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251. The Family of Judas

Drama

William Grimbol

... questions, even as a little boy ... he wanted to know absolutely everything ... why the stars were out ... why the blood stopped flowing after he had cut himself ... why some people were poor ... that was another thing ... I have never known a child so compassionate, so concerned with whether people were fed or clothed; so worried that sick people got well, and that the kids that roam the streets ... that they might have a parent someday. He was concerned about everybody. He was such a good boy ... such ...

252. Have You Talked to Jesus Lately?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... Christ." But exasperation was beginning to set in, and my list of things to do wasn’t getting any shorter while I stood there talking with this weirdo who claimed to be Jesus. "My young friend," I said, "I am trying to be patient and understanding and compassionate and all the things that pastors are supposed to be. But you are pushing your luck. Are you trying to be funny or something? I am not amused." "No, no!" he replied. "Why does it strike you as funny that Jesus would stop by a church to thank ...

253. I Came Back -The Risen Young Man

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... stopped the pallbearers without saying a word. He reached into the open casket and said, "Young man, I say unto you, arise." And I did. It was that simple. I wish you could have seen him as I saw him. A man among men, strong, wiry, compassionate; Jewish, yet not narrowly provincial ... with a universal quality to him. How could anyone help but come when he commanded it? Magnetism radiated from him. The multitudes followed him everywhere. I came back to tell you about him. Oh, I know you've heard about him ...

254. Monologue: Naomi And Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... our needs and that God was good to us. After weeks of back-breaking gleaning, the owner of the field took a genuine interest in me as a person and in what had happened between Naomi and me. This was totally unexpected. He became more compassionate and understanding about our situation. He surprised me with being even more generous than before and, as you can imagine, I was extremely grateful. I was afraid that he, along with other people, would be against me as a person because of my pagan background ...

255. Christ's New Commandment of Love

John 13:31-38

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... , it is difficult for us to be that loving. Pastor: But it is that kind of love that proves to others we are Christ's disciples. People: It is our desire to follow our Lord's commandment to give ourselves to each other in love. Collect Compassionate Father, whose Son gave himself unselfishly to his followers, and commanded his followers to love one another in the same way: Instill in us a genuine love for each other, that our world may be convinced we are disciples of Jesus, in whose name we pray. Amen ...

256. Preaching Because We Have Something To Say

Sermon

James Angell

... to pray...." The words were no sooner out of my mouth than he stood. And in a voice stronger than my own, said: "I am the man!" Then followed a dramatic, attentive silence. Calmly he told the story and made his request. More silence. Compassionate silence. Then our prayer. And, after worship ended, intimate surrounding concern, and offers to help. Sermons often are beat out on the anvil of immediate events, as the times and the timeless intersect and hope is called upon to defeat despair, as life tries one ...

257. The Bridge

John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24

Drama

H. J. Hizer

... I'd given them the bridal suite! They thanked me for my kindness. Me! I have been called a hundred things, but no one ever called me kind before. I must admit -- it has a pleasant ring. Innkeeper: She always makes me look bad. She can afford to be friendly, compassionate, and kind. She doesn't have to dole out the gold at the end of the month like I do. Wife: Still, after all I wasn't sure that I had done the proper thing. I almost ran and called them back. I worried about the harm that might be ...

258. The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

... of his clothes. Then they departed and left him to die! Narrator: And there he lay, upon that dusty, hard road, wounded, bleeding, unconscious. Solo 1: Dying Solo 2: [Echo] Dying ... Solo 3: [Echo] Dying ... Solo 4: [Echo] Dying ... Narrator: His only hope rested in some compassionate soul who might happen to pass by, soon... Solo 1: But no one came; Solo 2: Surely, soon, someone, Solo 3: Someone to care. Solo 4: And the sun beat down, the heat worsened. Solo 3: And he lay there dying, Solo 1: [Echo] dying ...

259. Never Cry Uncle - Malchus

Matthew 26:47-56

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... you think the world is hostile and angry and I think the world is good. You think the world is a place where cruelty, hate, and fear are at home. I say that you are wrong. The world is only as fearsome as you make it and as warm and compassionate as you let it become. Malchus, you and I are brothers, but it's in a world that's eager to be friendly, that's anxiously biased toward our good intentions. Believe this. Stake your life on it. For of such is the kingdom." Well, I don't know how ...

260. Wash One Another's Feet

John 13:1-17

Illustration

Lee Griess

... . Later the truck driver told Jack, "You were an idiot; you know that the whole thing could have exploded, and we'd have both been burned up!" Jack told him that he felt that he just couldn't leave him. Many years before, Jack had been treated compassionately by the nurse, and because of that experience, he could now show that same compassion to another. Receiving grace enabled him to give grace. Jesus said, "Now that I, your Lord and Teacher have washed your feet, you should wash one another's feet."

261. Love Does Not Compound Guilt

John 21:1-14

Illustration

Robert Allen

... , the halls of Congress and the Lincoln Memorial. There is something about standing in the Lincoln Memorial and reading the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural Address which gives you goose bumps. One line in the Second Inaugural reminds you what a caring and compassionate man Lincoln was. He was speaking about the coming end of the War and he said: "With malice toward none; With charity for all." Lincoln put this idea into practice on the day that news arrived in Washington that the war was over. A ...

262. Booby Trap

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

... Adolphus College, once said, "We need each other to become ourselves." And we are our "best selves" - children of God - when the way we live with other people allows us to live out our heavenly love in earthly action. Neighbors in need enable us to be compassionate, kind, and just in our dealings with those in any sort of trouble, and to grow up and mature in the love of God. The poor and the needy, the hungry and the homeless, the helpless and the victims of oppression present us with an opportunity ...

263. Believing is Seeing

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... is what the Gospel of the Kingdom now had come to. Here those heightened expectations crashed. Talk about those kingdoms on the rise and wane. None ever rose and waned like this one! And even those professed disciples of the Kingdom, except for one who stood compassionately at the side of mother Mary, had lambed out. By three o’clock that afternoon the imposter king was dead. The world had heard the last of him. The pits of Hades must have echoed with the noise of celebration that could rival any victory ...

264. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... institutional church has risen anew. The name and activity of "social ministry" is becoming part of every Christian congregation, insisting (and rightly so) that the organized church must not be simply a selfserving, self-perpetuating institution. Rather, it is to be a compassionate traveler on the road of life - a sort of corporate Good Samaritan. Wherever people are robbed of goods, well-being or the opportunity for a full life, there the church must be to champion their cause, to minister to their needs ...

265. The Foolish Farmer

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... him and within him. This obsession with material things can wither our sympathy and blind us to other people’s needs. A concentration on material things can close us in on ourselves until we become first cousin to the farmer in the parable. In his book The Compassionate Christ, Walter Russel Bowie quotes an unknown author who penned these lines: He used his health To store up wealth To get, to scrimp and save. Then spent his wealth To get back health And only got a grave. 3. He left his soul out of his ...

266. Dodging the Thrust

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... . It is aimed at us; and the thrust of its message is : Do you care? It’s no use trying to dodge it. It doesn’t matter who they are, where they are or how they got lost. We have one message, to be expressed in quiet words and in compassionate kindness "Jesus cares about you." Who on God’s green earth is going to tell them if we Christians don’t? Dear Lord, bring into our minds today the name of someone who does not know you as Jesus revealed you. Nudge us to do something about it. Keep us ...

267. The Man Who Didn’t Care

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... separating himself from God until it becomes permanent, by digging a chasm between himself and heaven that even the love of God cannot bridge. Open our eyes, Lord, to the needs and sufferings of those around us. Even though we may not have caused the hurts we see, grant us compassionate hearts to respond to them, that we might be the kind of people who belong eternally with you. Amen

268. Let God Be God

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

... as to be truly shocking. We should be grateful to Harvard’s Professor Gordon Allport, however, for having done a study that shows that the Christians and church members who have seriously internalized the faith are more inclined to be compassionate and non-punitive in their attitudes than are persons who do not claim to be Christians or church members. Are we being too complacent about conditions our sociologists have been pointing out: the greedy competition that is producing increasingly great social ...

269. Life in the Sunbelt

Malachi 4:1-6

Sermon

... their lives will shed light in the world. Do these two selections from the Scriptures speak to our condition? Do we find life hard and often discouraging? Are we sometimes tempted to feel that it is not worthwhile to try to live morally disciplined and compassionately caring lives? If so, these messages surely are for us. They urge us to look beyond the darkness to the sunbelt - indeed, to tap the sunshine in God’s love and funnel it into the darkness around us. In another instance, it will be remembered ...

270. Prayer

Matthew 16:13-20

Bulletin Aid

"Everybody Ought To Know Who Jesus Is!" That's what the Sunday School song says; And, I guess, For Christians, anyway, It's true. But, For me, "Who Jesus Is" Varies. Sometimes according to who I am What I need At a particular time; Sometimes a compassionate friend, Sometimes a stern judge, Sometimes a miracle worker, Sometimes a complete mystery! Yet, he is always the same! It's me who changes From one who hurts others, To one who is hurting; From one who mourns, To one who laughs; From one who believes, ...

271. God in a Glimpse

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

... a self-described liar, thief, and playboy, melted down and remolded by God as the brilliant theologian, St. Augustine. Giovanni Francesco Bernadone was a rich Italian soldier of fortune dubbed by his friends, "King of the Revellers," whom God transformed into the gentle and compassionate, St. Francis of Assisi. If you want to see God you can glimpse him in his effect on people. And it's not only the rebuilding of bad people into saints. Simple good people, like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa, he ...

272. A Sermon for Passion Sunday

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... , the devil, and free from their slavery men who had always lived in fear of death ... For it was not angels, but the descendants of Abraham that he came to help. And so he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might prove a compassionate high priest as well as one faithful in his service to God, in order to forgive the people’s sins. (Hebrews 2: 14-18) One of the most helpful illustrataions on this truth I know is the one offered in the writings of the late C. S. Lewis. He likens ...

273. Loosed from the Pangs of Death

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

... was not. As a matter of fact, one family left the church because I did not ask their permission and went ahead and talked with the person about dying. I thought we had had a good visit, but the man’s wife thought I was cruel rather than compassionate. Others have been grateful to have someone who could talk with a dying person about the reality of where they were in life, to remove some of their fear by reassuring them of the validity of their faith. Central to the message of the Christian faith is that ...

274. Easter 4

Acts 13:13-52, Revelation 7:9-17, John 10:22-42

Sermon Aid

... who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb. Who then gets to heaven? The criterion is not knowledge, power, or wealth. The way to heaven is acceptance of Jesus as Savior by faith. 3. Wipe (v. 17). Here is one of the most tender and compassionate verses of the Bible. None other than Almighty God himself dries the tears of those who have suffered on earth. In love God wipes away tears as a dear mother comforts her weeping child. And it is not some tears, but "every" tear is wiped away. Sorrow is ...

275. Epiphany 2

Jn 2:1-12 · 1 Cor 12:1-11 · Isa 62:1-5

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... . Take your need to Christ - v. 3 C. Obey his commands - v. 5 D. Enjoy the results - v. 10 6. What This First Miracle Says About Jesus A. He is the Son of God - vv. 9, 11 B. He has the power of God - vv. 6-9 C. He is compassionate - wants the party to be happy - v. 3 D. He is sociable - loves people, shares in their joy - vv. 1, 2 Lesson 1: Isaiah 62:1-5 1. God Is Married. 62:4-5. Isaiah uses the analogy of marriage to express the relationship of Judah to God. He marries ...

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