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Can Thanksgiving Make You Happier & Healthier?

Tomorrow across America, families will gather, turkey will be eaten, football will be watched, holiday shopping will start… and in places, gratitude will be expressed. Zig Ziglar famously said, “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.” Sounds nice… but is it really true? Researchers are discovering that Zig really wasn’t that far off! Here are 4 benefits of being […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 10 years agoNovember 24, 2015

Emotional Health Family Health Holidays & Special Days

A Pastor’s Thanksgiving List

It’s that time of year, where our hearts turn toward things we are thankful for. Thanksgving is far too important a habit to only do once per year. Zig Ziglar was right: “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 10 years agoNovember 24, 2015

Guest Follow-up Holidays & Special Days outreach Systems

How to Build a Killer Guest Follow-Up System – before Christmas!

Below, you can watch my free webinar! Here’s what you’ll discover: 7 specific action steps you can take to create a great guest follow up system how my failure in a key outreach event changed our guest followup forever ideas for giving gifts to guests how to effectively collect info from first time guests how […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 10 years agoDecember 1, 2015

Emotional Health Pastoral Burnout Survey Uncategorized

The Pain Points of Pastors – Survey

In the next few days, I’ll be posting a couple posts on the toughest things about being a pastor. I’m doing a survey of all my readers who are pastors, to see what you say are the toughest things about your job. If you’ve already taken the survey, thank you! I’m working through the results now […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 10 years agoNovember 24, 2015

Guest Follow-up Holidays & Special Days outreach Systems Uncategorized

How I Completely Blew a Big Outreach Event

Four years ago, my children’s leader came to me with an idea for an outreach event: A trunk-or-treat with a Gospel emphasis. (Honestly, I had never been a fan of Trunk-or-Treat!) She called it “Candy Thru the Bible.” Each trunk/station was a Bible story with a candy that went along with the story. She shared […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 10 years agoDecember 2, 2015

Guest Follow-up Systems

4 Reasons You Should Give a Gift to Guests

This week, a guest walked into our church for the 3rd time in 4 weeks. Due to the crowd, I had been unable to meet her face to face for the first 2 times she had attended. I greeted her, and she began to tell me of a friend in jail, asking if I could visit. […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 10 years agoNovember 24, 2015

Guest Follow-up outreach Systems Uncategorized

4 Ways Your Church Must Think Differently About Guests

A few years ago, I pulled up in front of a “Babies-R-Us” store. My wife was expecting our first child. It was the first time I had been to this kind of store, since my style runs more toward electronics stores, and sporting goods. As I turned into an aisle to find a parking space, […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 10 years agoFebruary 20, 2025

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On Kim Davis, Gay Marriage & Hypocrisy

Quite a war has been raging in the comments section of social media and websites. Kim Davis, a county clerk in KY, has refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, despite being ordered to by a federal judge, and a refusal by the Supreme Court to grant a stay of the order. I support her. I […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 10 years agoNovember 11, 2015

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On Gay Marriage & the Church’s Response

What is there to say for a Christ-follower on a day where, in a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court of our land has approved the change of a definition of marriage? This definition is measured not in decades or centuries, but in millenia — even according to some of the same justices who voted for the […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 11 years ago

Health Pastoral Burnout Personal Productivity Systems

How to Build a Morning Routine in 7 Steps

Mornings are crucial. And they are fragile. They can serve your greatest values, or they can feed your greatest weaknesses. You can live your life getting up at the last possible second, racing around the house, speeding to work … or you can be intentional about mornings. I think the single greatest, most impactful change […]

darrellstetler2@gmail.com 11 years agoFebruary 5, 2016

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Can Thanksgiving Make You Happier & Healthier?

A Pastor’s Thanksgiving List

How to Build a Killer Guest Follow-Up System – before Christmas!

The Pain Points of Pastors – Survey

How I Completely Blew a Big Outreach Event

4 Reasons You Should Give a Gift to Guests

4 Ways Your Church Must Think Differently About Guests

On Kim Davis, Gay Marriage & Hypocrisy

On Gay Marriage & the Church’s Response

How to Build a Morning Routine in 7 Steps

Breaking Old Habits, Building New Ones