Population

There are 270,000 people who live within five miles of Verve’s building. Vegas packs people in. And those people don’t know each other. So Jessica Hagy’s Indexed this week seemed especially appropriate:

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Just Be Honest

I was able to catch some of the replay of “The Nines” – an online church leader conference featuring a ton of speakers each talking for just a few minutes. To my surprise, my favorite talk was by Elmer Towns. Towns talked about the inclination for pastors to be dishonest. He gave several examples. Preachers…

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Religion vs. Gospel

I LOVE Tim Keller’s list of the differences between religion and the gospel. It’s definitely worth spending some time thinking through to consider which side of the line you really live on:

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Mid-Week Believer’s Service?

Love this post from BrianJones.com….. Should We Start A Mid-Week Believer’s Service? Recently I received an email from a good friend of mine who is a church planter. He asked… Brian, Have you guys ever tossed around the idea of doing a mid-week “believers” type of service. If yes… can you give me a brief…

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Listener Kids

One of the amazing things God has done for me in these last (almost) four years in Las Vegas is let me make some new amazing friends. One of those friends is Ruthie Swartzlander. Ruthie and her team just recently launched Listener Kids.  Listener Kids offers videos and apps for toddler age kids.  They are…

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