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51. Advent 2

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

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... that he will come in judgment and "gather the wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." Christ, as John perceives him on the basis of his knowledge of Scripture, is a stern, severe sort of Savior, who doesn't seem to have empathy and compassion for a hurting humanity. There is little or nothing of Isaiah's "Suffering Servant" in John's Messiah, but there is no doubt that, in John's mind, he is the unique and holy one sent by God to save and redeem his people. In this ...

52. Advent 2

Matthew 3:1-12

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... season beyond the sentimentalities of stable and manger: that, seeing Jesus' mission, message, and ministry in its fullness, we may appreciate all there is to await and anticipate in the coming One, in whose name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of empathy and care, we admit that we fall easily into the yearly trap of sentimentalizing the birth of Jesus for our own emotional satisfaction, and lose sight of the wonderfully tragic and redemptive life that lay beyond it. Forgive us, we pray, and help ...

53. Epiphany 5

Matthew 5:13-16

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... worship to renew our faith and to strengthen the bonds of love which bind us together as a church. Pastor: Christ is the hope of the world! Ministers: We believe that, and come now to be equipped to share the good news with sensitivity, empathy, and contagious joy. Act of Recognizing our Humanness and Receiving New Life Suggestion: Introduce the confession this way: Review briefly the history of the Israelites who were called to be lights, but who kept turning the spotlight on themselves. Point out that we ...

54. Proper 11

Matthew 13:24-30

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... self - full of doubt, forgetfulness, worry, laziness, anger, lust, prayerlessness, talkativeness, overbearing, self-centeredness, false pride, unreasonableness, resentment, hypocrisy, racism, sexism, timidity ... 2. We confess to others our enjoyment of the luxury of self-pity and our lack of empathy for the plight of others. You may want to follow this silent prayer with the choir singing "God Is Love" by Graham George, and then, with the Lord's Prayer. If you use the Lord's Prayer, ask the people ...

55. Stephen’s Stones

Acts 7:54--8:1a

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Richard F. Bansemer

... Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and Bobby Kennedy are familiar to all of us. We’ve seen real shootings on television news reports that seem less real than the actors in popular police serials. In living color, we can watch a war half a globe away and feel little more empathy or pity than in a John Wayne western. We have, in short, been super-saturated in blood. We are used to it. We accept it. We see blood flow in the streets of the cities of the world minutes before we eat our suppers at home. We call it ...

56. What Is Your Mercy Quotient?

Luke 6:17-26

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Wallace H. Kirby

... . But many of their cries go unheard. The noise of the self-oriented machinery of our culture is drowning them out and they are dying. The world needs the merciful. We all need someone who will identify with us. Someone who will hear our cry, listen, have empathy, and care. We all need to have an attitude of mercy and to be the recipients of such an attitude! The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest, It blesseth him that ...

57. Journey to the Cross I: Jesus And The Demon-Possessed Man

Mark 5:1-20

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James W. Moore

... is one of the reasons Jesus is so important to us. He lets us look into the Father’s eyes! When we look at Jesus we see what God is like and what God wants us to be like! Jesus shows us the love, the compassion, the concern and the empathy in the Father’s eyes... and that’s the good news of our faith. Jesus reveals that God looks at us not with angry, vengeful, condemning eyes, but with the eyes of love. So, we don’t have to be at war with ourselves, we don’t have to be ...

58. Only the Wounded Can Serve

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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Allan J. Weenink

... word came back, "My grace is sufficient for you." It is enough to say, "He was a wounded soldier in life’s service." He did not uselessly dissipate his energy nursing his hurts or bitterly draw a circle around himself. Because of his sensitivity, perceptivity, and empathy, he was more often able to say and write the word that needed to be said. Without his wound, he would not have been able to understand the depth of another’s suffering. With it, he could enter usefully and lovingly into the needs of ...

59. To Be Perfectly One

John 17:20-26

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Allan J. Weenink

... by giving our left-overs or our surpluses, but through true sacrifice can we show that we honestly care. As we make costly contributions, over and above the regular support of our particular congregation, we can give evidence of our genuine sharing, compassion, and empathy. Let each gift carry with it a prayer for wholeness in the name of our common Lord. And by your very giving, you will know that perfect oneness of love. Another thing. Just as there are germ carriers in society, so there are conscience ...

60. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... him from acknowledging the sexual basis of marriage. Continence is not the norm. Sexual relations are to be interrupted only for periods of prayer and then resumed (1 Corinthians 7:5). Not only does he understand human nature but he also feels a deep empathy for the whole human race, "groaning inwardly" (Romans 8:23) and "sighing with anxiety" (2 Corinthians 5:4) over its distress. Yet the dominant note in his own experience and in his message to others is "Rejoice in the Lord always" (Philippians 4:4 ...

61. Numbered Hairs

Matthew 10:1-42

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Herchel H. Sheets

... because one individual reached out in love with interest in him specifically.4 Keats wrote once, "If a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its experience and pick about the gravel."5 God has that kind of interest and empathy, lifted to an infinitely higher level. He can never be unconcerned about the least significant person. He is interested, not indifferent. Indifference is completely foreign to his nature. It is inconceivable, too, that God could be preoccupied. Helmut Thielicke says that ...

62. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

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Herchel H. Sheets

... say, "I can’t see; you have a speck in your eye"? Why should something that is in another person’s eye cause me to be unable to see? Only in extraordinary cases would this be because of one’s capacity for feeling with and for another. Empathy is not what is involved here. One is blinded by a speck in another person’s eye, not because of intense sympathetic feeling, but because of unsympathetic attention to that speck. Total blindness is not indicated here. One sees well enough the speck in the other ...

63. Getting Under Your Neighbor's Skin

Matthew 5:1-12

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Bill Bouknight

... Aramaic which Jesus spoke, the word "merciful" means literally "to get under someone's skin." It means to wear his skin, as it were; to see life from his perspective, to stand in his shoes. It means more than sympathy; it means active empathy or merciful understanding. I find several truths here. The first is this: Merciful. Let me illustrate. A prominent minister was holding a weekend seminar at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, several years ago. He kept noticing a man in the front row nodding sleepily ...

64. It Might Have Been ...

Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56

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... ’t do it ... so ultimately he couldn’t love. "I don’t know how to love," he sings in Superstar. How true. He didn’t, because he couldn’t accept him. III But ultimately, JUDAS MIGHT HAVE BEEN CHANGED; HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN. I have a great deal of empathy for Judas - like so many of us I see him as a mixture of good and bad. Who knows what it was that finally pushed him over the line; who know what little thing is the last straw for any of us? When he walked out into the night to ...

65. It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

Luke 8:26-39

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James W. Moore

66. Pentecostal Power

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... women talk about their problems men usually want to offer solutions. But women often talk about their problems in order to sort through their feelings and look at the problem from all angles. They don’t want a solution as much as they want understanding and empathy. The best thing for a husband to do when his wife has a problem is to “hold the bucket”: just let her express her emotions without offering any advice or judgment. Or, a husband could use “the mirror stance”: just reflect his wife’s ...

67. Vive La Difference

Romans 12:1-8

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King Duncan

... sense of the word. Some of you may not have a natural talent for teaching. Your talent might lie in you ability to empathize with young people. Both lesson preparation and presentation may prove to be a real struggle. But because of your great empathy and your willingness to work, you discover a spiritual gift as a teacher. Even when we have certain natural abilities, they must find expression according to a particular need or opportunity. Someone once asked Isaac Stern why he took up the violin. Why not ...

68. Why Do We Call Him Good?

Luke 10:25-37

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Dr. Ronald Love

... desire. Then we remember the word, "good." And we swallow our pride and our prejudice and take the time to help. This brings us to a third thing to be said. THE SAMARITAN SHOWED HIMSELF CAPABLE OF THE HIGHEST ACT OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS ” THAT OF EMPATHY. He saw in the traveler stripped and beaten on the road his own desperate need. For you see, suffering is a universal human phenomenon. Nobody can escape the heartache and sorrow of life. Everyone is subject to illness and grief. At one time or another ...

69. One Giant Leap

John 1:1-18, Isaiah 51:17--52:12

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Wayne Brouwer

... molested had so felt the pain of her friend, that she gathered into her own self the wounds that her friend had received at the hand of her estranged husband! Do you see the picture? Do you understand the thought? In this one rare instance of empathy, the pain, and the suffering, and the cruelty endured by one became the possession of the other. Now broaden the focus. Isaiah the prophet put it like this: He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace ...

70. God Is Not Fair (Grumbling in the Vineyard)

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... machine gun. She could mow down persons who disagreed with her by quoting scripture and condemning them. "A-a-a-a-Thou shalt not kill. A-a-a-a-"Thou shalt not commit adultery." She could mow them down with her tongue, but she had no compassion, no empathy. She could only criticize and ostracize those who did not measure up to her standards. Some of us would find a special place in hell for the self-righteous, but would that be fair? After all, they are simply trying to apply as best they can the rule ...

71. Look Who's Giving Thanks!

Philippians 4:2-9

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King Duncan

... in Norway and Denmark. Ninety percent of the wallets were returned in Singapore, but only 67% of the wallets were returned in the U.S., 30% in China, and 21% in Mexico. Of those who returned the wallet, three factors seemed to motivate their honesty: empathy, a good example from their parents, or their religious faith. One woman in Germany explained that her parents taught her to value honesty. A Muslim woman claimed that her faith made her shun temptation. A woman from Russia quoted the Ten Commandments in ...

72. Why He Came

Mark 1:29-34

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King Duncan

... , Rev magazine, Nov/Dec 2001, p. 55. 3. Jim Sheard and James F. Gauss, A Champion's Heart--Qualities for Success (Nashville: Countryman, 1999). 4. Elie Wiesel in All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs. Cited in Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D. and Katherin Ketcham. The Power of Empathy (New York: Dutton, 2000), p. 118.

73. Leaving The City of Regret

Mark 2:1-12

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King Duncan

... to the paralyzed man: "Your sins are forgiven." 1. James Merritt, Friends, Foes & Fools (Nashville, TN, Broadman & Holmes, 1997). 2. In The Healing Heart by Dr. Norman Cousins. Cited in Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D. and Katherin Ketcham. The Power of Empathy (New York: Dutton, 2000), pp. 131-132. 3. Religion in Daily Life. 4. "The Strange Case of the Surgeon at Crowthorne," Simon Winchester, Smithsonian, September 1998, pp. 88-99. 5. Peter Hay, The Book of Business Anecdotes (New York, NY: Facts On ...

74. Danny Devito In A Tree

Luke 19:1-10

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King Duncan

... . Bernard Asbell with Karen Wynn, What They Know About You (New York: Random House, 1991). 4. Leonard C. Lee, Signs of The Times, Copyright (c) June 26, 1956, Pacific Press, http://www.signstimes.com. Monday Fodder. 5. Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D. and Katherin Ketcham, The Power of Empathy (New York: Dutton, 2000), pp. 72-73. 6. Senior Scholastic. Date unknown. 7. Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo, The Misfortune (New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1988), p. 83.

75. Do Not Disturb

Isaiah 11:1-10

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King Duncan

... has come into the world. 1. Guinness World Records 2004, edited by Claire Folkard, et. al. (Guinness World Records Limited, 2003), p. 105. 2. Sent to us by a friend. Source unknown. 3. Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D. and Katherin Ketcham. The Power of Empathy (New York: Dutton, 2000), pp. 201-202. 4. Chapter 10 - "Women of Wonder," pp. 57-58. 5. By Don Booth, Finding God Between a Rock and a Hard Place, compiled by Lil Copan and Elisa Fryling (Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1999), pp. 74-79.

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