Tag: suffering

• Sermon of March 3, 2019 — “The 11th Commandment”

  

  The Gospel of Matthew Chapter 16:24-17:8:                  Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will…

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  March 3, 2019

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

  after six days, disicples, featured, Greg Boyle, Healing, Homeboy Industries, James, John, Matthew 16:24-17:8, Matthew 17, meaning, Peak experiences, Peter, Sabbath, sickness, suffering, transfiguration

• May 28, 2017 Sermon — “The Strange Symbol of the Cross”

  

  The Gospel of Mark Chapter 15:33-40 33 When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. 34At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ 35When some of the bystanders heard it, they said,…

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  May 31, 2017

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

  abandonment, ambition, Christian persecution, Christology, contempt, Coptic church, cross, cross as forgiveness, Cross as solidarity in pain, death, Discipleship, elitism, empty, faith, featured, forgiveness, grief, H. Richard Niebuhr, humiliation, Jesus Christ, Jesus in solidarity, Jesus is our road, Jesus our brother, persecuted church, Philippians 2, political assassination, poverty, prayer, San Salvador, shadow of the cross, sin, social climbing, suffering, symbol, torture, UCCP Mindinao, WWJD

• 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 September 13, 2015–“Jesus in the Driver’s Seat”

  Mark 8:27-38 27 Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’28And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.’ 29He asked them, ‘But who do you say that I…

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  September 14, 2015

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  belief, driver’s seat, dying to Christ, Glory, Jesus Christ, losing your life, Messiah, persecution, Peter’s confession, Soviet Union, steadfastness, suffering, take up your cross, USSR, witness

• Sermon of February 2, 2014–“Gesundheit!”

  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 are the meek,…

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  February 4, 2014

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  Beatitudes, Bergpredigt, bestsellers, blessedness, blessing, bread and cup, Christian Rohlfs, church, Communion, culture, future, Happiness, hope, illness, Jesus Christ, Johns Hopkins Hospital, joy, Justin Bieber, lottery, luck, makarios, Matthew 5, meal, meaning, meaning of life, meekness, Michael Jackson, money, near death experience, poor in Spirit, power, powerball, purity of heart, purpose, Richard Nixon, self-help, Sermon on the Mount, stroke, suffering, surgery, testimony

• Sermon of December 8, 2013–“The Growing Season”

  Isaiah 11:1-10 A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. 2The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. 3His delight shall be in the fear of…

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  December 9, 2013

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

  Advent, Assyrian invasion, children, fear of the Lord, hungry, Isaiah 11, J.N. Oswalt, Jesse Tree, Jesus Christ, Justice, Kingdom of God, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s Children’s Fund, Peace, prayer, repair, root of Jesse, shoot, South Africa, stump, suffering, trouble, values, violence, youth

• Christ the King Sunday: November 24, 2013–“The Power and the Glory”

  Luke 23:33-43 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. 34Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots to divide his clothing. 35And the people…

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  November 25, 2013

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

  Beatititudes, Christ the King, crown, crucifixion, Hans Memling, Healing, humility, Iraq, Kingship, Lord, Luke 23, Luke 4, Matthew 5, mocking, Musician Angels, Paradise, persecution, poverty, prophets, sickness, suffering, thief on the cross, throne, violence, war, wholeness, wine

• “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

• Sermon of October 21, 2012–“Bull’s Eye!”

  Job 38:1-7 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: 38:2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 38:3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. 38:4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me,…

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  October 22, 2012

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

  baptism, Creation, Job, Job 38, Satan, suffering, theodicy, whirlwind, William Wilimon