Parkside Church Westside Sermons

This episode in Acts shows us that it costs you something to be a true Christian. To hear Jesus’s call to follow him, believing that he is the Lord of your life and not being ashamed to center your life upon him is costly. Paul’s resolve to follow the...

To complain about God, is a sin. To complain to God, is a psalm. Psalms of lament, in which the psalmist vents his fears and frustrations about enemies who attack, and at times, his disappointment with God, is what we have in Psalm 25. It’s a psalm...

God sent his Son to redeem sinners, so that we might be able to cry out to God as our Father and have an eternal inheritance through him.

For the month of December, we are joining in the celebration of Advent as we hear the songs of joy tucked into Luke’s gospel. Advent helps to fix our eyes on the Lord Jesus by looking back in wonder at his first coming, and then looking forward in...

For the month of December, we are joining in the celebration of Advent as we hear the songs of joy tucked into Luke’s gospel. Advent helps to fix our eyes on the Lord Jesus by looking back in wonder at his first coming, and then looking forward in...

Through the psalmist's example of speaking to God in the midst of real-life turmoil, we are provided with a response to the trials we face today. The contrast of God's enduring character against the bleakness of our present reality gives us...

As Paul wraps up his third missionary journey, he makes a brief stop at the coastal city of Miletus. He makes this stop in order to have a proper goodbye with the Ephesian elders and to prepare them to lead in this absence. In doing so, he reminds...

As Paul wraps up his third missionary journey, he makes a brief stop at the coastal city of Miletus. He makes this stop in order to have a proper goodbye with the Ephesian elders and to prepare them to lead in this absence. In doing so, he reminds...

Baptism, the Lord’s Supper and church membership show us in a sweeping movement what the gospel of Jesus does in a person. It plucks you of your lostness, places you in Christian community of family and friendship and puts others around you to help...