Sunday, October 11 is my thirty-ninth birthday, the twentieth anniversary of my salvation (the exact date is known only by God), and the thirteenth anniversary of Mars Hill Church. So, on that day we will air at all campuses a special one-hour sermon from Acts 17 that I preached live this summer while standing on [...]

At 11:30pm tonight I’ll be featured for the third time on ABC’s Nightline. A month ago, Terry Moran and a great crew from ABC came to Mars Hill to talk with me about the second commandment. Terry had seen something I had posted on Twitter around the time of Michael Jackson’s funeral and wanted to [...]

In case you missed the sermon yesterday, here are a few of the highlights. In the first, Pastor Mark corrects some misconceptions of Mars Hill Church’s view of women, talks about his daughter, and challenges men. In the second, he discusses the often-overlooked costs of Mary’s faith in God. And, in the last clip, Pastor [...]

This summer I had the great joy of leading a trip to Israel. For me, the highlight of the entire trip was baptizing my son Calvin Martin, a.k.a. “Buddy Calvin,” in the Jordan River. He is the third of our five children and the most pastoral among us. God has given him a tender heart [...]

In conjunction with the series Luke’s Gospel: Investigating the Man Who is God we’ve got some special sermons lined up. Some weeks all of the services I will be preaching will be exclusively on video including at the Ballard campus where I normally preach in person. This is because these special sermons were filmed live [...]

My family and I recently spent three weeks touring Greece, Turkey, and Israel. Much to our surprise, perhaps the place we enjoyed most was the archaeological dig in Ephesus, where roughly 15 percent of the great marble city has been excavated. We learned a lot about the early church there, and we learned what was [...]

I love preaching and teaching the Bible. And I often praise God that I do so in the age of the Internet at a church with fellow elders who embrace technology for the sake of getting the gospel of Jesus Christ out to the world. When I began pursuing my undergraduate degree in communications before [...]

If you missed Pastor Mark’s Facebook message last night, it was a huge weekend for Mars Hill Church. We launched two new campuses and a new service location in Seattle on the University of Washington’s campus.
The new campus in Federal Way was standing-room only, with over 500 people gathered to worship Jesus. Albuquerque had well [...]

Series Details
I wanted to give you some details about the upcoming Luke sermon series so that you will know what to expect. Most noticeably, it will take about three years or so to get through the book. On the weeks I am out of the pulpit, other Mars Hill elders will be preaching through the [...]

Here is another exciting look at what is coming up in our next sermon series, Luke’s Gospel: Investigating The Man Who Is God.
Pastor Mark and the video crew shot hundreds of hours of video and thousands of pictures that will be incorporated into the sermons and blogs throughout the three year series. The hope, as [...]