The Park Road Pres Podcast

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) And THEN what we can take away with us: 3 Truths about death to guide us through life.

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 Little King with Big Ideas
Big Ideas from the Little King

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 Memory2- An Emblem of Exile3- 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 TentAmos 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 qualities of vital spirituality,3 aspects of that inner work God brings about in people who actually know Him

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