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1051. Tomb for Sale

Luke 7:11-17

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George Bass

... meeting with the funeral procession at the city gate of Nain won’t give us answers to those questions or ones like them, but he answered forever the questions we have about God’s love and concern for us when suffering and death come upon us. "He had compassion on her," says Luke, and that was why he stopped the funeral procession, told the widow to stop weeping, and commanded the young man to arise from the dead. Best of all, the young man did sit up, began to speak, and Jesus "gave him back to his ...

1052. The Man, the Message, and the Mission

Luke 12:49-53

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George Bass

... message in that complex of buildings that declares that St. Bartholomew’s death - as the death of Christ - has some meaning in terms of commitment and love that prompts us to follow Christ, tell his story and preach the gospel to all people, and show compassion and kindness and care to the sick, the suffering, and the elderly. There can be no better way to follow and serve Christ, or to celebrate the commitment and death of St. Bartholomew and all those others who have paid the ultimate cost of commitment ...

1053. Lord, I Believe - Or Do I?

Luke 18:1-8

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... in our case, no concern for justice, and that he has to be cajoled before he listens. If an unjust scoundrel of a judge will finally do justice, will not God also grant the prayers of his disciples? And if God, whose heart is heavy with compassion for his own, promises their vindication in the end, will he not also be concerned for our undying faithfulness and watchfulness, persistent faith against all odds? "When the Son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" Even When Prayer Seems to Fail Emmie ...

1054. An Encounter With Two Old Friends

Luke 18:9-14

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... self-righteousness and in the noise of our achievements, we can blind our eyes and close our ears. Or we can see and hear, and accept forgiveness in his mercy from the hands whose wrists bear the nail prints and the heart that spilled compassion over all the world. Justified! The old has passed away. All things are new. The unforgiven Pharisee had justified himself, but God ignored the verdict. The Pharisee transferred his guilt to the publican and went home in isolation. But the publican was justified, and ...

1055. Heaven Can’t Wait

Matthew 5:1-12

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... fails and falls and when their scandals burst across the headlines, especially if the fallen one has been the object of our hatred or our envy. The character of Kingdom life is in spontaneous expression of the loving heart - giving, serving, reaching for the wounded, compassion for the hurt and bleeding. Blessed are the pure in spirit, for they shall see God. Our lifestyle seeks pure air,pure water, and pure food, but spurns pure hearts, if not in others, then in ourselves. Acid rain is more a problem than ...

1056. Our Splintered World

Luke 12:49-53

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Carveth Mitchell

... the Gospel for today, that the world was then and is now splintered over Jesus. "Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division." Jesus lived in the real world. He saw, with sorrow and compassion, the sunlight and the shadows of human nature. He did not delude himself that he would be universally accepted. Our world, from ancient Palestine to modern America, is evidence of the clarity of his vision. What are the divisions regarding Jesus? There are, of course ...

1057. Let God Be God

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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... proud of our goodness this morning? Are we so absorbed in self-interest that we are neglecting communion with God? Are we becoming so callous toward other people that we feel superior to them and indifferent to their needs? Or are our hearts filled with compassion and true empathy rooted in obedience to the love of God? There is only one cure for the idolatry that shows itself in self-righteousness. That cure is in the humility that confesses sin and weakness and recognizes that we all are sinners saved ...

1058. Why Aspire to Sainthood?

Daniel 7:1-14

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... . Eventually, even, the only girl he ever loved was raped and murdered by this domineering sibling. Nevertheless, after learning that the murderer had been hiding behind a chimney on a rooftop for days without food or waters Rocco went to him in a spirit of compassion carrying food and drink. Upon hearing of it, one of the younger brothers exclaimed, "Rocco is a saint!" There is a story also that comes to us from an earlier time in a remote peasant village of Europe. It tells of two neighbors. One was ...

1059. Proper 9

Exodus 1:1-22

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... , though it is reasonable to assume, at least on the surface, there was nothing miraculous about the Princess' actions. What the royal lady saw was just a crying baby, on whom she took pity. If it was obvious the boy was Hebrew, this apparently did not reduce her compassion. At this point, the child's sister came forth and offered the princess the services of a Hebrew nurse for the child. The offer was accepted and Moses' own mother was made his nurse. We're not told how long she nursed her son, but in the ...

1060. Serving Hands

Psalm 92:1-15

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... sacrifice and he is also the sacrificial lamb that is offered, of which you and I become partakers. This is one of the great deeds of which the Psalmist speaks, the deeds that make you and me glad. Jesus Christ comes to serve our needs out of his compassion for us as his people. II Our joyous response to the Lord's service should be in full recognition of all that we receive Honored guests - that's what we are! How else can we consider ourselves, for certainly we have not deserved or earned the invitation ...

1061. Our Prayers, Not Questions

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... can be gained from this, then very simply it is this: In coming before God, are we asking questions, or saying prayers? If questions, we will hear only the silences in our ears. If prayers, then God's voice will speak to us. A voice of the deepest compassion, answering us in all of our needs. The truth of the Gospel is simple: "Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved" - in our prayers, not our questions. So often, we as human beings do just the opposite though. We are sick. "Why?" We ...

1062. God Is a Mystery

Luke 19:1-10

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... to do for them what they had not been able to do for themselves. He was not afraid of the Romans, and he saw right through Zacchaeus. He was not fooled, and he had the courage to tell things the way he saw them. There was fire as well as compassion in his eyes. Some people had heard him call the Pharisees a brood of vipers. Reportedly, he had even called one of his best friends "satan." He was known for telling it like it. was, and now he was going to humiliate this tax collector who had caused such pain ...

1063. Seek Good, Not Evil (That You May Live)

Amos 5:1-17

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... 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 ...

1064. The Violence Within, The Violence Without

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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... the violence of indifference and privatism that brings on a crude kind of violence? The violence of "religion is only a private affair" often begets or permits the public disregard of the neighbor. There is fraud when the Living Lord is not present. There is fraud when compassion is not present. There is fraud when the cross of Christ is not present. More stringent than all the stringency of the text is that of 1 Corinthians 13: "If I had the tongues of men and of angels ... if I had faith so that I could ...

1065. Religion - One Way to Get in God’s Way

Zechariah 7:1-14

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... is not to be dealt with as we will. Not our keeping of fasts or some other religious duty, but the decisions and actions we take toward people determines what our religion is, what our worship life is. Zechariah’s message from God is one of compassion, "a keen awareness of the interdependence of all those living beings, which are all part of one another and involved in one another," according to Thomas Merton. To render true judgment is to give people an even break, to give them what they have coming ...

1066. The Sunday of the Passion

Matthew 26:14--27:66

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Kendall McCabe

... society's rejects and proclaim in unison with them, "Truly these oppressed and dying men and women are sons and daughters of God." By my own, I know I cannot. But by the cross and passion of Jesus Christ I am set free to be God's co-conspirator in compassion. Behold him, all ye that pass by, The bleeding Prince of life and peace! Come, sinners, see your Savior die, And say, was ever grief like his? Come, feel with me his blood applied: My Lord, my Love, is crucified.

1067. Why I Can’t Sleep in Church

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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... , the same description fits the purpose of the church. The church is there to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. The first of these two functions is always the more popular and well received. Who can argue with a mission of mercy and compassion? The second function is more controversial, for certainly no one who is comfortable, likes to be disturbed or afflicted. We don’t mind being disturbed if there is a true emergency, like a fire; but we don’t like false alarms. Often, we’re not ...

1068. Honest to Goodness Religion

Hosea 4:1-19

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... to step back into the building to safety. As the crowd began to disperse, a woman said, "He made me miss my favorite TV program." The man who lost his bet went off grumbling. It is a commentary on our times when we witness tragedy without compassion. God has shown mercy to us that we may learn how to show mercy to others. Sometimes, however, as Hosea observes, the quality of mercy is sadly lacking. The problem, as Hosea points out, goes even beyond moral behavior. He implies that there is some relationship ...

1069. Is the Lord Among Us or Not?

Exodus 17:1-7

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... the giving; but God is the source of the gift. God is among us. When a person cries in pain, regardless of his reason, and a Christian takes his hand, or puts an arm around him saying, "I care"; the Lord is among us as the source of such compassion. When a person faces a great opportunity, feeling the wilderness of not knowing what is demanded, hoping that he will be able to meet it; when he prays and discovers that he receives resources for doing it well, he knows the answer as well. When a person, broken ...

1070. The God You Worship

Acts 17:16-34

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... God we worship is the God of Jesus Christ. What are some of the characteristics of the God in whom we believe and say you can know? Jesus revealed to us by his life and in his teachings that God is a God of love. God is a God of compassion who does not seek our condemnation because of our sins but our salvation from them. God does not seek our hurt, or desire our hurting. God desires our healing. God does not desire our hunger. God desires that we may be filled with food and with the fullness of life ...

1071. The "Sorry" People

Mark 8:1-13

Children's Sermon

... he did more than that; he fed them. He gave them bread and fish. That's something for all of us to remember. Whenever we can do more than just feel sorry for people who are in trouble or have need, we should do so. That means you really have compassion. That's a big word that means that you are not just sorry -- you are going to do something about it!

1072. Easter 5

Jn 13:31-35 · Acts 13:44-52; 14:8-18; 21-27 · Rev 21:1-5

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Russell F. Anderson

... first century the pagan world exclaimed about Christians, "Behold, how they love one another!" While this should be the case in the church, how factual is it today? Does a visitor feel love among the members? Do the members really love each other? Is there compassion or judgment in the church? Are gossip, dissension, and schism earmarks of love? In many churches there is a crying need for love. This new commandment does not apply to Christians' love of the world but of each other in the church; a subject we ...

1073. Proper 25

Lk 18:9-14 · 2 Tim 4:9-18 · Sirach 35:12-18 · Deut 10:12-22 · Zeph 3:1-9

Sermon Aid

... (nor properly answered without taking the context of our immediate situation into account) this text comes close to answering this vital question in a universal way. It can comfort and guide the seeking Christian. 1. God wants our love 2. God wants obedience 3. God wants compassion 4. God wants our joyful service Lesson 1: Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18 Rank Doesn't Count With God. Need: As we prosper we begin to think that God has blessed us (which must surely be the reason for our prosperity) and that, therefore ...

1074. Proper 26

Lk 19:1-10 · 2 Thes 1:5-12 · Ex 34:5-9 · Hag 2:1-9

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John R. Brokhoff

... can understand his power as they live in a natural world of hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. They can understand his justice, for they can believe their sin deserves judgment - punishment is a law of life. People need to know that the basic nature of God is compassion, love, and mercy. This is God, his nature. Because of this, God forgives. Outline: God can't help that he forgives. A. His nature is love - v. 6 B. Love must forgive - v. 7 2. The Other Side of God. 34:5-9. Need: We keep emphasizing ...

1075. Christmas 1

Lk 2:41-52 · Col 3:12-17 · 1 Sam 2:18-20, 26

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John R. Brokhoff

... this first Sunday after Christmas it is appropriate to see what it means to have Christ in us. With Christ in us, we are new creatures. We take off the old clothes of our former vices and put on new clothes that match Christ: "compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience." Christ is the example to be followed in forbearance, lowliness, forgiveness, and, above all, love. These virtues result not from human effort but from having Christ in us. A person born in Christ at baptism is to be Christlike ...

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