November 25th, 2009 
alandanielson Each year at Thanksgiving my father leads us through a written piece that he wrote about being grateful. This year I thought it would be fun to share one I wrote with you. These particular verses of Scripture have been meaningful to me over the last few months and tomorrow my family will read this [...]
November 19th, 2009 alandanielson Tonight at midnight thousands (if not millions) of fans across our country will be in line to watch the midnight showing of The Twilight Saga: New Moon which is the ongoing tale of a young girl named Bella who’s in love with a Vampire named Edward. Yeah it’s as sappy as it sounds. And Yes [...]
November 18th, 2009 alandanielson I rented the latest Star Trek movie last night and actually found a great bit of wisdom for ministry in it. Specifically, I was moved by the conversation between Captain Pike and the young Jim Kirk right after he’d lost a bar ffight. Pike said, “Your father was captain of a star ship for 12 [...]
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No Comments » November 17th, 2009 alandanielson My friend, Samuel Sebuliba is the Lead Pastor of a church plant called “New Destiny Community Church”, in Uganda. Samuel sent me a note on Facebook requesting prayer. Here’s what he said: Hello my brother, How have u been? How is your transition going? I am in South Africa and will later be going [...]
November 15th, 2009 alandanielson In the wake of a struggling economy and the senseless killings at Fort Hood, Americans are asking the question, “Why is all this bad stuff happening?” The Old Testament book of Habakkuk addresses this very issue. Here are some previews of a three week small group study we put together at LifeChurch.tv about the book [...]
Posted in Small Groups, Spiritual Growth Tags: Alan, bad, Curriculum, Danielson, do, dvd, dvds, economy, fort, free, group, groups, habakkuk, happen, hood, recession, small, struggling, things, video, why No Comments » November 8th, 2009 alandanielson LeadNow Changes It’s Name! I had the great honor of speaking at the LeadNow conference and one of the first things we all learned at the conference is that the conference name has been changed to the RightNow conference. The basic idea is that we want to make a difference in our world and we [...]
Posted in Leadership, Special Tags: #rn09, american, conference, dream, lead, leadnow, leadnow09, now, right, rightnow, rightnow09, trader No Comments » November 5th, 2009 alandanielson Today I have the privilege of sharing a video with you. It is the story is about a little boy named Sorie from Sierra Leone and my friend Jim Pierce whom God used to work a miracle in Sorie’s life. Please watch all 8 minutes and witness the power of one small group on mission. [...]
November 3rd, 2009 alandanielson This Thursday I’ll be speaking at the LeadNow ’09 conference and I’ve been working a lot on my talk. A number of months ago I wrote the following post on my old blog and it inspired my talk for this Thursday. I’m posting it again to give you a sneak preview of what’s to come [...]
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