Tag: culture

• “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

  586 BCE, Advertising, Babylon, Babylonian Exile, billboards, Colossians 3:15, Compassion, culture, destruction of the Temple, diakonie, disaster, end of Israel, Evangelische Kirche im Rhineland, Exile, Ezekiel, Ezekiel 34, false shepherds, feeding your soul, focus on God, foreign soil, Germany, guidance, politics, priesthood, protection, secular culture, service, sheep, Shepherds, turbulance

• Amos: A Kingdom Spinning Its Wheels

  

  Amos 5:21-27 21 I hate, I despise your festivals,    and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.  22 Even though you offer me your burnt-offerings and grain-offerings,    I will not accept them; and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals    I will not look upon.  23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;    I…

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  September 19, 2016

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

  Amos, Amos 1:2, Amos 2:4, Amos 5:21-27, cleansing, culture, economics, fraud, gluttony, hunger, Israel, James Limburg, Justice, Lady Jusice, mishpat, nations, poverty, prayer, prophet, prophets, righteousness, sermon, slavery, society, tzedakah

• Sermon of February 2, 2014–“Gesundheit!”

  Matthew 5:1-12 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: 3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.4“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5“Blessed are the meek,…

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  February 4, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  Beatitudes, Bergpredigt, bestsellers, blessedness, blessing, bread and cup, Christian Rohlfs, church, Communion, culture, future, Happiness, hope, illness, Jesus Christ, Johns Hopkins Hospital, joy, Justin Bieber, lottery, luck, makarios, Matthew 5, meal, meaning, meaning of life, meekness, Michael Jackson, money, near death experience, poor in Spirit, power, powerball, purity of heart, purpose, Richard Nixon, self-help, Sermon on the Mount, stroke, suffering, surgery, testimony

• Easter Sunday 2013–John 20–“Two Cultures”

  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 taken the Lord…

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  April 4, 2013

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

  Church of South India, clash of cultures, culture, Culture Shock, death, different cultures, disappointment, Easter, emotional scars, empty tomb, faux pas, fear, grief, Healing, Lesslie Newbigin, loss, power of Christ, Resurrection, Resurrection of Jesus, scars