I was reflecting on a passage of scripture this morning from Jeremiah 2.13. In it God tells the prophet, “for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” As a ...
Jason Kim, a future church planter and intern with Plant NC, recently shared with me what he has learned in his time with our network. As he preapres to move back to Sydney, Australia, I am encouraged that he leaves better trained and equipped for the future in the gospel. The Triangle Regional ...
It is with great pleasure to announce the launching of our newest region. We have been praying and working behind the scenes with our partner churches in the network to lay the foundation for this new region. Ben Rudolph, lead pastor of Providence Church in Denver, NC, will be helping to ...
I want to share a story from Ben Rudolph, lead elder of Providence Church in Denver, NC. Often times when we think of planting a new church out of our church, we wrongly think we need to have big budgets, big numbers, deep benches of perfected and seasoned men, and everything else figured out and ...
We are living in an exciting time where God is raising up a new generation of church planters who have a bold vision and a sincere passion to plant culturally relevant and gospel centered churches. Many planters are stepping out in faith to answer the call of God on their life to plant a church. ...
Through the years of serving Jesus’ Church, I have seen many people come and go. Some of these have been the joyful sending of God’s people to serve at other churches or plant churches; others have been painful losses of people close to me that left for myriad reasons; others were ...
It can be a lonely business, church planting. Loneliness in ministry is one of the most often overlooked aspects of being a pastor’s wife. We’ve all felt it, some more than others. Many of us have experienced rejection, often by those whom we thought were closest to us. We put up ...
I recently preached through Romans 6:1–14 at 1.21 Church and was struck by the fact that we often fail to believe this truth and thus live out this aspect of the gospel. Through faith alone and grace alone, by Christ alone, we have freedom from the penalty AND the power of sin. The first ...
I have never had a bad relationship with my mother-in-law, but that has always been easy because I now live in America and so I only get to see her every 2–3 years. A serious car crash, a heart-wrenching divorce and years of alcoholism have left her in a fragile state with little money and ...
Have you ever heard a pastor or a church planter say, “I want to plant a church that I would want to attend”? It was probably me you were hearing. Although this may sound cool, I think it could have devastating results. Not because it would be very difficult and because that ...