Park Street Church Sermons
444 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWeekly sermons from Boston's historic Park Street Church
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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.
Come Holy Spirit
May 28, 2023 12:00Michael Balboni | Ephesians 5:18-21 | Sermon focuses our attention on Ephesians 5:18, "And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit."
Divine Backing
May 21, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Acts 18:1-17 | The World Right-Side Up | We all fight discouragement in the Christian life and in engaging the mission of God. We need encouragement! This sermon, which concludes our 6-week examination of Paul's second missionary journey, considers the encouragement that God gives to Paul during his encounter in Corinth.
Bearing Witness
May 14, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Acts 17:16-34 | The World Right-Side Up | We seek to learn about bearing witness by examining how Paul bears witness to Jesus and the resurrection in the city of Athens.
The Word in the Synagogue: Scrutiny and Belief
May 07, 2023 12:00Julian L | Acts 17:5-10 | The Word in the Synagogue: Scrutiny and Belief | Luke's description of the Word of God proclaimed in a Jewish synagogue in Greece illustrates how the gospel is both received and rejected by Jews. Whatever our context for mission today, we may face acceptance or hostility. We need to dialog with our neighbors and colleagues and declare the Word in ways that address their real questions. We also need to have a deeper desire and delight in the Lord himself to undergird ...
Another King
April 30, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Acts 17:1-9 | The World Right-Side Up | This sermon considers the dynamics at work in the expansion of the kingdom of God through conversion by examining the conversion of the jailer in Philippi.
Conversion
April 23, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Acts 16:16-34 | This sermon considers the dynamics at work in the expansion of the kingdom of God through conversion by examining the conversion of the jailer in Philippi.
The Spirit Moving
April 16, 2023 12:00Michael Balboni | Acts 16:1-15 | The energy to go for the gospel is right, but it must be yielded so that we are not misaligned with the Holy Spirit.
God's Prevailing Power
April 09, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Matthew 27:62-28:15 | Easter Sunday | The resurrection of Jesus is a display of the power of God that is for life. Matthew's account shows two responses to this act of God: opposition or embrace. This Easter sermon considers both of these responses and the word of reassurance to those who embrace God's prevailing power: "Do not be afraid."
Catechesis: The Grounded Life
April 02, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Matthew 26:36-27:61 | Becoming Like Jesus | This Palm Sunday sermon considers Jesus as an exemplar of the life grounded in Scripture. Scripture is his anchor throughout his life and especially during his suffering and death. To become like Jesus, to walk on the way of the cross, the way of love, necessitates lives that are grounded in the word of God. This is the sixth and final sermon in a series exploring how we become like Jesus.
Participating in God's Mission
March 26, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 | Becoming Like Jesus | God is a missionary God and he invites us to join him on his mission. From this text in 2 Corinthians 5, we consider the nature of God's mission and what it looks like for us to participate in it. This is the fifth sermon in a series exploring how we become like Jesus.
Community: Growing Together
March 19, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Ephesians 4:4-16 | Becoming Like Jesus | Community is essential to becoming like Jesus. In Ephesians 4, Paul paints a picture of the church as a community of unity in diversity that produces maturity. This fourth sermon in the series explores the fact that we belong to and are needed by this community, though we resist and doubt this in various ways.
True Worship
March 12, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | John 4:7-26 | Becoming Like Jesus | With this third sermon in the series, we begin looking at four key trajectories in the Christian life which, when taken up together, help us to grow into Christlikeness. We start with worship, considering the biblical understanding of worship in a broad and narrow sense. As we seek to grow in worship, we consider several insights from Jesus's encounter with the woman at the well - as well as Isaiah's vision in Isaiah 6 - about what fuels true ...
Becoming Like Jesus
March 05, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Mark 10:46-52 | Becoming Like Jesus | This is the second sermon in a six-week series that examines the aim or goal of a follower of Jesus. We look at Bartimaeus as a model disciple as he encounters Jesus and follows him on the way. We look examine this way in the context of the gospel according to Mark - the way of the cross, the way of love - and consider how we can walk on it more and more and, in so doing, become like Jesus.
The Gospel
February 26, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Acts 10:34-43 | Becoming Like Jesus | As the first sermon in a six-week series, this sermon looks at the gospel that Peter declares in the house of Cornelius. We see that the gospel is about a person (Jesus) in a position (Lord of all) with a particular purpose (peace through forgiveness / reconciliation and renewal). This good news is the foundation of our lives in Christ.
The Way of Blessing
February 19, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 26:1-26 | God With Us | This concluding sermon in a series on Leviticus considers the covenant blessings and curses of chapter 26. We consider the way of blessing, which is obedience. We also consider the greater blessing promised in verse twelve of this chapter which points beyond the bounds of Leviticus to the work of Jesus and the new creation: God walking among us.
Release and Restoration
February 12, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 25:1-24 | God With Us | This sermon considers the year of Jubilee legislation and what it reveals about the heart of God, how it is fulfilled in Jesus, and how it informs our ongoing Christian mission as a mission of both action and declaration.
In His Continual Presence
February 05, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 24:1-9 | God With Us | With the lampstand and the loaves in the holy place, God gives Israel a picture of his continual presence at the heart of their weekly, Sabbath worship. God's presence was the key to Israel's life, and it pointed toward the expansion of his presence in and through the gospel of Jesus Christ. We consider this fulfillment and think about how we can be more attentive to God's continual presence in our lives.
Holy Time
January 29, 2023 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 23:1-44 | God With Us | God takes charge of Israel’s calendar, giving them a weekly and annual rhythm that reinforces and renews their covenant relationship with him. This sermon explores that rhythm and considers how it works and what we can learn from it, in how we approach time, as the people of God today.
Forgiveness, Part 2
January 22, 2023 12:00Michael Balboni | Luke 23:34 | We need to forgive others like Jesus, by forgiving in prayer, with deepening understanding and compassion, and with expectation that forgiveness will heal the victim and touch many others.
Forgiveness, Part 1
January 15, 2023 12:00Michael Balboni | Luke 23:34 | Divine forgiveness of sins is accomplished on the cross as Jesus says, Father, Forgive them.”
Abundance in God
January 08, 2023 12:00Raymond Kam | Luke 12:13-21 | An examination of idolatry, and our role as stewards in living a life dedicated to God, free from the love of riches and possessions.
The New Has Come
January 01, 2023 12:00Adam Herndon | 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 | Jesus initiates the arrival of God’s Kingdom on Earth. In Christ, we become a part of the God’s new creation, living on mission until Christ returns and heaven and earth are one.
Born to Reign
December 25, 2022 12:00Adam Herndon | Luke 1:26-53 | Jesus became a great King by becoming low. He had to suffer before he entered his Glory. He is now the King of the universe and his reign is to be made know through his Church. Jesus is King, let the earth rejoice.
Be Holy in Life Together
December 18, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18 | God With Us: Be Holy | The wide range of laws in Leviticus 19 teaches us that there is no dimension of our lives that is not included in God's call to holiness. In this final message in a four-part Advent series, we examine the foundation of love, the specific case of care for the poor and vulnerable, and a general principle that undergirds our growth in holiness.
Be Holy in Sex
December 11, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 18:6-23 | God With Us: Be Holy | We continue our consideration of being holy as the Lord is holy by looking at the call to holiness in our sexual lives. This is a challenging topic but one on which the church needs to speak courageously, clearly, and compassionately into the confusion of our culture. This sermon considers God's design for sex in contrast to the culture's dominant paradigm for sex, the specific instructions in Leviticus 18 regarding sex, and the implica...
Be Holy in Worship
December 04, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 18:1-5, 24-30 | God With Us: Be Holy | In this second message during the Advent series Be Holy, we look at the call to worship God alone as the highest value among God's people for a life of holiness. We consider the folly of idolatry, the lure of idolatry, the cost of idolatry, and the antidote to idolatry.
Be Ready, Be Holy
November 27, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 18:1-5, 24-30 | God With Us | This is an introductory message on holiness as we engage in a 4-part series during Advent on Leviticus 18-20 called Be Holy. This is a mini-series within the larger sermon series on Leviticus entitled God With Us. The aim of this mini-series is to grow in holiness that we might be ready to meet the Lord. From the opening verses of Leviticus 18, we consider the shape, the ground, and the motivations for holiness.
Draw Near to God
November 20, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 16:1-22 | God With Us | The Day of Atonement is the center of Leviticus and the center of the Pentateuch. The provision of atonement in Leviticus enables God to dwell with his people, and this day enables the high priest to be in the presence of God, behind the veil in the tabernacle. The greater atonement in Jesus - which is the center of Scripture and of history - rips the veil in the temple and enables us to draw near to God with confidence and full assurance.
The Growing Kingdom
November 13, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Mark 4:26-34 | As we wrap up the 2022 global missions conference, we are encouraged to give our lives more intentionally and sacrificially to the mission of God. This sermon considers two parables of Jesus in Mark 4 and explores the inevitability of growth, the context of the coming harvest, and the contrast between the beginning (small) and the end (large).
Sow the Word Over All the Earth
November 06, 2022 12:00Julian L | Mark 4:1-20, Isaiah 6:1-13 | Against all odds, sow the Word. Listen more attentively, sow more abundantly! Despite all appearances, the Word will ultimately yield an astonishing harvest!
Purity
October 30, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 12:1-8 | God With Us | The laws pertaining to ritual purity and impurity point to the call on our lives to be morally pure. This sermon examines the specific case of a woman's ritual impurity following childbirth in Leviticus 12 and points to the provision of purity in the Lord Jesus Christ. Even as we rejoice in God's provision, we are exhorted - in response to God's grace - to grow in purity more and more.
Strange Fire
October 23, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 10:1-11 | God With Us | God strikes down Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, for bringing strange fire before him which he did not command. We consider afresh the holiness of God and the danger this presents to sinners. At the same time, we remember the mitigation of that danger in God's authorized and glorious pathway for approaching him: through Jesus Christ, our great high priest.
The Great High Priest
October 16, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 8:1-13, 9:1-7, 22-24 | God With Us | The doctrine of the priesthood of Christ brings great comfort and encouragement to disciples of Jesus. This sermon examines the provision of the high priest and the efficacy of the high priest and then considers the greater provision and greater efficacy our great high priest, Jesus the Son of God.
God's Continual Fire
October 09, 2022 12:00Michael Balboni | Leviticus 6:8-13 | God With Us | Leviticus 6:13 calls for a continual fire on the alter, which represents two different realities, and two different decisions. One fire destroys, another fire redeems. Each fire confronts us with a crucial decision in relationship with God.
Fellowship: Divine Hospitality
October 02, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 3:1-17 | God With Us | God longs to dwell with his people so that he might fellowship with his people. The worship that God reveals in Leviticus 1-7 culminates in a shared meal in the presence of God. We consider a few details of the fellowship offering in Leviticus 3 and see how this points to the shared meal in the new covenant people of God: the Lord's Supper. At this meal we celebrate God's redemption, feed upon Christ by faith, and renew our covenant obligations t...
Consecration: Wholly Yielded
September 25, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 1:3-17 | God With Us | We examine how the ascension (burnt) offering reveals to us the pathway of entry into God's presence: consecration, transformation, and ascension. In and through Jesus, the true ascension offering, we, too, are ushered into God's presence on this path. Further, in response to God's mercy, we are called to growth on this path by continually offering our bodies - all of ourselves - to God as a living sacrifice.
Atonement: Dealing with Sin
September 18, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Leviticus 4:1-12, 22-31, 6:1-7, 17:10-12| God With Us | God makes a way to deal with sin through the gift of the purification offering and the reparation offering. These offerings restore communion with God when that communion has been disrupted by sin. We consider these gifts, their mechanism, their nature, and their scope, and then conclude by noting how Jesus is there fulfillment.
The Presence of God
September 11, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Exodus 40:33b - Leviticus 1:2 | God With Us | This message introduces a sermon series on Leviticus and seeks to place this relatively unknown book in its canonical context. We consider the restoration of God's presence to his people at the end of Exodus, the problem this creates, and how the contents of Leviticus is the temporary and symbolic solution to this problem which points to the permanent and real solution: Jesus Christ. The good news of Leviticus and the even greater ne...
Who is Worthy?
September 04, 2022 12:00Adam Herndon | Psalm 24 | Those who have been declared righteous through the work of Jesus Christ by placing their faith in him.
Finding the Lost
August 28, 2022 12:00Mark Booker | Luke 15:1-32 Finding the Lost We finish a 3-part series on Luke 15 by looking at the heart of God's activity in finding the lost and inviting us to his banquet table. The joy of this banquet, and the joy of our lives, is a joy in the Redeemer's love which is expressed by offering a free invitation to us at great cost to himself.