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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Hope In Tragedy

So many thoughts in light of what happened yesterday in Connecticut. One of them is that we live in a sick, broken, twisted, sad world, and I am so thankful that I believe in a world beyond this world. If I thought this life was all there is, I think it would depress me beyond…

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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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