Category: From The Pastor HCE
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Sermon of August 6, 2017 — “Genesis All Over Again”
Genesis 1:1-5 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 2the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. 3Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good; and God…
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Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer Update — August 4, 2017
Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, It is a beautiful morning up on God’s hill! We are watching for storms this afternoon but the weekend is supposed to be lovely! We begin a new series on Sunday, August 6th in worship. We will be hearing about the Gospel of John sequentially. This means that the…
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July 2, 2017 Sermon — “Testifying to Newness”
Acts 10:9-23 About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10He became hungry and wanted something to eat; and while it was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11He saw the heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down,…
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July & August 2017 Newsletter
Good morning all! Click on the link below to get the latest news and events from Emmanuel Church! July August 2017 Newsletter
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” Midwives, Bus Drivers, And Janitors ” — Sermon of June 18, 2017
Acts 8:26-40 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, ‘Get up and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.’ (This is a wilderness road.) 27So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians,…
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June 16, 2017 Weekly Update
This Sunday: “Midwives, Bus Drivers, and Janitors” Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, It is a hot, humid day up on God’s hill!!! Sunday’s Sermon is entitled “Midwives, Bus Drivers, and Janitors.” It is based on Acts 8:26-39–Philip the Evangelist and his encounter with an Ethiopian who wants to know more about Jesus.…
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May 28, 2017 Sermon — “The Strange Symbol of the Cross”
The Gospel of Mark Chapter 15:33-40 33 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ 35When some of the bystanders heard it, they said,…
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May 14, 2017 Sermon — “Muscle Memory”
Luke 20:9-19 9 He began to tell the people this parable: ‘A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenants, and went to another country for a long time. 10When the season came, he sent a slave to the tenants in order that they might give him his share of the produce of the vineyard;…
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April 30 Sermon — “Is that you, Jesus?”
Matthew 25:31-46 31 ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33and he will…
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April 23 Sermon –“The Tricky Politics of Salvation”
Luke 19:1-10 He entered Jericho and was passing through it. 2A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax-collector and was rich. 3He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. 4So he ran ahead and climbed a sycomore…
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