The guys at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA have some of the most advanced multimedia capabilities of any church that I have seen. They continually put out top quality multimedia content that moves my heart toward God. The video below is one of those videos.

It comes from a sermon called Death by Love: Reflections on the Cross by Mark Driscoll. I would highly recommend listening to the sermon in its entirety, or downloading it for later.

Oh, and by the way, the video ends at about 2:15 (even though it appears to go longer, it is blank for the remainder of the time).

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Man, John Piper has just been on a roll lately. This video is a promotional video for a conference that is being held soon, that I wish I had had the money to go to, but didn’t (maybe next time). Matt Chandler also has a video that is pretty closely related to this current one.

I am becoming more and more convinced of the importance of good Bible teaching in the lives of Christians. I think without good Bible teaching Christians can never fully understand who Jesus is and why they should live for Him.

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“God blesses those He loves.” We’ve all heard it before. “Jesus died so that you could have financial success and be healthy.” We’ve heard that too. And I tell you what, nothing gets me more fired up than the idea, or teaching, that people deserve things from God and that God wants to make us successful in this world.
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Lately, I have been arguing with different people about the importance of the bible. Some of them see it as nothing more than a rule book which breads legalism, while others see it as something that isn’t necessary as long as there are leaders like Bono to show us what to do. Needless to say, but I will anyway, I totally disagree with both of those views.

The Bible is there above everything else to point us to and to teach us about our great king. It is not a rule book in which we attain salvation, but a book pointing to our salvation in Christ. But, it would be a great mistake to assume, that it isn’t of great value. It is the authoritative declaration of God about God. It is in Him that we have hope salvation, and it is in the pages of His book that we learn about Him. And so it is extremely important, for from these pages we learn about our King.

So, in saying that, I would encourage you to watch this video from a conference that the Resurgence is putting on called Text and Context, from Matt Chandler (pastor of the Village Church). It’s less than four minutes, but it does summarize my views on the matter as well. After you watch it, I would be interested to hear your opinions on the matter.

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Jonah33 has been one of my favorite Christian rock bands over the past couple of years.  They have a new CD coming out in June called “The Heart of War”.  You can check out more of their info at http://www.jonah33rock.com/.

Anyway, browsing through their myspace page I saw a video of the lead singer’s story.  It’s a pretty cool testimony of what God can do in any life.  Check it out.