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WMWJD?* On May 4, Mark Driscoll preached on Acts 6:1-7. In keeping with usual procedure, the video of the sermon was not posted on the church website until yesterday. Those who watch the sermon on the website are missing some material from the live delivery two weeks ago. A segment of…
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Checking out a lead that Joshua Harris and C.J. Mahaney had resigned from the Gospel Coalition Council, I asked the editor of the GC, Joe Carter, for comment. He wrote back to say that the GC isn’t commenting on the resignations and referred me to Harris and Mahaney for additional…
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Those in charge of Mars Hill Global seem to agree with me that Mars Hill Global is really Mars Hill Church. Last week, I posted a 2011 document about the rebranding of Mars Hill Global (among other things, “cultivate an international audience and giving base”) and a slide showing the dramatic rise…
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It is becoming plagiarism Friday. See these previous posts. Today CNN announced the ouster of Marie-Louise Gumuchian, a former editor who wrote mainly about international news. According to an Editor’s note on the CNN website, CNN discovered about 50 articles with plagiarized material. According to the Washington Post, there were 128…
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Comedian Danny Murphy today relates a story of having some of his material end up in several sources without attribution. He provided detail about his interactions with magachurch pastor Craig Groeschel. Groeschel, pastor of LifeChurch.tv, modified the material for use in a book on marriage. That first book went out…
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Yesterday, I posted a Mars Hill Church document about the rebranding of Mars Hill Global as a revenue source. The document was sent out by MH Pastor Sutton Turner in 2011 to the Media and Communications Teams and began: When it comes to giving potential, Mars Hill Church’s global audience…
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Subtitle: “Mars Hill Global Cultivates the Giving Base.” Like businesses and other organizations, megachurches like to brand things. They brand pastors (Mark Driscoll: “I am the brand!”), and brand ministries. Probably nothing really wrong with that if the brand accurately represents what is being done and offered. For Mars Hill…
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Christianity Today’s Joe Maxwell posted an extended interview today with Matt Chandler, leader of Acts 29 Network. I learned a few things while reading it, and recommend you read it too. 1. Acts 29 apparently does not want to be viewed as an extension of Mars Hill and Mark Driscoll…
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A study in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, released online in March, examined sexual orientation change efforts by over 1,600 current or former Mormons. Some beneficial results were noted but the primary finding was that sexual orientation is highly resistant to change attempts, and the efforts were either ineffective or…
