My Favorite Bible Verse Is

Picture a Race Car Driver who uses regular gasoline instead of high-octane. He’s not going to win. In fact, you’d have some serious questions about this driver. Does he not care about winning? Does he just have no idea? Or is he too cheap to do what it takes to accomplish his goal? Now picture…

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Predicting The Future

Loving Chip and Dan Heath’s new book, Decisive, on how people and teams make decisions, usually bad decisions. The Heaths write about studies that have been conducted on experts’ ability to predict the future and it turns out, they can’t. Even in their areas of expertise they have no idea what’s going to happen. They say,…

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The Gamble

  I live in Las Vegas which, you may have heard, is like the gambling capital of the world. If you asked me if I’ve gambled much since moving to Vegas I’d tell you no. And I’d be lying. I don’t gamble in casinos, or online, or with chips or money. Every day I make…

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Vince Recommends

I got to read an advance copy of Group Shift: From the Couch to the Community by Austin Maxheimer and Zach Below and if you’re involved in small group ministry or want your church to be more missional, it’s definitely worth reading. The authors help people to small groups not as a separate activity within…

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All Things Vault

Last week we had our first Vault Conference outside of Las Vegas. We were asked to do a “Vault One Day” in Michigan, and it went really well. Had about 65 people — interestingly, very few seemed to be from Michigan. I’m excited about Vault this October in Vegas. It’s October 14-16, and it’s going…

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