Todd Hiestand

Missional Living in Suburban America

Archive for December, 2007

  • One More Time Devin Hester

    December 30, 2007 0 Comments

    I mean come on. This guy is ridiculous. I have never seen someone slow down the game like Hester does. Its like the rest of the players are in slow motion as he …

  • The Gospel

    December 30, 2007 0 Comments

    “The gospel is the work of God to restore humans to union with God and communion with others, in the context of a community for the good of others and the world.”
    - Scot McKnight in Jesus Creed

  • Construction in progress done.

    December 30, 2007 1 Comment

    I’m doing some maintenance stuff on my website at the moment (Sunday, 12/30). It might be all out of wack for a bit. Sorry about that.

    Update:

    New Year Cleaning:
    I’m not sure how much of a difference you’ll …

  • Ecclesia National Gathering

    December 27, 2007 0 Comments

    For about 6 years I (and therefore The Well) have been relationally connected to about 10 or so church planters from all over the US. These men and women have been …

  • Welcome Little Child

    December 25, 2007 0 Comments

    A little something I wrote as I was thinking about the significance of the incarnation.

    Can you imagine…

    Waiting for thousands of years

    For the one who would deliver you and your people

    from oppression, from sin, from injustice,

    from the …

  • Books of 2007: Business / Fiction Books

    December 23, 2007 2 Comments

    I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. …

  • A Christmas Benediction

    December 23, 2007 1 Comment

    Tony blesses us with this gem:

    A Franciscan Benediction:

    May God bless you with discomfort,
    at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships,
    so that you may live deep within your heart.

    May God bless you with anger,
    at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people,
    so that …

  • Books of 2007: Pastoral Leadership

    December 22, 2007 0 Comments

    I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. …

  • Anybody got a van?

    December 19, 2007 1 Comment

    For the last three months a team of people have been driving down to Philadelphia every monday night to serve and get to know the homeless population down there. Just last week we even brought a few of friends …

  • Last Minute Gift Giving

    December 19, 2007 0 Comments

    If you are looking for some last minute gifts, let me encourage you to head over to One Village Coffee and get some of their Kenya AA (It’s half way down the store page). I am drinking …

  • Welcome

    December 18, 2007 0 Comments

    Welcome to my handy dandy little blog. If you are new there might be some interesting things to read about. We have adopted a child from Guatemala. I wrote a paper on being Missional in …

  • Books of 2007: Church Leadership

    December 17, 2007 0 Comments

    I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. …

  • Books of 2007: General Theology

    December 14, 2007 1 Comment

    I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. …

  • Books of 2007: Missional Theology

    December 13, 2007 0 Comments

    I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. …

  • Guest Blogger: God is Here

    December 12, 2007 2 Comments

    I’ve not ever had someone else post on my blog before. But there is a first time for everything. Shanna Cummings is a member of The Well and we had some neat discussion around the topic of the …

  • God is Here. Let it Rock Your World.

    December 10, 2007 1 Comment

    This is my sermon manuscript from Sunday, December 10. I had the daunting task of preaching Exodus 35-40 this week. While the text looked to be a bore, it turned out to be a very, very fun text …

  • Individual Salvation and Restoration of all Things

    December 5, 2007 4 Comments

    Quote of the day from The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World in the chapter by Tim Keller,

    “In General I don’t think we’ve done a good job at developing ways of communicating the gospel that include both salvation from …

  • Merry Christmas Scott

    December 4, 2007 2 Comments

    I have a great friend, his name is Scott Hackman.

    Scott is co-founder of One Village Coffee.

    Scott is a free thinker.

    Scott doesn’t fit in your box.

    Scott wants to change the world (or at least help the people who are).

    Scott is …

  • Mission Statements are just mission statements

    December 4, 2007 0 Comments

    Doing some work on looking ahead to 2008 as we seek to do our best to be a church that matters for the Kingdom.

    In my reading I came across this Quote of the day,

    “Developing a statement of …

  • New Christmas Music?

    December 4, 2007 3 Comments

    My wife enjoys Christmas music. I’m not quite as nuts about it but I don’t mind it so much. The problem is that its the same thing over and over and over again every year. I want …