How to Help Your Volunteers to Grow Spiritually
Leading volunteers is like (say it with me, you know all the tropes)… If there’s one topic that comes up when leaders gather together, it is how to best lead volunteers. Our life verses toggle...
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Be Kind, Be Firm: Setting Expectations for Your Guest Services Systems
We’ve either been there, or we will be: “there” is that moment when a regular attendee is cheating the system you’ve set up for your guests, or for a certain demographic of your congregation. For...
Danny Recommends: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition
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...
Annual Blog Survey: Win 50 Bucks!
Every January I share the annual blog survey: a set of questions that help drive and shape content for the following year. (And believe me…your feedback really does drive and shape stuff. This ain’t just...
Top Ten Quotes: On Speaking Well
A speechwriter for Reagan and a consultant for The West Wing? Count me in. I’ve long been fascinated with Peggy Noonan, but on the recommendation of a friend I picked up On Speaking Well: How...
Pave Where the People are Walking
My friend Justin Waples shared this video with me, and it’s good enough to share with you: Designer Tom Hulme introduces us to the concept of desire paths, or the natural “point A to point...
How Does a Hospitable Culture Apply to a Counseling Ministry?
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...
2024 Year in Review: Books
In the last post I told you that I love the final week of the year, because I’m a sucker for everyone’s lists. Especially book lists. While it was hard to narrow down my top...
2024 Year in Review: Posts
The last week of the year is one of my favorites on social media (and let’s be honest, it’s hard to use “social media” and “favorites” in the same sentence these days). I love it...
Merry Christmas from the Franks Family!
(If you’re an email subscriber or RSS feed reader and can’t see this year’s Christmas card, click here.) Again this year, I’m reminded of how grateful I am that you show up to this little...
