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1001. Death of a Twenty-nine-year-old Athlete

Ephesians 6:1-4

Eulogy

Palmer L. Gedde

... that regardless of how I say it, regardless of how many times I have been with parents who have lost children in my many years of parish ministry, I have to confess that I do not, I cannot, know exactly how you feel today. In a sense, all human compassion is limited by experience, isn't it? Until we have actually walked where another has walked, or faced what another has faced, we cannot really understand. But there is One who can. There is One who loved his son just as you loved yours. There is One who had ...

1002. Death of a Newborn Infant

Luke 18:15-17

Eulogy

Walter A. Schmidt

... carry on our family name, our family traditions, our family memories. Yes, there is a special kind of tragedy in the death of any child. And while my words may seem insignificant, I submit to you that there is someone whose words have great meaning and compassion this day, the day that we are gathered for the funeral of young Jason Reilly. And those words are the text which I read earlier - Jesus' words, telling (in fact, rebuking) his disciples for not allowing the infants and children to come to him, They ...

1003. Death by Suicide For Active Church Member

Psalm 139:1-24

Eulogy

Phil Barnhart

... my prerogative to determine a person's eternal destiny according to how that person died. That prerogative is a divine one and must be left to the wisdom of God. But it is my privilege to believe God's mercy is greater than man's method, God's compassion deeper than man's confusion. I am not privy to the eternal destiny list. God may even surprise us about who goes where. However, I do believe that those who accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord go to heaven to live with him forever. Ivan, without a doubt ...

1004. For a Man in His Sixties

Philippians 4:2-9

Eulogy

Louis M. Pratt

... T., we should be about the task for which God created us - the task of "seeing one another through." L. T.'s suicide was a sad thing; an even sadder thing would be if, when we are so needed by his family, we were found wanting, without sympathy, without compassion. We may not know how to judge L.T., but we know how to judge a religious community and its relationship to God. When it fails to support people in their grief, and chooses to act as their judges rather than their family in Christ, it has failed in ...

1005. For a Ninety-three-year-old Widow

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Eulogy

Walter A. Schmidt

... certainly for you, her family, it will be strange as well as sorrowful for the grand matriarch of your family no longer to be presiding at family get-togethers. And, yes, we here at church will greatly miss her. We will miss not only her love and her compassion and warmth, but also her hours of loving, volunteer service to her Lord and his church. No, when I say that I cannot be sorrowful, but that rather I feel like rejoicing, I am paying the highest compliment to Edna, and I believe that is the way she ...

1006. Three Days To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Helen Keller

... and find in it the living evidence of the sympathetic tenderness and patience with which she accomplished the difficult task of my education. I should like to see in her eyes that strength of character which has enabled her to stand firm in the face of difficulties, and that compassion for all humanity which she has revealed to me so often. I do not know what it is to see into the heart of a friend through that 'window of the soul,' the eye. I can only 'see' through my finger tips the outline of a face. I ...

1007. The Burning Bush Within Us

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Justin Tull

... now and for eternity. Our passage today is far more than a story about a weird happening of Moses at Mount Horeb. It is about everyday occurrences that take place in Dallas, Orlando, Cedar Rapids and San Jose. It is about God calling us by name, his compassion for our suffering, his daily call to love, his every-moment offer of abiding presence. Our God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Moses, the God incarnate in Jesus Christ -- this same God continues to speak, to know and care, to call us ...

1008. A Compassionate Friend

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... , and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power which enables him even to subject all things to himself (3:20-21)." So it is with *. When Jesus, in his pain and his compassion, raised Jairus' daughter, he raised her to a life in which she would once again face death and resurrection. That's not so with *. Because God sent his Son to live among us, to suffer with us, to be raised again on the third day, we have the sure and ...

1009. Changing The Rules

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

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 ...

1010. How Should We Live?

Luke 3:1-20

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: To convey John the Baptist's understanding of compassion. Props: Two heavy coats. One worn on top of the other. Lesson: G-G-Good mmmorning! It's freezing out here. Aren't you cold? (response) You're not? My fingers are frozen. Blow your breath into your hands to warm them. Call one of the children up to sit ...

1011. Seek Good, Not Evil (That You May Live)

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... cent with usury. Someone once said, "Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich." Citizens on welfare must spend frugally. Industries already wealthy are entitled to, note the word, not extravagance, but to "cost overruns." "The religion of the eighties? Success. Compassion is out," responded a national magazine. It then proceeded to detail its answer, young men and women bent on making fortunes and spending fortunes in the most profligate way. The righteous are afflicted, not the wrongdoer. There is a ...

1012. The Least of These

Matthew 25:31-46

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... to sense what Jesus was saying to us about the man who needed pajamas, or something to drink, or a visit? Perhaps this man was not whom we thought he was. He looked and acted and sounded like ___________ But, at the very least, he was an opportunity for Christian compassion and love. Thank you for doing it for him.____________ was one of the least of these, and what we've done for him we've done for our Lord.

1013. Mercy and Understanding

Psalm 23:1-6

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... I'll give you a spiritual body fit for eternal life." "Goodness and mercy shall follow me . .God's mercy. How often we see it in other's lives. If we rightly understand it, it helps us also to do it. To "do" mercy is to have understanding and compassion. Every Sunday that we gather for worship we ask at least four times in the Kyrie:"Lord, have mercy." Once in a while we probably ought to change those words to: "Lord, let me show mercy." "Keep me from being too critical of others in their weakness. Close my ...

1014. A Little Forgiveness Goes a Long Way

Luke 17:1-10

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... can grow to an enormous size." Just a little forgiveness given to your brother, or given to your sister, or given to your friend can grow to be bigger than a car and bigger than a house. Do you know what actually grows when you plant forgiveness? (response) Love and compassion. So, let's ask Jesus to give us just a little bit of faith to forgive one another, and then we'll watch how love grows! Maybe it will get so big we can build a home in it. Let's Pray: Father, we forgive one another. Teach us to ...

1015. No Room In The Inn

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Brett Blair

... that night. He was just an ordinary layman like you. He could have said: If I had only known that this was the Messiah I would have gladly opened the door. But if he had known that, he would have responded out of awe, fear, or courtesy not out of compassion. So the Messiah comes to us just as he came to the Bethlehem innkeeper. Not in the form of a King with his entire splendor, but in the form of people in need--like Mary and Joseph. And whether or not we receive Christ in depends on how we respond ...

1016. Altered Expectations

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

... in whether we recognize that God is with us, that we don’t have to face the chaos and confusion alone. God does not create trouble or disappointment for us. God stands with us in the face of all our altered expectations. Joseph’s strength, his compassion, his courage all flowed from his constant faith in God’s abiding presence. In this season of Advent, as wonder at Mary’s quiet sense of calm, as we admire the tenacity of the Wise Men on their journey, as we share the excitement of the shepherds ...

1017. Get Ready, Get Set...Wait!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... of the matter is that God’s entrance into our lives in the person of Jesus Christ occurs at God’s initiative and not ours. Christ arrives in our midst not as a reward for our careful preparation for his coming, but as a result of the love and compassion of God. Christ comes to us whether we’re ready or not. In the Gospel reading for today from Matthew, the disciples are talking to Jesus about the Second Coming. They want to know when that’s going to happen, so they can be ready for it. Jesus recalls ...

1018. Use It or Lose It

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... that Microsoft was a monopoly? So, I’m afraid all I have to give you is a sincere apology." What would Jesus have had the master say about that? Do you know the same Jesus I know - the one who is always lifting up the failures of this world, having compassion for the losers? We also must remember that God doesn’t give all of us the same gifts, so that each of us has our unique talent to offer to the church. Some can teach, some can fix things that get broken, some can make beautiful centerpieces for the ...

1019. Fingerprints on the Chalice

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Steven Burt

... healing, is at times still fresh. No, the mongoloid boy isn’t far from her, for she, too has felt wrapped in the arms, the loving arms, of this body of Christ, this corpus of believers gathered in Jesus’ name. The fellowship, the being needed, the compassion and empowering love -- they were just what she needed when she needed it most. I could go on and on, because there are at least as many Communion experiences as there are people. And each person has many Communion experiences. Who knows what will be ...

1020. What You See Is What You Get

John 14:5-14, John 14:1-4

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... I had all the answers. I can only respond that one of the beauties of the Christian faith is that in Jesus of Nazareth, in the Risen Christ, we have found answers to our deepest questions. Because of Jesus, we know about God’s overwhelming love and compassion for all of us. But at the same time we must acknowledge that some of our questions will never be answered in this life. As Martin Luther said, God is both revealed and hidden, present and absent, known and unknown. Sometimes we are more keenly aware ...

1021. It Dawned on Me

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... was talking, passed by my tax booth, looked at me, and said, "Follow me." And I did. Why would a man leave everything ... job, family, home, security ... and follow Jesus? Because Jesus had the glance that knows. His eyes were great canyons of understanding and compassion. No one had ever looked at me like this man. No one. He should have condemned me. Instead he invited me ... encouraged me ... befriended me. He knew my secret ... so long covered with cynical hardness. I was lonely all the way to my bones ...

1022. Time and Stewardship

Sermon

Larry Powell

... out of the ordinary had happened. But he had not failed! He had not failed with John. John was at the foot of the cross representing the others, soon to represent himself to Mary as her own son. He had not failed with Joseph of Arimethea whose compassion and kindness moved him to provide a place for our Lord's burial. He had not failed with Simon of Cyrene. Tradition tells us that although Jesus spoke not a word to the stranger who helped him shoulder his cross, the Cyrenean returned home to convert his ...

1023. Ash Wednesday

Sermon

William Luoma

... of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort. (Romans 1:7;2 Corinthians 1:3; RSV) Psalm 51 (In unison) Selected verses (Psalm 51:1-4, 9-12: NIV)Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. (1-4) Hide your face from my ...

1024. Faith, Hope, and Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . If I give everything I have to the poor, but have not love, I am nothing. Friends, how often do we concentrate on the pedantic rather than the profound. If we do not go forth from worship to love people, to extend a helping hand, to show mercy, to offer compassion for those who are hurting, then what are we about? Take away love, and all you have left is just a big building.

1025. Miracles

Matthew 14:13-21

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: To convey the compassion and power of Christ. Props: Two slices of bread and a plate. Lesson: Good morning! (response) This morning I have brought this bread to feed us. But first I need to know how many of us there are. Could you help me count? (response) All right everyone stand up and ...

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