It is not an easy thing to raise money. Hah, I know this revelation probably finds you with your mouth wide open and scratching your head, but it’s true. Raising money is a hard thing to do, especially when the only thing you have to offer is a vision of what the future will [...]
I just got back from a lunch with a good friend at BCC. I was telling him how the funding that we had been hoping to get had fallen through, see this post, and how bummed out I was. He started to tell me how his kids had decided, after my last sermon, that they wanted [...]
John 3:30. Perhaps there is nothing more humbling than planting a church (surely there is - like having your skirt caught by the wind or something of that nature). The problem with church planting is that the humblings (that’s my own personal word) keep coming. They come because there is very little about the process that [...]
This is a quick look video at the state of the American church - it is very informative and very shocking. This is why we need new churches! If you have not yet partnered with Jenni and I to plant Epic Church and would like a simple method to do so, click on this link [...]
I just heard Ed Stetzer on the Planting Channel talking about some statistics about the North American Church. One of the things he said was that North America is the only continent where the Gospel is losing ground rather than advancing.  He said most church growth has been transfer growth. We have to be planting [...]
So, the question is, “How do you connect through Epic Church?” There are several ways you can connect with people at Epic Church. Initially you can join us on our Launch Team. Once Jenni and I move to Andover we will be meeting weekly with a group of committed families and individuals to talk about how [...]
So, I am currently on another Wichita trip that is chocked full of meetings with Pastors and Community leaders. Yesterday I met with pastors from East-side Community Church (great guys - know what they are talking about, can’t wait to learn from them), Riverlawn (Jeff Isaacs has been nothing but supportive - he is a [...]
Ecclesiastes 4:12 If Humans are anything, we are social. We are in desperate need of other people. We long to know and be known, we long to normalize our experience in the experiences of others. And in a society that has become increasingly segmented and withdrawn we create ways to socially network with other people through the [...]
I love good stories. Today I got to eat with one of my best friends, Matt - he’s a plowman by trade. We ate a ton of chips and had a good time talking and hanging out. Matt told me two stories, one about John McCain and the other about a fairytale in a foreign land. [...]
As part one of our three part series on our family philosophy at Epic Church, I wanted to highlight the fact that we don’t want families to be passive participants in the process, but we want every generation to be truly engaged in age appropriate ways. We are planning on accomplishing this in a couple of [...]
On our trip to Wichita last week we had two cool things happen. The first: Friday night I received an email from a pastor in California named Rusty George. Rusty has heard that we are planting a church in Andover and is really excited about it. He grew up in Andover knows the need from all the [...]
So Sunday we got a Bible for Peter from one of our friends! Here is a picture of Jenni reading it to Peter. He is already asking some pretty tough questions though… For example, he just said, “hmagg ddaaaa majjj…” I think we’ve all had that thought at one point or another :)!
