Messages From Platt Park Church

Charlie Dodrill teaches on the neurobiology of relational circuits and how gratitude can help heal our inability to engage in relationships.

Tim Grade continues our series on Being Thankful and looking at the difference between seeing our lives through the lens of entitlement versus gift. Entitlement leading to resentment; gift leading to gratitude.

Tim Grade begins our series on Being Thankful by looking at gratitude and gifts. When we recognize everything as a gift we begin to foster gratitude.

Gary Aronhalt wraps up our series on Monday Morning Faith. He teaches that work is hard but that it is still good and that we were designed to do work.

Susie Grade teaches on our "Work as Witness" in the third week of our Monday Morning Faith series. She explains various misconceptions about what it means to be a witness at work and ultimately suggests that the way we work, love, and live is truly the way we witness to others.

Susie Grade continues our series Monday Morning Faith looking at what it means to be called to work. "We are not called first to special work but to God." - Os Guinness

Tim Grade begins our series on Monday Morning Faith with the idea that God created us to work. When we use our imaginations to engage the idea that any work we do is for the Lord, we are able to serve wherever we are.

Susie and Tim Grade co-teach the final word of our 5-week series on "5 Words to Change Your Life." They look at the word "Sorry", how it is misused, not used, and how to truly make amends for wrongs.

Susie Grade teaches the importance of sharing our need with God and leads us through writing our own prayer of lament.

Susie Grade teaches on the word "THANKS" and how an attitude of thankfulness can change lives. Gratitude in good and bad circumstances has the opportunity to bring us closer to God.

Susie Grade teaches the second in our 5-week series on the 5 words to change your life. This week focuses on "WOW" -- the awe and surrender that comes from slowing down and allowing ourselves to experience God's Wow moments.

Tim Grade starts our new series, "5 Words to Change Your Life", by speaking on how the word, "YES", can positively impact our decision making and include more of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Susie Grade closes out our series on Waging Peace with the encouragement to think of one area where we ought to be waging peace -- in our personal lives, our community, or internationally -- and to pray about beginning that process.

Tim Grade teaches the next two steps in the path of peace, as explained in the book "Mending the Divide" -- Contend and Restore.

Susie Grade continues our series on Waging Peace by looking at the first two aspects of being an everyday peacemaker: See and Immerse.

Susie Grade introduces the series "Waging Peace." Based on the book Mending the Divides, we are looking at God's desire for Shalom and wholeness for all of creation and our call to be a part of that restoration.

Susie Grade closes out our study of Proverbs by looking at the different ways we can read Proverbs 31: prescriptive, descriptive, or as a call to yearn for God's wisdom and Presence.

Susie Grade continues the study of Proverbs with teaching about discernment and living in the tension of making hard decisions.

Gary Aronhalt illustrates and teaches about the filter we need to use and understand when reading the book of Proverbs.

Susie Grade teaches from the book of Proverbs as we explore two portions of the wisdom contained in Proverbs: speaking and listening (or receiving correction).