Bellefonte Presbyterian Church – Sermons

Proverbs 10:19-21, 12:18, 18:21 19  When words are many, transgression is not lacking,     but whoever restrains his lips is prudent. 20  The tongue of the righteous is choice silver;     the heart of the wicked is of little worth. 21  The lips of the righteous feed many,     but fools die for lack of sense 18  There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,     but the tongue of the wise br...

Proverbs 4:20-27English Standard Version 20  My son, be attentive to my words;     incline your ear to my sayings. 21  Let them not escape from your sight;     keep them within your heart. 22  For they are life to those who find them,     and healing to all their[ a ] flesh. 23  Keep your heart with all vigilance,     for from it flow the springs of life. 24  Put away from you crooked speech,     ...

10  Hear, my son, and accept my words,     that the years of your life may be many. 11  I have taught you the way of wisdom;     I have led you in the paths of uprightness. 12  When you walk, your step will not be hampered,     and if you run, you will not stumble. 13  Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;     guard her, for she is your life. 14  Do not enter the path of the wicked,     and do...

Proverbs 2:1-8 (ESV) 2  My son, if you receive my words     and treasure up my commandments with you, 2  making your ear attentive to wisdom     and inclining your heart to understanding; 3  yes, if you call out for insight     and raise your voice for understanding, 4  if you seek it like silver     and search for it as for hidden treasures, 5  then you will understand the fear of the Lord     an...

Genesis 3:8-15 (English Standard Version) 8  And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.  9  But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”  10  And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was...

Genesis 3:1-7 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”  2  And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,  3  but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither s...

18  Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for[ a ] him.”  19  Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed[ b ] every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.  20  The man gave names to all livestock...

Genesis 2:22-25 22  And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made[ a ] into a woman and brought her to the man.  23  Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones     and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman,     because she was taken out of Man.” 24  Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.  25 ...

Genesis 2:16-22 (English Standard Version) 16  And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,  17  but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” 18  Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”  19  Now out of...

Genesis 2:4-15 (English Standard Version) 4  These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. 5  When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,  6  and a mist was...

Genesis 2 1  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  2  And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.  3  So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.(ESV)

26  Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27  So God created man in his own image,     in the image of God he created him;     male and female he created them. 28  And God blessed the...

The Creation of the World 1  In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  2  The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3  And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  4  And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.  5  God called th...

Luke 24:1-12 (English Standard Version) 1  But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.  2  And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,  3  but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.  4  While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel.  5  And as they were fright...

Psalm 131 A Song of Ascents. Of David. 131  O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;     my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things     too great and too marvelous for me. 2  But I have calmed and quieted my soul,     like a weaned child with its mother;     like a weaned child is my soul within me. 3  O Israel, hope in the Lord     from this time forth and forevermore. (ESV)

A Song of Ascents. Psalm 130  1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! 2      O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive     to the voice of my pleas for mercy! 3  If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,     O Lord, who could stand? 4  But with you there is forgiveness,     that you may be feared. 5  I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,     and in his word I hope; 6  my soul waits for the L...

Psalm 129English Standard Version They Have Afflicted Me from My YouthA Song of Ascents. 129  “Greatly[ a ] have they afflicted me from my youth”—     let Israel now say— 2  “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,     yet they have not prevailed against me. 3  The plowers plowed upon my back;     they made long their furrows.” 4  The Lord is righteous;     he has cut the cords of the wicked...

Psalm 128 (ESV) A Song of Ascents. 128  Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,     who walks in his ways! 2  You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;     you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. 3  Your wife will be like a fruitful vine     within your house; your children will be like olive shoots     around your table. 4  Behold, thus shall the man be blessed     who fear...

3 John 9-15 English Standard Version 9  I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.  10  So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church. 11  Beloved, do no...

" 1  The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. 2  Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.  3  For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.  4  I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 5  Beloved, it is...

3 John 1 (ESV) 1  The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. 2  Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.  3  For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.  4  I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 5  Beloved...

2 John (English Standard Version) 1  The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,  2  because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever: 3  Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love. 4  I rejoiced greatly to find some of your chil...

2 John 7-11English Standard Version 7  For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.  8  Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we[ a ] have worked for, but may win a full reward.  9  Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God....

4  I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.  5  And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.  6  And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginnin...

2 John (English Standard Version) 1  The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,  2  because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever: 3  Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love. 4  I rejoiced greatly to find some of your chil...