My blogging has been a bit erratic over the past couple of months. Mainly because I’ve been working on two little books that will be released within a couple of months of each other. Their content couldn’t be more different from each other. It’s been fun to go back and forth between the two. The […]
The Dark Side: An Excerpt From When To Leave
Here’s an excerpt from my new ebook available at Amazon. The Dark Side: Why You Can’t Afford to Stay Way Too Long “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there […]
January 11, 2012 by 4 Comments
The Most Powerful Tool At Our Disposal
This is the latest installment of the “lessons learned from failure” series. You’ll find links to related posts at the bottom of this one. ****** Fifteen years ago I had a story I wanted to tell the world about my life. It was the story of how moved from Texas to the Pacific Northwest to […]
January 4, 2012 by 11 Comments
My Favorite Posts from 2011
Here is a list of my favorite posts for 2011. Not the most popular by pageviews, but the ones I enjoyed writing more than the others or ones that hold special meaning to me. They’re ordered chronologically. 1. Beware of Restaurants with Large Menus 2. A Mean Prayer 3. A Box Full of Ticket Stubs […]
December 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Top Posts for 2011
Here are the top ten posts from wadehodges.com based on pageviews. I’m surprised by a couple of these, especially the two posts that are four and six years old. I may do a list of my favorite posts that didn’t make this list tomorrow. As always, thanks for reading. 1. An Emerging Church of Christ […]
December 28, 2011 by 1 Comment
A Few Christmas Stories
I’ve had my head down on a writing project about spiritual fitness that I hope to release in early 2012 so I haven’t had time to flesh out a blog post this week. I still have a few posts left in the “lessons learned from failure” series and I hope to get at least one […]
December 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Christmas Songs Don’t Deliver The Goods
I recently popped into a Walgreens on a Saturday night to pick up a couple of travel necessities: hair gel and gummy peaches. “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays” by The Carpenters was playing loud and clear. Standing there in the hair care aisle looking for a travel size tube of gel, I […]
December 14, 2011 by 4 Comments
What A Wretched Fan I Am!
This morning I took my pain from last night’s loss to Scripture. Here is my paraphrase of Romans 7:14-25. **** We know that rooting for a winning football team is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to the Dallas Cowboys. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to […]
December 12, 2011 by 1 Comment
My Failure Was Not As Public As I Thought
Back in October, I sat down and made a list of the lessons I’ve learned in the past year. I’ve been sharing these lessons here on the blog. You can find links to them at the end of this post. I’ve wanted to write about a number of these things for months, but I refrained […]
December 6, 2011 by 12 Comments
Why Public Failure Was Just What I Needed
Perhaps the hardest thing about shutting the church plant down last year was the specter of failing in public. For fundraising and recruiting purposes, I communicated the early successes of our project through every medium at my disposal: blog posts, tweets, status updates, newsletters, emails, and sermons at other churches. I tried to build a […]
December 1, 2011 by 3 Comments
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons