Parkside Church Westside Sermons

God is always at work, using the everyday decisions, actions, and circumstances of our lives to accomplish his good purposes. In Ruth 2, God provides a relative who is a kinsman redeemer (Deuteronomy 25) of Ruth and Naomi,

pointing ahead to Christ...

In Psalm 16, David preaches truths to himself. Because the Lord is his refuge, he can trust that the Lord will preserve his life. Psalm 16 is a Resurrection psalm that points us to the hope of the savior, Jesus, who defeated death so that we may have...

Jesus makes another dramatic statement about his identity and mission when he says, "I am the light of the world." What the cloud of God's glory was for the Israelites as they wandered in the wilderness, Jesus is to world. He shines...

As believers, all of us struggle with spiritual amnesia. We get caught in the same sin patterns and struggles, and tend to forget what God has done for us in Jesus. What’s the cure? Preach the gospel story to yourself every day. Rehearse it over and...

This snapshot from Jesus’s childhood isn’t one of happy circumstances. It’s dangerous and distressing as the little toddler, Jesus, the King of the Jews is being hunted by another king, a monstrous man, called Herod. Which makes this a story about God...

The part that the wise men have in the story of Jesus’s birth is incredible. They’re foreigners who come from far away, paying the cost of their own travel expenses, to pay homage in the home of an obscure Jewish family. During their visit they...

In this meal with Jesus we read of the surprising encouragement that the foreknowledge of the disciple’s failure didn’t stop Jesus from calling them as his own. He allowed them to be his close friends, knowing full well that they would fail him. He...

Behold, is a good one word to sum up advent. Behold, meaning to look intently and see what’s going on. It’s a word used when announcing Jesus’s arrival. It’s a word used when describing all that he would accomplish in his living, dying and rising...

Christmas is the story of how God, our Father in Heaven, loves us enough to send his Son. The one who shares both God’s nature and ours, who comes to rescue his people from their sins. Jesus wasn’t an economist, an entertainer, a politician or a...

Matthew’s genealogy is a good passage for Advent because in these Sundays before Christmas we’re looking back in wonder at Christ’s coming. We’re also looking forward in anticipation to his return when he’ll deliver us from our exiled state. Advent...