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Mars Hill is devoted to focusing inward: building an engaged, passionate, spiritually healthy community of people here at Mars Hill. We're also devoted to focusing outward, believing that Jesus himself set an example of service and that we've been given the responsibility to follow it.

The Forgotten Ways: The Missional Musings of Alan Hirsch. Developing apostolic imagination and practice in Western contexts.

Rabbit Room: Interactive website of artists, musicians, and writers. Great way to connect with others who love to be creative, wrestle through the realities of life, and seek to glorify God through personal expression.

More websites:
http://www.myspace.com/fourfoldmusic

Podcasts:

Mars Hill podcast offers weekly teachings from Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. You can access it from Mars Hill's website (linked here) or through your iTunes store.

Mosaic Church in Los Angeles, CA offers weekly insightful, creative teaching from Erwin McManus.

Organizations:

Compassion International is one of the nation's largest Christian child sponsorship organizations, working with more than 65 denominations and thousands of indigenous church partners in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Since 1952, Compassion's revolutionary approach, through one-to-one Christian child sponsorship, has touched the lives of more than 1.6 million children.

Ambassadors for Life exists to help people in desperation by reaching within your circle of influence. Ambassadors have supplied food for the needy, water wells for the thirsty, homes for the homeless, and families for orphaned children.

Music:

Rich Mullins' A Liturgy, A Legacy and A Ragamuffin Band

Andrew Peterson's Behold the Lamb of God Album

Sarah Groves' Add to the Beauty Album

More music:
Everything Matters by Pierce Pettis
The Far Country by Andrew Peterson
Tell me What You Know by Sara Groves
Room to Breathe by Andy Gullahorn
The Ringing Bell by Derek Webb

Literature:

Ragamuffin Gospel

Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
Are you bedraggled, beat-up, burnt-out? Most of us believe in God’s grace—in theory. But somehow we can’t seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes on a score sheet. Yet God gives us His grace, willingly, no matter what we’ve done. We come to Him as ragamuffins—dirty, bedraggled, and beat-up. And when we sit at His feet, He smiles upon us, the chosen objects of His “furious love.” Brennan Manning’s now-classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it—simple honesty—has changed thousands of lives.

Sacred Romance

The Sacred Romance by John Eldredge
The God who saves is also a God who woos His own to a relationship primarily of the heart. As we draw closer to Him, we must choose to let go of other "less-wild lovers," such as perfectionistic driveness and self-indulgence. Eldredge and Curtis identify the lies offered by "false loves" and instruct us on the journey back to the Lover of our souls. In carefully crafted words and images, the authors entice the reader to his or her own journey of the heart, promising, "It is possible to recover the lost life of our heart and with it the intimacy, beauty, and adventure of life with God."

The Pursuit of God

The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer
This classic was written during a train trip from Chicago to McAllen, Texas, in the late 1940s. Tozer wrote all night, the words coming to him as fast as he could put them down about the human thirst for the Divine.

More books:
The Bible biblegateway.com
Adventures in Missing the Point and Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren
The Barbarian Way and Chasing Daylight by Erwin McManus
Community of the King by Howard Snyder
The Critical Journey by Janet Hagberg
Godrick by Frederick Buechner
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Journey of Desire by John Eldridge
Abba’s Child and Posers, Fakes and Wannabes by Bennan Manning
Rethinking the Wineskin by Frank Viola
Blue Like Jazz and Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller
What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
With an Everlasting Love by Kay Arthur

Art:

Portland Studios: incredible illustration and design work.

More art:
rabbitroom.com
eviecoates.blogspot.com