5 Essential Ingredients for Planting Purpose Driven Churches
If the local church is the hope of the world… then we need more local churches. As I write this, I’m a couple of hours away from teaching a lab at Saddleback Church’s Hope Renewed conference on Planting Purpose Driven Churches. I’m a huge believer in...
5 Things That Are Not So Wrong with the Church
Because of my role as an Editor and Online Community Facilitator, I’m exposed to a very wide variety of thinking within the modern church. I read blogs by the reformed, the missional, the fundamental, the emerging, the evangelical, and the conservative points of...
The Three Things We Do Together As a Church
Grace Hills is a simple, purpose driven church. That means that we try to do what we’re told to do by Jesus, and little else. There is plenty of debate today about what a local church ought to look like, with plenty of criticism directed at large churches, in...
Grace Hills: A Growing Church for a Growing Community
I’m in awe of God because He is God and because of all that I know to be true about Him from Scripture. And I’m humbled to be a part of what he is doing in the world today. I just got to share this brief update about Grace Hills Church via Mission:World...
Dear Grace Hills, We're Making a Big, Bold Move
Coming to (another) theater near you… Grace Hills Church! We’re moving from the Rogers Malco Town Cinema over to the Malco at Pinnacle Hills Promenade!! And our big opening is January 25, 2015!! Hey Grace Hills, we’re three years old! And during...
What to Do When Your Church Seems to Be Dying
No church leader I know wants to see another church close its doors. We need every local church, now more than ever, if we’re going to fulfill the Great Commission as soon as possible. I’m a Baptist who still believes in the perpetuity of biblical, local...When Things Get Real in a Church Plant
A snapshot taken in our first official “second” service, 1/19/2014. I am humbled! Today marked the 2nd anniversary of our launch as Grace Hills Church. Today, we also launched a second morning worship service – something I’ll write about later....
Let's Make Disciples of All the Nations… Today!
Jesus told us plainly, don’t talk about a harvest happening someday. Look at the fields that are white for the harvest today. As long as we see the Great Commission as some far off, unreachable goal, we will remain far off from reaching our goal. Earlier today,...
Creating Excellence With a Tiny Budget
When we began planting Grace Hills, we didn’t have the quarter of a million dollars that some plants in America start out with. We had way less than that in fact, so we had to figure out how to hack some things together, and I’m convinced it’s made...Hi. I’m Brandon.
I help people find their purpose and leaders amplify their influence.
More specifically, I'm a follower of Jesus, husband to Angie, and dad of three. I'm the Lead Pastor of Grace Hills Church in Northwest Arkansas. I'm also a leadership coach, mentor to pastors, author, digital marketer and entrepreneur.