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1126. Maundy Thursday

Psalm 89:1-52, Exodus 12:1-30

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... the Christ. Forgive us, we pray, and teach us at last to embrace the benefits of Jesus, his life and his death, and to live henceforth as people who have been set free by your mercy and love and made righteous by your Servant's selfless act of obedience and compassion. In his precious name we pray. Amen

1127. Easter 4

1 Peter 2:13-25

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... enemies, People: OUR GOD LEADS THE WAY TO QUIET AND REST! Collect God of all infinity, you experienced through Jesus our human feelings of alienation and absurdity in the face of life's troubles and tragedies. Give us the assurance of your presence and compassion: that, comforted by the knowledge that you understand, we may find strength and courage for the journey ahead. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of all intimacy, we admit that, despite our claim to Christian faith and hope, we ...

1128. Easter 4

John 10:1-21

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... , whose voice we recognize and trust! People: AND LIKE A GOOD SHEPHERD HE WILLINGLY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THOSE IN HIS CARE! Collect Almighty God, you gave us a Good Shepherd who protected our lives by sacrificing his. Make us deeply appreciative of his compassion: that, moved by his selfless love, we may learn to care for one another after his example. In his name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Most merciful God, we confess that our self-centeredness and selfishness keep us from trusting one another or ...

1129. Trinity

Deuteronomy 4:32-40, Psalm 33:1-22

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... we sometimes treat you as aloof from the world and far removed from everyday life, for imagining you as distant, we feel free to keep the world at arm's length as well. Forgive us this self-deceit, O God, and assist us in admitting always your continuing concern and compassion for your Creation and creatures. Make the fact that you abide in the world and its affairs move us to involve ourselves graciously as well. In the name of the Christ we pray. Amen

1130. The Power of Faith

Matthew 14:22-36

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... 's deep waters and stormy seas as a result of the timidity of our faith. Forgive our weakness of heart and spirit, O God, and remind us that, when all else fails, we shall still find ourselves in the grasp of the saving hand of Christ Jesus, whose love and compassion never fail. In his holy name we humbly pray. Amen

1131. Proper 20

Exodus 32:1-33:6, Psalm 106:1-48

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Paul A. Laughlin

... love! People: FOR IT SAVED EVEN THOSE WHOSE FAITH WAS WEAK! (Based on Psalm 106) Collect Most generous God, you graciously answer the prayers of your people. Teach us to pray selflessly: that, placing the needs of others before our own, we shall let compassion rather than self-centered ness guide our intercessions to you. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession All-compassionate God, we confess that we are selfish and self-centered in every area of our lives, but especially in our prayers ...

1132. Proper 23

Mt 22:1-14 · Php 4:1-9 · Ex 32:1-14 · Ps 106

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... God's steadfast love! People: FOR IT SAVED EVEN THOSE WHOSE FAITH WAS WEAK! Collect Most generous God, you graciously answer the prayers of your people. Teach us to pray selflessly: that, placing the needs of others before our own, we shall let compassion rather than self-centered ness guide our intercessions to you. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession All-compassionate God, we confess that we are selfish and self-centered in every area of our lives, but especially in our prayers ...

1133. Proper 29

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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... all in all. Give us a taste of that divine intimacy now: that, feeling you within ourselves and all creatures, we may experience a new oneness with you and your universe. In the cosmic name of the Christ we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of compassion, we confess that we let the genuine Otherness of your transcendent nature become an excuse for treating you as remote and removed from our everyday world, and aloof and alien to our daily lives. We numb ourselves to your presence, mistake your silence for ...

1134. Lent 3

John 4:1-26

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... a blind person to share with them, and to explain how he/she manages to get around in this world. Find out if the blind person has learned some things that he/she would never have learned with sight. Conclude with a prayer that speaks of the compassion that Jesus had for blind people. Proclamation of the Word Suggestion: Show how the Pharisees used the blind man as a pawn to nail Jesus, and how they debated among themselves. Show how this was one of many approaches they used which led ultimately to the ...

1135. Good News for Exiles

Psalm 137:1-9, 2 Chronicles 36:15-23, Ephesians 2:1-10

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... in this bitter turn of events the hand of God, to interpret their fate as God’s punishment for being unfaithful to God’s laws: 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 - The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place; but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, till the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, till there was no remedy. The moral here: There’s a price ...

1136. Don't Jump?

Luke 16:19-31

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... I’m going to jump. Please leave me alone so I can get to it! 2: But there are reasons to live - there must be! 1: [Hard] Do YOU have any? 2: [Stunned; turns away from 1 in shock] 1: [Looks down at 2 with a mixture of disgust and compassion, shakes head sadly, climbs down off the ledge and walks quietly away] 2: [Turns back to 1, beginning to speak. Doesn’t see 1 and imagines the worst. Panics for a moment, but then becomes calm, or numb. Climbs onto the ledge, turns, looks down, and prepares to jump.]

1137. Universal Brotherhood

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Viney Wilder

... make some contribution of real worth, To feel a mutual bond of brotherhood With men of every race throughout the earth. Cloth us, Thy children, with humility That we may truly come to understand The worth of human personality Transcends the bounds of color, creed, or land. Dear Father, in compassion make us whole, Teach us to walk in peace as brothers should, That truth and wisdom shall expand the soul Toward a universal brotherhood.

1138. Kiss the Frog

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... frog by a wicked witch. It seems to be an irrevocable curse since the only way to break the spell is for someone to kiss the frog. (There’s not usually a long line waiting to kiss frogs). But the princess kisses the frog out of the depth of her compassion and the prince emerges. What a lesson for us! To free the prince, the princess had to let go of all she’d been taught about ugliness in others. We serve Lord Jesus who was and is in the frog-kissing business. Our faith enables us to abandon all we ...

1139. For Christ’s Sake, What’s Going On?

Matthew 18:15-20

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Michael L. Sherer

... which arise shall be resolved by following the guidelines given in this text, in Matthew chapter 18. At its simplest, what the text says is that we must deal with one another when we have a grievance. If we take the steps the text lists without a spirit of compassion and the love of Christ, we could simply use Matthew 18 as a pretext for expelling people from the church. That is not at all the text’s intent. What is required, however, is that we communicate with one another. If a wrong is done us, it must ...

1140. Surprise! Surprise!

Matthew 25:31-46

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Michael L. Sherer

... living when congregations are defined sharply by ethnic barriers. Does a 90% Polish-background congregation find it more difficult to embrace and love Christians (and castoff non-Christians) who are not Polish? Can an Irish-background parish feel and show compassion for people not from Irish stock? Is the "church catholic" less catholic (universal-minded) for the members of a congregation where German traditions have held sway? The concensus among those who responded to the question was heavily in favor of ...

1141. Laborers Needed for the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

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Dennis Kastens

And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every infirmity. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." And he called to him his twelve disciples ...

1142. The Lacking Christian?

Matthew 14:13-21

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Dennis Kastens

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place apart. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. As he went ashore he saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a lonely place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves." Jesus said, "They need not go away, you ...

1143. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

Matthew 8:3, Luke 7:14, Luke 8:44

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Frank Luchsinger

... of Nain, Jesus and his disciples came upon the corpse of a dead man being carried from the city. He was the only son of his mother and she was a widow. Jesus passed through the large crowd accompanying the burial procession. And when he saw the widow, he had compassion and said to her, "Do not weep." And Jesus came and touched the bier and said, "Young man, I say to you, arise." And sitting up, the dead man began to speak (Luke 7:11-15). Likewise a woman who for a dozen years searched for healing from a ...

1144. Stuffed Bodies and Skinny Souls!

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... , what do you want?" Turning up his little face, he said, "Please, sir, I want to be loved." Isn’t that the longing in every one’s heart? And where can we buy love? It is without money or price. Love is in Christ who showers us with concern and compassion. If you are in doubt that God loves you, look to Jesus and see him on the cross dying for you. Above his crucified head, there could be this inscription: "Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." Hear the Word that ...

1145. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... the face of Jesus, you see the face of God, for he said, "The Father and I are one." When we look at the miracles, we see the power of God. When he touches the leper, forgives the adulteress, and uplifts the sorrowing, we see the heart of God’s compassion for people. But most of all, we find God at the cross. There we see the true love of God given for the reconciliation of lost humanity. In the shame, the disgrace, the agony, the brutality, and the very death of the cross, we finally have our eyes open ...

1146. Free and Faithful

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... and indifference. In the beginning, people listened and smiled ironically; then they stopped listening, and he no longer even amused them. The killers went on killing; the wise kept silent, as if there were no just men in their midst. One day a child, moved by compassion for the unfortunate teacher, approached him with these words: "You shout, you scream. Don’t you see that it is hopeless?" "Yes, I see," answered the just man. "Then why do you go on?" "I’ll tell you why," said the just man. "In the ...

1147. A Book Which Reads Us

John 4:1-26

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Robert Bachelder

... in him should not perish but have eternal life." This single line from John is the Christian gospel, Martin Luther said. The gospel for "whoever," a gift to anyone whose life has rough and heartrending edges. It assures us we cannot move beyond God’s love and compassion. To know this, to feel this in the recesses of our hearts and minds is, as Hugo said, to be supremely happy. In Dag Hammarskjold’s words, it is to be "illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is ...

1148. Out of the Barnyard

John 11:38-44

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Robert Bachelder

... to forget the sorrows of the poor. Of course there have been glorious exceptions to this pattern of indifference. In eighteenth century England, for instance, a Gloucester reformer named Robert Raikes, who believed that nobody was beyond the range of Christian compassion, flew out of the barnyard and into the wretched slums. Through his efforts the modern Sunday school was born. Then, too, in the 1930s the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a prominent exception to the general pattern. He left his ...

1149. Loving Unconditionally

John 13:31-38

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Robert Bachelder

... people would come to love and serve God only if first they were shown what God is like. "Let your light so shine ..." he said. Now it is true to say that the way of Jesus is narrow; but it is the narrow path of unswerving, unstinting, unbounded compassion. It is the way of a love which, in Paul’s words, is "patient and kind, not jealous or boastful, not arrogant or rude, not insistent on its own way, not irritable or resentful." That is the way of Jesus, and if we in the Christian churches really believe ...

1150. General William Booth

Matthew 25:31-46

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Carroll Gunkel

... the Salvation Army four goals. They were: 1. To bring into public view "the ocean of ... misery ..." which characterized society. 2. To awaken people from spiritual lethargy. 3. To challenge people to give themselves to the care of the needy. 4. To evoke compassion in others to support the work of the Salvation Army.5 Putting aside criticism of methods and personalities, the evidence is clear that William Booth accomplished his goals. An example of the manner in which he gave vitality to his goals was the ...

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