Movies are getting strange when a rat is doing the cooking and people are on the menu. Last month’s “Cinemagogue” at Mars Hill Lake City featured the family friendly Ratatouille, with film and expository exploration of the film’s narrative themes. Next month we delve darker into a musical about monsters and meat pies with Sweeney [...]

This weekend our congregation shifted to two morning services and an evening service, preparing for our new sermon series and fall push which invariably brings growth every year at every campus of Mars Hill Church. We entered the weekend with a Biblical Parenting Conference Friday and Saturday, then started the Peasant Princess series on Sunday… [...]

This Sunday flyers are being distributed at our Lake City services to raise awareness about Vision Nationals, my friend Arjuna’s incredible ministry having significant impact in India as well as Thailand and Nepal.
We’re also blessed to have a Vision Nationals worker, Lauren Hunter, as a member of our campus. She informed me of the recent [...]

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 [...]

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 Jason Haggard, MHC member
I am trembling in church as James the Pastor calls down from the pulpit about the collective volunteer effort during the Lake City Pioneer Days. He fervently speaks of the opportunity for all of us to show God’s love to our city and implores each of us to give of our [...]

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 [...]

Oscar Torres took two gasps of air, rocked to his knees, and with his last breath praised Jesus and went to sleep.  He was thirty-two and newly married when he died.
It is uncommon for a man to use his dying days to be a light to others, yet last Thanksgiving in the grip of terminal [...]