Parkside Church Westside Sermons

These verses from Philippians 1 are quite timely for us in these COVID-19 days because the Apostle Paul models for us the idea of using all of the circumstances of life, whether good or bad, for gospel ministry. Neither house arrest or a pandemic can...

Today, Parkside Westside is one among thousands of churches in our country. But in the time period of Acts that we’ve been, there was only one church in all the world, The Church of Jerusalem. However, that changes in Acts 11 as a second church is...

In Acts chapter 10, God has to “convert” Peter. He has to convert Peter, not to Christianity, but to the implications of Christianity. Peter has to be convinced that the gospel is for everyone including those completely outside the Jewish nation. This...

These two back-to-back healing episodes in Acts 9 are signs of hope that bring people to faith, as they give us a glimpse of the way that Jesus can change our lives. They also offer to us Is a faint glimpse of what the fullness of our salvation will...

Following his dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, Saul's life begins to change in some big ways. | Outline: [I] New Purpose (vv. 19b-22), [II] New Problems (vv. 23-25), [III] New Partners (vv. 26-30).

In Acts 9 we have the dramatic display of God’s saving grace in the life of Saul, one of the most religious people in all of the New Testament. Apart from Jesus’s resurrection, Saul’s Damascus road experience may be one of the most important events in...

This is another mile marker story in Acts as we see the good news of Jesus spreading beyond Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria. As it does, we see in Philip’s one-to-one conversation with the man from Ethiopia that nestled into the power of the gospel is...

Among the 30,000+ verses in the Bible, the one that was most often shared on YouVersion last year was Philippians 4:6. Is it any wonder that this verse has the theme of worry in it, given all that happened politically, economically and violently in...