If you’re a looking for a great small group/discipleship position at a church (or you know someone who is), this post is for you! There’s a fantastic church in Morristown, NJ looking for a new Spiritual Growth Pastor. Liquid Church, led by founding pastor Tim Lucas, is just a short train ride from the heart of [...]
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Liar, Cheater, Killer…That’s Me.
August 19th, 2010 
alandanielson To me, 1 Samuel 27 is one of the most confusing passages of Scripture in the entire Bible. I have a hard time understanding this chapter in light of the fact that David is the only person in the Bible to be called “a man after God’s own heart”. How can the liar and ruthless [...]
Suck It Up And Ask!
August 17th, 2010 alandanielson “Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ.” ~Gal 6:2 (NASB) This is a fun verse of scripture for me to read when I’m the one helping bear someone else’s burden. It’s not so much fun to read when I’m the one needing the help. I have to confess, I have [...]
90 Days To Change Your Life
August 11th, 2010 alandanielson I was thinking today of a friend I’ve known for a few years. When we met, his marriage was falling apart. He and his wife came into the church for marriage counseling. He was ready to walk, but she was begging him to stay. Now I’m not much of a counselor. I’m not a professional [...]
The Mission of Small Groups Matters!
August 10th, 2010 alandanielson Here’s a set of interviews shot at November 2009′s Right Now conference about the importance of small groups being on mission. Take 5 minutes and listen to the different approaches and perspectives in the video. Then consider coming to the Right Now Conference in 2010. There’s a special small group track that begins early and [...]
Churches Designed To Die
August 2nd, 2010 alandanielson Last week I finished reading Brad Powell’s Change Your Church For Good: The Art of Sacred Cow Tipping and it made me weep. I wept because Brad accurately described so many churches I know and have been a part of. They are churches who were once effectively reaching people, but they crept into decline. I [...]
The One Good Thing In My Life
July 28th, 2010 alandanielson Stacey and I had two of our married friends over for dinner recently. The wife sat down in our living room recliner and said, “I love this chair. For a while it was the one good thing in my life”. She said that because 5 years ago she came to live with us after [...]
A Boring Death
July 27th, 2010 alandanielson Elisha, an Old Testament prophet in Israel and Judah, followed in the footsteps of the similarly named prophet Elijah. As reported in Scripture, the former prophet, Elijah, did not die. Rather, when his time on earth was up, God took him directly to heaven riding on chariots of fire. Before going up to heaven, Elijah [...]
7 Things To Learn From Facebook’s 500 Million Users
July 26th, 2010 alandanielson Facebook recently hit the 500 million user mark. WOW! Think about that for a minute. There are approximately 1 billion Christians in the world and it took 2000 years for us to get there. It has taken Facebook only a few years to reach half that many people. At this pace, Facebook will likely reach [...]
Unexplainable Apart From God
July 21st, 2010 alandanielson In one of my more embarrassing moments at LifeChurch.tv I was asked to play the part of a game show host for a message series about the will of God. It’s interesting that I was chosen for the part, because I always believed with absolute certainty that my being a LifeChurch.tv was God’s will. There [...]
