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1226. And Now For Something Completely Different

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... watched him, seeing how his own grief at what his irresponsibility had done was changing his own life as well. As they watched and listened they became aware that they were seeing another life disintegrating before their very eyes. It was then that the compassion borne out of their Christian faith overwhelmed their anger and tempered their sorrow. To everyone’s surprise, and even their own, they went to visit this young man in jail. It was a tense meeting at first as you might expect, especially on his ...

1227. The Right Spirit Within Us ...

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... , they believe that grief is treason.... They are into happiness, optimism and well-being." With that optimistic mind-set, there is little "covenant" concern for the poor and defenseless victims of their time. Covenant living is living with concern and compassion for the community. But God’s people were becoming more "individualistic" - more focused on self and personal needs. About the country’s growing greedy, selfish spirit, hear Jeremiah’s strong words to King Jehoikim, son of the good King Josiah ...

1228. Courageous Preaching

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... The central task of the last half of the book of Isaiah is to persuade the people of God that even after two generations, Babylon is still not their home! Yes, to remind them that their exile from their homeland did not mean exile from their God. God’s compassion had taken the form of judgment, but it was not nullified. God was not defeated. God’s promises for them were still valid. We, who may be in danger of being seduced by the power of the world, need to hear that God’s word is more powerful than ...

1229. Easter: The Festival Of Joy

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... to give an account on judgment day for every good thing that he might have enjoyed, and did not." Joyful hearts and the Christian faith go together. Joy gives evidence of the security that our faith delivers. Joy and sorrow can live together. Laughter and compassion are compatible. It has been rightly said that "the opposite of joy is not sorrow, but unbelief" (Weatherhead). To experience joy and to be able to laugh means that we are able to see beyond the present, changing events. Joy sees these events in ...

1230. The Church Reaches Out!

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... neither does salvation place a premium on ignorance. Christ in his wisdom said to the woman of Samaria, "You worship what you do not know." Too many of us are in that predicament of fumbling and groping in a kind of theological fog with inaccurate compasses. In such a predicament we can become vulnerable to religious quacks and their oversimplified salvation of half-truths. Our ignorance also makes us afraid to open our mouths because we can’t explain the reason for "the hope that is within us." In our ...

1231. When God Was Nothing

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... loved them. He starts out by asking, "What have you received from Christ?" Have you received encouragement? Did you find comfort? Perhaps you have enjoyed the fellowship of the Holy Spirit? Maybe you have experienced the tenderness of God. Perhaps you felt His compassion? If you have received any of these things, Paul says, then love one another, consider others as more important than yourselves. And it is then that the Apostle Paul attempts the impossible. He wants to describe the mind of God when God ...

1232. Authenticity vs. Showmanship

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

... 3b-7? I think it has to do with his wise unwillingness to allow showmanship to pass for authenticity and congruency. Through much of the Gospels, we seldom see Jesus expressing anger and frequently see him teaching truth, sharing insights, expressing compassion, and performing miracles. When anger is expressed, its goal is not destruction of a person, but confrontation and correction of that person. For Jesus, anger is expressed from his mature love of God and others. In this particular passage, Jesus ...

1233. The Path of Quality

Drama

William Grimbol

... event, he embraces the Cross in faith. Christ knew that a life that avoids the path of passion, the way of the heart, the way of faith ... a life that rejects the service - the suffering - the sacrifices - which enables that passion and any accompanying compassion ... is no life at all ... it is a dead life ... a hollow life ... a stagnant life ... a shallow life ... a childish life ... a life that has no QUALITY whatsoever. On Palm Sunday we celebrate the path of passion, the path of quality, and we stand ...

1234. The Path of Integrity

Drama

William Grimbol

... the purity and truth of our Selves ... our Selves freed of the flab of image and illusion ... our Selves stripped of the camouflage of worldly wisdom and societal standards of success ... our Selves finally free to pursue the simple decencies and acts of compassion and caring and sharing that give our lives the only satisfaction and integrity we can ever know or genuinely feel. As we partake, on this Maundy Thursday, of a simple stark meal ... a symbol of obedience and love indeed, let us be renewed ...

1235. The Path of Creativity

Drama

William Grimbol

... it ... to speak out for an end to oppression and greed ... to demand that the hungry be fed - the homeless be found homes - the imprisoned be given hope ... to live lives that reflect mercy and justice - that grant others both respect and compassion - that believe in the healing powers of love ... to dream dreams that will build the Kingdom, and not dreams that construct an artificial Camelot ... to have a vision of a safer - a saner - a simpler world ... to reject bigotry ... to abhor idolatries ... to ...

1236. Peter Becomes the Rock

Drama

G. Franklin Gray

... and you’re hiding from those who loved Jesus ... or, did you deliberately cut Jesus from our lives? God, can’t you understand this truth? Not only did you take Jesus from us ... We have lost all that he stood for - his love for humankind, his compassion, his leadership. Now, everything is lost. All I can do is fish again ... not for men ... for food, from morning to night, every day for the rest of my life. Choir Were You There? Roger Wilson arrangement Narrator With great sorrow in his heart over the ...

1237. Seven Words to Us - A Good Friday Tenebrae Service

Drama

Douglas W. Orbaker

... others. Reader 4: No, the sun was hot, he was in pain, he was dying. He was thirsty. Reader 1: Did the soldiers offer wine to mock him? Reader 2: Did the soldiers offer wine to drug him? Reader 3: Did the soldiers offer wine as an act of compassion? Reader 4: Did the soldiers offer wine just to make him be quiet? Reader 1: Jesus was God, above the physical hurts of the body. Leader 2: Jesus was God’s Son. His relationship with the Father didn’t let physical pain interfere. Reader 3: Yes, But Jesus was ...

1238. Egypt: Unlikely Refuge

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... been hidden back in the little village of Nazareth, fairly well-removed from Bethlehem; or that perhaps He would have been sheltered in some rural area by a devout farmer or perhaps even a village rabbi who understood the Scriptures and had a sense of compassion for a fugitive infant. Instead, refuge came in the pagan land of Egypt. How strange that the Christ Child was protected from harm, not by the godly in the chosen land, but in a foreign land by some who were, at best, religiously indifferent; and ...

1239. Jesus Christ, the Truth

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... on. Ruth: As I was saying, he is to come offering peace and justice to all men, Jew and Gentile alike. He doesn’t want to set up some kind of earthly kingdom, but he wants all the kingdoms of the world to rule in justice, in mercy, and in compassion. Pilate: Noble thoughts. Grand ideas. But we already have that with Rome, don’t we? Ruth: May I speak freely, my Lord? Pilate: Please do. Ruth: If Rome stands on the side of justice; if it stands for mercy; if men are to be governed fairly; if the bonds of ...

1240. Stewards and the Hungry

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... female-headed family, four times as likely to live with neither parent. We’re not certain about those reasons for poverty, but we can be certain about what Jesus teaches in the Scripture concerning it. To look at what he teaches is a good antidote for the "compassion fatigue" which can take place in a congregation which tries to help year after year. Jesus told the story of the Good Samaritan in response to a lawyer’s question of "Who is my neighbor whom I am to love?" He said that the neighbor is the ...

1241. Stewards and Our Bodies

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... humility. Never should the medical doctor or the church-related hospital let their ministries of healing be directed by greed, selfishness, or the profit motive. It is a divine ministry and the Creator would want all his people to have the benefit of its compassion. We have discovered today that we, who are caretakers of all creation, must also be good stewards of our own bodies. We have uncovered some religious issues connected with our care of our bodies. Saint Paul wrote in Romans 12, "Let God transform ...

1242. Stewards of Life, Death, and Beyond

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... We have the promise that physical death is not the end for us. Whether our death is natural or tragic, a friend or enemy, all who experience death and dying situations can be certain that even these do not separate us from God’s concern, help, and compassion. Paul states again, "For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life ... there is nothing in all creation that will be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8 ...

1243. Resurrection: Temporal to Eternal

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... had said, "It is finished." What was left? Nothing! The dream of God’s Kingdom was broken and cast aside, even as were the bones scattered upon Golgatha. The gladness of the teaching time was now only fading memory. The intimate fellowship of love and compassion and concern was now impossible - for there, beyond the stone doorway, lay the dead body. Nothing was left. Truly, it was finished. The runner remembered it all as he made his way along the ridge road to the City. Jesus had implied such an end ...

1244. Resurrection: From Slave to Child

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... trail through forest lands. So it was with the road that came from Bethany, climbed across to the Mount of Olives, snaked down into the Kidron Valley, moved through the region of the Garden of Gethsemane and finally made a steep climb to the Compassion Gate of Jerusalem. That road’s history went back before David’s choice of Jerusalem for his temple-building, back to when Ornan discovered a smooth rock surface on the hilltop that became his grain threshing floor (2 Samuel 24). Since that first use ...

1245. A Man Whose Dreams Came True

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... you sold into slavery." This is one of the most moving, most dramatic scenes in the whole Scripture story: when Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers and told them, "I love you. I forgive you." What a tremendous picture of love and mercy and compassion! And what a beautiful type, or figure, this is of our Lord Jesus who, hundreds of years later, offered his life and was willing to forgive those who killed him: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34). That, in essence ...

1246. A Reed Who Became a Rock

John 1:35-42

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... at times, but so weak at others. Jesus does not make us into what he intends us to become in an instant of time. It doesn’t happen overnight. Again and again, he reaches out to draw us back - back into his arms of love, back into his embrace of compassion. Over and over, he reaches forth to restore us. Yes, we do waver ... we do wander ... we do become wayward. But we can be made firm and steadfast. We who are reeds can become rocks. What Jesus did for Simon Peter, he can do for us. What do we think ...

1247. A Man Who Wanted to Burn a City

Luke 9:46-50

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... small and petty. Jesus called John and his brother Sons of Thunder (Mark 3:17). This provides an indication of the temperament of John. We don’t ordinarily think of him this way; we usually picture him as a man of love and grace, mercy and compassion. See what a change comes from being with Jesus! The Master transformed this man from a Son of Thunder into a Son of Tenderness, a man who is called "the beloved disciple." We too can be changed by meeting Jesus. Aggressiveness Why did Jesus give John ...

1248. John Wesley: Religion of the Heart

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... William Wilberforce: "... go on, in the name of God and in the power of his might, ‘til even American slavery, the vilest that ever saw the sun, shall vanish before it" (John Pudney, John Wesley and His World). Religion with a heart will work to bring compassion to people who need it in any age. That would be folks who are AIDS victims. It would be folks like the hungry of our community. Religion with a heart will lobby for the suffering Iowa farmer and those single parents on ADC. You may say "Not ...

1249. Mother Teresa and the Dying Poor

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... our deeds speak so much louder than our words. In the October, 1984, issue of The World Times we read where Mother Teresa said, Women are the heart of the world and would be better priests than men ... No man can even come close to the love and compassion a woman is capable of giving. A woman priest will perform and her message will percolate down to the roots. Maybe Mother Teresa has something there. Maybe that is why our own male-dominated church has been so slow to help very many and so careful to take ...

1250. Shepherds and Bathrobes

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Thomas Long

... for lodging. He then dutifully recited his one line, "There is no room in the inn." But as Mary and Joseph turned and walked wearily away toward the cattle stall where they would spend the night, the boy continued to watch them with eyes filled with compassion. Suddenly responding to a grace which, though not part of the script, filled the moment, he startled himself, the holy couple, and the audience, by calling, "Wait a minute. Don’t go. You can have my room." And that is why, when all is said and ...

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