Category: From The Pastor HCE

• Sermon of March 30–“Who is Whole?”

  John 9:1-12 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4We must work the works of…

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  March 31, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  alcholism, allergies, analyze, arizona, artifice, blame, Blindness, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, conversion, depression, desert, Disciples, fault, forgiveness, garden, gardening, hayfever, Healing, Holly Golightly, homelessness, Houghton College, invasive species, Jesus Christ, John 9, John Leax, man born blind, Mark Twain, Matthew 7:4, miracles, miracles of jesus, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Opryland, Out Walking, Pharisees, predators, sight, signs and wonders, solution, stink bugs, testimony, theodicy, Truman Capote, wanderlust, Wil Willimon, zebra mussels

• April 2014 Calendar and Newsletter

    And to access our Electronic version of the newsletter click below: april 2014 hilltopper

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  March 27, 2014

  Calendar HCE, From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA, Uncategorized

  Church Newsletter, Hilltopper, newsletter

• Weekly Update–March 26–Barbeque Dinner Edition

  Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, Tonight is the Mid-Week Lenten Service at Apollo Church.  Our host is our own Ryan Lucas, who is serving there as their lay pastor.  Preaching will be the Rev. John Titus.  The offering, as in every Mid-Week Lenten Service will be split three equal ways: 1/3 for Typhoon Relief…

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  March 26, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Notes From Pastor Hedden, Youth Group HCE

  Apollo Church, barbeque, Barbeque export, blind, Blindness, emmanuel church, Healing, John 9, John 9:36, John Titus, Lancaster Theological Seminary, man born blind, Mid-Week Lenten Service, Ryan Lucas, Westmoreland Association, Westmoreland County Food

• Sermon of March 23–“Our Secret Selves”

  John 4:5-26 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. 7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give…

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  March 24, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA, Sermons HCE

  bethlehem, busyness, cultural rules, evangelism, family, foreigners, Fred Craddock, Germany, Hennef, Islam, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John 4, Living Water, Martin Luther King, Mount Gerizim, Nazareth, politics, poverty, racism, Samaritan woman, secularism, sin, Sunday School, Sunday School Decline, technology, thirst, time demands, Turkish, Wall Street Journal, woman at the well

• Sermon of March 16–“Happy Birthday”

  John 3:1-17 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.2He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” 3Jesus answered him, “Very…

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  March 17, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  baptism, Born again, Ephesus, Gospel, Halloween, heaven, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, John 3:16, John 3:3, Kingdom of God, Mark Kosper, Mary’s House, Nicodemus, pushing the envelope, renewal, renewal of baptism, Rhythms of Grace, shock jocks, turkey, water

• Weekly Update: March 14: Lent Week Two

  Good morning Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, Thanks to Bill and Linda Dulaney for leading worship last week while I was at Living Waters for the Spring Youth Rally! This Sunday–March 16–will be our Noisy Collection Sunday which we will donate to First Church Apollo.  The Bible lesson is from John 3 and the…

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  March 14, 2014

  Births HCE, From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA, Notices HCE

• Ash Wednesday Sermon–March 5, 2014

  Exodus 15:1, 9-18 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea. The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my…

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  March 6, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA, Sermons HCE

  answering the call, Ash Wednesday, Ashes, awe, Bible, Call of God, Calling, Christendom, christianity, church, dirt, doubts, dust, Egypt, emancipation, Exodus, failutre, fasting, finding oneself, freedom of choice, God the Father, guaranteed results, Israelites, Jesus Christ, labels, Lent, meaning of life, Moses, Moses and the Israelites, motivation, Philippines, prayer, Psalm 51, Red Sea, salvation, sand, secular culture, secular society, secularism, seekers, self-expression, sermons, sin, temptation, truth, unworthiness, vocation

• Ash Wednesday Service–7:30 p.m. March 5, 2014

  A SPECIAL EVENT ASH WEDNESDAY WORSHIP Wednesday, March 5, 2014 First off, thanks to all for the great visit with Darren Miller, Export native and “Ocean’s Seven” Swimmer! Even the cold and snow couldn’t keep us away! Now, we are transitioning to a new time in the church year. Tomorrow night is worship with imposition…

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  March 4, 2014

  Calendar HCE, From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA, Notes From Pastor Hedden

  Ash Wednesday, Export, Ivan Nikolaevich, Jesus Christ, Lent 2014, PA

• Breaking News–Hill’s Church to have guest speaker on March 2, 2014–Darren Miller

  Transfiguration Sunday With Special Guest Darren Miller, Murrysville “Ocean’s Seven” Swimmer http://youtu.be/2yy1Pcn95sw March 2, 2014 10:15 a.m.–Communion worship with Darren Miller bringing the message. “Darren Miller has always been a firm believer that charity should play an important role in everyone’s life and that helping those who are less fortunate is not an option, but…

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  February 28, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA

  Children’s Hospital, Communion, Darren Miller, Healing, health, Lord’s Supper, ministry, Mission, Special Guest Darren Miller, Team Forever

• Sermon of February 23, 2014–“Love Is Where You Find It”

  Matthew 5:38-48  38“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; 40and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak…

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  February 24, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  An Interpretation of Christian Ethics, Atticus Finch, C.S. Lewis, Christian Realism, conflict, double love commandment, duty, Eleazar Fernandez, evangelism, feeling, Harper Lee, Jesus Christ, kinship, labor unions, Love, love command, love of enemies, managment, Matthew 5, maturity, Mere Christianity, muscle memory, obligation, patriotism, perfection, Practice, reaching across the aisle, reasons to love, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sermon on the Mount, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson, Ukraine, Union Seminary in the Philippines, United Seminary, Valentine’s Day, Venezuela