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76. The Authority of Jesus over Sickness and Death

Mark 5:21-43

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Grant R. Osborne

... of Jesus. They think of him only as a wonder-worker and future conquering king. Theological Insights Jesus not only has control over the cosmic powers but also is sovereign over the human dilemma of sickness and death. Our God is a healing God, filled with compassion for his suffering and beleaguered people. He raises up his people, asking only that we place our trust in him. Our response must be faith in his greater will, for we know that in all things good will emerge from our trials (Rom. 8:28). Physical ...

77. David Brings a Plague upon Israel

2 Samuel 24:1-25

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... emphasizing his innate sinfulness and need for spiritual transformation (Ps. 51:1–10). This divine emotion is comparable to the love between blood brothers (Gen. 43:30) or to the love that a parent feels for a child (1 Kings 3:26; cf. Ps. 103:13). Yet God’s compassion for his people surpasses that of a mother for her child (Isa. 49:15). Even so, in this case the Lord’s mercy does not eliminate all consequences of sin: it simply causes the Lord to lessen the extent of his judgment (2 Sam. 24:15). 24:17 ...

78. Ask Jacob!

Matthew 6:25-34, Genesis 25:19-34

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Lori Wagner

... on course can be very, very hard. Life is like that too. The world around us is filled with distractions, storms, and confusing messages. We can’t possibly figure out where we are, let alone where we are going without relying on our inner compass. That compass is Jesus. Jesus is the compass for all those who would ride the disciple-ship through the sea of life. It was no different in early times, in biblical times, than it is today. Today, we read the story of Jacob and Esau. Esau is a laborer of the ...

79. Good for What Ails Us

Matthew 9:35-38

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R. Kevin Mohr

... , working in the same factory, in the next cubicle to ours, living across the street, right next door — perhaps even in the same house with us. They are lost sheep without a shepherd, ready to respond to the good news. Who is caring for them? Who will have compassion on them? The harvest is plentiful — it is the laborers who are few. That is why Jesus told his disciples then and tells us today to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers to bring in the harvest. Prayer is the first step; it ...

80. The Practice

Mark 1:9-15

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Lori Wagner

... emotional and spiritual strength. He will be opposed, trashed, defied, threatened. He will be faced with trying to explain the love of God to those who have been trained in the past by rules or harsh treatment or influenced by status and power. He will need to show compassion to those not used to receiving it. He will need to cultivate faith in those who do not trust. What he will have to endure at the end of his time on earth will be heart-wrenching and cruel. Still, he will need to not only endure, but ...

81. The Road To Capernaum

Mark 1:21-28

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... and kin and group. But Jesus always called people away from that to a deeper kind of love - to a higher level of compassion. He gave sight to the blind, food to the hungry, hope to the hopeless, forgiveness to the sinner and encouragement to the downtrodden ... a false kind of goodness - but who demonstrate the love of God by reaching out to all God's children with a higher level of compassion. I remember reading about a girl who lived in an orphanage. One day the lady in charge of her cabin saw her walk out to ...

82. Forgive To Be Forgiven

Genesis 50:15-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... fatted calf. Bring a robe and shoes. Let’s celebrate his homecoming." Once Pharisees were about to stone to death a woman caught in the act of adultery. Justice said, "Stone her!" Mercy in Jesus said, "Go and sin no more." Today we can forgive out of compassion. We are prone to find fault, gossip, and be judgmental of sinners. How do we treat a divorcee in our church? Though we may not approve, can we forgive a homosexual or a lesbian? Do we exclude drug addicts? How do we feel about an unmarried teenager ...

83. He Comes As He Came

Luke 19:28-44

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Maxie Dunnam

... levers we will be able to pull. And what sort of sensation of pleasure do you think will come when we pull that lever? That misses the mark more than a country mile. It misses it by a galaxy. Love is not a pleasure principle. It calls for compassion and compassion is often painful, bringing us to tears. Over against Mr. Kahn's machine, I think of a young woman who loved G. Campbell Morgan. I may have told you this story before; I know I used it as a Perception. G. Campbell Morgan was a powerful man and ...

84. What's So Great about Going to Church

Isaiah 6:1-8

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James W. Moore

... all time, the greatest news of all time… and together as a church, family, the disciples all experienced it… all that is, except Thomas! Thomas missed it for one reason and one reason only. He wasn’t there! He was absent! Now, we know in His grace and compassion, The Risen Lord came back and appeared again later just for Thomas, but, it’s a haunting story, isn’t it? There’s a sermon there somewhere and I think it has to do with this: - How many great moments with God have you missed? - How many ...

85. Courage Under Fire

Jude 1:22-23

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James Merritt

... to win people. But that is not our greatest problem. Our greatest problem is that even more Christians are not weeping over the lost. That is, we don't even care. When I think about this word compassion, I think of Matthew 9:36 where it says about Jesus: "But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd." I'm going to make a strong statement, and if it offends you, it may confirm what it says about you. If you do ...

86. Seeing God In The Ordinary: Others

John 6:1-15

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... God and our Love for God lives in our hearts it naturally flows from our actions and others with see God In The Ordinary in us. Which leads us to the conclusion and challenge and a very serious question: We know what we see in the random acts of Compassion Without Embarrassment, Hope Without Strings and Love Without Limits when we see it in others. It moves us. It reminds us that God IS in the ordinary acts and activities of life. But the question it asks is: "What or rather WHO do others see in us? Do they ...

87. Taking the Shape of Christ

Galatians 4:8-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... with bare hands but especially with bare, open heart. That’s the life modeled by Jesus. He looked, listened, and t He was available, always responsive to the reaching out of those around Him. If Christ is going to be formed in us, we must live with compassion and concern. III. COMMITMENT The third dynamic of Jesus’ life was his commitment. Of course the ultimate expression of that is in the garden of Gethsemane. We do well now and then to rehearse that story. Jesus was only 33, and no one wants to die ...

88. Love

John 15:9-17

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J. Howard Olds

... to forge our identities by carving out for ourselves niches in life where we can maintain a safe distance from others. We do not aspire to suffer with others. We desire to stay away from the pain. So, we might rightfully ask, “In what condition our compassion might be?" Are we willing to sacrifice, suffer with, enter the pain, and endure the anxiety that is all around us? If every soldier that went to Iraq felt like our son or daughter, if every child that starved to death felt like flesh of our flesh ...

89. Learning the Recipe for Love

Colossians 3:1-17

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Richard Gribble

... harmony” (v. 14). Love is much more than eros, romantic love. It is also fileo, the love of brothers and sisters, and the greatest form of love, at least from the perspective of the Greeks, agape, the concept of service to others. We must bind our compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience together in love through service to others. If we can do this in the peace of Christ, then the love Paul calls us to manifest will most assuredly reign in our hearts. Paul goes on to say that we have all ...

90. Learning the Recipe for Love

Colossians 3:12-17

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Richard Gribble

... harmony" (v. 14). Love is much more than eros, romantic love. It is also fileo, the love of brothers and sisters, and the greatest form of love, at least from the perspective of the Greeks, agape, the concept of service to others. We must bind our compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience together in love through service to others. If we can do this in the peace of Christ, then the love Paul calls us to manifest will most assuredly reign in our hearts. Paul goes on to say that we have all ...

91. I am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction

Lamentations 3:1-66

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Tremper Longman III

... nearly total. But here the poet acknowledges that though he and those he speaks of are deeply afflicted, they are still there. They are not completely consumed, and he attributes this to God’s grace as expressed in his khesed (covenantal love) and his rekhem (compassion). Psalm 77 is the poem of a desperate person who attributes his suffering to God. He accuses God of betraying his khesed and rekhem in verses 8–9. The poet in Lamentations sees the fact that anyone survived the debacle as evidence of God ...

92. Jesus Eats with Sinners and Heals the Sick

Matthew 9:9-13, Matthew 9:14-17, Matthew 9:18-26, Matthew 9:27-34

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Jeannine K. Brown

... to weep and grieve along with the family and friends of the deceased (see Jer. 9:17–18; Amos 5:16). The playing of musical pipes often accompanied such mourning activity (Josephus, J.W.3.437). 9:27 Have mercy on us, Son of David! The theme of compassion is reiterated (5:7–10; 9:13), once again coupled with Jesus’ power to heal (9:28). The attribution of “Son of David” to Jesus by these two blind men affirms what Matthew’s readers have been told from the start (1:1). Jesus as “Son of David ...

93. Job's Second Reply to Bildad

Job 19:1-29

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... which, Job says, they were not), then the sin would be a matter of concern between Job and God (Heb. ʾitti talin meshugati, lit. “against me my error will grumble/blame”). The friends are using Job’s plight not as an opportunity to express their compassion, but as an occasion of weakness through which they can exalt themselves and gain the upper hand. The NIV’s rather vague use cloaks the legal force behind the verb tokikhi, “argue against me (in court).” The friends are using Job’s suffering ...

94. The Lord Compassionate and Slow to Anger

Psalm 103:1-22

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... . 34:6; cf. also verse 7 of our psalm and Exod. 33:13). It is cited frequently in the OT, several times in liturgical contexts (Pss. 86:15; 145:8; Neh. 9:17). This confession forms the basis for the use of the key word pair—love and compassion—in our psalm, but it also introduces the subject of God’s anger toward sins, iniquities (v. 10), and transgressions (v. 12), the same three terms used in Exodus 34:7. While celebrating God’s mercy, the psalm does not ignore the reality of his wrath, though it ...

95. Lying By the Side of the Road

Luke 10:25-37

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King Duncan

... her step-father’s kind deed to her birth father made such a deep impression on Ms. Cubin. There are many Good Samaritans of every race and creed all over the world. Those who follow Jesus, however, are expected to do even more. We are expected to give love and compassion to those whom other people pass by. But there’s one more important thing we need to see in this story. Those of us who have known the grace of Jesus Christ at work in our lives know that it was once we who lay in a ditch broken and ...

96. Equipped for Our Calling

Matthew 9:35-10:8, (9-23)

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... others will catch our faith through osmosis. We invite people to church. We have Christian bumper stickers on our cars and Christian symbols on our keychains and our t-shirts and ball caps. We live lives that model the example of Jesus Christ. But we don’t have the compassion in our hearts that compels us to speak to people face-to-face. We don’t have the courage to say, “I want to see you become a child of God.” That night after the service, the pastor met the man at the door of the church and had ...

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Psalm 103:1-22

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

98. A Mother's Love -- A Godly Passion

Luke 13:31-35

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... and a sense of calling to help in a specific way, began a movement in England in the 1950s that later moved to America and that many of you know only too well. It is called the Hospice Movement, and it drew its inspiration from Jesus' own passion and compassion for his children -- "as a hen gathers her brood under her wings." My prayer is that God will continually come to us in new ways and in fresh images, so that more Cicely Saunderses among us can be moved and inspired to take risks to join in God's ...

99. Week Two Of Lent

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Richard Gribble

... absolutely necessary to the process. We must believe that God is there for us, ready to welcome us back at any time. In our first reading today, the prophet Micah tells us that God does not persist in anger, but rather, God delights in clemency. God will have compassion on us; God will cast into the depths of the sea all our sins. God will always show faithfulness to his people. God will not give up on any human being. When we know that God's mercy is ours, that God will continually pursue us, as Francis ...

100. Details

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

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Marc Kolden

... never do hear what happened to the twelve disciples. Worse than that, it is difficult to see what sort of a word of God this is for us. We need to slow down and look at the details. "When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion for them" (9:36). We know that word: "compassion." It's used a lot these days. But in the New Testament it is almost always used of God (and of Jesus). There is only one time it is used of another human being and that one -- appropriately enough -- is the good Samaritan. That should ...

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