Moneyball Your Life

I wrote yesterday about how Billy Beane, the G.M. of the Oakland A’s never watches his team play because he doesn’t want to become biased by what he see’s, knowing that emotion can take over and cloud out honest evaluation. (The book gives a much better picture of this than the movie.) And I talked…

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Moneyball Your Church

In Moneyball we learn that the Oakland A’s General Manager, Billy Beane, won’t watch his team’s games. The movie makes it seem like it’s just because he’s afraid he’ll jinx the team. Made for a good plot line, but it’s not the whole story. In the book Moneyball we learn that Beane doesn’t watch his…

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Vince Recommends

I’m usually last to the party on internet sensations, so you may already know about this but if not … there are a series of videos on something called YouTube (heard of it?) in which Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews. Hysterical. There are a ton.  I think my favorites are #2, 5, 8 and 9.…

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Population

There are 270,000 people who live within five miles of Verve’s building. Vegas packs people in. And those people don’t know each other. So Jessica Hagy’s Indexed this week seemed especially appropriate:

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Question Zero: Verve, A Case Study

At Verve, the church I was a part of starting in the middle of Las Vegas just a few years ago, we have tried to start with why. The first thing we asked was question zero, “If we start this church, why would it exist?” And we continue to keep our focus there – in…

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