Tag: violence

• August 7, 2016 Sermon — “Be Careful What You Wish For”

  

  1 Samuel 8:1-19 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel. 2The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba. 3Yet his sons did not follow in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice. 4 Then […]

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  August 8, 2016

  Hills Church Export PA, Sermons HCE

  1 Samuel 8, 2 Corinthians 5:19, army, Book of Judges, Christ’s Pattern, community of Moses, Compassion, conscience, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, duty-bound, Emmanuel, ethics, featured, following orders, forgiveness, Genesis 19, God reconciles, God with us, idolatry, Isaiah 7:14, Jesus Christ, Judges, Kingdom, Kingship, Lot’s wife, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 5, militarism, Monarchy, morals, Paper dolls, Peace, peacemakers, peacemaking, rejection, sin, success, taxes, true discipleship, turning the older cheek, violence, wealth

• July 17, 2016 Sermon–“Seek and Find”

  

  Judges 4:14-16; 21:25 4 At that time Deborah, a prophetess, wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel. 5She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the Israelites came up to her for judgement. 6She sent and summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, […]

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  July 18, 2016

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

  12 disciples, Barak, betrayal, Black Lives Matter, bravery, church, church camp, crucifixion, Dallas, Dallas police department, Deborah, diversity, featured, God is in charge, humility, Jesus Christ, Jesus sent by the Father, John 15:13, Judges 21:25, Judges 4, Kingdom of God, Matthew the Tax Collector, murder, peacemaking, Police, politics, put aside agendas, religion, Simon the Zealot, soup kitchen, submission, unity, violence, worship

• 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 March 8, 2015–“What’s in your Wallet?”

  Romans 12:1-2 I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what […]

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  March 9, 2015

  From The Pastor HCE, Sermons HCE

  Amway, Apartheid, Balkanization, body, Cleansing of the Temple, Confirmation, conform, cross, cycle of violence, Desmond Tutu, Disney, eternal life, finances, forgiveness, giving away your life, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus’ values, John 2, living sacrifice, militarism, money, Nelson Mandela, Obedience, Peace, Romans 12, sacrifice, sacrificial system, screen time, South Africa, St. Paul, technology, Transformation, trust, Truth and Reconciliation Comission, violence, wallet

• Sermon of December 7, 2014–“Things That Make For Peace”

  Luke 1:26-38 26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The […]

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  December 8, 2014

  Sermons HCE

  angels, Annunciation, compromise, conflict, confusion, cross, CS Lewis, division, evil, Gabriel, good, grey areas, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, King Herod, King of Kings, Kingdom of God, listening, Luke 1:26-38, Manicheanism, Mary, ministry of peace, miracles, palace, Peace, prejudice, religious authorities, slaughter of the innocents, society, Son of God, throne, understanding, violence, world of eternals

• 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 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

• Sermon of March 24, 2013–“It is Finished”

  John 19:16-30 Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus; and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between […]

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  March 25, 2013

  Sermons HCE

  christianity, cross, crucifixion, evil, Golgotha, incarnation, Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth, John 19, Justice, King of the Jews, Mel Gibson, oppression, Peace, place of the skull, religion, signs, sin, Syrian Civil War, theology, violence