Parkside Church Westside Sermons

The Sermon on the Mount beings with our narrator telling us that Jesus opens his mouth to speak and teach. He does his because we need to be taught and enlightened. We need to be helped to see that there’s no true flourishing in life without him. In...

How should Christians go about their interactions those who stand outside the faith, especially when people have varying attitudes toward Christianity? How are we to live in our complex society in a wise and winsome way for Christ? Paul helps the...

In this study on the church we take up the subject of discipleship. Making disciples is tied into our evangelistic conversations and it’s at the center of our Christian relationships as we aim to do spiritual good in each other’s lives. This is the...

What reputation are we establishing for ourselves as a church in our community? Like the early church in Thessalonica we want to be a place and a people who are known for having been encountered by the living and true God and as a result, are...

Church discipline typically starts privately and informally growing to include the church members only when necessary. In its final, formal and public stage, church discipline involves removing someone from membership, and from participating in the...

Leaders matter. Good leadership makes all the difference and poor leadership makes for difficulty. This is true in the home, in the work place and in the church. In the church there are two offices of leadership that have been appointed to us, the...

Does God really love us? And if so, how can we know for certain? In John chapter 13 we are given a glimpse of the love Jesus has for his disciples—a love from on high that stoops low. As Jesus washed His disciple’s feet prior to His death on the...

Death is part of the human experience, period. No matter who you are or how powerful you become, in the words of John Calvin, “death reigns with a violent tyranny”. In view of death’s reality, the Scriptures give Christians freedom to mourn and reason...

In week two of this new sermon series on being a church, we focus on some of the ways in which we can build one another up when we are apart from each other during the week. When we walk back out through the red doors of our building, our commitment...

One of the most fundamental duties that Christians have in relation to other Christians is to regularly attend the gatherings of the church. This is one of the reasons that the Scripture don’t present our weekly gathering as being something that’s...