Kingdom: God Reigns

Something has gone terribly wrong with the world. Everyone who has ever hoped in a politician, gotten sick, wept at injustice, become angry at evil, tried to help someone, or just felt like giving up knows it and despite all the wars that have been fought, money that …

I'm between Colorado and Atlanta

Well, right now I'm in the air between Colorado and Atlanta in an airplane perhaps practicing for the rapture one day. I just got finished with a few day retreat in Vail with the Acts 29 church planters and their wives. I want to thank the folks at Mars Hill for …

Stewardship: God Gives

This week, we are in week 12 of our 13 week series Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series. This week we are studying the doctrine of stewardship and fact that all that we have (time, talent, treasure) is ultimately entrusted to our stewardship by God. This …

Worship: God Transforms

Sadly, worship has too often been considered merely a style of music or event such as a Sunday church service. And, while worship is big enough to include these things it is by no means reduced only to them. In many ways, to speak of worship is to speak of all of life …

Church: God Sends

This sermon blog is intended to supplement the sermon Church: God Sends as part of the ongoing series Doctrine: What Christians should believe.

The big idea in the sermon is that Jesus is God come into human culture as a missionary. And, that Jesus earthly missional …

Resurrection: God Saves

This article is a summary of the content from my sermon on the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from death as part of the Doctrine: What Christians should believe preaching series. Much of the content of this chapter is from Chapter (Did Jesus rise from death?) of …

Evidences of God's Grace

Back at the Text and Conference a few months back with The Resurgence,

Cross: God Dies

This article is a summary of the content from my sermon on the atoning death of Jesus Christ, titled Cross: God Dies, as part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe preaching series. Much of this content is from Chapter 6 (What Did Jesus Accomplish on the …

Incarnation: God Comes

This week (Sunday, May 11) I preached the sermon Incarnation: God Comes as part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe sermon series. This post is intended to help serve those in Mars Hill Church and those listening or watching online who wish to learn more …

Covenant: God Pursues

This week (Sunday, May 4) I preached the sermon Covenant: God Pursues as part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe sermon series. This post is intended to help serve those in Mars Hill who are discussing the doctrine in their Community Groups, and also …

Coast to Coast...now Philly

Well, this blog post is being written while I sit on a train with my lovely wife Grace traveling between New York and Philadelphia. It's been a busy but cool few weeks. ?

?On Saturday, Grace and I, along with my parents, were in Portland. By God's grace, the help of …

Fall: God Judges

This week (Sunday, April 27) I preached the sermon Fall: God Judges as part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe sermon series.

Before examining the fateful day that forever altered the course of human history in Genesis 3, we must first examine that …

Image: God Loves

This week (Sunday, April 20) my sermon for the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe sermon series examined the doctrine of imago dei, which means "image of God" in Latin. The question of human life is among the most important because it has implications for …

Creation: God Makes

On Sunday, April 13, I spoke on Creation: God Makes as part of our Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe sermon series. When the series is completed, Dr. Gerry Breshears and I will write the content as a lengthy book for our friends at Crossway and deal with the …

The ESV Study Bible

My friends at Crossway have been great to work with on Vintage Jesus and other forthcoming books I am publishing both with my co-author Dr. Gerry Breshears and by myself this year. They sent me some prerelease, hush-hush confidential proofs of their forthcoming English …

Revelation

On Sunday April 6 I spoke on Revelation: God Speaks as the second sermon in our Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series. The big idea, building off the first week's sermon on the Trinity, is that God communicates. For example, we read, "God said" ten times in …

The Trinity

This blog is intended to augment my recent sermon on the Trinity as the first of thirteen sermons in the series Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe. The new series will follow the storyline of the Bible and serve as a class of sorts, teaching the essential truths …

Dating

As part of the Religion Saves and Nine Other Misconceptions series, last Sunday I answered the question: "How does a Christian date righteously; and what are the physical, emotional, and mentally connecting boundaries a Christian must set while developing an intimate …

Free Vintage Jesus Books

note: this is posted by Jason, deacon at Mars Hill, on behalf of Pastor Mark Driscoll.

Next week Pastor Mark Driscoll's latest book Vintage Jesus will officially go live. In tandem with the book release we will be giving away 20 copies via our Vintage Jesus group on …

Free Conference with Dr. John Piper

Our upcoming Text and Context event at Mars Hill Ballard in Seattle is sold out. That means that the Ballard Campus will NOT be open to the public for any portion of the event. At past conferences, we have opened up the evening sessions for our people to attend for …