Latest Phoenixville Podcast Episodes
Regarding Scripture: How Do We Take the Bible Seriously in Our Postmodern World?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - June 22, 2022 13:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsListen in as Dave Hakes helps us discover some approaches to interpreting Scripture that help us arrive at God’s intended meaning for our lives today.
Regarding Scripture: Which Bible Translation Should I Read?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - June 08, 2022 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIf you've ever walked into a Christian bookstore with the goal of picking out a new Bible, maybe you have had the experience of being completely overwhelmed by the amount of translations available in English. Perhaps you even asked yourself (or a trusted friend), "Which one is best?" Or, "Which ...
Regarding Scripture: Which Bible Translation Should I Read?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - June 08, 2022 04:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIf you've ever walked into a Christian bookstore with the goal of picking out a new Bible, maybe you have had the experience of being completely overwhelmed by the amount of translations available in English. Perhaps you even asked yourself (or a trusted friend), "Which one is best?" Or, "Which ...
Regarding Scripture: How Do I study the Bible?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - June 01, 2022 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Bible can often seem overwhelming and difficult at times to determine its meaning. One practical approach to studying Scripture is a 3-part process of observation, interpretation, and application. In this teaching, we’ll briefly explain and unpack these 3 steps so that we can better understa...
Regarding Scripture: How Do I study the Bible?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - June 01, 2022 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Bible can often seem overwhelming and difficult at times to determine its meaning. One practical approach to studying Scripture is a 3-part process of observation, interpretation, and application. In this teaching, we’ll briefly explain and unpack these 3 steps so that we can better understa...
Regarding Scripture: Reading the Bible to form your Heart
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - May 25, 2022 04:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDo you sometimes struggle to stay focused when reading the Bible? Or do you ever feel like it doesn’t apply to your current circumstances or experience? Hebrews 4:12 tells us that the Word of God is living and active…which means it has the ability to make a tangible difference in our lives—but...
Regarding Scripture: Reading the Bible to form your Heart
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - May 25, 2022 04:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDo you sometimes struggle to stay focused when reading the Bible? Or do you ever feel like it doesn’t apply to your current circumstances or experience? Hebrews 4:12 tells us that the Word of God is living and active…which means it has the ability to make a tangible difference in our lives—but...
Regarding Scripture: The Gift of Curiosity
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - May 18, 2022 02:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRedemptive curiosity is a gift from the Lord. Curiosity fosters lifelong learning, keeps us appropriately humble, opens relational doors of intimacy with God, and teaches us how to walk as pilgrims through the journey of life. Join us for this week's teaching as we continue our midweek series on...
Regarding Scripture: The Gift of Curiosity
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - May 18, 2022 02:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsRedemptive curiosity is a gift from the Lord. Curiosity fosters lifelong learning, keeps us appropriately humble, opens relational doors of intimacy with God, and teaches us how to walk as pilgrims through the journey of life. Join us for this week's teaching as we continue our midweek series on...
Regarding Scripture: Read to Form Your Soul
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - May 04, 2022 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis past weekend I sat down with my three year old son and spent an hour playing Play Doh with him. It was all about horses! He pulled out a toy barn and we filled it with newly formed horses of every shape, color, and size. The Bible says that God is a master potter who forms us like clay. Eve...
Regarding Scripture: Read to Form Your Soul
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - May 04, 2022 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis past weekend I sat down with my three year old son and spent an hour playing Play Doh with him. It was all about horses! He pulled out a toy barn and we filled it with newly formed horses of every shape, color, and size. The Bible says that God is a master potter who forms us like clay. Eve...
Regarding Scripture: Illumination
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - April 27, 2022 20:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Holy Spirit illuminates the truth of God’s Word as we read, mediate, and study. However, we need to make sure we are coming in with the right posture so we can hear from God’s Spirit. The Bible is alive and God is speaking through it but are our eyes and ears open to receive it?
Regarding Scripture: Illumination
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - April 27, 2022 20:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Holy Spirit illuminates the truth of God’s Word as we read, mediate, and study. However, we need to make sure we are coming in with the right posture so we can hear from God’s Spirit. The Bible is alive and God is speaking through it but are our eyes and ears open to receive it?
Regarding Scripture: Biblical Genres
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - April 20, 2022 22:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Bible contains many different genres of writing including laws, prophecy, wisdom literature, history, biography, prayers, songs, poems, apocalyptic literature, personal letters, and more. As with different genres in modern literature, each style of writing requires a different, or nuanced, f...
Regarding Scripture: Where Did The New Testament Come From?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - April 13, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Bible did not, in fact, fall from the sky. The Bible was composed by many different human authors over the course of many different centuries. The process and canonization of the Christian writings following Jesus’ ministry (New Testament) took over 400 years and yet was completely guided by...
Regarding Scripture: Where Did The New Testament Come From?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - April 13, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Bible did not, in fact, fall from the sky. The Bible was composed by many different human authors over the course of many different centuries. The process and canonization of the Christian writings following Jesus’ ministry (New Testament) took over 400 years and yet was completely guided by...
Regarding Scripture: Where did the Old Testament come from?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - April 06, 2022 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Bible did not, in fact, fall from the sky. Nor was it delivered by an Amazon drone. The Bible was composed by many different human authors over the course of many different centuries. The process and development of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) is an amazing, surprising, and miraculo...
Regarding Scripture: Where did the Old Testament come from?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - April 06, 2022 04:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Bible did not, in fact, fall from the sky. Nor was it delivered by an Amazon drone. The Bible was composed by many different human authors over the course of many different centuries. The process and development of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) is an amazing, surprising, and miraculo...
Regarding Scripture: What is the Purpose of the Bible?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - March 30, 2022 04:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLast week we launched our new series on the Bible asking the question: Why should we read the Bible? This week we are following up with a similar, but vital question: What is the purpose of the Bible? If we want to utilize the Bible in the way God intended, then we need to understand what its in...
Regarding Scripture: What is the Purpose of the Bible?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - March 30, 2022 04:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsLast week we launched our new series on the Bible asking the question: Why should we read the Bible? This week we are following up with a similar, but vital question: What is the purpose of the Bible? If we want to utilize the Bible in the way God intended, then we need to understand what its in...
Regarding Scripture: Why Should We Read the Bible?
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - March 23, 2022 04:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Bible is the world's best selling book and arguably the most influential resource in human history. It is also very old, written from a different cultural perspective, composed in a different place in the world, and written in several foreign languages. Since the Bible is old, hard to unders...
Character of God: God Relates, He Rejoices
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - March 16, 2022 10:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Lord has always desired an interactive relationship with His creation. In Genesis 2 we read that the Lord walked in the cool of the Garden with Adam and Eve. This example was just a tiny foretaste of the level of connection and intimacy that God desires with humanity. The Incarnation is the ...
Character of God: God Relates, He Rejoices
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - March 16, 2022 10:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Lord has always desired an interactive relationship with His creation. In Genesis 2 we read that the Lord walked in the cool of the Garden with Adam and Eve. This example was just a tiny foretaste of the level of connection and intimacy that God desires with humanity. The Incarnation is the ...
Character of God: God Relates - He Weeps
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - March 09, 2022 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe Lord has always desired an interactive relationship with His creation. In Genesis 2 we read that the Lord walked in the cool of the Garden with Adam and Eve. This example was just a tiny foretaste of the level of connection and intimacy that God desires with humanity. The Incarnation is the ...
Character of God: God Renews
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - March 02, 2022 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNew Testament theologian N.T. Wright has often said that the resurrection of Jesus was God’s first act of new creation. We may not be able to fully see it (“now we see in part”), but God has already begun his grand plan of renewal. God’s recreating work began with the life, example, teaching, de...
Character of God: God Renews
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - March 02, 2022 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNew Testament theologian N.T. Wright has often said that the resurrection of Jesus was God’s first act of new creation. We may not be able to fully see it (“now we see in part”), but God has already begun his grand plan of renewal. God’s recreating work began with the life, example, teaching, de...
Character of God: God Forgives
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - February 09, 2022 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsToday we will be looking at the profound act of forgiveness. One of the central characteristics of God is to forgive. Therefore, we are all called to forgive.
Character of God: God Sacrifices
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - February 02, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe character of God is revealed through His self-sacrificial, covenantal love and mercy. And His justice and righteousness are satisfied and fulfilled through His self-sacrifice. A lamb was slain to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve following the Fall. That first sacrifice, and every animal s...
Character of God: God Sacrifices
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - February 02, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe character of God is revealed through His self-sacrificial, covenantal love and mercy. And His justice and righteousness are satisfied and fulfilled through His self-sacrifice. A lamb was slain to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve following the Fall. That first sacrifice, and every animal s...
Character of God: God Indwells
Parker Ford Church's Podcast - January 19, 2022 02:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis week’s mid-week teaching looks at God Indwells—What does it mean for a holy God to live within sinful man? We use Eph 1 to look at the purpose behind His indwelling nature and Romans 8 to explore what our response should be to his indwelling.
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