Tag: Syria

• 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

• November 27, 2016 Sermon — “Snooze Button”

  

  Romans 13:11-14 11 Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; 12the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on…

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  November 28, 2016

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

  Aaron, Abraham and Sarah, Advent, Aleppo, chaos, end of history, Ephrata Cloister, featured, future, home, hope, hopelessness, incarnation, Isaiah 66:1, Miriam, Moses, newness, Revelation 21:3, Romans 13, Second Coming, sleep, sleepwalking, Syria, Transformation, wake, wakefulness

• October 30, 2016 Sermon — “What’s Your Favorite Color?”

  

  Isaiah 40:1-11 Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to herthat she has served her term, that her penalty is paid,that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. 3 A voice cries out:‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make…

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  October 31, 2016

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  1918, Acts 2, Aleppo, angels, army, Babylon, Babylonian Exile, bankers, bedside prayer, Black, blind, broken, brokers, building a highway, captivity, Comfort, Comforter, commerce, Communion, Counselor, craftsmanship, divine court, Eucharist, featured, Holy Spirit, human smugglers, Iraq, Isaiah 40, Jesusalem, John 14:16, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Lord’s Supper, Paraclete, paving, persecution, potholes, prayer, Predigtbuch, prison, Red, Reformation Sunday, refugee crisis, rough places plain, royalty, Russian Germans, Syria, Temple, VIP’s, Volga Germans, wealth, wide lanes, Yemen, Zion

• Sermon of September 14, 2014–“Water Wings”

  Exodus 14:19-31 19The angel of God who was going before the Israelite army moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and took its place behind them. 20It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel. And so the cloud was there with the…

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  September 15, 2014

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  broken world, brokenness, Crossing the Red Sea, ebola, Exodus 14, Fergeson MO, fiery pillar, freedom, Garrison Keillor, God’s doing, Healing, inspiriation, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Israelites, Jesus Christ, Jonah, King David, Lake Wobegon, Liberation, miracles, Moses, new world, Peace, Penn West Academy, pillar of cloud, Red Sea, responsiblility, salt and light, shalom, Syria, water, wave pool

• Sermon of October 6, 2013–“Guard Duty”

  Habakkuk 1:1-4 & 2:1-4 The oracle that the prophet Habakkuk saw. 2O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not listen? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? 3Why do you make me see wrong-doing and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. 4So the law…

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  October 10, 2013

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  BP, Creation, despair, Disney, Doubt, faith, global south, guard duty, Habakkuk, Hungary, Iraq, Jesus Christ, John Updike, justification by faith, Kiwanis, Lesotho, Lions, March of Dimes, Microsoft, Millenium Development Goals, patience, poverty, preventable deaths, Prophecy, prophet Habakkuk, questions, realism, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Satan, Save the Children, starvation, Syria, The Fall, theodicy, turkey, Unicef, United Church of Christ, waiting, wall, watchtower, Why do bad things happen to good people, Witches of Eastwick, Worldwide Communion

• 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

• Sermon of January 6, 2013–“Wise Men Walking”

  Matthew 2:1-12 2:1 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem,  2:2 asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.” 2:3 When…

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  January 7, 2013

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

  astronomy, C.S. Lewis, Comets, Discoveries, Epiphany, Flannery O’Connor, Jesus, John Updike, King Herod, King of the Jews, Magi, Matthew 2, Star of Bethlehem, Syria, Wise Men