Tag: heroes

• February 26, 2017 Sermon — “I’ve been to the mountaintop!”

  

  Matthew 17:1-8 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. 2And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. 3Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.…

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  February 27, 2017

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

  Abraham and Isaac, aid, Beatitudes, Church of the Brethren, Dan West, David, economics, Elijah, failure of imagination, featured, forgiveness, God the Father, God the Father’s will, God’s rule, Heifer Project, heroes, imagination, Isaiah 2:4, Kingdom of God, losing, Matthew 17, Matthew 5, Matthew 5:23, Moses, mountains, Mt Carmel, Mt Sinai, Mt Tabor, Mt Zion, nonviolence, poor in Spirit, redemption of creation, relief, Snow White, Spanish Civil War, swords into plowshares, transfiguration, winning, wow factor

• February 28, 2016 Sermon–“Living the Dream”

  

  Genesis 38:1-28 Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan. 2This is the story of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph…

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  February 29, 2016

  Sermons HCE

  12 legions of angels, Amish, dreams, Esther 4:14, Genesis 37, God in history, H. Richard Niebuhr, heroes, Jesus Christ, John 19:11, Joseph, King David, Matthew 26:53, Must we do nothing, Noah, Pilate, politics, power, Psalm 146:3, Psalm 45:1-5, Queen Esther, Reinhold Niebuhr, relevance, Romans 13:1, Solomon, tension, The Grace of Doing Nothing, There is a Balm in Gilead

• Sermon of February 21, 2016–“Family Feud”

  

  Genesis 27:5-33, 41 5 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it, 6Rebekah said to her son Jacob, ‘I heard your father say to your brother Esau, 7“Bring me game, and prepare for me savoury food to eat, that I may…

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  February 22, 2016

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  12 tribes, accountant, birthright, blessing, Blindness, Confirmation Class, deception, economics, emmanuel church, Esau, family, featured, game, garbage collection, Genesis 27, goat, grace, greed, Greed is good, heroes, imagination, inheritance, Isaac, Israel, Jacob, Jacob’s ladder, law, money, morality, prayer, public good, Rebekah, self-help, selfishness, trouble, Turing Phameceuticals, utilitarianism, Wall Street, Westerns

• Sermon of August 10, 2014–“Wisdom Born of Experience”

  Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan. 2This is the story of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives;…

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  August 11, 2014

  Calendar HCE, Sermons HCE, Uncategorized

  bad guys, Bible, Black Hats, boasting, C.S. Lewis, children, cistern, college, colorful coat, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, experience, family disfunction, famine, favoritism, Genesis 37, Genesis 37:12-28, Genesis 45:5-8; Genesis 37:1-4, god, good guys, heroes, humiliation, humility, immaturity, ISIS, Israel, Jacob, Jesus Christ, Joseph, Justice, Kingdom of God, long sleeves, Martin Luther King, Matthew Henry, maturity, pit, pride, prison, Providence, slavery, society, the Lone Ranger, White Hats, wisdom