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We so often say to each other, “Stay strong, bro! Keep it cranking.” And we mean well. But often what we’re saying is, “keep working harder and harder.” If we’re not careful, we lose focus of why we’re making the effort and doing the work. We lose perspective on what is the purpose. Focus isn’t about greater intensity ... it’s about greater intentionality. Focus is not just about what you’re doing – but also what you’re not doing. When Jesus went into the house to heal Jairus's daughter, it was packed with negative people. Jesus kicked them all out. That...

It’s not a new crisis. In 1858, Walt Whitman, now considered a great American poet, decried the state of manliness in the nation. He said, “There is no doubt, as things now are, among the young men of modern civilised life, in cities, that a healthy manly virility seems to be almost lost – seems to have given place to a morbid, almost insane, pursuit of women…” That was 150 years ago. Thought leaders were concerned with the state of manhood and the hearts of men. It’s something we’ve dealt with since the Garden and Adam. Is it worse today?...

The first time I surfed a wave, really stood up and surfed to the end of the break, I could not explain it. It was a stunning feeling. I’m sure I told my friends, “That was so stoking!” But I couldn’t put it into words. I still can’t. Can you explain how you felt the first time you climbed a mountain, or sold a big deal or the first time you told your girlfriend “I love you”? Can you explain how you felt the first time you held your child, or said goodbye to a wonderful friend who had passed,...

For almost two years it was drilled into our heads, “Trust the science.” But it wasn’t always authentically scientific. That is, unless you look at it as the science of perseveration. To perseverate is to repeat something so often that it becomes a fixation. Lies repeated so often they become our source of truth. Or the science of dissembling, which is the art of covering something up as to not reveal true intentions. Or the science of obfuscation, which is to intentionally make something so obscure the source of it is concealed. I have one scientific result that can always...

It’s always about relationship. The day after the July 4 killer floods hit Texas, Walt Landers and his team at The Life Church in hard-hit San Angelo moved into action working on relief and rebuilding their area up the Guadalupe River. Downriver, the 24-hour news showed the tragedies that unfolded in Kerr County and other places along the river. At the same time, Paul Vargas at the Dream Center in Phoenix saw on the news the tragedy unfolding in Texas. He started making calls. We connected Walt and Paul, and within 72 hours, Paul had 12 men driving from Phoenix...