Category: From The Pastor HCE
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Thursday Morning Update–August 9, 2012
Good morning friends and members of Hills Church, On Saturday morning, a group of volunteers will gather at 8 a.m. to work on the back door ramp and various other projects. If you can spare some time, we’d love to have you involved! Sunday’s worship theme will be “That Old Time Religion” with special music…
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Sermon of August 5, 2012–After this . . . . Renewal.
2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:13a 11:26 When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him. 11:27 When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the…
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Sermon of July 29, 2012–“A Bleak Chapter”
2 Samuel 11:1-15 11:1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 11:2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was…
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Weekly Update–July 26, 2012
Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Church, Tonight is our Member in Discernment Committee meeting with Ryan Lucas. It begins at 7 p.m. here at the church. Ryan is currently a student in the Penn West Academy and is seeking to follow God’s call to ministry in the United Church of Christ. Tonight we…
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Weekly Update–Friday, July 13th, 2012
Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Church, Sunday’s worship will have Bill Dulaney preaching and his topic is “Changing the Bottom Line.” Our noisy collection with the kids is this Sunday as well, so bring your change! Future dates: July 26th at 7 p.m–Member in Discernment Meeting with Ryan Lucas; Sunday July 29th–MOOK (Meaningfully…
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Weekly Update–July 6, 2012
Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, Good morning! I hope everyone is doing well and keeping cool in this brutal heat. Please pray for those folks who don’t have power, those who have to work outside in this weather, and those who are most affected by the heat. Hopefully, we will soon get a…
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Sermon of June 24, 2012–“Bound in the Boat”
Mark 4:35-41 4:35 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” 4:36 And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. 4:37 A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into…
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Weekly Update–June 22, 2012
Hello friends and members of Emmanuel Church, It’s been a scorcher of a week here and we had a lot of activities to keep us busy in all this heat! First of all, thanks to Trista Lucas and all the volunteers for the great Vacation Bible School Program: “Culture Shock.” We learned about mission overseas,…
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Sermon of June 17, 2012–“Gardening With God”
Mark 4:26-34 4:26 He also said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground,4:27 and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 4:28 The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full…
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