Blog Announcement

A few times in the history of this blog I’ve kinda changed the focus, and I’m kinda changing it again. The last few years I’ve made it a blog for pastors and a blog for people who go to Verve. But I’m going to change that and narrow the focus to pastors, for two reasons:…

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VERVE Happs

One of Verve’s supporting churches has been Kensington Community Church outside Detroit. A few months ago they contacted me and let me know they were doing a series called “Big God” with one week on the theme “Big God, Big Risk.” They asked if they could fly their film crew to Vegas to do a…

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this weekend @ VERVE

Every one of us is sick in some way. We try to hide our sickness – the messy ugly parts of us – from other people, but it’s there. And maybe we even try to hide it from God, but He knows. So what does God do with our sickness? And it’s also true that…

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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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VERVE Happs

Another sweet weekend at Verve. I love our volunteers. It’s so cool to see how everyone serving comes together to make a difference. It’s not God working through Vince’s speaking, or God working through Zac’s singing, or God working through Jessi’s smile at the Welcome Center – it’s all of that. It’s all of us.…

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