Category: Sermons HCE

• Weekly Update–Summer Vacation Edition

  Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Reformed Church, This Sunday, July 6th, we will begin with our hymn sing for the summer and Bill Dulaney will be bringing the message: “Come Unto Me–For My Burden is Easy.”  After worship, join your friends for a time of fellowship in the Steele Building. Next Sunday, July…

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  July 3, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Notes From Pastor Hedden, Sermons HCE

  10-10-10, bible study, Bill Dulaney, Blackburn Center, emmanuel reformed church, Invitational Event, July 4th, Pastor Hedden, Romans 8, Shawn Hanks, small group, St. Paul’s Home, Steele Building, worship

• Sermon of June 22, 2014–“School’s Out!”

  Matthew 10:24-39 24“A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master;25it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! 26“So have no fear of…

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  June 23, 2014

  Sermons HCE

  12 disciples, ascension, Barbara Brown Taylor, Bellaire High School Ohio, communism, conflict, Creative Commons License, Disciples, Discipleship, East Germany, eisegesis, family, forgiveness, Fred Craddock, hate, honor, Jesus as teacher, Lebanon PA, Love, Martyr’s Mirror, Matthew 10, Matthew 5, persectuion, refugees, risk, secret police, secularism, Sermon on the Mount, students, teacher

• Two Pentecost Sermons–“Prayer Chain” & “For This Moment”

  John 17:1-11   After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3And this is eternal life, that…

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  June 9, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  10 Commandments, accomplishment, ascension, catholicity, change, Char Burch, Communion, david ackerman, dialogue, Eucharist, fatigue, goodbye, Greek Orthodox Church, Holy Spirit, Ikon community, intercession, Jesus Christ, Jesus prays for us, John 17, John 17:11, John 1:1, Mark A Hewitt, Mark Twain, Matthew 5:24, Mennonites, Mercersburg Society, Mission, Penn West Conference, Pentecost, prayer, promise, reconciliation, Relationship, Romans 8:34, Sinai, tongues of fires, Trinity, United Church of Christ in the Philippines, universality

• Sermon of May 25, 2014–“To Whom It May Concern”

  John 14:15-21 15”If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.17This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and…

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  May 27, 2014

  Sermons HCE

  1 John 4:10-11, Advocate, ATM machine, Camp Living Waters, children, Comforter, commandments, Counselor, Creation, Emmanuel, god, God for us, God know us, God with us, Harlow experiments, inculturation, Jesus Christ, John 14, Love, Martin Luther, Matthew 18:20, Matthew 28:16-20, missions, Paraclete, parenthood, Relationship, rhesus experiments, Robert J. Wicks, strangers, summer camp, the Holy Spirit, three in one, Trinity, unloveable, unloving

• Confirmation Sermon–“Home Improvement: Making Renovations”

  John 14:1-14 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come…

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  May 19, 2014

  Sermons HCE

  catholic church, Confirmation, heaven, Jesus, John 14, mansions, personality, rooms, universal church, Worldwide Church

• Sermon of May 11–“The Leader We’ve Been Waiting For”

  John 10:1-10 “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit.2The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls…

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  May 13, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  Bible Reading, Derek Sivers, followership, idolatry, Jesus Christ, John 10, leadership, Margaret Wheatley, prayer, Reinhold Niebuhr, relationships, TED talks, the Good Shepherd, UCCP, United Church of Christ, United Church of Christ in the Philippines

• Easter Sunday Sermon–“Christ is Risen, Indeed!”

  John 20: 1-18 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 2So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have…

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  April 24, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  C.S. Lewis, cemetery, crucifixion, death, George MacLeod, hate, Jesus Christ, John 20, life eternal, Mary Magdalene, Mystery, Resurrection, sin, the cross, the empty tomb, the Living Christ

• Sermon of April 6, 2014–“Roll Them Bones”

  Ezekiel 37:1-14 The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3He said to me, “Mortal, can…

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  April 7, 2014

  Sermons HCE

  ark of the covenant, army, Babylonain Exile, cemetery, communion of saints, cross, death, dry bones, Easter, electric chair, eternal life, Ezekiel, Ezekiel 37, fall of Jerusalem, fog, gallows, hidden, innocence, life, marriage, power of God, Prophecy, resrurrection, resurrection of the body, Revelation, Romans 6, sermon, symbolism, therapy, twilight

• Sermon of March 30–“Who is Whole?”

  John 9:1-12 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4We must work the works of…

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  March 31, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  alcholism, allergies, analyze, arizona, artifice, blame, Blindness, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, conversion, depression, desert, Disciples, fault, forgiveness, garden, gardening, hayfever, Healing, Holly Golightly, homelessness, Houghton College, invasive species, Jesus Christ, John 9, John Leax, man born blind, Mark Twain, Matthew 7:4, miracles, miracles of jesus, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Opryland, Out Walking, Pharisees, predators, sight, signs and wonders, solution, stink bugs, testimony, theodicy, Truman Capote, wanderlust, Wil Willimon, zebra mussels

• Sermon of March 23–“Our Secret Selves”

  John 4:5-26 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. 7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give…

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  March 24, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA, Sermons HCE

  bethlehem, busyness, cultural rules, evangelism, family, foreigners, Fred Craddock, Germany, Hennef, Islam, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John 4, Living Water, Martin Luther King, Mount Gerizim, Nazareth, politics, poverty, racism, Samaritan woman, secularism, sin, Sunday School, Sunday School Decline, technology, thirst, time demands, Turkish, Wall Street Journal, woman at the well