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101. Proper 10

Colossians 1:1-14, Amos 7:10-17, Luke 10:25-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... According to this understanding of a neighbor, the church has an obligation out of love to be concerned about social problems and to take social action. b. How to be a good neighbor vv. 33-37. A good neighbor is one who has compassion for hurt people. He expresses this compassion by taking time to help, providing oil and wine, housing and expenses. 3. Where are you in the picture? (10:25-27). Need: Look at the group picture of the parable. a. Are you the lawyer putting Jesus to the test, justifying yourself ...

102. Renewal of the New

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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John R. Brokhoff

... external destruction and internal collapse, the biggest and best thing some churches do is to play bingo, or conduct a bazaar, or arrange for a fish fry! Lord, have mercy on us! Now, if we would add up a renewed faith, a renewed passion, and a renewed compassion, it would amount to a renewed church. That is the crying need of our time, not a new, but a renewed church. The new covenant promised by Jeremiah and fulfilled in Jesus is in need of renewal. When the new is renewed, we will have another Reformation ...

103. Water Boy

Exodus 2:11-25

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Justin Tull

... opportunities to be advocates for fairness and justice in the areas of hunger, education and job opportunity. If we are to play the part of advocate and helper, we first will have to learn to see the need and feel the injustice. We will have to have greater compassion than we have right now for the lesser ones of our society. One of my favorite quotes from Albert Schweitzer comes from his book, Out of My Life and Thought. He shares an experience from one of his many trips. At the station at Tarascon we had ...

104. Perfect Strangers

Exodus 1:1-22

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Justin Tull

... based on real data, but the welcoming of the stranger is based on the true gospel. As a Christian I am called to reject the action of the Pharaoh who acted out of self-interest and fear and to follow the example of Pharaoh’s daughter who acted out of compassion for the stranger. I am not permitted to be an imperfect stranger. To the outsider I am asked to be a perfect stranger! When I was in high school, a young student came from Germany to be a foreign exchange student in our high school. I did not know ...

105. Proper 7

Lk 9:18-24 · Gal 3:23-29 · 1 Ki 19:9-14 · Zech 12:7-10

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John R. Brokhoff

... was not in it. After the storm, Elijah heard the voice of Yahweh in the sound of silence. Elijah learned that Yahweh does not speak in the powerful forces of nature but in the quiet Word. Zechariah 12:7-10 Judah is promised victory and a spirit of compassion and supplication. Galatians 3:23-29 By faith in Christ, we are children of God and one in Christ. If we are justified by grace through faith in Christ, what is the function of Law? Paul answers: before faith in Christ came, the Law served as a custodian ...

106. Proper 10

Lk 10:25-37 · Col 1:1-20 · 2 Ki 2:1, 6-14 · Deut 30:9-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... the rescue, to help the afflicted due to apathy and indifference. This includes religious people whom you expect to help people in need. This leads to the question: who is my neighbor? Is my neighbor the starving child in Bangladesh? c. Compassion - vv. 33-35. The source of help is compassion, but whence comes compassion? Its source is obedience to God's laws of love. Love of God leads to love of neighbor. 2. Do You Know Your Neighbor? (10:29-37) Need: The common view of a neighbor is one who lives close to ...

107. Yearning For Rejection; Thriving On Insults

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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King Duncan

... the Pharisees. They were afraid to reveal their doubts and their weaknesses. God uses people who have been through the fire and are willing to share their experience. IN THE SECOND PLACE, ST. PAUL COULD REJOICE IN HIS ADVERSITIES BECAUSE THEY TAUGHT HIM COMPASSION FOR OTHERS. Compassion is a commodity in short supply in today's world. Philip Yancey in his remarkable book, THE JESUS I NEVER KNEW, tells about the plight of lepers in many parts of the world today. He says that people's attitudes toward lepers ...

108. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... s not the way it is. I am not trying to save them. I am trying to save us – and people like us.” Do you get it? Not only must we be able to critique the culture in which we share the good news, we must identify with and have compassion for those with whom we would share the Gospel. We talked a little while ago about knowing the setting in which you do ministry. We need to keep asking ourselves as individual pastors – and we need to lead our congregations in asking: 1.) Do we really want to know these ...

109. Shalom Shattered

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

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Arley K. Fadness

... he had not agreed in their plot to take Joseph's life. When Jacob was reluctant to send Benjamin to Egypt, Reuben offered two of his sons as a pledge that he would bring Benjamin safely home again. Surely Joseph noticed and in future years would remember the compassion of Reuben. Joseph does not belong in a waterless pit! One can imagine the dread he felt as he tumbled down into this dark prison. As he lays on the damp earth he wonders how long it will be. What will happen next? "My brothers are filled with ...

110. Out of Order

Mark 6:30-44

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Leonard Sweet

... and jostled along with Jesus as he walked the length and breadth of the land. What do you see? Those selfsame characteristics stressed, depressed, self-obsessed are still evident. Stressed: With all the anxious, ill, exhausted crowds of people pressing for cures and compassion, Jesus recognized that he and his disciples were prime candidates for stress. Jesus' solution to come away to a deserted place by yourselves and rest awhile (verse 31) was his cure for stress 2000 years ago. It's still the best cure ...

111. What a Serve!

Acts 6:1-7

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John E. Harnish

... gathering of the community, there were real people with real needs. And if the church was going to model this new life in Christ, it had to live out both sides of the Gospel: the preaching of the word and the work of ministry the witness to Christ and the compassion of Christ the concern for the soul and care for the body the work of the apostles and the work of the deacons sacrament and servanthood side by side Now I wonder why, after two thousand years, has it always been so hard for the church to get it ...

112. Accepting the Unconventional in Life

Mark 2:13-22

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Richard Gribble

... for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath; so the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath" (Mark 2:27b-28). Besides violations of sabbath practice Jesus broke with the tradition by associating with the ritually impure, suggesting that compassion was more important than law and convention. When Jesus encountered lepers he cured them despite the stigma associated with this dreaded skin disease. When the woman with the hemorrhage touched Jesus' clothes she was instantly made well. In the famous parable ...

113. The Wounded Healers

Mark 5: 21-43

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Ron Lavin

... theologian, has said this better than anyone else. The author of many books, Nouwen speaks of Christians as "wounded healers" who have compassion. Compassion is not pity. Pity lets us stay at a distance. It is condescending. Compassion is not sympathy. Sympathy is for superiors over inferiors. Compassion is not charity. Charity is for the rich to continue in their status over the poor. Compassion is born of God. It means entering into the other person's problems. It means taking on the burdens of the other ...

114. You Can Know What to Do With Your Life

Proverbs 3:5-6

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James Merritt

... time you can identify what God's thinking is in most any situation you face, because He has already told you in His Word. The Bible is His compass to show us how to make good decisions and what those decisions might be. It is when you ignore it that you get into trouble. When you ... hard as I tried to make the needle aim in that direction it just kept on pointing Southeast." Remember this. When the compass of God's Word points one way, but you choose to follow what you think or what you feel and go any other ...

115. LOST? Finding Forgiveness

Luke 15:11-32

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... 20] So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him. [21] Then the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and ... experience some of it, but you'd miss out on the best parts. Not unlocking the door, not opening our hearts to Christ keeps the compass out of whack, too. You see, all that garbage in our lives weighs us down. The stink and the corruption leak over into every ...

116. Simon

Mark 15:21-32

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Maxie Dunnam

... seeking to identify with and reach out to the hurting of the world through prayer. I don’t understand it, but in a mysterious way that we can never understand, through prayer we take upon ourselves the suffering of others. This is how we are converted to compassion. You can’t pray for people and look down your nose at them, or make snide remarks about them being lazy or irresponsible, or disdain them for being on welfare. You can’t pray for people, and keep on praying for them and hate them because ...

117. The Power to Do Good

Acts 10:34-38, 44-48

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J. Howard Olds

... we do that? May I suggest some ways? I. FOR GOODNESS SAKE, DEVELOP YOUR CONSCIENCE. The Bible calls the conscience a law written on the heart. It is an inward principle which determines the character of one's actions. The conscience is a guiding light, a moral compass, an internal road map designed to lead us through the twists and turns of life to our purposeful destination. Just as there is a law of gravity, there is a law of goodness. The world is united in the nature of goodness. Tell the truth. Do not ...

118. Are You Part of the Scandal?

Luke 15:11-32

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Leonard Sweet

... brother by identifying him as “this son of yours.” The older brother is fed up. He wants no part of a relationship with either his father or his brother. He feels fully justified to judge severely the behavior of both his father and his brother. The compassion the father extended to the younger son is now also served up to the elder. Instead of returning the vitriol that his elder son has dished out, the father offers him the reminder that he is certainly no “slave,” for “all that is mine is yours ...

119. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... has not eaten from me,” driving home the condemned refusal to share with the needy that Job disavows. A sort of parenthesis interrupts the string of “if” clauses in verse 18, as Job protests in order to offset the accusations of his failure of compassion: but from my youth I reared him. Eliphaz raised similar issues in his condemnation of Job in 24:6–9 (see Job’s own comments in 29:12–16). The Hebrew is a bit difficult here and the translations diverge. The verb (gedelani) means something ...

120. A Cat In a Tree

Matthew 14:13-21

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King Duncan

... foot. So, when his boat landed there was a large crowd already awaiting him. Jesus probably said to himself, “Oh, well, so much for some down time.” Then Matthew explains something about Christ that is all we need to know. Matthew says simply, “He had compassion on them and healed their sick.” Can you imagine how exhausting this was for the Master? Healing their sick was not something he did with a wave of his hand. Healing was almost always a one-on-one transaction. Ten thousand people. No doctors ...

121. Hungering for Some Time Off

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

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King Duncan

... , if there were people who needed his healing, he was there for them, both spiritually and physically, and he ministered to their deepest needs. And this is the critical point for the day. We cannot wear Jesus down with our problems. He sees our hunger. He has compassion and he will respond. The disciples had hoped for a short vacation, a time to be alone with the Savior, but instead they saw another dimension of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ. There will always be people who hunger for that ...

122. Disabled

Luke 13:10-17

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Dave Zuchelli

... interpreting God’s laws is a spiritual problem with which we all need to deal. It seems as though most of the religious leaders of Jesus’ day were not willing to do so. On the other hand, Jesus was anything but legalistic. His compassion (and maybe all human compassion as well) transcends the law. His detractors may have been technically correct. Still in the end, they were humiliated for their attitude. We can take a lesson from their stubborn adherence to the law even as it flies in the face of human ...

123. The Power of Story

Luke 10:25-37

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Lori Wagner

... we knew about God, ourselves, others, and the world. This story today is no different. The “Good” Samaritan –a story that began with a single question: “Who is my neighbor?” And ended with “do likewise.” The lesson? Compassion. How can we teach empathy? We tell stories that allow us to show compassion, to practice it in a safe environment, to learn what it means to be in relationship with those who are different but share our humanity. We broaden what it means to be a “citizen” of God’s ...

124. The Order Of The Universe

Mt 3:3 · Ex 13:21 · Ps 119:105 · Prov 16:9

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... Good morning, boys and girls. Boys and girls, I have an instrument in my hand which will always tell me the same truth no matter where I am on the earth. Can anybody guess what it is? (Response -- Someone should get it.) This is a magnetic compass. It will always point to magnetic north, even if I am away down in South America, or Australia, or New Zealand. I might be on a ship or on land or in an airplane, and still the little needle in here will always point to magnetic north. Well, of what ...

125. Christ the King

Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46

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William E. Keeney

... 3. Recognizing Jesus. (vv. 35-46) If Jesus would return today as he came when in the flesh, would we recognize him as the disciples did? Or would we be part of the scribes and Pharisees who rejected him? A. Recognizing Him by His Humanity By His Compassion By His Love By His Service B. Recognizing Him by His Divinity By His Glory By His Implicit Judgment By His Spiritual Power C. Recognizing Him in Our Neighbor 4. Surprised Saints and Surprised Sinners. (vv. 37, 44) Both those who found favor with the king ...

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