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A Tale of Two Authors

By Jeremy Myers
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A Tale of Two Authors

two authorsAre you an author, blogger, or podcaster? Can I provide a tiny bit of advice?

Let me do so by telling you about two authors…

Author #1

An author recently emailed me about reviewing his book. This is a summary of how our email exchange went:

Author: Hey! I love your blog. I just wrote a book, and I think your audience would love to read it. Would you buy a copy on Amazon, then review it on your blog? I would really appreciate it. The book is about how Christians should obey everything their pastor says.

Me: Ummm… First of all, do I know you? Second, how long have you been reading my blog? If it’s been for more than a month, you might have realized that the topic of your book would be the exact opposite of what my blog readers would want to read.

Author: I only read your most recent blog post, and I thought it was great. I’m an author and I want people to buy my book. You have a popular blog, so I want you to read and review my book. I think if you read it, you will see what the Bible clearly teaches about submitting to those in authority, and then you will be able to recommend it to your readers, and they will see the truth also.

Me: Tell you what … I will buy, read, and review your book if you buy, read, and review one of mine. Deal?

Author: Nah … I don’t have time for that.

I never heard from that author again, but I sometimes wonder how his book is doing …

Author #2

Then there is the second author, Richard Jacobson. He recently published a fantastic book called (#AmazonAdLink) Unchurching. I was pleased to write an endorsement for the book, and am thrilled to review it here on my blog, on Amazon, and interview him for my Theology.fm podcast (coming soon!).

And why am I happy to do what I can to promote Richard Jacobson’s book? Well, not only because I love what he wrote in his book, but also because he and I have developed a bit of an online friendship. He has been retweeting my posts for a year or more, occasionally comments here on this blog, and interacts with my posts on Facebook. In turn, I try to do the same for him.

And so because I knew him from online, and because I liked the videos and cartoons he publishes, I was thrilled to endorse his book when he asked and do what I can to promote it. It appears that John Zens, Felicity Dale, and Keith Giles feel similarly. They also endorsed his book.

And guess what? When Richard’s book came out, it debuted at #1 in it’s category! That is awesome! (Well done, Richard!)

Here’s the advice for authors, bloggers, and podcasters:

If you are an author, blogger, podcaster, or some sort of other creative person who wants to get your ideas out in the world, the very first step is to be generous with your time and energy.

be generous with timeOffer to help and serve others before you ever think of asking them to help and serve you. Comment on their posts. Share their books and blogs on Facebook. Interact with them on Twitter. If you know they have a book coming out, offer to proofread it, review it, and tell others about it.

Be helpful. Be generous. Be kind.

Then, much later, when you have book or podcast you want to promote, those people whom you have helped will be much more likely to help you as well.

After all, as “Someone” once said, “Give, and it will be given to you …” (Luke 6:38) and “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Luke 6:31).

God is Redeeming Books Bible & Theology Topics: authors, Blogging, podcasting, publishing

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1 Year of Redeeming God

By Jeremy Myers
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1 Year of Redeeming God

RedeemingGod.com is One Year old today! Yay!

And over the past year, do you know what I have realized?

This:

You are the BEST readers in the theology blogging world!

Seriously. I love you! Thank you for reading. Thank you for commenting. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for supporting this site. Thank you. You are great.

I wish I could sit down over a cup of coffee to get to know each and every one of you.

Of course, that would take quite a bit of time since RedeemingGod.com had over 2,000,000 pageviews this past year from 1,279,414 readers.

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That’s right, over 2,000,000 articles were read on RedeemingGod.com in the last 12 months.

I don’t say this to boast in the blog, but to boast in you. I am extremely grateful to have you as a reader of this blog. Whatever success this blog has, YOU have a big part in making it happen. So thank you!

But you know what I appreciate about you even more? That this isn’t a site for you to just read articles, but it is also a place where you share your own ideas and interact with each other. We have a growing and vibrant and diverse online community here.

I mean, there are over 26,000 comments on the blog.

RedeemingGod comments

While we don’t always agree on everything, we still discuss it and learn from each other. That’s why I love you!

So I am humbled and grateful. Thank you again!

I think that what this shows is that people are hungry for insights into the character of God and how to understand Scripture which do not chain them ever more tightly to religion.

If you are like most people in the community here, you love God, love Scripture, love theology, and love to follow Jesus in loving others, but are tired of the rules and lies and manipulation of religion.

online community

Thank you for being part of this growing movement of God in the world, and for joining me on this journey out of religion and into a closer relationship with Jesus in which we learn to love others as we have been loved.

Some highlights from this past year

I actually reduced the frequency of my blog posts.

For several years I was publishing 7 days a week. Then I reduced it to 5. When I started this blog, I dropped down to 2 per week. Recently I have been averaging only 1.

The reason for this is some of you mentioned that I was writing too much for you to keep up. I know you are busy, and it was too much to read 5-7 posts per week. Since I know you don’t want to miss anything, I reduced my publishing frequency.

But this enabled me to do other things.

Reducing my blogging frequency also gave me more time for writing books. In the past year, I wrote 4 full-length books. I hope to publish all 4 this year… My book on the atonement is coming out next week…

I also started a podcast. Actually, two podcasts. One is the One Verse Podcast, in which we are studying through Scripture one verse at a time. We are currently in Genesis 2, and I have over 500 years to go before we finish with the Bible. The other podcast is on Theology.fm. One of the Theology.fm episodes last week received 129 comments. Of course, about 120 of those were from one person…

Things to look for in this coming year

book writingI want to publish several books:
–The Atonement of God (Coming out next week!)
-Genesis 1 (100% written)
-The Unforgivable Sin (Revised and Expanded, 80% written)
-The Gospel According to Scripture (80% written)
-Pastoral Leadership (100% written)
-Close Your Church for Good (100% written)
-The Bible Mirror (20% written)
-Commentary on Esther (100% written)
-Jesus among Other Religions (10% written)
-A “Redeeming God” book series on the topic of divine violence (30% written)

I will not be able to publish all these in one year. I wish I could, but I simply don’t have the time or resources. Hopefully I can get out the 100% written books as they just need to be edited, typeset, and published.

I am also going to making some online theology courses available. Teaching is something I love to do and I want to share with you some of the things I have learned over the past 30 years of reading, studying, and teaching. I am going to start with a course on the Gospel. I am about half way through recording this course. So far, it includes 10 classes that average about 45 minutes each.

To get notified of these books and online theology courses, make sure you have signed up to receive my email newsletter.

Thanks for a great first year of RedeemingGod.com. I am looking forward to whatever God has for all of us in the year ahead.

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: Blogging

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The 100 Top Christian Blogs

By Jeremy Myers
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The 100 Top Christian Blogs

Below is a list of the 100 Top Christian Blogs. If you made it onto this list of top Christian blogs … congratulations! Please let others know with the sharing buttons above.

About this list of the 100 Top Christian Blogs

To make this list of top Christian blogs, I gathered and inspected about 500 Christian blogs and ranked them using a variety of factors. Some of the blogs I inspected are listed below the list of the 100 Top Christians blogs.

I will update this list occasionally, so if you want your blog to be considered for future ranking, and your blog is not listed below the list of 100 Top Christian blogs, please include a link to your blog in the comment section. Thanks!

Oh, and do I need to say it?

I guess so… sigh…

Disclaimer: I do not necessarily endorse all the views or perspectives of the bloggers on this list. The list contains many Christian bloggers who write from theological perspectives with which I have some disagreement.

Like who? (Let’s see who I can offend…) Calvinists, Charismatics, Conservative Baptists, and Catholics, just to name a few. Remember, I, Jeremy Myers, am the ONLY correct blogger in the world. (I’m KIDDING!)

Anyway, if someone is on the list of Top Christian blogs and you think they are a heretic, don’t burn me for it! Go be a troll on their site… (I’m kidding again!)

How I Created the List of 100 Top Christian Blogs

Below is an explanation of how I went about ranking these 100 Top Christian Blogs.

First, I gathered the list of Christian blogs using these sites:

  • Kent Shaffer’s Top Christian Blogs
  • Jared Moore’s List of Christian Blogs
  • Top Christian Blogs ranked by Twitter Followers
  • Top Christian Blogs ranked by Facebook Likes
  • NewsMax Top 75 Religious Blogs

Second, I removed all “Community Blogs” which had multiple authors. This caused all blogs from Patheos, the Gospel Coalition, and other similar blogs to be dropped from the list. The reason I did this twofold. Many of these community blogs are not accurately ranked by Alexa and SimilarWeb, which are two of the ranking factors I used (see below). But more than this, I wanted this list to honor the individual blogger who started his or her blog from scratch, and has labored away at it for years, slowly building an audience and faithfully writing quality posts which get read and shared. Those huge mega community blogs often overshadow the quality writing and hard work of individual bloggers. So if a blogger was writing on a community blog, I kept them off my list.

Finally, once I had my list of individual bloggers, I ranked them using a variety of factors. These factors include:

  • Traffic Rank on Alexa
  • Traffic Rank on SimilarWeb
  • Back link Count (shows people are linking to your content)
  • Pages Indexed by Google (shows that the blogger is writing a lot)
  • A variety of other traffic and social signals

The ranking number in the list below is a compilation of these ranking signals. The lower the number, the better the blog ranks.

How to get on this list of Top Christian Blogs

If you are not on this list and you want to work toward getting on it, or if you are on it and want to know what you can do to rise in the ranks of these top Christian blogs, here are six recommendations:

  1. If you are are on a “free” blogging platform (like Blogger.com or WordPress.com), move over to a “self-hosted” site with Knownhost or Bluehost. It’s only a few dollars per month, and you will be set up for success. If you already have a blog, both companies can help you migrate.
  2. Once you have your blog set up properly, make sure it loads fast and looks good. If you don’t do this, people won’t read it. I recommend WP Rocket to help it load fast and StudioPress themes to make it look good.
  3. Write regular blog posts with great content. I recommend 1-3 blog posts per week, with at least 500 words each. Use the free Yoast SEO plugin to help you write your posts.
  4. Read and leave comments on popular blogs (like this one!). By reading blogs you learn how to write a blog, and commenting is a great way to gain readers for your own blog.
  5. Get a WordPress plugin like Social Network Auto Poster to help your posts get listed on social sites like Twitter, Facebook, and others.
  6. One of the primary keys to getting traffic is to get links to your blog from other blogs. One of the best ways to do this is to join the Synchroblog. You will get several backlinks each and every month that you participate.

Here then, are the 100 Top Christian Blogs

100 Top Christian Blogs

Rank Score Blog Title and Link Blogger Name
1 217,403 Challies Tim Challies
2 311,841 A Holy Experience Ann Voskamp
3 312,177 Fr. Z’s Blog John Zuhlsdorf
4 480,359 LifeChurch.tv : swerve Craig Groeschel
5 483,757 Albert Mohlers Blog Albert Mohler
6 543,006 Thom Rainer Thom Ranier
7 555,477 Redeeming God Jeremy Myers
8 569,004 Storyline Donald Miller
9 639,219 Rachel Held Evans Rachel Held Evans
10 708,606 Blog and Mablog Doug Wilson
11 716,321 Alpha & Omega Ministries James White
12 771,432 James MacDonald James MacDonald
13 822,726 Insight Grahame Knox
14 908,354 XXXChurch.com Craig Gross
15 912,195 Mark Driscoll Mark Driscoll
16 930,966 Jarrid Wilson Jarrid Wilson
17 932,673 Ron Edmondson Ron Edmondson
18 987,589 Moore to the Point Russell Moore
19 1,009,976 Living Proof Beth Moore
20 1,040,981 Biblical Studies Rob Bradshaw
21 1,180,360 Red Letter Christians Tony Campolo & Shane Claiborne
22 1,185,542 Jen Hatmaker Jen Hatmaker
23 1,242,598 The Naked Bible Michael S. Heiser
24 1,267,270 Beyond Evangelical Frank Viola
25 1,323,223 ReKnew Greg Boyd
26 1,344,629 Denny Burk Denny Burk
27 1,465,513 Christianity Cove Mary-Kate
28 1,494,946 Liturgy Bosco Peters
29 1,508,259 Experimental Theology Richard Beck
30 1,515,386 Head Heart Hand David Murray
31 1,584,527 Frame & Poythress John Frame & Vern Poythress
32 1,612,339 Reclaiming the Mission David Fitch
33 1,658,756 Worship Matters Bob Kauflin
34 1,660,143 Perry Noble Perry Noble
35 1,672,051 Canon Fodder Michael J. Kruger
36 1,707,579 The American Jesus Zack Hunt
37 1,749,053 J.D. Greear J.D. Greear
38 1,766,833 Andy Naselli Andy Naselli
39 1,797,475 What’s Best Next Matt Perman
40 1,862,063 Tony Morgan Live Tony Morgan
41 1,891,059 Margaret Feinberg Margaret Feinberg
42 1,963,329 Lifestream Wayne Jacobsen
43 1,985,895 Zwinglius Redivivus Jim West
44 2,035,457 Blogging Theologically Aaron Armstrong
45 2,112,811 Sarah Bessey Sarah Bessey
46 2,304,695 Faith and Theology Ben Myers
47 2,309,572 Communicate Jesus Steve Kryger
48 2,310,092 Reading Acts Phillip Long
49 2,318,301 Growing Kids Ministry Lindsey Whitney
50 2,407,916 Stuff Christians Like Jon Acuff
51 2,541,554 The Very Worst Missionary Jamie Wright
52 2,617,350 Borrowed Light Mike Leake
53 2,755,792 Courageous Christian Father Steve Patterson
54 2,769,134 Larry Hurtado’s Blog Larry Hurtado
55 2,808,869 Sayable Lore Ferguson
56 2,864,393 DJ Chuang DJ Chuang
57 2,873,396 Stuff Fundies Like Darrell
58 2,937,119 Brian McLaren Brian McLaren
59 3,023,294 Unsettled Christianity Joel L. Watts
60 3,026,191 Matthew Paul Turner Matthew Paul Turner
61 3,061,236 Skye Box Skye Jethani
62 3,069,675 Living By Faith Blog Steve Fuller
63 3,217,964 Everyday Theology Marc Cortez
64 3,249,355 Sam Luce Sam Luce
65 3,280,570 Counseling Solutions Rick Thomas
66 3,326,531 Adam McLane Adam McLane
67 3,327,471 Kingdom in the Midst Marty Duren
68 3,345,392 DashHouse.com Darryl Dash
69 3,402,962 Pastor Joe McKeever Joe McKeever
70 3,455,879 Anita Mathias Anita Mathias
71 3,472,536 Curious Christian Matt Stone
72 3,485,259 For His Renown Jim Hamilton
73 3,486,291 Church Leader Insights Nelson Searcy
74 3,649,485 Nathan W. Bingham Nathan W. Bingham
75 3,660,524 Cerulean Sanctum Dan Edelen
76 3,710,383 Redeemed Reader J.B. Cheaney & Emily A. Whitten
77 3,716,394 Thinking Out Loud Paul Wilkinson
78 3,745,997 Hip and Thigh Fred Butler
79 3,765,303 Claude Mariottini Claude Mariottini
80 3,785,440 RJ Grune RJ Grunewald
81 3,819,892 Religious Affections Scott Aniol
82 3,918,927 Christian Apologetics Maryann Spikes
83 3,974,189 John Shore John Shore
84 4,015,635 Istoria Ministries Blog Wade and Rachelle Burleson
85 4,087,774 NT Resources Rod Decker
86 4,096,481 Daniel Darling Daniel Darling
87 4,116,167 A Place For the God-Hungry Jim Martin
88 4,117,044 Pomomusings Adam Walker Cleaveland
89 4,134,643 RPM Ministries Blog Bob Kellemen
90 4,150,303 Will Mancini Will Mancini
91 4,160,043 Daniel Wallace Daniel Wallace
92 4,234,680 Counseling One Another Paul Tautges
93 4,285,168 Ragamuffin Soul Carlos Whittaker
94 4,339,169 Joe Thorn Joe Thorn
95 4,349,304 Chuck Warnock Chuck Warnock
96 4,504,781 Eugene Cho Eugene Cho
97 4,544,392 WithoutWax Pete Wilson
98 4,554,264 Kathy Escobar Kathy Escobar
99 4,620,367 Fundamentally Reformed Bob Hayton
100 4,668,710 On the Box Ray Comfort

Previous Lists of Top Christian Bloggers

This is the second annual list of Top Christian Bloggers. Below is a link to the Previous list:

  • Top Christian Bloggers 2014
  • Top Christian Bloggers 2015

How to get on this list of Top Christian Blogs

I mentioned these above, but let me reiterate it here:

If you are not on this list and you want to work toward getting on it, or if you are on it and want to know what you can do to rise in the ranks of these top Christian blogs, here are six recommendations:

  1. Hone your blogging skills by watching my free Blogging Tutorial Videos
  2. Add the Alexa Traffic Rank Extension to your preferred web browser.
  3. Read and leave comments on popular blogs (like this one!). By reading blogs you learn how to write a blog, and commenting is a great way to gain readers for your own blog.
  4. Get a Premium WordPress blog theme that is mobile responsive. Most blog readers are reading on mobile devices these days. I only use StudioPress themes.
  5. Get a WordPress plugin like Social Network Auto Poster to help your posts get listed on social sites like Twitter, Facebook, and others.
  6. Write, write, write, and write some more!

God is Redeeming Theology Bible & Theology Topics: Blogging, synchroblog, top Christian blogs

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The Internet and the Movement of the Spirit

By Jeremy Myers
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The Internet and the Movement of the Spirit

I recently had a conversation with several guys about church and ministry, and we were talking about how there are so many people who seem to entering into a way of being the church outside of the four walls of institutional Christianity. By many estimates, there are now more people who follow Jesus outside of institutional Christianity than those who follow Him inside. I wrote about this a few weeks back.

As we were talking about this, one of the guys wondered why this is happening now … why we don’t see this sort of movement away from “Sunday morning congregational church” anywhere else in history.

My answer was “the internet.”

I believe that the movement away from Sunday morning congregational church has always been happening, but we only hear about it more today because of the internet.

internet and the Holy Spirit

There are three reasons the internet is helping us see what the Spirit of God is up to in the world today.

1. The internet helps us see the worldwide movement of God into a more relational Christianity.

Due to blogging and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, we can now connect with people all around the world and see that what is happening in my heart and mind is something that seems to be occurring in the hearts and minds of millions of people elsewhere.

Have you ever had a thought or an idea about how to be the church, how to follow Jesus, or how a particular passage of Scripture can be understood in a way that undermines what religious Christianity has often taught? And then you get online and discover that someone on Great Britain or South Africa or Brazil has just posted exactly the same thing on Facebook?

It happens all the time! The only real way to explain this is to recognize that the Spirit of God is teaching similar things to similar people all around the world. The Spirit is fanning the flames of a worldwide movement, and the internet helps us see this movement of God in real time.

2. The internet helps those with doubts and fears know that they are not crazy, that they are hearing the Spirit correctly.

Holy SpiritOne exciting benefit to seeing that other people in other parts of the world have similar thoughts and ideas to our own is that it helps us realize that we are not crazy heretics.

When I first started to question and challenge everything I had been taught, I literally wondered if I was become an apostate. I started to ask “Why?” about everything I had ever been taught and everything I had ever done in the church. It scared me.

And that is one reason I started this blog. I started it to hopefully get feedback from other people around the world who might be able to either

  • (Option 1) Reign me back in to correct theology and sound doctrine, or
  • (Option 2) Confirm that they too were having similar thoughts and ideas and that these were okay.

In the past ten years of blogging, the response has overwhelmingly leaned toward that second option. I often get responses from people who lean toward Option 1 as well, but in my experience, most of these people are having thoughts and ideas about Option 2, and it scares them, so they fight against it by leaving comments on blogs like mine.

This is why it is always wise to responds to such people with as much grace and dignity as you can muster, for your response to them in this way might be just the thing that helps them see that it is okay to question tradition and follow the Spirit’s leading away from institutional religion. A soft answer helps them see that the people “out here” are not apostates and heretics and backslidden sinners the way those inside institutional religion often portray us.

Be a calm voice of reason and love to all people you interact with on the internet, because the internet is one way the Holy Spirit is inviting people to take a tentative step in following Jesus in a more relational way.

And that leads us to the third point.

3. The internet gives a voice to those who were traditionally silenced.

There have always been lots of people who followed Jesus outside of church, but we have little historical record of them. Why is this? Because institutional religion silenced them.

internet Holy SpiritThere have always been lots of people who knew that the institutional Christianity was not the only way of following Jesus, but those who were in positions of power never gave these people a platform or a pulpit from which to speak. They were not allowed to write books, teach sermons, or even ask questions. And so we have very little record of them.

If you read some of the ancient sermon texts, even from the very beginning of institutional Christianity in the fourth century, you can often read between the lines of these sermons and see that the Bishops and Priests had such people in their congregations, and were cajoling them and guilting them back into conformity, and even sometimes persecuting them for “abandoning Jesus and the church.” The exact same tactics and language is often used today by those in power against the people who want to follow Jesus differently.

But today, thankfully, we have the internet. People do not need to have a pulpit from which to speak. They do not need permission from the gatekeepers to publish a book. The barriers are very low to starting a podcast so that your voice and ideas can be heard around the world.

So Be Encouraged!

You are not crazy.

You are not insane.

You are not a heretic.

You have not fallen away.

You have not turned your back on God and Jesus.

Instead, you are part of an ever-growing, rapidly-expanding, Spirit-led, worldwide movement of God to show the world that in Jesus Christ, a new day has dawned, a new creation has come, and that all things are new.

You don’t need traditional power structures.

You don’t need the rules and regulations and rituals.

You don’t need the standards of conduct the codes of ethics and the doctrinal guidelines.

You just need to follow Jesus in love, as countless millions of people around the world are learning to do each and every day.

And the internet helps us see what God is up to in the world and that He is leading millions of people to follow Him in new and exciting ways. So thank God for the internet!

(If you want to become one of the voices on the internet, I highly recommend you start a blog, and I have created a video tutorial to help you along. Go here to get started.)

God is Redeeming Church Bible & Theology Topics: Blogging, church growth, Holy Spirit, internet

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In the last decade, I have published over 2 million words on this blog, and I am glad that you have found some of these words to be helpful and encouraging in your own relationship with Jesus.

It is a privilege to write about something I am passionate about, which is helping people see that they caFn have a personal relationship with God without the manipulation, control, guilt, fear, and shame that is central to all religious systems.

free from religionBut I have recently encountered a big problem on this blog: Blogging starts to get expensive. Very expensive.

Running this blog is expensive

Blogging, like anything else in the world, costs money to do it right.

As my blog has grown, it has also become more expensive to run. When I first started blogging, it cost me about $100 a year to run this blog. That expense was worth it for me.

But within the last year or two, as my blog readership has exploded, so have my expenses. This month, people will read about 250,000 articles on my blog. I am thrilled with the impact this blog is making in the world!

But it is also costing me over $400 a month (about $5000 annually) to keep the blog up and running.

Why does blogging cost so much?

There are “free” or “low cost” ways of blogging (for less than $100 per year). While I used to use these methods, they often crashed under the weight of my readership, and so I have had to steadily upgrade to better web hosting, email service (for my email newsletter), and podcast hosting (for my podcast) so that my site doesn’t crash.

This is a good problem to have because it shows that this blog is helping millions of people around the world each and every year.

I get emails every day from people in various countries who have been helped by the content of this blog. Many of them struggle under the bondage of religion, have questions about the character of God, and desperately need help about how to understand Scripture in light of Jesus Christ. They write to me from all over the world telling me how thankful they are to have found my blog. This blog and my writings are helping liberate thousands of people every month from the shackles of religion so they can enter into the genuine relationship with God they have always desired.

I know that you might have been encouraged by this blog as well.

So I want to do whatever I can to keep my blog up and running.

The problem, however, is that the costs are becoming unsustainable.

While I love blogging and writing to encourage others, the costs are getting to the point where I simply cannot afford it, and I am not sure what to do.

To help defray the cost of blogging, I have tried various things.

I have tried using affiliate links, writing books, and selling advertising.

While each one of these activities brings in a little bit of money each month, they do not even come close to covering the total cost of running this blog.

Monthly Costs: Monthly Income
$150 – Domain and Hosting $15 – Book Sales
$40 – Podcast Hosting $60 – Advertising
$100 – Membership Area $90 – Membership Income
$70 – Email Newsletter
$80 – Miscellaneous
Total: $440 Total: $165

As you can see, the domain name registration and hosting fees are the largest expense. I have numerous blogs, and (as explained above) I have too many readers to go with entry-level hosting (a good problem to have). Also, I cannot host my podcast files on my site, because the number of downloads I receive would crash my blog. The Membership area expenses include the software and shopping cart features I use to create a secure members-only area on my website. I use an email service to send out my email newsletter and keep track of all the thousands of subscribers. The miscellaneous item includes one-time fees for things like book design and publishing expenses, and software or equipment upgrades.

So altogether, I have about $440 in monthly expenses and $165 in monthly income.

blogging expenses

So, I need your help.

I have already cut costs everywhere I can without causing this website to crash, which means I have to find new ways to cover the costs of blogging. Here are my only options:

  1. Accept Donations
  2. Put new blog content in a members-only area and charge a small monthly fee for access.
  3. Make weekly or monthly pleas for people to buy my books so that the blog content can remain free.
  4. Close down this site and cancel the podcast.

Obviously, option 4 is out of the question. I am going with Option 1 and Option 2. Let me tell you about Option 2 first.

Option 2: Membership Area

I recently started a Members-Only area of the website. There is a Free Member’s area (the “Faith” Membership level) which grants you access to all sorts of free eBooks, online theology lessons, and audio downloads.

But the real benefit comes in the Paid Membership levels, which is the “Hope” and “Love” Membership levels. These levels help support the work I am doing here at RedeemingGod.com, but also provide you with numerous benefits as well. I want to thank those who support my work, and so these membership levels provide a way for me to do this.

Among these benefits are more free eBooks and free online theology courses. More benefits and courses are coming soon. Go here to become a Member of RedeemingGod.com.

Nevertheless, some people just want to give and do not care too much about receiving the extra benefits of membership. If so, you can make a donation below…

Option 1: Accepting Donations

While I am not a non-profit organization (I am not a 501c3), I have decided to accept financial gifts from those who appreciate how my writing has helped them gain a clearer picture of God and a deeper understanding of how to follow Jesus outside of religion, and who want this same message to continue to be freely offered to others.

I am not asking for donations to cover the time I spend on this blog. I put my blood, sweat, and tears into this blog because I am passionate about showing people a way to break free from the shackles of religion and see God in a whole new light.

Yet I am happy to accept your help in covering the growing expenses of this work.

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A monthly gift of $10 or $20 would be of great help, or a one-time gift of $50 or $100. Please note that since I do not have 501(c)(3) non-profit status, these gifts are not tax deductible. (I looked into becoming a 501(c)(3), but it would cost even more money I do not have…)

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