vision clarity

A month ago this morning the University of Kentucky was celebrating their national championship. UK won mostly because they were clearly the most talented team in the country. Back in 2003, Marquette went to the Final Four. They had one extremely talented player in Dwayne Wade, but no one else even a hard-core college basketball…

I love the show Shark Tank. Inventors and entrepreneurs go before a panel of venture capitalists and pitch their new products or businesses hoping for big investments. Recently two ladies representing GoGo Gear stood before the sharks and explained they were businesswomen who rode motorcycles to work. Discontent with the bulky and stylistically-challenged motorcycle jackets,…

A couple weeks ago I was talking to a church planter. He’s still about six months out from grand opening. He was mentioning some things he was doing with his launch team and I pretty emphatically told him to push pause and to first spend some time, as a team, answering what Will Mancini calls…

Back in 1999 I received a phone call. A church in California – a church that had grown from 2 people to over 2,000 in only a few years – was inviting me to come out with my family and experience their church. They liked to bless church planters by giving them a little time…