Living The Life
Ease Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
If you had asked me, when I moved to Las Vegas, to rate my love for pro football on a scale of 1-10 I would have said 9. For college football I would have said a 7. Today? The NFL has moved down to an 8, and college up to an 8. Why? Because I…
Read MoreCreating Culture
In his blog, Mark Cuban recently told some of his history of owning the Dallas Mavericks (NBA basketball team) and I love what he writes about a decision he made when he first bought the team: The week I bought the Mavs I was asked by Nellie if I wanted to bag the season in…
Read MoreBreak 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…
Read MoreDeath to Life
One of our goals at Verve is that everyone would read the Bible everyday. Not out of religious obligation but because it’s life-changing. So we put together an annual Bible reading plan, and have daily posts on the Bible reading of that day at vervecatalysts.org. I LOVE today’s reading – Ephesians, chapter two. The first…
Read MoreThe Gospel is Absurd
Brennan Manning just passed away a week or so ago. In honor of his life, I thought I’d share one of my favorite quotes from him. I LOVE this quote from Brennan Manning’s book, The Furious Longing of God (pages 124-126). It’s a lot of what I’m trying to say in my new book Renegade, but…
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