What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star. — Dan B. Allender North star Copy Share Image
Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective. — Dan B. Allender Answers Copy Share Image
To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead. — Dan B. Allender Brokenness Copy Share Image
For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls. — Dan B. Allender Fall Copy Share Image
Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain. — Dan B. Allender Challenges Copy Share Image
It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory. — Dan B. Allender Design Copy Share Image
“To enter the realm of play, we must give ourselves to something or someone and turn away from all else. It is… — Dan B. Allender Betrayal Copy Share Image
The cost for the recipient of God’s grace is nothing, and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay. — Dan B. Allender Arrogant Copy Share Image
“It is not presumptuous to ask, 'What is it that you see in me that brings you delight?” — Dan B. Allender Delight Copy Share Image
Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality. — Dan B. Allender Character Copy Share Image
“Our story will gain momentum and depth only to the degree that we honestly embrace both loss and fear.” — Dan B. Allender Embrace Copy Share Image
Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of… — Dan B. Allender Challenges Copy Share Image
Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us… — Dan B. Allender Capable Copy Share Image
The sole reason to serve as a Christian is Jesus, yet He is easily lost in the various activities that consume our… — Dan B. Allender Activity Copy Share Image
“It is not wrong to petition God on the Sabbath, but the heart of the Sabbath is to delight in all he… — Dan B. Allender Prayer Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in… — Dan B. Allender Acknowledgement Copy Share Image
“We live in a day when our sense are so dull that we need extreme sports, bingeing, or dangerous pastimes to give… — Dan B. Allender Extreme sports Copy Share Image
“...you can be assured that the inciting events call for you to sacrifice your comfort and ease in order for your story… — Dan B. Allender False-self Copy Share Image
“God is not bound by time, nor is our story. We desperately want our situation to be solved. We want resolution. But,… — Dan B. Allender Desire Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 3, "What Makes A Good Story?") "Our willingness to hold dear the moments of past shalom prepares us to imagine… — Dan B. Allender Better day Copy Share Image
“In every story, in every life, there are moments of death that take away our name and rename us as strangers, orphans… — Dan B. Allender Death Copy Share Image
“The damage done through abuse is awful and heinous, but minor compared to the dynamics that distort the victim’s relationship with God… — Dan B. Allender Abuse Copy Share Image
Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to… — Dan B. Allender Decision Copy Share Image
“So we grow up in a sea of stories told in a way that fits what we want others to know about… — Dan B. Allender False-self Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd… — Dan B. Allender Book Copy Share Image
“We're in the presence of a good story when the flaw that shatters shalom is also the doorway to redemption... Whether it… — Dan B. Allender Bible Copy Share Image
Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do… — Dan B. Allender Abstract Copy Share Image
“In those moments of unnaming when we have lost ourselves, we must remember to return to our past redemptions to find God's… — Dan B. Allender False-self Copy Share Image
“The Sabbath is not a vacation; it is a grateful celebration. Who are you celebrating? To whom do you owe your life,… — Dan B. Allender Celebrating Copy Share Image
“We are to free the slaves because we were once slaves. Sabbath is a remembrance of the stale bondage of Egypt and… — Dan B. Allender Freedom Copy Share Image
“One of our greatest failures in our busy, driven culture is that we don't celebrate the temporary untying of a complex narrative...What… — Dan B. Allender Another day Copy Share Image
“But the part of ourselves we hate the most is our longing to be wanted and enjoyed.” — Dan B. Allender Hate Copy Share Image
“Tragedy always moves our story forward in a way shalom could never accomplish.” — Dan B. Allender False-self Copy Share Image
Courage never takes away fear; courage simply redistributes fear to get the job done. — Dan B. Allender Courage Copy Share Image
To dream alone is fantasy if it doesn't move the heart to act. — Dan B. Allender Dream Copy Share Image
The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha… — Dan B. Allender Alpha Copy Share Image
If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone. — Dan B. Allender Challenges Copy Share Image
