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Today I want to talk about the need for “right” information. I am not a super handy man. I can get by but that is another post for another day. Being a home owner forces you to visit Lowes from time to time. Lowes is a large store with lots of stuff, lots of people […]

Do the values of your church permeate your organization? Tiffany’s is know for a few things. 1. Breakfast (just kidding) 2. Blue Boxes 3. Fantastic Customer Service This Christmas I bought my wife a ring Tiffany’s for Christmas this year, here is what happened. 1. They guaranteed christmas delivery. It came three days late 2.

Let me start this series by stating the obvious. We in the church world are not about the bottom line. We are about changed lives. So in the next few days when I refer to customer service I am not talking about selling something I am referring to creating an environment that is conducive to

I switched my RSS feed to feedburner make sure you update your reader. Go to http://samluce.com hit the subscribe button. #kidmin # Man do I hate sheetrock! #fb # I have a fellowshipone question. @kennyconley helped me change our checkin layout. Now our vols. are getting a parent receipt. Any ideas? # I have a

This video always makes me laugh. It touches on those nuances of marital life. Enjoy, if you are married enjoy even more. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmGVYki-oyQ

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I think every church has at minimum a perceived value of kids and families. What churches do is the difference between perceived and actual values. There are a few things that churches do many times without realizing it that in my opinion make kids ministry a perceived value and not an actual value. 1. Have

I recently attended a VBS put on by another church in our area. Our church doesn’t do VBS but I like taking my boys if I can. As I was sitting in the back observing the thought came to me “Why don’t churches treat each weekend like it was VBS?” What if we: 1. Advertised

Claudia Maria Ann Luce Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. Joseph Addison

The Power Of Family. At the end of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it adds a few scenes that were not in the original movie. For me these last few scenes made the movie so much more powerful than the original movie with Gene Wilder. It really drove home the fact that the four kids