Park Hill Church Podcast

Recorded live (with audience Q&R) on Sunday night, Jan 26, 2025. Author and pastor Chris Nye provides a solid vision of what it looks like for Christians to be a confounding presence. He paints the picture through an journey across time and space, bringing in examples from the global church and the historic church. In this lecture, Nye offers inspiration for the American church to live in a way that witnesses to the cross of Christ amidst political, cultural, and sociological challenges. Our current political moment may be new to the American church, but it’s a common experience for the people of God across time and space. Let's learn together towards this end.  Chris Nye serves as Lead Pastor at Imago Dei Community, a local church in the heart of Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and two kids. He is the author of a few books, including, A Captive Mind: Christianity, Ideologies, and Staying Sane in a World Gone Mad, and writes regularly on his Substack, “Cut for Time” - cnye.substack.com

Chris Nye, pastor of Imago Dei Community in Portland, Oregon, visits Park Hill with a timely message. The cross of Christ will always be considered foolishness by societies. So rather than conspiring to ‘make Jesus relevant’ to culture, what if Christians passionately and unapologetically preached the confounding message of the cross with boldness?  If the cross is supposed to feel scandalous to our surrounding culture, there’s no making it relevant. There is only preaching Christ and him crucified, and this itself becomes the very power of God. 

In our moment of polarization and uncertainty, the world is longing for peace and belonging. We believe the Church exists to be the place on earth where heaven comes and fulfills these longings in every human heart. This dream becomes reality when God’s children open themselves to receive the Holy Spirit.

As a family of three churches in San Diego (Neighbors, All Saints, and Park Hill), we are praying through the whole Bible in 2025, together in unity. To join us, purchase a BREAD journal at one of our Sunday gatherings, or get a free digital copy of our BREAD 2025 journal HERE.

As a family of three churches in San Diego (Neighbors, All Saints, and Park Hill), we are praying through the whole Bible in 2025, together in unity. To join us, purchase a BREAD journal at one of our Sunday gatherings, or get a free digital copy of our BREAD 2025 journal HERE.

As a family of three churches in San Diego (Neighbors, All Saints, and Park Hill), we are praying through the whole Bible in 2025, together in unity. To join us, purchase a BREAD journal at one of our Sunday gatherings, or get a free digital copy of our BREAD 2025 journal HERE.

As a family of three churches in San Diego (Neighbors, All Saints, and Park Hill), we are praying through the whole Bible in 2025, together in unity. To join us, purchase a BREAD journal at one of our Sunday gatherings, or get a free digital copy of our BREAD 2025 journal HERE.

As a family of three churches in San Diego (Neighbors, All Saints, and Park Hill), we are praying through the whole Bible in 2025, together in unity. To join us, purchase a BREAD journal at one of our Sunday gatherings, or get a free digital copy of our BREAD 2025 journal HERE.

Pastor Evan Wickham kicks off 2025 with a teaching on what it means to dwell in the house of God, as well as what is required of us to stay there. Blessed are those whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. 

As a family of three churches in San Diego (Neighbors, All Saints, and Park Hill), we are praying through the whole Bible in 2025, together in unity. To join us, purchase a BREAD journal at one of our Sunday gatherings, or get a free digital copy of our BREAD 2025 journal HERE.