Reading Time: 2 minutes OnlySky · Beatings Before Blessings: The Gospel According To Mark Driscoll | Becky Garrison Once again, disgraced Mars Hill Church (MHC) pastor Mark Driscoll proved he is more paranoid than pastoral. In a sermon delivered on October 22, 2022 at Trinity Church (Scottsdale, AZ) as part of his ongoing sermon series on Nehemiah, Driscoll presented […]
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Mark Driscoll: Bullies Keep Bullying (LSP #200)
Reading Time: 8 minutes None of us thought Mark Driscoll would learn a thing after losing Mars Hill and Acts 29, the church-planting umbrella group he helped create, back in 2014. And nope, he sure hasn’t.
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Lord Snow Presides… Over a “Love Quiz” that Mark Driscoll Fails Miserably. (#21)
Reading Time: 11 minutes I just can’t stop laughing today over Mark Driscoll’s current post. It’s about a Love Quiz that he presents to his readers that he himself could not pass in a million years. Today we’ll be fisking that quiz–with links demonstrating that Mark Driscoll himself is not qualified to tell anybody else how to be loving. Today Lord Snow Presides over Mark Driscoll and his hypocritical Love Quiz.
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Lord Snow Presides #16: Mark Driscoll Can’t Stop the Signal.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Having suitably–he thinks at least–absolved himself of responsibility for Mars Hill’s disintegration and his own loss of power, now Mark Driscoll must lay tracks down about his personal integrity.
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Josh Duggar: What It Took.
Reading Time: 8 minutes But sometimes, despite the huge safety net evangelicals have built up over decades to prevent exactly this occurrence, an idol falls.
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A Tale of Two Megachurches.
Reading Time: 12 minutes One of the reasons I tend to be so optimistic about America’s future is that we are slowly coming to our senses about some of the religious overreach that’s been going on recently. I know that–especially given the dismal outcome of the last election–that it can sometimes feel overwhelming, but I don’t think that my optimism is at all out of place. Here are two examples of why I think that.
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Jefferson Bethke: When Sounding Deep Is Good Enough.
Reading Time: 11 minutes I noticed Jefferson Bethke’s video making the rounds again, so I wanted to talk about it today. I don’t think it’s nearly as impressive as he–and his many fans–think it is.
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Seventy Times Seven.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to […]
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Consolidation and the Dwindling of Belief
Reading Time: 9 minutes I saw this really interesting piece about “church cannibalism” and it ties into something else I was reading about the dwindling of religious belief in America. What these two stories tell me is that Americans are steadily becoming less religiously observant over time, but huge megachurches are growing in membership and numbers. But I’m not […]
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It’s Okay If You’re a Christian.
Reading Time: 12 minutes Today we’re going to talk about how, to toxic Christians, the only moral lie is their lie. I’ve said before that Christians–especially the toxic sort we discuss often on this blog (btw, for the persecution-fantasizing Christians at the national-level Republican Party’s Twitter feed who got upset with me last time I used that term, here’s […]