this weekend @ VERVE

I’m psyched for this weekend at Verve. Why? Because so many of us are living decent lives, maybe even good lives, but not influential lives. We haven’t figured out how to have an impact our lives. At Verve we say we’re about three things: loving God, loving people, and turning the world upside down. This…

Read More

VivaLaMotherTeresa

In 1960, Mother Teresa was invited to speak at a national women’s gathering. It would be her first venture outside the borders of Third World poverty. And the event was held in … Las Vegas. After all her years living in the slums of Calcutta, we can only imagine how uncomfortable Mother Teresa must have…

Read More

VERVE Happs: We’ve Been Robbed!

Someone stole most of our block party stuff out of our trailer.  We’ve been doing block parties for the last year to try and create a little community in neighborhoods around Vegas. We had one planned for this weekend. But we’re having to cancel it because it would cost us probably $2,000 to replace the…

Read More

Our Motivation

At Verve we have a 2011 reading plan through the New Testament and parts of the Old Testament.  (You can find it at our www.vervecatalysts.org site.) A ton of Ververs are doing it. If you aren’t, but want to join us, the year is still young – jump in! So I’ve been thinking about the…

Read More

this weekend @ VERVE

The last two weeks we’ve talked about kind of big stuff, that God believes in us and that there’s good reason to believe in Him. That is awesome, and important. The problem is that a lot of life is kind of small stuff. Often the things that stress us out aren’t matters of life and…

Read More