What Time Did You Get Up Today?

It’s Saturday. What time did you get up today? Would you consider yourself a “morning person”? If not, maybe you should be… Loved the post by Michael Hyatt this week on “How to Become a Morning Person.” Maybe you ask, “WHY should I be a morning person?”  Hyatt gives four reasons, all proven by research.…

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A 25-Foot Truck of Christmas Presents

Our church has kind of adopted a school in a poverty-stricken, gang-infested neighborhood off the north end of the Vegas Strip. 100% of the kids are on free or reduced lunches. 80% don’t speak English on their first day of school. Every kid lives in an apartment complex (not one student lives in a single-family…

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Endurance Challenge

Earlier I posted about how perseverance is the path to greatness. We talked about that at Verve in our Renegade series back in November, and to try to prove the point I took the “Endurance Challenge.” We had a film crew video it. Check this out. (You’re gonna be impressed.)

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A Lesson From Angry Birds

My new book Renegade comes out in a few months. It’s about how to live an adventurous, high impact life for God. One of the principles is that perseverance is the path to greatness. We tend to think people who live great lives do so because they were more talented or more connected or had…

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Value Clarity 2: You Don’t Decide, You Discover

How do you decide your church’s values? You don’t. You can’t decide your church’s values any more than you can decide your height or whether you’re right or left handed. There are things that are true of your church, they impassion and guide your actions. Those are your values. Your values may not be very…

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