Proud

Back in January Verve committed to partner with three other churches in building a school and a church in a poverty-sticken town in Ecuador called Monte Olivo. We had to raise $25,000 to make that happen. For a relatively small church, and a new church filled with new- and non-Christians, it felt like a huge…

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Hustle

Some great posts from Todd Henry this week. This one was great, and I LOVEd this post, quoted below: If you hustle – all out, fully hustle – and you succeed, then you gain the satisfaction of a job well done. If you hustle and fail, you never have to worry about what might have…

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Mere Men

Today in the Verve Bible reading plan our chapter was 1 Corinthians 3. There’s a question in that chapter that has always exploded off the page for me.  In verse 3: “Are you not acting like mere men?” We live in an age of tolerance and forgiveness, and those are generally really good things. We…

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Only Impossible If…

Took my kids to see The Pirates! Band of Misfits. Towards the end of the movie the main character, The Pirate Captain decides he is going to single-handedly take on Queen Victoria and her forces by attacking her ship. Charles Darwin (yes, Charles Darwin) tells him he can’t do it, that it’s impossible odds. The…

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So You Had A Bad Day

Last week I had a bad day. It started when we realized that we had no hot water because … our hot water heater had died. A few hours later our garage was flooding. A few hours after that we had spent $650 to have it replaced. Then we discovered that our dog had gotten…

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