Tag: racism

• June 10, 2018 Sermon — “Jesus is the Universal King!”

  

  John 19:1-22  Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe 3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face. 4 Once more Pilate came out and […]

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  June 11, 2018

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

  cross, danger, Dimitru Stenilaoe, Ephesians 2:13-18, execution, fear, fit in the choir, horizontal dimension of salvation, Ignatius of Loyola, image and likeness of God, injustice, John 19:1-22, John 19:19-20, Justice, Love, love expressed in deeds, Martin Luther, media, party affiliation, Pilate, political dissent, political elite, political speech, politicians, politics, racism, suicide, vertical dimension of salvation

• “Top of the Pyramid” Sermon of August 13, 2017

  

  John 1:19-34 19 This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’ 20He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, ‘I am not the Messiah.’ 21And they asked him, ‘What then? Are you Elijah?’ He said, ‘I am not.’ ‘Are you the prophet?’ He […]

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  August 14, 2017

  From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA

  baptism, Bruderhof, Charlottesville, church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eberhard Arnold, Grunewald, humility, Jews, John 1, John the Baptist, Nazism, Peace, racism, resistance

• December 4, 2016 Sermon — “Vision Quest”

  

  Matthew 1:18-25 18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to […]

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  December 5, 2016

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

  adultery, Advent, Advent 2, angel of the lord, biology, Catch the Vision, Civil Rights, Clarence Jordan, Deuteronomy 22, double love commandment, Emmanuel, featured, future, gambling, Georgia, God saves, God’s vision, Golden Rule, grounded in God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus loves the little children of the world, Jesus Saves, Joseph of Nazareth, Joseph’s teachings, Kingdom of God, Koinonia Farm, love of enemy, love of God, love of neighbor, love of stranger, Mary of Nazareth, Matthew 1:18-25, race, racism, Reign of God, reproduction, righteousness, Robert Jordan, science, sloganeering, taboo, Virgin Birth, vision, Vision of Success, Vision of the New Testament

• Sermon of March 23–“Our Secret Selves”

  John 4:5-26 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. 7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give […]

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  March 24, 2014

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

  bethlehem, busyness, cultural rules, evangelism, family, foreigners, Fred Craddock, Germany, Hennef, Islam, Jesus, Jesus Christ, John 4, Living Water, Martin Luther King, Mount Gerizim, Nazareth, politics, poverty, racism, Samaritan woman, secularism, sin, Sunday School, Sunday School Decline, technology, thirst, time demands, Turkish, Wall Street Journal, woman at the well

• “The God Season”–Sermon of August 18, 2013

  Luke 12:49-56 49-53 “I’ve come to start a fire on this earth—how I wish it were blazing right now! I’ve come to change everything, turn everything rightside up—how I long for it to be finished! Do you think I came to smooth things over and make everything nice? Not so. I’ve come to disrupt and confront! […]

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  August 19, 2013

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  conflict, Coptic Christians, current events, Egypt, Egyptian Christians, Flannery O’Connor, God season, health and wealth, Jesus Christ, Luke 12, Mark Twain, persecution, politics, problem solving, problems, racism, segregation, solutions, success, suffering, Thurgood Marshall, violence, Warner McGuinn