Resources

Pinocchio Doesn’t Fit In My Little Box I like ideas to be simple and well defined. I prefer to put ideas in a nice, square box, then to close the top and have nothing spilling out between the cracks of the lid. So I am not a fan of paradoxes. They hurt my brain. For…

You’ve seen the plot line, in movies or TV shows, probably multiple times. It goes like this… Mom and Dad are going on a trip. The parents are hitting the road for a little vacation, or to visit family, and they’ll be gone for a few days. They decide to leave the kids on their…

It’s a Big Deal To God Churches have a reputation for talking about money all the time. At Verve, we talked about money sixteen times in our first eleven years. That’s sixteen Sundays out of almost six hundred. Churches are also known for asking people for money, a lot. Not us. In fact, every week…

There’s Nothing Worse Than Having a Father I was about to turn eight years old. I lived in New Jersey and invited a bunch of friends over for my birthday party on January 29. On January 28, in the middle of the night, I felt a hand on my shoulder. My dad was shaking me…

Father? Father. We’ll be celebrating Father’s Day this Sunday at Verve. God calls himself our “Father.” That makes some of us smile. But not all of us. Not me. When you think of the word father you may not have memories of going out in the backyard and playing catch. You’re not thinking of someone…