An amazing miracle has happened as an entire NATION of people drops to its knees in unified repentance to the one true God. It’s every pastor’s BEST dream, but the prophet Jonah… sits. And whines. Seems a bit anti-climactic for the end of the book, like a overly-hip indie film. What we see is that [...]
by Pastor James Harleman
As our 4-week series on Jonah continues, a fish pukes… and the prophet rebukes. If a piece of walking, talking vomit stumbled into town and said you’ve only got forty days before God cuts you down, what would you do? Laugh? Get on your knees? I’d listen to the vomit if I [...]
by Pastor James Harleman
Our 4-week series on the biblical book of Jonah continues, examining the prophet’s response to God’s discipline. God doesn’t just give Jonah a bellyful, he turns him into one. Pastor James Harleman examines the contents of a fish’s stomach, as Jonah learns what happens when you give your Creator and Lord the [...]
preached by Pastor James Harleman
The prophet Elisha was dead, Amos wouldn’t be around for forty years, and since the reign of Solomon the nation had been split into the southern kingdom of Judah and the northern kingdom Israel. During that forty year window, the only recorded prophet who brought God’s word to the people was [...]
Are you loving like Jesus? Do you even know what love IS?
When you get to the 15th chapter in the book of John, Jesus has been enjoying the Last Supper with his Disciples, revealing that He is the way, the truth, and the life – the only path to reconciliation with God, our Creator. Soberly, [...]
How do YOU experience Jesus?
When you get to the 15th chapter in the book of John, Jesus has been enjoying the Last Supper with his Disciples, revealing that He is the way, the truth, and the life – the only path to reconciliation with God, our Creator. Soberly, Jesus has also predicted His imminent betrayal [...]
Preached by Pastor James Harleman on May 25, 2008
Ephesians 6:10-12 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the [...]
A Life Marked by Discipline
By Pastor James Harleman
Why do we need discipline when Bill and Ted, Wayne and Garth, Napoleon Dynamite all came out on top? I was raised to believe the goof-off makes good, gets the girl, and saves the world! I just have to be good at video games and I’ll be The [...]
By Pastor James Harleman
It was that perilous time between Christmas and New Years Eve… a time for returning presents, holiday parties, trying to get in all the last minute things you swore you’d get done in 2007, and then changing the date on most of them to 2008. Sunday the 30th I was slated to [...]
by Pastor James Harleman
Ever find that present or stocking stuffer after the holidays are over and the decorations have all come down? Maybe you shouldn’t have left it in the coat closet behind the umbrellas. Sometimes it’s awkward to give that person their belated gift… (particularly if it was their ONLY gift) but other times [...]
What does a rodent with aspirations of being a master chef have to do with the gospel? That is one of the ongoing challenges presented by Cinemagogue, a ministry of Pastor James Harleman and Mars Hill Church. Many times our entertainment and our faith never converge, when the truth is that our worldview is often [...]
“Today’s parents are frustrated and confused. Children don’t act like they should and parent’s don’t understand why. Many have concluded the job is impossible…You can raise children in godly ways at the beginning of the 21st century. You need not—indeed, you dare not—cave in, concluding that the task is impossible. Experience may tell you failure [...]
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