Tag: secularism

• January 28, 2018 Sermon — “How Did We Get Here?”

  

  John 10:1-18 “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls…

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  January 29, 2018

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

  1 Samuel 16, Bristol UK, Emperor Caligula, emperor tiberius, excess, Ezekiel 34, Flock, George Mueller, Good Shepherd, government shutdown, greed, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus the Good Shepherd, John 10, John 10:10, King David, leadership, Matthew 19:21, Matthew 5:11-12, Matthew 8:20, Messiah, orphans, persecution, prayer, Roman Empire, scandal, secularism, sheep, televangelism

• Sermon of March 22, 2015–“Salvation and Seedlots”

  John 12:20-33 20Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. 21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23Jesus answered them, “The hour has…

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  March 23, 2015

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  7 churches, acorn, blood pressure, cholesterol, cross, crucifixion, death, Discipleship, each generation, grace, health, human face of Jesus, increase of life, Jesus Christ, John 12, making the faith its own, nones, past, Revelation, secularism, seeds, signs, trees, United Church of Christ

• 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 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

• Ash Wednesday Sermon–March 5, 2014

  Exodus 15:1, 9-18 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord: “I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted. Both horse and driver he has hurled into the sea. The enemy boasted, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake them. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my…

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  March 6, 2014

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

  answering the call, Ash Wednesday, Ashes, awe, Bible, Call of God, Calling, Christendom, christianity, church, dirt, doubts, dust, Egypt, emancipation, Exodus, failutre, fasting, finding oneself, freedom of choice, God the Father, guaranteed results, Israelites, Jesus Christ, labels, Lent, meaning of life, Moses, Moses and the Israelites, motivation, Philippines, prayer, Psalm 51, Red Sea, salvation, sand, secular culture, secular society, secularism, seekers, self-expression, sermons, sin, temptation, truth, unworthiness, vocation

• Sermon of May 19, 2013–“The Spirit(s) of the Age”

  John 14:15-27 15 ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you for ever. 17This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he…

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  May 20, 2013

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  2 Corinthians 11, Albert Speer, Angela Merkel, architecture, atheism, christianity, DMZ, Ephesians 4, Germany, Haight Ashbury, hippies, Holy Spirit, immigration, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, Joan Didion, John 14, Nazism, Not as the world gives, Peace, Pentecost, Pilate, political science, religion, San Francisco, secularism, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, speaking in tongues, spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit, theology, truce, virtue ethics, virtues