Park Street Church Sermons

Mark 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.

Mark 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. 

Julian 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 r...

Mark 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.

Mark 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. 

Michael 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.

Mark 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."

Mark 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 serm...

Mark 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. 

Mark 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.  

Mark 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 encou...

Mark 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...

Mark 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.

Mark 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.

Mark 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.

Mark 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 m...

Mark 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.

Michael 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.

Michael Balboni | Luke 23:34 | Divine forgiveness of sins is accomplished on the cross as Jesus says, Father, Forgive them.”

Raymond 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.

Adam 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.

Adam 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.

Mark Booker | Luke 2:1-20 | Christmas Eve 2022

Mark 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 holi...

Mark 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 do...