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Catalyst West 2018 Live Blog

Today, I’m live-blogging from the Catalyst West conference in Irvine, California. Throughout today and tomorrow, I will be sharing leadership insights from the best and the brightest in the church and business world.

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Bob Goff is an inspiration to everyone who meets him. Bob shares a love of family, friends, and God. He’s also the New York Times best-selling author of Love Does.

We’ve got so little time life when you consider the brevity of life. Life is short. Shorter than we often like to admit.

Say you live to be 92 years old. Say you have 12 conversations a day for your life. You’ll have approximately 42,000 conversations throughout your life.

Something amazing will happen. You’ll begin to realize who you are and what you’re becoming. It’s truly stunning.

Live-Blogging From Catalyst West

I’ve had the pleasure to bring you live blog updates from Catalyst Atlanta over the years. Today, I have the pleasure to introduce you to another Catalyst conference. Catalyst West takes place in Irvine, California at Mariners Church.

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This coming Thursday and Friday, you will see the blog explode with new content. I’ll be sharing content from the speakers at Catalyst West and posting a summary of their talks shortly after they’ve finished up.

I hope you’re as excited about this as I am. I can’t wait to share with you the thoughts of the following leaders:

Andy Stanley

Lysa Terkeurst

Patrick Lencioni

Erwin McManus

Bob Goff

Danielle Strickland

Carlos Whittaker

Robert Madu

Graham Cooke

Jay and Katherine Wolf

The theme for Catalyst West remains Of Good Courage. So each speaker will share how leaders can become more courageous and lead through fear and doubt.

Do I want to be right or do I want to be Jesus?

Catalyst Atlanta 2017 Bob Goff

Today, I’m live-blogging the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta. The next speaker I’ll be live-blogging about is Bob Goff.

What can I say about Bob Goff? I fell in love with Bob and his book Love Does from the moment I first began to read it. Bob is a New York Times best-selling author, Honorary Consul to the Republic of Uganda and an attorney.

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We don’t have a lot of time to argue with people. But I’m not trying to be Jesus’ lawyer.

Instead of being a lawyer, I’m trying to be like Him.

Figure out how much time you’ve got left. Then figure out who you want to spend your time with.

5 Reasons To Attend Catalyst Atlanta Next Week!

Attend one of the best leadership conferences around

Whoa! Can you believe the Catalyst Leadership Conference (click the link to check out my Catalyst 2016 recap) in Atlanta is happening next week? Neither can I!

Yet it is. And the team at Catalyst puts on one of the best leadership conferences you can attend. Especially if you’re a church leader.

Catalyst is a 2-day conference dedicated to helping leaders grow strong teams, build great churches, and be the catalyst of change you want to be.

Speaker lineup for Catalyst Atlanta 2017 Of Good Courage

I’ve attended the Catalyst conference for the last 6 or 7 years. Every year I walk away with my mind blown. No doubt, this year will be the same.

The theme for Catalyst Atlanta 2017 is Of Good Courage. That alone should be a reason for attending the Catalyst conference. But I’m honestly excited for the theme.

What To Expect At Catalyst Atlanta

What I believe to be the best church leadership conference is happening in just over a week (October 5th and 6th). Atlanta will see the Catalyst Leadership Conference return for another year at the Infinite Energy Center.

Today, I want to share with you the Catalyst Atlanta speaker lineup and what you can expect from the Catalyst Conference.

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What Is The Theme For Catalyst In 2017?

Who Will Be Speaking At Catalyst Atlanta 2017?

Catalyst always brings the best and brightest in the leadership sphere to their conferences. This year will be no different. Check out the Catalyst Atlanta speaker lineup below.

    • Andy Stanley – Check out the Andy Stanley video below to hear him share how courage is your tipping point.

  • Brene Brown
  • Tim Tebow
  • Christine Caine – Christine Caine shares in this video about the risks of freedom.