Archive for the ‘Changed by Jesus’ Category

Global Story Week: Belfast, Northern Ireland

by Mars Hill Church on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

It’s Global Story Week on the Mars Hill Blog. Enjoy these stories of gospel transformation, and visit marshillglobal.com to share your experience.
Changed By Jesus #43
By Stevie in Belfast

I was brought up in a Christian family, which in many ways was a blessing but also difficult. Because of what I’d heard from the Bible, I knew [...]



Global Story Week: Melbourne, Australia

by Mars Hill Church on Monday, June 1st, 2009

Welcome to Global Story Week on the Mars Hill Blog. Enjoy these stories of gospel transformation, and visit marshillglobal.com to share your experience.
Changed By Jesus #42
By Mark in Melbourne

I am lead pastor of a church in Melbourne, Australia going for seven years now. For the first five years I was caught up in the “seeker [...]



“More than just a good teacher”

by Mars Hill Church on Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Changed by Jesus #43
By Allie Snell, Ballard campus
Qualified for Heaven?
At age 18 I was in the most dangerous period of my life: religious complacency. I thought I knew who Jesus was, falsely establishing him as one of the many great teachers sent from God with a long list of insufferably arduous rules to thereby merit [...]



“Ahora Yo Creo”

by Mars Hill Church on Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Changed by Jesus #42
By Luis Eduardo Villalobos, Peru/D.C.
Like almost every single Latin-American, I was born and raised Catholic. Eight years ago, I left my home country, Peru, for Washington DC. This was right after I became a believer and truly understood the good news of the gospel. How did this happen?

Nada de Jesus
I had basically [...]



“I came to Seattle to get away from it all”

by Mars Hill Church on Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Changed by Jesus #41
By Lee Brown, Downtown campus
In North Carolina, I was a worship leader and youth pastor for almost six years, and I saw Jesus move in mighty ways. But there was something I constantly fought that I never truly dealt with: I struggled with pornography and homosexuality.
There were long periods during which [...]



“I had decided to take my own life”

by Mars Hill Church on Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Changed by Jesus #40
By Rusty Taft, Shoreline campus

When I was 21, I was a chronic drug user, an alcoholic, and sexually promiscuous. In November of 1994, I had enough.
I was physically, spiritually, and emotionally bankrupt and void of any hope. I had decided to take my own life. While in the process of loading a [...]



“With a journalist’s heart and mind”

by Mars Hill Church on Friday, May 1st, 2009

Changed by Jesus #39
By Thomas Hurst, Bellevue campus
My life and my testimony can be defined by a single word: hope. Prior to 2003, my life was a series of false hopes. And in 2003, everything that I had so tightly woven my identity and hope into was lost: my career as an internationally recognized photojournalist; [...]



Mormons and Sunday School

by Mars Hill Church on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Changed By Jesus #38

This week we’ve added more video from Easter Sunday to the media library.
This clip begins with the story of Brandon, who grew up in the Mormon church and turned to debauchery before being changed by Jesus. Sally also tells her story of learning a lot about Jesus before actually knowing him. [...]



“God crushed my pride”

by Mars Hill Church on Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Changed by Jesus #37
By Deacon Joel Brown
@bjoelbrown: http://twitpic.com/38e14 God crushed my pride and I spontaneously decided to be baptized today for the first time as a believer. Yeah! #MHC 
Twitter Message: 2:33 PM Apr 12th
I was once a self-righteous religious kid. Raised in a Jesus-loving, Bible-believing home, I was baptized at age four because I could [...]



“I used my suffering as an excuse to sin”

by Mars Hill Church on Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Changed By Jesus #36
By Gretchen, who is getting baptized at the Ballard campus this Sunday
I’ve believed in Jesus, felt God’s presence, and recognized the authority of God for as long as I can remember, but chose to live for myself instead. I lived a life of hypocrisy, fearing man more than God. I thought that [...]






FEATURED - November 19th, 2009

Pastor Mark’s Second Sermon from the Crystal Cathedral

We recently received some good news from the folks at the Crystal Cathedral – Pastor Mark’s second sermon from the Hour of Power will air on Palm Sunday, March 28th, next year.
If you remember, his first sermon was on who Jesus is. The second sermon is all about what Jesus did as our Savior on [...]


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“I didn’t care anymore”

Changed By Jesus #54
By a female teenager at the Ballard campus
I was raised going to church every Sunday. I thought I was a Christian because I was really good at following rules and thought I was an expert on Jesus. But the personal, life-changing relationship wasn’t there.
This seemed to work for me in middle school, [...]


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