Tag: Disciples

• December 3, 2017 Sermon — “The Holy One of God”

  

  John 6:52-71 52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ 53So Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Those who eat my flesh and drink my […]

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  December 4, 2017

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

  Advent, Becoming less, Disciples, divine initiative, Holy One of God, Holy One of Israel, human initiative, John 6, John 6:15, John 6:60, John 6:66, John 6:69, Kingdom of God, Kingship, Martin Luther, Mary, Messianism, simplicity, St. Benedict, Tissot

• January 29, 2017 Sermon — “You Need a Team”

  

  Luke 5:1-11 Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, 2he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3He got into one of the […]

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  January 30, 2017

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

  10 Commandments, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, Augustine, casting, Christian history, City of God, Disciples, Eugene Peterson, evangelism, Exodus 20:3, facebook, fishers of men, fishing, fitbit, Glen Stassen, idolatory, Incarnational Discipleship, Jeremiah, Jesus Christ, Lordship of Christ, Luke 5:1-11, Moses, Not a Bible Thing, Obedience, obey, Peter, voice of Jesus

• Sermon of September 20, 2015–“Grow Up!”

  Mark 9:30-37 30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, ‘The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.’ 32But […]

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  September 21, 2015

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  addiction, call of Jesus, child, childhood, David Gushee, Disciples, God the Father, Greatness, Healing, homelessness, Jesus Christ, least of these, life, Love, love of neighbor, love of stranger, Mark 9, mental illness, Missionaries, responsibility, reversal, Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, Roman Empire, Syrian Refugees, vulnerable

• Sermon of July 5th–“Sent-er Field”

  Mark 6:1-13 He left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 2On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of […]

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  July 6, 2015

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  active ministry, apostles, being sent, class, contexts, Disciples, Discipleship, Durand United Church of Christ, estrangement, food insecurity, go, Hamberger Helper, Healing, hospitals, Jesus Christ, Kingdom of God, Made to Stick, Melissa Studzinski, ministry, Mission, Peace, poverty, prejudice, race, retirement home, sent by Jesus, travel light, Trayvon Martin, Walking around money

• Sermon of April 12–John 20:19-31–“What’s Next?”

  John 20:19-31 9 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ 20After he said this, he showed them his hands and […]

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  April 13, 2015

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  A Wrinkle in Time, belief, connection, connectivity, Disciples, Discipleship, Doubt, Doubting Thomas, faith, faithfulness, Jesus Christ, John the Apostle, Madeline L’Engle, Margaret Wheatley, Mary Magdalene, microcredit, Muhammad Yunis, poverty, Resurrection, Senegal, solution, solutions, suicide, The Beloved Disciple, Thomas, touch, word

• Sermon of January 25, 2014–“Shaped by Christ”

   Mark 1:14-20 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God, and saying, ‘The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near; repent, and believe in the good news.’  As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a […]

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  January 26, 2015

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

  biography, decision, Disciples, Discipleship, faithfulness, good news, Gospel, Kingdom of God, life, Mark 1, shaped by Christ

• Sermon of September 21, 2014–“Award for Last Place”

  Matthew 20:1-16 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2After agreeing with the laborers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.3When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace; 4and […]

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  September 22, 2014

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  bottom line, carrot and stick, crab, daily wage, day’s wage, debt, Disciples, economics, employment, encounter with the Risen Christ, fairness, feast, financial reports, first will be last, flooding, God’s grace, homelessness, hunger, Jesus, Laborers in the Vineyard, last will be first, lobster, lost and lone, Manila, Matthew 20, orphan, parable, Plymouth, Plymouth Harbor, political culture, sleeping in, tardiness, Tropical Storm Mario 2014, unemployment, United Church of Christ in the Philippines

• Sermon of June 22, 2014–“School’s Out!”

  Matthew 10:24-39 24“A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master;25it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! 26“So have no fear of […]

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  June 23, 2014

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  12 disciples, ascension, Barbara Brown Taylor, Bellaire High School Ohio, communism, conflict, Creative Commons License, Disciples, Discipleship, East Germany, eisegesis, family, forgiveness, Fred Craddock, hate, honor, Jesus as teacher, Lebanon PA, Love, Martyr’s Mirror, Matthew 10, Matthew 5, persectuion, refugees, risk, secret police, secularism, Sermon on the Mount, students, teacher

• 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 16, 2014–“Deeper Magic From Before the Dawn of Time”

  Matthew 5:21-37 21“You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘You shall not murder’; and ‘whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.’ 22But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you […]

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  February 17, 2014

  Notes From Pastor Hedden, Sermons HCE

  adultery, anger, Aslan, atonement, C.S. Lewis, cross, Deeper Magic, Disciples, divorce, ethics, exaggeration, forgiveness, gift, grace, grudges, humility, hyperbole, Jesus Christ, Kingdom of God, lust, Machiavelli, Matthew 5, morality, pride, reconciliation, Sermon on the Mount, sin, strength, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The White Witch, will to power