What Is A Renegade?

My new book, Renegade: Your Faith Isn’t Meant To Be Safe, launches this week! With my previous two books one of the coolest things I was able to do was partner with churches by offering them a powerful series inspired by the book. Churches all over the country did the series and were thrilled with…

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Verve Value 5: Intimacy TO Influence

I mentioned awhile back that at Verve we recently went through a long process of naming our values. We felt very certain about our values – what it is that impassion and guide our decisions and makes us distinctive from other churches – but we wanted to give them words. Clarifying a church’s values bring…

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Zero Dark Thirty: The Risk of Not Doing Something

The movie Zero Dark Thirty is about the military’s hunt for Osama Bin Laden. After extensive investigating they feel 50 to 95% sure they know where he is, but they are unwilling to act. The risks involved seemed too great. What if they’re wrong? What if they’re right, but the attempt to get him goes…

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Make Jesus Famous?

My daughter is watching Hercules and there’s a scene where Hercules says something about being a hero and someone replies, “There’s a big difference between being a hero and being famous.” The point? You’re famous, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. So one of the things you’ll hear today from lots of churches and…

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Join Our Team

We have a goal of getting thousands of people praying for Verve everyday. What we’ve chosen to do – reach the people who are the furthest from God in the middle of Sin City – isn’t easy, and will only work if God is the one giving the victory. So we want as many people…

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