December 7th, 2010 
alandanielson Originally posted 12-10-2009. Reposted 12-07-2010. ——————————————————————- I sometimes talk to pastors who are frustrated because small group ministry just isn’t working at their church. They tell me about all the great models and strategies that they’ve adapted from other churches, but feel like nothing seems to work. The mistake that most pastors make is that [...]
November 4th, 2010 alandanielson Originally posted 11-24-2009. Reposted 11-04-2010 —————————————————————— My family and I are honored to be a part of LifeChurch.tv in Oklahoma City. My Senior Pastor, Craig Groeschel, said something profound when he was talking to a campus pastor about character. He said, “It’s the things no one sees that result in what everyone wants”. The bottom [...]
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Tags: Character, church, closet, craig, groeschel, Jesus, life, LifeChurch.tv, secrets, success, tv 
1 Comment » August 3rd, 2010 alandanielson Today I want to tell you about Vince. Vince was a married father of three girls who sold parts at a car dealership. He became a Christian at my church in Santa Fe and his life was radically changed. It was important to Vince to play pool with his buddies on Monday nights at a [...]
June 10th, 2010 alandanielson Originally posted 11-04-2009. Reposted 06-10-2010. —————————————————————— I had the privilege of attending a Business and Technology conference in Oklahoma City called Innotech, and the track I attended was all about eMarketing. I’m excited because marketing is one of the greatest out-reaching tools at any organization’s disposal, yet many organizations tend to market rather poorly. Today, [...]
Posted in Marketing Tags: advertising, church, effective, effectiveness, evaluate, Marketing, perception, Social Media Marketing, strategy, your 2 Comments » June 1st, 2010 alandanielson Originally posted 08-02-2009. Reposted 06-01-2010 A friend of mine asked if I would write a blog post about why there seems to be a lack of discipleship in the American church today. I think the primary reason for this is that we, as American Christians, just don’t know what we’re doing any more. Our tried-and-true [...]
Posted in Spiritual Growth Tags: american, christians, church, development, Discipleship, growth, spiritual 3 Comments » December 8th, 2009 alandanielson Unfortunately this post probably won’t help anyone who finds it by googling “guilt”. I’m writing today to help myself. When a friend from my small group named Kent was injured last Friday while the two of us were getting ready to hang Christmas lights I felt helpless (you can read about Kent’s fall here). Now [...]
December 7th, 2009 alandanielson It’s amazing how one second can change a person’s life. Friday a friend from my small group, Kent Collins, and I were getting ready to hang Christmas lights for RealChurch.tv in Oklahoma City. We arrived and climbed up on the roof to assess the job. We talked about what a breeze the job was going [...]
Posted in Special Tags: 911, accident, christmas, church, city, Collins, fall, Fighter, Fire, firefighter, Fireman, Kent, light, lights, oklahoma, paramedics, real, realchurch.tv 3 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 [...]
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 [...]
August 26th, 2009 alandanielson I’m about to make someone a millionaire. Recently I’ve written about ChurchTeams and Monvee as spiritual growth tools for your church. The problem is that they don’t “learn”.* Here’s what I mean. If I complete the spiritual assessment and find that patience is my greatest spiritual vulnerability I’ll be given resources to help me become [...]
Posted in Spiritual Growth Tags: algorithm, church, churches, churchteams, custom, customized, Discipleship, disciplines, formation, individualized, monvee, specialized, spiritual, teams 2 Comments »
