Park Street Church Sermons

Mark Booker | Matthew 26:30-35, 69-75 | This sermon takes an honest look at Peter and the disciples in Jesus's final hours and exposes two temptations that lead us to deny Christ instead of denying ourselves. We also see a hopeful glimpse of God's grace that restores even the worst deserters.

Mark Booker | Matthew 26:6-13 | At the beginning of the passion narrative, we encounter an unnamed woman whose extravagant act of devotion to Jesus challenges us to examine our own devotion. We explore what it looks like to walk in this woman's footsteps and to honor Jesus with our lives.

Mark Booker | Exodus 40:16-38 | The conclusion of Exodus (and this sermon series) further demonstrates God's gracious nature and reveals the proper response to this grace.

Mark Booker | Exodus 33:12-34:10 | Moses's intercession leads to God revealing his character as "merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love"—showing that His presence among sinful people depends on his grace. This ultimately points to his glory on the cross where God is made most fully known as Jesus bears our sin and shows us mercy. This revelation of God is the good news that our world needs.

Mark Booker | Exodus 32:1-14 | We learn an important lesson from Israel's impatience which leads them to idolatry with the golden calf—seeking a god they can see and control rather than waiting on the LORD. At the same time, we see Moses's powerful intercession reveal God's relenting grace and pointing us to Jesus, our greater mediator who lives to make intercession for us (Heb 7.25).

Mark Booker | Exodus 29:38-46 | This sermon explores what living with the Lord entails. It is rooted in the atonement of the ascension offering, highly relational and focused on communication with God, and it provides safe access to God's holy presence through his provision of the tabernacle, sacrifices, and priests. All of this points to the ultimate goal that God would dwell among his people and be known by them. All these dimensions of life with God are fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

Mark Booker | Exodus 25:1-22 | God is a God of grace who demonstrates that grace to his people throughout the book of Exodus. As we begin the last section of Exodus, this sermon explores the gracious gift of God's presence to his people. This gift points beyond itself to the greater gift of God's presence through his Son and his Spirit, and we - the church - are now his dwelling place.

Adam Herndon | Matthew 2:1-21 | Today we take a look at the visit of the Wise Men and what it means for Jesus to be the "King for All." By comparing the fear-driven resistance of King Herod to the joyful surrender of the wise men, we explore how our own lives are transformed when we stop trying to maintain control and instead bow before Jesus as King.

Polo Kim | Luke 2:21-35 | How was Jesus' life and mission set apart as "holy to the Lord"? As followers of Jesus, we are called to dedicate our best to the Lord, consecrate our desire, and participate in the passion of Christ.

Randall Wetzig | John 1:1-18 | As we continue to celebrate Christmas, we consider the surprising news that God has become a person, to invite us into his glorious family, full of grace and truth.

Mark Booker | Matthew 1:18-25 | This Christmas Eve sermon explores what Christmas is all about through the lens of the two names given to the baby born to Mary in Matthew 1.18-25.

Mark Booker | Exodus 24:1-11 | The purpose of God drawing near and making himself known is that we might enjoy fellowship with him. That's the purpose of Exodus and the purpose of the incarnation. The covenant ratification ceremony at Mt. Sinai ends in a shared meal and shows us four essential elements of what life with God entails.

Mark Booker | Exodus 22:21 - 23:9 | This sermon explores how God's law - which touches every dimension of life - reveals his character and how adherence to his law enables his people to make God known to the nations. In Christ, we are called to imitate God and to reflect his compassion for the vulnerable, his holiness, and his justice in every area of life.

Mark Booker | Exodus 20:2-17 | This sermon provides an introduction to the Ten Commandments that God spoke to Moses and the Israelites at Sinai and shows their relevance for disciples of Jesus.

Mark Booker | Exodus 19:1-14, 20:18-21 | Our series on Exodus continues as we begin the season of Advent. Israel arrives at Sinai and God clarifies their identity as his special possession and meets with them at the mountain to reveal his law. They must understand who they are and whose they are to live into God's calling on their lives, and so must we.

Adam Herndon | Exodus 15:22-16:8; 17:1-7 | As the Israelites come to the other side of the Red Sea, they have the wilderness in front of them. These three stories of the journey from the Sea to Sinai are preparing the Israelites to receive God's law at Sinai. God's provision and testing in the wilderness show them that they can trust in Him.

Mark Booker | Psalm 145:1-13a | A call to sacrificial giving and wholehearted commitment to God's global mission rooted in the God-saturated vision of Psalm 145. The movement from meditation, to outward praise, to sharing reveals the fuel or heart behind the missionary call and the mission-minded church.

Stuart Foster | Acts 4:1-12 | This opening message to the 2025 Global Mission Conference asserts that the basis of mission is the truth that Jesus is the only savior. Are we living and bearing witness to Jesus in such a way that those who don't share this conviction would say to us, "You must be crazy!"?

Mark Booker | Exodus 15:1-21 | After being delivered through the sea, the Israelites sing a song of worship to God. This song addresses something about the past, the present, and the future, and it informs the ongoing song that we sing as God's people today.

Mark Booker | Exodus 13:20-14:31 | At the sea, Israel faces impossible odds but witnesses God's power to save. This foundational deliverance, which points to our greater salvation in Christ, reminds us that salvation belongs entirely to God—he makes a way where there is none.

Mark Booker | Exodus 12:1-13, 21-32 | This sermon explores how the Passover lamb provided a ransom, cleansing, and consecration for Israel, prefiguring Jesus Christ as God's ultimate lamb whose blood cleanses us from sin and liberates us from judgment. Will we rest and rejoice in God's provision of a lamb?

Randall Wetzig | Exodus 10:21-29 | What could the God "in whom there is no darkness" be doing by causing darkness in Egypt for three straight days? We consider the 9th plague as we continue a sermon series through Exodus, exploring how God has made himself known through the children of Israel to the world.

Mark Booker | Exodus 9:13-35 | The ten plagues reveal God's purpose to make himself known. This sermon looks at the introduction to the seventh plague and shows how God is making himself known through his power to the Egyptians, the Israelites, and to all the earth. It concludes by considering Pharaoh's response and by asking, "How do we respond?"

Mark Booker | Exodus 5:1-6:1 | How do we deal with hardship and trial in the Christian life? This sermon examines how Moses's confrontation with Pharaoh made things worse and what we can learn from Moses' honest, raw interaction with God.

Mark Booker | Exodus 4:1-18 | This sermon continues to explore Moses' encounter with God at the burning bush. As Moses interacts and wrestles further, God reveals more about his provision for Moses and calls him to trust him and to go on the mission. We, too, are invited to trust the God who has revealed his provision to us in Jesus.

Mark Booker | Exodus 3:1-15 | We begin to explore the interaction between Moses and God in the burning bush during which God calls Moses to lead his people out of slavery in Egypt. In this encounter, God calls Moses by name and makes himself known by the mysterious name, "I AM." As God reveals himself, he invites Moses and us to trust him more and more.

Mark Booker | Exodus 1:1-22 | This opening sermon in a series on the book of Exodus, "God Made Known," explores how Exodus 1 invites us into the grand story of God and his life-giving purposes in the world. Like the king of Egypt and the midwives, we have a choice to align with the forces of death or to courageously stand with the God of life.

Mark Booker | Psalm 118:1-29 | This rich psalm offers an invitation to come out of a life riddled by anxiety and fear and into a life of confident faith rooted in the steadfast love of the God who saves.

Mark Booker | Psalm 117:1-2 | In the shortest psalm in the Scriptures, God summons all nations to praise Him on the basis of his steadfast love and faithfulness to his people. This summons is fulfilled in Jesus through whom God's steadfast love and faithfulness are most clearly revealed. In Christ, God has established a worldwide, multinational family of blessing and praise into which all people are invited.

Mark Booker | Psalm 116 1-19 | Psalm 116 reveals a pattern that envelopes the whole of the Christian life: trouble, petition, deliverance, and grateful response. This sermon considers how God's ultimate deliverance through Christ enables us to live with hope and thanksgiving even in our darkest moments.

Sandy Willson | Psalm 115 | When we face the question, "Is the God of the Bible real?" what do we do? Guest preacher Sandy Willson (Pastor Emeritus at Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis, Tennessee) explores this question through the lens of Psalm 115.

Randall Wetzig | Psalm 113 | Psalm 113 tells us to praise God at all times and in every place. But why should we?

Adam Herndon | Psalm 112 | This Psalm, often referred to as the beatitudes of the Psalms, shows what a blessed life looks like when we live in the fear of the Lord. The central blessing being how we can live free of all other fears we may have.

Mark Booker | Psalm 111 | Psalm 111 reveals how God's mighty works of deliverance fuel the life of praise that is marked by wholehearted thanksgiving, communal worship, and lives lived in the fear of the Lord.

Mark Booker | Luke 22:7-20 | This sermon reflects on the gift of the sacraments generally and then on the Lord's Supper as instituted by Jesus with his disciples the night before he was crucified. The Lord's Supper is to be a joyful celebration as we remember Christ's sacrifice, commune with Him in the present, and anticipate the future messianic banquet.

Mark Booker | Colossians 3:17 | In this conclusion to the sermon series on the new life from Colossians 3.12-17, this sermon considers the Christ-saturated reality of the new life, how this produces a life abounding in thanksgiving, and how that then leads us - as the beloved children of God - to do everything "in the name of the Lord Jesus."

Mark Booker | Colossians 3:16 | This sermon unpacks Colossians 3.16 through three key movements: the nature of Christ's word, what it means for this word to dwell richly within us, and how psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs are a means of teaching and admonishing one another, helping us to mature as the body of Christ.

Mark Booker | Colossians 3:15 | In contrast to a world filled with conflict and division, the new life to which we are called in Christ is to be ruled by the peace of Christ. This sermon explores the nature of this peace, what it means for this peace to rule over us, and why this is fitting given that we are one body.

Mark Booker | Colossians 3:14 | As part of a series on the new life we have in Christ in Colossians 3.12-17, this sermon explores the defining virtue of the Christian life: love. We examine the priority of love, the definition of love, and the ways we can grow in love.

Mark Booker | Colossians 3:13 | This sermon explores the radical call to forgiveness in the Christian life, examining both the inner work of forgiveness and touching on the journey toward reconciled relationships. God's lavish forgiveness is the foundation for extending grace to those who have wounded us—not as advanced spirituality, but as the essential heartbeat of new life in Christ.

Mark Booker | Colossians 3:12 | This sermon explores what it means to "put on" the character of Christ through five qualities that reshape our posture toward others: compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience. These are not automatic changes but intentional ways of living that we are to develop daily—like putting on a new uniform for our new life in Christ.

Mark Booker | Colossians 3:12 | We begin a new sermon series on Colossians 3:12-17 to explore the new life in Christ. This opening sermon demonstrates that our identity is not defined by our careers or roles, but by what God has done for us through his love, grace, and mercy. God's action in Christ changes our hearts and fuels our transformation into the new life. This transformation comes not through self-help effort, but through embracing and believing the reality that "the old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

Sandy Willson | Acts 1:1-8 | Sermon given by guest preacher and Interim President of The Gospel Coalition, Sandy Willson, on Acts 1.

Adam Herndon | John 10:11-18 | Jesus is the Good Shepherd who lays down his life for the sheep, knows the sheep, and gathers them into one flock.

Randall Wetzig | John 20:19-31 | For many of us, Thomas is one of the most relatable people in the Bible. How does Jesus respond to Thomas' request for evidence of the resurrection? And what does it mean for us to to believe in the resurrected Son of God?

Mark Booker | Luke 24:1 - 12 | This Easter message explores the question that the two angels ask the women at the tomb on the first Easter morning: why do you seek the living among the dead? Jesus is the only source of abundant, indestructible life, and we are invited to stop seeking the living among the dead and to turn to him for life.

Mark Booker | John 18:1 - 19:37 | Who is on the cross and what does he have to do with me? Through the lens of the Gospel according to John, this sermon explores how Jesus' death was not merely a tragic event but a deliberate act of divine love—bringing cleansing, liberation, and abundant life to all who recognize the personal nature of His sacrifice.

Polo Kim | John 13:1-17 | Maundy Service at Park Street Church.

Mark Booker | Revelation 3:14-22 | This final message on the book of Revelation (delivered on Palm Sunday) considers Christ's challenging but gracious words to the church in Laodicea. Jesus lovingly offers what we truly need through His sacrificial death, inviting us to open the door to intimate fellowship with Him.

Mark Booker | Revelation 2:8-11, 3:7-13 | Jesus's messages to the faithful churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia encourage them to walk by faith and not by sight, acknowledging their true spiritual wealth in the midst of tribulation. We look at the core conviction of faith and how that is to work itself out in our lives.