Bellefonte Presbyterian Church – Sermons

24 But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,  25  that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.  26  If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. 27  Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. - 1 Corinthians 12:24-27 (ESV)

1 Timothy 3:8-13 (English Standard Version) 8  Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.  9  They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.  10  And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.  11  Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, bu...

1 Timothy 3:1-7 3:1 The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.  2  Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,  3  not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.  4  He must manage his own household well, with all di...

Acts 15: 1-21 15  But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”  2  And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.  3  So, being sent on th...

4  I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,  2  with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,  3  eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.  4  There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—  5  one Lord, one...

Genesis 12:1-7 English Standard Version 12  Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.  2  And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.  3  I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families...

1 Peter 1:13  Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  14  As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,  15  but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,  16  since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am h...

Mark: 27  And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”  28  And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”  29  And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”  30  And he strictly charged them to tell no o...

22  And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.  23  And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”  24  And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.”  25  Then Jesus laid his hands on his eye...

Mark 8 11  The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him.  12  And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.”  13  And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side. 14  Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only on...

8  In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,  2  “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.  3  And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”  4  And his disciples answered him,...

31  Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.  32  And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.  33  And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue.  34  And looking up to heaven, ...

Mark 7:24-30 English Standard Version 24  And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.  25  But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.  26  Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him t...

Mark. 7  Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,  2  they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.  3  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,  4  and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they w...

45  Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.  46  And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray.  47  And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land.  48  And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about...

30  The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught.  31  And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.  32  And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves.  33  Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all t...

Mark 6: 1-30 1  He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.  2  And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?  3  Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses a...

11  But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb.  12  And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.  13  They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”  14  Having said this, she turned around...

Isaiah 57: 14  And it shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way,     remove every obstruction from my people's way.” 15  For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,     who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place,     and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly,     and to revive the heart of the c...

Mark 5: 21  And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.  22  Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet  23  and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” ...

5  They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.  2  And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.  3  He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,  4  for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackl...

35  On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”  36  And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.  37  And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.  38  But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and sai...

1  Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.  2  And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:  3  “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.  4  And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came a...

1  Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.  2  And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:  3  “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.  4  And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came a...