Tag: sin

• January 31, 2016 Sermon–Year of the Bible–“A God who Promises”

  

  Genesis 9:8-17 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 9‘As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, 10and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of…

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  February 1, 2016

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

  2 Samuel 7, Abraham, agreement, Aquino, ark, Centralia PA, Chernobyl, covenant, Creation, environment, Exodus 20, Fargo, featured, Flint MI, flood, Genesis 6:6, Genesis 9, Genesis 9:8-17, God’s grace, grieving God, Jesus Christ, King David, Love Canal, Luke 22:20, Manila, Marcos, New Covenant, Noah, Noah’s ark, nonviolence, pain, Peace, Peggy Bloomquist, pollution, promise, rainbow, rainbow sign, sin, Sinai, Ten Commandments, The People’s Revolution

• Sermon of December 13th–“Zepha-who? In Advent?”

  

  Zephaniah 3:14-20 14Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem! 15The Lord has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster no more. 16On that day it…

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  December 14, 2015

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

  Advent, atonement, caroling, chance, christmas, cradle, cross, Day of the Lord, don’t be afraid, eggnog, fate, fear, featured, Hot Chocolate, humility, idolatry, jerusalem, Jesus Christ, Luke 1:13, Luke 1:30, Luke 2:9-10, Magic Mountain, manger, Matthew 1:20, Matthew 2:3, Micah, Midtown Mall, pilgrims, poverty, promise, Prophecy, Punishment, renewal, Rochester New York, seek the Lord, Shepherds, sin, sing daughter zion, straw, tinsel, wealth, window shopping, Zephaniah, Zephaniah 1:17-18, Zephaniah 3:14-20

• Sermon of October 11, 2015–When God spoke, Jesus . . . .

  Hebrews 4:12-16 12Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes…

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  October 13, 2015

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  Aryan Clause, audience, Berlin, Bonhoeffer, clean water, Dietrich Bonhoffer, Discipleship, emmanuel church, forgiveness, God speaks to us in Jesus, guilt, Gustavo Gutierrez, hearing, Hebrews 4, HIV/AIDS, humility, innocence, Jesus as friend, Jesus as High Priest, Jesus as King, Jesus as prophet, Jesus as Word, Jesus Christ, Jesus the Jew, John 9, liberation theology, listening, Nazi Germany, politicians, politics, practical atheism, preferential option for the poor, presidential, presidents, question, racisim, sacrifice, seminary, sin, South Africa, the poor, wealth, Who are you Jesus?, word of god

• Easter Sunday Sermon–“Christ is Risen, Indeed!”

  John 20: 1-18 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 have…

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  April 24, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  C.S. Lewis, cemetery, crucifixion, death, George MacLeod, hate, Jesus Christ, John 20, life eternal, Mary Magdalene, Mystery, Resurrection, sin, the cross, the empty tomb, the Living Christ

• 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 February 16, 2014–“Deeper Magic From Before the Dawn of Time”

  Matthew 5:21-37 21“You have heard that it was said to those of ancient times, ‘You shall not murder’; and ‘whoever murders shall be liable to judgment.’ 22But I say to you that if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be liable to judgment; and if you insult a brother or sister, you…

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  February 17, 2014

  Notes From Pastor Hedden, Sermons HCE

  adultery, anger, Aslan, atonement, C.S. Lewis, cross, Deeper Magic, Disciples, divorce, ethics, exaggeration, forgiveness, gift, grace, grudges, humility, hyperbole, Jesus Christ, Kingdom of God, lust, Machiavelli, Matthew 5, morality, pride, reconciliation, Sermon on the Mount, sin, strength, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, The White Witch, will to power

• Sermon of September 15, 2013–“Do You Have What It Takes?”

  1 Timothy 1:12-17 12 I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because he judged me faithful and appointed me to his service, 13even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, 14and the grace of our Lord…

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  September 18, 2013

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  1 Timothy, 1 timothy 1, belief, blasphemer, christ jesus, cross, Discipleship, eternal life, faith, God the Father, immortal, invisible, Jesus Christ, Paul, persecutor, Ronald Reagan, Salvador Dali, sin, The Temptation of St. Anthony, Timothy, unbelief

• Sermon of June 23, 2013-“You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression”

  Luke 7:36-50 36One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38She stood behind him at…

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  June 26, 2013

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  addiction, adultery, alabaster jar, denarius, forgiveness, Hospitality, Jesus Christ, kind of woman, kissing my feet, Luke 7, pharisee, reconciliation, second chance to make a first impression, Simon the Pharisee, sin, the woman with the alabaster jar, woman in the city

• Sermon of April 21, 2013–“The Beautiful Temple”

  Revelation 7: 9-17 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to…

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  April 22, 2013

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

  blood of the lamb, christianity, Exodus, heaven, Jesus the Good Shepherd, passover, Passover Lamb, politics, prayer, religion, Revelation 7, salvation belongs to our god, self-help, sin, the Lamb of God, The Temple, theology, violence, worship, worshipped god