You can now watch the video of John Piper's sermon from a recent Resurgence event at Mars Hill Church. The event was completely sold out at Mars Hill's Ballard campus and was viewed live by an audience of over 10,000 online. Because our video player is really poor compared to Mars Hill's we've decided to send you to that site.

Be sure to select HD and fullscreen if you've got the bandwidth for it.

We've also got the video from his Sunday sermon at Mars Hill on the same weekend. You can watch it below.

New Site

We are currently working on a new site that is roughly a billion times better than what we currently have. We are so happy that we're going to be able to serve missional leaders everywhere by improving our video and audio, making our old posts easier to find, and improving the overall design.

Thank you for supporting us. Please keep telling your friends about what we're doing so that we can multiply efforts.

For more info about Re:Train, go to retrain.org.
For more John Piper, go to desiringgod.org.

Click through to the Resurgence if you can't see the videos.

Exchange Conference

June 17-18, San Diego: A conference about identifying the Truth and the Lie of life. Learn more.

We're getting ready for one of the most unique and engaging conferences we've ever done. The Exchange conference will take place in San Diego June 17-18.

Speakers

Mark Driscoll
Peter Jones
Francis Chan
Kevin DeYoung
and more (full list here)

How you can help:

• Tell your friends in the area on Facebook or email
• Sign up to get postcards and flyers to hand out at a Southern California church
• Download this PowerPoint slide to help promote the event at your church

Exchange Conference

June 17-18, San Diego: A conference about identifying the Truth and the Lie of life. Learn more.

I'll be in Austin at the SXSW Interactive Festival this week to learn from some of the most talented web, design, and marketing folks on the planet.

I'll be with a few guys from Desiring God and the Gospel Coalition.

We are there to meet people, learn, and work together to help each others ministries. So please, if you're there and you see me come say 'hi'—I love to meet Resurgence folks whenever I can. (I'm the guy in the picture)

Please pray that God would use the wisdom, knowledge, and experience of these people so that the Resurgence will be able to train more missional leaders.

Remember—if you see me come say hi.

Mike's Social Networks:

• Facebook
• Twitter

Crossway is ordering t-shirts for everyone that pre-orders Doctrine through their site up tonight at 11:59pm—Wednesday, March 3rd. Plus when you order from Crossway you'll get a PDF version of the book immediately.

You can also get the book for less money at Amazon, but remember—no pdf or t-shirt.

Preorder now:
Crossway—Free t-shirt & pdf
Amazon

Matt Chandler was recently interviewed in a cover story by Towers, the news service of Southern Seminary. You can read the story here.

He also answered a couple questions in these video clips:

What is the mission of the church?

What advice do you have for a young church planter?

Click through to the Resurgence if you can't see the video.

Re:Sound

The musical arm of the Resurgence offers music that is theologically unified, stylistically diverse, and musically excellent. Find out more.

Crossway is ordering t-shirts for everyone that pre-orders Doctrine through their site up until 11:59pm this Wednesday, March 3rd. Plus when you order from Crossway you'll get a PDF version of the book immediately.

You can also get the book for less money at Amazon, but remember—no pdf or t-shirt.

Preorder now:
Crossway—Free t-shirt & pdf
Amazon

Click through to the Resurgence if you can’t see the video.

Cam Huxford from the Mars Hill Downtown Seattle campus created this beautiful video to tell of his idolotry. It's amazing to see how each of the Mars Hill campuses are growing in maturity, in skill, and in the gospel. I'm thankful to be a part of this movement.

How Jesus Made Disciples

Resurgence Director Mike Anderson shares reflections from the book of John on How Jesus Made Disciples.

It’s good to see that Publishers Weekly understands the goals behind Doctrine. You should take their advice in their recent review of the book and consider how Doctrine "could be used in universities, churches, or seminaries for systematic teaching of this particular strain of Christianity; it makes the most plainspoken and comprehensive case for the new Reformed Protestant Christianity today."

Here’s what Publishers Weekly says about the book:

Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears. Crossway, $22.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-4335-0625-3

From the authors of Vintage Jesus comes a tome elaborating the 13 teachings they say every Christian should believe. Driscoll, a controversial pastor for his often brash teaching, and Breshears, professor of theology at Western Seminary, combine for this book that describes the heart of Christian truth claims or doctrines. The pair attempt—and accomplish—vigorous interaction with biblical texts, systematic doctrine, culture, and flawed thinking; they directly address the reader, urging repentance and faith. Drawing on orthodox Reformed and Protestant theology, the book moves from God, stays on God, and ends with God. The book is organized around the actions of God: God is, speaks, makes, loves, judges, pursues, comes, dies, saves, sends, transforms, gives, reigns. The book could be used in universities, churches, or seminaries for systematic teaching of this particular strain of Christianity; it makes the most plainspoken and comprehensive case for the new Reformed Protestant Christianity today. (Mar. 31)

Preorder Doctrine now and get a free Resurgence t-shirt!

Resurgence Literature

We think that God uses good books to change lives. Re:Lit publishes a growing line of books to fuel the Resurgence. Find out more.

At the Resurgence we only publish books that we believe in. These three books will be coming out in the next two months, and each is worth taking a look at.

Leaders Who Last
Dave Kraft has almost 50 years in ministry experience, most of it training leaders. He has been Mark Driscoll's personal coach, and the insights that he has will help leaders at every level to finish well.
Pre-order on Amazon

Scandalous
Dr. Don Carson is certifiably brilliant. And in this book he uses his brilliance to bring us into the scandalous story of Christ on the cross.
Pre-order on Amazon

Doctrine
Mark Driscoll has called this the most important thing he's ever written. Next week we'll be telling you more and announcing a pre-ordering promotion that will make ordering Doctrine well worth it for most of you.
Hold off on pre-ordering until next week, it'll be worth it

In Matthew 28, Jesus told his disciples to make disciples of all nations, and his methods of teaching gave them incredibly powerful tools to execute the vision. This series of reflections based on the book of John shows that Jesus is the model for our own discipling and we should look to him, learn from him, and seek to be like him in our ministry.

Posts in this series:

1. Hospitality
2. Mission
3. Emotion
4. Monologue & Dialogue
5. Stupid Questions
6. The Heart
7. Testing
8. Object Lessons
9. Discomfort
10. Sending & Praying
11. Pointing to the Father
12. Pointing to the Spirit
13. Dying
14. Jesus Equips
15. Jesus’ Teaching Methods

Vintage Church

In this book, Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears discuss the essentials of what it means to be a biblical church. Find out more.