The Park Road Pres Podcast

The All-Knowing, All-Present, All-Good God

The Vocation of Reception

Jehu, the "Messiah"

I want to look at this Jehu (he gets a lot of ink…two CHs)
Jehu is a "Mashiach" i.e. anointed, a messiah-figure.So, let's look at that:1 st - Jehu: a Different Kind of Messiah2 nd - We Need This Kind of Messiah (sort of!)3 rd - How the True Messiah Changes Judgment

The Weeping Prophet

Let's look at:
This Puzzling Episode – a weeping truth-teller who promotes lying and a loyal, trusted aide who betrays his king and usurps the throne!
This Puzzling Book – Evaluating Kings
The Puzzling Tie to Advent

Lepers Fat and Happy

The Bible demonstrates here, in a variety of ways, God's opinion and response to human weakness. And what eventually emerges fully (in the NT) is an understanding of weakness opposite and counter-intuitive to everything we're taught in society (in the secular world) AND even contrary to what we learn in spirituality, religion and morality as well.
Let's just look at the story and then look at what the Bible is teaching about weakness:
Retelling the story AND
What this odd story contributes to the Bible's unique understanding of weakness

The Invisible Army

We've been looking at the life of the Old Testament prophet, Elisha. And today we come to a story about… Perception. It's about how people see the world, how we interpret reality. It's a story about awakenings… about eye-openings …and seeing beyond the concrete and obvious.
Let's look at:
The decisive action or turning point in the story.
The key result of that decisive action
The FINAL outcome foreshadowing of the Ultimate outcome.

Power, Weakness, and Healing

Today's sermon-title says it all, three words, each one a point in the sermon:#1 Power#2 Weakness#3 Healing

Hospitality, Faith and a Culture of Life

I want to use three points to guide us through this story today- and see how we can be life-giving people:
The Open Door of Hospitality
The Commitment of Faith
The Guarantee of Life

The Widow, the Debt, and the Giver of Life

The Two Main Points I want to use as our guide today are simply this…I want us to see
A Culture of Death, and
The Giver of Life.

Session 6: Mission and Money

This Fall we are taking extra time to explore a theological theme together. The Fall Theological Focus will provide content for you to access whenever, and wherever you like during the week through video, podcast, and blog forms. For six weeks a video session will be released accompanied a few days later by a blog article on the same theme. So much of our time throughout the week is spent in traffic, or in a gym, or doing small tasks around the house. In these moments, we hope these new bits of theological content will be encouraging to you. This Fall’s Theological Focus is centered on Generosity and Stewardship. We hope you’ll join us for the journey!