Your Brain

Did you know … that your brain takes up 1/50th of your body mass, but consumes 1/5th of the calories your body uses every day. What does that mean? How should it change your life? I have no idea, but it’s fascinating!

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Ready to VAULT?

I’m very excited about our Vault Conference this October! In addition to sharing the best lessons and principles we’ve learned at Verve in reaching the truly lost, we have Jud Wilhite and John Burke speaking this year. We’re also offering a short pre-conference intensive on the spiritual and emotional health of pastors on the front…

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Break My Heart

“Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.” Brennan Manning As a pastor for the last almost twenty years, I think a lot about what keeps us from living the lives we want to live. I’ve come to the conclusion that it has a lot to do with…

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Do You Let Sinners Serve?

One of most frequent questions I get from other pastors is, “Do you let sinners serve in your church?” Now it’s not typically worded this way, and it almost always comes from a good place. Usually it’s more like, “So would you let a stripper volunteer in your children’s ministry?” Or the pastor who has…

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Cool Announcement For Church Planters!

Gateway Leaders is launching Cultivate, an innovative training program that prepares leaders to start, grow and multiply new churches out of the culture.  To kick things off, we’re looking for 10 Leaders, to plant 10 churches, to reach 10 cities as part of The Cultivate Church Planters Project. Each of the Project Planters will receive:…

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