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Episode 010: How do you access the access?
Prayer is one of the most common spiritual practices, yet many of us only know one way to do it: asking God for what we need.
In this first conversation of a five-part series on prayer, Eric Parks and Steve Carter explore a different starting point—adoration. Before requests, before confession, before thanksgiving, prayer begins by remembering who God is and allowing that reality to reshape our own.
Rather than seeing prayer as another religious task, Eric and Steve invite listeners to see it as the foundation of spiritual formation and a relationship that grows over time. Along the way, they unpack why adoration changes our perspective, what neuroscience suggests happens in our brains when we focus on God’s greatness, and how learning to “access the access” we’ve already been given can transform the way we pray.
Meet your hosts, Eric Parks and Steve Carter
Eric Parks
Eric is an Executive Pastor at Plum Creek Church in Castle Rock, Colorado, who cares deeply about helping people rehearse the way of Jesus in everyday life—and holds firm as a Denver Broncos fan, no matter how often Steve brings up the Bears.
Steve Carter
Steve is the Lead Pastor at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Illinois, offering a thoughtful and honest voice to the deeper work of formation and calling—and remains a devoted Chicago Bears fan, even with Eric representing Broncos country.
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We’re all following something—habits, expectations, ambition—but Jesus offers a different way. A way marked by love, presence, trust, and a life that actually leads somewhere good. Not perfectly, but increasingly, we begin to shape our lives around his.
We believe that if Jesus is right—about God, about life, about the soul—then is only makes sense to rearrange your life around what he says is true.
Follow isn’t a program to complete or a path to master, but a way of life centered on Jesus. A way of living that takes shape over time through a steady rearrangement of our lives—our priorities, our rhythms, and the things we trust most.
Links
Follow: https://www.followtheway.church/
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By Plum Creek ChurchEpisode 010: How do you access the access?
Prayer is one of the most common spiritual practices, yet many of us only know one way to do it: asking God for what we need.
In this first conversation of a five-part series on prayer, Eric Parks and Steve Carter explore a different starting point—adoration. Before requests, before confession, before thanksgiving, prayer begins by remembering who God is and allowing that reality to reshape our own.
Rather than seeing prayer as another religious task, Eric and Steve invite listeners to see it as the foundation of spiritual formation and a relationship that grows over time. Along the way, they unpack why adoration changes our perspective, what neuroscience suggests happens in our brains when we focus on God’s greatness, and how learning to “access the access” we’ve already been given can transform the way we pray.
Meet your hosts, Eric Parks and Steve Carter
Eric Parks
Eric is an Executive Pastor at Plum Creek Church in Castle Rock, Colorado, who cares deeply about helping people rehearse the way of Jesus in everyday life—and holds firm as a Denver Broncos fan, no matter how often Steve brings up the Bears.
Steve Carter
Steve is the Lead Pastor at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Illinois, offering a thoughtful and honest voice to the deeper work of formation and calling—and remains a devoted Chicago Bears fan, even with Eric representing Broncos country.
Explore all of FOLLOW
We’re all following something—habits, expectations, ambition—but Jesus offers a different way. A way marked by love, presence, trust, and a life that actually leads somewhere good. Not perfectly, but increasingly, we begin to shape our lives around his.
We believe that if Jesus is right—about God, about life, about the soul—then is only makes sense to rearrange your life around what he says is true.
Follow isn’t a program to complete or a path to master, but a way of life centered on Jesus. A way of living that takes shape over time through a steady rearrangement of our lives—our priorities, our rhythms, and the things we trust most.
Links
Follow: https://www.followtheway.church/
Plum...