Tag: King David

• January 28, 2018 Sermon — “How Did We Get Here?”

  

  John 10:1-18 “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls […]

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  January 29, 2018

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

  1 Samuel 16, Bristol UK, Emperor Caligula, emperor tiberius, excess, Ezekiel 34, Flock, George Mueller, Good Shepherd, government shutdown, greed, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus the Good Shepherd, John 10, John 10:10, King David, leadership, Matthew 19:21, Matthew 5:11-12, Matthew 8:20, Messiah, orphans, persecution, prayer, Roman Empire, scandal, secularism, sheep, televangelism

• August 28, 2016 Sermon — “Heeeere’s Solomon!”

  

   First Book of Kings Chapter 6:1-14             In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. 2The house that King Solomon […]

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  August 29, 2016

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  10 Commandments, Absalom! Absalom!, blessing, Compson Family, death of dreams, death of empire, death of success, duty, ethics, greed, idolatry, Israel, Jesus Christ, Jesus Chrsit, Johnny Cash, King David, King Solomon, Kingship of Glory, Kingship of Wisdom, labor, money, no other gods, poverty, Sermon on the Mount, slavery, Solomon, success, Temple, the poor, The Sound and the Fury, United Church of Christ in the Philippines, utilitarianism, William Faulkner

• 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

• January 31, 2016 Sermon–Year of the Bible–“A God who Promises”

  

  Genesis 9:8-17 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9‘As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of […]

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  February 1, 2016

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

  2 Samuel 7, Abraham, agreement, Aquino, ark, Centralia PA, Chernobyl, covenant, Creation, environment, Exodus 20, Fargo, featured, Flint MI, flood, Genesis 6:6, Genesis 9, Genesis 9:8-17, God’s grace, grieving God, Jesus Christ, King David, Love Canal, Luke 22:20, Manila, Marcos, New Covenant, Noah, Noah’s ark, nonviolence, pain, Peace, Peggy Bloomquist, pollution, promise, rainbow, rainbow sign, sin, Sinai, Ten Commandments, The People’s Revolution

• 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

• Sermon of September 14, 2014–“Water Wings”

  Exodus 14:19-31 19The angel of God who was going before the Israelite army moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and took its place behind them. 20It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel. And so the cloud was there with the […]

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  September 15, 2014

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  broken world, brokenness, Crossing the Red Sea, ebola, Exodus 14, Fergeson MO, fiery pillar, freedom, Garrison Keillor, God’s doing, Healing, inspiriation, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Israelites, Jesus Christ, Jonah, King David, Lake Wobegon, Liberation, miracles, Moses, new world, Peace, Penn West Academy, pillar of cloud, Red Sea, responsiblility, salt and light, shalom, Syria, water, wave pool

• Sermon of July 29, 2012–“A Bleak Chapter”

  2 Samuel 11:1-15 11:1 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. 11:2 It happened, late one afternoon, when David rose from his couch and was […]

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  July 30, 2012

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

  2 Samuel 11, adultery, David and Bathsheba, David and Goliath, failure, faith, Israel, Joab, King David, Kingdom of Israel, leadership, politics, religion, sin, Uriah the Hittite

• Weekly Update–July 26, 2012

  Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Church, Tonight is our Member in Discernment Committee meeting with Ryan Lucas. It begins at 7 p.m. here at the church. Ryan is currently a student in the Penn West Academy and is seeking to follow God’s call to ministry in the United Church of Christ. Tonight we […]

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  July 26, 2012

  Calendar HCE, From The Pastor HCE, Notes From Pastor Hedden

  2 Samuel 11, covered dish, David and Bathsheba, emmanuel church, King David, Member in Discernment, MOOK, sin