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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...

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...

You Can’t Define Your Guests’ Expectations.

If there’s one predictable thing about people, it’s that people are unpredictable. They zig when we expect them to zag. They’re offended when we expect them to be delighted. They swerve left when their turn...

Top Ten Quotes: Write Better

One of the more enjoyable books I read this year was Andrew Le Peau’s Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality. Writers: you need this book. People who don’t view yourself as...

Square Pegs vs. Round Holes

Call me crazy (many have), but I’m a firm believer that life is too short to do something you’re not wired to do. I learned this my first semester in seminary. When you’re in seminary, you...

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