Todd Hiestand

We added some pictures to our family website. They’re great. Go check em out.

The headers images that rotate through in my header are all (except for maybe one) my personal photography. (When i say “rotate” i mean that everytime you visit the page you get a new header - so hit refresh a few times and you’ll see what i mean) You can find descriptions of the [...]

I know you are all dying to get your hands on some “Well” clothing. Kim O’Donnell set up this little store in CafePress. Its pretty cool. Check it out!

“I really have no clue what I am about to say.” This is usually the first thought that goes through my mind as I pick up my pen to journal some mornings. (It was my first thought when I started this entry too, so we’ll see where it goes!).
Anyways, I have [...]

I have been reading Lesslie Newbigin’s book “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society” and came to his chapter entitled “Ministerial Leadership for a Missionary Congregation.” (pages 234-241).
These pages are perhaps some of the better pages of text that I have read for quite some time.
Here is a list of some of his better [...]

In my post of the empirical indicators of a missional church Ed C. pointed out how important it is for the missional church to be absolutely dependant on the Holy Spirit as it seeks to be about the mission of Jesus Christ. The 12 indicators did not directly include anything about the HS [...]

Today my wife and I are off to NYC to see “Spamalot” (the broadway musical based on the movie Monty Python & the Holy Grail”
My wife bought me these tickets for father’s day way back when. She rocks.

Brad found this article from the Gospel and our Culture Network today and we spent some time reading through it.
It gives 12 indicators of a missional church. Its really a comprehensive and well thought out and well done article. Here are the 12 things.
I think am going to [...]

I’ve been trying to read some more international blogs and came across one called “Sherman on the Mount” - he’s from Malaysia.
he started a new little series of posts on “Ordering Faith”
here is an excerpt.
At the most apparent dimension, it seems that the Protestant Church is aggressively engaged in mission without truly knowing what the [...]

I’ve been tagged by John Chandler. Here’s how it works…
The explosion of the blog world in the last year has led to countless quality blogs being started, but sometimes it is hard to find them amongst all the other blog muck. Because there are so many quality blogs out there, I though I would try [...]

My brother, after a nice long haitus, is blogging again. i personally think he’s got some good stuff to say…

I had to say I have been proud of the church in the last three weeks. I have seen many, many churches step outside of themselves, step into the mess and really make a difference. One great example is a friend of mine from a church in Iowa who went with a few people [...]

One of the great people in our community sent me this quote after some good discussion last night about the church. Its good stuff, so i thought i would share…
From, “The Art of Loving” by Erich Fromm.
“What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, of the most precious he has, [...]

(I posted this over on my other blog, thought it would share it here too)
I was chatting with someone last night and they made the elusion to the fact that if people would just be people of prayer and be people who studied the text, they would naturally be missional. I wanted to disagree. [...]

I just finished publishing The Well’s podcast feed. Basically, it’s a feed that you can subscribe to your weekly messages with if you use iTunes or some other kind of comporable software.
(update: this link is fixed)

http://www.thewellpa.com/mp3/podcast.xml
Feel free to enjoy!

If you have any kind of practice of inviting your friends to some kind of church function, whether it be a worship service, a small group or whatever, you’ve probably heard the response, “If I step foot into a church building the place will burn down.” Of course, there are a lot of great [...]

Unless you are reading through an RSS feed, you will notice that I changed the design to my site. I didn’t really do this just because I got bored, but more so because I feel like I am processing some different things these days.
My last design was inspired by my sincere belief [...]

I just took a look at my blogroll and make the unfortunate realization that 99% of the blogs that i read are written by men. How inadvertantly sexist of me!
Anyone know of some good women bloggers out there? While many people accuse me of having the emotions of a woman, I [...]

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Luke 9:23
And he said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”
Then he said to them all: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves [...]