June 6th, 2009 
Tristan This Sunday we’re starting a sermon series on stewardship called “the world is Mine”. To go along with that series, I reworked the hymn “This Is My Father’s World.” I liked the feel of Aaron Niequist‘s version, but I wanted a different chord structure for the song (his structure is more traditional). The lyrics are [...]
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Comments Off May 25th, 2009 Tristan I recently read the book The Trouble With Paris by Australian author and speaker Mark Sayers. Sayers is like a handy kid with a screwdriver, taking apart Western culture’s consumer-driven longings, addictions, and expectations and spinning the gears to see what makes us tick. In the process he invites his readers to think deeply about [...]
Posted in Books, Soul Care Tags: books, culture, death by suburb, escapism, sermon, the trouble with paris Comments Off May 6th, 2009 Tristan There’s just nothing quite like a good pie-in-the-face video for promoting an event, especially if your pastor is on the receiving end…
May 2nd, 2009 Tristan Wow, that’s a lot of hits. Ok, so it took three and a half years to get that many, but I’m still happy. :) Congrats to the 100,000th visitor… someone right here in the western suburbs of Chicago who was using a Mac and connected via Comcast. Was it you? In other news: I’ve switched [...]
April 14th, 2009 Tristan We created this video for our Good Friday service, where we showed it during a drama in which a man walks onto stage and stands staring at the advertisement-covered cross shown in the video. After a minute, he begins tearing ads off the cross, slowly at first, and then faster. As he tears off the [...]
