Comments on: Bearing Witness

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:53:05 +0000

Hi, I’m Sara. Writing from Sweden and i’m 16 years old. When I was young when my grandmother tried to get me to be a Christian, but in 2006 my brother died, which made me began to hate God just because he took my brother away from me. Actually, I’m from Hungary and I have lived there 12 years. But moving to Sweden for 4 years ago. You have no idea how hard it was to leave my country, my life .. family, friends. But it was my parents who wanted it so .. I had to start a whole new life here in Sweden. Got to see everything so differently, learn the language and get to find friends. I was very much on the internet then in 2011, when I met a guy named Benjamin, he is actually 19 years old and lives 3 hours away from me in Sweden. The first thing he asked when he met me if I was a Christian?! I was honest and told my life story to him before he could really understand how bad I was feeling. It was he who prayed for me all the time for me to go to God and to love him again from the heart .. and so it happened. I LOVE GOD NOW, HE IS A LOVE. And in time me and Benjamin we talked.. I realized that I can see my life with Benjamin, I love him REALLY and he feels the same for me. We’ve known each other for 2 years now, we love each other still. We have no relationship yet, but it’s just because he wants me to be real Christians. I need help with it.

By: Mars Hill

Mars Hill — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:49:50 +0000

You’ll Never Know if You Don’t Try We don’t always fill a need when we see one. We don’t always respond when challenged. But sometimes we do and sometimes it changes us. One Sunday last spring cards were placed on the gray chairs at Mars Hill. From stage, a voice asked for volunteers for the baby and kids ministries. A high school student, Zach Suttner, was there. He filled out a card and his journey started. On Zach’s first Sunday volunteering he was nervous. He wasn’t sure how the kids would respond to him or if they would like him. But it didn’t take long before both were comfortable with each other. Now, a year later, being with the kids is the highlight of his week. “I can’t wait to see my kindergarteners. Even if I go in with a headache, I always leave with it gone.” Zach realizes the irony of his statement and smiles, “That may seem backwards to some people, but it’s true.” Of course, allowing oneself to become more involved rarely leaves them unchanged. Before volunteering with kids at Mars Hill, Zach was considering going to school for instrumental performance. Zach plays the double bass. He loves the range and sound of the instrument. However, volunteering has helped him realize he’d love to find a way to combine music and the joy of teaching kids. He now hopes to study instrumental education for students K-5 at college next year. So what is it that makes Zach want to keep teaching kids? He loves how they get excited over the little things. “We tend to lose that when we get older,” He says. Zach also loves to help them understand the lesson for the week. Even when he is unable to attend the service in the Shed, mornings spent with his students still feels like church. When asked for advice to others who might want to volunteer, he put it simply, “Just try it. You’ll never know if you don’t try.” For Zach, volunteering with kids helped him find his place and future career. And it just started with him seeing a need, responding to a challenge and filling out a card. Want to learn how you can make a difference in the life of our kids? View all of our Kids Volunteer Opportunities now.

By: David

David — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:50:20 +0000

I have seen God in the preaching of Paul, amazing truth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYE5ChtaFfU

By: jones brazil

jones brazil — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:37:56 +0000

We must remember that the Bible is clear on homosexuality, condemning him in several passages as Leviticus 18:22 – “Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind: it is abomination ‘-, and Romans 1:26, 27 -’ At God up to dishonorable passions. For even their women exchanged their natural use for what is against nature. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was fitting for their error. ‘”
No one mocks God, Grace and mercy, the Lord loves. Jesus will soon turn.

By: jones brazil

jones brazil — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:37:00 +0000

No one mocks God, Grace and mercy, the Lord loves. Jesus will soon turn.

By: Jason Crummer

Jason Crummer — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:49:51 +0000

Maybe I’m the last of a different breed. Maybe I’m the one that wasn’t supposed to get married or have kids. There’s nothing wrong with me. I’m a Child of God. I’m what He wants me to be or maybe my best interpretation of His decision.

I’ve done, seen, sorrowed, met, tried to explain, explained, disappointed, been disappointed, cried, AND CRIED, experienced, loved, lost, rejoined, relived, relov…

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:27:43 +0000

This year, I started college. It was quite possibly one of the scariest things I’ve ever done, because, being the perfectionist that I am, I felt the need to constantly prove myself to everyone-to my parents, to my new friends, to my old friends… Trying to prove that I made the right choice.

Over the last year or so, my relationship with Christ has developed into one that is personal and that I consider my own. And within this relationship I have learned that I don’t have to prove myself to Christ, he has already come for me just as I am. I’ve always struggled with some frustrating level of dissatisfaction with myself- I always wish I were prettier, more fun to be around, less awkward, skinnier- but I’m slowly learning that my imperfect self is the one Christ came to save.

So I guess I’m grateful for this new understanding. And I’m so so grateful for the people in my life who also accept for me and I’m of course grateful to mars hill for always reaffirming that I don’t have to prove myself anymore because Christ had already chosen me. Love has already won.

By: David D.

David D. — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 23:25:01 +0000

I am most grateful for the dear friends I have made and kept over the years. At low points in my life, they have been there to show me that I am not alone in this world. And, when one of them needs help, it reminds me that I am not the most important person in the world and I go to their aid, no matter how inconvenient it may be at the time. But I think the most important aspect of having loving, life-long friends is that we can enjoy the good times together. We can give thanks in prayer together, and remind ourselves, through our discourses and reminiscences, that the blessings of this life are not to be squandered or taken for granted.

By: Caroline C

Caroline C — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:08:43 +0000

I am grateful for the everyday stuff – I have somewhere to live ; it’s small ,it’s rented – and it’s warm, clean, a clean neighborhood, a little garden, I can walk to the city center. I have food every day; good food, that I choose and cook; I have a car; I have clean cold water on tap; I have hot water on tap; I have flushing toilets and the city has a working sewage system (I have traveled in the 3rd world and I know what not having these things looks like)My husband is still well and his healthcare is free (if we lived in a country where this had to be paid for, he would be dead and I would be destitute). How grateful am I for these things? there aren’t words enough. How great is our God.

By: Drika

Drika — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:54:13 +0000

I am thankful for the difficulties God has permitted that I live through, whether consequences or not of my own sins, moments in which He reveals to me my follies and idols and provides the means to repent, grow and become each day more and more like my beloved Savior. I am thankful for forgiveness, I am thankful for mercy, for divine patience, for perfect unconditional saving love, and, most of all, I am thankful for my beloved, Christ Jesus.

And I am thankful that God places humble and wise men in our lives to preach the gospel and shepherd us.