Mars Hill Church has announced that Saddleback Church's Rick Warren—yes, the same bigoted, homophobic Rick Warren who spoke at President Obama's first inauguration—"has graciously offered to preach the final sermon for us. Each of our churches will be showing a special message from Pastor Rick, based on John 12:24." The King James edition of John 12:24 reads, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." (That's some deep stuff, Pastor Rick! I have another Bible verse about seeds that kinda contradicts that one, though.) Warren will be delivering his sermon this Sunday. I suppose it's fitting a church that began, thrived, and ended as a cult of personality is being closed out by another evangelical personality, rather than, say, one of the non-celebrity people who gave their lives and their money to the church over the years. Mars Hill is dying as it lived—promoting a jackass who puts himself before godliness.

In other Mars Hill aftermath news, Warren Throckmorton reports that Mark Driscoll just launched a new website. Markdriscoll.org's landing page is a picture of Driscoll kissing his wife, because he's a godly man who loves kissing his godly property woman. The bio page begins, "Pastor Mark Driscoll is a Jesus-following, mission-leading, church-serving, people-loving, Bible-preaching pastor. In 2010, Preaching magazine named him one of the 25 most influential pastors of the past 25 years." Funny how he doesn't mention resigning in disgrace from the doomed church that he founded in the first two sentences, isn't it? You'd think that would be relevant.

The bio continues with a brag about how Driscoll is "the author of many books." Again, the bio is leaving out the charges of plagiarism that hounded Driscoll for the last two years. But at least it doesn't mention that his book was a New York Times bestseller, because that whole thing turned out to be a really bad scene.

So okay. Who doesn't brag a little bit on their website? At least it's not like Driscoll is asking for money or anything, right? He wouldn't be that much of an asshole, would he?

Oh, yeah. He's an unbelievable asshole: "Your tax-deductible gift helps us host and distribute Pastor Mark Driscoll’s past and future Bible teaching and resources," the site says. It helpfully explains that Driscoll is in the process of starting a new nonprofit organization: "Learning for Living is an application-pending registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. All donations are tax deductible in full or in part."

That fucking guy. He's like a cockroach, that fucking guy.