vision clarity

At Verve we recently went through a long process to determine and name our values. A lot of hours, sweat and frustrated curse words were put into putting our values on paper. Why invest so much time? Because a church’s values are critical, and having clarity on those values is beyond critical. Why? Because, as…

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…

Simon Sinek’s great book Start With Why shows how superior it is to start with why, in so many ways. Sinek explains that most businesses start with what (What is that we do, or produce, or provide?) then ask how (How do we do what we do?) and then finally ask why (Why do we…

Back when my first child, Dawson, was born my wife worked at an office a couple of hours each Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. One Tuesday when he was a few months old, Dawson had what we call a “blowout.” To make sure we have a common definition: A blowout is when a baby goes “number…

Every day in America about 2,180 parents make a panicked phone call to the police to tell them that their child is missing. That call is made every 40 seconds. 800,000 kids in America wander away from their homes only to meet someone more than happy to be with them, or get lured away from…