October 29th, 2009 
alandanielson I recently received a copy of “Sacred Roads” a small group curriculum written by Heather Zempel. Heather is a friend and one of the sharpest small group and discipleship minds in the country. I’m also honored to serve with Heather on a board of editors for www.smallgrouptrader.com (formerly www.smallgroupexchange.com). Since she was kind enough to provide [...]
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Tags: Curriculum, dvd, group, groups, heather, lifeway, review, roads, sacred, small, study, threads, zempel 
2 Comments » October 28th, 2009 alandanielson Next week, November 5-7 I’m honored to be speaking at the Lead Now ’09 Conference and I want to give a way some tickets! The conference will take place in Irving (DFW), Texas and in 40 plus satellite locations in the US and Canada. Keep reading to find out how you can win. I can [...]
October 26th, 2009 alandanielson I had the privilege of being a part of the Willow Creek Group Life Conference a couple of days ago and I had a fantastic time! Every time I attend a conference I feel like my head is going to explode. I leave with so many new and fresh ideas that I want to utilize [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: addition, conference, Conferences, evaluating, Leadership, ministry, momentum, questions, subtraction 2 Comments » October 22nd, 2009 alandanielson This is a repost from my old blog on April 27, 2009 —————————————————————- Picture this small group: People throw all their junk out for everyone to see. There’s a bunch of Drama. The leader throws together some final thoughts. Everyone goes home with no one caring enough to help each other sort out their junk [...]
October 21st, 2009 alandanielson One Sunday morning at church we had a bird fly into the lobby, but then the simple-minded creature couldn’t get back out! I’m not sure what this bird had to eat, but let’s just say that breakfast wasn’t agreeing with it. The bird was dropping messy bombs everywhere! We propped the doors open and tried [...]
October 16th, 2009 alandanielson So a couple of days ago I threw out a request for blog ideas. One of my favorite requests actually came from two different people and it was to tell how I built the lightsaber I made for my son’s 9th birthday. So this post is of little spiritual significance, but it was fun to [...]
Posted in Special Tags: build, How, led, light, lightsaber, lightsabers, luxeon, own, polycarbonate, saber, sabers, sink, to, tube, your 2 Comments » October 6th, 2009 alandanielson Yesterday my youngest son, Hayden, stole some candy while shopping with mommy. Heading out of the store and being a not-very-sneaky three-year-old he said with a grin, “I got candy”. Immediately my wife, Stacey, took him back into the store to return the candy all the while telling him never to steal. He got mad…really [...]
Posted in Special Tags: apologize, apology, candy, child, discipline, God, God's, lifting, love, manager, punnishment, shop, shoplifting, stealing, stole, store 3 Comments » October 5th, 2009 alandanielson Find Your Strongest Life by Marcus Buckingham is being released today but I was given an advanced copy of it to review. Initially I was excited because I LOVED the other two Buckingham books I’ve read, First Break All The Rules and Now Discover Your Strengths. But when I realized this new book was written [...]
