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He sees something about Planet Earth that most people didn't see and most people TODAY don't see… that is the Kingdom of God. What he saw… if YOU see it… you'll begin using new metrics or criteria to evaluate the health of this planet and "all who dwell in it" ( Psa 24 ). WE tend to see economic indicators or GDP (productivity) or the amount of freedoms or health/disease stats as the key markers....

There would be a catharsis in the city - a cleansing. Cities aren't known to be clean and hygienic places BUT to become great, THIS city would have to be purified and would become a SOURCE of purity and beauty to others - let's look at HOW THIS CITY BECAME GREAT AND HOW ANYONE BECOMES GREAT: #1 - A City Graced by Grief #2 - A City With a Flowing Fountain #3 - A City Cleansed and Confident

There would be a catharsis in the city - a cleansing. Cities aren't known to be clean and hygienic places BUT to become great, THIS city would have to be purified and would become a SOURCE of purity and beauty to others - let's look at HOW THIS CITY BECAME GREAT AND HOW ANYONE BECOMES GREAT: #1 - A City Graced by Grief #2 - A City With a Flowing Fountain #3 - A City Cleansed and Confident

When the prophets came to a disappointed people... they didn't bring cheery songs without meaning nor was the message, "Oh, just lower your expectations and just deal with it - get realistic (i.e. cynical!)." NO! The prophets nourish the souls of this people with hope. Is it realistic? Yeah! It's truth! Is it optimistic? Yeah! Beyond their wildest dreams... Unassailable Hope. Let's look at: #1 – H...

This is APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE. Some people are inordinately drawn to it, and others are sort of afraid of it... We'll look at the FORM or GENRE at the end of the sermon but since it touches on some huge themes of the spiritual life and since we all have a spiritual life (even if you think you don't - you do!), let's look at THE MAIN IDEA of the passage, then a MAJOR IDENTIFICATION in it and final...

How do you keep the fire of the spiritual life burning?... And what happens if that fire dims, smolders, goes out...how do you deal with the disillusionments and inevitable disappointments that are always a part of the spiritual life? How do we sustain ZEAL when we're in the mundane rhythms that are, AGAIN, just a part of any normal relationship (even a relationship with God)? Five occasions for F...

Preacher: TJ Campo Scripture: Ezra 6:1-15

Scripture: Acts 11:19-30 Preacher: Reverend Nate Taylor

Guest preacher, Rev. Nate Taylor, presents today's sermon. Nate grew up at Park Road Church and has become a pastor, missionary, and church planter in Glasgow, Scotland (Crossbridge Church) partly through the influence of the church's youth pastor in those earlier days, Rev. Brad Hunter, who, himself, planted a church in Vienna, Austria (New City Wein). While Nate's back in the states on a brief f...

This writer was trying to strengthen these early Hebrew Christians. And his/her approach is really helpful as WE try to interpret the tough stuff of life and even find ourselves asking, "Why me?" So, let's get into this idea of interpreting pain in the Christian life: #1 – The Besetting Sin Facing All Believers #2 – How the Problem of Pain Aggravates This Sin #3–How Fixing Our Eyes Leads to Healin...

This chapter maybe,more than any other part of the written sermon called the Book of Hebrews; Ch. 11 is there to prove that the basis of OT spirituality or religion is God giving grace to undeserving people and people receiving that grace BY FAITH or TRUST. The writer demonstrates this by using like 15 specific examples (we've looked at all of them); he parades these towering figures, the B.C. her...

Let's see next what it is about these acts of faith that we are supposed to notice. In all three of the situations, it was an act of trusting submission or submissive trust, that seemed contrary to sensory evidence, and that was exercised in the context of despair. Let me unpack that: #1 – Submissive trust #2 – That seemed contrary to sensory evidence #3 – Exercised in the context of despair

Those who do actually believe will often see the beginnings of their faith, in childhood … Even before childhood, in the faith of their parents. Probably a lot of people here today would be able to say, "since I've come to believe, I've rediscovered my past, my parents, God working in my life before I had any consciousness of that work. And now with the eyes of faith, I see God at work in my past…...

Everyone has faith and everyone sees the world through belief in something. Faith in God's promises and His acts in history, THAT'S the faith BY WHICH the Patriarchs saw God and saw themselves and saw how to live and conduct themselves in an often-hostile world. Those are actually our three points: Faith is HOW to see/know God Faith is HOW to see/know OURSELVES Faith is HOW to see/know LIFE (it se...

If you're a Bible reader, what comes to mind when you think of Abraham? What are the big events in Abraham's life? He was called out of Ur and Babel in Mesopotamia. He received God's promise to be blessed and to BE a blessing to all nations. He received the promised son and heir and then… that big moment, the watershed, crisis-experience for Abraham – the sacrifice of Isaac. So, let's look at: #1...

Today, we meet the first woman on the list of people who lived, "by faith", that is Sarah. She's not the last woman on the list – more in verses 31 and 35. AND this first woman appears in tandem with her husband. What we really have here is an example of a couple believing together – marital faith/belief. So, let's follow our regular outline and ask, What IS the event used to illustrate faith from...

If you are not very familiar with the Bible and are hoping to get a basic grasp of it OR if you are inquiring about Christianity and are trying to learn how it all fits together into some sort of cohesive whole – THIS is a good day to be at Park Road. This passage is really, really important to the whole big picture. AND, in fact, if you DON'T get THIS part of the story, it's impossible to make se...

If you look carefully, you'll notice three FEATS Noah accomplished "by faith": Number ONE – he prepared an ark for the salvation of his family. Number TWO – by which he condemned the world. Number THREE – he became "an heir of the righteousness, which is according to faith".

Scripture: Hebrews 11:5-6 Speaker: T.J. Campo

Series: What It Means To Live By Faith Scripture: Genesis 4:1-10:4; Hebrews 11:4 Preacher: T.J. Campo

Now, as we come to THIS faith chapter, we find a very short introduction, a simple definition of faith. And THEN a series of examples; as if to say, "I can generally define faith, but I'll do much better to show it in the lives and experiences of all the characters of the Old Testament." And right off the bat, that tells us something but also excites us. God loves narrative. We seem to learn bette...

Real Christianity is inescapably communal. Togetherness in worship is an essential… it's an outgrowth of our basic ethic which is LOVE. Community, togetherness is nonnegotiable for orthodox, biblical, gospel-Christianity. The private, individualistic, DIY route isn't authentic Christian practice, isn't really beneficial. Radical togetherness in real Christian worship IS the New Testament norm. It...

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8 Speaker: Rev. Dr. Tim Sansbury  

In and around the story of Jesus Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, we meet all kinds of fears. People motivated, moved, twisted, manipulating by fears. FIRST, notice how pervasive and powerful fear is. SECOND, some tactics people use to deal with fears. THIRD, what the resurrection speaks to our fears.

This one short sentence captures, the whole peak experience perfectly. It puts the whole story of Jesus Christ right there. It's not like Caesar, "I came, I saw, I conquered" but "He approached the city, He saw, and He wept." Three Grammatical Points – The OBJECT The SUBJECT and The VERBS i.e., At whom/what is this aimed? Who is acting? What ARE the actions?