Park Street Church Sermons

Mark 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.

Mark 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,...

Mark 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 th...

Mark 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).

Julian 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!

Mark 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...

Mark 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 pr...

Mark 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.

Michael 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.

Mark 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 me...

Mark 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 ou...

Mark 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.

Mark 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...

Adam Herndon | Psalm 24 | Those who have been declared righteous through the work of Jesus Christ by placing their faith in him.

Mark 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.

Mark Booker | Luke 15:11-32 | Finding the Lost | This sermon considers the lostness of the elder brother. We look at his sin and how it manifests itself in his heart and attitudes, and then we see the gracious response and invitation of the father. The father's love, and that alone, can overcome our rebellion, break our sin, and bring us to the feast of life with him.

Mark Booker | Luke 15:11-32 | Finding the Lost | This sermon examines the rebellion of the younger brother in this parable told by Jesus. In doing so, we see the nature of sin, the result of sin, and the scheming of sin. And then we see the father's gracious and overwhelming response that alone has the power to break sin.

Julian L | Colossians 4:7-18 | Walk in Him | 'Keep Walking With Jesus' by receiving and offering comfort to others, by learning how to expand prayer into a process of struggle on behalf of others, and by remembering persecuted Christian in jails around the world. Make sure grace is the foundation of your walk with Jesus as that's the only thing that will sustain you or your church.

Michael Balboni | Colossians 4:2-6 | Walk in Him | Sharing the message of Christ through the framework of open doors.

Michael Balboni | Colossians 3:11, 3:17 - 4:1 | Walk in Him | How Christ's lordship transforms power and transforms relationships.

Damian Long | Colossians 3:12-17 | Walk in Him | God has made us for the unity and communion which exists within the Trinity. By clothing us, his dearly loved ones, in compassion, kindness, and meekness we we are living into our raised-with-Christ identity. It is his love, therefore that binds us to him and holds us together as a forgiving, thankful, and worshipful community called and sent to loo...

Mark Booker | Colossians 3:5-11 | Walk in Him | Paul continues teaching on the resurrection ethic by outlining the kinds of behaviors and practices that we are to put away, to leave behind. This sermon considers 1) why we would put away certain behaviors, 2) what these behaviors are, and 3) how we might put them away.

Mark Booker | Colossians 3:1-4 | Walk in Him | As he begins to expound the resurrection ethic, Paul lays down the foundational reality for this new way of life. This sermon considers that foundational reality and then unpacks the primary exhortation of seeking and setting our minds on the things that are above. What do we seek? On what do we set our minds?

Mark Booker | Colossians 2:8-23 | Walk in Him | Having exhorted them to walk in Christ, Paul next urges the Colossians not to be taken captive by lesser authorities that will diminish their life. We consider the nature of the dangers, the reality of the church in Christ, and a solution to resisting captivity.

Mark Booker | Colossians 2:6-7 | Walk in Him | After finishing his long introduction, Paul moves to his primary exhortation in Colossians 2.6-7. This sermon explores this exhortation - which is a call to maturity in Christ. We also consider, from verse 7, the additional encouragement that Paul provides the church as we seek to walk in Christ.