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101. Lent 5

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57

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John R. Brokhoff

... of Lazarus was a weeping affair for the family, friends and Jesus as it was for many funerals. Surely he did not weep because Lazarus was dead, for he knew he was going to bring him back to life. Seeing Mary and her friends weeping, out of sympathy Jesus wept with them. He identified with their sorrow. It expressed his total humanity, his love and compassion. Soon their sorrow turned into joy because Lazarus was restored to life. Voice (v. 43). With a loud voice, Jesus called Lazarus to come out of the tomb ...

102. How To Deal With Suffering

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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Erskine White

... Lydia; and when they had seen the brothers and sisters, they comforted them and departed" (Acts 16:40). Think of what Paul and Silas could have done. They could have walked into Lydia's house with downcast faces. They could have received pampering and sympathy for the terrible ordeal they had just been through. Instead, they comforted everyone else! Besides accepting suffering as a fact of life, and besides reaching out in suffering to help someone else, there is one more thing to be said about dealing with ...

103. Is It God's Will?

Hebrews 2:5-18

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Erskine White

... can. They try to make sense out of suffering with quick and easy answers. To see what I mean, let's return now to the young woman who is paralyzed. People are visiting her and trying to comfort her with easy answers. The first visitor musters up all her Christian sympathy to say, "I just can't understand the will of God." There's the answer! Suffering and tragedy are God's will! God makes it happen, for reasons which are only known to Him. Don't you believe it for a minute! This is what people say when they ...

104. Refuse To Be A Victim

Luke 6:27-36

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James Garrett

... : hate you, curse you, abuse you, strike you, take your cloak and beg from you. Have you noticed that much of Jesus’ teachings are addressed to victims? Perhaps he talked a lot about victims because they came close to him. They heard in his voice, saw in his face a sympathy and understanding. They found him also to be a victim. He knew what it was to have someone spit in his face. He knew what it was to be cursed, to be lied about, to be mistreated, to be slapped, to be mocked, to be nailed on a cross ...

105. The Room Named Heaven

John 14:1-4

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W. George Easson

... care, it does not take long to discover that there are other human qualities of much greater significance in determining the value of life. They soon learn to value life by other things than productive capacity, Things like love and trust, sympathy and patience, honesty and a transparent spirit are infinitely greater indicators of real value to life. These things have the ability, even in very uncomplicated situations, to create strong relational bonds, which, in the final analysis, are what declare life to ...

106. A Conquered Enemy

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Eulogy

W. George Easson

... of them bear their influence without us being aware of that influence, or without being able to control it. Sometimes they are more than we can cope with. But while the expectations of the world and of ourselves may be too demanding, the One who in tender love and sympathy said one day to those in need, "Let not your hearts be troubled ... in my Father's house are many rooms ... I go to prepare a place for you," is mindful of what we are able to bear and deals with us accordingly. The one sure thing about ...

107. Living Humbly

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

Suggestions: Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading. 3 readers - adults Key: 1 = first reader, 2 = second reader, 3 = third reader 1: If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: All: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 1: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. 2: Let each of you ...

108. An Our Good Works And Generosity

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

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Mark Ellingsen

... believe that we care about them and that we walk with God. I have been associated with a Southern parish where certain lay people have reportedon the prayers they claimed to offer on behalf of those with whom they were arguing for the sole purpose of winning sympathy for their own side of the dispute. I have seen what the leaders of that "religious" haven have done to those for whom they reportedly prayed. Such prayers belong in the dung heap; they are not worth a pile of ashes. We are all guilty of praying ...

109. Wedding: Be a Happy Family

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O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

___ and ____ : The author of First Peter wrote (as we read it in The Living Bible): And now this word to ... you: You should be ... a happy family, full of sympathy toward each other, loving one another with tender hearts and humble minds. Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t snap back to those who say unkind things about you. Instead, pray for God’s help for them, for we are to be kind to others, and God will bless ...

110. Wedding: All in One Sentence

John 2:1-11

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Raymond Gibson

... God, first revealed the power of God which rested upon him — because he cared. The happiness of that young couple, whoever they were, mattered to him. It was to save a family from hurt and humiliation that Jesus first revealed his power. It was in sympathy, in kindness, in understanding that he acted. He had been invited to the wedding — and by his presence and through his gracious action, he “adorned and beautified” it. It was at a wedding — a wedding with many similarities to the one soon to be ...

111. A Good Thing To Know

Luke 19:11-27

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Theodore F. Schneider

... , it is not. The church in Germany during the 1930s did all three, looking very busy. In truth, it should have been busy opposing the rise of anti-Semitism.2 And It's A Good Thing To Know More often than not, one has just a touch of sympathy for the servant who, intimidated by the king, buries the pound. "Wicked" seems a harsh judgment. At least he did not lose it! Closer examination brings us to see that the servant has disobeyed the king. He has not followed instructions. He has shown little care or even ...

112. The Vine And The Branches

John 15:1-17

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... him that we are then capable of producing good fruit in our lives. As long as we are far from him all the other interests of the world sap all our talents and energy. When we are united to him, then we can once more forgive, love, have sympathy, serve others, understand, and continually do the good thing. He shows us where and how and supplies the motivation and the technique. We must keep in contact with the fine thing in order to defeat the evil and the lower thing. It’s dangerous to allow ourselves to ...

113. Death at Christmastime

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

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Allen Puffenberger

... be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams"? The pangs of death are acutely sharp now, for all around you are reminders of the love you shared with Adam, the love you have lost. Any holiday activity may stir remorse, trigger self-pity or unleash anger. You have my sympathy. I know the pain you feel. I buried my father on an icy Christmas Eve. You may be saying, "I can't celebrate Christmas now." You may doubt if you will ever be able to rejoice in this season as you have before. But, I have good news for ...

114. For a Man in His Sixties

Philippians 4:2-9

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Louis M. Pratt

... judge L. T., we should be about the task for which God created us - the task of "seeing one another through." L. T.'s suicide was a sad thing; an even sadder thing would be if, when we are so needed by his family, we were found wanting, without sympathy, without compassion. We may not know how to judge L.T., but we know how to judge a religious community and its relationship to God. When it fails to support people in their grief, and chooses to act as their judges rather than their family in Christ, it has ...

115. Stairways Of Heaven

Genesis 32:22-32

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Justin Tull

... take too much out of you!” “Hear you’re in the hospital!… What some people won’t do for a little attention!” But one card was especially appropriate. A woman who had suffered for many months with an injury, sent me not a get-well card but a sympathy card. She wanted me to know that she knew how I felt! To help me with my personal struggle, I received a lot of cards with advice: “Don’t let your doctor put one of those sticks in your mouth… until you know who ate the ice cream.” “Please ...

116. St. Jim, Your Halo Is Tipped

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... at the door. Or they do something uncharacteristically selfish. You often see this in the "little death" we call divorce. Divorce is very much like death because it means severe loss. All losses are experienced as grief. Unlike death, there is little expression of sympathy from the community when there is a divorce. Bizarre, self-centered actions like going to a house of prostitution or moving in with a partner of the opposite sex (perhaps even someone you hardly know), or drinking, or using drugs, or being ...

117. Six Nails of the Cross I: The Nail of Pride

Mark 12:35-40

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Wesley T. Runk

... walked from room to room througoh his house with candle in hand, he came to the room where his son had slept and studied. He hurt, and he cried, but his pride was such still that if a man would have offered a hand, or a woman a tear of sympathy, he would have turned away in silence. Our pride is not only self-destructive, but it is one of the nails that punctured the flesh of Jesus and held him to the cross. The torture and pain inflicted upon Jesus by our thinking we are better than we are is ...

118. An Empty Tomb

Matthew 28:1-10

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Robert Allen

... wings to fly in the sunshine. Jesus was dead! The Roman soldiers had seen to that. They drove huge nails through his hands and feet. The cry of the pain was expected. The barbarity of the crucifixion made even the hardest person in the crowd cringe in sympathy. Six hours of torture on that cross drained all of his strength and he quietly said, "It is finished ... Father, into thy hands I commit my Spirit," and he was dead. But, just to make sure, one soldier took his lance and pierced the side of Jesus ...

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

Luke 20:9-19

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Carl Jech

... all arrogant traditions, religious or otherwise, that blindly destroy anything that criticizes or challenges their established notions and authority. To put it another way, there is an anti-establishment theme in the Gospels (especially in Luke), along with the theme of sympathy for the outsider, the outcast and the poor. Somewhat ironically, today we must take note of Rabbi Peli's observation that the vast majority of Jews have always known what it means to be the "eternal outsider." Anyone can become the ...

120. Who Lives In You?

Luke 13:31-35

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Lee Griess

... into each other's faces. And sure enough, Sammy caught the disease. The fever raged through him, and only four days later, Sammy died. Dr. Cronin remembered hearing about the tragedy while away on an extended study leave. He wrote his neighbors, expressing his sympathy for them, telling them that he, for one, would understand should they feel the need to send Paul back, after all the heartache he had caused them. A few months later, upon returning from his leave, Dr. Cronin went next door to visit the ...

121. Talk! Talk! Talk!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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Louis H. Valbracht

... the power 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 ...

122. Life's Third Dimension

Matthew 20:1-16

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... 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 with ...

123. The Man, the Message, and the Mission

Luke 12:49-53

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George Bass

... t it? And it is sad. But that wasn’t exactly what Jesus was talking about. He was describing his mission and spelling out his message to the people about the cost of accepting the message and participating in the mission. He wasn’t seeking sympathy when he said, "I have a baptism to be baptized with" - his disciples knew he was to be baptized with blood - on a cross, although they could not comprehend the meaning of it until after the resurrection. Despite prophesies in Scripture, which Jesus quoted to ...

124. The Day You Were Healed

Luke 17:11-19

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... to detail the leper’s situation as the human outcast, confined not in aseptic isolation wards or nursing homes, but in the dirty caves and off the beaten paths, separated from family, synagogue, and friends - that might be more than our enlightened sense of sympathy could tolerate, for we have learned much better ways of isolating people. But Luke, who was himself a doctor and a partner of the good physician brings us face-to-face with the realities by simply telling us that these ten lepers suffered from ...

125. The Foolish Farmer

Luke 12:13-21

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Carveth Mitchell

... body - food, clothes, fine surroundings, and all the gadgets of convenience that make life easy. These things can become ends in themselves and insulate a person from what is happening around him and within him. This obsession with material things can wither our sympathy and blind us to other people’s needs. A concentration on material things can close us in on ourselves until we become first cousin to the farmer in the parable. In his book The Compassionate Christ, Walter Russel Bowie quotes an unknown ...

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