Top Ten Quotes: Switch
Not long ago I took our High-Capacity Volunteers through Chip and Dan Heath’s Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard. When our team was mapping out 2020 reading assignments, none of us...
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Napoleon, Thirds, and Going Forward after COVID
You’ve heard the anecdote that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder “What just happened?!?” That notion may...
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FaithBridge Church (Manchester, New Hampshire)
Each month, we revisit a series of posts called Guest Services Road Trip. We’ll travel the country from the comforts of our couches, interviewing leaders who are in the trenches of ministry. Do you have an idea...
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New Weekender Date for 2020
Does anyone remember calendars? Those things we used to use to keep track of appointments, outings, and time. Speaking of, does anyone remember time?!? COVID-19 threw a proverbial wrench in the works for our...
What’s Normal Is Nothing Is Normal.
If we could all have a moment of collective honesty, we might admit that these days, we feel like a herd of two-legged turtles with vertigo stampeding through chunky peanut butter. Maybe you don’t...
5 Marks of a Calm Leader
We are not living in the most relaxing of times. I write this sentence in the middle of a global pandemic, but truth be told, you’ll likely be able to apply it at any...
Danny Recommends: Kensington Charging Station
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...
Top Ten Quotes: Be the Bridge
A few weeks ago I shared my summer reading list for 2020. As I was assembling that list earlier this year, I reached out to trusted friends to ask what and who should be...
Graduation(ish) Day
Tomorrow, our third-born will leave high school. It’s the continuation of a strange lifelong journey that began in the shadow of 9/11. Like everyone in his generation, Jase doesn’t remember a world without color-coded...
Riverside Church (Big Lake, Minnesota)
Each month, we revisit a series of posts called Guest Services Road Trip. We’ll travel the country from the comforts of our couches, interviewing leaders who are in the trenches of ministry. Do you have an idea...
Stop. Listen. Read.
Our society is broken. We’ve backed into our corners, put up our fists, circled our wagons, and muted our enemies. Earlier this week, much of social media went dark with #blackouttuesday, an effort to...
Volunteer Culture: Coaching and Correcting
You just landed on an every-once-in-a-while series called Primer Posts, a curated collection of my favorite articles and books on one particular topic. These are the resources I usually point to when people ask about getting...
Summer Reading List 2020: Mine
Earlier this week I pitched ten books that I think you should read this summer. But earlier still, I started polling friends on the socials to figure out what you’re reading that I should...
Summer Reading List 2020: Yours.
Fellow book lovers, there are two times each year that we get our time to shine. One is those is the end-of-year “top reads” list which everyone else views as braggadocious, but we all...
