Confessions of *Failure and Success

Every time One Village Coffee the company I represent has a hard month selling coffee I get down. I ask questions like, can I do it?
You see in the past three months I have accepted the role of the sales manager and primary sales rep for OVC. For the longest time I have [...]

Ok here is how it goes:
I get a call on the phone, “What you are saying on your blog is important, but i do not think people read it because it is to ugly.” I love honest friends.
So what does, www.toddhiestand.com do, that’s right he makes me a new blog. I can honestly [...]

That is probably why I do not listen to many sermons.
Recently a friend was asking me about my community group, in fact I have spent a lot of time talking about this group this past week. The Livingroom is the intentional community I have participated in for the past two years. Here is [...]

Because I wanted to be one since I was thirteen.
I had all the experiences of being “called” at a very young age, I went to the right schools and was mentored by the right people.
Now I have a new respect and perspective on the role of the pastor.
I think it is one of the [...]

My life is changing,I have more of a belly.My hair is thinning,I care less about clothes.
People are separation,Isolation is becoming easy.Winter is coming,Depression is setting in.
Friends are situational,Alliances are being formed.Disappointment is evident,Relationships will never be the same.
I want to start having children,My life is to stressful.I want to sleep good at night,My mind wont [...]

What if we started every Christian meeting with, “Hello my name is… and I am a human being,”
I think the institutional church would be a different place.
A confession:
It has been hard for me to write for the past month:
The very reason I write is what keeps me from writing. I need to write when [...]

Maybe it will take an open hand initiative.
What do you see when you look at this picture?
I see a boy giving all he has…
And I hear a voice asking:
“What will you give…”
The problem of poverty can end…

May I introduce Sally Morganthawler, a woman who has a voice and perspective needed in this time of transition. I had the pleasure of listening to her story for an etrek class. www.theooze.com/etrek/ For two days I joined in a conversation about gender issues and flattened leadership at www.Biblical.edu . It was during these [...]

I believe:
*everyone leads or can lead*there is a broader view of leadership*there are historical and cultural factors that form our perspective of leadership*woman can lead as well as men, (when people view woman as leaders)*people need a scapegoat for their own failure to lead*the churches view of leadership is narrow*the Evangelical world view sets leaders [...]

The excitement of a new life.The possibility of greatnessThe possibility of happiness.
Why are we doing this together?
Do we believe in the process, or do we just want the rush?
I do not want to feel this if it is not real.I do not want a one night stand…
I want to believe in the miracle of when [...]