Tag: Babylon

• January 8, 2017 Sermon — “Fashionably Late”

  

  Matthew 2 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2asking, ‘Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.’ 3When King Herod…

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  January 12, 2017

  From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA, 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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  November 8, 2016

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

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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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  October 31, 2016

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

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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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  October 24, 2016

  Hills Church Export PA, Notes From Pastor Hedden, Sermons HCE

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• Sermon of September 29–“Surprising Investments”

  Jeremiah 32 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of King Zedekiah of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. 2At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and the prophet Jeremiah was confined in the court of the guard that was in the palace of…

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  September 30, 2013

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

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