The Park Road Pres Podcast

Q: What's the core content of Jesus Christ's teaching? A: The Kingdom of God and here He helps us see it. Let's look at: The Way of the Bent and Broken The Way of the Kingdom and The Way for US in the modern world.

Scripture: John 11 Sermon By: Lucas Tanner

THIS particular discussion of money and possessions was initiated by an interrupter. Jesus wasn't talking about it but this guy busts in AS IF to say, "Hey, thanks Rabbi, for talking about all this great spiritual stuff but I have a REAL-LIFE issue and when you hear it, I'm sure you'll see how urgent it is…and then we can get back to all your pretty spiritual stuff. THE ISSUE IS MONEY – tell my br...

This encounter introduces a way perception that surpasses religion or spirituality or rules of morality. It opens up an approach to life that's un-self-conscious, joyous and fearless. First, we'll see the Old Perception, Second, the New Perception and Third, How to Start and Stay Perceiving In the New Way.

Scripture: Luke 5:1-11 Preacher: TJ Campo

This moment in the hometown synagogue becomes an occasion for US to think about OUR ideas about a Savior. What DO we hope to be saved FROM? What DO we think is good and evil; "us and them"? What's wrong with the world that needs to be fixed? How DO we think a Savior would fix it? What DOES it mean to join Him AND are you sure that YOU have? Our kind of people, "Good Country People" (as Flannery O'...

This is the Season of Epiphany so let's have one! WHAT child IS this? WHY include this odd incident? HOW might it affect you? WHAT child?

Luke 1.1-4; Acts 1.1-3

How are relationships clarified by the Gospel? That's the focus of Peter's words in this compendium or summary of all OUR relationships… What does the Gospel say to exiled believers about our relating to God…to ourselves, to one another…and to the outside world? The UPWARD, the INWARD and the OUTWARD relationships.

Speaker: Dr. John Stevenson Scripture: Ezekiel 10:4; Ezekiel 10:18-19

This is a passage about leadership and the exercise of authority; it's about leading people and about our need to be directed and guided and how we can never really be free till we're lead and directed by a Shepherd. The points today are a little odd: 1) Many Shepherds 2) One Shepherd 3) Many Shepherds

Bible Text: Daniel 3:13-30 Sermon By TJ Campo

Rev, Brad Schmidt, Guest Preacher from CityChurch Ft. Lauderdale, continues our series: In Lonely Exile Here|Mourning & Thriving in Babylon

How can believers be grieved by and distinct from the injustice and selfishness in the world AND yet also be simultaneously beneficial and involved BOTH mourning AND thriving in Babylon. Today, we set the tone for living in this tension, this love/hate relationship. ONE text calls us to totally identify with Babylon and the OTHER is an expression of disgust and disdain for Babylon. So let 's look...

Last week the sermon was about death (the death of a king, Josiah) today the sermon is also about death – the death of a dream, of a nation, AND … IN this brutal and final death, a very vivid expression of Hope… havoc AND hope. Once again, the story in two parts #1 Havoc and #2 Hope and #3 Four truths about God from Kings and today's finale

The Bible thinks of death as the source of all fear and the final enemy (1Cor 15.26) facing humanity (Heb 2.15). We can't stop thinking about it and dreading it. Could this very ancient text have anything to say to a modern society that doesn't know how to think about death? … Let's see! Let's first look at a two-part-story (i.e. the tomb of the unknown prophet and the death of the well-known king...

A little boy… comes to the throne… only eight years old. His name is Josiah ("Supported by Yahweh"); he is the boy king of Judah… and the Reformer. He's all that Isaiah (57.15) said a king should be, "broken and contrite… lowly and humble" and yet energetic, effective and amazingly bold. I want to look at part of his life today and then take away what I think God wants us to learn from it… The Lit...

I want to consider this king and also look at a shocking surprise about the man (that we only discover in another part of the Bible) AND I want to see BOTH the tremendous potential for evil when humans misuse power AND see the more tremendous power and beauty of God's dark grace: 1- The Matter of Memory 2- An Emblem of Exile 3- The Lessons for Life

Today, I want to take lessons from the life of this good king. But I want to focus on a tragic flaw in Hezekiah and one that is a very common flaw in the spiritual life. Let's see what these final scenes tell us about: #1 - The Man and His Flaw #2 - When the Believer is Unbelieving #3 - Three Truths About God That Can Fix Us

2nd Kings 18.5, 19-25, 18.28, 33-36; 19.15-2 T.J. Campo    

Series: Hope in Disappointing Times | 2nd Kings Bible passage: Isaiah 57:12-21; Isaiah 66:1-4 Sermon By: Jorge Trujillo

The Fallen Tent Amos 5.8-27 ;  9.9-15 The two texts we chose from Amos are typical of the Hebrew prophets – picturesque appeals to the heart of a spiritually-minded people who'd stopped trusting God and had gotten lost. The first text is an "oracle of woe" and the second, a "promise of restoration". Let's look at 3 symptoms of Religion in Decay – synthetic, fruitless, false spirituality. AND 3 qua...

2nd Kings 14.8-14; 2nd Chronicles 26.16-21 by TJ Campo

Let's get some help here on the way spirituality really is. Three scenes and three big ideas from bottom to top: Covenant Resurrection Foolishness

The World is, in many ways, the same as it ever was and this Letter… basically IS Christianity… the Good News presented, explained, applied, defended, celebrated. AS it changed the Ancient World, it can change and IS changing the modern world. Let's look at: Life in a Hostile World and How the Big Themes of Christianity Speak