Remember the Wonder
Few days in the calendar year elicit more trips down memory lane than Christmas Eve. No other holiday comes close. My birthday doesn’t compete. Pound for pound and minute for minute, my waking hours on...
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How Does a Hospitable Culture Apply to Our Onboarding Practices?
We’re in an ongoing series called Hospitable Culture. The big question is this: What if hospitality isn’t something we do, it’s simply who we are? In other words, what if we could bump hospitality beyond...
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Top Ten Quotes: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Long-time readers know my love for British pastor and author Andrew Wilson. His book God of All Things is one of my favorites. He just dropped an incredibly short book specific to the season. It’s...
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The Full List of Our 2025 Training Opportunities
It’s just about time to tear off the last sheet of your 2024 wall calendar (note to Millennials: look it up) and see what 2025 has to offer. I want to do my part by...
Remember the Wonder
Few days in the calendar year elicit more trips down memory lane than Christmas Eve. No other holiday comes close. My birthday doesn’t compete. Pound for pound and minute for minute, my waking hours on...
How Does a Hospitable Culture Apply to Our Onboarding Practices?
We’re in an ongoing series called Hospitable Culture. The big question is this: What if hospitality isn’t something we do, it’s simply who we are? In other words, what if we could bump hospitality beyond...
Top Ten Quotes: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Long-time readers know my love for British pastor and author Andrew Wilson. His book God of All Things is one of my favorites. He just dropped an incredibly short book specific to the season. It’s...
The Full List of Our 2025 Training Opportunities
It’s just about time to tear off the last sheet of your 2024 wall calendar (note to Millennials: look it up) and see what 2025 has to offer. I want to do my part by...
2025 Guest Services Weekenders: Reserve Your Free Seats Now!
Sometimes it helps to break out of your context and get into another one…to capture some “we can do that!” moments by observing other teams doing it. That’s the gist of our Guest Services Weekenders:...
Introducing My Church Staff
Over the years our team has been privileged to host hundreds of leaders from churches across the country. Whether it’s our Guest Services Weekenders, our One-Day Workshops, or our upcoming Connections Confab, those gatherings are...
Giving Tuesday: Libre Retreats
Here in the good ol’ U.S.A., we’ve survived Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Are-These-Leftovers-Still-Okay-to-Eat Sunday, and Cyber Monday. But today is Giving Tuesday, and for the first time ever, I’m highlighting that day and an...
God, Give Us the Grace to be Grateful.
This post originally appeared in 2021, and has become something of an annual Thanksgiving Day tradition. (If you’re like me, you can use the reminder.) Read on, and enjoy this day of feasting and gratitude....
Let the Winds Blow
In his fascinating (if not terrifying) book The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt tells the story of the Biosphere 2 project, an 80s-era experiment which took place in the deserts of Arizona. The goal was to...
Danny Recommends: Candlelight Service Candles
Every so often we dip our toes into a series called Danny Recommends:, posts that tip you off to the stuff that I…you know. The recommendations might be products for use in your ministry, resources that will...
