Sermon Archive (Page 2)

The pastors at BPC are known for wonderful, impactful sermons. Even if you are unable to join us on Sundays, you can still access these powerful messages. If you are interested in a particular sermon on a specific date and can’t find it, contact the church office.

The Art of Being Together: Redefining Greatness

About this sermon series Mark 9:30-37 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. Then they came to Capernaum, and when…

The Art of Being Together: Learning to See

About this sermon series 1 Corinthians 2:6-13 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed. But we speak God’s wisdom, a hidden mystery, which God decreed before the ages for our glory and which none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written,…

The Art of Being Together: Be Opened

About this sermon series Mark 7:24-37From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.…

Doers of the Word

James 1:17-27 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures. You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow…

Run the Race: The Full Armor of God

About this sermon series Ephesians 6:10-20 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For our struggle is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor…

Run the Race: Discerning Wisdom

About this sermon series Ephesians 5:15-20 Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit, as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your…

Run the Race: Faces of Faith

About this sermon series Ephesians 4:25-5:2 So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather, let them labor and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no…

Guest Speaker- Rabbi Michael Holzman

The second speaker in our Sacred Listening Series. Rabbi Michael Holzman is the spiritual leader of Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation and the founder of the Rebuilding Democracy Project. Rabbi Holzman has written extensively on the current crisis in Israel and Gaza. He speaks personally on what it feels like to be an American Jew in the present moment and the spiritual technologies people of faith can bring to ‘intertwined and conflicting narratives’ of our time. If you missed our first…

Run the Race: Focus on Your Fuel

About this sermon series John 6:24-35 So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 25  When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”  26  Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate your fill of…

Read It Again: Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael

About this sermon series Genesis 21:1-21 The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised.  Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the time of which Godhad spoken to him.  Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.  AndAbraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commandedhim.  Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born…

Read It Again: Daniel and the Lion’s Den

About this sermon series We are going to read it again, God, this story of yours, of ours. We pray that you’ll speak anew, afresh, aloud, so that that which we once knew will be illumined by what you’re saying today. You are here. We are listening. Amen.  Daniel 6:1-28 6 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, stationed throughout the whole kingdom, 2 and over them three administrators, one of whom was Daniel; to these the satraps gave…

Read It Again: Moses and the Burning Bush

About this sermon series Exodus 3:1-15 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and…