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901. Feeding the 5000

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... of the Holy Spirit. The text for this Sunday fits precisely the dictionary definition of the word pericope: "cutting all around." Today's text "cuts around" Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The opening verses assigned for today indicate that Jesus had great compassion on the crowd. Jesus, that is, acted like a shepherd to people who were "like sheep without a shepherd." Israel had great traditions of the shepherd. In all three stories of the origin of David he is depicted as a shepherd boy: 1 Samuel ...

902. Choosing Your Spirituality

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... challenging us to move on to greater things. Personally, I need to dream about my tomorrows. I need to see how my spirituality relates to my decisions and actions every day. I need a spirituality that moves me to treat myself and others with compassion and this planet earth with respect. I need a spirituality that is dynamic, always changing. I know that is contrary to widespread popular opinion. We tend to think that spirituality never changes. But my life is always changing. And here I remind myself, and ...

903. Making the Mystery Work for You

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... to fall for nothing.” Sixteen years later Magruder stood before the Federal Judge, confessed to felony, and said, “I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass.” Stand for something. Strive with all your might. Stretch every muscle and all the emotional and mental energy you have. Rule Three: Learn to make sacrifices. Life isn’t easy. And one little decision today will determine where you are down the road ...

904. What’s a Sunday For?

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... it as a threat over the heads of everyone? Why? In the Gospel, Jesus is making a sharp contrast between two types of faith guilt-oriented and forgiveness-oriented. A guilt-oriented faith restricts, enslaves, narrows one’s view, chokes out love and compassion, confuses and immobilizes. A forgiveness-oriented faith loosens up, frees, widens your view to opportunity, channels acts of caring, makes you feel upbeat and makes you want to do something great. As a kid, I lived in the countryside where there was ...

905. Here They Come, Singing

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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John R. Brokhoff

... God treasures in his heart. The prophet Hosea spelled out this precious relationship in these words of God, “When Israel was a child, I loved him ... It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms ... I led them with cords of compassion, with the bands of love.” How infinitely tender a love God has for his people! That fatherly love is our salvation. It is the Good News that sustains us, no matter what. See the happy exiles marching out to freedom, singing and dancing and shouting with ...

906. Gunda

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... a leader one somehow has to put one's self in compromising power positions," Paul's thoughts continued, "Money, power, prestige, a good old boy in the community ... is that what it really takes to get elected? What about integrity and decency and ethical values and compassion and common courtesy?" Paul's thoughts meandered almost out of control now. He felt tired. "I guess it's time to go home," he mused. But Paul Dicerio didn't get up from his bar stool. Because a name kept on nagging at his mind. Gunda ...

907. Changing The Rules

Mark 7:1-23

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Robert Salzgeber

... cleanliness is bad or wrong in and of itself. We certainly practice, in our culture, similar sanitary measures. The point Jesus desires to make here is: what is unfriendly to God is when ritual cleanliness preempts God's love and mercy and compassion. Jesus would have to put forbearance before forebears. He would have us participate in his father's love induced restraint ahead of ancestral legal tradition. A story: The court warden's deep voice perked through to Billy's conscious awareness as he called ...

908. God's Math:Lose Life = Save It

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

When self-preservation is our central aim, we are never safe. However, when we are committed to surrender to the disturbances that Godly compassion produces we are never in danger.So Jesus said, "For whoever wants to save his own life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it." We can be dumped into the most precarious situations but if God is with us we ...

909. Nathan's Wise Parable

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... it. Nathan doesn't even tell a parable about murder, though David was responsible for Uriah's death. No, when Nathan holds the mirror up to David, David recognizes himself in relation to God as one who has forgotten God's holy expectation, of God's compassion. David sees that he has had slain one who was cherished, was beloved. He had "despised the word of the Lord." He had done wrong. David looks at Nathan and confesses, "Behold, I have sinned against the Lord." This section of scripture, that goes from 2 ...

910. God As Wisdom

Proverbs 1:20-33

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Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... your image of God close and intimate, embracing, soothing and accepting you through it all? Some people imagine God as a place and a shelter, a cave or a river, a mountain or a harbor. Some imagine God alongside them seeking justice, among us in acts of compassion. If someone like me were to ask someone like you, "How do you imagine God." How would you answer? This is not an easy question to answer for our images of God are often formed unconsciously. They are formed by the lullabies your mother sings, or ...

911. The Compassionate Highway

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... the far shore. What should they do? What would you do? This scripture gives a wonderful little window into Jesus' psyche. Despite the need for rest, he is "moved to the depths of his being with pity for them." Those are Mark's words. There was such compassion about Jesus. The image is of a shepherd sensing his responsibility for the sheep. The crowds that again clustered around were "like sheep who had no shepherd." And so Jesus again began to talk with them, and to share with them the wholeness of God's ...

912. Song Of Loss Song Of Hope

2 Samuel 1:1-16

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Charles Curley

... the complexities of life to black or white, friends or enemies, "for us" or "against us." Help us to accept the subtle shadings of human relationships, to rejoice in the mystery of friendship and to mourn those times when anger separates us from one another. Grant us the grace of compassion, and the clarity of your love, poured out on all our encounters with one another. May we live so as to reflect your presence in our words and actions, all of our life long. Amen.

913. Shepherds And Bathrobes

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Thomas Long

... request for lodging. He then dutifully recited his one line, "There is no room in the inn." But as Mary and Joseph turned and walked wearily away toward the cattle stall where they would spend the night, the boy continued to watch them with eyes filled with compassion. Suddenly responding to a grace which, though not part of the script, filled the moment, he startled himself, the holy couple, and the audience, by calling, "Wait a minute. Don't go. You can have my room." And that is why, when all is said and ...

914. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... whether the corporate body exercises some kind of discipline over us and how. It seems clear from the teachings and examples of the New Testament that discipline should be for redemption and not as punishment or vengeance. It always needs to be tempered with compassion for the person enmeshed in sin. Too often in church history that was lost from sight. Such legal fictions as turning over to the state for punishment those who were to be disciplined were used. It at least recognized that the church should be ...

915. Proper 10

Mark 6:14-29, 2 Samuel 6:1-23, Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... not only sacrificed to the Lord, but he gave gifts to his people (vv. 18-19). Outline: 1. The first act of worship is to turn our faces to God in thanks, praise and sacrifice. 2. The second act of worship is to show God's face of compassion to the world. Epistle: Ephesians 1:3-14 1. Sermon Title: The Joy Of Being Chosen. Sermon Angle: Nothing is more devastating than not being chosen by those who matter to you. Also, nothing surpasses the joy of being chosen in love. Paul proclaims that all Christians are ...

916. Proper 11

Ephesians 2:11-22, 2 Samuel 7:1-17, Mark 6:45-56, Mark 6:30-44

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... :20-37 "My faithfulness and steadfast love will be with him" (v. 24); Psalm 22:22-30 Prayer Of The Day: Shepherd of our souls, in our weakness and infirmity we seek your healing touch. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for stooping to help and heal us. Give us hearts of compassion, that we might reach out with your mercy and grace. In your precious name. Amen.

917. Proper 14

Ephesians 4:17--5:21, 2 Samuel 18:1-18, John 6:25-59

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... sublimest of claims for himself: that anyone who eats of him (receives in faith) will be given the gift of eternal life. However, no one can come to him unless he is drawn by the Father. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Old Testament: 2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33 The compassion of the king (v. 5). King David pleads with his commanders to deal gently with his rebellious son. Though his son tried to unseat him from the throne, David still loved him. We see in David a picture of God's love for us sinners. Though we rebel ...

918. Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17, Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Bulletin Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... that sincerely loves the Lord. Prayer and giving flow from the same spring, from a heart that loves God. Almsgiving must not be identified only with money. Alms consisted of any kind deed arising from a heart filled with mercy and compassion. The Septuagint translates certain Hebrew words for both righteousness and kindness as alms. Frequently the helping words to do are united with the word alms; this shows almsgiving as an action that arises from the believer's heart. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Old Testament ...

919. Proper 4

Mark 2:23-3:6, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... :1-6 "I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (v. 14); Psalm 81:1-10; Psalm 80 Prayer Of The Day: Lord Christ, free us from narrowness of mind and smallness of spirit, that we might see the needs all about us and respond with your great compassion and love. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

920. Christmas 1

Isaiah 61:10–62:3, Luke 2:21-40, Galatians 3:23–4:7, Colossians 3:12-21

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... vein, believers are to put to death what is sinful (vv. 5-9). Continuing with the thought with which the chapter begins, Paul urges the believers to put on Christ's garment of righteousness. This garment will be made visible in such things as compassion, kindness, humility and so forth. Gospel: Luke 2:22-40 Mary and Joseph, being a devout couple, brought Jesus to the temple. Two ceremonies took place. First the Redemption of the First-born. Every male, man or beast, was regarded as belonging to the Lord ...

921. Witnesses

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

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Mark J. Molldrem

... to the son of the Landgrave of Thuringia secured her future in aristoc_esermonsratic society. However, her heart was with the poor and needy. When a severe famine occurred in the region, Elizabeth shared most of her personal fortune and grain with the poor. Her compassion was not momentary. Seeing the needs of the sick in the community led her to establish two hospitals for their care. One of them was located at the foot of the Wartburg, where three hundred years later Martin Luther would be translating the ...

922. The Victory Of Faith

1 John 5:1-12

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Mark J. Molldrem

... to day for each meal and they really did not know where they were. This was unchartered wilderness where they had never been before. So, they murmured against the Lord. Scripture reminds us over and over again that "the Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and of great kindness." This was demonstrated in the wilderness. In their discomfort, the people argued, "God, why are you doing this to us? Make it a little easier. Give us a break!" Although the people murmured against the Lord, God ...

923. The Gospel Of Our Calling

Romans 4:1-25

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Mark J. Molldrem

... . From such daily distractions we need to be called to more important events going on. And so, God calls us, as no one else can do. He called Abraham from out of his daily routines in Ur to risk a journey into the future. His only "chart and compass" for this journey would be the promises of God. God promised Abraham that he would give him a new land, and from him to make a new nation, and through him to bless the entire world. Abraham listened to God's call and responded. His response is called faith ...

924. The Pageant

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

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Jerry Eckert

... these scholars, saw the joining of the planets and realized that they were a sign of the birth of a king. As they studied further, they concluded that the king was to rule in the Holy Land. And even more, they realized, the new king would be one of compassion, one who would be a king for the whole world. As our wisemen come forward, let us sing a song of such hopes, "We Three Kings" (v. 1). (They come and stand next to the prophet, facing the pastor.) So they left their universities in Persia, in Egypt, and ...

925. A Patriot · Dysmas

Mt 27:38 · Mk 15:27 · Lk 23:32

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... of Jesus' last earthly hours. (Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27; Luke 23:32) Tradition treats him more kindly. It dignifies him with a name. "Dysmas," it whispers. Nor does tradition stop there. Instead, it presses on to portray Dysmas as a man of great compassion, deeply concerned for the distressed and the downtrodden, who "despised the rich, but did not give to the poor, even burying them" -- no common mercy for the times. I A robber in the eyes of Rome, Dysmas was actually a revolutionary -- a freedom fighter ...

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