Exploring the teachings of Jesus? Trying to determine whether God even exists? Or perhaps you’re a committed Jesus-follower looking for practical, relevant perspectives on Christ’s teachings and the Bible? Whatever your thoughts on church, whatever your beliefs about God, these weekly messages are for you.
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Messages from Verve in Las Vegas.
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Welcome to Verve Leaf- healthy living for former junk foodies.
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Join Jenna Gordon, Sarah Stewart-Smith and the rest of the VERVE Books team as we discuss books, ideas, and all things publishing.
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in quarantaine met Blinde Paniek
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VERVE is a global collective of badass intersectional feminists. Our persisterhood connects women globally online and ‘onland’ through activism, volunteerism, fundraising & awareness campaigns and Prosecco Think Tanks. Each podcast features readings from our blog SHE SAID interspersed with Feminist commentary and information about what we're reading, what we're writing, what gives us hope, what infuriates us, and what we are going to do about it. Resist + Persist + Assist
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Hello friends! My name is Elizabeth and I’m in passionate pursuit of God’s heart! I want to invite you to join me for some heart-to-heart conversations. We’ll talk about God, our struggles and victories, and grasp what it really means to grow in faith and love. Together, we will unpack the riches of Christ in God’s word and engage in intimate conversation about these truths. I promise God will leave our hearts burning for more of His truth and goodness. I know what it is like to struggle in ...
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More and more chemicals are being put into our beauty products, most of which we can’t even pronounce. Every Monday, join Leaza, a licensed cosmetologist and a natural enthusiast, as she talks about natural alternatives for your beauty regimen and natural ways to love yourself. If you are looking for natural ways to jump start your natural beauty routine, want to know more about natural beauty alternatives, or simply want beauty life hacks and tips, then this podcast is for you.
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We have a tremendous capacity to innovate and create. That power can be used for good—to care for each other and the world—or it can be used in destructive ways to oppress and dehumanize others. The lesson of Babel is the tremendous damage that can occur when humans devalue one another and God. Series Overview: If you grew up in the United States, …
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Many Christians have mistaken Jesus’ call to service as a rebuke against aspiration. In a special message for VIP Night, Josh challenges us to achieve greatness – together. On Aug. 24, we welcomed all VIPs -- VERVEY IMPORTANT PEOPLE! -- to share a special night of worship, vision-setting, opportunities to get involved this fall, and a sneak peek of…
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A defining attribute of God is that he brings order out of chaos. The flood narrative is a hyperbolic theological story that helps us understand the pain of a chaotic world and the heroic lengths God will go to to establish the order required for human flourishing through his relational covenant. Whatever chaos is currently pervading our lives, we …
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Understanding Cain and Abel's story reveals our deep-seated human struggles with comparison, accountability, and the choices that shape us. Cain’s actions show how sin has evolved from an external influence to an internal force that wreaks havoc in our lives and the world. The Mark of Cain leaves us asking the question, can God do anything about th…
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What can we learn from one of the wisest guys who ever lived? Plenty! In the final message in our Voices series, Audrey explores practical ways to acquire and apply more WISDOM. Series Overview: Verve City Church's July series, Voices, features practical perspectives for everyday living. Join us each week for a message on blessings, comparison and …
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Adam and Eve were perhaps real people, but they were far more than that. They serve as archetypes for us: Their failure is our failure, and there are consequences for our sin and brokenness. But God is not content to allow our story to end in tragedy. Rather, from the very beginning, he goes about setting a plan in place to redeem who we are and re…
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Guest speaker Adam Smith teaches a message about comparison – and how we can manage feeling like "the other" by focusing on our relationship with Jesus. Series Overview: Verve City Church's July series, Voices, features practical perspectives for everyday living. Join us each week for a message on blessings, comparison and wisdom.…
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Guest speaker Mike Obadja challenges us to redefine our relationships in the context of following Jesus with "The Culture of Blessing." Series Overview: Verve City Church's July series, Voices, features practical perspectives for everyday living. Join us each week for a message on blessings, comparison and wisdom.…
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In this online-only message, we explore a few final questions in our Any Questions series. Where are dinosaurs in the Bible? Were Adam and Eve real people? Are all other religions wrong, or do they use different language to point to the same reality? Series Overview: Faith and doubt make excellent dance partners. In this series, we’ll explore some …
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In the last week of our Any Questions series, we squeezed in as many of your awesome questions as we could -- including the topics of good and evil, misogyny in the Bible, infertility, and church scandals to name a few. Series Overview: Faith and doubt make excellent dance partners. In this series, we’ll explore some of YOUR biggest questions about…
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How can we know if God, Jesus and salvation are real? How do we reconcile the loving Christian God when there have been and are so many other world religions? Can we trust a book as old and disputed as the Bible? Series Overview: Faith and doubt make excellent dance partners. In this series, we’ll explore some of YOUR biggest questions about life, …
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Does science affirm or contradict Christianity? How can a scientist interpret the book of Genesis pertaining to how the world was created? How does evolution relate to the Bible? Were Adam and Eve real people? Series Overview: Faith and doubt make excellent dance partners. In this series, we’ll explore some of YOUR biggest questions about life, fai…
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What happens when you die? Where do you go? And what happens to the people we care about? Series Overview: Faith and doubt make excellent dance partners. In this series, we’ll explore some of YOUR biggest questions about life, faith and God. Each week, we’ll tackle a different theme: After You Die, The Bible & Science, The Validity of Faith, and a …
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When Jesus chose disciples, he invited them from all over the political spectrum. Their allegiance to Jesus transcended their opinions about how the world's governments should be run. How do Christians make a positive difference in the places they live while remembering that their primary citizenship is in the Kingdom of God? Series Overview: Verve…
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Perhaps you've heard someone say, "I just don't know how someone can be a Christian and a Democrat." Or, "I just don't know how someone can be a Christian and vote for that candidate." Embedded into those statements is the critical issue: there's something they don't know. In week five of Party Crashers, Verve City Church will explore why different…
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Christianity once had more cultural influence in the United States than it now does because more people identified as Christians. What happened? Why did people start walking away from Christianity in the 1990s? While the answers to that question are complex, the Church's grab for political power played a significant role. The Church wasn't silent; …
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In our polarizing times, faith and politics seem to be leading more to rage than actual change. It's discouraging, disheartening, and disappointing. But Sarah Bauer Anderson believes it doesn't have to stay this way. Civility is not a pipe dream. Nuance is not unrecoverable. Peace is possible. And it can all start right here, right now, with us. Se…
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When political division shows up not only on the campaign trail but also at our dinner tables, we wonder: Can we be part of a better way? Michael Wear says "yes," offering a distinctly Jesus-centered approach to politics that results in healing rather than division, kindness rather than hatred, and hope rather than despair. Series Overview: Verve C…
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Was the United States founded as a "Christian nation?" Can any nation be a "Christian nation?" Exploring the teachings of Jesus and the history of "Christian" imperialism, we'll discuss the incompatibility of the way of Jesus and the way of Empire. Series Overview: Verve City Church won't tell you who to vote for. We won't tell you which policies t…
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"I can't." "I should." "Nobody likes me." "I'm such an idiot." "I'm a dumpster fire." For many of us, the negative talk in our lives is focused less on other people and more on ourselves. While it's healthy to understand our strengths and weaknesses, constantly disparaging ourselves can become a self-fulfilling indictment and a confidence killer. H…
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The way we see and experience others reveals less about them than it does about us. And when we “call it like we see it,” what we say is a reflection of our soul. We can laugh at ridiculous one-star reviews, but don’t we all fall into the trap of spreading negative gossip sometimes? How can adjusting our mindset change the words we say and restore …
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Our words hold surprising power to shape our identity, our environment, and our friends. We get to decide whether to wield that power well or to wield it haphazardly. The words we choose, the tone we use, and even our body language can intentionally or inadvertently build up or tear down. So, how do we become people who are filled with words of gra…
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Celebrated at Easter, Jesus’ resurrection is a central event for Christianity… which means Jesus’ death is also at the center of our faith. But why did Jesus have to die? And what does the answer reveal about God?توسط Verve City Church
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Jesus was compassionate toward the outcasts of society and brutal toward highly respected religious leaders. He disrupted their religious festivals, called them snakes, and warned their followers to avoid modeling their lives after them. Why does Jesus seem outraged by the most revered of religious leaders rather than the greatest of sinners? Serie…
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Jesus invites a man to follow him and then seemingly refuses to let him bury his own father. Is Jesus being unreasonable? Does he lack compassion for this man's family? What do we learn about the mission of Jesus as we discover the mindset of Jesus? Series Overview: When we think of Jesus, we often think of his kindness, gentleness, and tenderness.…
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Jesus wasn't fair. How does His radical unfairness offer a surprising example of how we should act toward others? Could unfairness be a model for how we can make the world better? Series Overview: When we think of Jesus, we often think of his kindness, gentleness, and tenderness. We think of his graciousness toward sinners, his generosity toward th…
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A Gentile woman asks Jesus for help. He first ignores her, and then seems to insult her. What's going on here? Why does Jesus seem so...un-Jesusy in this story? Series overview: When we think of Jesus, we often think of his kindness, gentleness, and tenderness. We think of his graciousness toward sinners, his generosity toward the poor, and his hea…
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The church is called to step boldly into the future, working toward the renewal and reconciliation of all things. This must never devolve into an end-times-oriented, doom-and-gloom, ejection theology, but should rather be a hope-filled vision of what could be if more people chose to attach themselves to the Kingdom of God. Series overview: Througho…
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As we grapple with the call of the church to live out the great commission and the great commandment, how are individual Christians - and the Church as a whole - uniquely positioned to unleash radical generosity as a blessing in our communities and around the world? Series Overview: Throughout history, the Christian church has occasionally lost its…
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In the second week of our series about the Church as the Bride of Christ, we'll explore how churches serve as missional communities. What do we mean by "mission," and how do we differentiate the good things a church CAN do the missional things a church MUST do? Series Overview: Throughout history, the Christian church has occasionally lost its way,…
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Throughout history, the Christian church has occasionally lost its way, becoming distracted or obsessed with money, political power, or cultural relevancy. But at its best, the church has been a beacon of grace, acceptance, and holiness — a spiritual refuge for the broken-hearted and a light illuminating the way to God for those far from Him. How c…
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This week: Many Christian leaders and spiritualists have written about the two halves of life available to us. The first half is largely about identity and personal security while the second half becomes more about contributing and shedding your ego. So how do people scale this second mountain? How do we follow the pattern of Jesus in giving our li…
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Our worldview, values, and religious beliefs don't typically change until our current paradigms don't work for us anymore. We encounter suffering, grief, or cognitive dissonance and we realize that our way of understanding the world doesn't hold explanatory power for our experiences. How do we make sense of the world when the world stops making sen…
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The human ego prefers just about anything to suffering, changing, or dying. In fact, many people adopt a religious tradition in hopes of avoiding such painful experiences. But the way of Jesus has always understood this terrifying and liberating truth: resurrection can only come after death. Jesus told us we would experience trouble in this world (…
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Some older people inspire the young people who know them, and some serve as a cautionary tale. How do we become more kind, generous, and patient as we age? How do we avoid becoming cynical, embittered, or resentful? Series Overview: Your life can dramatically change for the better, but there is no silver bullet. It’s a pathway to walk rather than a…
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Most things aren’t for everyone. But Christmas reminds us that Jesus IS for all of us! His birth represents the reality of God’s love. Through his birth, life, death, and resurrection, Jesus justifies our joy; reminds us that we’re not alone; and gives our lives hope and purpose.توسط Verve City Church
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This week: The shepherds were near the bottom of the socio-economic ladder of first-century Jewish society. The wise men were likely wealthy gentiles, perhaps astrologers or kings. These two groups of men could not have been much more different than they were. And yet both groups needed Christmas so much that the angels themselves proclaimed the ar…
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We're wrapping up 2023 by sharing a recording of a live online event featuring Laurie Petrou, author of the novels STARGAZER and SISTER OF MINE, and online book advocate Gabby Humphreys (@humphreads on Instagram). The pair discuss Laurie's novels and writing process, and the impact of social media on a book's success. We'll be taking a break from p…
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Whether you’re a “glass is half-full” or “glass is half-empty” kind of person, Christmas comes every year just the same. And underneath the shiny trappings of another holiday season, we can find ourselves feeling oddly empty, unfulfilled, and even disappointed. But what if the birth of Jesus was actually world-changing for optimists, pessimists, an…
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Every generation thinks that the generation behind it is the worst generation ever. There are significant psychographic and value-driven differences between different generations that lead them to listen to different music, vote differently, watch different television shows, and purchase different products. But Boomers, Xers, Millennials, Gen Z, an…
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This week: As disciples, we choose to be with Jesus, learn from Jesus, and ultimately - become like Jesus. The final message of our Jesusy Life series explores the power and beauty of a life lived like Jesus. Series overview: The way of Jesus isn’t primarily something you believe but someone you become. So how do we become the people Jesus invited …
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Robyn Gigl and Kia Abdullah discuss their new novels - By Way of Sorrow and Those People Next Door - in a live online event hosted by Rob Gillett from Queerly Books.توسط VERVE Books
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This week: Most of us have a favorite life hack (or two!) because we're all looking for easy ways to make our lives better. Following Jesus seems harder than most of those hacks... But what would it actually look like for Jesus' teachings to totally transform our lives? What if we could learn from Jesus how to have true rest, peace, and joy? Series…
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Editorial Director Jenna Gordon chats to critically acclaimed crime fiction author Jane Jesmond about her latest novel, A QUIET CONTAGION - a dual-timeline mystery-thriller about an accident at a pharmaceutical lab and a dangerous secret that's buried for decades.توسط VERVE Books
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This week: From free overnight shipping to on-demand entertainment, we’re immersed in an age of seemingly inescapable expectations of speed and efficiency. As followers of Christ, how can we adopt a set of low-tech, ages-old spiritual practices that hold the key to a more productive relationship with God and others? Series overview: The way of Jesu…
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Week 1: We make plans for all kinds of things: working out, saving for our kids' college tuition, accomplishing work goals, binge-watching Netflix shows. But while many of us would like to develop our spiritual lives, few of us make a plan to do so. What if there were a proven way to become more shaped by Jesus? Series overview: The way of Jesus is…
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A special recording of our recent live online event featuring Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe, and Sophie Mackintosh, author of Cursed Bread. An illuminating and hilarious discussion about their novels, 'sad girl fiction' and their writing processes.توسط VERVE Books
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Week 4 The Gospels are full of stories where Jesus heals people: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed. These miraculous healings continue in the book of Acts and throughout the ministries of the Apostles. Are these stories credible? And if so, does God still heal today? Series Overview Dragons, sea monsters, fairies, gods, and… Jes…
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Week 3 The New Testament speaks of spiritual gifts that God has given to his Church: evangelism, teaching, serving, leadership, wisdom, administration, healing, and many more. How are these spiritual gifts different from our natural talents? What is the expectation of individuals and churches to use these gifts? And what are some of the dangers and…
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