Tag: Pharisees

• “Getting Our Hands Dirty” — Sermon of January 21, 2017

  

  John 9:1-12  As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4 We must work the works of…

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  January 24, 2018

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• 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

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• October 29, 2017 Sermon

  

  John 5:30-47 30 ‘I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgement is just, because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me. 31 ‘If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I…

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  November 1, 2017

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• March 26, 2017 Sermon — “There and Back Again”

  

  Luke 15:1-32 Now all the tax-collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ 3 So he told them this parable: 4‘Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave…

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  March 27, 2017

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• Sermon of March 1, 2015–“Food for the Soul”

  Mark 8:31-38 31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33But…

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  March 2, 2015

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

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• Sermon of October 26, 2014–“Love’s Redeeming Work is NOT Done”

  Matthew 22:34-46 34When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”37He said to him, “’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your…

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  October 27, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

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• Sermon of March 30–“Who is Whole?”

  John 9:1-12 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4We must work the works of…

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  March 31, 2014

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• Sermon of February 9, 2014–“Love On the Line”

  Matthew 5:13-20 13“You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot. 14“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. 15No one after lighting…

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  February 12, 2014

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

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