no matter what role he plays. i would definately recommend checking this movie out.

for old times sake, i look forward to renting shaun of the dead tonight! YES!

peace.

wow.

i’m almost speechless right now.

WOW. WOW!

ok so here’s the scenario. the raptors need to secure 6th spot in the east. they need to. however, going into tonight they are tied with philly at 40-40. this is ok, because toronto has the tie-breaker but but the raps and philly have 2 games left (including tonight). toronto can secure 6th spot with either of the 3 following scenarios: 1 toronto win and 1 philly loss; 2 toronto wins; or 2 philly losses.

toronto won tonight, even though for the most part they played terrible.

so it comes down to philly. if they lose tonight then toronto is guaranteed 6th. however, philly is playing cleveland so they ought to lose! cleveland hits a shot with 8 second left. philly comes right back and hits a shot with only 5 seconds left to take a 90-89 lead. the crowd is going crazy. cleveland calls a timeout. back on the floor. 5 seconds left. the ball is inbounded to, guess who, lebron and he drives the lane but falls and has his shot blocked my dalembert. the ball goes to devin brown who puts up a shot but misses after coming into contact with dalembert. no foul is called and the game ends. philly wins 90-89. the announcers proclaim the victory! the crowd goes crazy! the 76ers run off the court…and clevelands coach runs on the court. he begins to question the ref’s saying that there was a foul on the play. why was there no foul called on devin brown? but the game is over. the ref’s gather around the scorers table. but the game is over. they look at replays for 5 minutes as the teams leave the court. but the game is over. suddenly, the ref’s put down their headsets and call a foul on dalembert with 0.2 seconds left on the clock! the 76ers are called back out of the dressing room and devin brown hits two freethrows to win the game!

cleveland wins!!!

WOW!

toronto locks up 6th!

peace

last night jon gordon and i went to the jays game. $2 tuesday. who can resist? not i. nor jon. anyways, we were in the 5th row up in the 500 level. as far as baseball goes, it was a pretty good game, although the jays lost 9-8. however, this game was unlike any baseball game i’d ever been to.

it all began in the 6th inning. i heard a bunch of commotion coming from the section beside us so i looked over and there were two guys, standing toe-to-toe, right in each others face. people all around them were cheering them on and all of a sudden the two just errupted into a melee of fists. insane. security and cops came running up the stairs and pulled the two apart. (now i should interlude with something here. tickets in the upper bowl are only $2, which means spectators have more money to spend on beer. on top of this i must have seen at least 4 people pouring mickies into their soda bottles. long story short, there were a whole lot of drunk young adults in the upper bowl last night).

moments after the cops dragged those two out i heard more commotion coming from behind me so i turned around. i couldn’t believe it when i saw another fight breaking out! this one was between a young scrawny guy and some dude that looked like he would be fighting in UFC in two weeks! anyways, this particular fight involved more crowd participation because as the two guys were yelling at each other people began throwing bottles. then came the beer! people actually threw cups full of beer! insane! when the cops came to break up this fight someone even threw a mickie at one of the cops. wowzers.

moments after this fight i look, and 6 or so rows behind me another fight broke out, this time between some girls. then dudes got involved! all in all, in the span of about 10 minutes during the 6th inning there were 3 fights!

of course, the evening wouldn’t be complete without one more.

i left the jays game in amazement that night. 4 fights. bottles and beer being thrown at people. mickies being thrown at cops. i felt like i was at a frat party or something. oh, and then a guy who looked as if he was in his late teens got carried out of our section by EMS officers because he drank wayyy too much (we later saw him vomitting outside). sad.

needless to say, next time there is a $2 tuesday jays game, get yourself a ticket!

don’t throw beer at sporting events…remember?

peace.

last night at tyndale i saw the listener project. awesome. dude does “talk music” and his wife plays the bass/washing machine, really. anyways, he used to go by the name listener and i didn’t realize it until after the show when i was talking with him, but he used to be part of deepspace5…DOPE!

here is a video when he was simply the listener. more of a hiphop vibe to it.

this is his music progressing a bit. this was at a house show!

and finally, here is how he performs now. it’s hilarious, he has like an alter-ego when he’s on stage.

check him and his wife out. www.myspace.com/listenerproject

peace.

jt

so last night the raptors got robbed in atlanta. i’m not even going to talk about it because it just ticks me off. but you can read about the shot clock problem here. apparently colangelo may be protesting the mistake to the league, although i’m not sure what would happen. can the league go back and change the outcome of the game giving toronto and win?

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i came across this article on the 101 most useful websites.

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on the topic of handy sites, here are two that i use quite often: da font (almost 8,000 free fonts to download for both PC and mac). the other site, that i just came across but am loving is keepvid. it gives you the ability to download to your computer videos from sites like youtube etc. all you do is plug in the URL and hit download. and the best thing is it literally only takes like 2 seconds. presto!

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N.T. Wright has been getting loads of press in the last couple months for his view of heaven. wright strives to understand the biblical language of resurrection as opposed to basing his theology of the after-life (or, life after the after-life!) on philadelphia cheese commercials. i like. here are two recent articles on the topic.

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there’s tonnes going on in the office/community lately. i’m currently in the midst of directing and putting together a trip we’re doing this summer with the youth. we’re heading out to glace bay in cape bretton, nova scotia to serve with dave sawler. in total there are 13 of us, and we’re driving! WHOO-PA! should be sweet. also, we’re running a sports camp for kids in the community for a week in the summer and we’re currently in the marketing stage of that as well as pulling together all the volunteers etc. also, i’m working with a group of students at a local highschool to figure out creative ways to be salt and light there and thats really neat!

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this past sunday (march 30) was the youth service at ACC. we took over the entire morning service so the youth did everything. it was really cool. i also got a chance to preach for the first time at an ACC sunday morning gathering. i aimed for 40 minutes and ended up going for 63. eff. i spoke about the Church and our role in new creation. if you have 63 minutes to spare you can check out the talk here. enjoi.

whelp, i think i’m gunna go out for some thai. i have a craving for hot and sour soup at the moment. msg. what are ya gunna do?

peace.

jt.

man i really like basketball. can i just say that the playoffs this year are going to be incredible? here are a couple of reasons why:

1) the east isn’t so bad after all. if the season ended today, there would only be one team in the playoffs in the east that would fall below .500. i can’t remember the last time this many + .500 teams there were in the east! plus, in the east you have, arguable, the two best teams in the L in boston and detroit. i can’t stand boston, but detroit is great. such a nitty gritty team. throw in orlando and toronto plus last years eastern champs in the cav’s and let’s not forget the feel-good run that philly is on (really, who knew!) and you’ve got a good playoff race in the east.

2) the western conference. my suggestion: forget about the seeding, sit back, and enjoy. period.

3) it looks like jersey won’t be seeing the post season. good.

anyways, moving on, let’s get specific to the raptors here. currently they’re sitting at 38-36, tied for 5th with the wiz. they only have 8 games left on the sched and only one of those games is against a + .500 team (detroit). the wiz also have only 8 games left, however, 4 of those are against teams that are + .500.

i’m hoping the raptors struggle a little bit, but not too much, to close out the season. just enough to stay in the 6th seed. here’s why: you get orlando in the first round as opposed to the defending eastern champs. i’d much rather see us take on orlando because our back-court would absolutely destroy them. plus our big’s are starting to play well, although i wouldn’t mind seeing rasho actually throw it down every now and then. dude is 7′ and still doing weak little lay-ups. throw that ish down big man! frig! if we meet up with cleveland in the first round, that’s not good (read: lebron).

also, and more importantly, assuming we make it out of the playoffs i would rather go through detroit than boston and in order for this to happen the rap’s must finish in 6th. if we finish in 5th and somehow make it past the cav’s then we run right into boston. ouch. i saw toronto play detroit in the playoffs like 5 or 6 seasons ago and it was really tight. i feel like we match up much better with detroit than boston.

that being said, here’s hoping for a 6th place finish.

did i mention that i love the playoffs. the last couple seasons the raps were in the post-season i scored some sweet tickets. last year i saw two games in toronto vs. NJ and then drove down to NY for game 6! it was wild!

anyways, here’s hoping the raps step it up in after the next 8 games.

oh, and i’m taking the lakers over detroit in 6 for the finals! 

peace.