Park Road church of Christ Sermons

“The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, ‘This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.’” (Exodus 12:1, 2)

When God brought Israel out of Egyptian bondage to be his covenant people and lead them to the Promised Land, he marked their new beginning with a new calendar. Every time they celebrated the beginning of a new year, they would be reminded of the freedom and nation they were able to be because of what God had done for them.

Today, God still makes things new; still makes people new. He can make you new too.

Perhaps you need to become a Christian. Perhaps you need to grow as Christian and have stalled recently. Or maybe your need to mature as a spouse or parent or child. As a friend, as a servant to others.

May this lesson encourage you to resolve to do so. May the new year and its symbolic new beginning, cause you to look to the One who can truly make all things new.

(January 3, 2021 — Sunday AM Sermon)

“Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.” (1 Peter 3:1, 2)

Our congregational theme this year has been the words of Joshua in Joshua 24:15: “…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

This year we’ve studied lessons on having the same kind of determined commitment to God that Joshua did, as well as ways in which children can serve the Lord in their home and among their friends, how to be good parents, how singles can faithfully serve God while waiting for the days when they have a family to guide, and other related subjects.

This lesson is the third and final lesson in a short series of studies presented by our shepherds on how to be godly husbands and wives who serve the Lord together and love each other as God desires. May it bless you as it did us.

(December 27, 2020 — Sunday AM Sermon)

Jonah is one of the strangest prophets. Even though God called him to be his messenger, Jonah never seemed to be on the same page with the Lord.

When God wanted Jonah to go and preach repentance to the people of Nineveh, he fled in the opposite direction. When Jonah finally does go to Nineveh and the people shockingly repent, Jonah is angry, both with the situation and with God himself.

“And [Jonah] prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster…’ And the LORD said, ‘Do you do well to be angry?’” (Jonah 4:2-4)

This lesson considers the need for God’s servants to truly know God and to share in his compassion for the lost.

(December 13, 2020 — Sunday AM Sermon)

“…to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” (Philippians 1:21)

It is very easy to become spiritually nearsighted, seeing only the things of this world and what is happening to us in the moment.

On the other hand, the Apostle Paul was so spiritually farsighted that even when his own execution seemed to be imminent, what he saw was the nearness of Heaven and all the good being done for the kingdom. If he were to go on living, he could do even more work for the Lord; but if he died, he would get to be with the Lord.

Paul’s preference? “I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better. But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account” (Philippians 1:23, 24).

Imagine having that depth of spiritual perspective.

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4:18: “…we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”

One of the most destructive lies that Satan can tell is to persuade us that the things that are physical are the things that are real, and the things that are spiritual are the things that are imaginary.

But Paul knew better. He knew that both the physical and the spiritual are real, but the things that are unseen, those are the things that are truly substantive and that must be our focus and our ambition. Those things must be our aim, our hope and our vision.

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…” (Ephesians 5:25)

Our congregational theme this year has been the words of Joshua in Joshua 24:15: “…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

This year we’ve studied lessons on having the same kind of determined commitment to God that Joshua did, as well as ways in which children can serve the Lord in their home and among their friends, how to be good parents, how singles can faithfully serve God while waiting for the days when they have a family to guide, and other related subjects.

This lesson is the second in a short series of studies presented by our shepherds on how to be godly husbands and wives who serve the Lord together and love each other as God desires. May it bless you as it did us.

(November 29, 2020 — Sunday AM Sermon)

“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…” (Ephesians 5:25)

Our congregational theme this year has been the words of Joshua in Joshua 24:15: “…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

This year we’ve studied lessons on having the same kind of determined commitment to God that Joshua did, as well as ways in which children can serve the Lord in their home and among their friends, how to be good parents, how singles can faithfully serve God while waiting for the days when they have a family to guide, and other related subjects.

This lesson is the first in a short series of studies presented by our shepherds on how to be godly husbands and wives who serve the Lord together and love each other as God desires. May it bless you as it did us.

(November 22, 2020 — Sunday AM Sermon)