This episode is an overview of the Life on Life Discipleship Program we offer at 1KH, including: Jeremy's story and decades of experience making disciples The 10 mistakes to watch out for in your disciple-making The 10 things that makes 1KH Life and Life distinct from other movements, and why we think it has success If you're thinking about getting serious about following the Great Commission (which we HIGHLY encourage), this is a great episode to set the groundwork. In this episode, we talk abo...
Jul 13, 2025•47 min
The 1KH "A House For Community" coaching cohort combines over 25 years of training, research, and live experience into what we aim to be the best, most comprehensive, impactful, and sustainable programs for launching and growing your house church. In this episode, we dive into the 10 distinctives that separate A House For Community from the few other options out there when it comes to house church coaching and training. These are things we've worked long and hard to perfect and include, to be th...
Jun 29, 2025•21 min
If you're thinking about starting a house church, PLEASE use our 25+ years of experience to avoid these 10 mistakes! 20 of those 25 years were more trial and error than success, so trust me when I say we've lived through many painful memories. But...for the past 5 years, I think we've finally cracked the code, and want to help you have the highest chance of success if you decide to do this in your own community. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:14 Mistake 1: Community over Disciple-M...
Jun 15, 2025•20 min
Jeremy talks to Sarah Wood of Dwellings, to get her insights after 4+ years of helping people start home communities and house churches. Their model expects growth and multiplication, and this was a great episode that has a relatable back story and super practical, boots on the ground tips for how to start your own community and/or church. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:46 The Dwellings Story 6:07 Navigating The Shift To Home Church, And Finding Resources 13:38 The Presence of Chri...
Jun 01, 2025•45 min
Join us for a heart-to-heart with Matt Hanson, the driving force behind the Aion Path, as we dive into innovative approaches to rites of passage in modern Christian families. Discover how this pioneering program is uniquely designed to engage fathers and their children in a profound journey toward spiritual, physical, and emotional adulthood, and learn about practical tools and steps that can help solidify faith and competency in today's complex world. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro ...
May 18, 2025•50 min
What's missing in American discipleship movements that keeps us from being able to reach 4th generation and beyond disciples? Today's guest, Ryan Snow, has one, simple word: Prayer. Ryan Snow is the lead pastor at the Florence Northern Kentucky Vineyard Church, and has a heart for disciple-making. This is an awesome and super practical episode to take some notes on! In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:39 Ryan's Story Leading To Discipleship 6:35 The Tension Between Discipleship and The ...
May 04, 2025•53 min
If we're going to have a disciple-making movement that absolutely explodes for Christ, it's got to organically make it past the third and fourth generations of disciple-makers. But that's just not happening in the West. Today we're joined by Pastor Matt Massey who took what he knew about marketing and sales and applied it to discipleship, and has spent the last couple of decades refining, tweaking, and building disciple-makers. Learn from Matt's mistakes and successes to find out how to build a ...
Apr 20, 2025•52 min
Paul Hemminger joins Jeremy on the show today to discuss local city networks to connect believers and make the body of Christ denser and more impactful. The Kingdom of God has a spatial, geographic reality to it, and it's so important that we interact with our city and the body of believers in our city to bring the Kingdom to our hometowns. Paul explains the vision and mission of the networks they're building, in hopes that others join in and help to create a strong, sturdy network of Christians...
Apr 06, 2025•47 min
Alex Rossie joins Jeremy today to talk about his experience as a missionary in Central America and how to get over the many roadblocks in our modern American culture that stop people from being disciple-makers. Alex talks about his experience with Ordinary Movement, helping existing churches turn their members into disciple-makers, and with Mosaic Movement, a disciple-making community he's founded. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:56 Alex's Backstory 4:28 Discipleship Learnings From ...
Mar 16, 2025•59 min
Transformation after transformation. People coming up to me years later to tell me how it changed their life. And all I was trying to do was write down what I'd learned about the STORY of the Bible. Thanks to God, Story-Formed Life has become much more than a Bible Study. It's become a foundational tool that continues to strengthen the deepest part of people's faith. Learn more about the project in this episode, and consider getting involved today. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:57...
Mar 02, 2025•24 min
Michael Mattes leads Kingdom Dads, a ministry focused on discipleship for fathers. Jeremy and Michael discuss the unique approach of using small group cohorts to multiply effective disciple-making practices. Learn the multi-stage, small-group approach Michael and his organization are effectively using to grow their efforts locally, and now across the region. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 1:51 Michael's Background and Ministry Journey 5:57 Discipleship Format and Content 9:00 Why (an...
Feb 16, 2025•36 min
It's pretty hard to follow Jesus' command to make disciples if we don't actually know what He meant by that. In this episode, we break down a very specific definition of discipleship, and then give a variety of practical ways to implement this, EVEN if you think you have nothing to offer, or don't know where to start. This is the foundation of what we all need to understand if we're going to go out and confidently make disciples for Jesus! In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Introduction and We...
Jan 26, 2025•36 min
The first hurdle to making disciples who make disciples is actually convincing them of the importance of the job. Jesus literally GAVE US the job of expanding His rule...through discipleship! Jeremy Pryor, Brent Kruithof, and Joe Freudenberg talk about the top 5 reasons why you MUST take discipleship seriously. In this episode, we talk about: 0:00 Intro 2:16 The Case For Discipleship 7:34 Multiplication vs. Addition Strategies for Discipleship 13:53 The Problem With Our Understanding of the Word...
Jan 12, 2025•39 min
Are sermons actually causing damage to the Christians who rely on them as the main part of their spiritual life? This episode will challenge your assumptions about modern worship services, and particularly sermons. Jeremy and April explores the impact of sermon-centric worship on discipleship, discussing the passive nature of weekly sermons and offering insights into more interactive and effective methods of teaching and disciple-making. They also discuss the economic implications and the proble...
Dec 29, 2024•31 min
Brent and Katie Kruithof, along with Mark and Michelle Tiderman, give their top 10 tips for how to actually build a family team. These are highly actionable tips that pair really well with the first part of this Housecraft talk (listen to the previous episode of this podcast to hear the 30,000 foot overview of what a family team is and why you should build one!). This is one of the best ways to disciple your kids and create a family on mission, so you make the most of your relationships with tho...
Dec 22, 2024•54 min
What type of family are you building? Did you even know there were different family models? In the Western world, we've been duped into believing that the model we all know and grew up in is normal...but it's actually a new experiment over the past couple hundred years. And if we look around, how well is it working? This talk by Mark and Michelle Tiderman, part of our Housecraft series of events, dives into the ancient family model outlined in the Bible and pretty much every other historical soc...
Dec 15, 2024•38 min
When we talk about church gatherings, we often fall into one of two extremes: 1. Super libertarian 2. Super controlled Both ends of the spectrum have value in the right context, but what happens when we go outside the box and stop turning one dial to 100% and the other to 0%? That's what Art Thomas us understand today, as he shares how his organization has built a local house church network...and why they took the unusual step of officially organizing it instead of leaving it cranked to 100% "fr...
Dec 08, 2024•55 min
In this episode of the 1000 Houses podcast, Jeremy Pryor engages with author and Family Foundations International founder, Craig Hill. They explore the vital role of families in discipleship, delving into the power of blessings, emotional connections between spouses, and the influence of multi-generational teams. The conversation covers practical habits for family discipleship, insights from Jewish family traditions, and the need to reshape modern Christian culture to more faithfully reflect bib...
Nov 24, 2024•51 min
The episode features a conversation with Dr. Tom Wadsworth on the historical understanding of early Christian gatherings and worship practices. The discussion explores how the Lord's Supper evolved from the representation of Jesus' sacrifice to being viewed as a sacrifice offered by Christians to God, reflecting broader cultural influences from Judaism and paganism. The podcast delves into the structure of early assemblies, the significance of household gatherings, and the development of church ...
Oct 05, 2024•56 min
Jeremy is joined by Steve Jellicorse, who's spent decades discipling his family and community through a network of small home churches. He's also been involved in international ministry, using house church as a tool for believers in persecuted parts of the world to met. As a grandfather, pastor, former business executive, and disciple-maker, Steve has a ton of wisdom to share with us today on generational impact, the 5 forms of church, radically selling out to Jesus, and more. The conversation a...
Sep 29, 2024•53 min
In this talk, Lucas Cole and Blake and Chandler Smith teach us the top 10 tips for how to implement SOPs in your home to maximize clarity and minimize chaos. In this episode, we talk about: 00:00 Introduction 2:00 Tip 1: Begin with the end in mind 4:25 Tip 2: Every process has a shelf life 6:03 Tip 3: Simplify 7:35 Tip 4: SOPs are for parents, too 11:31 Tip 5: They WANT this 14:30 Tip 6: You can use rewards + SOPs 16:35 Tip 7: Focus on ROI 19:34 Tip 8: Work with the age of the kid 21:20 Tip 9: M...
Sep 22, 2024•52 min
In this talk, Blake Smith teaches us how to manage a household effectively using Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Through personal anecdotes and practical advice, he explains how SOPs have transformed his family's culture. The focus is on training children in household tasks, creating order, and fostering responsibility with an ultimate goal of reducing chaos and enhancing family dynamics. In this episode, we talk about: 00:00 Introduction and Opening Prayer 00:58 Introducing Household SOPs...
Sep 15, 2024•40 min
Should every father be a prepper? Or should we just trust in God and "not care"? Jeremy Pryor and his wife April discuss this topic, which he writes about in his new book, The Ruling Household. Jeremy reads a section from one of the book's chapters, then discusses how to actually balance this tension that we have to hold as Christians, between being wise and preparing (even for generosity's sake) and trusting in God. There are a few steps, that if you break them down over the next 3, 5, or even ...
Aug 25, 2024•30 min
Jeremy Pryor and his wife April answer one of the most common questions they get while discipling through 1KH: "How do I make disciples while I'm in the season of life where I've got little kids?" In this episode, you'll learn 5 practical tips to ensure you're still able to obey Jesus' command to make disciples, without putting your family (or sanity!) at risk. In this episode, we talk about: 1:37 5 tips for disciple-making in a season with littles 3:29 Family ON mission vs. family AS mission 7:...
Aug 18, 2024•34 min
Jeremy Pryor is joined by Blake Smith to discuss a chapter from Blake's upcoming book, Unicorn Family. Using real-world, startup-based experiences from business, Blake argues that fathers should be the "CEO" of the family. In today's social climate, this is a conversation people want to stop us from having...but lack of clarity and understanding in family leadership is destroying families! With so much at risk, it's worth getting uncomfortable to talk about leadership roles in a family and why a...
Aug 11, 2024•53 min
Brent and Katie Kruithof are joined by the Tiderman team (Mark and Michelle) to give their top 10 tips on celebrating Biblical holidays as a family. If you're looking for actionable ways to implement last week's episode about the 7 Biblical festivals, this will help you start your own traditions of celebration. They spend the last 15 minutes answering live Q&A so it's likely that this will cover all the bases and questions you've got so you can get started right away! In this episode, we tal...
Aug 04, 2024•51 min
Brent and Katie Kruithof present at a local HouseCraft session, explaining why and how they celebrate the 7 Biblical holidays / festivals. Starting out with a call to intentionality around things we already do, like Christmas and birthdays, they then share how each Biblical festival actually correlates to Jesus, what it meant traditionally, and how they choose to celebrate it in their family to give their kids a richer understanding of God's story. This is a highly actionable episode that will a...
Jul 28, 2024•40 min
Today Jeremy and April discuss one big change they've made in their discipleship model that has turned each of their disciples into disciple-makers themselves, which has created a reproductive, "multi-generational" effect, creating tons of new disciples and disciple-makers. This episode is a segment from April and Jeremy's disciple-making course, called Life on Life Discipleship (which you can find at 1kh.org). Learn how immersion events focused on reproduction can help your disciple-making effo...
Jul 21, 2024•33 min
Jeremy recently led a Men's Empowerment Workshop at a local church, and this is the presentation he gave on practically building a family culture. With input from his father and son, Jeremy talks about creating a weekly rhythm for your family, the first few tools and tips to do so effectively, how to bring in upstream and downstream generations, and how to craft a weekly family meal that transcends generations. In this episode, we talk about: 0:58 Your family team needs a mission, values, and pi...
Jul 14, 2024•1 hr 13 min
In this episode Jeremy Pryor is joined by local city partners James Maasen, Zach Shaner, Chris Cirullo, and Joe Freudenberg to talk about the 5 phases every city partner plans to go through in order to build a local, grassroots disciple-making movement in their city. Not many ministries give you the actual blueprint of what it looks like to fulfill the Great Commission over the course of multiple generations, and we are committed to NOT being a sterile, fruitless ministry...this episode will giv...
Jul 07, 2024•52 min
