Category: Sermons HCE
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Sermon of October 14, 2012–“Questioning the Rules”
Mark 10:17-31 10:17 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 10:18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. 10:19 You know the commandments:…
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Sermon of October 7, 2012–“Flesh and Blood” Worldwide Communion Sunday
Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 1:1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, 1:2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. 1:3 He is the reflection of God’s glory…
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Sermon Of September 30, 2012–“Fumbling Toward Failure”
Mark 9: 38-50 38 John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ 39But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak…
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Sermon of September 16, 2012–“The Greatest Question”
Mark 8:27-38 8:27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 8:28 And they answered him, “John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” 8:29 He asked them, “But who do…
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Sermon of September 9, 2012–“What are You Waiting For?”
Mark 7:24-37 7:24 From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, 7:25 but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and…
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Sermon of September 2, 2012–“The Greatest Revolution”
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 7:1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 7:2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 7:3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash…
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Sermon of August 26, 2012–‘Right Church, Right Pew’
1 Kings 8:(1,6,10-11), 22-30, 41-43 8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the ancestral houses of the Israelites, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. 8:6…
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Sermon of August 19, 2012–“The Best Kind of Prayer”
1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 2:10 Then David slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the city of David. 2:11 The time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 2:12 So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom…
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Sermon of August 12, 2012–“A Well-balanced Diet”
John 6:35, 41-51 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 6:41 Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 6:42 They were…
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Sermon of August 5, 2012–After this . . . . Renewal.
2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:13a 11:26 When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him. 11:27 When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the…
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