Parkside Church Westside Sermons: Recent Episodes
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The Lord’s Supper binds many into one, as we sit down together, pass the bread and cup to each other and share in a symbolic meal. As Christians we are very different from each other but we are held together by our common commitment to Christ. Our...
In the middle of Matthew 5 Jesus is addressing the fact, that the rabbis of the day were attempting to limit the scope of the seventh commandment to the act of adultery itself. While he is teaching something much deeper, which is that the prohibition...
Murder and anger are two very different issues, which makes it surprising to hear Jesus enlarge the boundary of murder so that it includes all kinds of anger. He does this by linking murder and anger at the level of the heart where they share the same...
Jesus didn’t come to tear out the pages of the Old Testament, or to ignore them, he came to fulfill what they said. He’s the one to whom they point. He’s the one they predict and anticipate. The Law and Prophets find their fulfillment, their intended...
To mark the significant life event of Dr. Nathanael Wiles going to Kenya as a medical missionary, we consider one of Jesus’s familiar statements, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the...
Sickness is part of the deal of life. It confronts us with the reality that life for us is short. A few more sicknesses and all will be over. A few more funerals and our own funeral will take place. These are the heavy facts of life but these aren’t...
You are the earth’s salt. You are the world’s light. Christians may seem small and insignificant, in our ever-drifting and confused culture. But, in actuality, we have the ability to significantly impact the whole as the apparently cheap and...
This longest psalm in the psalter extols the Scriptures as our most wonderful earthly possession. We’re reminded that it will be our great good and gain, if we’ll regularly read the Bible, sequentially, consecutively and routinely. Therefore, on the...
The subject matter of the virgin birth is challenging to us, but it isn’t non-believable as John Stott once winsomely put it, “There’s no need for us to be embarrassed by this. It’s surely fitting that a supernatural person should enter the world in a...
When Jesus appeared on the scene as a baby, it was more than just a feat of nature. It was, as J. I. Packer put it, a "wonder of grace." He became a baby not as a spectacle, but as an incredible act of love. Jesus became poor for his people...
Advent is a good time for us to renew our sense of awe and astonishment at the miracle of the incarnation. To keep our confession of the Word made flesh at the very center of our church’s life, worship and witness. Jesus didn’t just become man because...
The beatitudes aren’t a description of an ideal life in an ideal world. This is Jesus’s vision for how we can live a flourishing life in this fallen world. But what he’s saying is probably not what we expect to hear or even want to hear. Why? Because...
This final beatitude directs our vision forward in time, by nudging us to see, that our time here on earth is not going to be the place of our best lives. As Christians, we have to learn to place our expectations for happiness beyond this place. In...