Top Ten Quotes: At Your Best
At my core, I’m a guy who likes to work smarter, not harder. I enjoy maximizing my schedule and mapping my ideal week. I believe that checklists are one of God’s greatest gifts to us....
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Why First-Time Guest Follow Up Matters (and Isn’t as Annoying as You Might Think)
If you want to divide a room full of church staff members, toss out a fun topic like Calvinism. Oops. I mean first-time guest follow up. (That paragraph was predestined to be unfunny.) There are...
Creating Emotional Attachments (That Our Guests Don’t Care About)
Join me as I process something in real-time, won’t you? (Why, thank you. Thank you for joining me.) For all of the church-branded t-shirts and caps and coffee mugs and bumper stickers that we foist...
You Shall Not Password
Occasionally we hit the brakes on posts related to guest services, volunteer culture, and the like, and veer off into completely unrelated topics just for fun. Today is one of those days. Scene: my office...
God, Give Us the Grace to be Grateful.
It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States, and the purpose of Thanksgiving is to…well…give thanks. In your family or friend group, perhaps you have different ways of doing that: your Methodist preacher granddaddy says the...
How to Lead a Ministry You Don’t Love
If you haven’t been there, you will: You get hired for your dream job or at your dream organization. The job description is everything you’ve ever wanted, except for that one little add-on ministry at...
Danny Recommends: DPark Radio
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...
2022 Connections Confab: Apply Today!
It’s time to get the band back together. Back in 2015 we launched a coaching network called Connections Confab. Today we count over 60 leaders from churches in 21 states as part of our Confab...
Top Ten Quotes: The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game tackles the topic of … well … infinite games (no need to get crazy-creative with titles, am I right)? Sinek sets up the categories of finite games – those with...
How to Lead a Grandfathered-In Volunteer Team
Q: Now that you’re gonna be a grandfather, do you plan on making these types of puns in future post titles? [Suddenly-disgruntled blog reader, Monowi, Nebraska] A: Probably. (And please, call me “Pops.” Grandfather was...
