Platt Park Church Sermons & Messages

Sandy Laws shares about how Jesus' teaching about the Sabbath contradicted rabbinical teaching and introduced a new paradigm.

Stephen Milburn teaches us to rest on the Sabbath as if all your work were done.

Tim Grade teaches on Sabbath Resistance and how we can push back on the things that impede our sabbath rest and contentment.

Susie Grade teaches on what sabbath looks like in her life and some practical tools we can use to implement sabbath regularly.

Susie Grade opens our series on Sabbath by looking at God's introduction of the sabbath as a holy day of rest, and our bodies and souls' need for sabbath.

Tim Grade wraps up our series on being Apprenticed by Jesus.

Susie Grade teaches that when we are apprenticed by Jesus there is no place for hurry or fear in our lives.

Susie Grade teaches this morning from the book of Luke on the story of the prodigal son and how God uses this story to welcome us into apprenticeship.

Charlie Dodrill teaches on apprenticeship and how God uses prayer and apprenticeship as ways to spend time with us.

Susie Grade begins our new series by teaching how we can be apprenticed by Jesus.

He has risen! He has risen indeed! Susie Grade teaches about hope through the resurrection of Jesus.

Susie Grade teaches about the difference between hoping FOR something and hoping IN something.

Tim Grade continues our teaching on Holy Saturday by looking at the CVI (core values indicator)and the ways our individual core values affect the manner in which we each wait.

Tim Grade teaches about Holy Saturday and how the waiting of Holy Saturday can be understood through transition, tradition and transformation.

Stephen Milburn continues the Between Cross & Resurrection series by sharing about the apocalypse/liminal space/disorientation that accompanies major shifts in our lives and the waiting we all experience in those shifts.

Susie Grade continues our series "Between Cross & Resurrection" with looking at the 3-fold cycle of waiting and the difference between waiting well or poorly.

Susie Grade kicks off our newest series "Between the Cross and Resurrection: A Theology of Holy Saturday."

Charlie Dodrill closes out our series on overwhelming emotions by looking at the emotion of envy and how to combat envy with gratitude.

Susie Grade teaches this week on the overwhelming emotion of sadness and how we enter into deeper community when we share our sadness with each other.

Susie Grade teaches on the overwhelming emotion of fear/anxiety and looks at the ways we can accept our body's response without letting it control us.

Tim Grade continues our series on overwhelming emotions by looking at anger and how we can deal with our anger in a righteous way.

Susie Grade kicks off our series: "HELP! What do I do with my overwhelming emotions?" by looking at a 3-step process to handling emotions: 1) Befriend, 2) Invite, and 3) Unburden.

Susie Grade closes out our series on Joy by looking at joy as a result of resurrection. Joy is possible because of resurrection.

Stephen Milburn teaches on a practical guide to Joy -- that joy is possible because God is present.

Susie Grade teaches about Joy and how it can be present during some of the most difficult, sorrowful times in our lives.