Below is an email from a member of Mars Hill Church in Seatlle sent to their lead Pastor Mark Driscoll. This is what preaching the Word is all about –
Dear Pastor Mark,
Please stop talking about Jesus. Please stop talking about sin.
You keep ripping my little Christian family’s world to pieces, and your teaching keeps bringing out secrets….
A Pastor friend of mine once advised me that a married couple should,
Dialogue Daily
Date Weekly
Depart Quarterly
Deport Annually
Let’s look at each of those in detail -
Having completed our series of suffering for the glory of God I would highly recommend that you watch this sermon by Pastor Ed Litton. Pastor Ed lost his wife in a tragic car accident and he speaks of how God worked in his life through this tragedy.
From time to time I compare and contrast how my parents raised me with how I want to raise my own children. I was born with an under developed kidney that caused me to be very sick for the first few months of my life. The Doctors had to wait until I was old enough to do surgery before they could take out the organ that was poisoning my system. From everything I have heard that was a very dramatic experience for my parents. It was then that God spoke to my father and told him that I would not die, but I would live and become a preacher. It was also then that they probably decided not to have more children simply because the weight of stress was more than they could bear.
