Tag: Jesus Christ

• Weekly Update–“The Three Kings”

  

  Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, Happy new year!  This Sunday worship is at 10:15 a.m. and the theme is The Three Kings.  We will also celebrate with Communion.  During the service, the 2016 Consistory will be installed. Sunday night is Confirmation Class from 6-8 p.m.   Monday is Choir at 7 p.m. Tuesday…

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  January 7, 2016

  From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA, Uncategorized

  Communion, Epiphany, featured, Jesus Christ, three kings

• “O Come All Ye Faithful” Christmas Schedule

  

  Dear Friends and Members of Emmanuel Church, Although the weather outside doesn’t seem like it, we are a week away from Christmas Eve!  Emmanuel Church has several great events that will help make your Christmas season. This Sunday, December 20th is the Choir Cantata “A Child is Born”which contains many sing-along Christmas carols for young…

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  December 17, 2015

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

  candlelight, Choir, choir music, Christmas Carols, Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve Export, Christmas Eve Murrysville, Christmas services, Christmas worship, December 24, featured, Jesus, Jesus Christ, worship

• Sermon of December 13th–“Zepha-who? In Advent?”

  

  Zephaniah 3:14-20 14Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem! 15The Lord has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more. 16On that day it…

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  December 14, 2015

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

  Advent, atonement, caroling, chance, christmas, cradle, cross, Day of the Lord, don’t be afraid, eggnog, fate, fear, featured, Hot Chocolate, humility, idolatry, jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Luke 1:13, Luke 1:30, Luke 2:9-10, Magic Mountain, manger, Matthew 1:20, Matthew 2:3, Micah, Midtown Mall, pilgrims, poverty, promise, Prophecy, Punishment, renewal, Rochester New York, seek the Lord, Shepherds, sin, sing daughter zion, straw, tinsel, wealth, window shopping, Zephaniah, Zephaniah 1:17-18, Zephaniah 3:14-20

• 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

• Christmas Party Sunday: December 6th

  

  Dear friends and members of Emmanuel Church, This Sunday is the Second Sunday of Advent.  The church is all decorated.  The choir has prepared Advent anthems and the sermon is based on Luke 3 (John the Baptist) and called “Flash Crash.”  Worship is at 10:15 a.m. After worship, we have the annual Christmas party.  Bring…

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  December 4, 2015

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

  Advent, featured, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist

• Sermon of October 11, 2015–When God spoke, Jesus . . . .

  Hebrews 4:12-16 12Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes…

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  October 13, 2015

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  Aryan Clause, audience, Berlin, Bonhoeffer, clean water, Dietrich Bonhoffer, Discipleship, emmanuel church, forgiveness, God speaks to us in Jesus, guilt, Gustavo Gutierrez, hearing, Hebrews 4, HIV/AIDS, humility, innocence, Jesus as friend, Jesus as High Priest, Jesus as King, Jesus as prophet, Jesus as Word, Jesus Christ, Jesus the Jew, John 9, liberation theology, listening, Nazi Germany, politicians, politics, practical atheism, preferential option for the poor, presidential, presidents, question, racisim, sacrifice, seminary, sin, South Africa, the poor, wealth, Who are you Jesus?, word of god

• Sermon of October 4, 2015–“Leaving the Stove On”

  

  The Book of Hebrews, Chapters 1:1-4 and 2:5-12 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the worlds. 3He is the reflection of God’s glory…

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  October 5, 2015

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  challenge, Comfort, eternity, featured, God speaks, God the Father, Hebrews 1, Hebrews 2, human need, Jesus Christ, Obedience, path, pathfinder, praise, prophetic speech, prophets, word of god, worship

• 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 September 13, 2015–“Jesus in the Driver’s Seat”

  Mark 8:27-38 27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’28And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’ 29He asked them, ‘But who do you say that I…

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  September 14, 2015

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  belief, driver’s seat, dying to Christ, Glory, Jesus Christ, losing your life, Messiah, persecution, Peter’s confession, Soviet Union, steadfastness, suffering, take up your cross, USSR, witness

• 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