The Most Important Lesson

Last weekend at Verve we talked about dating and asked the question: When are you ready to get married? Answer: When you don’t need to get married. You’re not ready to get married until you’ve learned that God is enough and can meet all your needs. You were designed to have your soul filled with…

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Adventure Infused Boredom

A couple of weeks ago at Verve we talked about how God wants to wake us up and give us full life in Jesus. And it’s interesting to think about what “full life” means. Like if we follow Jesus are there still boring parts in life? Yes. But… There are still boring parts, but if…

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Feel Your Way Into Acting

Out of town, so re-posting an old post today… I was talking to someone a few weeks ago who is stuck in a certain (and important) area of his life. He doesn’t like where things are headed, and he knows what to do to change the trajectory. The problem? He doesn’t feel like it. This…

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Intense

I love the culture we’ve created at Verve. And by that, I’m not referring to the goofy videos and rocking music. I like that too, but that’s not what I mean. In the last week I received an email from a Verver who is going back and asking forgiveness of all the people he’s hurt.…

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Frail Heroes

Saw the new Mission Impossible movie last month. I’ve seen all the old ones, and so something really struck me about this newest installment. There are several scenes in this movie where the hero is … scared. We see Tom Cruise’s character about to jump off a building into a dumpster, but he is reticent.…

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