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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Struggle For People

Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk (who, along with writers of Polka songs, are pretty much the only people I listen to). He has one of my favorite quotes, and it’s especially pertinent for pastors who start churches for people who don’t like church (or others doing difficult work for God). Merton wrote: Do not…

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Hey Church Leaders

Every year we do a conference here in Las Vegas called Vault for leaders who want to have churches for people who don’t like church. It’s (intentionally) an intimate sized conference – limited to about 100 attendees – with people coming from literally all over the world. Last year we had people pastors from Burma,…

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