Tag: homelessness

• “Spirit Sightings” — Sermon of June 4, 2017

  

  Acts 2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.3Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of…

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  June 14, 2017

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  Acts 2, baptism, Bremen, diversity, fire, Galileans, Germany, Holy Spirit, homelessness, hymns, Jesus Christ, Kirchentag, local business, miracle of worship, Pentecost, Peter, poverty, preaching, rap, Repentance, Rome, solutions, unlikely gathering, whirlwind, wind, worldwide, worship

• Sermon of December 6th–“Flash Crash”

  

  Luke 3:1-6 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, 2during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came…

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  December 7, 2015

  Sermons HCE

  Advent, Airport, all saints’, Chennai, christmas, disaster relief, featured, Flash Crash, home, Homecoming, homelessness, India, Isaiah, Jesus Christ, Leo Buscaglia, Luke 3, Malachi, parents, preparation, seminary, teenagers, United Church of Christ, Westminster Abbey

• 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 May 10th, 2015–“What’s your Passion?”

  1 John 3:1-10 1See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed.…

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  May 11, 2015

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  1 John 3, advocacy, challenge, children, debt, drive, God’s design, growth, homelessness, Jesus Christ, Justice, lawyer, Love, mid-life crisis, Mike Slaughter, Mission, need, passion, Peter Steinke, Philippines, Stanley Ellison, Transformation, United Church of Christ in the Philippines, volunteerism, Western Seminary

• 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 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

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