Several months ago I was introduced to the sermons of Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. His sermons are available on iTunes and Mars Hill’s website and he has become one of my favorite preachers. He’s relevant and straight-forward, pulling no punches while still being Biblically focused - and he’s very humorous. He has some great sermons on spiritual gifts, singleness, dating, being a Biblical man, etc. I highly recommend him to everyone.

I pulled some “Driscoll-isms” from a Facebook group on him and posted them below.

“Ladies, if a guy isn’t willing to inconvenience himself to be with you, he won’t be willing to inconvenience himself to keep you.”

“Gentlemen, let me submit to you…that it is attractive, too. When a girl asks ‘So have you been up to?’ and you say ‘I got a job, a house and started a college fund in faith that God would send a godly woman for me to marry and have kids with’ it is better than saying ‘I’m a guild leader on World of Warcraft.’”

“God’s in it for two things: glory and punchlines.”

“Why are you dating her?” “She’s hot.” “So’s Hell!”

“Honestly, I am glad that more people don’t go to church in Seattle, because if they did, they would likely end up at churches led by pastors who are going to hell with their gay partners. Things are so bad that even two Baptist churches have gay pastors, and when the Baptists are gay, the city is officially lost.”

“There is nothing sexier than a woman who can parse a Greek verb.”

“Why is it that if I were God, I would be up on my throne in heaven with the scent of my wife cooking bacon all around me?”

I ordered one of his books this weekend, The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out without Selling Out, and I’m looking forward to getting into it.