A Word from The Park

A Word from The Park

Sermons from Pastor Kaji Douša, Senior Pastor of the Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City. Park Avenue Christian Church, called "The Park" by its members and friends is an inclusive community of Christians who follow the example of radical welcome set by Jesus. www.parkavenuechristian.com

Episodes

January 25, 2026 13 mins

I don’t think God’s interested in your plans. I think God is interested in who you’re becoming.

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The work you’ve been assigned is *holy*. It carries God’s anointing. And anointing brings…provision. You don’t have to collapse under a weight you were never assigned.

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January 11, 2026 21 mins

What are you already carrying that you’ve never considered sacred before? So many of you don’t offer what you have because you’re waiting for just the right conditions. Of you’re waiting for some more perfect version of yourself to emerge first. Drop that demon. Eliminate that stronghold. Because, like the wise ones, in Jesus’ presence, what was precious is made sacred. 

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January 4, 2026 18 mins

I stand before you today saying: this is a new day. A Turning Point. I’m ready to do my part in making some changes to live a little differently. Steadier and readier than ever. Prepared. Because I’m channeling Anna. I’m fasting and I’m praying and I’m staying in the Temple, praising God. So that whenever God shows up? I won’t be distracted.

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December 28, 2025 12 mins

When God chose that manger, in a crowded home, God was keeping the Holy Family safe. No one would look for a king there. 

Heaven moves first in the margins. Angels skip the courts and councils of kings, choosing instead to go straight to shepherds working the night shift. They’re ordinary people. Watching and waiting through the night for the light to shine. 

Please, beloved, don’t miss God’s strategy of protection. This is how God m...

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December 25, 2025 6 mins

Beloved in Christ, on this holy night, we mark our time together in the stillness that gives us the distinct experience of wrapping ourselves in God's glory.  

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December 21, 2025 11 mins

As you reflect on the Christmas story and your own experience of it this year, I ask, what are you facing that feels impossible or unthinkable? Where are your angels? Think honestly - have you already heard from the angel you need? Have they already spoken? Or are you still waiting?  

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December 14, 2025 18 mins

He entered this world as a little babe, no crib for a bed. But with a name the world would learn so that his followers to come would always, always have a name close enough to be spoken to.

Say his name. Jesus!

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November 23, 2025 18 mins

Readiness is what God reveals only after you have lived through the gap. Readiness rises from the wisdom you gain in the nights when answers do not come. Readiness appears when the fear settles and the truth finally speaks.

Preparation is the gift God placed in you before the trial.

Readiness is the gift God places in you after you endure it.

#FaithInTheWaiting #SpiritAtWork #AnointedAndAble #PreparationAndPromise 

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November 9, 2025 15 mins

What if Jesus stood right in front of us — and we didn’t recognize Him? Every person bears God’s image. The goal isn’t perfection. It’s presence.

#ImagoDei #SeeingChrist #MercyOverJudgment


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November 2, 2025 17 mins

The arms that carried Jesus through death itself carry us still. And when the bridge looks too wide to cross, God holds us steady until we can carry each other.

Say this, beloved, like you believe it:

God can take it all.

God’s heart is on infinite swivel.

I cross no bridge alone.

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October 26, 2025 5 mins

The Spirit will not be boxed in. 

🌬️ Jesus tells Nicodemus: “The wind blows where it chooses. You hear the sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.” (John 3:8) 

This week we face the hard truth: life is not fine, but the Spirit is still moving. 

Sometimes like a storm. Sometimes like a whisper. Always drawing us into new birth. 

#TheParkNYC #BornOfTheSpirit #SundayWorship 

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October 19, 2025 9 mins

Jesus said, “I am your bread.”
Not for shock. For sustenance.

No matter the famine around you —
He is the feast within you.

#BreadOfLife #FaithThatFeeds #JesusIsEnough #ChurchNerdTime

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October 12, 2025 20 mins

At the edge of what you can endure, what you can hope, what you can see—God meets you there. Because for God, the edge is never the end. It’s the beginning of your next chapter. 💧 This week’s sermon: “Edge of Oil Things” — where anointing meets breaking, and breaking becomes testimony. 

#GiveGodTheGlory #BibleNerdTime #Anointing #FaithAtTheEdge #PastorKaji #Bethany #MaryAndTheOil #MountaintopFaith #EdgeOfOilThings 

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October 5, 2025 17 mins

She came for a jug of water and left overflowing with Living Water. When Jesus meets you where you are, you can’t help but tell somebody. #ComeAndSee #LivingWater #FaithJourney #JesusSeesYou #TestimonyTime #SundaySermon #GraceInAction #HopeForToday 

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September 28, 2025 22 mins

The countdown passed. The cup remains, brimming with life. Pastor Kaji’s sermon, Well Beyond the Line, is up now. Come hear how living water still flows. 

#LivingWater #WellBeyondTheLine #John4

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September 14, 2025 20 mins

There’s no such thing as Skybox Jesus. The good news is grounded, humble, and calling us in—not out. Even from the trees we hide in.

#Sermon #Zacchaeus #ShortKings #GoodNews

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James wants us to move past the mirror’s reflection. He wants us to reflect and live out on a deeper truth.

This week’s sermon explores the danger of distorted identity, the limits of the mirror, and the freedom that comes when we do the Word.

Catch the replay and move with us from questions to answers.

🎧 Sermon now streaming

#DoTheWord #MirrorMirror #FaithUnfiltered #ProgressiveFaith #TheParkNYC #James1

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We all have moments we wish we could take back. Peter had three.

Three denials.

Three chances to say it again: “Yes, Lord, I love you.”

And Jesus met every failure with purpose.
 
This week’s sermon was a reminder that as God forgives…God restores.
If you’re carrying shame, hear this:

God’s love is the bridge between your failure and your future.

And every step forward: feedi...

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But Jesus still got through.
 
Today we told the truth about interference in noise and shame and doubt. So many forces try to muffle our cry and God’s reply.
 
But Bartimaeus kept calling. And Jesus was already calling back.
 
If you missed it the first or the hundredth time, don’t worry. God’s still on the line.
📞 Take heart. Get up. God is calling you. 
 
📝 Dive into this we...

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