Life in 140

Tomorrow at Verve we’re starting a new series:  LIFE IN 140. We’ll be studying through the Bible book of Philippians and looking at the kinda life tweet Paul put in there in chapter 1, verse 21. We’ll see what it looks like to have a life that is Christ, and how we can start living…

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I’m Taking My Talents To…

Ladies and gentlemen, an announcement: I’m taking my talents to… Twitter. For years people have been pushing me to do Twitter. In fact, I’ve had a few people (like my publisher) basically beg me to go to Twitter. I’ve said no. Dozens of times. Why? Mostly because I have real concerns about the narcissistic culture…

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Video Interview

Yesterday I did a video interview with Eric Bryant, mostly about Renegade. Eric is a great guy who used to be on staff at Mosaic in L.A., and now works at one of my favorite churches – Gateway in Austin. He’s also the author of Not Like Me: A Field Guide for Influencing a Diverse…

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Exhaustible Will Power

Recently read The One Thing by Gary Keller. Keller cites some studies that have proven that our will power is exhaustible. That’s not the way we typically think. We’d say that some people have lots of will power while others don’t. The reality is that we all have will power, but only a certain store…

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Wacky

I love getting to be a part of Verve. It’s a daily adventure where you never know who will show up or what’s going to happen. In a strange set of examples this weekend: On Sunday our second service had just started when 24 teenagers walked in together. There was something odd about them. They…

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