If you aren’t using a feedreader to read my blog, you’ll hopefully notice that I’ve given the site quite a face lift. I basically started from scratch and redeveloped it from the ground up. I was the kid who always changed his room around every month just for something new so this [...]
There was a group of 23 Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban last week. 23. Kidnapped. They are a christian group and the pastor of the group was the first killed and “Police in southeastern Ghazni province found Bae’s bullet-riddled body in the Qara Bagh district, where the Koreans were kidnapped.” Yesterday, they [...]
I have a gift certificate to amazon.com that I am itching to spend. Anyone have any book recommendations that they want to share? What books have had big impact on you? What books did you find enjoyable. Either fiction or non. Can be Church related or not.
Ok. let me know [...]
So, I’ve pretty much gotten no work done today what-so-ever. That’s because I’ve been fighting the annoying service known as Feedblitz which we USED to use for our weekly updates at The Well. But, since their service stinks, we’re now trying out listbox.com for sending out updates. We’ll see how that goes…
Oh, [...]
Most of the people who know me know that I have a sweet ride. It’s pictured to the left here.
Its a 1995 Plymouth Acclaim: Power windows, power locks, power steering. Giant Rust spot on the roof. Mass amounts of paint chipping off the roof and hood and trunk. Its runs. [...]
Melanie and I would just like to share our appreciation of all who have shown us such love and compassion over the last few days. I have a lot of thoughts in my head that I hope to get out onto “paper” (i.e. this blog) soon. But, we have been overwhelmed with an [...]
It is painful to share, but my wife Melanie had a miscarriage early Monday morning. She is physically doing alright and will have some minor surgery on Tuesday morning.
I was just observing yesterday with a friend how our family has gone through a roller coaster of emotions with the news that our son Mason is [...]
Yep, that’s right. Its been a crazy two weeks around the Hiestand house. First comes news of another new baby and Friday night we heard from our adoption agency that we are officially done with the final part of the adoption process. (Actually, the papers were signed off on May 11 and they sat on [...]
So, The Well has about 12 people who are available from August 5-12 for some kind of mission trip. We had plans to head to New Orleans and work with a local church down there but the plans have unfortunately fallen through due to some strange circumstances and we are now looking for another [...]
Allelon.org, a fantastic missional resource, has generously published my paper called, “The Gospel and the God Forsaken: the challenge of the missional church in suburbia” which I put up on my blog a few months back here.
They also put it up along with a post by Alan Roxburgh on their new blog called “Moving into [...]
Melanie and Cole and I are heading down to Virginia Tech University tomorrow - Monday. I’ll be preaching at the two services at NLCF. NLCF is a church that was started by my friend JR Woodward and is now pastored by Jim Pace and Chris Backert.
Our church has had a great friendship [...]
Or, perhaps I should say, “Stop looking at porn.”
J.R. Briggs’ faith community is hosting Craig Gross of XXXChurch fame. I really appreciate what Gross and his cronies are doing with their ministry and I even have their accountability software x3 watch installed on this computer.
We have a group heading up there so if you [...]
Yeah, that’s right. We’re hopefully about 5-7 weeks away from finalizing our adoption and it turns out my lovely wife is definitely prego. She’s about 2.5 months along and after a week of walking around like deer in headlights, we’re starting to try and figure this whole “2 kids in 6 months” thing [...]