Parkside Church Westside Sermons

This familiar psalm shows us that much of Christianity has to do with embracing our sheep-ness; our inability, our weakness and our perpetual need. This is how we get to the place where we can embrace the words of David as our own, “I shall not want.”...

Baptism is one of the primary ways in which a person expresses his commitment to Jesus and to his people. The ordinance is a reminder to us that Christianity isn’t merely a privatized possession, it’s a shared public profession. In baptism, new...

How do we engage with the Lord in the midst of our suffering? Especially the suffering we’ve brought on ourselves by our own sin? David's voices an answer to these questions as he flees from his own son, Absalom.

We all know what it’s like to be knocked back by news. To be stunned and uncertain. To be internally uneasy. The reality of those hardships is what makes the hopefulness of this psalm a favorite for God’s people. In it, the psalmist invites us to...

In this chapter, Paul reminds the Colossian church about the implications of Jesus's death and resurrection. Having been buried with Christ, believers are to put off the old self. And having been risen with Christ, they are to put on the new...

If you were able to script out the words that you're going to utter at the end of your life, what would they be? Who would be on your mind? What would you want to say to them? The final written words of Paul are to his young protege Timothy, who...

In this Luke 22 vignette we have Jesus eating with the disciples in the very first instance of the Lord’s Supper. The shadow of the cross-to-come creeps into the evening but it doesn’t stop the plans of Jesus from presiding of the festival meal. He...

Last year around this time we focused on the way that every single one of us would have to be committed to being patient with all, as we persevered in the context of covid. Now, in all-but-June of this year, we focus on the responsibility that we all...