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Before Warren Smith’s World Magazine article in March, the story about Mars Hill Church paying a consulting firm to boost Mark and Grace Driscoll’s book Real Marriage to the top of the New York Times best seller list was a carefully guarded secret at the Seattle megachurch. Almost three months…
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When I was growing up, my parent’s called it Decoration Day, and we sometimes bought flowers for veterans’ graves. Both of my parents (yes, my mother was in the WAVES) served in the military in WWII as did my Uncle, who was never the same after being wounded on the…
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In the weekly email to members, Mars Hill leaders provide an explanation about the recent sermon edits I first reported on May 19. The narrative is a similar to what the Mars Hill leaders told Christian Post recently. Recent Sermon Edits You may have questions about our video sermons and…
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Michael Peroutka is in the news for something other than his support for the white separatist League of the South or his Christian Reconstructionist Institute on the Constitution. According to the IOTC Facebook page, Peroutka donated a dinosaur to the Creation Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio. Post by Institute on the…
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Without admission or acknowledgment, Mars Hill Church continues to change the focus of Mars Hill Global. Previously, I have raised questions about where Mars Hill Global funds go. Church sources have told me on condition of anonymity that very little of the money designated as Mars Hill Global donations (nearly…
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In an exclusive statement to Christian Post, Mars Hill Church denies that the edits to Mark Driscoll’s recent sermon on Acts 6:1-7 were anything unusual. They also stand in support of the content of the edited portion. According to the CP article, sermons are evaluated and then edited on a…
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I have obtained a memo inviting Mars Hill Church members to attend a “vision breakfast.” In a report on the last vision breakfast, it was reported by Sutton Turner that at least one member had questions about the 2012 legal situation for the church in Orange County CA. Turner said…
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On May 9, I posted a memo from Mars Hill executive pastor Sutton Turner about a plan to buy a former Bellevue College building at 10700 Northrup Way in Bellevue, WA. Mars Hill central offices will need to move by 2015 to make way for development in Seattle and so…
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Jonathan Merritt cut himself and jumped in the shark tank with this article on troubles in the Calvinist revival. You need to read the whole thing but in the mean time, here is a taste: To be sure, neo-calvinists don’t shy away from controversy and aren’t reticent to critique those…
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Liberty University and Glenn Beck have spoken out about critics of Beck’s speech at Liberty U’s Convocation last month and neither party is backing down. Jonathan Merritt at Religion News Service reports on an email from senior vice-president and Liberty spokesman Johnnie Moore. Moore countered critics by saying the Convocation service…
