Mark Driscoll has received a lot of recent media attention due to the seemingly incongruous topics of sex and Jesus but here's a change of pace - an excellent interview done with Mark by Dr. David Nelson of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary on culture, church planting and pastoring....

It’s a rhetorical question at best, because the answer is absolutely, positively, “Yes.” Last October at my local association’s meeting there were exactly two people in the room under age 35. I was one. Another seminary student who is also a pastor, and preaching one of the t...

The Mark Driscoll national media tour continues - NYT Magazine, Nightline and now he's on CNN this weekend with comedian DL Hughley. What I liked about this exchange is that Mark was able to take a dude who's going to approach a topic like sex flippantly and get his respect and open the door to a co...

[Note: To read SEBTS's response to Baptist Press, go here.] Yesterday, Baptist Press came out with a hit piece on Mark Driscoll, preaching pastor of Mars Hills Church in Seattle, WA called “Driscoll’s Vulgarity Draws Media Attention.”  Within minutes after posting, the reaction fr...

Scott Thomas, Director of Acts 29, listed out seven things he would do differently if he was planting a church today. You can also approaches that list as foundations for missional, Reformed churches that plant churches. Expose the gospel to the fullest extend possible in every context, relationship...

Ed Marcelle, an A29 pastor in Troy, NY summarizes this article: Overall the article is positive an places Mark rightly in context- plain spoken to a near pugnacity in the past, Calvinistic in response to consumerism (highlighted by a good quote by Ed Stetzer), and reclaiming masculine Jesus.  ...

Who was I kidding? There’s no way I’m going to find the time to write a series of ‘top 8 for 2008′ posts between now and the end of the year so instead I’ll simply cram them all into one post. So here you have it, my top 8 for 2008 of everything! Top 8 things I did or e...

Hey y'all - greetings from Room 228 at the Red Roof Inn in The Hill neighborhood of St. Louis. I've been up here for the LEAD Conference hosted by Acts 29 and it's gonna take me awhile to grab hold of the words to describe how good it was for me. I came up here to encourage our A29 plant...

The issue of alcohol and the redefinition of conservatism has been a hot topic in the SBC for the past three years, but perhaps the consequences of such a controversy are not greater evidenced than in the Missouri Baptist Convention.  Under the direction of Roger Moran, fundamentalists have continu...

So I suppose its time for me to share a few reflections from my time in the USA. I thought I’d do it by looking at a few topics that came to the fore as I travelled through St Louis and Seattle. The first and most obvious thing that struck me, and was part of the reason I was over there, was t...