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Get Your Blog Post Read by Thousands

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blog boardI love having other bloggers and authors write Guest Posts for this blog. See some of the previous Guest Posts here.

While we do accept Guest Post Submissions for the Redeeming God blog, we are moving away from publishing guest posts from random contributors, and are instead focusing on building community within our regular readers. This means that we will only consider guest posts from people who are active in the comment section and membership section of this blog. So if you want to get published on RedeemingGod.com, start by registering as a member, reading some of the blog posts, interacting with others in the comment section, and generally just contributing to our online community.

If you are part of our community and want to write a Guest Post for my blog, I am willing to consider it for publication.

Your post would be:

All of this could lead to more exposure and readers for your blog!

But here’s the thing … and this is important!

I get about a dozen emails a day from bloggers who want me to help them. Few ever offer to help with my blog. Only rarely do I recognize them from the comment section on this blog, or from seeing them share my posts on Facebook or Twitter. So these bloggers clearly don’t want to build a blogging relationship; they just want to use me. This doesn’t feel good.

If you want to write a guest post for this blog (or for any blog), let me give you two bits of blogging advice that I have put into practice over the years and which have helped me immensely:

  1. Help others first. Before you seek to get other bloggers to help you, first help them. Share their posts on social networks. Comment on their posts. Add to their community. Be friendly. Be helpful. The vast majority of the guest posts I publish here on this blog only got published here because they were active participants here first.If I came up to you on the street and you had no clue who I was and I said, “Hey, buddy. Can I have $20?” I doubt you would give it to me. But if we had been friends for a few years, you might be more willing to help me out. Blogging is the same way. Bloggers are more likely to help people they know than to help random strangers.
  2. Do your homework. Before you approach a blogger about maybe getting some help from them, make sure that you have searched their site for “guest post guidelines” or something like that. If the site doesn’t have a search box, just search Google for “guest post RedeemingGod.com” and put their blog name in the place of mine. I regularly get emails from people who say, “Hey, do you allow guest posts? I want to write one. Let me know how.” They clearly did zero research, and are not regular readers of my blog, so this give me no reason to want to help in return. It is sort of like people who want to get their blog on my  “Top 100 Christian Blogs” list. They send me emails saying, “How can I get on this list?” Well, the list itself tells people how. Anyway, if you want to write a blog post for another blog, do your homework.But YOU clearly have done some homework, because you are reading this! Well done! So here are some steps for submitting a guest post on the RedeemingGod.com blog:

To submit a guest post to RedeemingGod.com, take the following steps:

  1. Write a 400-800 word blog post on any topic related to Scripture and Theology (Read some of the others here). Your post should be an original article, which has not been posted elsewhere online. 
  2. Find an appropriate picture or two which fits your blog post.
  3. Include a small picture of yourself and a 30-50 word bio with 2-3 web links to your blog or other social sites.
  4. Send all of this to me at guestpost AT redeeminggod.com

I am looking forward to reading what you submit!

Living Fully Free

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freedomNot only will followers of Jesus be characterized by love, and dying to self, they will also be living examples of freedom and redemption. Jesus Christ came to this earth, not to bring us into greater bondage and enslavement, but to set us free, and to give us life.

Many people feel that following Jesus and obeying God is too restrictive, and that God only wants to destroy our lives and give us a list of commands and instructions to follow.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

It is sin that enslaves and destroys life. It is bondage to sin and addiction to things of this world that make us less than human. Jesus came to make us more human, more alive, and more free.

Follow Jesus into Freedom

So when followers of Jesus go out into the world to reveal Jesus to others, they must go out in a way that is compelling and beautiful. We should be the most joyful, colorful, happy, humorous, carefree, lively, and hopeful people the world has ever seen; not dour and humorless as we generally appear.
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New Commenting System

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I finally gave in and switched over to the Disqus Commenting System.

Ever since then, I have had a grand total of ZERO comments.

Hmmm….

Then Sam emailed me today and said that my comment sections were all out of whack. I think my caching setting were not allowing Disqus to work. (Thanks, Sam!!)

So…. I think I have it all fixed now.

The Disqus commenting system also has these cool features: You can Like my post by sharing it on Twitter and Facebook, or, better  yet, share your own comment on Twitter and Facebook.

Share and Tweet Comment on Disqus

If you are not seeing the buttons to share your own comment on Twitter and Facebook, you will need to connect these accounts to your free Disqus account.

How the Church Glorifies Death

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World-a-Better-Place-Hands1It is good that we are excited to get to heaven and spend eternity with God, but we must do more than sing and pray while we wait to get there. While we wait for Jesus to return, we love and serve others, and thus bring glory to the God of the universe.

Many of us cannot wait to die so we can be glorified; God cannot wait for us to start living so He can be glorified. The church is willing to die, but only to die physically so we can “go to a better place” to be with God. This is not glorifying to God, but glorifying to death.

Christoph Blumhardt said that “If all we aspire to is to get out of this world in order to be free in the next, then we pay tribute to sin and death” (Action in Waiting, 192).

God wants us to die while we are living. He wants us to die to ourselves while we are alive so that before we “go to a better place” we can help this world become a better place as well.

Jesus came to this earth not only to help bring us to heaven, but also so that He could bring heaven down to earth. The inauguration of the Kingdom of Heaven was a central theme of Jesus’ life and teaching, and He wants us to continue on with the task He started, of bringing the rule and reign of God to the dark and sinful places on earth.

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Why the Church Cannot Rise

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Many people today recognize that the church is dying, and so they do everything they can to pump new life back into it. “We need nicer buildings,” they say. “Better trained pastors. Exciting children’s programs. Lively music. More money.” But no matter which measurement you use, none of it seems to be working.

Robert Farrar Capon said it best when he wrote this:

The church can’t rise because it refuses to drop dead. The fact that it’s dying is of no use whatsoever: dying is simply the world’s most uncomfortable way of remaining alive. If you are to be raised from the dead, the only thing that can make you a candidate is to go all the way into death. Death, not life, is God’s recipe for fixing up the world.

Many Christians, of course, look forward to dying. We love to quote what Paul wrote in Philippians 1:21: “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Yes, many Christians say they are ready to die, for that means they get to enter heaven and spend eternity with God and all their loved ones, free from pain, sin, suffering, and temptation.

When my youngest daughter was four, we were sitting at the dinner table one night when she said, “Daddy, I hope I die soon so I can go to heaven to be with Jesus.” Those are shocking words to hear from a four year old, but they reflect the theology of most Christians, and probably what we had inadvertently taught her ourselves. I tried to explain to her that being with Jesus is not about dying, but about living. It is not about the future by-and-by, but the present here and now. “I hope you live a very long time,” I told her, “so that you can show the love of Jesus to those who do not know that He loves them.”

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A Tribute to Mothers

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Mothers DayMake sure you show the women in your life how much you appreciate them today. And not just today, but every day! They do so much for all of us.

Here is a tribute to mothers which I heard years ago, and wanted to share with you today.

MOTHER
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Fred Cruz

Somewhere between the youthful energy of the teenager and the golden twilight years of a women’s life, there lives a marvelous and loving person known… as mother.

A mother is a curious mixture of patience, kindness, tolerance, understanding, discipline, industry, purity, and love.

A mother can be at one and the same time, both love lore and counselor to a heart-sick daughter, and a head football coach to an athletic son.

A mother can sew the tiniest stitch in the material for that dainty prom dress, and she is equally experienced in threading through the heaviest of traffic with a large station wagon.

A mother is the only creature on earth who can cry when she’s happy, laugh when she’s heartbroken, and work when she’s sick.

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Finding Church Contributors

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Finding ChurchNOTE: This book has now been published and you can purchase it on Amazon.

The book is titled Finding Church, and it recounts the journeys people have experienced within church.

Below is a current list of our contributors, though it is possible that not all of these contributions will be in the final draft.

If you wish you would have submitted your story, there is still time! Find out more at the bottom of this post.

Changing Church

These are stories of people who, for numerous different reasons, left one church to join another.

Leaving Church

These are stories of people who felt that “going to church” was inhibiting their walk with Jesus, and so left the institutional church to follow and serve Jesus in other ways.

Reforming Church

Though many people have painful experiences in church, some people choose to stay at their church and try to work through them, reforming the church from the inside, and being the change they want to see. These are their stories.

Returning to Church

These are stories of people who returned to church after years of being away.

Not Yet Sent in the Story (but said they will!!!)

Let me know you want to contribute, and I will add your name to the list.

How to Survive a Dying Church

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Church is DyingNote: I’ve written a book about this, which is available on Amazon.

Many people today recognize that the church is dying, and so they do everything they can to pump new life back into it. “We need nicer buildings,” they say. “Better trained pastors. Exciting children’s programs. Lively music. More money.” But no matter which measurement you use, none of it seems to be working.

Robert Farrar Capon said it best when he wrote this:

The church can’t rise because it refuses to drop dead. The fact that it’s dying is of no use whatsoever: dying is simply the world’s most uncomfortable way of remaining alive. If you are to be raised from the dead, the only thing that can make you a candidate is to go all the way into death. Death, not life, is God’s recipe for fixing up the world.

Many Christians, of course, look forward to dying. We love to quote what Paul wrote in Philippians 1:21: “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Yes, many Christians say they are ready to die, for that means they get to enter heaven and spend eternity with God and all their loved ones, free from pain, sin, suffering, and temptation.

When my youngest daughter was four, we were sitting at the dinner table one night when she said, “Daddy, I hope I die soon so I can go to heaven to be with Jesus.” Those are shocking words to hear from a four year old, but they reflect the theology of most Christians, and probably what we had inadvertently taught her ourselves. I tried to explain to her that being with Jesus is not about dying, but about living. It is not about the future by-and-by, but the present here and now. “I hope you live a very long time,” I told her, “so that you can show the love of Jesus to those who do not know that He loves them.”

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Is Self-Promotion Wrong?

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self promotion and marketingI was recently criticized by a pastor for promoting my blog on Twitter and Facebook. He said these sorts of actions made me guilty of self-promotion.

Ironically, I know this pastor, and he himself has a website and two books, both of which he promotes through email and direct mail marketing. When I challenged him on this, he said he does this because he has a message which he thinks other people will benefit from hearing. He went on to say that my message bordered on heretical and my methods of promoting my message proved it.

Ah… So when you speak the truth, it is okay to send junk mail and spam to people who didn’t ask for it, but when you don’t speak the truth, any method you use is wrong, even if it is permission marketing, where you only send information to people who ask for it and benefit from it.

I am speaking tongue-in-cheek, of course. The bottom line was that this pastor didn’t like what I was saying, and therefore, didn’t like that people were reading what I was teaching, and viewed any form of trying to get my message out as self-promotion.

However, I think there is a difference between self-promotion, and truth-promotion. I try to promote truth, and keep myself out of of it as much as possible.

I feel that if you have truth to teach to others, you have every responsibility to get it out to as many people as possible who want to hear it and who will benefit from it.

This is why I was so thrilled to be chosen this week to join Michael Hyatt’s Platform Launch Team. I will share more with you in the near future.

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