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For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, yet so true.

William Shenstone

There is no right way to do a wrong thing. What will it profit a man if he gains his cause, and silences his adversary, if at the same time he loses that humble tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made!

John Newton

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1104. A Personal Question Deserves a Personal Answer

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Roy Howard

... Lord wasn’t lost, I surely was, even though I was the coolest kid on the block. I would rather talk about the goodness of the shepherd who never ceases looking for lost ones, including this one who had drifted away from the church at a tender age because the church seemed more concerned for its own survival than anything else. As best I could tell at that time, the church was either clueless or not interested in addressing the issues that were rocking my world, including where God was when everything else ...

1105. Remember to Say Thank You

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... name on it. During that time, all the guests arrived as well. And they greeted her with a jubilant, “SURPRISE!” She fought back tears as her husband asked a few people to share what they most appreciated about her. “Then he stood before them and, with tender words of love and admiration, expressed his gratitude for all she had done for him.” (3) It’s important for us to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all the blessings that we have received, and it is important for us to express our gratitude ...

1106. The Grace of God

Humor

Victor Daley, the Australian poet, was being tenderly cared for in a Catholic Hospital as he was dying. One of his last acts was to thank the nurses for all their kindness to him. "Don't thank us" the nurses said, "Thank the grace of God." Very perceptively, the poet asked, "But aren't YOU the grace of God?"

1107. Making a Name for Yourself

Illustration

William Kelly was an outstanding scholar, student of the Bible, and devoted follower of the Lord. He was once offered a position at Trinity College in Dublin a position that would have brought him prestige and privilege. But he was not interested. Those who tendered the offer asked him, "Mr. Kelly, aren't you interested in making a name for yourself in the world?" William Kelly answered, "Yes, gentlemen, but which world?"

1108. Mary's Witness

Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)

Sermon

King Duncan

... ll take anything because I haven’t been that good. I’ve got some good news for you this morning. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been that good this year. Jesus still came for you. The Christmas story is such a magnificent one—so full of tenderness and love. The young bride-to-be of Joseph knew that God was at work in her life. Her cousin Elizabeth knew, too. When she greeted Mary, she spoke out with a loud voice, “Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb . . .” Mary ...

1109. Down by the Riverside

Mark 1:4-11 · Genesis 1:1-5

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... to be the ruthless dictator of Yugoslavia from 1943 until 1980. His name was Josip Broz Tito. A couple of years later, across the ocean, the priest in Illinois saw a similar stain near the altar. This priest, however, knelt down to the little boy's level, looked him tenderly in the eyes and said, "It's all right, son. You'll do better next time. You'll be a fine priest for God someday." And he was right. That little boy grew up to become the much loved and honored Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. (1) Just like those ...

1110. For The Love of God Is Contagious

Mark 7:31-36 · Luke 5:12-15 · 2 Corinthians 5:16-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... have a place in their hearts. Lovers of others make knowing Jesus and living in Him attractive. If coming close to Him is something like coming close to them, it has to be wonderful. Lovers of others are generous with compliments from the heart, quick to see your strengths and tender with your weaknesses. Lovers of others know God. You sense that they tap into the true source of love often and regularly.

1111. For the Love of God Is . . .

1 John 5:3-4

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and sometimes conflicting portrait of what love is or what love is all about. Just look at some of the titles of some of our love songs. Love is Kind, Love is Blue, Loving Blind, Love is True, Love Hurts, Love bites, Love Stinks, Love Is Strange, Love Me Tender, Love Potion #9, Love Makes The World Go Round, Love Boat, Love American Style, What The World Needs Now Is Love Sweet Love, Love Letters In The Sand, All You Need Is Love, To Know Him Is To Love Him, Never My Love, and Love Lifted Me. I really ...

1112. A Fruitful Life

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... carelessness, and lifeblood is too precious to spill on selfish whim; I had to cherish hope, because you couldn’t guarantee light amid despair, and I was tired of hurting . . . Because I was forced to live life boldly, thankfully, lovingly and joyfully, death is tender, and life was a triumph.” (4) What a painful and beautiful truth to live by! “I had to love today because you couldn’t promise me tomorrow. . .” And she ends this poem by saying that this realization forced her to live so abundantly ...

1113. Dirty Feet

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... amazing thing to see the rivers of dirt flow from the feet as water is poured over them. It feels good to have the wash cloth chase the dirt away in sheets of cascading water. And when it’s your mother tending to the task, it takes a deeper and tenderer tone. It is an act of selflessness, a labor of love. But let’s jump back a couple of millennia. Let’s try to inhabit the story we see unfolding here in the gospel of John. Unlike my halcyon days of summer, Jesus and his pals didn’t have the ...

1114. Family Reunion

Genesis 29:15-28

Sermon

Will Willimon

... humanity, I could not afford to address them directly about the felonies committed against all of us. I could not hold them accountable or indict them for crimes they could not help. They, too, had a history--one that I remembered with both tenderness and pain, one that made me forgive their transgressions against their own children. In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness."[1] My first ministerial job was at a family campground at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. People asked me what I did with ...

1115. The Steady March Forward

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... also, because that is why I was sent,” he told them (Luke 4:43). People wanted him to stay for many reasons. He was a man of compassion, and he was a man of power. Put those two traits together and you get miracles of healing and tenderness. They weren’t used to being treated like that by anyone with authority. The miracles, however, weren’t his main purpose. After he had taught them, he moved on — on to the next village or to the next town. Jerusalem always loomed before him. When he refused to ...

1116. Christ's Grand Entrance Song

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan

... medications. Then he trained folks to explain the chart, and to take medicine, food and water into the poorest rural areas so that HIV patients could be successfully treated for their disease. Laurie Nuell, a board member with Partners in Health, said, “He had a very tender heart. Seeing pain and suffering was very hard for him. It just hurt him . . . He wasn’t detached from anyone. That’s the beauty of it.” (6) In the birth of Jesus, we see that God isn’t detached from anyone. He entered into our ...

1117. Facing Death

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... suffering and death. He refused to fight to defend himself; instead, he told Peter to put away his sword, and he healed the high priest’s slave whose ear had been cut off in his brief scuffle with Peter. Even while he suffered on the cross, he cared tenderly for his mother and arranged for her to live with one of his disciples. Jesus knew he was dying, and he faced death with the same care that he had always shown to others, with the same confidence in God that characterized his life and ministry. In his ...

1118. Forgiven

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... s exactly what Jesus does. On the cross, he had prayed for those who crucified him, and now in the power of his resurrection he extended forgiveness to those who had deserted and denied him. Instead of issuing a word of stern rebuke, Jesus tenderly called them “my brothers.” Today that same forgiveness can be ours in Jesus Christ. Whatever our past failures, whatever our present situation, in Jesus there is forgiveness from sin as he reaches out to call us sisters and brothers. There is freedom from the ...

1119. You Light Up My Life

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... . Right in the middle of the funeral service, this father walked over to the piano in the sanctuary and began to play with great feeling, “You light up my life, you give me hope to carry on, you fill my days with song.” It was an incredibly tender moment. So the song strikes a responsive chord in us. We all need someone to light up our life. Someone who will fill our days with song. God does that. But knowing some loving human beings helps also. Would you be willing to be loving music to someone ...

1120. Seize the Now

Philippians 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... at Philippi, he wants the believers to experience the unquenchable joy of knowing Jesus in his fullness. He writes, “Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.” When we take the bread and the cup, we are united with Christ and with believers around the world. We are ...

1121. Trick Questions

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Steve Molin

... a bunch of religious rules. But consistently, Jesus insisted that faith is not about rules; rather, it is about a relationship with a loving God. The Pharisees were afraid of Jesus…afraid that he might get to them with his compassion and his tenderness, so they kept Jesus at a distance with their legalistic questions. In his book The Screwtape Letters, author C.S. Lewis described two of the devil’s angels. Screwtape is the seasoned veteran, and Wormwood, his nephew, is the novice. Throughout the entire ...

1122. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... to sit there until he dies. What do you do with a God who changes his mind? Who says he is going to destroy people and then lets them off the hook? Is God like a permissive parent who cannot follow through on a punishment because his heart is too tender? What are some circumstances that might prompt such a change in the mind of the Almighty? FOR ONE THING PRAYER SEEMS TO CHANGE GOD'S MIND. Doesn't it? Isn't that why we pray, most of the time, in order to change God's mind? To be sure some ...

1123. Embarrassing Visits

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Mary Austin

... and safe, with the smell of incense and in that room she felt less alone. She tripped on the carpet and took off her shoes, letting her feet sink into the carpet. The softness was comforting. She saw a huge painting of Mary, cradling baby Jesus, with a tender, compassionate look on her face. She looked at Mary, and Mary looked at her, and she knew that, even though she was a mess, inside and out, Mary loved her. Then the priest came in, and for a moment, she felt afraid. He seemed tired, exasperated by the ...

1124. Never Really Alone

Mark 14:1-15:47

Sermon

Mary Austin

... it on my wrist so I would have it when I woke up. It was bright neon. It was hideous. And all it said was: FIERCE.” We are never as alone as we think we are. Jesus, alone in the crowd, meets up with the woman who gives him a tender gift. In the crowd, everyone sees him as he is not — king, conqueror, hero. She sees him as he is and sees his coming death. He sees her for who she is, too. This week, as we come into Holy Week, may we see Jesus as he is, and keep ...

1125. A Miracle Seed

John 12:20-33

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... here a container and a seed, and I’m going to throw away this seed by burying it in this dirty old dirt. (Throws plant seed carelessly.) But children you know what’s going to happen? This seed that I’m trying to get rid of ― with some water and tender love, will pop up out of the dirt into a beautiful flower. Jesus told his followers after they arrived in Jerusalem, he would be like that. When a seed is buried and dies it will grow and pop up into many beautiful seeds. Jesus meant that he would die ...

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