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1. How to Be a Blessing

I Peter 3:8-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... a picture of Jesus, you've probably seen it, with a heart on his tunic, a drop of blood coming from it. It's maudlin art, it's just terrible art, it's propaganda art really. But it serves its purpose, which is to reveal Jesus our Lord as tender-hearted. So tender-hearted he didn't condemn anybody. He didn't regard the external reality of anybody's life. He looked at what was inside of everybody, the image of God inside of every one. He saw not only the way people are now, he saw the way they are supposed to ...

2. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , what we can feel, can become real. What we feel can touch a place inside of us so tenderly and deeply that we are forever ensnared within its lure and litany. What moves us, changes us. The resurrection of Jesus is that kind of Song of Songs that croons to tender hearts. It forces us to face that what Jesus did is real! It’s not just a story. It’s not just a metaphor. It’s not just a doctrine. It’s not just a tale that we put take out every year and put back on the shelf after Sunday ...

3. Who Says A Good Man Is Hard To Find?

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... trust them. OUR LESSON FOR TODAY IS ABOUT SUCH A MAN. He was a Roman centurion. We don't know whether he was a father or not. We don't even know his name. But there are some things we do know. FOR ONE THING, WE KNOW HE HAD A TENDER HEART. The centurion had a servant who was quite dear to him. We can speculate that the servant was an older man who had been with the family for many years. Perhaps he had helped raise the centurion. But now this servant was critically ill and the centurion was quite upset ...

4. Kill Them with Kindness

Proverbs 3:3, 19:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... and hard feelings with just a little kindness. As I was trying to think of a good definition of kindness, I came up with this thought. Kindness is treating others the way God treats you. The Bible says in Ephesians 4:32, "Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you." (Ephesians 4:32, NASB) Jesus, who was God in the flesh, was a walking, talking example of how to be kind. If you study the Four Gospels, you find something amazing about Jesus Christ ...

5. God Is No Respecter Of Persons

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

... are hurt? Are you swift to sense their hurt and to do what you can to relieve it? Is anything human alien to you?" (McCraken, et. a!. The Riverside Preachers, p. 71) Those were the traits of Jesus and the early Christians - quick eye, tender heart, eagerness to help, and be involved with all kinds of people. This is the core of the ministry of Christ-to visualize the deepest needs of people and, with them, be sensitive, supporting, and serving. As theologian, Jacques Maritian, has said, "The greatest truth ...

6. Proper 10

Colossians 1:1-14, Amos 7:10-17, Luke 10:25-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... to Paul, a greater transfer. Christ has transferred us from the power of darkness sin, law, and death to the kingdom of Christ's light. This transfer was made possible by the redemption wrought on the cross. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Luke 10:25-37 1. A tender heart for a tough world (10:29-37). Need: The parable of the Good Samaritan needs to be updated. In modern times things have become worse. Then the robbed one was left half-dead; now he is usually left totally dead. One of the frightening things ...

7. Proper 10

Lk 10:25-37 · Col 1:1-20 · 2 Ki 2:1, 6-14 · Deut 30:9-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... to Paul, a greater transfer. Christ has transferred Us from the power of darkness - sin, law, and death - to the kingdom of Christ's light. This transfer was made possible by the redemption wrought on the cross. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Luke 10:25-37 1. A Tender Heart for a Tough World (10:29-37). The parable of the Good Samaritan needs to be updated. In modern times things have become worse. Then the robbed one was left half-dead; now he is usually left totally dead. One of the frightening things of ...

8. Proper 14

2 Samuel 18:1-18, 2 Samuel 18:19--19:8, Psalm 130:1-8, Ephesians 4:17--5:21, John 6:25-59

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B. David Hostetter

... presence and hope in God's word as if you were looking for the first light of dawn after a dark night. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Loving and forgiving Parent, Loving and forgiving Christ, Loving and forgiving Spirit, we confess that we are not always generous, tender-hearted and forgiving. We can be spiteful in our behavior because of the bad feeling that we cherish in our hearts. That anger can come out in angry shouting and cursing which is not only offensive to others but grieves your Spirit within us. Forgive ...

9. Be Kind

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James McCormick

... is the text of this sermon. Of course, all the memory verses were in King James English – it was the only Bible we had way back then! But it is just as fresh in my memory today as it was back then: “Be ye kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another.” I’m glad that someone loved me enough to teach me that verse, because basic kindness is as important as anything else I know. Probably we don’t emphasize it enough. In our fast paced world, we talk a great deal about getting a good ...

10. A Loving Parent

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... try to create God in the image of man. If so, blame it on Jesus. After all, didn’t he teach us to pray saying, “Abba” or “Daddy?” Let the cynics scoff. For all His power and might and majesty, the God of the Bible has the tender heart of the most loving mother or father. Tim Gustafson tells of a grandmother in Burundi proudly displaying two photos, one of her daughter and one of her new grandson. Yet there is deep pain in the grandmother’s face as she shows off these two pictures. Her daughter ...

11. Apples, Onions, and Cheese

Mark 7:1-23, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... people out there (and in here!) can look bad to us, because we are judging them on their “onion skin,” that rough and tough shell they’ve had to use to go through life with all of its bumps and bruises. But often, these people have tender hearts that are yearning for God, needing Jesus. And needing friends like you to help them reveal their true, inner beauty. If a congregation does not have some oniony people, it’s not a true body of Christ. If we do not have recovering addicts, the abused, the ...

12. Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-14, Ezekiel 37:15-28

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Lori Wagner

... , the One True God of Israel. YOU are followers of Jesus, infused with Jesus power and resurrection life by the inbreathing of the Holy Spirit. May the fire be set within you. May God tattoo Jesus’ holy resurrection gift of life and love upon your tender hearts. May you live in covenant with God as a people called the Church, led by Christ, fed by Christ, in love with Jesus Christ. This is the season of Pentecost, the time of restoration and renewal, the time when our hearts and minds are touched, changed ...

13. Let’s Climb a Mountain

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... feelings of revenge and ill will out of their hearts and who seek to cultivate an attitude of love and sympathy toward all mankind, especially toward the disenfranchised and dispossessed." But it is more than an attitude. It is action, too. Mercy is a tender heart with a helping hand attached. The merciful person works to relieve the agony of those who feel the squeeze for food and living space on a shrinking planet. She fights to check the pollution which poisons the air her children breathe. She speaks ...

14. Goodness Is Not Good Enough

Mark 10:17-31

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James W. Robinson

... the peril of his becoming so was present. In his youth, Scrooge, too, had been a person of high ideals and impeccable conduct. He may even have possessed a warmer heart than the rich young man. Then slowly, almost imperceptibly, the ideals faded, and the tender heart turned to stone as it bowed to the god of gold. It is entirely possible that in his declining years the rich young man did indeed become a first-century Scrooge. But whatever turn the young man’s life may have taken, he missed the marvelous ...

15. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... same love." The Greek word which Paul used for "love" here is agape, the same word he used over and over in his marvelous "Love Chapter" to the Corinthians. Such love is love with its eyes open as well as its heart, tough-minded love as well as tender-hearted love, love which never gives up on the object of its affections, love which sees through the ugliness of sin to the beauty of the sinner. It is the sort of love with which Jesus greeted Judas as he was betrayed with a kiss, asking, "Friend, wherefore ...

16. Christmas Letters

Drama

Karren Boehr

... and opens it on his lap. Reads quietly) FATHER: Well, Lord, I sit here, pen in hand, wondering why I am the most fortunate of all the characters sitting up here. I eavesdropped on wise Simeon and shared his hope. (Pauses) You allowed me to slip into the tender heart of a young child. (Pauses) You walked me back to share the glory of that first night with Mary, your oh so young and trusting mother. (Pauses) You showed me the maturing heart of my own teenager. And I wonder, how do I fit into this marvelous ...

17. Beaten And Bloody, But Fortunate Nonetheless

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... Levite had reasons for passing this man by. Self- giving love is so rare in this world. Ron Lee Davis tells about a friend of his named Bob Osborne. Bob is comanager of the First Presbyterian Thrift Shop in Fresno, California. He is a man with a tender heart for people. Bob has traveled to Africa and India to see human need firsthand and to do whatever he can to meet those needs. Bob doesn~t think of himself as a missionary, but, instead, as an ordinary Christian in an ordinary American church, who happens ...

18. Redemption

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is great cause for celebration. Ruth becomes one of Jesus’ ancestors out of her loyalty and service. As Ruth’s life is redeemed, she proves that God’s children do not necessarily carry the same cultural lineage or blood heritage, but they carry a tender heart, which is humanity’s true heritage. For the Jews, Pentecost or Shavuot is a time to celebrate God’s giving of the Torah from Sinai. Others celebrate Pentecost as the remembering and renewing of our covenant with God that existed from the time ...

19. Surprised Saints

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... man looked around, and suddenly said again and again and again: “I have no more pain! I have no more pain!” Schweitzer wrote, “His hand feels for mine and will not let it go.” (5) This was all the payment that Albert Schweitzer needed. Schweitzer had a tender heart for the suffering of the world. He saw Christ everywhere, in everyone. He gave his life to relieve the suffering of others. Saints of God have a heart for those at the bottom of society. Christ didn’t come for the well, but for the sick ...

20. Suffering for Doing Good

1 Peter 3:8-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... philadelphia occurs in 1:22. Compassionate: The Greek eusplanchnoi (only elsewhere in the NT at Eph. 4:32) is derived from eu, well, and splanchna, the internal organs that were viewed as the seat of the emotions. As attempts at translation, “a tender heart” (RSV) and “kindly” (NEB) are passive, and “pitiful” (KJV) is condescending. The NIV’s compassionate is probably as near as English can get to a word so replete with feeling. The corresponding verb refers in the NT to the actions of the ...

21. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... live with yourself by living IN others within the beloved community and as that community makes its impact upon the outside world. How does Peter put it? This is a great formula for living with yourself: "Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love of the brethren, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not render evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but, on the contrary, give a glessing, for this you have been called, to bless and thus to inherit a blessing."

22. No More Tears

Sermon

King Duncan

... her arms giving comfort and solace. Does that sound too sentimental to you? If so, blame it on Jesus. After all, didn’t he teach us to pray saying, “Abba” or “Daddy?” For all his power and might and majesty, the God of the Bible has the tender heart of the most loving mother or father in all the world. “He will wipe away every tear.” Philosopher Peter van Inwagen writes on the problem of suffering. He says, “I have never had the tendency to react to the evils of the world by saying, ‘How ...

23. The Perisitent Noise Of Solemn Assemblies

Luke 10:25-37

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Maurice A. Fetty

... places, install more lights, increase police patrol and then search out ways to reform the criminal, investigating the social and economic factors leading to the crime. Nor are we to believe Jesus would tolerate those who play injured and sick, milking the tender-hearted of their money. Jesus' demand for justice and his understanding of love would not allow that. He calls us all to be responsible selves. And once the victim is well he is expected to leave the sick room to perform responsibly in society ...

24. Who Is Your King?

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... love, justice, mercy or faith must take a back seat, because we have no other king but ... Fill in your own. There are so many to choose from. As a well-known preacher said in one of his best sermons, Jesus was a Man with a tough mind and a tender heart. He shows how serious the struggle is between good and evil and what a formidable force God’s Spirit must be in this fallen world. Here we see Jesus stand face to face with human authority, with the salvation of the world at stake, and Jesus wins the day ...

25. Christ the King

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... response is for the wrong reason. It can be selfish motivation that moves us to help and thus receive the praise and thanks. We have manipulated our own ego trip. That isn’t the way it is for those in Christ the King’s kingdom. We’re tender-hearted subjects who must respond to needs of people. That means all sorts of neonle who need us. There is something else here. Notice we aren’t asked to do the grand, dramatic thing, but rather the little everyday help. A cup of water, or something to eat, some ...

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