Parkway Podcast

There are five qualifications of the forerunners of the early church as seen in Stephen (Acts 6:1-8): - Good Reputation: Character and Integrity - Full of the Holy Spirit: Fruit and Gifts - Full of the Word of God: Grounded in Him - Full of Faith: Action Flowing from Being - Full of Power: the Signs Followed His Belief

In Acts 6-8, Stephen talks about God of the Open Heaven. If we are going to see God rule and reign in our lives, we need to be willing to destroy patterns that are controlling us. Patterns are demonic strongholds in your life that God says you don't have to live with anymore. Why do we get stuck in our patterns? Because they are comfortable. Watch as Pastor Jay identifies patterns in our lives and...

Pastor Jay talks about declaring a season of Open Heaven to come. In Part 1, Pastor Jay lays a foundation for this series. In Acts 7:44-56, Stephen is telling the religious leaders of the day that they have known the God of the tent, they have seen the God of the house (that Solomon built), but he is declaring to them, that they are going to declare and know the God that is part of the Open Heaven...

Sometimes we share space with people, but we don't know them. God is calling us to be intentional with our relationships. A Father's Day Message with Men's Ministry Leader, Mark Swanburg

Knocked Down Not Out In Acts 14. Paul was stoned. But he didn't quit. He may have gotten knocked down, but he was not knocked out. Because what the enemy used as a setback, God is going to use as a comeback. Acts 14:19-20 Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead. But after the disciples had gathered...

From Tragedy to Triumph, Dave Roever's story had us laughing and crying this weekend. Hear his story. Hear his word for the church today. Psalm 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Disagreement creates the crossroads for unity or destruction. We speak often of unity, agreement, like mindedness, and togetherness. We rarely, if ever, spend any time speaking about the vehicle that creates the opportunity for unity. There is a power in disagreement, IF it leads to the TRUTH found in the Lord.

Pastor Jay sits with Rikki and Bear Perrin to discuss the recent series "The Pursuit of Substance, A Study on 1 Peter." This was the first series here at Parkway where Pastor Jay lead us verse by verse through a single book of the Bible. The heart of this series was an invitation to maturity, to the deep end of the things of God. Listen as they discuss ways to study the bible, the hangups of each,...

The heart of the Legacy Project is to RESTORE, REBUILD + REVIVE various areas and structures here at Parkway. Listen to this multigenerational conversation as we talk about the tension between honoring the past and forging into the future.

In all of our changing seasons, God doesn't change. Seasons of change can be hard, can be so new and different and unknown or even unplanned or unexpected, but in seasons of change, YOU CAN TRUST GOD’S GOODNESS FOR YOU, STILL. You can trust God in seasons of change, BECAUSE, He is good. And BECAUSE He IS good, he wasn't to use this season of change to grow you.

Everyone has been given a gift set and many have had years, decades to grow and develop that gift set, but have yet to boldly deploy their gift to be used to reach the world around you with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If we want to reach our world we will have to depend on the Boldness that only the Holy Spirit can give. Join Pastor Kylee as she speaks about the mission of the Fine Arts Youth Mini...

Attitude is often times the only difference between our success and failure. When God wants to educate someone, He does not send them to the school of blessings but to the school of sufferings. What is my attitude in the midst of suffering?

God will never ask you to give something up without giving you something that is greater to put in it's place. The quicker we can close the gap between the giving and replacing, the less time we spend with the enemy in our ear. But, how do we do that?

Are we a church of Christians that have been domesticated? Have we lost the art for doing what we were designed to do? There is a warrior in every single person.

When God gets in your boat, you will realize that His ways are higher than your ways. His thoughts are higher than your thoughts. When Pride gets in the way, it becomes the gateway to the Fateful Five. Fateful 5: Malice, Deceit, Hypocrisy, Envy, Slander Four Godly Pillars of a Society 1. Church Relationships and Christian Community operating without the Fateful 5. 2. Government Institutions who pu...

Jesus wasn't just "resting" on Saturday. He went down to death and hades, and he conquered the things that had yet to be conquered so that you an dI can have a victorious living life. He broke the cycles that people would live in. What happened on Saturday is we had to stop trying to hold onto God and now, we are in God's hand and he is now holding onto us.

You are a part of the Collective. If a Christian collective never understands who they are, they will never become what they were purposed to be. You are a race (shared beginning). You Belong. You are a priesthood. You have unique value and purpose. You are a Holy Nation. You are set apart as special. You are a King’s Possession. You are watched out for.

In 1 Peter:22-2:8, Peter talks about three important Kingdom precepts. 1. The Sure Foundation 2. Community Destroying Vices (The Fateful Five) 3. Living Stones Community destroying vices (The Fateful Five) are often tolerated by the church and left to steep between the members of the church and they are destroying communities because they have not been called out.

“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”  Eph 6:13 When you take a stand for something you will have people who agree and disagree. People who like you and people who hate you, but it is impossible to take a stand for something and please everyone. When Christ came into the worl...

The world will fan the flame of victimhood. The word of God will fan the flame of victory, through forgiveness, sanctification, and maturity. 1 Peter 1:2 states in comes through the sanctifying work of the Spirit. 1 Peter never talks about how to become a victim, but how to faithfully endure and flourish in all seasons. We have been given “a new birth into a living hope.” (1 Peter 1:3) A new persp...

Persecution & suffering are a part of the process, but God promises us a light in the tunnel, not just at the end of the tunnel. This is part 1 of the series on the Book of 1 Peter. Be introduced to Peter as a man that experienced and witnessed many things yet wrote nothing about his experiences, but on substance that we can apply to our lives today. How we can prepare for the suffering that produ...

Worry strangles us. Trust in the Lord strengthens us. The Truth about Trusting: 1. Be Confident in God's Care (Proverbs 3:5) 2. Be Committed to God's Purpose (Proverbs 3:6) 3. Be Controlled By God's Will (Proverbs 3:6) Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

Generation after generation stands in awe of our work; each one tells the stories of your mighty acts. - Psalm 145:4 (MSG) The Legacy Project is our commitment to innovation, to structures that lift rather than burden, and is not just for our community but for our world. Here from various ministry leaders as they walk through the Legacy Project and what it means here at Parkway. Access the brochur...

1 Chronicles 28:19: “All this,” David said, “I have in writing as a result of the Lord’s hand on me, and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan.” David's detailed plans on the temple were a direct result of God’s hand on his life. He wasn’t just a man after God’s own heart, he was a man after God’s own mind. He didn’t just have God’s heart, he had God’s strategy. David didn't just...

We often have a lot of grace for strangers, but little grace for those we know that have fallen. What does it look like to walk in restoration when it's messy? Join Pastor Jay, John Anderson, DJ Moore and Carissa as they sit down to talk about our latest series Stories of Our Savior. Together they talk about questions that have come up since then about God's Healing, Hope and practical steps of wa...