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1026. Encounters With Christ IV: Jesus and the Woman at the Well

Sermon

James W. Moore

... was the husband who got the divorce… meaning that this woman in one way or another had been discarded five times. · Whatever the case, one thing is clear. She was an outcast and she had a bad reputation. · And still Jesus reached out to her with love and compassion. Remember the story with me. The Bible tells us that it was about noon. This means it must have been incredibly hot out there at that desert at mid-day. (Even today if you take a tour to the Holy Land, guides will warn you, in the morning in ...

1027. Encounters With Christ VI: Jesus and Caiaphas

Matthew 26:57-68

Sermon

James W. Moore

... be.” He came loving people, helping people, celebrating people, and saying, “Look! Here’s the way it’s supposed to be.” We are supposed to love and honor and respect each other. We are supposed to treat each other with kindness and thoughtfulness and tenderness and compassion. That’s precisely what Jesus came to teach us… to love God and to love each other. And yet, even as He brought this message… that love is the way it’s supposed to be… He was seen by the authorities of the day as a ...

1028. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Bulletin Aid

Robert G. McCreight

... distance; for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter. Narrator: God continued to watch over Israel as one generation after another broke the covenant. He felt a great anger toward them for their waywardness. And he also knew a great compassion for them, longing for their faithfulness and a return to his ways of righteousness. He sent prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah, like Amos and Micah, to convict them of their sin and plead with them to come back to the hope of their salvation ...

1029. The Innkeeper Speaks

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

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... a rebellion against them. I heard they had convinced one of his followers to betray him. Turn him over to the authorities. In no way could he cause a rebellion. He spoke of living at peace with God and our fellowmen. His message was one of love and compassion. He was incapable of harming anyone, and I am a good judge of character. But, the word was that they trumped up some charges against him and took him before Pilate to have him condemned to death Unbelievable! How could they hate such a good man? Why ...

1030. Mary Remembers

Luke 1:26-38

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... . I was afraid that would be the case. Everyone needed a room for the night. The town was so crowded. Joseph, out of desperation, spoke again to the innkeeper. He told him I was near the time of my delivery. I remember the innkeeper coming over to us, and with compassion in his voice, he said: "I have no space left. I can only suggest one place - my stable. It is clean there, and I can build a small fire. You will be away from the crowds. It is the best I can offer." "We will take it!" Joseph said. "But ...

1031. Whose Work Is It?

Philippians 1:1-11

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... : Well, if you ask me, you two are not acting in a very Christian manner. What would Paul think? The two women glare at him. CLEMENT: (Clearing his throat) Well, going on ... "For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer, that your love will overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you determine what is best ..." EUODIA: (Interrupting) That's exactly what we need, to determine what is best. SYNTYCHE: Now who's interrupting ...

1032. Monologue: A Slave, A Jailer, A Child Of God

Acts 16:16-40

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... tenderness -something I'd never seen in him before. He’d always had a callous shell. If the magistrates told him to kill, he killed. If he received men who were bleeding, he didn't care; that was their tough luck. Now he was a new master, a man of compassion. One could say, "He washed and was washed. He washed their stripes, and he himself was washed from his sins. “The Spirit of God entered him. He believed in Jesus: by the love of Jesus, he became a new man, and he showed it. The change in him was ...

1033. Six Nails of the Cross II: The Nail of Infidelity

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... makes your friendship so valuable. Once you have entrusted yourself to another there is no turning back. Judas was a good disciple and a trusted one. There was never any question of his honesty for he was the treasurer of this chosen group. He must have had compassion for the poor. On one occasion he questioned the judgment of a believer who used an expensive perfume in the adoration of Jesus. This luxury, if sold, would have been a considerable amount as a gift to the poor. He said it, and one seemed to ...

1034. Jesus, Mary, Gustav Mahler, Brother Martin, and the Magi

Luke 20:9-19

Sermon

Carl Jech

... public life." Then he added, "I am convinced that the mainstream religious communities will recover their public voices only when they seek to appropriate and reform their own religious traditions ... we must develop a new vision of how excellence and compassion, self-interest and virtue, private gain and public good can once again be brought together." One of the things we can learn from the voice of Hinduism is that there are different styles of being religious. Hindus distinguish between what they ...

1035. Names, Not Numbers

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... Satan who threatens to stick his pointed tail into our budgets and bank accounts - and audits us, and in the end takes all the profits out of our lives. When we falter and fail to pay our bills, we discover that the gods which we worship have about as much compassion as a computer. We are not persons; we are a series of holes punched in a card. One smart fellow asked a computer if there was a God. The computer's answer came back, "There is now!" In a computer age, we are not names on the rolls of God ...

1036. Persistence in Being Fishers of Men

Luke 5:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... could handle! People: May we be just as persistent with our mission as Christ leads us in our ministry. Collect Most gracious Father, who is Lord not only of those who cast your nets, but also of those for whom your nets are cast: Fill us with compassion and persistence to go out into the deep, in obedience to your command, strengthened by the presence of Christ who called us to be fishers of men. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, where else but in your church can fish become fishermen ...

1037. God Shows His Glory to the Nations

Deuteronomy 31:30--32:47

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... Amen. Prayer of Confession Father in heaven, we are your children, but we adopt other loyalties that replace your supremacy in our lives. Forgive us for developing life styles that do not reflect our commitment to Christ your Son, who is our deliverer. Have compassion on us, and grant us renewed faith to receive your Son as Savior and King. In his name we pray. Amen. Hymns “Eternal Son, Eternal Love” “Lead On, O King Eternal” “Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates” “O Thou Eternal Christ of God ...

1038. Joy over One Penitent Sinner

Luke 15:1-10

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... for God to give us that same concern for those lost in sin, that we may rejoice with him when they are found. Collect Most merciful Father, who celebrates with joy the redemption of even one sinner: Melt our self-righteous judgment toward others into compassion, that we too may be thrilled with each person who is reclaimed from the sinful life. We pray through Christ our Savior. Amen. Prayer of Confession We believe the church must minister in a sinful world, Father; but at the same time we feel Christians ...

1039. The Crucifixion

Luke 23:26-43

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... God's mercy. People: For we have all sinned and fallen short before the glory of God. Leader: Yet through Christ, God does not hold our sins before us. People: Through Christ we walk in freedom and love to reach out to the world. Leader: In Christ we take compassion and not God's wrath to the world. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect Almighty and omnipotent God, You watched as we held a mockery of a trial and then nailed Jesus to the cross. Your love was greater than our sin, and we give You ...

1040. The Aim Of Preaching: To Bestow The Kiss Of Life

John 20:19-23

Sermon

James Angell

... Thy heart." The church, too, is on its own quest for renewal. Statistics about growth, if Presbyterians are normative, continue to be dismal. But if I had my life to live over, I would want to repeat the course in much the same way, and keep the church as the compass of my existence - a place not where answers are kept in a vault, but where people practice faith, grow in wisdom, and work for justice in ways that keep us restless so long as so few have so much, and so many so little. In an essay former Time ...

1041. Welcoming The New Millennium

Sermon

James Angell

... change itself is a form of equilibrium, and that it is only in disorder that we find order. You can't have fun surfing on a slow wave, and you can't surf at all on a frozen one. Yet in the midst of this uproar we still find a compass in the music of George Frederic Handel and Ludwig von Beethoven; and the heart of Nature in the sound of the sea. Or see the summary of everything that ever was, or ever will be, in the silhouette of mountains or the patterns of Orion and Cassiopeia. There have been ...

1042. Living Passionately

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... them. On the other side of the cross are his sneering, vicious, passionate enemies. These are they who, at least, made a choice. But on the hill in the background are a host of unidentifiable faces. They show neither hatred nor mercy, neither cruelty nor compassion. They are the spectators. They are the neutrals. And they are the most guilty of all! Their passionate commitment could have swung the whole thing either way. But they chose to do nothing! They just weren't interested! Well, our Lord has no place ...

1043. Talk! Talk! Talk!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... and love of your Lord andSavior. Sometime when you visit the hospital, especially when one of the patients is having a difficult time conversing, try the discipline of silence. See if you can display Christian love and concern and your sympathy and compassion without chattering about it. Paul Tournier, the great Christian psychiatrist and author, tells us of spending a half hour, sometimes an hour, with a patient in absolute silence. He calls it "silent therapy." Perhaps, at times, that is the therapy we ...

1044. The Prodigal Son or The Merciful Father

Luke 15:1-7

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

... his father now. Solo 3: But with a drastic cut in status. Solo 4: From heir, to servant, slave ... ironic! Narrator: And he arose and came to his father. [Son moves to downstage center] Jesus: But while he was yet at a distance, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. [Father moves downstage] Solo 4: He couldn't run very fast. Solo 2: But he was happy to see his son back. Solo 3: And still alive after being gone so long. Narrator: And the son said to his father, Son ...

1045. Getting The Facts

1 Corinthians 15:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Crutch -- necessary, but only temporary. Jesus brings us love and it lasts forever. GUIDES FOR OUR LIVES Galatians 5:16-24, verse 16: I mean this: if you are guided by the Spirit you wil not fulfill the desires of your lower nature. Object: A ruler or a circle compass and a Bible. Good morning, boys and girls. How are you on this very last Sunday in August? It won't be very long before the summer vacation will be over and the new school year will begin again. I just happen to have one of those things that ...

1046. The Relief Pitchers

John 13:31-38

Illustration

... first, it is rare to see a love that lasts and lasts, that "goes the distance." More often than not, those of us who should be demonstrating this kind of love grow tired and weary as the "game" wears on. Our demonstrations of love are not as caring, and the compassion grows a little less Christlike. Is it not time that we begin to love others with a love that heals, a love that goes the distance and finishes its work?

1047. Partners With the Eternal

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

... I would guess that many of them understood much of it. To whatever extent they learned, I am confident this is the lesson their Master intended, I suspect it is the lesson he had in mind when he brought them to that place. Yes, I'm sure he had "compassion" on that large number of people who hadn't had their evening meal; but, after all, they were not going to starve before morning. To have missed that meal would have been nothing more than a momentary fast. Jesus did not feed them to save their lives; he ...

1048. The Importance of Believing

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

... , they know that joy is somewhere ahead. Sensitized for feeling, their capacities expanded, they can experience at the same time the joy of the Lord and the heartache of a world; in one heart they can hold a passionate hatred of all that is evil and a loving compassion for all who hurt. These are foundation people, the kind you and I can count on and the kind upon whom Christ can build. Thank God for people like these, people of the foundation kind. And they are as they are because Christ is who he is and ...

1049. Life's Third Dimension

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

... , the scope of one's interest and quest. Beyond this, there is yet another dimension of our life, the third, the dimension of depth - and probably we cannot measure this one at all. To some extent, though, it may be indicated by what can be seen of love, compassion, sympathy, and awareness that reaches beyond mind and the five senses. Mostly, we think in first dimension: how long - how long we live, how old or how young we are - how long until, how long since. How much time do we have? It is a major concern ...

1050. Is Christianity An Escape?

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

... not be open and violent but lurking and subtle. I feel it in how the world stereotypes us - as in television and films, showing church members as blue-nosed, simple-minded killjoys, only fit to be ridiculed. I feel it in the ways the biblical virtue of compassion is derided, how politicians get elected by railing against welfare-cheaters. Yes, there may be some rascals getting a free lunch and I don’t like it either. I’m all for finding ways to get rid of them. Yet there are also defense contractors who ...

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