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Is Polygamy Biblical?

by Mars Hill Church on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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: Why Bad People Do Good Things

by Mars Hill Church on Monday, November 2nd, 2009

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 [...]



Sermon Transcripts: Mary’s Song

by Mars Hill Church on Friday, October 30th, 2009

This past Sunday Pastor Mark talked about Mary’s song in Luke 1. He talked about how incredibly theological the teenagers song was, how her view of God affected her life, and how her theology brought her to worship. In addition to making the sermons available in both audio and video form, we also make them [...]



Nine Things to Like About the Albuquerque Campus

by Pastor Jamie Munson on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Thirteen years ago, my wife was part of the beginning of Mars Hill Church. Last month, she joined me on a trip to Albuquerque to witness the launch of our first out-of-state campus.
As we stepped off the plane, God’s grace was overwhelming, and the experience brought tears to our eyes. I can think of at [...]



How Much Do You Know About Acts 29?

by Nick Bogardus on Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Christian blogger Tim Challies recently interviewed Pastor Scott Thomas about the history of Acts 29, what it does, and how working with Pastor Mark has influenced him. Acts 29 has planted nearly 300 churches and trained thousands of pastors around the globe. If you are a man who feels a call to church planting or [...]



Mars Hill Music Podcast

by Nick Bogardus on Monday, October 26th, 2009

Pastor Mark’s sermons were downloaded over 4.4 million times last year – expository sermons on books like Genesis, Nehemiah, Ruth, and Ephesians; and topical sermons like the Doctrine, Vintage Jesus, and Religion Saves series.
But did you know there’s a whole other source of Biblical truth and theology available at Mars Hill?
Some of the greatest hymns [...]



New Free Additions to the Media Library

by Mars Hill Church on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

4.4 million. That’s the number of sermon downloads from Mars Hill Church’s website last year.
12,000. That’s how many downloads per day that 4.4 million breaks down to.
Each of those numbers is a person. A man in Sydney who watches the sermons with his wife. A young woman in Iowa who listens to the podcasts on [...]



Pastor Mark on Birth Control

by Mars Hill Church on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

The following excerpts are from the Birth Control chapter in Pastor Mark Driscoll’s book Religion Saves: And Nine Other Misconceptions. To read the rest of what he had to say on the topic, read the chapter for yourself or watch the sermon from the series.

“As the number of birth control options has increased and continues [...]



Pastor Mark in The Washington Post

by Nick Bogardus on Thursday, October 15th, 2009

After being featured on ABC’s Nightline last week to discuss American idolatry, Pastor Mark Driscoll was asked to be a contributor to the Washington Post. His first column was a response to the question, “What makes the best ‘case for God’ to a skeptic or non-believer, an open-minded seeker, and to a person of faith [...]



“I Am Not Defeated”

by Mars Hill Church on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

This is a special guest post by Olympia member Sarah McConnell who lost her husband, Andrew, in Afghanistan last month. We grieve with Sarah, but we also celebrate with her. We celebrate a life lived by a man of great faith who led by example and left a legacy for his wife, child, family, and [...]






FEATURED - November 4th, 2009

Is Polygamy Biblical?

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 [...]


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Pastor Mark: Why Bad People Do Good Things

By Mars Hill Church, November 2, 2009

Sermon Transcripts: Mary’s Song

By Mars Hill Church, October 30, 2009

Nine Things to Like About the Albuquerque Campus

By Pastor Jamie Munson, October 28, 2009
CHANGED BY JESUS - October 14th, 2009

“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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