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Verve Church
This is the official podcast of Verve Church. All messages throughout the week will be available through our podcast.
In this week's message Pastor Shane turns the focus and our attention on the verse from Matthew where Jesus tells us to love of our neighbors as ourselves. The challenge he left us with is "if we loved our neighbors as we love ourselves... how well would our neighbors be loved"? Listen in to learn how loving yourself as Christ loves you can make a huge difference in the way you truly love your neighbor as yourself.
Today Pastor Shane teaches us the practical side of discipleship. We only need 2 tools to be able to lead someone to Christ... salvation and our story. Learning how to share your story can be intimidating but we'll hear in today's message how simple is can actually be.
Today we launched a brand new series called "Family Matters". We're breaking down the complexity of what the church has made discipleship look like for so long and learning just how simple it truly is to love people that are far from God but near to us. We hope this message inspires you to grow in your walk with Christ and see others as Jesus sees you...
In this week's message, Kristin and Ty Ward share their powerful testimony of overcoming addiction and struggles early in their marriage and how God has used their restoration to bring healing to their marriage and so many others. You'll want to listen and share this podcast with everyone you know.
On today's episode Jay Webb, Director of West Metro FCA, talks to us about the vision of FCA. Jay brings a fresh and encouraging word about the practicality of the Gospel and what we're supposed to do as the church. We can't love God and not love people. Jay delivers a strong message about putting our priorities in order as believers. Get ready to be inspired and motivated to love people more.
Today our Executive Pastor, Stacy Jefferson and his wife Cindy share some insight on how to keep our relationships simple by relying on God to keep us together. Stacy and Cindy bring a wealth of marriage advice, relationship goals and Biblical principles for keeping everything on track. Stacy and Cindy are also licensed and certified marriage counselors as well as lead our marriage connect group. As you listen to the message take notes on the practical ways your relationship with God and your spouse can grow and stay healthy.
In Week 4 of Didn't See It Coming Pastor Shane teaches us the importances of learning to see things and value the things that God values. God values who you are and the work that He wants and is doing inside you. For many, the feeling of being empty usually comes when our expectations aren’t met and the dream we’ve had for our lives goes unfulfilled. Lean in as we learn how to fill our emptiness the right way.
In week 2 of our "Didn't See It Coming" series Pastor Shane teaches us about the ways we tend to compromise our character. Often times we may not even be aware of how we're compromising. Tune in to today's message and discover how to live your life without the threat of compromise.
We're in our first week of a brand new series for 2021 called Didn't See It Coming. Have you ever experienced times in your life that took you by surprise? I think everyone at some point in time has. Have you ever thought, "if I could've seen that coming or been better prepared it wouldn't have been so bad". Pastor Shane is teaching us exactly how to be prepared for those internal battles that have large external payoff's. Happy New Year!
On this last week of 2020 student ministry director Jake Jefferson teaches us how we can find rest and peace no matter how strong the storm of our circumstances may appear. Our hope isn't in ourselves or our strength but in our savior named Jesus. We hope and pray that this message encourages you to find a new perspective for 2021.
Have you ever wondered why tinsel was even invented? Does it even serve a purpose? It's not very attractive and it causes a huge mess. However, if you're not ever good at making a tree look festive it can certainly fill in the holes from all the imbalanced ornaments and broken branches. Listen in as Pastor Shane teaches us why using tinsel in our own lives can leave us in a bigger mess than we started with. Merry Christmas 2020!
Most of the time we barely find time to ourselves and our kids. However, we're called to reach people, love people and invite others to experience Jesus with us. How can we do that when it seems like our days are so full? Pastor Shane gives us some insight into how and why we're called to reach others in week one of our series A Friend's Christmas.
Jared Shadrix delivers a powerful message about not only identifying the giants in your life but what we can do to truly overcome them and live a life set free from bondages.
As we conclude our series on The Blessed Life, Pastor Jarrod Kilgore teaches us how to become generous. We don't practice generosity so that God will be generous to us. We practice generosity because of what God already for us.
On this episode one our Elders Angel Arzuaga teaches us about God using these moments of hardship to shift us into a place that's He's been trying to call us into all along. This is the 6th message in our series The Blessed Life. How can God take my message and turn it into something magnificent? I've been through way too much for God to use! Im too damaged and broken for God to use. If you've ever said something like that or had these thoughts... today's message is exactly what you need.
In week 5 of The Blessed Life series, our Associate Pastor Stacy Jefferson delivers a powerful and poignant message about how to stay faithful in your giving. What do you do when it seems like things aren't adding up? What does being faithful in our giving truly look like? What if I don't give as much as someone else... will I still be blessed? Find the answers to these questions and more on today's episode of The Blessed Life.
This is the 4th message in our collection of talks called The Blessed Life. Today Pastor Shane teaches us that all money is under the influence of a spirit. It's either God's spirit or Mammon. Is your money under God's spirit? How can you be sure? What is mammon? All of these questions and more are in today's episode.
In our 3rd installment of The Blessed Life, Pastor Shane leads us in a talk about learning what first fruits truly are and what it means to put God first in everything we do.
In the 2nd week of our series The Blessed Life Pastor Shane teaches us how tithing is a test... but not a test of our limitations... it's a test of our trust in God.
In week 1 of our brand new series The Blessed Life Pastor Shane teaches us that no matter what you choose to give whether it's time, talent or your treasure it all has to come down to the motive of your heart. What's moving you to give? Is it recognition? It's so others will give back to you? We should never give in order to get... so why or how should we give?
In week 3 of our Hearts and Harvest series Pastor Shane dives deep in teaching us how to de-weed our lives from the things of this world that want to choke out the life that God is wanting to plant in us.
In Week 2 of our Hearts and Harvest series Pastor Shane unveils the vision and plans for the future of Verve Church. It even involves moving toward a permanent facility.
Welcome to Week 1 of our Hearts and Harvest Podcast. In today's episode Pastor Shane breaks down what it takes to have an effective harvest in your life.