Spark Cast
Inspiring People to Live The Way of Jesus | The podcast of Spark.Church in Palo Alto, CA
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 718
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Genesis | Leadership Lessons from Joseph
Our understanding of Joseph as a dreamer and interpreter of dreams is not the only lesson that is being conveyed through the Biblical narrative. Joseph is also a leader, though not one in the convent…
Sun 15 Jun 2014
Genesis | She Is More Righteous Than I
The Judah and Tamar story of Genesis 38 interrupts our Joseph narrative, and for good reason. It points out a contrast of righteousness that will be thematic throughout the rest of the Bible. However…
Sun 08 Jun 2014
Genesis | Double Trouble
We come to chapter 37, the beginning of the Joseph story, which does not start off really well. If this story were to take place today, we would invest in serious therapy for the parties involved. Ye…
Sun 01 Jun 2014
Genesis | What's Your Family's Story
Why does the Bible tell so much of the complicated, sordid, and frankly embarrassing elements of dysfunctional family life? Well, perhaps it is because the Biblical view of family and story are reall…
Sun 25 May 2014
Genesis | A Thing Not To Be Done
If we're going to do a Genesis series, we can't skip over the "tricky bits," as in Chapter 34 and the "ravishing of Dinah." In this message, Pastor Danielle explains why this story is in the Bible an…
Sun 18 May 2014
The Womb of God
On this Mother's Day, we reflect on the feminine side of God as described in the Bible. We are challenged to think of gender, not as two, as reflected in humanity, but as one, as in God. As we do, we…
Sun 11 May 2014
Path In The Weeds
Special guest musician Tyson Motsenbocker shares a special song, "Path in the Weeds." Visit www.TysonMotsenbocker.com for more on his music.
Sun 04 May 2014
Intergenerational Church
Pastor Mark Arevalo shares a wild and crazy teaching full of lots of interaction, making the case for Church as an intergenerational experience. We are reminded of how God has created each generation…
Sun 04 May 2014
Shame, Blame, Game
Human dysfunction begins when a person feels unloved, and unworthy of love (shame). As a result, the ways in which we function in this world lead us to blame others and game systems in order to prote…
Sun 27 Apr 2014
Palm Sunday | Humanity's Cry
The celebration of Palm Sunday was not a happy event, but rather one deeply imbued in the soul's cry for freedom. Just as Passover was being celebrated, commemorating freedom from Egypt, Jesus's entr…
Sun 13 Apr 2014
Genesis | Q&A
This audio clip includes the introduction before the sermon, "Encountering God," and then a brief Q&A after the sermon.
Sun 06 Apr 2014
Genesis | Encountering God
When Jacob encounters Esau, he says that seeing his brother is like "seeing the face of God," the same language used when Jacob wrestled with God. This story teaches us to not simply look for God in …
Sun 06 Apr 2014
Genesis | Don't Let Go
Spark's ethic of wrestling is grounded in Genesis 32, the account of Jacob wrestling with both God and humankind on his way to meet Esau. This story challenges our disengagement from the difficult an…
Sun 30 Mar 2014
Genesis | The Two Sides of Every Story
As we look at this next chapter in the Jacob drama with Laban, chapter 31, we begin to unfold additional layers and complexities that are often missed by seeing only the major players. In this messag…
Sun 23 Mar 2014
Genesis | Lift Up Your Feet
Have you ever been "stuck in a moment, and you can't get out of it?" The characters in our Biblical stories most definitely have. In this talk we are encouraged and challenged to "lift up our feet," …
Sun 16 Mar 2014
Genesis | Surely God Is In This Place
The story of "Jacob's ladder," in Genesis 28 awakens us to the Divine reality that is always around us, yet we are so frequently unaware. Here we discover that God is found in the everyday, mundane, …
Sun 09 Mar 2014
Genesis | The Power of Blessing
From Genesis 27 we study the blessing of Isaac to his sons, Jacob and Esau. We learn that even in spite of the deceitfulness of Jacob and the earthiness of Esau, Isaac still blesses both of them equa…
Sun 02 Mar 2014
Genesis | Pregnant With Possibilities
In this message we peer into a the symbolism behind Rebekah's pregnancy with Jacob and Esau. As two nations "jostled" inside Rebekah (a preview of the history of Israel), so two impulses jostle insid…
Sun 23 Feb 2014
Genesis | Well, Well, Well
Continuing our Genesis series, this teaching looks at the story of Abraham, sending his servant to seek out a wife for his son Isaac. Given that this story takes place between the death of Sarah and …
Sun 16 Feb 2014
Genesis | Bound & Determined
As we continue our series in Genesis, we come to the story of Abraham heeding the request of God to sacrifice his son, Isaac. More appropriately known as the "binding of Isaac," (in Hebrew, the Akeda…
Sun 09 Feb 2014
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