One really good idea that the folks at Mars Hill Church have implemented is a question and answer session after various sermons.
The way it works is that listeners can text questions during the sermon, and someone backstage collects and filters the questions, and then delivers them to the pastor at the end of the sermon [...]
As I mentioned in the introduction, Religion Saves + And Nine Other Misconceptions addresses the top nine questions submitted and voted on by people around the country.
Each chapter is dedicated to a question and pastor Mark’s answer, and they go in backwards order.
So, chapter one addresses the ninth most popular question:
There’s no doubt the Bible [...]
Look what came in the mail yesterday!
The awesome folks at Crossway and RE:LIT were kind enough to select our dinky little blog here for a free copy of Mark Driscoll’s newest book, Religion Saves – And Nine Other Misconceptions.
One condition: I have to review it here and tell you what I think.
This is a lot [...]
Mark Driscoll has a new blog post today called ‘Evangelism’.
…very interesting thoughts from someone I admire very much, but who doesn’t often say much on the topic.
Here’s a particularly interesting and insightful snippet:
Lastly, the fact that Jesus remains to this day an active evangelist is of great encouragement to me personally. It means that children [...]
Check out this great interview between Mark Driscoll and John Piper.
This is not your typical interview where one pastor is giving another pastor a chance to brag or promote something. Mark just asks a ton of open-ended questions about John’s life for the benefit of everyone. And John is very humbly honest. I learned a [...]
How can you not like these guys?
At about 1:50 you’ll hear:
I think Noel’s gonna like that. I think it’s gonna work out good for you tonight.
(video embedded — ht: The Resurgence)
Yesterday, at work, I downloaded the newest sermon from Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill Church. I got really excited when I read the title: “Trinity: God Is”. It turns out that they started a series on ‘Doctrine’! I love it!
But my work has been so intense that I haven’t been able to focus enough to [...]
I was listening to NPR this morning, and heard an interesting story. Apparently, the Dr. Seus book “Horton Hears a Who” has always been associated with the abortion debate. The premise of the book is that an elephant discovers that a whole world of “who’s” live on a dust speck that he discovers, so [...]
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I went to respond to some wall posts on facebook this morning, and this is what I saw in my little news feed thingy: “Mark Driscoll became a fan of Mark Driscoll.”
I actually listened to a very short podcast yesterday where he explained that facebook capped him at 5,000 friends, so now if you want [...]
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Purgatorio has some great stuff, and this has me chuckling. Read the comments!
This is a REALLY good candidate.
Check it out: Vintage Jesus by Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears
(and even if you don’t want to spend the cash for the book, at least download the free sermon series that prompted the book)
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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