What is My One Sentence Bible? 6-21-10: The Golden Rule isn’t just a nice slogan to live by, it’s biblical. Matthew 7:12 Anyone can walk down a path that has been walked down a million times before. Where are you walking? Matthew 7:13-14 The diversity or homogeneousness that you roll with tells more to the world than anything you could actually say. Matthew 7:15-20 Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org Read more
On the right sidebar on my blog you will notice a link that says: Follow Me. It’s for Twitter. Well, that link doesn’t work anymore because I just changed my twitter name from @LovesMeSomeYou to @Andrew_Marin. The link will be fixed next week. How did this change come about? For many weeks now some of my social media savvy friends have been telling me, that although @LovesMeSomeYou is cute and all, it’s not helping others to find me on Twitter or know/care about who @LovesMeSomeYou is because they have... Read more
Recently I had the opportunity to preach all four services at Parkcrest Church in Long Beach, CA. I spoke about Reversing Imputed Cultural Perceptions. You can listen to it here. What you need to do is: Click on the Show Details bar under the FAQ’s series sermon, and mine is the first one You can skip the intro and stuff if you like, and can fast forward to 7:37 when I start my sermon Many thanks to Mike Goldsworthy (who... Read more
In this video I interview Lindsey, your everyday, non-Christian, high school girl about her school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, Christianity and the relationship between the Christian kids and the LGBT kids in her high school. This is the perfect example of the type of youth that is pervasive in our culture today (or for you youth pastors – the type of youth we’re supposed to be reaching!). She has an interesting take on homosexuality and the Christian faith, and something tells me... Read more
I recently detailed how miserable my championship experience has been as a die-hard Chicago Cubs, Blackhawks and Bears fan has been. But whatever, because now I’ve not only watched a championship, but I’ve been there too! Enjoy these short videos. Oh, and in the first video I say “I’m here with a half a million of my closest friends….” That was how many people the city expected to show up. The official number who did show up was 2 MILLION... Read more
What is My One Sentence Bible? 6-16-10: Tony Campolo once said to me: “My whole life I stored up a big savings and 401(k) for retirement. Then the market crashed in 2009 and I lost half of everything I stored up. What a waste. I could have given that money away to help others instead of keeping it for myself to just lose.” Matthew 6:19-21 Each day has plenty of drama to last a thousand days. Let the Lord take... Read more
Recently I recorded an interview with Youth Hacks – a podcast dedicated to youth workers. You can listen to it here. Why I love this podcast in comparison to so many others I have done, is that one of the hosts, Joel Diaz, for the past year has actually been implementing everything he heard me say at a conference I was speaking at! His story of what has been accomplished between himself, a straight conservative youth pastor, and the PFLAG... Read more
Since Love is an Orientation started to get some notoriety I have been asked quite a few times to endorse people’s forthcoming books. I have learned that there are three main philosophies on giving endorsements, and I list them in descending order from most popular philosophy to least popular: 1. Endorse every book asked of you to get your name/book/website out there as broad as possible—hey, you can always find something nice to say about a book 2. Endorse books... Read more
What is My One Sentence Bible? 6-14-10: Don’t be impressed by people who do things and get noticed for it, because God isn’t. Matthew 6:1-8, 16-18 Stop trying to succeed and start establishing Kingdom. That way you can never fail at what God has asked of you. Matthew 6:9-13 Forgiving those who have wronged you is one of the main hinges that holds together being reconciled to God. Matthew 6:14-15 Much love. www.themarinfoundation.org Read more
The other day I posted some quotes from a talk my wife, Brenda, gave on Feminism, Femininity and Faith at a Christian woman’s conference. One of those quotes was: “There’s a vision for the future to combine femininity and traditional beliefs. Until we woman believe that it’s never going to happen.” Rachel, a lesbian Christian, then asked: “I’d really love to know what Brenda’s referring to by ‘traditional beliefs’.” Here is Brenda’s response: “When I say traditional beliefs I am validating the idea that if you... Read more
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