Mercy Center, 605 South 19th Street, Slaton, TX (2026)

05/14/2026

Day 8.. READ MORE!!

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝘿𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙍𝙪𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙀𝙢𝙥𝙩𝙮
Your fire is not a permanent condition. I need you to hear that. It is not something you find once and carry with you forever like a wallet. A fire needs fuel. It needs tending. And if you stop feeding it, it goes out.

I went through a season about ten years ago where my fire was almost out. I was busy, real busy, doing good things for good people. But I had stopped feeding the thing inside me that made all of that work matter. I was running on fumes and hoping nobody noticed. And Gail noticed. She always does. She looked at me one night and said, you are doing a lot of things but you do not seem excited about any of them anymore. And she was right.

You cannot pour from an empty cup. That is not just a cute phrase on a coffee mug. It is the truth. If you are not feeding your own fire, reading things that stir you up, spending time with people who still have energy and ideas, protecting the quiet space where God refuels you, then everything you give to everybody else is coming from a deficit. And eventually the bill comes due.

I will tell you where I am right now in my own life. I made a decision when I turned 62 that I was done sitting on unfinished work. I have books to write, messages to deliver, and a system to build that will serve people for the rest of my life and beyond. Success is at the intersection of preparation and opportunity, and I can see that intersection right now. I have to be standing in it. Paul told Timothy to fan into flame the gift of God. Fan it. That is an action word. It does not stay lit on its own. You have to tend it. You have to protect it. You have to make intentional choices about what gets your energy and what does not.

𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
What are you doing right now to keep from running on empty, or have you been running on fumes and hoping nobody notices?

𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
2 Timothy 1:6. “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you.” (NIV)

𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
God, You placed a fire in us for a reason. Where it has gone dim, breathe on it again. Show us what drains us and give us the wisdom to step away from it. Show us what fuels us and give us the courage to protect it. Fan into flame the gift You put in us, because the world needs what You built us to carry. Amen.

Mark Meurer is a speaker, author, and consultant with more than 40 years of leadership experience spanning faith, business, and civic life. He has served on more than 40 nonprofit, civic, and faith-based boards, led large teams across 48 states in financial services, and spent decades helping people and organizations connect across generations. His work is rooted in Christian faith and a deep belief that every person carries a God-given purpose worth pursuing. Mark can be reached at www.MarkMeurer.com

05/13/2026

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05/12/2026

Day 6… READ MORE!

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙉𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜
I am in my sixties and I am still learning. I have been a learner since I was a kid. When I was seventeen years old I went to the National DECA Marketing Conference in Chicago to compete in the marketing category. And while I was there, I met Zig Ziglar. In person. His book See You at the Top had already changed my life after a season of real grief and loss, and standing in front of that man and hearing him talk about faith, purpose, and the belief that a person can rise no matter what happened to them, that encounter wired something into me that has never turned off.² I am still learning because of what that moment started.

I see it all the time. People hit a certain age or a certain level of success and they stop being curious. They start every sentence with well, back in my day, as if the world is supposed to stop evolving because they got comfortable. And the people around them, especially the younger ones, can smell it from a mile away.

You know what makes a 65-year-old magnetic to a 25-year-old? Curiosity. Not pretending to be young. Not downloading an app just to look relevant. Curiosity. The willingness to say I do not know, tell me about it. That posture, that genuine desire to keep growing, is the most attractive thing in the world to people of any age.

When I started studying generational communication, I thought I was learning it for other people. Turns out I was learning it for myself. The more I understood about how different generations think, the better I got at connecting with my own kids, my grandkids, and the young leaders in my community. Learning did not just make me smarter. It made me closer to the people I love.

𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
When is the last time you learned something that actually changed the way you think, and what was it?

𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
Proverbs 18:15. “The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out.” (NIV)

𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
God, keep us curious. When we are tempted to settle into what we already know, stir something in us that wants more. Protect us from the arrogance of thinking we have arrived. Open our minds to new ideas, new people, and new ways of understanding the world You are still creating. Make us lifelong learners who never stop growing closer to You. Amen.

Mark Meurer is a speaker, author, and consultant with more than 40 years of leadership experience spanning faith, business, and civic life. He has served on more than 40 nonprofit, civic, and faith-based boards, led large teams across 48 states in financial services, and spent decades helping people and organizations connect across generations. His work is rooted in Christian faith and a deep belief that every person carries a God-given purpose worth pursuing. Mark can be reached at www.MarkMeurer.com

05/11/2026

Day 5… READ MORE!

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝘿𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙊𝙛𝙛
I have been in rooms where the oldest person in the back row had the checkbook and the youngest person in the front row had the energy, and neither one of them thought the other had anything to offer. I have seen it a hundred times. And every single time, the organization suffered because somebody decided that a whole group of people was not worth listening to.

In my generational work I talk about four things every human being needs regardless of their age. Safety. Significance. Trust. Belonging. A 78-year-old needs those same four things the exact same way a 24-year-old does. The delivery is different. The packaging is different. But the need is identical.

When you write somebody off, whether it is because of their age, their background, their education, or the fact that they just do not think the way you do, you are telling them they do not belong. And a person who does not feel like they belong will either fight you or leave. Those are the only two options.

I watched a church lose an entire generation of young families because the leadership decided the way things had always been done was more important than the people who were walking out the door. And I watched a business lose its most experienced employees because a new management team decided that anyone over fifty was outdated. Both of those organizations paid for it. Dearly.

I will tell you a story that taught me more about this than any leadership book ever could. I went to a class reunion a few years back and a man I had not seen in decades asked if he could sit by me. Him and his wife. I said of course. And then he told me why. He said it was because Mark never made fun of me in school. Never put me down. I about lost it right there at the table. Because I did not even remember doing anything special. I just had not been cruel. And that was enough for him to remember me thirty years later. Do not write anybody off. The person you are most tempted to dismiss might be the one carrying exactly what your organization needs right now.

𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
Who have you written off, and what would it cost you to give them one more look?

𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
Romans 12:10. “Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.” (NIV)

𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
Father, forgive us for the people we have dismissed. The ones we decided were too old, too young, too different, or too difficult. Open our eyes to the value You placed in every person, and give us the patience and the humility to find it. Let no one walk out of our lives feeling like they did not belong. Amen.

Mark Meurer is a speaker, author, and consultant with more than 40 years of leadership experience spanning faith, business, and civic life. He has served on more than 40 nonprofit, civic, and faith-based boards, led large teams across 48 states in financial services, and spent decades helping people and organizations connect across generations. His work is rooted in Christian faith and a deep belief that every person carries a God-given purpose worth pursuing. Mark can be reached at www.MarkMeurer.com

05/10/2026

Day 4… READ MORE!

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝘿𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝘿𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮
This one is personal for me because this is what I do. I have spent decades studying how different generations communicate, how they build trust, how they receive information, and I am telling you, if you only communicate your way, you are only reaching your people.

I started in radio. I was Nick Maze on the air back in the day, and later Mark Allen on the Richie Gang Morning Show. And here is what radio taught me that nothing else could. You are talking to a 78-year-old retired farmer and a 22-year-old college student at the exact same time. Same microphone. Same moment. And if you only talk like one of them, you lose the other one completely.

I see this in churches all the time. The worship leader picks music that the younger crowd loves and the older folks sit there with their arms crossed. Or the pastor preaches like it is 1985 and the twentysomethings check out before the second point. Neither side is wrong. They are just communicating in their own language and wondering why the other side is not listening.
The apostle Paul figured this out two thousand years ago. He told the Corinthians he would become all things to all people if it meant somebody would hear the message. That is not being fake. That is being smart enough to know that the message matters more than your method.
That 78-year-old wants a phone call. That 24-year-old wants a voice memo. The Gen Xer wants a short email with no fluff. And you know what? They are all right. Because communication is not about what you send. It is about what they receive.

𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
Who are you not reaching right now, and is it because you are communicating your way instead of theirs?

𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
1 Corinthians 9:22. “I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.” (NIV)

𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
Lord, You speak to every heart in the language it needs to hear. Teach us to do the same. Where we have been stubborn about our own way of doing things, soften us. Give us the humility to meet people where they are instead of demanding they come to us. Let Your message reach every generation through our willingness to adapt. Amen.

“Mark Meurer is a speaker, author, and consultant with more than 40 years of leadership experience spanning faith, business, and civic life. He has served on more than 40 nonprofit, civic, and faith-based boards, led large teams across 48 states in financial services, and spent decades helping people and organizations connect across generations. His work is rooted in Christian faith and a deep belief that every person carries a God-given purpose worth pursuing. Mark can be reached at www.MarkMeurer.com”

05/09/2026

Day 3… READ MORE!

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩
We live in a culture that celebrates starting things. Everybody has got a new idea, a new project, a new dream they are excited about on Monday morning. Social media is full of people announcing what they are about to do. But you know what is rare? Finishing.

I have a drawer in my office, and I am not proud of this, that has at least three notebooks with ideas I started writing down and never went back to. Plans I made. Goals I set on January first and forgot about by February. And I am guessing you have got a drawer like that too.

Here is what I have learned after forty years. Trust does not get built by your intentions. It gets built by your follow-through. One kept promise at a time. And it gets destroyed the exact same way. One broken promise at a time. People do not remember what you said you were going to do. They remember what you actually did.

I will give you a real example from my own life that still costs me today. Years ago I was marketing products and services online and I had built an email list of over 50,000 people. Then the ICANN laws came in and changed how spam was defined legally. I got scared. I misread the risk. And I quit. Stopped marketing like that completely. My buddies who kept going? They built careers on it. I am still catching up from that one decision. It was not the law that stopped me. It was fear. And fear made the decision instead of wisdom.

I almost quit writing my first book too. Four times. Closed the laptop, pushed back from the table, told Gail I did not think I had it in me. And every single time, something pulled me back. The reason you start something never changes. What changes is your energy, your motivation, and your willingness to keep going when it stops being fun. That is where most people bail. Right there in the messy middle. And the ones who push through it. They are the ones who actually build something that matters.

𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
What is one thing you started that you need to go back and finish?

𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
Galatians 6:9. “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (NIV)

𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
God, You are a finisher. You do not start things and walk away. Give us that same spirit today. Where we have quit, give us the courage to go back. Where we are tired, give us fresh wind. Remind us that the harvest comes to those who do not give up, and help us be people who see it through to the end. Amen.

05/08/2026

𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟮

𝙔𝒐𝙪𝒓 𝒘𝙤𝒓𝙙 𝙢𝒆𝙖𝒏𝙨 𝙨𝒐𝙢𝒆𝙩𝒉𝙞𝒏𝙜

I grew up in Slaton, Texas, and where I come from, a handshake was a contract. You looked somebody in the eye, you shook their hand, and that was the deal. Done. No lawyers, no fine print, no escape clause. Your word was the most valuable thing you owned, and if you broke it, everybody in town knew about it by suppertime. Slaton made us gritty. Good people. Not a lot of trees and plenty of dirt. But God placed us here. It is home. And the way people did business here shaped everything I believe about trust.

That world is mostly gone now. We live in a culture where people say things they do not mean, promise things they cannot deliver, and then act surprised when nobody trusts them anymore. I see it in business. I see it in ministry. I see it in families.
But when you meet a person whose word still means something, when they say they are going to do something and they actually do it, you remember it. Because it is that rare. And that person has something that money cannot buy and reputation management cannot fake. Real trust. The kind that took years to build and could be lost in one bad moment.

I have tried to live by a simple rule for most of my adult life. If I say I am going to do it, I do it. If I cannot do it, I say so before I promise. And if I fail, because I have, I own it, I make it right, and I do not let it happen again.

Jesus said let your yes be yes and your no be no. That is it. That is the whole standard. Not maybe. Not I will try. Not let me get back to you. Yes or no. And mean it.

𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
If the people closest to you rated the value of your word today, what score would they give you, and would you agree with it?

𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
Matthew 5:37. “All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.” (NIV)

𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮
God, You are a keeper of promises. Every word You have ever spoken has come true. Make us more like You in that way. Guard our mouths from saying things we do not mean. Give us the discipline to under-promise and over-deliver. And where we have broken trust, give us the humility to rebuild it one kept promise at a time. Amen.

05/07/2026

Day 1

You Show Up

Welcome to Day 1 of Who You Are Is Louder. For the next 30 days I am going to talk to you about what it actually looks like to live with integrity while the world is watching, and to leave something behind that matters. These are not theories. These are things I have learned the hard way over more than forty years of leading in faith, business, and civic life. One topic a day. A few minutes. Something real. Let us get started.

Here is what I know for certain. The number one thing that separates the people who make a difference from the people who just talk about it is this: they show up.

Not when it is convenient. Not when somebody is watching. Not when there is something in it for them. They show up when it is hard. When it costs them something. When they would rather be anywhere else.

I remember sitting on a nonprofit board years ago and we had a meeting scheduled on one of the worst weather nights of the year. Ice on the roads, wind blowing sideways, every reason in the world to stay home. Half the board called in. The other half showed up. And I will never forget it, because the people who walked through that door that night were the same ones who carried that organization for the next decade. Showing up when it costs you something tells the people around you that the mission matters more than your comfort.

Here is the thing nobody talks about. When you stop showing up, people notice. They might not say anything, but they notice. And when you do show up, especially when it is hard, they notice that too. You are sending a message every single day with your presence or your absence. And that message is louder than anything you will ever say from a stage.

My dad taught me this without ever using the word. He would do drop-by visits. Just show up at somebody’s house to say hello, cheer them up, make them laugh. He took communion to the sick as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion. Nobody asked him to go the extra mile. He just went. And the people on the receiving end of that never forgot it. God did not call us to be comfortable. He called us to be faithful. And faithfulness starts with showing up.

𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆
So here is my question for you today. Where in your life have you stopped showing up, and what would change if you started again?

𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆
Proverbs 3:27. “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act.” (NIV)

𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆
Lord, give us the courage to show up. Not when it is easy, but when it costs us something. Forgive us for the times we stayed home when You needed us in the room. Open our eyes today to the place where our presence matters most, and give us the strength to walk through that door. Amen.

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