Feels Like The Second Time: Youth

A year ago we launched Verve, which is the second new church I’ve started.  I thought it may be interesting for some of you if I shared a few of the things I’ve noticed about starting a church for the second time.  So here’s the third: I like watching poker on TV and one of…

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Feels Like The Second Time: Perspective

A year ago we launched Verve, which is the second new church I’ve started.  I thought it may be interesting for some of you if I shared a few of the things I’ve noticed about starting a church for the second time.  So here’s the second: One of the nice things the experience of having…

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The Power of Nostalgia

My wife, and everyone else from Buffalo, New York, will tell you that Ted’s has the best hot dogs in the world. Guess what? They’re not. They’re okay, but the reason Buffalo natives rave about them is they grew up eating them. It’s the power of nostalgia. You’ve got a place like that too, right?…

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Feels Like The Second Time: Expectations

A year ago we launched Verve, which is the second new church I’ve started.  I thought it may be interesting for some of you if I shared a few of the things I’ve noticed about starting a church for the second time.  So here’s the first: If you’re first church was “successful” there’s a tendency…

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An Immersive Seminar?

So we’ve got this conference we’re doing (again) in October called Vault.  And if I were you I’d be asking, “Why should I go?  I mean, sure, it’s in Vegas and that’s cool.  And it’s only like $100 and that’s cheap.  But why should I go to this over another conference?” Answer?  Because it’s an…

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