Category: Sermons HCE
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Sermon of September 12, 2010–“Cosmic Conversion”
To hear Sunday’s Sermon, click here: 001_A_002_jhedden_100911_001_2010_09_11 1 Timothy 1:12-17: 12I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service. 13Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and…
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Sermon of September 5, 2010–“Choose the Right Path!”
Deuteronomy 30:15-20–See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. 16If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God* that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and…
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Sermon of July 11, 2010
Amos 7:7 7 This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “See, I am setting a…
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“Linus’ Security Blanket”: A sermon on Luke 10
Luke 10 After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. He said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his…
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“What Next?” 190th Anniversary
2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. 2Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself…
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Luke 8
Luke 8 26Then they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes,£ which is opposite Galilee. 27As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn£ no clothes, and he did not live in a house but in the tombs. 28When he saw…
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Thankfulness–Sermon of June 13
36One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38She stood behind him at…
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Freedom From Chains
16One day, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave-girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. 17While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to…
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Acts 16:9-15—“Come Over and Help Us”
Acts 16:9-15—“Come Over and Help Us” During the night Paul had a vision: there stood a man of Macedonia pleading with him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” 10When he had seen the vision, we immediately tried to cross over to Macedonia, being convinced that God had called us to proclaim…
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Jubilee
The following is the text of Rev. Joseph Heddens first sermon at Emmanuel Reformed Church, Sunday January 24, 2010 Luke 4:14-21 14 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. 15 He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised…
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