The Park Road Pres Podcast

And now we meet a character, also included in Matthew's and Luke's accounts, a very interesting and also rather tragic figure. By harmonizing Matthew, Mark and Luke, we know him to be The Rich Young Ruler. He occasions this amazingly vivid contrast, a study on how the kingdom of God and the gospel, the basic message of Christianity, how the gospel provides a unique alternative to one of humanity's...

YOU may wish YOU had faith… you may think that your educated, scientific mind is getting in the way of faith. OR you may think that IF you had proof THEN you could believe (and have faith) … So what IS faith and how does it come about…how do we get it/grow it? Let's see what Jesus Christ does: Faith Planted Faith Cultivated and Faith FRUITFUL

The passage presents a side of Jesus Christ we try to ignore because it doesn't always fit our categories. And yet to face this part of the portrait is both painful and liberating. So, let's look at The PORTRAIT of Jesus The METHOD of Jesus

Today, we meet a group of friends who won't take "no" for an answer. They have a need; they see Jesus Christ as the answer to their need and they must get TO Him …and WILL get to Him at any cost. And Jesus Christ not only honors their persistence (really more like desperation!) but He also uses the whole crisis moment to reveal something about Himself that leaves the whole crowd looking to God in...

This morning I'd like to look at this "prologue" of Mark. …from this concise introduction, FOUR FACTS or four spiritual truths that have to be known mentally AND ALSO believed, trusted, felt, experienced. And without these realities in place, the spiritual life gets sidetracked and grinds to a halt. Here they are: 1.We Are Driven Out 2. The Heavens Are Rent 3. The New Adam Is Driven Out 4. The Goo...

I want to look at this Jehu (he gets a lot of ink…two CHs) Jehu is a "Mashiach" i.e. anointed, a messiah-figure. So, let's look at that: 1 st - Jehu: a Different Kind of Messiah 2 nd - We Need This Kind of Messiah (sort of!) 3 rd - How the True Messiah Changes Judgment

Let's look at: This Puzzling Episode – a weeping truth-teller who promotes lying and a loyal, trusted aide who betrays his king and usurps the throne! This Puzzling Book – Evaluating Kings The Puzzling Tie to Advent

The Bible demonstrates here, in a variety of ways, God's opinion and response to human weakness. And what eventually emerges fully (in the NT) is an understanding of weakness opposite and counter-intuitive to everything we're taught in society (in the secular world) AND even contrary to what we learn in spirituality, religion and morality as well. Let's just look at the story and then look at what...

We've been looking at the life of the Old Testament prophet, Elisha. And today we come to a story about… Perception. It's about how people see the world, how we interpret reality. It's a story about awakenings… about eye-openings …and seeing beyond the concrete and obvious. Let's look at: The decisive action or turning point in the story. The key result of that decisive action The FINAL outcome fo...

Today's sermon-title says it all, three words, each one a point in the sermon: #1 Power #2 Weakness #3 Healing

I want to use three points to guide us through this story today- and see how we can be life-giving people: The Open Door of Hospitality The Commitment of Faith The Guarantee of Life

The Two Main Points I want to use as our guide today are simply this… I want us to see A Culture of Death, and The Giver of Life.

This Fall we are taking extra time to explore a theological theme together. The Fall Theological Focus will provide content for you to access whenever, and wherever you like during the week through video, podcast, and blog forms. For six weeks a video session will be released accompanied a few days later by a blog article on the same theme. So much of our time throughout the week is spent in traff...

The Hebrew Church is calling for nonsense and they are finding that it comes. Things are murky and foggy and odd and wicked. God is exceedingly patient with His beloved bride, but nonsense is afoot. Don't fool around with holy things – take God's patience to heart: repent and believe. Two points – The Story's Explained The Explanation Applied

This Fall’s Theological Focus is centered on Generosity and Stewardship and will provide content for you to access whenever, and wherever you like during the week through video, podcast, and blog forms. For six weeks a video session will be released accompanied a few days later by a blog article on the same theme. So much of our time throughout the week is spent in traffic, or in a gym, or doing s...

ast week we saw the transfer from one prophet to the next. EliJah becomes a kind of father to his protégé, EliSHa, and gives Him the mantle of authority. The follower becomes the leader (a pattern often repeated in Scripture.) This is about 850 BC and immediately following the transfer of office and authority is a kind of challenge to the new prophet. The chorus of prophets and the people and even...

This Fall we are taking extra time to explore a theological theme together. The Fall Theological Focus will provide content for you to access whenever, and wherever you like during the week through video, podcast, and blog forms. For six weeks a video session will be released accompanied a few days later by a blog article on the same theme. So much of our time throughout the week is spent in traff...

Today, we learn a huge lesson from The Follower, a key, maybe THĒ key to the spiritual life i.e. the reality of what someone has called The Magnificent Obsession, that the believer is fixated, in what may appear to some as an unhealthy preoccupation, he or she is obsessed with God's word of grace and truth. Let's look, then, at this passage for: Patterns Paradox Power

This Fall’s Theological Focus is centered on Generosity and Stewardship and will provide content for you to access whenever, and wherever you like during the week through video, podcast, and blog forms. For six weeks a video session will be released accompanied a few days later by a blog article on the same theme. So much of our time throughout the week is spent in traffic, or in a gym, or doing s...

The two themes that loom large here are fate and truth/deception and these will serve as our two points. Two big issues: Fate Truth/Deception. (Boring points but a very exciting story – let's jump in.)

This Fall we are taking extra time to explore a theological theme together. The Fall Theological Focus will provide content for you to access whenever, and wherever you like during the week through video, podcast, and blog forms. For six weeks a video session will be released accompanied a few days later by a blog article on the same theme. So much of our time throughout the week is spent in traff...

This Fall we are taking extra time to explore a theological theme together. The Fall Theological Focus will provide content for you to access whenever, and wherever you like during the week through video, podcast, and blog forms. For six weeks a video session will be released accompanied a few days later by a blog article on the same theme. So much of our time throughout the week is spent in traff...