Zack on December 6th, 2010

Mark Driscoll with six minutes on some fundamentals about Jesus. The money quotes: Spirituality without Jesus is Demonology. You cannot — you WILL NOT — connect to God apart from Jesus. Your sin NEEDS to be atoned for. If you disagree with what  Mark says here, then I respect that. I respect you, and love you. But [...]

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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 January 22nd, 2009

We’re currently studying through the book of Acts with the youth at our church body. A complete library of the teachings is available under downloads at www.CCRaleighYouth.com Here are mp3′s of the teachings from the past couple of weeks (It’s me on the 1st and 3rd, and Mike Davis on the 2nd and 4th): Acts [...]

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Zack on September 15th, 2008

Beginning to gain some understanding of the person and work of the Holy Spirit was one of the most important steps of my walk with Christ. I taught on the Holy Spirit last week for the last part of our youth series on Jesus: “How Did Jesus Live?”. You can download it here. (we also [...]

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Zack on May 15th, 2008

Yesterday, while working, I listened to a message by Rob Bell on Philippians 2:1-2 called “One Mind” (click here to download the mp3 :: click here to view the past 12 sermons from Mars Hill Church). The talk was very interesting and certainly kept my attention. Rob even played highlight films of Larry Bird (a [...]

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Zack on May 5th, 2008

Steph already mentioned today that when I go to a christian bookstore, I can be a little like a kid in a candy store. That isn’t to say that I like everything they sell in those places. In fact, I’d say at least 50% of it outright unbiblical… but even the unbiblical stuff engages me [...]

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I know Erwin McManus, pastor of Mosaic, in Pasadena California, is a controversial character. I’ve never heard him say anything that made me flinch, but he promotes some questionable theologians, like Dan Kymbal, and seems to spend a LOT of time studying and teaching from and quoting Solomon, which seems like shaky ground. But he [...]

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