Parkside Church Westside Sermons

On this Sunday when we shared in the Lord’s Supper, we drew upon question 43 of the New City Catechism which answers the question, “What is the Lord’s Supper?” with the reminder that in it we have a remembrance, a celebration of God’s presence, an...

The gospel trains us to be zealous for good works in front of the world. How we see the world is informed is how we see ourselves our status before God.

Scripture exhorts us to pray without ceasing, but how do we avoid falling into dull patterns of memorized scripts and lifeless lists of requests? When asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, Jesus established a framework to shape all of our...

Scripture exhorts us to pray without ceasing, but how do we avoid falling into dull patterns of memorized scripts and lifeless lists of requests? When asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, Jesus established a framework to shape all of our...

Scripture exhorts us to pray without ceasing, but how do we avoid falling into dull patterns of memorized scripts and lifeless lists of requests? When asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, Jesus established a framework to shape all of our...

What do you do when violence and evil has thoroughly corrupted community life? Is there hope or is the situation beyond redemption? Those are the sobering questions that echo to us from the pages of the Bible in this next episode in the Abraham story.

After God’s appearance to him in chapter seventeen, Abraham is now exceedingly convinced that he and Sarah will have a child. However, Sarah, who wasn’t part of that special moment with God is less certain that the inconceivable will become true. So...

In part-two of our study on God’s covenant with Abraham, God inaugurates the sign and act of circumcision as an indication of his special relationship with Abraham and his family. Circumcision being a striking statement for Abraham and his descendants...

Abram, whose faith is once again flagging, needs encouragement, and so it is, that the Lord Almighty shows up to reassure him of his covenant promises that were originally given back in chapter twelve. As Christians, we look back through the storyline...

Progress in our apprenticeship with Jesus is often slow and finicky. It’s never linear and unimpeded, but nonetheless, by God’s grace, there’s a trajectory of steady growth. In Genesis 16, this is just what we see happening, behind the scene of...