February 24th, 2010 
alandanielson Yesterday I received an email from a small group pastor about curriculum and courses for new believers. I can’t count how many times people have asked me about this same subject, so I thought it was time to write a post about it. The problem is usually put to me this way: ”We’re a fast growing church [...]
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Tags: Alpha, Christianity Explored, Church Growth, Discipleship, New Believers, Spiritual Growth 
2 Comments » February 23rd, 2010 alandanielson This week I’m celebrating one year since I started my blog and I thought I’d write about the things people Google that lead them to my site. Most Common Search Terms/Phrases that lead to my blog: Alan Danielson Heather Zempel Sacred Roads Sticky Church I feel guilty I feel like giving up All of these [...]
Posted in Small Groups, Special, Spiritual Growth Tags: google, Kicking People Out, Personal Growth, Relationships, Spiritual Growth 2 Comments » February 22nd, 2010 alandanielson Holy smokes, I can’t believe I started blogging a year ago! When I first started I was using a service other than WordPress.com and it just wasn’t cutting it. Eventually I moved, but my old blog host didn’t have a compatible exporting tool for WordPress so I lost a bunch of my old stuff. I [...]
February 17th, 2010 alandanielson Mike Koehler is my guest blogger today and I’m honored to host him! Mike used to be an editor at Oklahoma’s largest newspaper (The Oklahoman) and now he’s the Social Media Director at the well known OKC public relations firm, Schnake Turnbo Frank. I met mike at a local tech conference and he asked me [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: Guest Blogger, Layman, layperson, Mike Koehler, Preaching, Public Speaking No Comments » February 17th, 2010 alandanielson My guest blogger today is Steve Yarrow. I had the privilege of meeting Steve through the Willow Creek Association. He is the is the small group pastor at Northridge Church in Plymouth, Michigan (Detroit Metro Area). I recently spoke at a leader training event at Northridge and heard Steve talk about something [...]
Posted in Leadership, Mission, Small Groups Tags: Guest Blogger, mission, Missional/Outwardness, northridge church, Steve Yarrow No Comments » February 16th, 2010 alandanielson Derek Irvin is the Small Group Pastor at Northview Christian Life Church in Carmel, Indiana. They are a church of about 3300 on the weekends with 170 small groups. Amazingly, 55 of those groups are less than 6 months new, and roughly 70% of the congregation is in a Group! Derek would never say this [...]
Posted in Small Groups Tags: decentralized training, online training, small group leader training 2 Comments » February 15th, 2010 alandanielson For the next three days I have the privilege of hosting guests on my blog who have influenced me personally! Today I’ll introduce them to you. I hope that they are able to contribute to your life the way that they’ve contributed to mine. —————————————– Derek Irvin Derek is on staff at Northview Christian Life Church [...]
February 11th, 2010 alandanielson The ductwork in my house doesn’t circulate much warm air to the bathroom, so getting out of the shower on a cold morning is not much fun at all! To solve this problem I bought a small space heater that makes the bathroom nice and toasty! As a result, this little heater has worked really well until [...]
February 10th, 2010 alandanielson It’s easy to feel like giving up. Times are hard, relationships are hard, work is hard, serving God is hard. The bottom line is this: Life is hard. So what is one to do? I wish I had an easy answer for you, but I don’t. All I can say is that when I’m feeling [...]
February 9th, 2010 alandanielson I’m continually humbled that God chooses to use me and give me opportunities to help the mission of His Church move forward. Every time God blesses me with these opportunities I think four things: “What were you thinking, Lord?” “I don’t deserve this.” “Thank You for the privilege of serving You, Jesus.” “Help me to [...]
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