ABOUT CHRIS SPRADLIN

I’m Chris Spradlin. I’m not a fan of writing stuff about myself, but here are just a few things you might want to know: I strive to live fully in the present, I pursue Jesus, I don’t drink coffee, I’m bald, I have a chinhawk, I live in Colorado, I love grooveshark.com, I recklessly follow the voice, I fight for purity, I start every day with a chocolate-peanut butter-banana-spinach smoothie, I fly fish, I’m a poser snowboarder guy and I try to walk in a spirit of gratitude!

I grew up in Texas (go horns!), I got married to the unbelievably awesome Jodie in 1994, I became a youth pastor in Colorado in 1998, and in 2004 we moved to LifeChurch.tv Oklahoma City to serve as Pastor and Team Teacher. (If you haven’t heard of it, LifeChurch.tv is the most innovative church in North America, with an average weekly attendance of 30,000+ and international influence.) My work with the remarkable leaders of LifeChurch.tv was the ride of a lifetime. Then God did the unthinkable! In 2009, He called the Sprad Fam to leave behind incredible friends to pursue his plan for our life: We moved back to Steamboat Springs to pastor Euzoa Church.

So today I live in the beautiful mountains of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Jodie and I are madly in love (she’s an amputee, by the way, hit by a drunk driver when she was 16…CAN I SAY AMAZING WOMAN).  Jodie has a deep passion for the medical field and she has made the decision to go back to school and study nursing!  (CAN I SAY AMAZING WOMAN AGAIN)!  I am learning not only how to be dad, but i am learning how to be mom too…cook breakfast, get kids ready for school, doc appointments, homework, dishes, cleaning and making our kids brush their teeth before bed!  It is a tough job, but I absolutely love the opportunity to serve Jodie and our kiddos.  Our three kids are Cole (ColeTrain), Kylie (SeeMammers) and Tifton (JackHammer).

I am not launching EpicParent.tv to showcase my parenting skills, but rather be honest about my failures, wounds, wins and my journey as a parent.  I am more passionate about Team Sprad than anything else in my life… and I absolutely love honest, authentic, on-the-edge, innovative, entrepreneurial, get-your-hands-dirty parenting. I believe that if parents would step into their God-given role, the world would be changed!

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