“The Well has a lot of things to go to, but not a lot of things to do.” I’ve heard this statement a few times and honestly it hold some truth. One of the disadvantages of being a more “organic” community is that it is often very hard to know where and how you can [...]
Scot McKnight on “Who is a Christian?” A very helpful little blog post…
This is a Cole’s first blog post ever (with commentary by me)
ups (i have a UPS mousepad)
cole hiestand (he can type cole, i helped with the last name)
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(translation: i love grammie and pappa and i love freckles (grammie and papa’s bird)
At The Well we’ve spent the last many number of months in discussion about how God is calling us to be the Church that follows Jesus and blesses the world. After much discussion and prayer together, we’ve landed on a few areas of focus for 2007 (and beyond). We realize that in our [...]
I saw this image on CNN.com’s home page. I quickly averted my eyes as I don’t want to look at this. I don’t want to think about what it would be like to be carrying my three year old in the same situation. I have no clue who this guy is. I don’t know the [...]
So, many of you won’t care about this but I have upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 (Dreamhost has their one-click installs upgraded already which is very impressive). I basically want to see how the new text editor they are touting works out so I am doing a few things that usually broke the old one to [...]
Man, its like this cartoonist has been watching me work or something!
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
Thanks for pointing this out Church Geek.
So, I am not usually into these things but Matt is from Delaware and I figured because of that unfortunate fact, I should have pity on him.
So, here is what i am supposed to do:
1) Grab the book closest to you
2) Open to page 123, go down to the fourth sentence
3) Post the [...]
As you will tell over the next few weeks, I am a big (home grown) Bears fan. I spent about 20 great years of my good life living in Chicago (So, don’t call me a bandwagon jumper like the rest of you!). I was 8 when the Ditka and da bears ran [...]
We have some new pictures of our soon-to-be-adopted son Mason. If you haven’t been paying attention, we’re adopting from Guatemala and we’re hoping to bring him home in April or May. View these pictures at top of my blog or head to our flickr account.
In my ETREK class at Biblical Theological Seminary, Keith Matthews is discussing the topic of “Why People Change.” He outlines two main reasons people undergo major life / character transformation:
In a state where things are so painful it compels you to change
A new compelling vision for a different reality of life
Now, here is something [...]
God I confess that a need of instant gratification has infected my spiritual life in more ways than I even know. Lord, grant me the patience to allow you to form into the image of your Son at your speed and in your ways. Not just my mechanical actions, or my external appearances, but [...]
Here is a great resource for creating an HTML signature block in outlook. I had to host the images for the signature block I working on our server, but it worked like a charm.
I always get chills when I watch this speech. This is the whole 17 minute version.
I am about finished reading this book for a class I am taking with John Franke (the author). This book is part of a series of books written for “Armchair Theologians.” This series is described as, “Written by experts but designed for the novice, the Armchair series provides accurate, concise, and [...]
Over Christmas we spent a number of days back in Chicago. The Chicago area is known (at least to those who have any clue) as the home of some of the best food in the world. I have developed three “must eat at” spots when I am visiting my childhood home:
1) Portillos Hot [...]
Unless you haven’t been paying attention, the iPhone was unveiled by Apple yesterday and, well, like almost all things Apple, its basically amazing. Apple never ceases to amaze and they sure didn’t yesterday.
I of course, want one. But the price tag is a bit to high for me to justify [...]
I’ve made a two new posts on my MereMission site and if you don’t read this site I wanted to point you there…
What are we doing? This quick post was from my reading in Karl Barth and focuses on how easy it is for us to lose sight on Jesus in the midst of doing [...]
I stole a page out of JR Woodard’s book this year at The Well and wrote The Well’s version of Hebrews 11. It you want to know what The Well is all about, read this first. It is such a privledge to be part of the leadership of such an amazing group of [...]