What Should We Count?

Churches count their “attendance” each week. (Some don’t count very accurately, willing to count people – band, choir, staff, children’s volunteers, etc. – multiple times, but that’s a point for another day.) They count the amount of people from their city who show up at their church each week. But I’d like to propose counting…

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Eternal Investment

We all invest our money. We might invest it in stocks, or a movie, or a fancy dinner, or a newer car. And you choose where you invest, but I want to give you a great option for some of your money. Personally, I want to invest as much of my money as possible into…

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Will You Pray For Verve

After years of asking people around the country to pray for Verve, we are taking things to another level and starting an official prayer team. We are hoping to get thousands of people praying for us everyday. Would you be one? You’d be making an eternal difference in the lives of people in Sin City.…

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Hope In Tragedy

So many thoughts in light of what happened yesterday in Connecticut. One of them is that we live in a sick, broken, twisted, sad world, and I am so thankful that I believe in a world beyond this world. If I thought this life was all there is, I think it would depress me beyond…

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Value Clarity: Hours, Sweat and Frustrated Curse Words

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…

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