Tag: desert

• 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

• May 22, 2016 Sermon–“And They’re Off . . . “

  

  Exodus 32:15-34 15 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain, carrying the two tablets of the covenant in his hands, tablets that were written on both sides, written on the front and on the back. 16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.…

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  May 23, 2016

  Sermons HCE

  40 years, Aaron, anxiety, bad beginning, brutality, Burger King, desert, double love commandment, Exodus 32, featured, Golden Calf, Harry Rabbit Angstrom, idolatry, indifference, Jesus Christ, John Updike, judgmentalism, laziness, Matthew 22:35-40, Moses, Peter Rabbit, pride, Rabbit Run, Red Sea, sin, Sinai, sloth, stumble, wandering, wilderness, workaholism

• Sermon of April 3, 2016–“The Most Unlikely of Heroines”

  

  Exodus, Chapter 1:8-2:10: 8 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9He said to his people, ‘Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. 10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and…

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  April 4, 2016

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

  accountability, brickmakers, Charlton Heston, church, city planning, desert, Egypt, employment, employment desert, Exodus, Exodus 1, Exodus 2, eyesight, featured, food desert, God’s preference for the poor, Herod, history, Jesus Christ, Jochebed, Jocheved, laborers, Matthew 2, Miriam, Moses, nameless, Nile River, NIMBY, Numbers 30, oppression, periphery, Pharoah, Pharoah’s Daughter, poverty, Puah, public housing, public policy, public school, Red Sea, religion, responsibility, school, Shiphrah, slavery, The Ten Commandments, Universal Studios, violence, women, women’s empowerment, worship

• Sermon of March 30–“Who is Whole?”

  John 9:1-12 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4We must work the works of…

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  March 31, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  alcholism, allergies, analyze, arizona, artifice, blame, Blindness, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, conversion, depression, desert, Disciples, fault, forgiveness, garden, gardening, hayfever, Healing, Holly Golightly, homelessness, Houghton College, invasive species, Jesus Christ, John 9, John Leax, man born blind, Mark Twain, Matthew 7:4, miracles, miracles of jesus, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Opryland, Out Walking, Pharisees, predators, sight, signs and wonders, solution, stink bugs, testimony, theodicy, Truman Capote, wanderlust, Wil Willimon, zebra mussels

• Sermon of February 9, 2014–“Love On the Line”

  Matthew 5:13-20 13“You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot. 14“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. 15No one after lighting…

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  February 12, 2014

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

  active listening, black and white television, boasting, bragging, cell phone, conversation, Darkness, desert, devices, Dog Head Tilt, Edith Wharton, electricity, electronic media, Ethan Frome, facebook, Gospel of Matthew, guidance, hearing, Holy Spirit, humility, illumination, Jesus Christ, life before remote control, Light of the world, listening, Matthew 5, Me-too, media exposure, Michael Metzger, Pharisees, righteousness, scribes, self-centeredness, self-righteousness, Sermon on the Mount, technology, television, test pattern, turkey, tweeting