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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Welcome to our new website! As God continues to grow our network, we are continually looking for ways to better communicate the vision for what God has brought us together to accomplish in North Carlina and beyond. This website is just one more avenue to push the gospel mission forward. We have ...
As I was praying for you the other day, for all of the daily challenges that we face as church planters, pastors and leaders, I was reminded of the powerful truth that Jesus gives us in Matthew's gospel account (Matthew 16.13-20). Jesus tells Peter that, upon his confession that He is the Son of ...
Porterbrook NC launched on January 29th with tremendous success and momentum. I would like to give a special thank you to Lachlan Payne, our Plant NC Network Coordinator, and to Fellowship Raleigh for allowing us to host this event. We currently have 40 participants in this theological training ...
I wanted to write a personal note as we prepare to launch Porterbrook NC on January 29th. As I have become more familiar with this great tool that we are introducing, I have to say that it is some of the best content that I have been exposed to in my many years of ministry. I am confident that ...