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 [...]

Understanding Silence and Solitude
Silence and solitude is fasting from people and noise for a prescribed time to connect with God and replenish the soul. The opposite of solitude is isolation, where someone is burned out and goes into survival mode by disappearing. Solitude is godly, isolation is deadly, and if we don’t enjoy the [...]

This is the first in a series of posts by the Mars Hill campus pastors looking at how God has moved across Mars Hill Church during 2009. Pastor Bubba Jennings is the campus pastor from the Ballard campus.
We serve a loving and gracious God, who loves us so much that he sent his Son, Jesus, [...]

Check your mailbox this week for information about the Generous Campaign (if you don’t get the mailer, pick up a copy at your campus this Sunday).
We’re kicking off a church-wide effort to raise funds for a number of local ministry needs and our global effort to see as many churches and disciples of Jesus as [...]

This is the second in a five-part series. The first post can be found here.
Four Ways to Change Your Life

Heart change – conviction from God and repentance from you
Study – research and fact-finding for how to change your life, which includes reading the Bible and other books, speaking with people you know who have wisdom, [...]

This is the first post of a five-part series. Stay tuned via RSS, Twitter, or Facebook for the rest.
I am an introvert who is contemplative. This means I crave and desperately need silence, solitude, study, prayer, and journaling because the Holy Spirit uses these moments to connect me to Jesus that I might be more [...]

Mars Hill is very honored to welcome Dr. Ed Stetzer to come and preach God’s Word to us. I have known Ed as a personal friend for a number of years as we served together on the board for the Acts 29 Church Planting Network. Since Ed is in town teaching at our Resurgence Training [...]

Pastor Mark recently sat down with R.C. Sproul, one of the greatest living Reformed theologians. Over the course of the hour-long interview, he was able to ask Dr. Sproul some great questions that we’ll be posting over the next few weeks on the Resurgence. This first question was about R.C.’s use of technology and impact [...]

In light of the Raymond Jessop and Yearning For Zion cult, Pastor Mark addressed the question of whether or not polygamy is Biblical.
Various cults, aberrant sects, and perverts make the case that the Bible does mention polygamy and so it is biblically acceptable. However, they fail to acknowledge that the Bible speaks of human sin [...]

Pastor Mark’s latest column for the Washington Post’s On Faith column is now up. The question posed to him was:
Is there good without God? Can people be good without God? How can people be good, in the moral and ethical sense, without being grounded in some sort of belief in a being which is greater [...]