Tag: death

• February 25, 2018 Sermon “Who Do You Trust?”

  

  John 14:1-14  “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come…

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  February 27, 2018

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  death, eternal life, Jesus, John 14, life, prayer

• May 28, 2017 Sermon — “The Strange Symbol of the Cross”

  

  The Gospel of Mark Chapter 15:33-40 33 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ 35When some of the bystanders heard it, they said,…

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  May 31, 2017

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

  abandonment, ambition, Christian persecution, Christology, contempt, Coptic church, cross, cross as forgiveness, Cross as solidarity in pain, death, Discipleship, elitism, empty, faith, featured, forgiveness, grief, H. Richard Niebuhr, humiliation, Jesus Christ, Jesus in solidarity, Jesus is our road, Jesus our brother, persecuted church, Philippians 2, political assassination, poverty, prayer, San Salvador, shadow of the cross, sin, social climbing, suffering, symbol, torture, UCCP Mindinao, WWJD

• April 16, 2017 Sermon — “What next?”

  

  Colossians 3:1-4 So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, 3for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4When…

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  April 21, 2017

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

  baptism, Colossians 3, dead to sin, death, Easter, forgiveness, health, health tips, Mary Magdalene, Matthew 28, Pastor John F. Alexander, Paul, Resurrection, Roman Empire, the cross, things above, union with Christ, Washing Feet

• January 15, 2017 Sermon — “Sitting in Time Out”

  

      Mark 1:9-15  9 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. 10And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him.11And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my…

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  January 16, 2017

  Sermons HCE

  40 days, abuse, Babylonian Exile, baptism of Jesus, carry no purse, Civil War Spirituals, coal miners, conscience, death, desert, drought of God’s Spirit, faith, fat cats, featured, financial prosperity, Jesus died for my sins, Jesus died on the cross with me, John the Baptist, Jordan River, Judean Wilderness, Koinonia Church, Mark 1:9-15, Mary the mother of Jesus, Matthew 10:9, meditate on the green, mental illness, no bag, not connected, pink slip, poverty, Satan, Spirit in bad moments, spirit of god, temptation, terminal illness, time out, unemployment, well-connected, Were You There When They Crucified My Lord

• Sermon of August 23, 2015: “God Moved Into the Neighborhood”

   1 Kings 8:22-30, 41-43 22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands to heaven. 23He said, ‘O Lord, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and steadfast love for your servants who walk…

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  August 24, 2015

  Sermons HCE

  1 Chronicles 28, 1 Kings 8, death, Eugene Peterson, family bible, Follow the Plan, future, goals, God’s dwelling, heaven, incarnation, Jack Welch, Jerusalem Temple, Jesus as temple, Jesus Christ, John 1:14, King David, objectives, parenthood, Peter Drucker, Solomon, tension, The Message, the Name, The Name of God, the name of Jesus

• Sermon of March 22, 2015–“Salvation and Seedlots”

  John 12:20-33 20Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23Jesus answered them, “The hour has…

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  March 23, 2015

  Calendar HCE, From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  7 churches, acorn, blood pressure, cholesterol, cross, crucifixion, death, Discipleship, each generation, grace, health, human face of Jesus, increase of life, Jesus Christ, John 12, making the faith its own, nones, past, Revelation, secularism, seeds, signs, trees, United Church of Christ

• Sermon of March 1, 2015–“Food for the Soul”

  Mark 8:31-38 31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33But…

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  March 2, 2015

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  accuser, Bosch, conflict, cross, crucifixion, death, deny oneself, duty, ethics, giving, Jesus Christ, Mark 8, Mark 8:31-38, moral theology, Obedience, outcasts, pastors, Peace, persecution, Pharisees, prosecutor, reward, Satan, the cross

• Sermon of December 14, 2014–“Shouts of Joy!”

  Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11  The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,     because the Lord has anointed me     to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,     to proclaim freedom for the captives     and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a] 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor…

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  December 16, 2014

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  addition, Advent, anointing, anxiety, blue Christmas, broken hearted, call of release, death, deliverance, Doubt, emancipation, fasting, freedom, good news, Holy Spirit, immigration, Isaiah 61, Israel, Jesus Christ, joy, Lent, Luke 4, ministry, poor, poverty, prisoner, Psalm 133, rescue, salvation, self-examination, sorrow, year end

• Sermon of November 2, 2014–“Walking in White”

  Revelation 7:9-17 9After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. 10They cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to…

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  November 3, 2014

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  all saints’, All Saints’ Day, angels, death, dying, eternal life, hospital, Jesus Christ, pilgrims, Revelation 7, saints, strangers

• Easter Sunday Sermon–“Christ is Risen, Indeed!”

  John 20: 1-18 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…

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  April 24, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  C.S. Lewis, cemetery, crucifixion, death, George MacLeod, hate, Jesus Christ, John 20, life eternal, Mary Magdalene, Mystery, Resurrection, sin, the cross, the empty tomb, the Living Christ