PCC Sermons Podcast · Pompey Community Church

A Bee Without a Sting and a Snake Defanged

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"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"

It opens with a greeting from Pompey Community Church and a welcome into 1 Corinthians 15. The preacher centers on verses 50 to 58 and uses a New Year reflection to set the tone. The starting point is plain: many people are not feeling rested, ready, or especially prepared for 2026. From there the sermon turns to Paul's language about the end of the age. It points to the Lord gathering his elect, sounding a trumpet, and raising God's people. The focus stays on what God will do, not on speculation. That future hope meets the present struggle with sin. The message names sickness, death, and relational strife as part of what believers still carry. Resurrection is presented as the thing that makes endurance possible. The preacher spends time on imperishable, explaining it as freedom from decay, weakness, and the fragility of body, mind, and heart. Immortality gets the same treatment: what is mortal must put on what cannot die. The church is told, plainly, that transformation is needed. Christ's death and resurrection have already secured the promise. The closing prayer asks for help, gratitude, and a year shaped by growing confidence in God's promises. The tone stays warm and pastoral, and the final note returns to Jesus and the hope of being raised with him.

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Resurrection hope for weary believers living between frailty and Christ's promised return.

This sermon opens in 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 and keeps resurrection hope in view for people worn down by ordinary life. It treats Paul's contrast between the perishable and the imperishable as something more than doctrine on paper; the point lands as comfort as well as teaching.

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For when you need resurrection hope for a tired, ordinary week.

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