Archive for May, 2009
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A Short Introduction to NASCAR Fashion
Today, my son and I took a (now annual) trip to Dover, DE to see the NASCAR Nationwide Series race. It was a beautiful day and a great race. Since I had a zoom lens, I took the opportunity …
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Barna Describes Casual Christians
George Barna, in a recent interview sent to me from your friend and mine JR Briggs, says the following when talking about the group he calls “casual Christians”…
Casual Christianity is faith in moderation. It allows them to feel religious …
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Throwback Thursday: Giving is Only As Strong As Your Mission
One of the things that is annoying about blogs is that once a post has been on your site for a few days, it gets buried under the new stuff and people tend not to find it unless they find it from …
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The Natural: Cole Hiestand
At Bat: Cole Hiestand from Todd Hiestand on Vimeo.
Cole is 5 1/2 and has been hitting like this for about a year and a …
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Pastors in their Offices
“The initial locus and primary focus of [pastors] work is in their offices. Time-management studies again and again have confirmed that pastors invest a large percentage of their time in their offices – in meetings, in doing administrative work, …
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Blogging on the Good News
JR Woodward has been running a great series on the Good News over at his blog the last few months. Some good people have contributed. My effort appeared on his blog late last week. You you …
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Are American Christians Selfish?
The book Passing the Plate is addressing the “generosity problem” of American Christians. The authors claim (and I believe them) that their research shows that if American Christians were more generous, we could change the world. They …
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The Furious Longing of God
I’m almost embrassed to say that I have never actually read a book by Brennan Manning. From what …
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What Role Does Confession Play in Your Life?
I’ve been working with someone in our church to take a long hard look at the culture and practices of we’ve developed in our church around the issue of spiritual formation, spiritual direction and discipleship. In this, I’ve been …
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Life with Three Kids
We have three kids in our house.
Three different personalities.
Three different temperaments.
One of them just sits there and sleeps most of the day.
The other two go back and forth between being best friends and wanting to kill each other.
The friends …
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Welcome Elliot James Hiestand
For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter or Facebook you might not have heard that we now have three kids. Elliot James Hiestand was born on Saturday at 12:59pm. As you can tell from the …
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The Next Steps for The Well
May 12, 2009
Dear Church Family,
During our worship gathering on Sunday we took a break from our regular sermon series in order to look back at the early dreams and passions of The Well and to celebrate how God …
