by Josh Waltz | Mar 20, 2022 | A Pastor's Heart
This is the sixth in a series of columns I’m writing to describe our goals and values for corporate worship. So far, I’ve said that we want our worship gatherings to be God-centered, cross-centered, and Scripture-saturated. We also value congregational engagement and...
by Josh Waltz | Sep 1, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
“Do you really believe that what you believe is really real?” So ended the first session of The Truth Project, a DVD-based worldview study from Focus on the Family which we presented several years ago at Parker Hills. It reminded me of a comment from one...
by Josh Waltz | Jul 21, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
For about a decade or so, the Christian world has been engaged in a discussion which is forcing churches to make a choice. Will we accept the authority of the word of God, or will we proceed under some other authority like personal experience, popular opinion, or our...
by Josh Waltz | May 26, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
As we begin our series through the book of Acts, we’re bringing back an old Parker Hills tradition—SOS verses. In each week’s Sunday bulletin, we’ll print a new verse that corresponds to the sermon text for the next Sunday. You’ll also be able to find the SOS verse...
by Josh Waltz | Mar 31, 2019 | A Pastor's Heart
The first reason I prefer the English Standard Version for use in the church is its approach to translation. The ESV is an essentially literal Bible translation that aims for word-for-word precision in rendering the original languages in English. Many other modern...
