It's our first week of "no gatherings" as a church family due to government COVID-19 restrictions. On this fine Thursday afternoon, some of Park Hill Church's leadership wanted to pray, encourage, and keep you in the loop on what God is up to in our time and place. So we hopped on Zoom and hit record!

God is building his church in this moment. We are people of his presence! Through uncertainty, we know God is faithful.

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We plan to release more Zoom conversation videos like this in the coming days. Stay tuned!

Here's the amazing Joseph Prince talk Evan mentioned in the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DAoy68_LEc

God is allowing the world to be disrupted. It is unprecedented. And it presents an unprecedented opportunity for the people of God. In the wake of coronavirus, the world will be searching for the bread of life. We are Jesus' community of hope. Our storehouses are full.

One of the key tasks in our apprenticeship to Jesus is learning to live in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Through trusting Jesus, we are able to be in right relationship with God, others, ourselves and the rest of creation. Our daily invitation is to live in a posture that is oriented to the things of the Spirit. This is how we step into spiritual maturity, what Jesus calls, “Life to the fullest,” regardless of our circumstances. As followers of Jesus, our spiritual maturity takes place over the course of our whole life.

In 1 Cor 2, Paul makes an earth-shaking argument: (A) Only God’s Spirit has access to God’s mind. (B) As followers of Jesus, we have God’s Spirit. Because both (A) and (B) are true, we have access to God’s mind (at least in part)! So live like it! May we ground our lives in how God thinks instead of how secular culture thinks.

Tinika Wyatt unpacks 1 Cor 2:1–5, where Paul gets real about his preaching. Why was his preaching so effective everywhere he went? The power of Paul's preaching wasn't in his eloquence, intellect, or persuasive speech. It was in the content of the message itself. This message is about a God who came to humanity as single cell in Mary's womb. The Word of God became infant flesh, lived among us, died at our hands, and defeated our death to bring us into God's family. The simplicity of this message (gospel) is the power of God to save.