Mountain Park Church

Genesis 9 contains one of the most puzzling and mysterious stories in the Bible—the “uncovering of Noah’s nakedness” by his son Ham and Noah’s curse of Ham’s son. What is happening in that story? How does it connect to Jesus and the Canaanite woman who comes to him begging for deliverance for her daughter? Are generational and bloodline curses real? What is the good news of Jesus about them?

What does the coming of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 have to do with Genesis 6:1-4 and Genesis 11 and the story of Babel. The Divine Council worldview of the Bible. To rightly understand Pentecost we need to understand Genesis 1-12, but to rightly understand Genesis 1-12 we need to understand the Divine Council Worldview that undergirds all of Scripture.

We gathered a panel of women to discuss what is like learning to follow Jesus as women and moms who have experienced the loss of children, the complexities of adoption, blended families and single parenting after being widowed.

How do you view the world around you? How do you imagine the spiritual realm and natural realm? How do they interact? What about you, how do you imagine yourself within that? The scriptures describe our world as one that is locked in a territorial spiritual war with spiritual beings that have been given power and jurisdiction over people groups and land. The good news is that in the New Testament,...

The Holy Spirit is not only interested in facilitating spiritual intimacy with the Father, He is interested in revealing and empowering us for our God-given purpose. The Holy Spirit is interested in filling and empowering our unique gifting, calling, passions and skill sets so that we can be people who bring the Kingdom of God into our work, business, activities and whole life. He’s interested in...

Ever since God walked in the garden with Adam and Eve he has been looking to be near to us again in intimacy. Just like Adam and Eve, because of our brokenness and sin we are tempted to live in hiding and in shame, but when Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to not only be with us, but to live in us, He made the greatest move toward us of all time. We don’t need to hide anymore.

What do we do when we have a dream or vision for our life that seems to be going horribly wrong? How do we navigate the difference between our plans in our way and God’s plan, God’s way? The story of Joseph can give us a helpful framework for how to recognize God’s plan and submit ourselves to God’s way to work out that plan.

Have you ever wondered what happened when Jesus died? Where did he go? What did he experience? A key to understanding this might be in Jesus’ words to Mary “Don’t hang on to me, I haven’t ascended yet to my Father and your Father.” In his gospel, John draws on the rich symbolism of Genesis often, and in the story of the betrayal, death and resurrection of Jesus John uses beautiful connections to t...

Good Friday 2026

The triumphal entry is one of the most widely known stories in scripture, but have you ever wondered why the crowd who is cheering and singing while Jesus rides in on a donkey are yelling “crucify him” a few days later? What if there is more going on in this story? Maybe, what it looks like for God to go to battle to free his people doesn’t look the way they think it should. To understand Palm Sun...

How do you see the world? What does evil look like to you? What does evil sound like to you? Sometimes our imagination of what was happening in the Garden in Genesis 3 will shape how we see the world and what evil looks and sounds like to us. But who, or what, was the serpent in Genesis 3? Is there more going on in this story than we’ve considered before?

Genesis 2 describes a garden in Eden that Ezekiel 28 describes as the “garden of God” on “God’s mountain”. If the Garden is meant to be thought of as a sacred space (temple) for God’s presence on the earth, what does it mean for him to place Adam & Eve in that temple? How does the picture of Adam and Eve in garden inform our identity as a Royal Priesthood described in the New Testament?

We are unpacking one of the most well known passages of scripture. You’ve probably read or heard this story a thousand times, but our question today is first, not what does this mean to us today—but rather, what did this mean to the ancient men and women who first heard this from Moses? What would have been clear to them? What would these words and descriptions of the account of God creating woman...

What was the purpose of Eden in the Genesis narrative? What would the context of the first audience of ancient Israelites have thought about when Moses began to tell them about Eden? Eden wasn’t just a nice garden where Adam was supposed to learn how to farm. Eden was a garden temple on a Mountain. It was the place where the unseen realm and the seen realm overlapped. It was the place where humani...

Jesus is our model for life. He is our model for living in the overlap between heaven and earth.

In the opening chapters of Genesis we see a beautiful world coming into being, made by God. The creation account of Genesis is the story of God bringing order to the “formless and void” chaos waters of the earth. God begins to separate spaces and then he fills those spaces with good and beautiful things, with abundance. Once those spaces are filled on the seventh day God “rests”. But what does tha...

When we read the scriptures we need to do our best to read from the perspective of the original audience it was written to, an ancient near eastern people who thought in different ways than we do as modern westerners. The writers of scriptures use different mechanisms to tell the story: problems, patterns and pointers. In this episode we are going to examine a pattern that emerges in the first thr...

The Scriptures, what we now call The Bible, are a collection of 66 different books written across 1500 years in three main literary genres: narrative, poetry, discourse. The scriptures aren’t meant to be shackles that imprison you, they are meant to be a doorway into another world. One page 1 we are introduced to God, the creator; but what is this God like? Is he like the capricious and volatile g...

The scriptures are not just a story about ancient people from a different time and place. The scriptures are a cosmic story that describe God, the unseen spiritual realm that he created, the rebellion of the “sons of god” in the heavenly realm and how that rebellion spilled over into humanity and the world that God created.