Bellefonte Presbyterian Church – Sermons

Psalm 7 – A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. 1  O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge;     save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, 2  lest like a lion they tear my soul apart,     rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. 3  O Lord my God, if I have done this,     if there is wrong in my hands, 4  if I have repaid my friend with evi...

Habakkuk 1:1-5 – 1  The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw. 2  O Lord, how long shall I cry for help,     and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!”     and you will not save? 3  Why do you make me see iniquity,     and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me;     strife and contention arise. 4  So the law is paralyzed,     and justice never goes forth. For th...

1 O Lord, how many are my foes!     Many are rising against me; 2  many are saying of my soul,     “There is no salvation for him in God.”  Selah 3  But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,     my glory, and the lifter of my head. 4  I cried aloud to the Lord,     and he answered me from his holy hill.  Selah 5  I lay down and slept;     I woke again, for the Lord sustained me. 6  I will not be afr...

1 With my voice I cry out to the Lord;     with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord. 2  I pour out my complaint before him;     I tell my trouble before him. 3  When my spirit faints within me,     you know my way! In the path where I walk     they have hidden a trap for me. 4  Look to the right and see:     there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me;     no one cares for my...

14  Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.  15  Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.  16  But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,  17  and their talk will spread like...

1 Peter 5:8-14 - 8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. 10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will...

1 Peter 5:1-7 – 1 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: 2 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; 3 not domineering over those in your charge, but being ex...

1 Peter 4:12-19 – 12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you...

1 Peter 4:1-11 – 1 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. 3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness,...

1 Peter 3:18-22 – 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, 20 because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eigh...

1 Peter 3:8-16 8  Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.  9  Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.  10  For, “Whoever would love life     and see good days must keep their tongue from evil     and their lips from de...

1 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they see your respectful and pure conduct. 3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the impe...

18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. 19 For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. 20 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. 21 For t...

11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation. 13 Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supre...

Song: My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less, Edward Mote (1834) 4  As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5  you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6  For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion,     a chosen and p...

1 Peter 1:22-25 22  Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. 23  For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24  For, “All people are like grass,     and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withe...

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(Our apologies, the sermon recording starts a few minutes in.) 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. – 1...

1 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3 And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?” 4 And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—...

From passages in Mark 14-15.

Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King 1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples,  2  saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.  3  If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it a...

1 When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,     we were like those who dream. 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,     and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations,     “The Lord has done great things for them.” 3 The Lord has done great things for us;     we are glad. 4 Restore our fortunes, O Lord,     like streams in the Negeb! 5 Those who sow in tears     shall...

A Song of Ascents. Of David. 1 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side—     let Israel now say— 2 if it had not been the Lord who was on our side     when people rose up against us, 3 then they would have swallowed us up alive,     when their anger was kindled against us; 4 then the flood would have swept us away,     the torrent would have gone over us; 5 then over us would have gone    ...

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. 1  Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 2  It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. 3  Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward...