Tag: oppression

• Sermon of January 22, 2017 — “Jesus’ Inaugural Sermon”

  

  Luke 4:14-30           14 Then Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding country. 15He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.           16 When he came to Nazareth, where he had…

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  January 24, 2017

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  1 Kings 17, 2 Kings 5, Acceptance, affliction, boycotts, CCM, charity begins at home, Christ, Christian Church, Christian musicians, concerts, Contemporary Christian Music, David Gushee, debts forgiven, Elijah, Elisha, ethics, famine, featured, foreigners, freedom, God’s grace, good news to the poor, grace, gracious, Healing, Holocaust, Holy Spirit, immigrants, Isaiah 61, Jerusalem for Jews, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ the Anointed One, Jesus’ inaugural sermon, Jews, Jubilee Year, Kingdom of God, Leviticus 25, Love, Luke 4:14-30, Messiah, morals, Namaan, Nazareth, Nazi Germany, oppression, opression, overthrow of Rome, Physician Heal Thyself, refugees, release to the captives, rescue of Jews, rescuers, revolution, Roman Empire, sight, synagogue, the Anointed One, Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing, worship music, year of the Lord’s faor

• Sermon of April 3, 2016–“The Most Unlikely of Heroines”

  

  Exodus, Chapter 1:8-2:10: 8 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9He said to his people, ‘Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. 10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and…

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  April 4, 2016

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

  accountability, brickmakers, Charlton Heston, church, city planning, desert, Egypt, employment, employment desert, Exodus, Exodus 1, Exodus 2, eyesight, featured, food desert, God’s preference for the poor, Herod, history, Jesus Christ, Jochebed, Jocheved, laborers, Matthew 2, Miriam, Moses, nameless, Nile River, NIMBY, Numbers 30, oppression, periphery, Pharoah, Pharoah’s Daughter, poverty, Puah, public housing, public policy, public school, Red Sea, religion, responsibility, school, Shiphrah, slavery, The Ten Commandments, Universal Studios, violence, women, women’s empowerment, 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