Category: From The Pastor HCE
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Thursday Morning Update–October 27
Good morning friends of Emmanuel Church, Tomorrow night at 7 p.m. is an all-ages Halloween Party at the Church. Everyone is invited. We will begin with a short lesson in the sanctuary, then move on to games and snacks, end with apple bobbing. Everyone is invited to dress up for the costume parade and we…
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Sermon of October 23th–Hanging Out the Wash
Matthew 22:34-40: 34 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ 37He said to him, ‘ “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with…
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Thursday Update–October 22, 2011
Good afternoon everyone, I hope you are enjoying the beautiful colors of the autumn season. Saturday is the St. Vincent Gristmill/College tour. We will meet at church at 10 a.m. and car pool over to the college. Cost of the tour is a dollar per person. Lunch will be on your own at either the…
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Sermon of Sunday, October 9, 2011–“Regrets Only”
This is a challenging parable of judgment. As with any parable, there’s probably more on the page than could ever be mined and it doesn’t always have to be internally consistent. Jesus often spoke in very broad terms–camels passing through the eye of the needle, people harvesting enormous amounts of grain, and so on. What…
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Emmanuel’s Emergent Experience–October 30th at 6:30 p.m.
Bring photos/items that remind you of who and what you’ve lost and we will create together a “Living Icon.” The Service will end with a candlelight procession to the graveyard.
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Thursday Morning Update–October 6, 2011
Good Afternoon friends of Emmanuel Church, Saturday morning is the PA Cleanways–we will meet at the church parking lot at 9 a.m. to clean Hill’s Church Road from the church down to Old William Penn Highway. We should be finished by mid-morning. Sunday’s Worship at 10:15 deals with the parable of the Wedding Banquet, a…
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Thursday Morning Update–September 29, 2011
Dear Friends of Emmanuel Church, Good morning. Sunday’s worship is World Wide Communion Sunday and we will be having Chancel Communion. The Sermon is entitled “What have you lost?” and is based on Paul’s Letter to the Philippians Chapter 3. There will also be the covered dish fellowship hour after worship. The Mitten Tree Collection…
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Sermon of September 18–“Recipe for Your Life”
“Recipe for Your Life”: A sermon based on Exodus 16:2-15 This Sunday’s sermon was a little bit like a recipe. All the ingredients were there–the Word of God, a personal story or two, a reading of where the congregation is going. It was challenging, to say the least, to try and figure out how Quails…
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Thursday Morning Update–September 15, 2011
Good morning friends of Emmanuel Church, Tonight is MOOK–our small-group Bible Study, at the Norwalk Daily Grind Coffee Shop at 7 p.m. We are going to begin a new unit, so now might be a time to join up! Hope to see you there! This Sunday’s Sermon is from Exodus 16–God feeding the Israelites in…
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Sermon of September 11–“When Moses Led . . .”
Many folks know the story of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. And a lot of us know it from the movie “The Ten Commandments” or from a children’s Bible. But do we really know the story as well as we think we do? I ran into a few complications in writing this sermon because…
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