I'm Josh.

I'm a third-generation pastor who almost didn't live to be a first-time author.

A brain aneurysm with a 5% survival rate put me in a hospital bed where I had to decide what I actually believed — not just what I'd been raised to say. I lived. And the man who walked out of that hospital writes differently than the one who went in.

That's where these books come from.

What I do

I'm the lead pastor of Generation Church in Eastern North Carolina, where my family and I get to do the slow, beautiful work of building a church that prioritizes the local table over the algorithm. I host the UnLost Podcast on YouTube, where my whole job is to remind people of one thing:

Nobody is too far gone.

And I write books — through City Hill Ministries — for the conversations the church often avoids.

Why these resources exist

There's a generation of students and young adults who love Jesus but feel like the church can't handle their real questions.

There's a generation of pastors and leaders who are exhausted by curriculum that's too shallow, too thin, or too disconnected from the actual people sitting in their small groups.

I write for both.

Every book in this store started somewhere real — a small group room, a hospital visit, a hard conversation in my office, a late-night text from a student I'd been pastoring for years. None of them were written in a vacuum. All of them are built around small group guides, because I believe the same thing now that I believed before the aneurysm:

Discipleship doesn't happen on a stage. It happens around a table.

What you'll find here

• Books for students, young adults, and leaders — written pastorally, edited prophetically
• Curriculum for youth groups, small groups, and Bible studies that need depth without filler
• Resources for pastors, elders, and church leaders building communities, not crowds

Whether you're a youth pastor scrambling for next semester's series, a parent of a middle schooler asking hard questions, or a leader who just needs someone to say the part out loud — start anywhere. There's something here for you.

A word for the wanderer

If you ended up on this site through the podcast — through a hard season, a deconstruction question, a "I'm not sure I still believe this" moment — I want you to hear me clearly:

Nobody is too far gone.

Not you. Not the friend you're worried about. Not the student in your youth group who's stopped showing up. Not the spouse who walked away. Not the version of yourself you don't talk about anymore.

You're not the exception.

— Josh