Tag: Mary

• Shift to All Digital Worship

  

  Advent 4 and Christmas Eve Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Reformed Church,  Snowy December greetings from God’s hill! Due to the advice of health professionals, we have prayerfully determined to keep our friends and members safe that we will be moving online for the remainder of 2020.  We regret having to cancel in person…

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  December 18, 2020

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

  Christmas Eve, Gabriel, Mary

• “Recycled Wrapping Paper” Sermon of December 30, 2018

  

  Matthew 1:1-17 An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah,[b the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and…

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  December 31, 2018

  Sermons HCE

  Abraham, Albert Einstein, Bathsheba, family dysfunction, family tree, geneology, Genesis 37, Gospel of Matthew, Isaac, Jacob, Jericho, Mary, Matthew 1:1-17, miracle, Rahab, recycling, Ruth, spiritual life, Tamar, wrapping paper

• January 7 Sermon — “Light in the New Year”

  

   John 8:2-12  Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, 4 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was…

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  January 9, 2018

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  adultery, bethlehem, Cain and Abel, Darkness, Deueteronomy 22, Deuteronomy 5:17, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Egypt, Eintreten, enter into, Ettal, facebook, financial crisis, Genesis 1:27, Genesis 4, guilt, Harlem, Healing, identity theft, immigration, Jesus, John 8, Justice, Light of the world, Mark Zuckerberg, Mary, Moses, move fast and break things, My brother’s keeper4, Nazareth, Nazi, nonviolence, patriotism, Pharisees, politics, prostitutes, refugees, Roman Empire, Rome, shame, stoning, trap, Vatican, widows, working class

• December 3, 2017 Sermon — “The Holy One of God”

  

  John 6:52-71 52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ 53So Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Those who eat my flesh and drink my…

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  December 4, 2017

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

  Advent, Becoming less, Disciples, divine initiative, Holy One of God, Holy One of Israel, human initiative, John 6, John 6:15, John 6:60, John 6:66, John 6:69, Kingdom of God, Kingship, Martin Luther, Mary, Messianism, simplicity, St. Benedict, Tissot

• August 27, 2017 Sermon– “Listen to Your Mother!”

  

  John 2:1-11 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ 4And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that…

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  August 28, 2017

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  Cana, Discipleship, do what he tells you, Election, God’s Providence, John 1, John 2, joy, Love, magic, Mary, miracles, mother of Jesus, newness, on the third day, politics, priorities, Providence, rules, water into wine, wedding at Cana, weddings

• Sermon of January 10–“King Me!”

  

  In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2asking, ‘Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.’ 3When King Herod heard this,…

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  January 11, 2016

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

  bethlehem, concerts, featured, Germany, Jesus Christ, Joseph, Magi, Mary, Matthew 2, misunderstandings, music, outsiders, Persia, rock music, Star of Bethlehem, three kings, Wise Men, worship

• Sermon of December 7, 2014–“Things That Make For Peace”

  Luke 1:26-38 26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The…

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  December 8, 2014

  Sermons HCE

  angels, Annunciation, compromise, conflict, confusion, cross, CS Lewis, division, evil, Gabriel, good, grey areas, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, King Herod, King of Kings, Kingdom of God, listening, Luke 1:26-38, Manicheanism, Mary, ministry of peace, miracles, palace, Peace, prejudice, religious authorities, slaughter of the innocents, society, Son of God, throne, understanding, violence, world of eternals