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Remedy Church was launched in concert with a collection of churches who value church planting and believe in the vision that God placed within me. We started with four preview services from September to December of 2009… and then we launched publicly on January the 10th of 2010. Since our very first preview service on [...]

In the spring of 2009… my wife was recovering from a major surgery… my son Rance was born… my dad was battling cancer… I was twenty-eight years old… and I was about to quit the only consistent occupation that I had known since I was eighteen years old. In the spring of 2009… I was [...]

I wonder how much more effective our churches would be if we made the pastor’s spiritual health- not the pastor’s efficiency- our number one priority. + Philip Yancey It is my commitment to shepherd and lead Remedy Church with only as much strength as the Lord allows me each day, each week, each month, each [...]

Here is the direct link to Remedy Church’s feature article in the Daily Times:: http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100703/LIFESTYLE/7030354 My favorite part? The final lines at the close of the article that read:: “I want people to know they are loved and they are not alone. I hope we are able to let people know Jesus is here. He’s [...]

Here’s the promo/bumper video for FREEdom… launching this weekend @ Remedy Church:: On a much-related note… this video from the Skit Guys is a great heart-prep for Sunday morning. See you tomorrow in Theater 16 @ 10 am as we celebrate FREEdom… and begin a fresh dialogue about the baggage that you always meant to [...]

Michael Lucaszewski is the lead pastor of Oak Leaf Church in Cartersville, Georgia. He planted Oak Leaf in 2006 and does a great job coaching and supporting little guys (like me) who are following God’s call to plant churches in North America (and around the world). He posted a pretty funny list today on his blog [...]

The current prevailing thought about marketing a brand-spankin’ new church plant seems to go something like this:: TARGET YOUR MARKET. SPEND A BUNCH OF MONEY TO REACH YOUR MARKET. I’m not anti-target-market… (in fact, I’m quite the opposite… without a target, there will be an ambiguous focus, no metrics to gauge the success of a [...]

The following is an article I wrote for the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware’s March 2010 issue of Baptist Life about the story of how Remedy Church became known as “The Church that Smells Like Butter”. “So… your church smells like butter?” During my first month as a church planter, I knew that I would encounter [...]

After our second Remedy Church preview service (October of 2009), it was very clear that we were going to have a tough time sustaining a full band on an eight-channel Behringer Eurorack sound board. So… I spent some time in prayer concerning our sound board situation, and felt the peace to move forward by tossing [...]

There is an ever-growing number of churches who believe in the vision that God has planted within me for Remedy Church. These churches pray for us, inspire us, believe in us, partner with us, encourage us, grow with us, fund us, cheer for us, cry with us, teach us, dream with us, challenge us… and [...]