The Park Road Pres Podcast

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…

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:

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

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 Tent

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.

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:

The World is, in many ways, the same as it ever was and this Letter… basically IS Christianity… the Good News presented, explained, applied, defended, celebrated. AS it changed the Ancient World, it can change and IS changing the modern world.

Let's look at: