Category: Hills Church Export PA
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Weekly Update–December 7, 2012
Hello friends of Emmanuel Church, First off–I need your help! We would like to sing Christmas Carols for our Retirement Home residents and Homebound Residents–but I’d like to know who is interested and when you might be available. Suggeted times have been after lunch this Sunday, December 9th, anytime Saturday, December 15th or some other…
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A View of Our Living Advent Calendar
This year Hill’s Church has added a special way of counting down the days to Christmas. Trista Lucas, Christian Education director and part-time artist, has put together a Living Advent Calendar display of objects and themes, such as snowflakes or hot chocolate, from Christmas. Every day a new window is ‘unwrapped’ and its contents revealed.…
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Sermon of December 2, 2012–“Sign Language”
Sign Language Luke 21:25-36 21:25 “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. 21:26 People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will…
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Weekly Update–November 29, 2012
Hello friends of Emmanuel Church, Friday night is Murrysville Night of Lights in the town square, Old William Penn and Sardis Road from 6 to 8 p.m. Several of our members are involved in putting this together and I have been asked to offer an invocation. I hear there will be wassail, carols, snacks and…
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Sermon of November 18th, 2012–“The Power of Saying Thanks”
1 Samuel 1:4-20 1:4 On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters; 1:5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the LORD had closed her womb. 1:6 Her rival used to provoke her severely, to irritate…
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Weekly Update–November 16, 2012
Hello Friends and Members of Emmanuel Reformed Church, This past Tuesday we had the Funeral Service for James Karp at Wolfe-von Geis Funeral Home and Twin Valley Memorial Park, Delmont. Please keep his family in your prayers. You can find his obituary here. Tuesday afternoon was the memorial service at Redstone Highlands for Molly Moose.…
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Weekly Update–November 8, 2012–St. Martin’s Day Edition
Hi Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, We have a great weekend coming up–and lots of things to do as we approach Thanksgiving and (can it be already?) the Holiday Season. Veterans’ Day–Sunday is Worship at 10:15 a.m. We will have a special piece of music from the Bell Choir and the sermon is based…
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All Saints’ Sermon: “First Things” November 4, 2012
Revelation 21:1-6 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 21:2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.…
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Weekly Update–November 1, 2012
Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Church, Today is All Saints’ Day. According to the Bible (Ephesians 4:12), the saints are the people who belong to the Church, the body of Christ. So, today we remember all of the saints–those currently living but also our grandparents, parents, those who have gone before us into…
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Sermon of October 21, 2012–“Bull’s Eye!”
Job 38:1-7 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: 38:2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 38:3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. 38:4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me,…
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