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476. Trip Questions

Matthew 22:15-22

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Leonard Sweet

... and Jericho . . . He talked about a certain man who had fallen among thieves . . . and that a Levite and a priest had passed by on the other side [of the road. Finally a man of another race came by. He got down form his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy . . . Jesus ended up saying this was the good man, because he had the capacity to project the 'I' into the 'thou' and be concerned about his brother. . . He did not ask the question, 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' He ...

477. Gross Personality Disorder

Romans 12:9-21

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Leonard Sweet

... don't hold any ill will towards others, but actively bless those who persecute . . . bless and do not curse them. It's a sign of the prevailing Gross Personality Disorder that such a spineless amorphous offering as "hope you reach your destination safely" can actually be perceived as altruistic and compassionate. LPD Christians go out of their way, even go the extra mile, to make sure that others reach their destination safely, both on earth and on eternity.

478. Why Are Christians Such Bad Tippers?

Matthew 10:1-42

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Leonard Sweet

... and cold, and ignored your frantic flailing for more coffee, you can return the insult with a puny pittance of gratitude. But a tip says as much about the customer who leaves it as it does about the person who receives it. Are you generous, compassionate, thoughtful, precise, calculating? Or just plain cheap? It's disturbing to learn, then, that at any average restaurant what the wait staff typically dreads is being on duty Sunday after church time. In the waiting-tables world, it is a well-worn word of ...

479. Quarterback 101

Jeremiah 32:1-44

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Leonard Sweet

... who aren't afraid to combine these two leadership function by becoming "priestprophets." The priestprophet forever holds these two roles in one hand. With a clasping hand the priestprophet must reach struggling men and women where they are and form genuine, compassionate relationships with them. But that same hand must also pull people forward, leading them toward the unknown, forcing them downfield, tugging them to where they're not, so they may have hope for what they can be. Jeremiah's quirky actions ...

480. Hands On

Luke 7:36-50

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Leonard Sweet

... utters a word in the course of this long exchange, she communicates the depth of her love, the power of her commitment, the fullness of her faith by the humble acts she performs for Jesus' sake. Her faith was strengthened through this compassionate exercise. If Jesus had not readily received her ministrations, her own handi-work would have been lost, never recorded, never remembered. Someone has been suggested that there are five possibilities for the use of our hands. First, we can wring them. Handwringers ...

481. Murphy's Law and Messiah's Law

Luke 8:26-39

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Leonard Sweet

... a few moments, and when he came out again he handed me a toothbrush. 'When you finish cutting the grass,' he said, 'be sure to sweep the sidewalks.'"(Source lost) Can you imagine her reaction? Can you imagine her frustration? She's kind, generous, compassionate, and tender. And what does she get? Is it any wonder that one of our greatest living novelists has written, "It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams" (Don DeLillo, Americana, the epigraph to David Mitchell's Number9Dream ...

482. Obstacles as Popsicles

Exodus 1:1-22

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Leonard Sweet

... no-count slave baby. What could she possibly know or care about these strange people with their single strange God? Yet she does know about the death sentence that has been imposed upon all male Hebrew babies, and that knowledge alone prompts her remarkably compassionate and defiant behavior. She does not share Pharaoh's fear of the Hebrew's as "'am benei yisrael people" or "family" of Israel. She accepts the baby, brings his own mother to him as wet-nurse, names him, and welcomes him unequivocally into her ...

483. Someone to Watch over Me

Luke 15:11-32

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Leonard Sweet

... Luke's gospel the writer most often refers to God as "Father." The parental image Luke paints is not a stern, distant, condemning patriarch. In today's gospel text, the so-called Prodigal Son parable develops the character of a loving, compassionate father beyond all expectation, beyond all reasoning. This father breaks all social/cultural rules, all standards and norms of this day or our own. The only constant that motivates, that validates, that vindicates this father's bizarre behavior is love. Because ...

484. You've Won the Heavenly Sweepstakes!

John 14:15-31

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Leonard Sweet

... to God's pre-eminent place in their lives. We can read about the immediate effect this Spirit-possession had on the disciples. Overnight this confused, inarticulate group became on fire: governing apostles, fearless prophets, relentless evangelists, discerning teachers, compassionate pastors--proud eye-witnesses of all Christ's words and deeds. Only when they gave up trying to "process" Jesus life and death and instead became "possessed" by Christ's Spirit did the disciples finally understand what they had ...

485. Are You a GOT TO or a GET TO Christian?

Genesis 15:1-18

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Leonard Sweet

... the "hick from-the-sticks" that was his heritage. But Earnhardt had won the admiration, the respect, and even the hearts of his fellow drivers by being honest, hardworking, hard driving, as well as being a loyal friend, a loving father and a compassionate man. What only a few people knew was that although Earnhardt knew he was in a tough, dog-eat-dog-run-over-the-dog business, for years he had practiced small, but significantly meaningful gesture of "sacrifice" during each race he drove. Darrell Waltrip ...

486. Tiny Pencils

John 15:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

... in the distant past, condemn their prejudices, and shake our heads at their ignorance. We ask ourselves . . . How could followers of Christ have perceived other human beings as vile objects of hatred instead of singular subjects of love? How could compassionate Christians be unmoved by the suffering of others? How could anyone much less Christians be so insensitive to the devastations being visited upon groups of people? How could we? Yet Amy Laura Hall tells of overhearing an exchange a eight years ...

487. The Church on Main Street

Matthew 28:16-20

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James McCormick

... word and deed. Second, we must claim that world out there for God and seek to shape it according to God’s purposes. There are ways of living that lead to life and ways of living that lead to death. We are to shape the world in humane, compassionate, life-giving ways, in accordance with the intentions of the One who made it. Finally, we must live servant lifestyles. Whatever the neighbor feels, we are to feel it. Whatever the neighbor needs, we are to supply it. Whatever the cost, we are to pay it, because ...

488. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

John 16:17-33

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James McCormick

... me, one of the most strengthening, encouraging verses in all of scripture is the one which assures us, “Remember, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.” I like the way Jesus talks to his disciples. He says, realistically but also compassionately, “In the world you have tribulation. But be of good courage, for I have overcome the world.” Do you remember what the psychiatrist said to Deborah in the novel I quoted at the beginning? He said, “The rose garden world of perfection is a lie ...

489. Promises to Keep

Hebrews 8:1-13

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James McCormick

... behalf of the people. He saw patients in consultation. He prescribed. He did surgery. But not only that; he also recruited and trained doctors and nurses. And, he raised money and built hospitals. Tom Dooley was a Christian, a devout Catholic. He had been made compassionate by the compassion of Jesus. And, he felt that he had received a call from God -a call to minister to the needs of those suffering people. His Christian commitment was symbolized by a religious medal he wore always around his neck. On the ...

490. 2 Peter 3: 8-15a

2 Peter 3:1-18

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Leonard Sweet

... a saying based on Psalm 90:4 to discredit the scoffers ridicule: "For a thousand years in your sight is like yesterday." God operates on divine time, not any human measurement of days or years. But 2 Peter goes even further. By introducing a compassionate cause for God's apparent inaction, he offers his readers more than the difference of a divine time-frame. God isn't simply following some unknowable timetable. God is being patient with creation, waiting for as many as possible to come to repentance before ...

491. Our Sin Against God

Genesis 2:4-25

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... out deliberately to do something wrong — at least not very often. We want to be good people. We want to live Christian lives. And some action looks like the good and right thing to do in some situation. It looks like the “loving” thing to do, like the “compassionate” act to take. And so we do what we think is proper. The only difficulty is that it goes against the command of God, as Eve’s action goes against God’s specific Word. And so we fall into sin, trying to do the “right thing” by ...

492. Advent 2

Matthew 3:1-12, Romans 14:1--15:13, Isaiah 11:1-16, Psalm 72:1-20

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