Unbreakable Joy: Mark Driscoll

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Driscoll: Jesus Shoots the Wolves

I had the opportunity to be present when this message was delivered at a DG National Conference. It is one of the most memorable and most powerful messages I have ever heard. The entire message is available for free on audio and video.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Driscoll in Haiti

Monday, December 21, 2009

Driscoll on Repenting from Religion

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Driscoll on Grace

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Driscoll on Hating Religion

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Idol Worship American Style

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Driscoll on Nightline

Check out the video here.

HT: JT

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Driscoll on Election & Grace

- An excellent illustration of election.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Mark Driscoll: Woe to You, Christians...

This should be required viewing for all Christians.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Driscoll: Speaking The Truth In Love

HT:DG

Friday, August 15, 2008

The Use Of Harsh Language In Scripture?

HT: DG

Monday, August 4, 2008

Book Giveaway: Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

The book giveaway for the month of August will be Driscoll's Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

To qualify to win this book just leave a comment on this blog post. At the end of the month I'll draw names from a hat and mail a new copy of the book to the winner.

Confessions of a Reformission Rev.

I recently finished Driscoll's "Confessions of a Reformission Rev." After my previous post about this book I was wondering if it would live up to my expectations. I was not disappointed. This was a great read.

Driscoll highlights his experience in starting Mars Hill Church in Seattle. This church started out as merely a few folks gathered in his home and quickly grew into the large, very influential, and culture engaging church that it is today.

The stories of struggle and change are inspiring. Driscoll is very open and sometimes brutally honest about the difficulties and graces that surrounded the growth and maturing of this Reformission church.

I would highly recommend this book as a refreshing look at Church and an inspiring testimony of what God is still doing in and through His people.

Noteworthy Quotes

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly so worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.
- George Mueller

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- C.S. Lewis

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, a spiritual man is hard on himself and easy on others.
- A. W. Tozer

Our hearts are restless until we find our rest in Thee.
- Augustine

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
- Blaise Pascal

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
- Jim Elliot

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
- C. S. Lewis

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
- Augustine

The men of this world are children. Offer a child an apple or a bank note, and he will doubtless choose the apple.
- John Newton

In the end the heart longs not for any of God's good gifts, but for God Himself. To see Him and know Him and be in His presence is the soul's final feast. Beyond this there is no quest. Words fail. We call it pleasure, joy, delight. But these are weak pointers to the unspeakable experience.
- John Piper

God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Him, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- C.S. Lewis

It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him. He must count no time wasted which is spent in the cultivation of His acquaintance. He must give himself to meditation and prayer hours on end. So did the saints of old, the glorious company of the apostles, the Godly fellowship of the prophets and the believing members of the holy church in all generations. And so must we if we would follow in their train.
- A.W. Tozer

If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.
- John Calvin

God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him.
- John Piper

God glorifies Himself toward the creature in two ways; by appearing to their understanding, and in communicating Himself to thief hearts and their rejoicing in and delighting in Him, and enjoying manifestations He makes of Himself. God is Glorified not only by His glories being seen, but by it’s being rejoiced in. When those that see it delight in it God is more glorified than if they only see it. His glory is then received by the whole soul, both by the understanding and by the heart. God made the world that he might communicate and the creature receive His glory, and that it might be received both by the mind and the heart. He that testifies His idea of God’s glory doesn’t glorify God so much as he that testifies also his approbation of it and his delight in it.
- Jonathan Edwards