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I’ve been in a bit of a blokey mood lately. (even fixed our fence the other day) We’ve been doing valiant man – which is fairly cool, and I’ve been listening to MP3 sermons on maleness. GRUNT GRUNT Valiant man has you watching some DVDs by Allan Meyer of Careforce Church of Christ (which are OK) and then meeting in a small group of guys to talk about sex stuff. It’s been fairly interesting and had had a surprising level of honesty. Quite helpful for most I think.

The sermons I’ve been listening to have been very interesting! Mark Driscoll is the pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Seattle. I heard him with Chris Seay (?) in 1999 at the National youth Pastors Convention in San Diego on post-modernity, and he was fascinating then. His messages are very direct, no beating around the bushes, and rather long – often an hour or so! Overall I disagree with him on more issues that I would like to list, but he is fun to listen to

Most of the sermons are biblically focuses, but a mini-series during a year-long stint in proverbs focused on men and masculinity etc. Very cool. I think every bloke should have a listen – of course, compare to the Bible prayerfully rather than taking every word as gospel, but for me it was very challenging and inspiring stuff.

Here are some cool links:
http://www.marshillchurch.org/audio/10.21.01_11am_covenant_headship_driscoll.mp3

http://www.marshillchurch.org/audio/10.28.01_11am_masculinity_driscoll.mp3

http://www.marshillchurch.org/audio/11.04.01_11am_men_as_husbands_driscoll.mp3


http://www.marshillchurch.org/audio/11.11.01_11am_men_as_fathers_driscoll.mp3

Or to look up any sermon – go to http://www.marshillchurch.org/ , click on the link that says MP3/audio, then sermons and go exploring yourself. It will be fun!