Parkside Church Westside Sermons

Personal faith, and doubts about the Christian faith aren’t mutually exclusive of each other. To insist that doubt-free faith is the only sort of true-faith, can actually be more destructive to genuine faith than our worse doubts could ever be. There...

In Jesus’s final bit of instructions for the apostles, who are being commissioned for a short-term mission trip, he once again turns to the topic of persecution. Christianity can be a source of danger and division, but faithfulness is worth it. In...

One of the God-given goods and benefits of belonging to a local church is that it becomes a means for us to be known and to know others. This is why the New Testament uses the metaphor of household or family to describe the church. In the same way...

Chapter 3 of Ruth shows us the hidden hand of God, preparing the way for Jesus, our kinsman redeemer, who has paid the price to rescue his people from their position of helpless need.

Baptism is one of those rituals that’s essential to the Church. As Bobby Jameison has put it, “After trusting Christ, baptism is the first thing faith does. It’s how faith shows itself before God, the church and the world. Baptism is where faith goes...

As Jesus commissions the disciples to go out as Christian workers he speaks frankly about the fact that their evangelistic expedition will be difficult. But he also promises that the Spirt of God will give to the disciples what they’ll need to endure...

Romans chapter 3 is crucial in understanding what Jesus has done for us. How can an unrighteous man be reconciled with a righteous God? Paul tells us that this righteousness is received by faith in Jesus Christ; a gift received with empty hands. Faith...

In this next story in Matthew’s gospel we have a collection of the names of the first twelve disciples, listed in pairs. They’re presented in this way because the twelve disciples are about to be sent out by Jesus to do some ministering of their own...

In this letter to the Corinthians, Paul instructs them that their weaknesses are not a disadvantage. Weaknesses are the very place where God demonstrates His great power.

For what does Jesus ask us to pray? Apart from what he taught is in the Lord’s Prayer there aren’t many other directly stated matters. This makes his words of guidance at the end of chapter nine both interesting and unique. In them Jesus directs his...