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426. Like Everest Without Oxygen And Wimbledon Without A Racquet

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... there are no limits as to who is our neighbor. In the family of God, the human family, there are no fences, only friendly backyards where folks talk to each other and have barbecues on Sunday nights. This is the way we are supposed to live. To be compassionate persons who judge people not by their worldly status but by their human dignity is the good work we Christians are still called to do. I've read that to be a Christian who doesn't practice forgiveness and compassion would be like a person who tried to ...

427. Tevye's Question

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Buddhism is the value of compassion." Michael Slaughter says her next comment made him feel as if she had put her hand in his chest and squeezed his heart. "The people I grew up around in the church," she added, "were some of the least compassionate people I ever knew." "Ouch," says Michael Slaughter and then he adds, "Yet Jesus is compassion made visible." (2) And he's right. Jesus is compassion made visible. Having Jesus' name, but not his heart is a dangerous combination. It can make us turn away ...

428. The Grateful Samaritan

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We know he belonged to a despised people--Samaritans--people who did not keep the laws in the prescribed way and who had intermarried with foreigners. We know he was the surprise hero in Jesus' parable that bears his name. We know he was a generous and compassionate man who paid an innkeeper out of his own pocket for the upkeep of a stranger who had been stripped, robbed, beaten and left for dead beside the road to Jericho. Everybody knows about the Good Samaritan. But let's not forget the story of the ...

429. One Life To Live

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... that I could give you a pair of white coveralls marked "righteousness" that would make you acceptable to God. What would you be like wearing those coveralls? Wouldn't you be more loving, more disciplined, more responsible? Probably so. You would be honest and yet compassionate; hard working and yet relaxed. You would be tender with little children, a role model for youth and a friend to all who knew you. In short, you would be more Christ-like in your character. All of these good attributes could be lumped ...

430. Loving From The Heart

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Harry Ramos stayed inside and died trying to help a stranger. (1) No, this is not an easy world. Sometimes it is a very cruel world. Even for people who are trying to do good. We can understand why scoundrels suffer, but why do good people, compassionate people have tragedies in their lives? We turn again to that little epistle which we know as I Peter. It was written to Christians who were suffering during a time of intense persecution. It was written to give counsel and to give comfort. Quite remarkably ...

431. Beginning Again

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... that everybody do things my way, and all my relatives turned against me. Maybe someone will learn from my life. I wish I could live it over." One of our greatest fears is reaching old age and looking back with only regrets. Rev. Graham was compassionate in his answer, but he was also truthful. As he wrote, "One of life's hardest lessons is that we cannot change the past." Louisa Tarkington spoke for many people when she wrote: I wish there were some wonderful place called the Land of Beginning Again ...

432. A Failure To Communicate

Hebrews 1:1-4, Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... that it was the only way that the great divide between God and humanity could be bridged-- that Christ lay down his life. There is a touching story about a man known to his neighbors and friends simply as "Mister John." Mister John was a great, compassionate man who was the beloved principal in a public school for many years. He was a devout church member. More importantly, Mr. John knew the love of Jesus. It came time for him to retire. There was a big farewell party, nice speeches, and gifts. The ...

433. More Than Skin Deep

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... promises, purposes, and power of the Lord. "Even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning." Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity . . . Blow the trumpet in Zion . . . bring together the elders, gather the children, those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her chamber. Let the ...

434. A Terrifying Darkness

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... pilot asked. "Conserve your battery," said the instructor, "so don't turn on your landing lights until you're close to the ground. If you like what you see, land." "Okay," said the student, "but what if I don't like what I see?" His instructor gave him a compassionate look inside that dim cockpit, then said softly, "Turn off the landing lights." (1) In that situation, if you don't like what you see, it is too late to do anything about it. You might as well turn off the lights. You're in trouble. It's like ...

435. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hell!

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... not love him. They did not meet that need for love that he has and every one of us has. Someone described hell this way: "Hell is where loveless people are always dying but never die. It''s where persons are critical and never compassionate, where persons are always complaining, yet never consoling, where persons are hard and never helpful, where they''re greedy but never gracious. Hell is what we are without love and without God in our lives, but that magnified immeasurably throughout eternity. It''s the ...

436. Confronting Hypocrisy with Humility

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , hypocrites, blind guides, fools, self-indulgent, full of greed, whitewashed tombs, lawless, a brood of vipers, descendents of murderers. It seems to me that Christians have shied away from judgment of wrong doers not because we are trying to be holy and compassionate but because we are afraid of confrontation. The church, as a community, which assesses truth, must judge individual's behavior. You might say, preacher, that's all right for Jesus but not for us. I would make you aware that when Jesus ...

437. Who Is Jesus Christ?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in God’s presence. I would suggest, however, that by placing the emphasis on the word Father, we can find a new meaning. I believe that what Jesus is saying is that because of Him, one can come to know God as Father; that is, as infinite, unlimited, compassionate love. It is possible to come to other notions of God in other ways, but Jesus Christ is the one who revealed that God’s name and nature are love. In the words of my favorite Charles Wesley hymn: “Tis Love! Tis Love! Thou diedst for me, I ...

438. The Glorious Interpolation

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... religious leaders of His day. He said, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you!” (Matthew 21:31) How’s that for a shocker! To those who were beaten down by life, Jesus was tender and compassionate. To those who were doing the beating down, he was passionate in condemnation. Indeed, he called them a “brood of vipers”! (Cf. Matt. 3:7; Matt. 12:34; Matt. 23:33;Luke 3:7) Jesus seems to have hated the sin without hating the sinner. We, on ...

439. Doors Are for Entering

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of God proclaim the same faith.” I am sure that would come as a surprise to some of the prophets they honor, for there are vast differences of outlook between a number of them. For some of these religious teachers, God is indifferent; for others, compassionate. For some God is a mixture of light and darkness, good and evil. But for Christianity, God is good. “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all!” proclaims the New Testament. It is a noble but misguided idea, trying to blend all religious ...

440. On Panicking Close to Shore

John 6:16-24

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... quality of Jesus into God without the slightest sense of blasphemy. (p. 297) By using these precise words, John is proclaiming Jesus as the One whom God has sent into the world to bear His divine name. And in Jesus we see a God of compassionate, caring, suffering, love. One wonders whether John may have been thinking of the Passover symbolism in this story. He says that it was Passover season. In the Passover Haggadah (liturgical narrative) recited at the Passover Meal, the crossing of the Red Sea (or Sea ...

441. Jesus Out of Character

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... he was an “untouchable,” and he told this story in broken, faltering English. “I stood outside the building and listened to your lecture Sahib Doctor. Tell me, please, can you give some hope to a nobody” The boy fell to his knees and Thurman reached out compassionately to him. Thurman knew what it is to be classed as a “nobody.” As a black man, he had often endured rejection in a white man’s world. But he had committed his life to the ministry of a love that identifies with suffering humanity ...

442. The Ninth Commandment: Liar, Liar

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... their dignity and eventually were enslaved. The people whom Moses delivered were hardly saints or Sunday school students. They had been influenced by the degrading system of slavery. God had to be sure they would not pull each other down, but build a caring, compassionate people. To build a different kind of nation required a different kind of people. There was to be a different building code. In this building code everybody was a son and daughter of Abraham. Everybody was a child of the covenant. Even the ...

443. Trouble: A Required Course in LIfe

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . I know from first-hand experience that this is one of the greatest wastes of my time and emotions, but yet I confess my vulnerability to it. My greatest need at these moments of my life when I am facing trouble is for people who will listen to me compassionately but then firmly and gently encourage me out of such dreadful behavior. It is important that people don''t join me in my self-pity party but love me into remembering what I can do and must do. Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The ...

444. A Glimpse of Eternity

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... ''s house, an attack suddenly hit him. He started to run when the lady of the house, sensing his fear, blocked his further steps and forced him to sit down. Suddenly, he found himself sharing his life''s hurts and disappointments with this compassionate woman. The woman listened with great concern. She and her husband had experienced the same crippling condition and shared how they were liberated and set free from it by a loving relationship with the Living Lord of the Universe, Jesus Christ. The woman ...

445. The Wideness in God's Mercy

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... him. He sent the leper to fulfill Moses' commands. I realize it is a very short passage. But I found myself feeling puzzled about the widely varying feelings and reactions Mark described. I found myself asking if this was a story about God's compassionate concern or a message about so-called "tough love." A favorite hymn for many has been "There's A Wideness In God's Mercy." One of my seminary professors insisted vehemently that we should stop singing the hymn because it contained "bad theology," referring ...

446. Entrustment

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... words shall I use? Will the person be a good listener? Will I be belittled, upbraided, or laughed at? This window on the priestly prayer of Jesus can serve as a reminder that all the contents of any heart can be poured out before God and given a compassionate listening. There is nothing we need fear in doing that. If words come hard for us, our thoughts can initially be our words. And if giving the contents of our hearts verbal shape continues to perplex us, there is no reason we can't use others' words in ...

447. God Help the Fish

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... of his gentleness and integrity. She could leave the fields behind and live as the wife of a wealthy and powerful man. At the same time, the Judge is attracted to Maud. He is tired of his career, and he dreams of marrying a warm, compassionate woman like Maud and settling into a simpler life in the country. But neither Maud nor the Judge acknowledges their attraction to one another. They are from different social classes---they cannot risk breaking the bonds of social conformity. Maud later marries a man ...

448. If You Are Willing

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... proclaim the coming of the kingdom of God and to create a community of people, the church, to carry on his work of salvation, including his ministry of healing. Still, he confronted a problem. There were all these sick people coming to him and he was a compassionate man. He didn’t want to turn anyone away who had need of him. They, in turn, couldn’t keep quiet about what he had done for them. We call this a vicious cycle. He healed, they spread the word, and therefore, there were that many more people ...

449. Making Compassion a Verb

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... the mission and ministry of Jesus. They learned by observation what compassion meant. Then they were called to put it into practice. So are we. If we are to put compassion into practice, we need to know what is involved. In order to be compassionate, at the very least, we need to be sensitive to the suffering of others. Some people's hearts have become hardened. A number of years ago a television company ran an investigation into the allegation that certain ambulance companies would not transport apparently ...

450. Hanging the Law on Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... is an additional point to be made here. Jesus' love for his Father -- and for us -- is never a mere sterile, logical "Act of Will and Duty." There's never anything grim, calculating, guilt-inducing, or grudging in his love. Instead, words like joyous, compassionate, humble, shepherd, even mother hen are used to describe him. He's completely immersed in his Father's love; how else could he respond? Everything was grounded in his active, obedient praying and working of his Father's will for the good of his ...

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