An unedited day end Easter blog from Pastor Mark
The first Easter we enjoyed as Mars Hill church was in 1996. We were in core group phase of our church plant and I was twenty-five years of age. We were meeting only at nights as we could not find or afford a Sunday morning location. Our [...]

The past few weeks we have seen incredible and continual evidences of God’s grace at Mars Hill Church. We have made budget the past month, which is amazing considering the economic climate we are in and the fact that many of our people are young in both age and faith. We have seen our attendance [...]

Tonight (Friday, March 20), the Ballard Campus of Mars Hill Church will be hosting a debate I am participating in on the existence of Satan. On my side, arguing that Satan does exist, is my Christian sister Annie Lobert, who works to free women from sexual abuse and slavery. On the other side, arguing that [...]

On Sunday, February 22, I preached on Submission to Authority from 1 Peter 2:13–17.
In the sermon I stressed the point that when it comes to texts such as these, where submitting to ungodly authority is mentioned, the examples preached are often too theoretical, philosophical, and hypothetical to be practical. So using The City (our [...]

In the past decade, I have preached through fifteen books of the Bible and scores of topical issues at Mars Hill Church. In addition, I have preached at well over one hundred conferences around the U.S. and the world.
For many who just started to listen online, trying to keep up with that amount of [...]

Well, I sat in front of a camera yesterday and was interviewed by D.L. Hughley for his show on CNN, “D.L. Hughley Breaks The News.” I could not see him, but could hear him in the earpiece and it worked out pretty well. He was a ton of fun to speak with on and off [...]

On March 9–10, 2009, we will be gathering in Seattle for a boot camp with the Acts 29 Church Planting Network and the World Church Planting Summit. Anyone interested in being an Acts 29 church planter and/or Mars Hill campus pastor needs to join us.

The Acts 29 Church Planting Network now has over two hundred [...]

4:15 PM EST…
God has been gracious to open some incredible doors recently. Right now I’m sitting in Raleigh, North Carolina. I had the honor of preaching at a great Acts 29 Church-Planting Boot Camp; over three hundred folks joined us, and twenty-five potential planters were assessed.

Pastor Tyler Jones was our host and did a great [...]

Last Sunday, as part of the Trial: Eight Witnesses from 1 and 2 Peter series, I preached on “Temptation from Sin” from 1 Peter 1:13–21. I spoke at length about hope. The theme of hope from this week is anchored in the following verses:

1 Peter 1:3 – “He has caused us to be born again [...]

continued from part 2
As we learn to discern what kind of suffering we, and others we encounter, are experiencing, we are able to help root out sin in our life and the lives of those we serve. We can also serve fellow Christians so that they would experience comfort. In this way, suffering provides opportunities [...]