What’s the Biblical Basis for Church Membership? 3 Important Passages That Help Attenders Become Members

Why do churches like Redemption City Church have membership? It’s a question I’ve heard a few times over the years. It’s a question I wrestled with at one point in my life too. To me, the idea of church membership, whatever you call it (stakeholders, partners, etc.) sounded weird and a bit scary. And as […]

6 Steps Rod Dreher Believes Every Christian Should Take In A World That Is Growing More And More Hostile To Christianity

Rod Dreher wrote Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents to equip people to face “soft totalitarianism” that is coming. The title, “Live Not By Lies,” comes from the title of a speech that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave just before he was exiled from Russia. The speech was an effort to help ordinary Russians […]

Answers to Specific Prayer: When God Provided Cigarettes in a Soviet Jail

As I was reading Rod Dreher’s, Live Not By Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents, I came across a story about a specific answer to prayer that I had to pass along to you. It’s the story about how Alexander Ogorodnikov, who was unjustly thrown into prison by an oppressive Soviet government, saw God work […]

Answers to Specific Prayers: 3 “Small” Prayers That Revealed Hearts With A High View of God’s Love

Is your view of God’s love big enough that you believe he actually cares about the small things in your life? Our prayer lives are usually the most accurate answer to that question. When we only pray for “big” things, we show that the answer to that question is “no.” When we pray “small” things, […]

Answers to Specific Prayers: God Solves A Difficult Staffing Issue

Specificity leads to visibility. When we get specific with our prayers we give the invisible God an opportunity to become visible to us in a way he wouldn’t without our specific prayers. And when God becomes visible to the eyes of our hearts and minds, hope, peace, and so many other life giving realities increase. […]

George Floyd, Racism, and 7 Ways Christians Can Work For Racial Justice

When I was younger, I thought the people writing on topics were “experts” who had it all figured out. But after years of working in the publishing industry and getting to know online heroes, I’ve learned I was wrong. It turns out that every blog or book was written by people still trying to figure […]

The Coronavirus, Fear Reducing Facts, and 6 Christian Ways To Respond

The coronavirus is here and it’s making its presence known. Schools are shutting down. Stores are limiting the amount of water and hand sanitizer you can buy. New York has called the National Guard into certain neighborhoods. The governor of Kentucky asked churches to stop gathering for worship. Washington State is prohibiting gatherings of more […]

The Coronavirus, Williamson County, and Redemption City Church

As news of the first case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) to hit Williamson County and concerns are rising, I wanted to let you know some important info about it and how Redemption City Church is responding. Hopefully, this will help you “germaphobes” out there like me process all of this in the right way. What […]