Tag: slavery

• Amos: A Kingdom Spinning Its Wheels

  

  Amos 5:21-27 21 I hate, I despise your festivals,    and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.  22 Even though you offer me your burnt-offerings and grain-offerings,    I will not accept them; and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals    I will not look upon.  23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;    I […]

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  September 19, 2016

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

  Amos, Amos 1:2, Amos 2:4, Amos 5:21-27, cleansing, culture, economics, fraud, gluttony, hunger, Israel, James Limburg, Justice, Lady Jusice, mishpat, nations, poverty, prayer, prophet, prophets, righteousness, sermon, slavery, society, tzedakah

• August 28, 2016 Sermon — “Heeeere’s Solomon!”

  

   First Book of Kings Chapter 6:1-14             In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord. 2The house that King Solomon […]

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  August 29, 2016

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  10 Commandments, Absalom! Absalom!, blessing, Compson Family, death of dreams, death of empire, death of success, duty, ethics, greed, idolatry, Israel, Jesus Christ, Jesus Chrsit, Johnny Cash, King David, King Solomon, Kingship of Glory, Kingship of Wisdom, labor, money, no other gods, poverty, Sermon on the Mount, slavery, Solomon, success, Temple, the poor, The Sound and the Fury, United Church of Christ in the Philippines, utilitarianism, William Faulkner

• May 29, 2016 Sermon-“A One-Two Punch”

  

   Exodus 40:34-38 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lordfilled the tabernacle. 35Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 36Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would […]

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  June 1, 2016

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

  bankers, credit, debt, Exodus 32:27-28, featured, freedom, Genesis 1:3, God speaking, God’s Word, Great Commandment, Jesus Christ, Jodie Moore, Jubilee Year, land, Mattew 22:37, Matthew 3:17, Moses, neighbor love, Neighborhood Academy, politicians, poverty, prophets, redemption, relief, slavery, Thus says the Lord, Tom Johnson, wandering, wilderness places, worship

• Sermon of April 24, 2016–“Sea Shanties”

  

  Exodus 14:10-31 10As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to theLord. 11They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done […]

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  April 25, 2016

  Sermons HCE

  1 Corinthians 10:2, anniversaries, birthdays, Blindness, Bollywood, caring for the sick, cemetery, Crossing of the Red Sea, debt, early church, Exodus, Exodus 14:10-31, Exodus 15, featured, feed the hungry, freedom, Healing, HOPE international, I love to tell the story, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jubilee Year, Leviticus 25, Luke 4, memory, Mumbai, never forget, orphans, Peter Greer, Pharoah, Phil Smith, Psalm 106, Psalm 136, sea shanties, singing songs, slavery, tell the faith, walk on dry ground

• Sermon of April 3, 2016–“The Most Unlikely of Heroines”

  

  Exodus, Chapter 1:8-2:10: 8 Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9He said to his people, ‘Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we. 10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and […]

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  April 4, 2016

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

  accountability, brickmakers, Charlton Heston, church, city planning, desert, Egypt, employment, employment desert, Exodus, Exodus 1, Exodus 2, eyesight, featured, food desert, God’s preference for the poor, Herod, history, Jesus Christ, Jochebed, Jocheved, laborers, Matthew 2, Miriam, Moses, nameless, Nile River, NIMBY, Numbers 30, oppression, periphery, Pharoah, Pharoah’s Daughter, poverty, Puah, public housing, public policy, public school, Red Sea, religion, responsibility, school, Shiphrah, slavery, The Ten Commandments, Universal Studios, violence, women, women’s empowerment, worship

• Sermon of August 10, 2014–“Wisdom Born of Experience”

  Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan. 2This is the story of the family of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives; […]

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  August 11, 2014

  Calendar HCE, Sermons HCE, Uncategorized

  bad guys, Bible, Black Hats, boasting, C.S. Lewis, children, cistern, college, colorful coat, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, experience, family disfunction, famine, favoritism, Genesis 37, Genesis 37:12-28, Genesis 45:5-8; Genesis 37:1-4, god, good guys, heroes, humiliation, humility, immaturity, ISIS, Israel, Jacob, Jesus Christ, Joseph, Justice, Kingdom of God, long sleeves, Martin Luther King, Matthew Henry, maturity, pit, pride, prison, Providence, slavery, society, the Lone Ranger, White Hats, wisdom

• 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