On September 21, 2007, Mark Driscoll was invited to speak at the Convergent Conference at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In this session listen at Pastor Mark explains the major streams of the Emerging Church and specifically, the sub-set of of the Emerging Church, known as the "Emergent Church".

On January 8, 2008, Dr. Peter Jones of Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet (soon to become "Truth X Change") spoke at the Mars Hill Church Ballard Campus for a Resurgence Event. Dr. Jones used this time to discuss the blurring of spiritual lines in culture around us and how we can their underlying spiritual framework as we seek to witness and minister to the non-Christians around us.

After you listen to the main session, be sure to check out the Q&A portion of this event as well.

On January 8, 2008, Dr. Peter Jones of Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet (soon to become "Truth X Change") spoke at the Mars Hill Church Ballard Campus for a Resurgence Pastor's Workshop. Dr. Jones used this time to discuss the "spirit of this age" and how we can understand culture and it's underlying spiritual framework as we seek to witness and minister to the non-Christians around us.

After you listen to the main session, be sure to check out the Q&A portion of this event as well.

Voddie Baucham wrote a great book on the importance and purpose of the family. A Family Driven Faith: Doing What it Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk with God was released this summer 2007. He takes a great approach for Christians to rethink and relive what the family is all about. Taking principles from Deuteronomy 6 Dr. Baucham addresses the crisis of losing Christian kids to secular humanism as it starts with the family. This is not a book on fixing the program or how to start a program for the family. This book is about shifting paradigms from clinical psychology to what the Bible calls Dads and Moms to do in raising their children. The byproduct of this will be God glorifying as well as evangelistically being light and salt in a confused world.

Question 127 - What is the sixth petition?

Answer - And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. That is: In ourselves we are so weak that we cannot stand even for a moment.¹ Moreover, our sworn enemies-- the devil,² the world,³ and our own flesh⁴-- do not cease to attack us. Wilt Thou, therefore, uphold and strengthen us by the power of Thy Holy Spirit, so that in this spiritual war⁵ we may not go down to defeat, but always firmly resist our enemies, until we finally obtain the complete victory.⁶

Question 126 - What is the fifth petition?

Answer - And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. That is: For the sake of Christ's blood, do not impute to us, wretched sinners; any of our transgressions, nor the evil which still clings to us,¹ as we also find this evidence of Thy grace in us that we are fully determined wholeheartedly to forgive our neighbor.²

¹ Ps. 51:1-7; 143:2; Rom. 8:1; 1 John 2:1-2. ² Matt. 6:14-15; 18:21-35.

Same-sex marriage, gender confusion, yoga, enlightened thinking, secular-humanism, relativism, pluralistic diversities known as Universities (college), deism, integrative thinking, monism, the ever so popular book "The Secret" … all have the same root: neo-paganism.

Resurgence is hosting two free events on January 8, 2008 to help the church and believers understand and address this root issue.

Question 125 - What is the fourth petition?

Answer - Give us this day our daily bread. That is: Provide us with all our bodily needs¹ so that we may acknowledge that Thou art the only fountain of all good,² and that our care and labour, and also Thy gifts, cannot do us any good without Thy blessing.³ Grant therefore that we may withdraw our trust from all creatures, and place it only in Thee.⁴

¹ Ps. 104:27-30; 145:15-16; Matt. 6:25-34. ² Acts 14:17; 17:25; James 1:17. ³ Deut. 8:3; Ps. 37:16; 127:1, 2; 1 Cor. 15:58. ⁴ Ps. 55:22; 62; 146; Jer. 17:5-8; Heb. 13:5-6.

Question 124 - What is the third petition?

Answer - Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. That is: Grant that we and all men may deny our own will, and without any murmuring obey Thy will, for it alone is good.¹ Grant also that everyone may carry out the duties of his office and calling² as willingly and faithfully as the angels in heaven.³

¹ Matt. 7:21; 16:24-26; Luke 22:42; Rom. 12:1-2; Tit. 2:11-12. ² 1 Cor. 7:17-24; Eph. 6:5-9. ³ Ps. 103:20-21.

On September 17 and 18 Mars Hill Church hosted the Resurgence Fall Conference title: Continuous Worship. In this, the fourth of four main sessions, listen as Pastor Tim Smith walks us through how it looks to live lives of worship that focus on Jesus and seek to redeem the culture around us.