Category Archives: Church
Planting Roots Vision Video
What is the Planting Roots Initiative? Planting Roots is an initiative to raise money, above and beyond normal giving, to build a church building at our 4095 Clovercroft Rd. property–helping us make disciples, train leaders, and feed the hungry more effectively. Our goal is to build an 11,800 sq ft facility that will expand our […]
The Vague Prayer Syndrome: What It Is and What To Do About It
Shane Pruitt’s “4 Generation Fade” Away From God
Evangelist, Shane Pruitt, has worked with young people and their families for years. From his experience and research, he came up with what he calls a “4 Generation Fade” that every family should be aware of as they set the priorities for their families. It goes like this. Generation 1: Parents don’t make church a […]
Endorsements For “21 Days To Childlike Prayer: Changing Your World One Specific Prayer At A Time”
How Do Christians Come Up With Extra Money For Fundraising Efforts Like The “Planting Roots Initiative”?
At Redemption City Church, the church I pastor, we just launched the “Planting Roots Initiative,” which is an initiative to increase people’s love for Jesus as we build infrastructure and a building on our church property that will help us make disciples, train leaders, and feed the hungry. We’re so excited about what we believe […]
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 […]
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 […]