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51. Have You Talked to Jesus Lately?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... and tell you, face to face, how much I appreciate all you’re doing here. I know it’s not easy, being a minister in a big city like Memphis." "It’s getting more difficult by the minute," I said. "Yes, I know," he said, his voice now annoyingly sympathetic. "And this isn’t the easiest church in town to serve either. These folks do love to argue, don’t they? But they’re basically good people, and you’ve done a wonderful job with them. Say, do you read the Bible? You know, if there are things that ...

52. Save Us From the World-Savers

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Carl Jech

... experiences of the people of the country and have respect for their ethnicity and religious heritage." While identifying himself as a member of an older generation, Pastor Werronen affirms the need for new ways of conceiving and doing evangelism. He would seem to be sympathetic with the newer translation of one of his homeland's most famous hymns which substitutes the word "needy" for the word "heathen." The hymn is called "Lost in the Night" and the last stanza begins: "Light o'er the land of the needy is ...

53. Love Is Down to Earth

John 12:1-11

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Carl Jech

... so much love the poor; it is, rather, that they hate the rich! Our story here is from John rather than Luke. When John's Gospel shows us Jesus telling his disciples "the poor you always have with you," are we seeing a Jesus who is less sympathetic to the poor and oppressed than the Jesus we see in Luke? Does Luke virtually hate the rich, the comfortable, the establishment ... and does John correct this imbalance by showing Jesus willing to indulge in a little luxury, willing to put his concern for the poor ...

54. Give Them Good News...

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... , she would no longer be allowed to teach her youth class in Sunday school, she could no longer serve as president of the women's missionary group, and she would not be allowed to sing in the choir. At a time when she desperately needed her church's sympathetic support they let her down, because all they could see was her sin. They were unable to look below the surface and see what she could become in Christ. We have pointed the finger of judgment at others for so long that the very most much of the ...

55. Seeking What Matters

Matthew 13:44-46

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... doesn't happen this way. More often than not, we can possess the best only after diligent quest, after commitment and discipline and the application of our total selves to achieve the goals we seek. One usually doesn't possess patience or have a sympathetic heart or a forgiving spirit as a result of having incidentally bumped into these virtues somewhere along the way. We are talking about effort, about trying, about striving - about giving in order to get, about paying prices in order to possess. A lot of ...

56. Christ Is King

John 12:12-19

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... with palms to meet him and to hail him as the king. We like that kind of king. Then John adds the usual commentary, "His disciples did not understand this at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered." I think we can be sympathetic toward the twelve disciples, for it can be said of us as well, "His disciples did not understand at first." How little we understand. But is it necessary that we understand? It is more important to believe, even though we cannot understand. The nightly news ...

57. God Is No Respecter Of Persons

Acts 10:23b-48

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... started any new programs, gotten any more schooling, changed any basic theological positions? I had a great urge to send the questioner a "sensitivity survey" which Dr. Robert McCracken once composed! It asked - "Have you a quick eye, an outgoing nature, a heart tender and sympathetic? Do you care when others are hurt? Are you swift to sense their hurt and to do what you can to relieve it? Is anything human alien to you?" (McCraken, et. a!. The Riverside Preachers, p. 71) Those were the traits of Jesus and ...

58. Proper 15

Lk 12:49-56 · Jer 20:7-13; 23:23-29; 38:4-10

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John R. Brokhoff

... our "friends" may turn on us when convenience calls them to it). 2. Sometimes the darkness is the start of light. A. Jeremiah shamed an entire city by enduring wrong treatment. B. Not only didn't God abandon Jeremiah, but he lived to preach another day - to a more sympathetic audience. C. We need to let God lead us through darkness for the sake of his truth (and not complain about the journey). Lesson 2: Hebrews 12:1-2, 12-17 1. Winning the Race of Faith. 12:1-2. Need: For the Christian, life is a matter of ...

59. Desert Springs

Isaiah 35:1-10

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... moments and our wilderness times. We will have the jackals tearing at our hearts from time to time. We will feel there is no road to walk, that each step is dangerous. All this is Word. Then the Word comes in a fresh way - through a sympathetic listener, whose listening itself is a gushing spring of renewed hope. It comes through a few moments spent reading a prophet like Isaiah, whose poetry and prayer is a highway through a barren land. The Word comes in the comforting, or not so comforting but still ...

60. The Ungoofer

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Staff

... her bank in an attempt to correct an error which the bank had made. Her call was transferred from one person to another, from office to office, and there was much talk, but no help. At last, the eighth person proved to be calmly and sympathetically helpful. He was genuinely pleasant, thoroughly efficient, even friendly. The business finished, the lady said, "You're great! What is your position in the bank?" He answered, "I'm the ungoofer." The ungoofer! Most of us need one now and again. And we have one ...

61. Counterfeit Christians and the Rest of Us

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Gary W. Houston

Years ago at Park Rapids, Minnesota a tramp walked into a restaurant and asked the proprietor for a free meal. The hobo looked so hungry and bedraggled that the sympathetic restaurant man said, "O.K., what’ll yuh have?" The tramp sat down at a table and had a good meal, a first class handout. As he was leaving, the hobo walked up to the proprietor and bummed a cigarette. He fished in a pocket for a match and along ...

62. The Precepts of the Lord

Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:7-14

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... . But God’s Law, expressed in an external, objective code, is always there, always the same. No matter what goes on in the human family, the Law remains, there, over all of us. It is not swayed by our excuses and justifications, nor is it sympathetic to what we claim are "mitigating circumstances." God’s Law has a convicting purpose. It helps us positively to identify sin. It teaches us the sure knowledge of right and wrong. The Laws of God (just like the laws of nature) remain operative, in effect ...

63. Midnight Turned Into High Noon

Isaiah 42:10-17, Isaiah 42:18-25

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... we are honest with what we are, in the sight of a holy God, we admit that we have not done well. The story is told of a mother who found her young son standing before the bathroom mirror. There were tears rolling down his cheeks. Alarmed and sympathetic, she asked, "What’s wrong? What’s the matter? Why are you crying?" The boy replied, "I just don’t like the way I turned out!" Dissatisfaction with our wrongdoing makes us keenly aware that confession is called for. We need to admit we are in darkness ...

64. "Hold Your Horses!"

Acts 1:12-26

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Barbara Brokhoff

... cabbage and beans. It’s a good spread. How big is your spread?" The rancher said, "I get in my pickup in the morning and I drive west. And I drive all day. When the sun goes down, I’m still on my spread." The guy from Rhode Island said, sympathetically, "I know; I had a pickup like that once." The poor guy missed the point entirely. We have such small minds that we really can’t begin to comprehend the kind of God we have who hears our prayers, answers them, and gives us far more that we asked for ...

65. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

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John R. Brokhoff

... . He joined Lazarus’ sisters in mourning the death. The shortest verse in the Bible says it all: "Jesus wept." Jesus cared enough to do something about it, even death. He called Lazarus back to life. This he did for all of us. Not only is he sympathetic with our loss, but he raises the dead to new life. Because of his own rising from the dead on Easter, we are assured of a resurrection to live with him forever in heaven. By his resurrection, he conquered death. Death was swallowed up. For all believers ...

66. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

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Robert G. Tuttle

... life have a different dimension. They have larger thought and deeper feeling, they have got hold of something - or something has got hold of them - which makes them more sensitive both to the joy and the pain of human existence, more understanding, more sympathetic, more outreaching in their helpfulness. It is not as though they were trying to manufacture some peculiar quality in themselves. Rather, it is as though they had been open to an influence that comes from beyond the borders of our small selves ...

67. What Form of Church Does God Want for the Furture?

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... it sure wasn’t me!" Distressed, the pastor turned to the teacher who said, "Pastor, if Tommy says he didn’t do it, you can believe him because he’s a good boy." The pastor was so upset he brought it before the Administrative Board. The Board listened sympathetically and then told him not to worry, that the trustees of the church would pay for the damage to the walls and try to hush the whole matter up. Likewise, I am sure many would like to see reformation in the way our denomination is governed, by ...

68. Christianity Can Be Fun

Sermon

Harold Warlick

A man nervously sat in the chair in his doctor’s office. His bouncing feet indicated a certain anxiety concerning his fate. For months the man had been fatigued almost to the point of depression. At last his doctor looked up at him in a sympathetic gesture. The doctor looked him in the eye and rendered the verdict: "Boredom!" "Boredom!" retorted the man. "How do I deal with that? I came here expecting you to get at the roots of my depression and give me some medication." "I could give you antidepressants ...

69. It’s Not So Bad To Be A Beggar

Acts 3:1-10

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Barbara Brokhoff

... they have. They are also people who understand. They remember what it was like before they were "in" the church - when they, too, were outside the gate, crippled, helpless in their sins and sickness. That’s why people in the church ought to be the most sympathetic and understanding of all people. That’s why it is a tragic indictment against us if we are gossipy, super-critical, and judgmental of others. We must never forget what it was like to be a beggar in sin "outside" the fold of God. Any person ...

70. Fingertip Embalming

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... into silence. And so it was on the evening of the first Easter Day. We met the wet blanket. This has customarily been the Sunday upon which we chastised Thomas, the doubter, as you heard the Gospel read. But let’s look at him this morning sympathetically, with understanding, as a miserable, unhappy, and lonely figure. Surely we can identify with him. You will notice that, in our liturgical year, this is not as it has been for years, the First Sunday after Easter. It is the Second Sunday OF Easter, and we ...

71. Strained Gnats

Matthew 23:1-39

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Herchel H. Sheets

... - and that was that! But they seemed not to care that at the moment she was the only support of two members of her family. Miss Wilson says, "They were very sentimental about a child’s playing the piano two hours a day, but they weren’t even sympathetic about shelter and food and medicine for three people."1 Those people had counterparts in Jesus’ days. They were religious people. In fact, they were tithers! Those are hard to come by in our day, and when you find one, you try to give him or her all ...

72. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

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Bill Bouknight

... the chaplain had no close family back in the States, he asked the military authorities if the chaplain could be buried in the cemetery behind his church. Permission was granted. But the priest ran into a problem with his own church authorities. They were sympathetic, but they said they could not approve the burial of a non-Catholic in a Catholic cemetery. So, the priest buried his friend just outside the cemetery fence. Years later, an Army veteran and friend of that chaplain returned to Italy and visited ...

73. Needed: Fidelity Insurance

Ephesians 5:22-33

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Bill Bouknight

... That's part of the sad legacy of original sin. All of us have our maladjustments. When we reverence Christ we give him permission to mend our brokenness with the glue of his grace. It's an ongoing process that lasts a lifetime. An unhappy wife said to a sympathetic neighbor, "My husband doesn't show any interest in what I do. All he cares about is whatever it is that he does at that place-~wherever it is--that he works!" Christ teaches us to listen, to be more flexible, to be more understanding, to be less ...

74. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... . SETH Don’t knock what you haven’t tried. JAREL I could always try calling the police. You’re not exactly a guest. SETH Go ahead. I’ve got my story ready: FAITHFUL BROTHER-IN-LAW REBUKED IN RECONCILIATION ATTEMPT. I’ll bet the police would be real sympathetic. And the morning paper’d probably print our picture. Cain would like that, you know. He takes great pride in the family. JAREL He should. It’s a great family. SETH You’re part of it. JAREL But don’t forget, I left. I had the sense to ...

75. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... and seeing through him." Sydney Smith suggests a simple rule: "When you rise in the morning, make a resolution that you will make that day happier for some other human being." It’s easily done, if you are looking for the possibilities. A kind or sympathetic word when it is needed, a small gift where it will help, encouragement to the discouraged, just noticing, talking to and being kind to the aged and the ill. Oh, yes, trifles in themselves; and yet, they have made life happier, more meaningful for some ...

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