Tag: theology

• Sermon of August 19, 2012–“The Best Kind of Prayer”

  1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 2:10 Then David slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the city of David. 2:11 The time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. 2:12 So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David; and his kingdom…

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  August 20, 2012

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

  1 Kings 3, burnt offerings, crummy prayers, discerning mind, God speaks, Gos is still speaking, Hairs on your head, Jesus, King Solomon, Matthew 10:30, non-judgmental, pray without ceasing, prayer, religion, Sense of God’s will, servant king, Specific Prayer, Spoken Prayer, Still speaking, theology, uprightness, voice of God, wisdom

• Sermon of August 5, 2012–After this . . . . Renewal.

  2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:13a 11:26 When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him. 11:27 When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the…

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  August 6, 2012

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

  Bathsheba, C.S. Lewis, David, David and Bathsheba, early church, ewe lamb, god, individualism, little ewe, madeleine church, Nathan, parable, Pastoral Care, religion, self-centered, Self-esteem, sin, soul, theology, Uriah the Hittite

• Pentecost Sermon–“Spiritual Enthusiasm”

  Acts 2:1-21 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2:2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 2:3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue…

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  May 30, 2012

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

  chaos, Creation, faith, Holy Spirit, Modern life, order, Pentecost, prophet joel, Sabbath, Spirituality, technology, theology

• Sermon of May 6, 2012–No Time Like the Present

  Acts 8:26-40   26Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) 27So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the…

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  May 8, 2012

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  angel of the lord, baptism, Clarence Jordan, Conversionism, Ethiopian Eunuch, H. Richard Niebuhr, Koinonia Farm, Philip, prophet isaiah, theology, Transformation, wilderness road

• Sermon of April 22, 2012–“United Nations”

  What a great Sunday of worship!!! We were really blessed this week with some great sharing of the Good News of Jesus’ resurrection. First, our pianist/organist/choirmaster Linda Dulaney accompanied Randy and Amanda Steele on “I Walked Today where Jesus Walked” by Geoffrey O’Hara. You can listen to the song here: I Walked Today Where Jesus…

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  April 23, 2012

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

  catholic, catholicity, church, Ephesus, flesh and bones, I Walked today where Jesus walked, jesus resurrection, Luke 24:36-49, Mary’s House, religion, Risen Jesus, temptation, theology, United Nations, universal church

• Sermon of April 15, 2012–“Sunday Evening”

  I’ve honestly never noticed the sentence that comes right after the “Peace be with you” statement of the Risen Jesus. I guess I’ve always just focused on that peace which passes all understanding. However, this year what came to me very strongly was the sentence which comes after the Peace: “As the Father has sent…

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  April 18, 2012

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  church, Discipleship, Doubting Thomas, Easter, first day of the week, John 20, Mission, ordination service, parallel texts, Peace, religion, Resurrection, Risen Jesus, theology