Category: Hills Church Export PA
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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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Sermon of October 2, 2011–“What Have You Lost?”
Paul starts sharing a few personal stories, and then moves into a great theological statement of praise. Unintentionally, I followed the first half of Paul’s formula (autobiography) pretty closely. How well I managed to finish with a great theme of praising God, well, you’ll have to judge for yourself. The sermon is here: What Have…
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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 25, 2011–“Sweetening Sour Grapes”
Dear Friends of Emmanuel Church, Underlying this week’s sermon is the idea of our inter-connectedness. Ezekiel dealt with this in the following passage: The word of the Lord came to me: What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are…
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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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Thursday Update–September 8, 2011
Good Afternoon Friends of Emmanuel Church, A look at the Calendar for the Upcoming weeks: September 10–Please join me in wishing the best for our friends William Mountz and Danielle Gorbel, who will be married at Hill’s on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.! Sunday, September 11–Sunday morning’s worship is based on Exodus 14:19-31, the very famous…
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