Todd Hiestand

Missional Living in Suburban America

Archive of "Quick Thougths" Category

  • Winning Streak

    June 27, 2007 1 Comment

    Hmm…the Cubs have won 6 straight. Why do they do this to me?

  • Thought:

    May 16, 2007 0 Comments

    Thought for the Day: Some People are like Slinkies – not really good for anything, but they sure bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.

  • The Cubs = Killing Me.

    May 12, 2007 0 Comments

    Are killing me. I always go to see the Cubs play when they are in Philly. Last night I went again and they lost. Again. I have never actually seen them win in Philly. I am going again today, hoping …

  • Suburbia

    April 4, 2007 0 Comments

    This is a post by Paul Fromont of Prodigal Kiwi about that fact that he is called to the suburbs. It sounds eerily familiar to my paper but I promise I didn’t read this before I wrote …

  • By the way

    March 27, 2007 0 Comments

    By the way, that really, really cute Guatemalan kid at the top of my blog is my son. We’re in the process of adopting him and hope to have him home in 4-6 weeks (today is March 27th). We …

  • A helpful perspective on evangelism

    March 14, 2007 0 Comments

    This is a very, very helpful perspective on evangelism from Andrew Hamilton in Australia. I feel he has a pretty good balance here in looking at friendship in evangelism and just simply sharing our hope (my alternative to saying “sharing …

  • Blogging Status part deux

    February 21, 2007 1 Comment

    I am only blogging when I feel like it and when it’s a natural extension of things I am already thinking or doing. I am done trying to “be a blogger” and am now fine with being “a guy who …

  • Who is a Christian?

    January 29, 2007 0 Comments

    Scot McKnight on “Who is a Christian?” A very helpful little blog post…

  • A Blog Post From Cole…

    January 29, 2007 1 Comment

    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)

    knhihuh  knjhjhjhjhvbkgkkbbkbkkkbkbkkkkknkhgfds a

    (translation: i love grammie and pappa and i love freckles (grammie …

  • Creating an HTML Signature in Outlook

    January 17, 2007 1 Comment

    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.

  • Kid on Highway?

    December 31, 2006 1 Comment

    Some stories are just too crazy to believe. A kid playing on a highway? Seriously? We have to go through this crazy process (which costs over $25000) to adopt a kid that has no home and this …

  • Time and missional living

    December 24, 2006 1 Comment

    I’m a big fan of living intentionally and there is currently a big gap between my theory and my practice. This post is a great reminder that a little discipline is very helpful. Thanks for the …

  • Goodbye Allen Iverson

    December 19, 2006 0 Comments

    Goodbye Allen Iverson. While I will always be a Bulls fan first, I’ve grown to care about the Sixers for the 10 years I’ve been here. And strange enough, I’m actually going to miss Iverson here…

  • Deven Hester

    December 11, 2006 5 Comments

    The Chicago Bears’ Devin Hester is officially the man. Two returns today for TDs. 6 on the year. New NFL single season record. Oh, have I mentioned he’s a rookie?

  • My Library

    December 5, 2006 3 Comments

    Using Delicious Library and Librarything I am working on putting my library together so I can stop losing books! If you have a mac, delicious library is amazing and fun. Librarything is a great little online …

  • New Website Released

    November 27, 2006 1 Comment

    If you’re interested we just launched a website for Cornerstone Community Church in Maryland.

  • Sermon – November 26

    November 27, 2006 0 Comments

    My most recent sermon is available online. Listen at your own risk. Here’s a one sentence summary: “The Church is sent (into the world) as set apart and unified.”

  • Website Comments

    November 27, 2006 4 Comments

    Due to the massive amounts of spam getting through my three (count em, 3) comment spam blockers, all comments are in moderation for a while. Please do continue to feel free to make comments, I’ll approve them all as …

  • Feeds…

    November 23, 2006 0 Comments

    I finally fixed the “RSS feed” link in my sidebar, feel free to click on that to get some options on how to subscribe to my blog.

  • Winterize Your Blog

    November 23, 2006 0 Comments

    I winterized my blog with snowflakes. How exciting.