Tag: Justice

• Sermon of December 8, 2013–“The Growing Season”

  Isaiah 11:1-10 A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. 2The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. 3His delight shall be in the fear of…

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  December 9, 2013

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

  Advent, Assyrian invasion, children, fear of the Lord, hungry, Isaiah 11, J.N. Oswalt, Jesse Tree, Jesus Christ, Justice, Kingdom of God, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s Children’s Fund, Peace, prayer, repair, root of Jesse, shoot, South Africa, stump, suffering, trouble, values, violence, youth

• Sermon of September 22, 2013–“Skipping the Prophets”

  Amos 8:4-7 Hear this, you that trample on the needy,    and bring to ruin the poor of the land,  saying, ‘When will the new moon be over    so that we may sell grain; and the sabbath,    so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah small and the shekel great,    and practise deceit with…

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  September 23, 2013

  Hills Church Export PA, Sermons HCE, Uncategorized

  ! Corinthians 13, Amaziah, Amos 8, Beatitudes, children, Comfort, discomfort, food stamps, Frederick Buechner, God’s Providence, gustav dore, hypocrisy, Isaiah 55:6, Jesus Christ, John 3:16, judgment, Justice, minors, needy, new moon, poor, poverty, prophets, Providence, Psalm 23, Psalm 91, Psalm 96, shopping days till Christmas, sweepings, theology, Word of the Lord, worship

• Sermon of March 24, 2013–“It is Finished”

  John 19:16-30 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between…

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  March 25, 2013

  Sermons HCE

  christianity, cross, crucifixion, evil, Golgotha, incarnation, Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, John 19, Justice, King of the Jews, Mel Gibson, oppression, Peace, place of the skull, religion, signs, sin, Syrian Civil War, theology, violence

• Photo for Veterans Day

  The American flag flying over the Emmanuel Church Veterans Memorial. “To us in America, the reflections of armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because…

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  November 10, 2011

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  American Flag, Justice, Peace, Veteran’s Day, Woodrow Wilson