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Words to Start Your Week

Words to Start Your Week — Two of the greatest assets to have in life are patience and wisdom.

Resurrection Sunday

What a  great day it is in Chicago and around the world!  Today as we attend Park Community Church with lots of friends, we celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is not a day to celebrate Easter bunnies, nor Peeps, candy, hard-boiled Paas-dyed eggs,  not even Easter, but Resurrection Sunday.  [...]

What a Downer Week…..

Stock market ….DOWN Michigan throttled by Illinois  45-20 Cubs Lose in first round of playoffs White Sox Bounced from playoffs At least we got Jesus and the Promises of God below in our corner….. The Promises of God WHEN REFERENCE Seeking the best investment… Matthew 7 Starting a new job… Psalm 1; Proverbs 16; Philippians [...]

Worship Top 25

As we sit each week at Park, and have worship times with Joseph Tenney and his team, I began to wonder what are the main worship songs that are played? So I did some research on the CCLI site and thought I would list out the top 25 played worship songs in churches around the [...]

Idol: Shout to the Lord? Wow!

For the millions that watched this week, the American Idol Gives Back show ended surprisingly with the globally popular worship song “Shout to the Lord” by Darlene Zschech. I’m sure you’ve seen all the blog uproar over this issue. Evangelicals on a blog raised the roof with the producer’s decision to downplay its “Jesus” message [...]

Easter Creativity – God is at Work!

It’s now a week after Easter and I am checking out the blogs and news to see how God used people this Easter weekend and what drew people in to hear the Word of God on Easter. Wow! There is lots of creativity out there and that affirms that God is working His plan with [...]

It’s Good Friday, But Sunday’s Comin!

As we sit and reflect on this Good Friday, the story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion is one of betrayal, brutality, despair, and pain. Yet we know even before His death that redemption was promised to be coming soon. We know that the story does not end at the cross. We know what many did not [...]

Piper on the Prosperity Gospel

I am a big John Piper fan and saw this video on YouTube where he displays a whole lot of energy about the prosperity gospel and its export from the US. Whoa — go John go! (and everybody get out of his way!)

Tom Brady: The Search for Meaning

Tonight, more than 100 million people will watch the Super Bowl in the US, and most expect that the key player for the Patriots will be Tom Brady (a Michigan alum, I might add). Tom Brady, the 3-time Super Bowl champion quarterback of the New England Patriots was featured recently in a 60 Minutes interview [...]

Reminder Time: God’s Continuing Faithfulness

Wow! I am continually reminded that God has a plan for the redemption of Chicago and Park is going to be a part of that. As we have moved through this summer, there has been a lot of uncertainty about where we would have our offices come September and where we would hold our services. [...]

2060 – The End?

This week, a letter from Sir Isaac Newton has gone on show in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, where Newton uses the Bible’s Book of Daniel to calculate the date for the Apocalypse. He believed the Apocalypse would come in 2060 – exactly 1,260 years after the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire, according to the recently [...]

God Wins!

In our couples Bible study we are reading Revelation, and some times it is confusing, sometimes it doesn’t make sense, and sometimes it is a little scary! But Rick, one of the guys in the group, came across this devotion from Our Daily Bread. It reminds us of the ultimate truth — God Wins! With [...]

An Audience of One

As we continue our series at Park Community Church on Missional Living in the city, I was reminded in Jackson Crum’s message today that in everything I do and am, I only have an audience of one. Not to fear man, or others, I need to fear and worship the God of the Universe. We [...]

Resurrection Sunday: Not Much More We Can Add

All of Christianity hinges on the resurrection of Jesus on Resurrection Sunday. That the perfect God wanted to have a relationship with each and everyone of us but could not look upon anyone with sin. So what did God do? 1 Cor 5:21 tells us that “God made “him who had no sin” to be [...]

Old vs. New — Take a Look!

As we approach Easter tomorrow here in Chicago, it is worth taking a read of ISAIAH 53 in the Old Testament — This amazing passage from one of the Hebrew Prophets was written more than 700 years before the birth of Jesus, and contains writings that clearly identify and prophesy the coming life and mission [...]

The Bible’s First Management Consultant

As we continue to expand God’s work in the city of Chicago through Park Community Church, we know we must grow our leadership core. But what does the Bible say about the leadership development process? What are the key steps we must do as leaders to gain the critical mass of leaders we will need [...]

Joseph: The High Cost of Righteousness

From LeadershipJournal.net: As the film “The Nativity Story” (see the trailer) arrives this Friday to theaters to great fanfare, John Ortberg has a great article this week looking at Joseph, and the high cost of righteousness in Joseph’s life. Typically Joseph is a bit player in the Christmas story, and is relegated to a supporting [...]

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