If you and I had lunch…

I don't do this as much as I'd like to, but sitting down with someone over lunch to ask them questions from their experience and unique perspective is a healthy exercise in personal growth. In my youthful ignorance, I used to only meet with leaders to ask these questions, but have since learned that we …

How to Give a Better Dinner Speech

I love my job. I'm a pastor on staff at a church outside of Kansas City Missouri. Once a month we host newer attendees at an informal gathering which is a strategic part of our next steps process. It works well in connecting people that want to get involved at our church. Our pastors all sit …

3 Ways to Put ‘Thanks’ Back Into Thanksgiving

Are you prone to seasons of unhappiness or momentary depression?  I found your new drug but you can't get it at CVS or Walgreen's.  If anything those places can potentially make the situation I talking about here worse.  What I'm talking about is not in pill form and is non-habit forming. It's called gratitude. "Don’t …

How to Make an Iced Carmel Macchiato

Keepers of the Promise

Setting up for a party of 400 is easy when you have a system and people that have done it 400 times.  One problem constantly reoccurring is how cups are stacked and put back into storage.  The stack that gets pulled to set the cups may say "Goblets", "Irish Mugs", or "High Ball", but that …