Category: Hills Church Export PA
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Sermon of January 29–“Jam & Jelly”
I love this passage from Deuteronomy. It lays out very clearly how we can tell what comes from God and what doesn’t. Knowing God’s Word to us in our everyday context is not an easy task in today’s word (if it ever was). In Chapter 18, Moses lays down 2 criteria for knowing the truth…
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Weekly Update–January 26, 2012
Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Church, Sunday is a really busy day! At 10:15 worship, we will welcome 5 new members into Hill’s Church Fellowship. The sermon on Sunday morning is entitled “Jam and Jelly” and is based on Deuteronomy 18:15-20–see below. So come and join your friends and neighbors–there might be a…
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Sermon of Sunday, January 21st–“The Business of the Church”
This week’s sermon dealt with the idea that Jesus chose his disciples from among the common, the lowly. The text was Mark 1:14-20: Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe…
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Thursday Morning Update–January 19, 2012
Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Reformed Church, This Sunday is the Third Sunday after Epiphany and in worship we will be talking about the call to the disciples, as recorded in Mark’s Gospel Chapter 1. We will also be Affirming the Ministry of Ryan Lucas, who is a Member in Discernment and Student in…
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Sermon of January 15, 2012–God’s Choice, Not Mine
This past Sunday’s sermon was a reflection on Jesus’ calling the disciples as we have it in John’s Gospel, Chapter 1:43-51. I’ll get another crack at a similar story this upcoming Sunday when I’ll be preaching on Mark’s version of the calling of the disciples in Mark 1:14-20. God’s Choice, not mine
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January 12, 2012–Weekly Update
Good morning Friends and Members of Emmanuel Reformed Church, This Sunday is the kick off for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. We will be doing a couple of things to commemorate the week. First, several of the prayers and worship materials on Sunday come from our partner church, the United Church of Christ…
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Sermon for Sunday January 8–“Throw the Book At Them!”
Sunday’s worship was very powerful. We began with the Ordination and Installation of the New Consistory members. We then had a re-affirmation of Baptism based on the New Year’s Covenant Service of John Wesley. We ended the service with a celebration of the Lord’s Supper. Baptism was the theme around which the sermon was crafted.…
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Sermon of January 1, 2012–“Who Are These People, Anyway?”
This sermon is my attempt to struggle with the roles of Simeon and Anna in Chapter 2 of Luke. It occurred to me during the preparation of the sermon how important they are to the infancy story of Jesus, yet we have overlooked them–that’s a great irony because they were probably overlooked in Jesus’ day…
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John Wesley’s Covenant Service–January 8th at 10:15 a.m.
Want to start the New Year off right? Tired of making New Year’s resolutions only to have broken them by January 13th? Well, John Wesley, the 18th Century Founder of Methodism, created a service to re-dedicate ourselves to God at the beginning of the New Year. I n his journal, Wesley wrote this: “I mentioned…
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Thursday Update–December 29, 2011
Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, Good afternoon. I want to thank everyone for the wonderful worship experiences over the Christmas Holiday. It was great to have everyone in worship and I hope that your Christmas was full of the light of Jesus. This Sunday is our New Year’s Day Service at 10:15 a.m.…
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