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“Derek Young, a former executive at Dollar General and Cracker Barrel, was hands down the most popular keynoter and executive coach we used when I was working with Tennessee State government,” said Bucky Rosenbaum, one of the brothers on our Franklin NCS leadership team. “An experienced stand-up comedian and solid Christian, Derek would be comfortable talking to a room full of CEOs or to the guys at Puckett’s.”When Bucky tells you something, you can take it to the bank. This Thursday you’ll have a chance to see for yourself when Derek joins us at breakfast at Puckett’s.A native of St. Louis and a lifelong Cardinals baseball fan, Derek Young is a corporate consultant and a community advocate in Nashville by his involvement with March of Dimes, Nashville Symphony, and Nashville Chamber of Commerce.

Palm Sunday -- the beginning of Passion Week when we celebrate Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem – is this coming Sunday. Most of us don’t think about the fact that the roots of Passion Week go all the way back to Genesis. This Thursday Matt Davis will show us the Passion Week through Jewish eyes, linking it to the Old Testament. Matt explains, . . .  “It’s like a two-act play. The Jewish people showed up for the first act of a play and left at intermission. The Christians showed up at intermission and watched the second act of the same play. The two groups passed each other in the lobby during intermission and never saw each other again.” Matt Davis, a Messianic Jew who leads a ministry called The Jewish Road, will put it all together for us, bridging the gap between the Old Testament and the New. He promises that you’ve never heard the story told this way.

If you enjoy golf, you will want to join us this Thursday to meet Scott Lehman. And if you are not a golfer, you will still be glad you came this Thursday to Puckett’s to meet Scott Lehman. Scott is founder and president of In His Grip Golf (www.inhisgripgolf.com/), a ministry that builds communities of men who enjoy golf and want to deepen their relationship with Jesus. Think of it as a group of guys just like us at NCS that meets on a golf course instead of at Puckett’s. Scott has been an avid golfer all his life. In 1997 he was a spectator for the first time at the Masters; when he got home his wife, Leslie, told him their marriage was over. The very short version is that they both dedicated their lives to Christ and have now been married 28 years.

You probably know Don best for his book Blue Like Jazz: Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, which was made into a movie and named one of the 20 best books of the decade. But that was twenty years ago. Since then Don has helped people understand the importance of their story and wrote another best-selling book, Building a StoryBrand; Clarify Your Message so Customers will Listen. This Thursday Don will tell us his story – from the time of self-discovery in Blue Like Jazzto realizing the importance of our stories and how great leaders invite people into a story. 

No snow this Thursday and high in the low 50s. It sounds like a perfect morning for NCS breakfast at Puckett’s.Mika Edmondson, lead pastor at Koinonia Church in Nashville -- who was scheduled to be with us on January 18 -- will join us this Thursday. Mika was founding pastor of New City Fellowship, an Orthodox Presbyterian congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was called to Nashville a few years ago.

We’re all busy. Life is chaotic. Many of us navigate through tough times thinking we’re stressed from work and family, but some of us actually have something else gnawing away at a little corner of our brain that keeps us off balance. Something from deep in the past. It can affect us in ways we can’t acknowledge or anticipate.  For Steve Gilreath -- who is one of us at Middle Tennessee NCS -- dark memories of the past stayed buried for 39 years. The emergence of the memories was a difficult one. What could God’s plan be in a situation like this?  Steve is a producer and director, storyteller, and author. He’s spent time with two presidents (without causing an international incident!) and has been a leader in the men’s ministry and an Elder at Christ Community Church, leader with Young Life in inner-city Chicago, and is currently the Executive Director of On Demand Platforms for K-LOVE.