Parkside Church of Christ Sermons Parkside Church of Christ

"God hears their complaint as if it were a prayer... Rather than evaluating their complaint--both for content and tone, judging whether they were right or not in what they said and how they said it--God instead listens with empathy, hearing their grumbling in terms of feelings and needs."

"Easter’s a day for those who’ve gone through it."

Join Wayne and Dan for a conversation about Jesus' authority in this week's midweek reflection. As they discovered as they talked, Jesus' authority presents a transformative challenge, but also a liberating hope!

“The reason Jesus came to earth was love, broken-hearted-but-refusing-to-give-up-love… The standing together, sticking out in the midst of the storm, kind of love. The til-death-do-us-part kind of love. The til-resurrection-finally-brings-us-back-together kind of love… It’s the story of Jesus being faithful even when we weren’t, Jesus being faithful on our behalf, inviting us to accept his faithfulness as if it were our own. It’s God saying, ‘Despite everything, I’m going to stay true to my promise to love you, even to the point that it undoes the betrayal and heartbreak you’ve caused me. I still love you, and I’m asking you to love me back.’”

In our first mid-week reflection in our Journey to Easter, Dan invites us to ask ourselves, "Why am I here? What do I seek? Is it following Jesus on my terms, seeing what I can get out of it? Or have I come on this journey seeking God?"

"Our hope in all this is that, as we walk this road together—following Jesus alongside each other on the journey to Easter—we’ll find ourselves in this crowd…. And as we walk forward together with Jesus in the weeks ahead, there’s an invitation for each of us… For each of us—and for all of us together—it’s an invitation to be formed, reformed, and transformed in the presence of the crucified and risen Jesus."