Tag: refugees

• 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

• February 5, 2017 Sermon — “The Super Bowl of Sermons”

  

  Matthew 5:1-12 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. 2Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: 3 ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 ‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5 ‘Blessed…

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  February 6, 2017

  From The Pastor HCE, Hills Church Export PA

  Annie Dillard, Beatitudes, Bible, blessing, cost of discipleship, cross, danger, dangerous, denial of self, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship, Extraordinary Justice, featured, forgiveness, God and money, ice cream, immigration, innocent suffering, Jesus and the Cross, Justice, knowledge, love for enemies, Matthew 10:38, Matthew 5, Matthew 5:20, Matthew 5:23-24, Matthew 5:43-44, Matthew 6:24, meek, mourn, obedience to Jesus, peacemakers, poor in Spirit, reconciliation, refugees, righteousness, Sermon on the Mount, sin, suffering, Syria, take up your cross, Teaching a Stone to Talk, the cross, the world, United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Weisbaden, widsom

• 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

• March 27, 2016-Easter Sermon–“No Limits”

  

  John Chapter 20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 2So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They…

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  March 29, 2016

  Sermons HCE

  anointing, Beloved Disciple, Bread of Life, Calvin and Hobbes, Calvinball, clans, conversion, Easter, elders, empty tomb, eternal life, featured, Gendrassa refugee camp, Good Shepherd, grave robbers, graveclothes, Jesus Christ, John, John 20, life, Mary Magdalene, no limits, no rules, Peter, refugees, Resurrection, Resurrection of Jesus, Resurrectionand the Life, safety, security, Son of God, South Sudan, Sudan, Third Civil War Sudan, Trinity, truth, veil, Way, welcome

• Sermon of June 22, 2014–“School’s Out!”

  Matthew 10:24-39 24“A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master;25it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household! 26“So have no fear of…

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  June 23, 2014

  Sermons HCE

  12 disciples, ascension, Barbara Brown Taylor, Bellaire High School Ohio, communism, conflict, Creative Commons License, Disciples, Discipleship, East Germany, eisegesis, family, forgiveness, Fred Craddock, hate, honor, Jesus as teacher, Lebanon PA, Love, Martyr’s Mirror, Matthew 10, Matthew 5, persectuion, refugees, risk, secret police, secularism, Sermon on the Mount, students, teacher

• Sermon of September 8, 2013–“Where the rubber meets the road”

  Paul’s Letter to Philemon Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our dear friend and co-worker, to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in your house:  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  When I remember you in my prayers, I…

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  September 9, 2013

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

  aging, christianity, freedom, Galatians 3, Galatians 4, guilt trip, house church, humanitarian aid, imprisonment, jail, Jesus Christ, lord jesus christ, Matthew 10:16, Onesimus, Paul, Peace, Philemon, politics, refugees, Romans 6, slavery, Syria, Syrian Civil War, theology, Timothy, war, wealth