Parkway Heights United Methodist Church

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Scripture, surrender, resurrection, and honest discipleship.

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Parkway Heights United Methodist Church is a sermon feed built around biblical readings and direct reflection. Its messages move from Matthew and Luke into modern anxieties about control, comfort, nostalgia, influence, and faithfulness.

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About Parkway Heights United Methodist Church

Parkway Heights United Methodist Church is a long-running sermon feed centered on scripture, worship seasons, and practical Christian formation. The episodes begin with biblical readings and stay close to the text. Recent sermons work through Matthew and Luke, moving from Jesus entering Jerusalem to the empty tomb and from baptism into wilderness temptation. The pacing is recognizably church-shaped. A reading leads into interpretation, interpretation becomes exhortation, and the closing movement often returns to prayer, altar response, hymn, communion, or preparation for Holy Week. The preaching is conversational, but it does not drift into casual commentary. It keeps circling back to discipleship. What does God want access to? What parts of life are being held back? Where does comfort interfere with faithfulness? The messages treat resurrection as a force that begins where human hope has run out. They also treat Lent as preparation, not decoration. Jesus entering Jerusalem becomes a test of sacrifice, service, and whether praise can survive friction with the world. Easter is framed through grief, fear, joy, and the refusal to let tombs define the ending. The sermons regularly use modern examples to sharpen older theological claims. Social media clout becomes a way to question noisy certainty. Life360 and Dateline become comic entry points into anxiety, control, and looking for the wrong thing. John D. Rockefeller becomes a way to talk about the human appetite for just a little more, then to ask what total surrender might mean before God. The show is most valuable when it makes familiar church language feel active again. It pushes against nostalgia, spiritual half-measures, easy volume, and faith built around personal comfort. Listeners should expect Christian teaching with warmth, blunt edges, seasonal structure, and repeated invitations to prayerful response.

Made for: For listeners who want Christian sermons grounded in Gospel readings, worship seasons, and practical challenges to everyday faith. It especially suits churchgoers, United Methodist listeners, and anyone drawn to teaching about resurrection, sacrifice, temptation, and service.

What sets it apart: The show pairs traditional sermon structure with vivid contemporary references, moving from Easter texts and Holy Week preparation into questions about influence, control, comfort, and nostalgia. Its strength is the tension between familiar worship language and direct calls for deeper surrender.

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Parkway Heights United Methodist Church sermons

Gospel readingsLent and Holy WeekEaster resurrectiondiscipleship and surrendertemptation and comfortgrief and hopechurch faithfulnessprayer and communion

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    March 15, 2026 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    March 8, 2026 Sermon (Video)

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    April 6, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    March 1, 2026 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    March 30, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    February 22, 2026 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    February 15, 2026 Sermon (Video)

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    February 8, 2026 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    February 8, 2026 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    February 1, 2026 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    February 1, 2026 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    January 25, 2026 Sermon (Video)

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    January 18, 2026 Sermon (Video)

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    January 11, 2026 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    January 11, 2026 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    January 4, 2026 Sermon (Video)

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    December 28, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    December 21, 2026 Sermon (Video)

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    December 14, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    December 7, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    December 7, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    November 30, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    November 23, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    November 23, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    November 16, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    November 16, 2026 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    November 9, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    November 2, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    November 2, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    October 26, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    October 26, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    October 19, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    October 12, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    October 5, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    October 5, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    September 28, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    September 14, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    September 14, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    September 7, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    August 31, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    August 31, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    August 24, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    August 17, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    August 10, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    August 3, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    August 3, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    March 23, 2025 sermon (Video)

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    July 27, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    July 27, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    July 20, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    July 13, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    July 6, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    July 6, 2026 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    June 29, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    June 29, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    June 22, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    June 15, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    June 15, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    June 8, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    June 1, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    March 2, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    Feb. 23, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    May 25, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    May 18, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    May 11, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    May 4, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    April 27, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    April 27, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    April 20, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    April 13, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    Feb. 23, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    February 16, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    February 9, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    February 2, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    January 26, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    January 19, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    January 19, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    January 12, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    January 12, 2025 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    January 5, 2025 Sermon (Video)

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    December 29, 2024 Sermon (Video)

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    Christmas Eve Sermon (Video)

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    December 22, 2024 Sermon (Video)

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    December 15, 2024 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    December 15, 2024 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    December 8, 2024 Sermon (Video)

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    December 1, 2024 Sermon (Video)

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    November 24, 2024 Sermon (Video)

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    November 17, 2024 Sermon (Video)

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    November 10, 2024 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    November 10, 2024 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    November 3, 2024 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    April 5, 2026 Sermon (Video)

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    March 29, 2026 Sermon (Video)

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    March 1, 2026 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    March 29, 2026 Sermon (Video)

    Hidden gem

    "Parades alone don't make holy weeks," because Palm Sunday ends at the cross, not the applause.

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    February 22, 2026 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

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    March 22, 2026 Sermon (Video)

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    March 15, 2026 Sanctuary Sermon (Video)

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    April 13, 2025 Founders Hall Sermon (Video)

    Hidden gem

    Parkway Heights United Methodist Church centers its April 13, 2025 sermon on Luke 19:28-40 and the line “The Lord needs it,” treating Palm Sunday as a question about what Jesus actually needs.

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