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526. Let Me Say That Again

John 14:15-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... creation, made in God’s image, and God loves us. One of the most haunting words in the Old Testament which captures this is Isaiah’s record of God speaking of his people, Israel. Isaiah 49, verses 15-16.: “Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget; yet, I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands.” And the ultimate expression, of course, is John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only ...

527. The Proof Is In the Pudding

Luke 7:18-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... the trials. Doesn’t it say somewhere in the Bible that trials produce fruit and all kinds of good stuff? Hey, maybe there’s something to that…He has been teaching me (listen to this) He has been teaching me about the difference between true love and compassion and self-driven love and pity. (We need to remember that, especially as we seek to minister to others.) GO BACK TO TAMMY: He has shown me that the purest way to receive his heart comes through prayer and worship and undivided time with him. He ...

528. Who Is My Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... to love one another. Let us open our hearts that we may learn what it really means to love our neighbor. Come, let us worship the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind. Collect Lord God of compassion, we praise you for all the times you have helped us in our times of trouble. We give you thanks for the life and teachings of your Son, Jesus Christ. Help us in this time of worship clearly to understand what it means to minister to our neighbor, and ...

529. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

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Phil Thrailkill

... into the light. Share your pain. Share your pain with me, and gain strength from the sharing." J'onn cries out in anguish, then rests his head on the rider's chest. A calmness comes over him. J'onn is baffled but transformed by the stranger's compassion.16 For a moment I want us to suspend our skepticism and give our friend Matthew the benefit of the doubt about what he describes in verse 23 through 25. In a series of three balanced statements he alternates between a geographical report, “And he went ...

530. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... observation to identification. The drawing you sometimes feel is itself an effect of God’s grace. Then, if you say an inward Yes, comes the possibility of mercy, and the marvelous thing is that once mercy is shown, love increases and observation sharpens. Mercy is compassion turned to action, heart joined to hands and help. It is to see the other as not so different from myself and to extend to them what I have received from God. I cannot give what I have not first received. In the negative sense mercy ...

531. Beware Of False Prophets

Jeremiah 29:1-23

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... him glorious praise! Leader: How wonderful are the things God does! His power is great. People: Let everyone on earth worship God and sing his praises. Leader: Come, let us worship our wonderful God! Collect God of mercy and compassion, we thank you for the revelation of yourself in Jesus Christ. As benefactors of your compassion, may we in turn allow your love for others to shine through us as we serve you to the best of our ability. Keep us alert to the purveyors of gloom and doom so that we do not allow ...

532. The New Life In Christ

Colossians 3:1-17

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... with love. Forgive our self-centeredness, we pray, and by your Holy Spirit enable us truly to let your love shine through us in all that we do. Amen. Offertory Prayer Lord, we know that there are limits to what we personally can do to show others your love, compassion, and kindness. We bring these gifts that they may be used to reach out to places near and far where we cannot go, and let them show forth your love for all humanity. Amen. Hymns "The First Noel" "There's A Song In The Air" "All Beautiful The ...

533. The Bent-over Woman

Luke 13:10-17

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R. Robert Cueni

... it happens today. Maybe the woman is bent over by some problem over which she has no control. Perhaps she is poor. Abject poverty is a burden capable of bending you double. In Jesus' time the poor were legion. Maybe the burden of poverty bent that woman over. Jesus had compassion for the down and out of his time. On the other hand, Jesus loved the up and in as well as the down and out. Jesus was a friend to both the rich and the poor. Maybe this woman's problem is not the lack of money. Perhaps she has ...

534. Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Last!

Genesis 45:1-15

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Arley K. Fadness

... power in purpose -- knowing God is a God of purpose in all circumstances and that we are created and saved to have purpose in our lives. The lack of purpose is deadly. Lack of purpose is like a limp handshake. It's a sky missing the North Star, a compass without a pointer. We've met people like that. No direction, no goals, aimless; lives as empty as a brown paper sack. Mark Twain once quipped, "Don't expect too much of human beings. We were created at the end of the week when God was tired and looking ...

535. A Deliverer Is Born

Exodus 1:1-22, 2:1-10

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Arley K. Fadness

... fears. Jochebed, whose name means "Jehovah is glory," could think of nothing but protecting her child, God's gift to her. Jochebed boldly became a risk taker and went against Pharaoh's killing frenzy. Pharaoh's daughter, unnamed and unlike her murderous father, is overcome with compassion as she approaches the Nile River for a bath. She takes pity on the child and orders him to be pulled out of the water. She adopts the child as her own, although a princess, she does not do the actual tending of the baby ...

536. A String on God’s Finger

Isaiah 49:8-26

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Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his suffering ones. All: But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me." One: Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. All: See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. (Isaiah 49:13-16a) Collect Lord, let this be ...

537. Just Who Do You Think Is in Charge?

Psalm 103:8-13, Romans 14:1-12

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Frank Ramirez

... repay us according to our iniquities. All: For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; One: as far as the east is from the west, so far he removes our transgressions from us. All: As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him. (Psalm 103:8-13) Hymns "Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine" "Awake My Soul" "Savior Of My Soul" (see page 245)

538. After Good Friday

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... that the deciding evidence was laid to rest. Somebody had to do it, and Jesus was that someone. In olden days, during the dark winters of a frozen Alaska, food was often scarce. A young man would venture out, armed only with a pointed stick and a compassion for his starving Eskimo village. He would wander about in the darkness, anticipating an attack of a polar bear. Having no natural fear of humans, a polar bear would stalk and eat a man. When a bear would attack, the Eskimo hunter would wave his hands and ...

539. Always?

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

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Rick Brand

... that we are loved, that we matter, that what we do has significance, and that what we do for others has eternal significance. Thus there are labors of love. There are actions and deeds that we do out of love of God for other people. There are acts of compassion on behalf of other people that grow out of our understanding and vision of life that is given by faith. It is called labor because it is hard. The report from mission trips is that they do a lot of hot, sweaty, and difficult work. There were trucks ...

540. Is There Anything I Can Do?

Luke 3:1-6

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Mark Trotter

... or false accusations, and be satisfied with your wages.'" This scene gives us a wonderful picture of social life in the first century in Palestine. There were the poor, and there were the rich. The rich, in order to get ready for the Messiah, were to have compassion for the poor, to feed them and to clothe them. The powerful were to stop using their power for personal gain. A common practice among tax collectors, since their fee was taken right off the top of the taxes they collected, was to tax as high as ...

541. Lateral Thinking

Luke 10:25-37

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Mark Trotter

... fellow countryman, a fellow Jew, to whom you have the obligation to love, to care for, and to have compassion. Jesus says, "If you follow me, you can no longer divide the world between Samaritans and neighbors. If you follow me, there are only neighbors, ... to whom you have an obligation for compassion." So, do you know any Samaritans? A Samaritan is someone you will have no dealings with. If that's the case, then there ...

542. Plain Talk

Luke 6:17-26

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Mark Trotter

... down to where the people are and he heals the crowd. I have mentioned this before. In the New Testament there are two kinds of people. There is the crowd, and there are the disciples. The crowd he heals. He doesn't ask anything of them. Out of compassion he sees their sicknesses and he heals them. Then they go away. We never hear of those people again. They have no names. They are the suffering in this world. He touches them, and heals them. But disciples he doesn't heal. Nor does he particularly express ...

543. Stay in the City

Luke 24:44-53

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Mark Trotter

... she had powers of divination. They said she was a sorceress. They were making money off her. She must have been like a monkey, tied with a strap to the organ grinder, on the streets, confronting people, shouting at people. She confronted Paul. Paul, moved by compassion, healed her. All of a sudden sane, she was no longer of any use to her owners. Paul ended the exploitation of a child. He was thrown in jail. The charge against him, "These people are disturbing our city." The same thing happened in Ephesus ...

544. The Sin of Being Less

Colossians 3:1-14

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Mark Trotter

... . If you are raised with Christ, you are now a new creation. Live that way. Bury the old self. Seek the things that are above. Then he names the things that are above. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forgiveness, and above all else love, which binds all things together in perfect harmony. Now that is also a selective list. In other letters Paul lists other qualities of the Christian life. This list is tailored for the Colossians ...

545. Epiphany 8

Isaiah 49:8-26, Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Corinthians 4:1-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... ever singing for joy so great that the joy is not limited to people. Both heaven and earth as well as nature ("mountains") sing also. Why all this joy? It is not based upon the human situation, but upon the character and work of God - a God of compassion (v. 13), a God of remembrance (v. 15), and a God of deliverance (v. 17). For a Christian, life should be one of continual celebration of God's goodness and mercy. 2. Forgotten (v. 14). The Israelites in Babylon felt God had forgotten them in their captivity ...

546. Lent 4

John 9:35-41, John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12, 1 Samuel 16:1-13, Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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John R. Brokhoff

... of God does not break God's laws. Was this Sabbath law the law of man or of God? For Jesus, human values were higher and of more importance than legal matters. Man has a priority next to God, and laws are to serve the needs of man. 4. Compassion. Jesus comes to the rescue when a person is rejected. Because of his defense of Jesus, the healed man was excommunicated, ostracized, and cast out, a penalty next to death. From henceforth no one was to have any dealings with the man. When man comes to his extremity ...

547. Demonstrating the Divine

John 1:10-18

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Susan R. Andrews

... of adults, he preferred the companionship of sinners over saints. Jesus fulfilled the law by redefining the law - by turning rules into relationships. Jesus flexibly figured out in each situation how holy virtues and values could best be embodied - values of compassion and covenant and faithfulness and wholeness and justice and kindness and joy. But we, in a changing, chaotic world, are often too scared to follow him. More than anything else, I believe that the struggle about ordination of gays and lesbians ...

548. Through the Lens of God

John 4:5-42

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Richard Gribble

... demonstrate our openness to those who are different, as Jesus did in his encounter with the Samaritan woman. The living water of God's love which Jesus invites us to share goes out indiscriminately to all people at all times. Jesus was never exclusive. His inclusive compassion, assistance, and care for others led him to the cross. If we are true to our common vocation to holiness and follow in the footsteps of our Lord, our fate will be the same. But just as Jesus' suffering and cross led to his glory, so ...

549. The Spirit of...Winter?

Luke 1:26-38

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Leonard Sweet

... to hunker down and try simply to survive. In the animal kingdom it's the hardships of winter that cull out the weak, the old and the sick from the population. Charity, compassion, self-less giving, putting others first have never been signs of winter. Instead the winter-bashing compassion associated with this season comes from the distinctly Christian, not commercial, celebration of Christmas. Perhaps the overblown image of Santa Claus versus the original tradition of Saint Nicholas best demonstrates the ...

550. The Ladder or the Wheel

Matthew 23:1-39

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Leonard Sweet

... makes Scripture holy: it puts God's word in our ear and God's hand on our heart. It brings the holy divine into contact and conversation with our unholy life. Jesus took such punishable actions because they were demonstrations of God's concern and compassion for each and every person on the planet. As Jesus denounced the Pharisees in today's gospel text, he called attention to two great failures in their teachings. First, they opted for things over people. The Pharisees had a great concern to show their ...

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