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976. Beyond Togetherness

John 17:20-26

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... , but also his loving presence into the world. One man suggested that the ecumenical movement was a sideshow with theologians sitting around splitting doctrinal hairs when they should be planning strategies for ministering to the needs of the poor for food, shelter, compassion, companionship and understanding. "In this shared vision of response to the needs of others," he said, "we become one indeed." That is the glory of which Jesus said, "The glory which thou has given me I have given to them," the glory ...

977. The Story Of The Scandalized Neighbors

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... for him, as was his custom every day. Only this day was different. This day he saw against the horizon the stooped form of a man hobbling down the road. Instinctively he sensed it was his son and he ran to him, the pain in his heart was transformed into compassion. Judah stopped. He wanted to run but he was frozen with fear. You see, he wasn't sure of the emotional state of the old man who ran toward him. He was comforted a bit by the fact that he still remembered his "speech." But before he could utter the ...

978. Two R-Rated Stories

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... or the rights of the leper. But when there was a leper in his path he did not walk abound him like the priest walking on the opposite side of the road from the man set upon by thieves, on his way to Jerusalem to preach his famous sermon on compassion. Jesus stopped. And healed. And loved. Not causes, but people."1 Jesus said to Judas, "The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me." It was not that our Lord was against helping the poor, but he was saying that there are times when giving ...

979. Victory Over Evil

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Harold G. Skinner

... the final enemy. I said we have been part of two things, the power of sin and evil and the triumph of love. We are not alone. We have hope. We have a Savior. He who did not spare his own son comes to us with understanding, compassion, forgiveness, and love. Yes, the power of love has been present these last seven months. It has been present especially in you who have reached out to touch the family. ____________ had a very critical night about three weeks after her hospitalization. The family was called in ...

980. Jesus Feeds The Five Thousand

Matthew 14:13-21

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... Jesus heard (the news about the death of John the Baptist), he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, 2: "This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves." 1: Jesus said to ...

981. Living Humbly

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

Suggestions: Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading. 3 readers - adults Key: 1 = first reader, 2 = second reader, 3 = third reader 1: If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: All: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 1: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 2: Let each of you ...

982. Marked For Community

Sermon

George Bass

... support and help one used to expect to find in a small town. It has taken time for this 16-family street to become a neighborhood, resembling what the church really is and something of how Christians ought to live with one another in care and concern and compassion. Could it be because practically all of the people are active members of different parts of the Holy Catholic Church. I like to think so. I like to think that the cross is there. But our business, as Christians, is to love and care for all people ...

983. Moving Words

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... passage, we will miss a rich phrase: “it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher… (Matthew 10:25a, NRSV).” We are not called to be little saviors, but to be faithful servants following the example of Jesus. From him we see and learn compassion and simplicity, honesty and integrity. From him we learn what it means to rely on God and not on our own power and ingenuity. For more than 500 years, one of the masterpieces of Christian devotion and meditation has been Of the Imitation of Christ by ...

984. Give Me A Break!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... Christ invites us to shoulder the loads of carrying those who need our assistance. They are not burdens. They are our sisters and brothers who may not make it down the long road without us. There is the restful, positive feeling of having acted with compassion on behalf of another in the name of our yoke-partner, Christ. The early days of the civil rights movement produced many persons who faced dangers and carried the cause of right on their shoulders. In Montgomery, Alabama, during the bus boycott that in ...

985. Living By A Hunch

2 Kings 4:8-37

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... throw up our hands and walk the other way. Yes, rose-colored glasses, symbolic of the way we see the world and most especially our human sisters and brothers who live in it, can lead us to pretend not to see many who would very much like our love and compassion. Today we have the example of a great lady who was different. She perceived the inner being of Elisha the man of God and honored him. That was truly a wonderful gift of faith which God gave her. You and I are given the same kind of gift as we ...

986. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... irritated at the whole lot of them at Gethsemane when they all went to sleep on Him and then offered the excuse of being tired. He had to keep ten of them from punching out James and John and probably their mother, also. Compare His great calnmess and compassion with outsiders - those whom He healed and forgave. Yet whom did Jesus return to after His resurrection? Not the crowd He fed with fish and bread. Not the woman with the bleeding ulcer or the man with the lame foot. He came back to that bunch of ...

987. Enter God

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... Jesus and God I am compelled to accept an intelligent and hard-minded responsibility for the well-being of the child. Since the field of force in this encounter is thus transformed, it cannot run on kindly sentiment alone. Correction, love, sternness, and compassion all mingle. My world has been turned upside down. The opportunity (or is it the responsibility?) to bring that particular child to the fullness of life takes control of my life. I remember Jesus’ words “in my name,” and “receives not me ...

988. Saved By Grace

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... the result of sin is still death. The anger of God was aroused against Israel because of sin. Likewise, the sin of the world today stirs up the anger of God. Sin, then, throws out of balance the basic and dominant characteristics of God. Love, compassion and mercy are better descriptions of the temperament of God. To have overlooked the soul of Israel would not have been just or loving. A surgeon performs a delicate operation to remove cancerous cells from the body. The surgery is regretted on the one hand ...

989. The Comfort Of The Scripture

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... God,” he says, “aloud to God, that he may hear me.” We tend to think of psalms as joyous, but if you read them, more often you find pain and terror. “Has God forgotten to be gracious?” the psalmist asks. “Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” But there’s an answer in the Scripture. “I will call to mind the deeds of the Lord,” the psalmist says. “Yea, I will remember thy wonders of old.” Because the Scripture is the story of a faithful, loving God, we, like the psalmist, can find ...

990. Previews Of Coming Attractions

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... would return after exile. This land purchase, plus many of Jeremiah's words about genuine comfort and a new covenant, put us in touch with the compassionate side of this fiery prophet. Jeremiah's prediction of the coming Messiah is even greater evidence of this compassion in the prophet and in Yahweh.Thus we've gone full circle back to the place where we began, the Messianic prophecy of Jeremiah 33:14-16 that "a righteous Branch will spring forth for David." Jeremiah tells forth about the judgment of God in ...

991. Good News!

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... All Loves Excelling": Love divine, all loves excelling Joy of heaven, to earth come down! Fix in us thy humble dwelling, All thy faithful mercies crown. When Christ enters humbled hearts, unworthy people are crowned like royalty. Jesus thou are all compassion Pure unbounded love thou art; Visit with us thy salvation, Enter every trembling heart. When Christ enters the trembling heart of the believer, the believer comes home to God. It happens every Christmas. Finish then thy new creation, Pure and spotless ...

992. Leaping For Joy

Malachi 4:1-6

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... to know in advance something of the ultimate joy which will be ours in that day. An American woman while touring in Mexico one morning met a boy selling oranges. She thought to herself that an orange would be just the right thing to quench her thirst. Having compassion on the boy, she offered to buy the remaining six oranges he had left. The boy would only sell her three. “Why won’t you sell me the other three?” she asked. “What will I do in the afternoon?” he replied.6 The boy might not have been ...

993. The Road To Nazareth

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... eye." But no one was very uptight around Jesus. He put them at ease where they were and because of that he was able to call out the best from them. Where are you right now? A teacher asked her fifth grade students how many points there are on a compass. One boy said, "Five!" She said, "No, there are four." He replied, "But I can prove it. There is north, south, east, west and the place where I am right now." Wherever you are right now Jesus is the one who comes to you and he can put your life ...

994. Wedding: All in One Sentence

John 2:1-11

Sermon Aid

Raymond Gibson

... and signifying unto us the mystical union which exists between Christ and his Church; which holy estate Christ adorned and beautified with his presence in Cana of Galilee. What a lovely combination of words! How dynamic are their expression! How inclusive their compass! Surely Archbishop Cranmer, who in 1549 edited The Book of Common Prayer, from which these words derive, was not only a man of special sanctity but also of peculiar genius. Consider how they first remind us of who is present: we are gathered ...

995. Religion's Built-in Hazard

Isaiah 58:1-14

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... about us all, and it was no different in the time of the prophet Isaiah. In fact people often made a great show of praying, almsgiving and fasting. Then, as now, it was easy to substitute a great public display of piety for concrete deeds of justice and compassion. People in Isaiah's time and even in the days of our Lord's earthly life would make a great spectacle of praying in the streets. In the synagogues of Jesus' time, announcements were made of gifts to the poor, and very large gifts were signaled by ...

996. Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?

Isaiah 49:8-26

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... Resource Isaiah concludes this stirring message with the reminder that God is the sole and sufficient resource that his people need as they venture forth back to their homeland. The prophet says, "For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted." Those words were echoed many years later by William Bradford as he recorded the struggle of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony. "They had no friends to welcome them, nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies, no houses ...

997. God's Christmas Greeting

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... of God's great promises to us. So often God's answers to our cries for help and deliverance come in a form we could never imagine. In Copenhagen, Denmark, there is a statue of Christ that pictures our Lord with his arms outstretched in love and compassion. For many years it has moved people to tears who stand before this figure of the Christ that seems to beckon us to come to him. What is strange about the sculpture is that its creator, Bertel Thorwaldsen, intended to create a very different kind of figure ...

998. The Baby Who Changes Everything

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... longer scorned as something lowly since he became the carpenter of Nazareth and the servant of all. Hospitals and homes for the elderly, playgrounds and libraries, and institutions dedicated to public service all draw their being from the source of his compassion and concern. The powerful and noble concepts that motivate our lives at their best, freedom and peace, decency and kindness, forgiveness and love, all these we have drawn from Emmanuel. Of course, all these things did not happen at once, and much ...

999. Under The Wings Of The Almighty

Ruth 2:1-23

Sermon

Sims Robert

... her spirit. She was determined to make a new life in a new land. Somehow, the text does not tell us how, Ruth learned to believe in the God of her husband and of her mother-in-law. She learned to trust him as a God of love and compassion. In the words of Boaz, Ruth “sought refuge under the wings of the God of Israel (Ruth 2:12).” Foreigner and convert though she was, Ruth faced the future with courage because she believed her life was under the protection of God. As Christian people we believe that the ...

1000. Wounded Glory

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Erskine White

... wondered what it would have been like to meet Christ and study His hands. There were the hands of Christ the carpenter, rough and bruised from working with saw and hammer. There were the hands of Christ the healer, radiating sensitivity and compassion." "Then there were His crucified hands. It hurts me to think about the soldiers driving nails through His hands because I know what would happen to the nerves and tendons. His healing hands became crippled and gnarled, twisted shut on the cross." "Finally ...

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