Category: Sermons HCE
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November 6, 2016 Sermon — “Beauty from Brokenness”
Isaiah 55 Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters;and you that have no money, come, buy and eat!Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which does not satisfy?Listen carefully to me, and eat…
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October 30, 2016 Sermon — “What’s Your Favorite Color?”
Isaiah 40:1-11 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to herthat she has served her term, that her penalty is paid,that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. 3 A voice cries out:‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make…
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“Babbling Babylonians”
Translation of the mother/child image from the German: Diakonie: Emergency Help. ‘The largest disaster is forgetting.’ Ezekiel 34:1-17 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 Mortal, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to them—to the shepherds: Thus says the Lord God: Ah, you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds…
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Amos: A Kingdom Spinning Its Wheels
Amos 5:21-27 21 I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Even though you offer me your burnt-offerings and grain-offerings, I will not accept them; and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon. 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; I…
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August 28, 2016 Sermon — “Heeeere’s Solomon!”
First Book of Kings Chapter 6:1-14 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. 2The house that King Solomon…
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August 21, 2016 Sermon — “Not Dynasty, Accountability”
2 Samuel 7:4-17 4 But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan: 5Go and tell my servant David: Thus says the Lord: Are you the one to build me a house to live in? 6I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from…
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August 7, 2016 Sermon — “Be Careful What You Wish For”
1 Samuel 8:1-19 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. 2The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba. 3Yet his sons did not follow in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice. 4 Then…
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“A Book I Read” — Sermon of July 31, 2016
1 Samuel 2:12-26 12 Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord 13 or for the duties of the priests to the people. When anyone offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand, 14 and he would thrust it into…
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July 17, 2016 Sermon–“Seek and Find”
Judges 4:14-16; 21:25 4 At that time Deborah, a prophetess, wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel. 5She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the Israelites came up to her for judgement. 6She sent and summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali,…
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July 3, 2016 Sermon– “Prone to Wander”
Joshua 3:14-17, 24:1-4, 22-27 14 When the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were in front of the people. 15Now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest. So when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan,…
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