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A Greater Purpose

This book is about answering the big question.  It is not another book about self-actualization and maximizing your human potential.  There have been enough books written about ‘becoming all you can be’.  It is about discovering your greater purpose in life.  It is about finding meaning in a world that is often confusing and misleading.  It is about finding your place in God’s great big space. 
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Author Mark Hughes

Introduction to A Greater Purpose

IN THE 1970s, the trend among young people was to spend at least a few months travelling through Europe before resuming “normal” life in North America. There was a slew of books written on how to do Europe “on the cheap,” like Europe on $5 a Day. The quirkiest of all these how-to books was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Europe. For example, it emphatically stated that there was really only one essential must-have item, and that was a towel. If you had your own towel, you had it made.
   My older brother Brad was one of those young people who headed off to Europe to discover the world and grow his hair long. When he left, he was wearing his hair like Paul McCartney did in his early days, but when he returned, he looked more like Ozzy Osbourne.  . . .  


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I have come to the conclusion that we are all called to live for a purpose greater than ourselves.  It is impossible to find any trace of real fulfillment in life living for oneself.  – Mark Hughes


Blog Posts

The Demise of Democracy
August 2014
There are many Christian leaders today that would not see democracy as being important for the gospel. I mean after all, the world in which Christianity was born was anything but democratic. ...

God's Not Dead But the Cliche's Should be
May 2014
The latest Christian film to hit theaters has done so with a flourish of great success. God’s Not Dead sat in the top 5 for a month and grossed over $40 million before it almost literally ran out of steam and dropped off the flat edge of the earth. ...
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Speaking Itinerary

Friday, Nov. 13, 2015
Toronto, ON
Promise Keepers
Church on the Queensway 
(1536 The Queensway) 
Time: 7:00 PM

Nov. 21 - Dec 24
Winnipeg, MB
Church of the Rock

Friday February 5th 7:30 PM 
Pacific Academy - Chandos Pattison Auditorium
10238 168 St, Surrey, BC

Saturday February 6th 7:30 PM
West Ed. Christian Assembly
6315 - 199 Street NW
EDMONTON, Alberta
 
Sunday February 7th 10:15 AM
Church of the Rock Calgary
Cineplex Odeon Eau Clair Market
200 Barclay Parade SW, Calgary

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Bio

Mark Hughes is the founding pastor of Church of the Rock in Winnipeg, Canada.  He is best known for the humorous and engaging style in which he communicates life’s most challenging truths.  His television program, seen from coast to coast in Canada, continues to be one of the highest viewed faith based broadcasts since the 1990’s.  Mark is an Agriculture grad from the University of Manitoba and studied New Testament Greek at Providence Theological Seminary.  He and his wife Kathy are lifelong residents of Winnipeg and have three grown children.  
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