Passion Creek Church

Trey Van Camp
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This is the podcast of the teachings of Passion Creek Church in Queen Creek, Arizona with Pastor Trey VanCamp.

  1. Sep 27

    Making Peace With Your Work | Peacemaking E9

    In the last week of our Peacemaking Practice, we focus on our work. For most of us, our jobs and careers carry significant weight in our lives. Sometimes that weight is a blessing, where we feel like our work is fruitful and we get more joy than frustration from it. For others, work is a burden where we feel like we lack responsibility, control, or reward. In either case, God created us to work, which means that while our work is cursed by sin, it can be redeemed. In Ephesians 6, Paul gives us some helpful instructions we can use to begin making peace with and within our work. Our work can be redeemed if we commit to working respectfully, sincerely, willingly, and expectantly, remembering that ultimately we work for Christ.

  2. Sep 26

    Making Peace With Your Children | Peacemaking E8

    For those with children, parenting can often become a battleground for peacemaking. We can ignore conflict, lash out in anger, or hold impossibly high expectations over our kids while they grow up. In Ephesians 6, Paul shows parents how to avoid these pitfalls. He tells them not to stir up anger in their children, but to “bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” To bring them up means to nurture them so they’re prepared for the world when they leave the home. Training them means instilling discipline in them towards holiness, and to instruct them means to give them counsel, to listen, and to speak encouragement over them. Peacemaking in parenting then is more than avoiding conflict. It’s bringing peace to the household, or what the Bible describes as wholeness, flourishing, and living in the fullness of what God intended. Every parent is forming their child. The question is whether we are doing it intentionally.

  3. Sep 13

    Making Peace With Your Parents | Peacemaking E7

    Our church gathers every Sunday at 8:30am & 10:15am at Queen Creek Junior High. 20435 South Old Ellsworth Road, Queen Creek, AZ https://passioncreek.church/sundays/ In week 7 of our Peacemaking practice, we turn our attention toward our relationship with our parents. Regardless of how old you are now, all of us have parents. And just like with our marriages, our relationships with our parents can be both a blessing and a burden. In Ephesians 6, Paul gives us instructions on how to navigate these relationships. He begins by telling children to obey their parents. But then he moves from obedience to honor, quoting the fifth commandment from Exodus 20. The distinction matters because obedience is seasonal, but honor is forever. As children, we honor our parents’ authority of command. As adults, that authority changes into an authority of counsel. The authority changes, but the honor doesn’t. The word honor carries the idea of weight, value, and significance. To honor someone is to give them weight, to recognize their value rather than treating them as insignificant. Honoring our parents, then, doesn’t mean giving them control of our lives or pretending they’re perfect; it means learning to recognize their value, give them appropriate weight, and love them well as the relationship changes. 00:00 Why Thresholds Matter 01:32 Relationships Shift With Change 03:12 When Kids Become Adults 05:35 Peacemaking With Parents 07:47 Obedience Versus Honor 09:32 Exodus And The Ten Words 13:06 The Promise And Authority 18:18 Command Versus Counsel 21:08 Jesus Confronts Corban 23:42 Honor Means Action 27:47 What Honor Is Not 29:18 Seat At The Table 32:51 Honor Versus Contempt 35:15 Identity In The Father 37:16 Practices For This Week

  4. Sep 6

    Making Peace With Your Spouse | Peacemaking E6

    In week 6 of our Peacemaking Practice we take all that we have learned about peacemaking and apply it to our marriages. Our marriages can be both a tremendous blessing and a painful burden. In Ephesians 5, Paul addresses this tension by giving commands to both husbands and wives. He starts by commanding both to submit to each other with humility in verse 21. Then he commands husbands to love their wives sacrificially and wives to submit to their husbands respectfully. Both of these commands challenge our tendency to focus on what our spouse owes us rather than what Christ is calling us to give. Peacemaking begins when we stop trying to win and start allowing Jesus to form us into people who love, serve, forgive, and pursue one another.

  5. Aug 30

    Making Peace With Your Past | Peacemaking E5

    Your Clock Stuck at 8:40? Making Peace with the Past Through the Cross and Resurrection (Ephesians 5) Using Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations as a picture of being stuck in the past, the message asks how to make peace with what cannot be changed. Drawing from Ephesians 5, it explains that people get stuck either through guilt over what they’ve done or grief over what they’ve lost. Paul reminds believers that they “were once darkness” but are now “light in the Lord,” so identity precedes behavior, and sins must be exposed to Christ’s light, which brings healing rather than shame. The sermon contrasts chronos (time passing) with kairos (God-given moments to steward), urging wisdom to grieve without wasting what remains and warning against numbing pain. It concludes that the cross pardons guilt and the resurrection promises restoration, then assigns practices: “confess and bless” in groups and memorizing Ephesians 5:15–16. 00:00 Miss Havisham at 840 01:45 Clocks Stuck in Us 03:12 Guilt and Condemnation 04:54 Darkness to Light 10:53 Expose Sin to Light 12:04 Christ Shines Not Shames 15:35 Grief and Regret 17:08 Wisdom and Kairos 21:06 Unmet Dreams and Loss 29:39 Cross and Resurrection Hope 32:09 Practices Confess and Bless 34:42 Memorize and Sendoff

  6. Aug 23

    Making Peace with Church Hurt | E4

    Church is a full contact sport Nobody sits you down and tells you this when you join a church, but church is a full contact team sport, and sometimes your teammates are the ones who hurt you the worst. Conflict in the church is not a sign that something has gone wrong. It is assumed. The question is not whether we will be hurt, but what we will do with the hurt when it comes.

  7. Aug 16

    The Process of Peacemaking | E3

    A process you practice, again and again There comes a point where peacemaking is no longer just a principle we proclaim but a process we must practice. So what is the process? In Luke 17, Jesus gives it in a single sentence. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, even seven times in a day.

  8. Aug 9

    The Posture of Peacemaking | E2

    We live in the age of the trickster. Every civilization has a name for him. The Polynesians call him Maui. The Norse, and Marvel, call him Loki. The Greeks named him Odysseus. Paul describes him in Ephesians 4:14 as human cunning. The trickster is never direct. He is always disguised. What looks like a gift can carry an army. What looks like peace can hide a war. And once you've survived enough Trojan Horses, you stop trusting gifts altogether. Every apology might have an agenda. Which is where we find ourselves. We've learned the language of peacemaking without living the virtues of peacemaking. We know the words: forgiveness, boundaries, accountability. We can even have ChatGPT write our apology texts. The problem is that it can give us the script but never the soul. Techniques, devoid of transformation, are just a bag of tricks. But Paul isn't only preaching about the manipulators out there. He warns us about the manipulator in here. When you've been manipulated, it gets easy to justify retaliation. Which is why he gives us the posture before he ever gets to the process. "Without the posture of Christ, peacemaking is no longer a practice that matures us, but a ploy to manipulate others." Ephesians splits right down the middle. Chapters 1 through 3 tell us what Christ has done. Chapter 4 opens with therefore. Peace has been received. Here is how peace gets practiced. Paul gives us the posture in four steps. But it isn't a staircase you climb up. It's steps you go down. Because ever since Genesis 3, humanity has been climbing. We climb for significance, for status, for control. And when someone hurts us, we don't want to move toward them. We'd rather tower over them. But reconciliation happens at eye level. Every virtue Paul names is another step down. The good news is not that we found a way up to God's level, but that God came down to ours. "Peace was made when God took the first step down. So it shouldn't surprise us that Paul's first instruction to peacemakers is to start coming down too."

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This is the podcast of the teachings of Passion Creek Church in Queen Creek, Arizona with Pastor Trey VanCamp.

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  • Creator
    Trey Van Camp
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    148
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    Clean
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    © 2026 Passion Creek Church
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    Passion Creek Church