Leadership

Pastor Jeremiah Kinney

By the grace of God and with the help of many, Jeremiah Kinney planted Remedy City Church in 2013. He holds a Master of Ministry degree from Grace Theological Seminary (Winona Lake, IN, 2008) and a Master of Divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY, 2012). Jeremiah married his college sweetheart, Cassie, and together they have three daughters who are currently in college. He enjoys reading theology, history, the Icelandic sagas, clunky old British novels, Lego instructions, and Spider-man comic books. He coaches “Livestrong at the Y” at the Muncie YMCA and writes a weekly devotional for the staff there. He also rides his bike (not as much as he used to), and goes to spin class. Jeremiah endeavors to be a sincere preacher and conscientious shepherd under the lordship of Jesus Christ.

Brad Adams, Elder

Brad has been playing music for most of his life, and even received a Bachelor's degree in Music Technology from Ball State University in 2011. He lives with his wife Cassie and their cat Sox in their Muncie home and enjoy having guests over for campfires and board games, just usually not at the same time. Since visiting Remedy City Church for the first time in 2014, Brad has followed the Lord's leading to progress from a participant, to a partner, to a ministry leader, to eventually an elder. He finds great value in our community and is honored to play his part in the plan that God has for Remedy City Church moving forward.

Deacons

Phil Glaze

Jacob Creek

Matt Ross

Trent Maloney

What Kind of Teaching & Preaching Philosophy Do I Value as A Pastor? (from Pastor Jeremiah)

It is my endeavor that all preaching and teaching at Remedy City Church be grace-oriented, honest, thorough, and relevant.

Grace-oriented

"That you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light"
—1 Peter 2:9 ESV

It is our supreme joy to declare how excellent is the Father who provides for us, how excellent is Jesus Christ who saves us, how excellent is the Holy Spirit who awakens and leads us. Preaching should be about grace: God's kindness to us based not on anything in us but wholly on his abundant goodness.

Honest

"But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God"
–2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV

Preaching should not use guilt as a motivation, should not play upon emotions to produce artificial responses, and should never sugar-coat difficult truths with misdirection. Instead, by the open statement of the truth, we commend ourselves to your conscience before God. If you read on in 2 Corinthians 4, you'll see that God's grace is sufficient cause to trust in plain honesty.

Thorough

"...for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God"
–Acts 20:27 ESV

Biblical preaching should cover the whole Bible while adding or subtracting nothing. Firstly, the main point of the passage must be the main point of the sermon. The pastor must not dream up his own ideas and then look for any random Bible sentences that seem to support him. He is instructed to preach the counsel of God, not his own counsel.

Secondly, my preference is to work through the entirety of a book of the Bible. This "sequential exposition" of a whole book over the course of several meetings allows the preaching and teaching

  • to emphasize what God emphasizes by preaching it as often as it comes up in Scripture (no more and no less);

  • to wrestle with, rather than avoid, the hardest parts of Scripture;

  • to preach a topic on the day the Holy Spirit wants it preached, so that it does not appear that the pastor is just on a soap box going after somebody;

  • to help the congregation prepare devotionally ahead of time, since they will know what the teaching text will be, and will more easily remember where the pastor's text was the previous week.

Relevant

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work"
—2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV

Because the Bible—all of it—is profitable, Biblical preaching should be relevant to today's world. It should be interesting, easy to follow, applicable to modern problems and situations, and useful both in the content and in the attitude of the delivery.