Category Archives: Church Planting

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Church In Rural America

Share Many of you know the first church I planted was in Morgantown, KY. So many of the experiences that I write about in Plan B came from my time there at Morgantown Community Church. Morgantown is a city of about 3,000 people in the city limits and an addition 9,000 or so in the [...]

Your Last Chance

Share While next week is going to be crazy busy I’m so looking forward to seeing many of you in person.  I’m going to be out in Kansas City on Monday and Tuesday speaking at the Worship Together Conference with an amazing line up of worship leaders. Somehow I think I’m going to be the [...]

Bellevue Campus Update

Share If you weren’t at Cross Point yesterday, you may have missed our update on the new Bellevue Campus construction as well as the announcement of the date we’ve set to open the campus. Exciting times! Faith Hope & Love Update_3.21.10 from Cross Point Church on Vimeo.

Majority of Pastors Have NO Friends

Share I was reading THIS article the other night and it had a startling quote in there from H.B. London, head of pastoral ministries for Focus on the Family. He disclosed that “at least 70 percent of pastors in the United States claim they have no friends.” This stat is absolutely heartbreaking and unacceptable to [...]

Don’t Miss Unleash!

Share It’s hard to believe but there’s only a couple months left until the Unleash Conference on March 4th. Last year I took a handful of our staff to Anderson for this conference and we had an absolute blast. God used this time to stretch us and remind us of the importance of the calling [...]

Soul City

Share Most of you know that I”m a huge fan of church planting. God has allowed me to be a part of two church plants. Both Morgantown Community Church and Cross Point church were launched because a group of people believed in the importance of launching a church with a unique vision to reach it’s [...]

When God Speaks

Share My friends Jarrett and Jeanne Stevens are moving from Atlanta to start a church in Chicago called Soul City Church. They’re risking it all to chase the dream God has placed in their hearts. Just being around them right now makes my heart start beating fast. Many of you know this weekend is our [...]

Cross Point Bellevue to Launch in 2010

Share With less than two weeks to go before the launch of Cross Point North we announced this past Sunday we’ll be launching our 4th campus, Cross Point Bellevue, in early 2010. It was exciting to introduce Justin Davis and his family as our latest campus pastor. I’m the first to admit not every church [...]

Cross Point North Launching

Share In a few weeks, after a lot of praying and planning, we’re finally getting ready to launch our 3rd Cross Point campus just North of Nashville. Several months ago we introduced our latest campus pastor, Kevin Cook, to the CP community. He’s an awesome guy and we’re so excited to have he, his wife [...]

God’s Presence

Share I’ve been doing my quiet time out of Exodus lately. Moses is a leader I can learn a lot from. Exodus 33:15 “Then Moses said to him, ‘If your presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.” God promised Moses he would send his angel before them and guide [...]