by Matt Grant
Water noodles, inflatable plastic limbo gear, bowls of Jell-O, pineapple colored sand…that’s right, you guessed it, Vacation Bible School. For some, VBS harkens memories of flannelgraph Bible stories in the dimly lit sanctuary of a 1970s era suburban church. The same rings nauseatingly true for me, so with Jesus’ direction, me and dozens [...]

By Pastor Steve Tompkins
What comes to mind for you when someone mentions the book of Jonah? My guess is that from the back of our minds some cartoonish kids-bible/Sunday school type of image of “Jonah and the Whale” comes floating to the surface. What also might come to mind is the memory of some professor [...]

By Justin Schaeffer
“…our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us froma ll lawlessness and to purify fo himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” - Titus 2: 13-14
This past Sunday Mars Hill Shoreline kicked off it’s annual Back to School [...]

by Pastor JD
Over the past few days the Mars Hill elders and their wives had our annual Elder’s Retreat. It was a little different than the previous one we attended. We brought in a speaker, Gary Thomas and his wife. He spoke to us about marriage, which was great. Just like our relationship with God, [...]

by Addie Gerlach
The beginning of this month was such a challenge in the parenting department. With the 4th of July holiday, the long weekend and trip to Oregon for our anniversary, I was completely thrown off from routine and so were the kids. Most of the challenging behavior came from Miss Older Sister, who was [...]

written by Marci Hadnot
I suffered much before I met Jesus. But I rarely resented it. That suffering was somehow good for my character was a philosophical conclusion with which I had come to terms long before I was saved. Although happiness had always been elusive, I was content with its pursuit…despite the [...]

by Pastor JD
Lately, I’ve heard many stories from men who have issues with their fathers. For me this is not something I can relate to. My dad is not a Christian, but for a dad that doesn’t know Jesus he knocked it out of the park. He did everything you could expect a secular dad [...]

by Melana Bontrager
Through a variety of circumstances, I have not been in an actual Mars Hill church service for quite a few months now. The details are not necessary, and it is a short-term phase: the end of which I can see on the horizon. Never the less, as Sunday has not held a “live” [...]

- by Reagan North
Earlier this week, I happened across Dr. John Piper’s latest sermon. Entitled “Let No One Despise You for Your Youth”, the sermon is a passionate call to pre-teens and teenagers to live now for the glory of Jesus and an entreaty to their parents and others in the church to give [...]

by Addie Gerlach
Titus 2:3-5 (ESV)
“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the [...]