The Park Road Pres Podcast

Who are you? What makes you, you? Today, identity is a do-it-yourself project: ours is a day of identity angst. This class will survey the biblical theme of being known by God as His children, a truth that meets our deepest and lifelong need for recognition, and the key for both cheering comfort and moral direction.

"What's more important: to do the right thing with a bad attitude or not to do the right thing but with a good attitude?" (Uninvolved but sweet or engaged but with a sour attitude?) Which one would you prefer in a friend…in yourself?

Who are you? What makes you, you? Today, identity is a do-it-yourself project: ours is a day of identity angst. This class will survey the biblical theme of being known by God as His children, a truth that meets our deepest and lifelong need for recognition, and the key for both cheering comfort and moral direction.

Who are you? What makes you, you? Today, identity is a do-it-yourself project: ours is a day of identity angst. This class will survey the biblical theme of being known by God as His children, a truth that meets our deepest and lifelong need for recognition, and the key for both cheering comfort and moral direction. By Dr. Phil Letizia

Not only is Philemon a firsthand look at personal communications and letter-writing from the First Century … BUT ALSO, Philemon provides a look at slavery in the ancient world AND, practically speaking, it’s a book about relationships and how the Gospel (the core message of Christianity) changes how we relate…There are implications in this letter for parenting, for friendship, dealings with neighbors co-workers, roommates, etc.

How do you view your own death? Is it something that scares you? Does it make you angry or confused? Or perhaps, like many of us here, you’ve gone a whole week, month, or year without considering the reality that this life is not forever. Wherever you are on that spectrum, it’s worth acknowledging that today it’s challenging to face this subject. As Christians, we must realize that a lack of reflection on our earthly death is robbing us of the hope andcomfort of our promised eternal life in Christ. Using Paul’s words to the Corinthians, I want us to see one truth: And that’s because God is who He says He is, in Christ, you’re going to outlive death and that changes everything.

Children have so much to teach us as adults…. why? Well, they're usually more sensitive to the things of God than we are as adults… Their attitudes of trust are and simplicity are so easy to see… They don't parade around their own achievements… They live in constant dependence… Trust. Simplicity. Humility.

Matthew 12:36-37 and Matthew 15:17-20 

In the view of the Bible, listening is more than important. The very creed of the Jewish Church is called "The Listen" (The Shema: "Listen, O Israel, the LORD is One" Dt 6.4) Christianity is actually VERY focused on this activity of listening well. AND those who believe the central message of Christianity (the gospel), they see the significance of listening and eventually they become skilled listeners.

Today, we consider that the spiritually/emotionally mature person makes Jesus Christ the model for loving well. The truth and reality that God came down; He incarnated into our humanity, entered our place, and identified (became like) us in every way except sin – that becomes the pattern for love to which the spiritually/emotionally healthy person aspires.