The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill—this is the story we need right now. This podcast is a long, hard look in the mirror for much of the church in America today. It’s an incredibly well produced, thorough exploration of not just the Mars Hill story with Mark Driscoll, but also the narratives that have …
Sometimes we forget that the purpose of our preaching is simple: to proclaim “Christ and him crucified”—to make God known to people, and to point those people toward Him, not ourselves. We forget that the power of the Gospel rests not in our words but in the Word of God, His story, and in the movement of His Spirit.
Christianity is not Republicanism. Republicanism is not Christianity. The two are not synonymous nor interchangeable: a person does not have to be one in order to be the other. Yet, that is largely the picture that is presented and believed both in and outside of the American Church today. This issue spans across the Catholic-Protestant …