Friday Album Reviews: Muse | The Resistance
This week we are reviewing the new album from Muse.  I have enjoyed this band over the past few years for many different reasons.  1.  I love the voice of the Matthew Bellamy—I get all of the things I like about Thom York from the band Radiohead but without [...]

This past weekend I spent two days with 70 other students listening to Dr. Ed Stetzer teach on missional missiology. One of the exercises that we did was to give a definition of what the Gospel is.  Our smaller group of 12 men came up with this definition of the Gospel.  I thought I would [...]

I received a message today from one the members of Mars Hill Church Olympia, his name is Curt Belohlavek.  Since it is Veteran’s day I thought it appropriate to share how God has been at work through the Community Groups at Mars Hill Olympia.  Over the past few months community groups have been sending box’s [...]

The album up for review today is self-titled from the band XX.  They are a four-piece band from England who write and sing simplified indie-hip-hip-pop music.  Recently, they have garnered some high praise from music critics for their covers of well-known R&B and Hip-Hop artists.  Where those styles tend to be over produced and lavish, [...]

It’s been a few weeks since our last album review, I have been busy trying to enlist some new writers so that we can get more consistency in the blog posts.  Today’s post is from Dusty Little one of our Community Group Leaders at Mars Hill Olympia.  I am excited that he reviewed the Avett [...]

At Mars Hill Church we believe that God hears and answers prayer.  He always answers our prayers, there are three answers that are given: Yes, No, and Later.  On Sunday I met with our leadership team to talk about the campus and plan out the next month.  In the meeting we talked about our need [...]

During the minutes where I can’t seem to grasp what has happened or where to go from here, I am constantly hearing the phrases, “You are crushed, but not destroyed”….”You are NOT defeated”. It’s at these moments that I really think about living as if I’m defeated versus living as if I’m NOT defeated.
Andrew was such a [...]

Over the summer God did many amazing things in our community.  The following is a short story from Sean and Ashley Davis, Sean is a community group leader and Ashley is our children’s ministry director at the Olympia Campus.  Since writing out this story God has shown Himself even more gracious when a deployed soldier [...]

Last Monday Sept 14th we found out that Andrew McConnell was killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb.  It has been a difficult week for all of us at the Olympia Campus as he was a member of Mars Hill Church and attended our campus.  This past Sunday we spent about 15 minutes in the [...]

This weeks Album review is going to quite a change from the last one.  We are going from Alternative/folk/rock to Children’s/religious/rock.  The name of the album is “To be like Jesus” from Sovereign Grace Ministries.  Sovereign Grace is a group of reformed charismatic churches with plants all around the world, but primarily in the US.  [...]