Category: Sermons HCE
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Sermon of April 29, 2012–“Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?”
John 10:11 to 18: 10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 10:12 The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away–and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 10:13 The…
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Sermon of April 22, 2012–“United Nations”
What a great Sunday of worship!!! We were really blessed this week with some great sharing of the Good News of Jesus’ resurrection. First, our pianist/organist/choirmaster Linda Dulaney accompanied Randy and Amanda Steele on “I Walked Today where Jesus Walked” by Geoffrey O’Hara. You can listen to the song here: I Walked Today Where Jesus…
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Sermon of April 15, 2012–“Sunday Evening”
I’ve honestly never noticed the sentence that comes right after the “Peace be with you” statement of the Risen Jesus. I guess I’ve always just focused on that peace which passes all understanding. However, this year what came to me very strongly was the sentence which comes after the Peace: “As the Father has sent…
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Easter Sermons–April 8, 2012
Here are two Easter sermons. The first wrestles with John’s account in Chapter 20 of Jesus and Mary Magdalene meeting in the Garden. It’s here: Early The second deals Mark 16 and with the angel’s words to the women that Jesus “is not here and will meet you in Galilee, as he said.” You can…
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Sermon of March 25–“Worship Wonders”
Sunday’s sermon came from a lot of different sources. The story itself is from 2 Kings 22; the story of the Prophet Huldah. Second, there’s a significant section in this sermon about the book of Deuteronomy which we recently studied in Bible Study. Third, of course, much of this sermon came out of the love…
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Sermon of March 18, 2012–“The Fellowship Principle”
This sermon looks at Jethro, the Father-in-Law of Moses in Exodus Chapter 18:13-27. The main idea of the sermon, that people never behave exactly the way you expect them to, comes from the writings of Margaret Wheatley somewhere. And fellowship is so difficult in the church. Churches fight over small little things–electrical outlets, salt in…
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Sermon of March 11: Ryan Lucas
Dear Friends, Here’s the audio of Ryan’s sermon from Sunday. Ryan preached on three texts: Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; and John 2:13-22–Jesus’ cleansing of the Temple. Ryan challenges us to hear the voice of God calling us to take risks as well as to listen to others who might be struggling. I find this…
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Sermon of March 4, 2012–“Obscurity”
Like most people, even people familiar with the Bible, I wasn’t real sure about the figure of Mnason in Acts 21. Here’s all we know about him: “Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and…
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Sermon of February 19th–“Fly the Friendly Skies”
This sermon is basically about the tension between being ‘covered with Elijah’s mantle’ while in church and ‘running towards the chariot’ while out in the world. I don’t know that any of us live the tension very well–but it would be amazing if we could try! 2 Kings Chapter 2: 2Now when the Lord was…
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