Park Street Church Sermons
435 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWeekly sermons from Boston's historic Park Street Church
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You Follow Jesus
April 28, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | John 21:20-25 | As the Gospel according to John comes to an end, Peter learns not to compare his situation to John's but rather to stay focused on Jesus and to follow him. This message explores our tendency to compare and invites us to trust Jesus, the good shepherd, as he leads us down our particular path.
The Center
April 21, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | John 21:15-19 | Do you love me? In this poignant encounter with Peter, Jesus demonstrates the centrality of love for the life of discipleship. We look at the larger context of this question and consider what a life of loving Jesus looks like.
Breakfast on the Beach
April 14, 2024 12:00Chris May | John 21:1-14 | Jesus still invites us for breakfast on the beach, meeting us in our emptiness by the power and compassion of his strong right hand.
Deaths and Resurrections
April 07, 2024 12:00Randall Wetzig | Colossians 3.1-4 | Christ has risen from the dead, and Paul claims in Colossians that if we are united with Jesus in faith, we have died and have been raised with him as well. What does that mean? And what are we to do as resurrected humans?
Resurrection Reactions
March 31, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Mark 16:1-8 | Alleluia! Christ is risen! This Easter sermon considers the reactions of the women to the resurrection to help us think about our own reactions to this life and world altering event that is at the foundation of the Christian faith.
Not What I Will
March 24, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Mark 14:32 - 15:47 | As Holy Week begins, we look at Jesus's prayer in Gethsemane and consider the calling to yield to the Father's will. This means dying to ourselves and taking up the cross.
Relief to Renewal
March 17, 2024 12:00Walter Kim | Ezekiel 47:1-12 | This sermon calls us to see, experience, and live into the river of God's renewing, new creation work in our lives and communities.
Receiving the Unshakeable Kingdom
March 10, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Hebrews 12:25-29 | Run With Endurance | Hebrews 12 finishes with a warning not to refuse him who is speaking. In this final sermon in the series, we explore this warning, the rationale for it, and the response that occurs when we heed it. This is a call to faith in our holy, powerful, transcendent, majestic God, and this is the key to being able to run with endurance the race marked out for us.
Remember Where You Are
March 03, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Hebrews 12:18-24 | Run With Endurance | One key to enduring well is being oriented to reality. This passage orients us to the place that we are in Christ, not under the law at Mt. Sinai but under grace at Mt. Zion. In Christ, we are awash in the grace and mercy of God. Can we, then, extend that grace and mercy to one another?
Let No One Miss the Grace of God
February 25, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Hebrews 12:15-17 | Run With Endurance | This passage issues a call to the church to see to it that no one falls short in the race that we are running. We can fall short by sin and unbelief, and the author gives us a few specific areas to watch out for. This message was given on the same day as the Annual Meeting of the members of Park Street Church.
Lenten Joy?
February 18, 2024 12:00Scott Arbeiter | John 15:1-11 | The promise Jesus gives is that we will bear fruit as we remain in him, the true vine. This sermon, on a Sunday when we are celebrating our partnership with World Relief, explores the nature of the fruit we bear and the false vines and artificial fruit that tempt us. The invitation to remain in Jesus is not only an invitation to bear fruit but also to have true joy.
Take Heart
February 11, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Hebrews 12:12-13 | Run With Endurance | When we're weary and tired in the Christian race, these verses call us to keep our form so that we can endure. This message examines the exhortations to strengthen our form and make our paths straight, and then it considers what motivates us to do so.
Strive
February 04, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Hebrews 12:14 | Run With Endurance | We're urged to strive for two things: peace and holiness. This message considers what it means to strive and addresses several dimensions of the call to strive for peace with everyone, especially in a context of conflict and tension.
Looking to Jesus
January 28, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Hebrews 12:1-4 | Run With Endurance | In the call to run with endurance, we are urged to be constantly looking to Jesus. This sermon considers Jesus as the great exemplar for the life of faith and calls us to follow in his footsteps as we seek to endure through hardships and trials.
Accepting Our Course
January 21, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Hebrews 12:1-11 | Run With Endurance | Another key to running with endurance is accepting the course that God sets before us. This includes accepting the hardships and adversity that this passage encourages us to view as God’s fatherly discipline. This message explores how we walk by faith by accepting what God allows in our lives.
Removing Hindrances
January 14, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Hebrews 12:1 | In a series on Hebrews 12 and running with endurance, this message considers the admonition to lay aside weight and sin. We consider these two realities that can hinder us from enduring and then consider how we might remove them from our lives.
Encouraged by the Faithful
January 07, 2024 12:00Mark Booker | Hebrews 12:1 | This is the first message in a series on Hebrews 12 that will consider the call to run with endurance. We begin in v1 by considering the encouragement we are to derive from the great cloud of witness by which we are surrounded. Their examples of faith continue to speak and offer us encouragement to cling to God and his promises.
From Slaves to Children of God
December 31, 2023 12:00Tim Leary | Galatians 4:4–7 | Sermon sharing God's love for you in the new year.
The Grace of God
December 24, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Titus 2:11-14 | This Christmas Eve sermon explores this passage in Titus which shows that God's grace in the gift of his son does two things: 1) it rescues and fixes us, and 2) it gives us a regimen for living into the new life we are given through Christ. Merry Christmas!
Behold Your God!
December 24, 2023 12:00Adam Herndon | Isaiah 40: 1-11 | In a life full of certainty and hardship, God brings comfort to his people in His coming. During the Advent season, we are reminded that God will bring justice and righteousness and the renewal of all things at his Second Advent. We can take comfort in that Jesus has made a way, Jesus is true to his Word, Jesus brings Good News, and Jesus is our Good Shepherd.
The Proclamation of the Cross
December 17, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 | The Cross: The Power and Wisdom of God | We close our five-week series on the cross with a return to Paul's preaching which was a subject of debate in Corinth. We contrast the role of a persuader with that of a herald and unpack why this matters to Paul. The sermon considers some implications for the ministry of God's people and concludes with a thought on weakness as the means through which God's power is made known.
The Man of the Cross
December 10, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | 1 Corinthians 1:30-31 | The Cross: The Power and Wisdom of God | Paul directs the Corinthians' attention to the gift of God in Christ crucified and to the benefits we receive from Christ. As we make much of Christ, we will make little of ourselves. This sermon explores the gift of the man on the cross, that he is our home, our provision, and our boast.
The People of the Cross
December 03, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 | The Cross: The Power and Wisdom of God | The gospel liberates us from the need to pursue glory, praise, status or honor from the world. God's choice of the lowly Corinthians humbles the wise and the strong and demands an end to our boasting. The people of the cross are not marked by worldly status but by the boast-less freedom and humility that come through the love of God for sinners like us.
The Power and Wisdom of the Cross
November 26, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | 1 Corinthians 1:1-25 | The Cross: The Power and Wisdom of God | Paul explains that the way God acts - in the cross and in the proclamation of the cross - subverts the systems of worth, value, honor, and status of the culture. Those who view the cross from the lens of the world perceive it as merely foolishness and weakness. In contrast, those who view the cross through the lens of faith understand it to be the power of God and the wisdom of God. This is something - the only thi...
The Priority of the Cross
November 19, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | 1 Corinthians 1:17 | The Cross: The Power and Wisdom of God | This is the first message in a series that is reflecting on the cross through a study of 1 Cor 1.17-2.5. Paul immediately brings the attention of the troubled church in Corinth to the cross of Christ. This is the remedy for their troubles. In truth, the cross is the remedy for every matter in the Christian life. In this sermon, we examine the two halves of verse 17, considering 1) the priority of proclaiming the cross...
A City on a Hill and the Light of the World
November 12, 2023 12:00Michael W. Goheen | Matthew 5:13-16 | Dr. Goheen exorts us through an exploration of Matthew 5:13-16 and Isaiah 2:1-5.
There Is Space for All
November 05, 2023 12:00Ruth Padilla DeBorst | Isaiah 55:1-3, 56:4-8 | Dr. DeBorst provides a view of God's invitation to all of us through the text of Isaiah 55:1-3, 56:4-8.
The Gospel of Repentance
October 29, 2023 12:00Tom Petters | Hosea 6:1-6 | Dr. Petter looks at the book of Hosea, as he delves into the topic of Repentance.
Are You The One?
October 22, 2023 12:00Damian Long | Luke 15:1-10 | I am the one who has wandered from the fold. We are the ones who have wandered. He is the Good Shepherd who puts us on his shoulders and bring us back into him, household and restored and rejoicing loving relationship.
The God of Reverses
October 15, 2023 12:00Barry Kang | Esther 8:1-2 & 8:15-9:2 | Dr. Kang examines the book of Esther, discussing the sovereignty of God.
Paul’s Prayer and Ours
October 08, 2023 12:00Jeffrey Arthurs | Psalm 67 | Psalms of Jesus | Dr. Arthurs exhorts us to share the prayer of Paul in Ephesians 1:15-23, that the church would have a spirit of wisdom and revelation.
Two Fears
October 01, 2023 12:00Adam Herndon | Psalm 34 | Psalms of Jesus | We live in a culture where we are constantly comparing ourselves to others. We have a fear of not measuring up to worldly standards. In Psalm 34, we are invited to overcome our fears with fear. We are instructed to fear the Lord. As we seek him, and follow his word we will taste the goodness of God in our lives.
Under His Wings
September 24, 2023 12:00Julian L | Psalm 57 | Psalms of Jesus | How do you navigate storms? Do you shut down ‘emotionally'? Do you get hijacked with anger? Psalm 57 provides a path of wisdom with twists and turns from David’s experience.
Undone
September 17, 2023 12:00Damian Long | Psalm 139 | Psalms of Jesus | To be known fully and completely is to be undone. Jesus as the very known-ness, knowability, and all-knowing God, searches our hearts and humbles us, as he leads us through the death to self to life everlasting in Him.
Honey from the Rock
September 10, 2023 12:00Julian L | Psalm 81 | Psalms of Jesus | What is an authentic community? How do you belong to or contribute to an authentic Christian community? Psalm 81 tells us we need to separate ourselves from our 'false' self, a deformed, projected image we communicate to others, and to develop our 'true' self based on the inner life of the Spirit re-shaping our souls. An authentic community needs both praise and silence, shouting and listening, singing and hearing, otherwise it is merely replicating the...
A Song of Deliverance
September 03, 2023 12:00Adam Herndon | Psalm 118 | Psalms of Jesus | God's steadfast and enduring love delivers his people from their sin through Jesus Christ. We are apart of God's redemptive story in this world. We are called to go out and share our own song (story) of God's deliverance in our life.
David's Lord
August 27, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Psalm 110 | Psalms of Jesus | The earliest Christians - and Jesus himself - saw the events of Jesus's resurrection and ascension through this psalm. This sermon explores three points about Jesus and two points about us that arise from this psalm. What we learn in this psalm can renew our worship and service of Jesus, our victorious king and eternal priest.
Praise the King
August 20, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Psalm 96 | Psalms of Jesus | Psalm 96 is a summons to all the world to praise the God of Israel who reigns. This sermon considers that summons, why it is given, and the effects of praise in the life of those who follow Jesus.
The Faithful Lord
August 13, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Psalm 94 Psalms of Jesus | We regularly face circumstances of dissonance and disorientation, circumstances in which it seems that God is not ruling over our lives or the world. These circumstances can make our faith dwindle, but Psalm 94 gives us a blueprint for how faith can be exercised, and even strengthened, in these situations.
Thy Kingdom Come
August 06, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Psalm 72 | Psalms of Jesus | We explore the vision for an ideal king in Psalm 72, one whose rule enacts God's rule that brings flourishing to all. We then consider how Jesus is that king and how we are to join him in advancing his reign.
The Good King
August 06, 2023 12:00Randall Wetzig | Psalm 72 | Psalms of Jesus | God's vision for a good king is one who rules with God's own justice and righteousness, rules for the flourishing of the people, and whose kingdom extends across the earth and through all time. No earthly king or government can measure up. We need a good king. Jesus is that king.
Praying Honestly
July 30, 2023 12:00Chris May | Psalm 69 | Psalms of Jesus | The Psalms show us that we can say anything as long as we say it to God. David and Jesus lead us as we pray with honest emotion.
The Lord Cares for Me
July 23, 2023 12:00Tim Leary | Psalm 40 | Psalms of Jesus | The Lord blesses the man who trusts in Him. Jesus's sacrifice is enough for salvation. References to U2 and C.S. Lewis were the fun part of the message.
Whose Hands Are Holding
July 16, 2023 12:00Damian Long | Psalm 31| Psalms of Jesus | God as Our refuge and good and spacious place, has rescued us by His mighty powerful and perfectly loving hand. Jesus entrusted his Spirit on the cross as he uttered the pray from this Psalm - the embodiment and perfect expression of committing completely in submission to God. And we now, as embraced and belonging people can entrust our entire lives in response, for He has redeemed us as our faithful God!
Godforsakenness
July 09, 2023 12:00Michael Balboni | Psalm 22 | Psalms of Jesus | Psalm 22 offers six practices to help us travel through life's afflictions and the experience of God's absence.
The God Who Preserves
July 02, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Psalm 16 | Psalms of Jesus | We are called to walk by faith and not by sight. This sermon explores the life of faith through the lens of Psalm 16, going on to show that Jesus is the greatest illustration of this life.
Who are we, that you are mindful of us?
June 25, 2023 12:00Raymond Kam | Psalm 8 | Psalms of Jesus | This is the third sermon in the Psalms of Jesus series.
My King
June 18, 2023 12:00Julian L | Psalm 2 | Psalms of Jesus | This sermon explores the path of true blessedness and invites us to consider what we truly love. Do we delight in God's instruction and so live a life of fruit-bearing and substance? Or do we stop up our ears and go our own way? This psalm confronts us with that choice, and Jesus, of course, shows us how to choose well as he embodies this psalm in his life.
The Fruit-Bearing Life
June 11, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Psalm 1 | Psalms of Jesus | This sermon explores the path of true blessedness and invites us to consider what we truly love. Do we delight in God's instruction and so live a life of fruit-bearing and substance? Or do we stop up our ears and go our own way? This psalm confronts us with that choice, and Jesus, of course, shows us how to choose well as he embodies this psalm in his life.
The Triune God
June 04, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Galatians 4:4-7 | This Trinity Sunday sermon considers the doctrine of the Trinity, its source, and why it matters and is central to the life of every Christian.