Zack on August 1st, 2009

A few weeks back, I shared my excitement about a new book, Religions Saves, and Nine Other Misconceptions.
I wrote a few posts since then, talking about individual chapters (1 and 2), but today I’m excited to be on the official blog tour. So, here’s my overall review of the book (and please forgive me if [...]

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Zack on July 7th, 2009

I had a great time hearing all your thoughts on the birth control discussion last week!
Now it’s time to move on to chapter 2 of Religion Saves – And Nine Other Misconceptions.
In this chapter, pastor Mark Driscoll tackles the 8th most popular question:

Why do you make jokes about Mormon missionaries, homosexuals, trench coat wearers, single [...]

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Zack on May 30th, 2009

Next weekend, I’ll be in Durham with some of my favorite Bible teachers in the world.
I can’t wait!
There’s still room to sign up if you want to join me: www.Advance09.com

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Zack on May 8th, 2009

I listened to this sermon by pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church this morning.
I highly commend it to anyone who considers themself — or desires to be — a ‘leader’ of any kind of ministry.

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Zack on February 6th, 2009

Steph, the amazing, thoughtful wife that she is, was very creative with my anniversary gift this year:
She checked the chapel schedule at Southeastern and noticed that Mark Driscoll, one of my favorite Bible teachers, would be teaching yesterday.
Several weeks ago, she told me to ask for a half-day today, but wouldn’t tell me why.
Yesterday morning, [...]

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Zack on January 27th, 2009

A while back, Mars Hill church did a series called ‘Doctrine‘. The series is 12 or 13 parts, and is designed to give new or young believers an overview of the major foundational beliefs of the Christian faith.
The last teaching in the series is called, “Kingdom: God Reigns“. In it, pastor Mark Driscoll teaches the [...]

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Zack on November 8th, 2008

Check out this insightful blog post by Mark Driscoll about the recent election. I feel like he summarizes some things that I noticed as well. Here’s a snippet:
First, people are longing for a savior who will atone for their sins. In this election, people thirst for a savior who will atone for their economic sins [...]

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Zack on July 8th, 2008

So, yesterday I took a glance at the stats for this here blog, and they have become downright depressing. Like 60% of the traffic has dropped off in the last week.
And I ask myself, “Why, Zack?”
And then I realize, “Oh yeah. It’s cause I haven’t posted anything in like a week!”
So, for both of you [...]

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Zack on January 11th, 2008

That’s what Mark Driscoll and the crew at Mars Hill are calling the new sermon series.
These are the responses to the top ten questions from the ‘Ask Anything’ survey (I asked these two questions), where everybody in the world had three months to ask and vote on questions that they would like Driscoll to preach [...]

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Zack on December 5th, 2007

Ok, not really.
‘Hero’ is a powerful word to me. But man, Mark Driscoll is seriously on track…
Check this out:

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Having some fun with the title there :0)
For anyone visiting, this is my response to the discussion from a previous post. Read the comments there, and the title will make sense too…
So, first, I’m sure this response will be fairly long. So wait ’till you have 10 minutes to read it.
Second, I am LOVING this [...]

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