Category: From The Pastor HCE
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April 16, 2017 Sermon — “What next?”
Colossians 3:1-4 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, 3for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4When…
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Holy Week and Easter Schedule 2017
Holy Week and Easter Schedule Maundy Thursday, April 13 — 6:30 p.m. Meal with Service following. Good Friday, April 14–7:30 p.m. Worship on the theme of “What is Truth?” Easter Sunday, April 16– 6:30 a.m.–Community sunrise Service in the Graveyard. (Look for the article in yesterday’s Penn Franklin News!) 8:00 a.m. — First Service of…
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April 9, 2017 — Palm Sunday Easter Choir Cantata
Matthew 21:1-11 When they had come near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2saying to them, ‘Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything…
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April 2, 2017 Sermon — “Stepping Over Problems”
Luke 16:19-31 19 ‘There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick…
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March 26, 2017 Sermon — “There and Back Again”
Luke 15:1-32 Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ 3 So he told them this parable: 4‘Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave…
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March 19, 2017 Sermon — “Missing the Point”
Luke 13:10-17 10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 11And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. 12When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, ‘Woman, you…
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March 23, 2017 Messy Church — “Spring Paints in Many Colors”
On Thursday, March 23rd come on in and help celebrate the first few days of Spring with Messy Church. If you are not familiar with Messy Church, now is the time to get in on the ground floor of a new way to worship God and join a community of friends. But what’s Messy Church?…
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March 12 Sermon — Q & A Session
The Gospel of Luke 10:25-37 25 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. ‘Teacher,’ he said, ‘what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ 26He said to him, ‘What is written in the law? What do you read there?’ 27He answered, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with…
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February 26, 2017 Sermon — “I’ve been to the mountaintop!”
Matthew 17:1-8 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. 2And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. 3Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.…
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February 19, 2017 Sermon — “I Shall Not Want”
Mark 6:30-44 30 The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. 31He said to them, ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. 32And they went away in the boat to a…
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