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126. Apron Up (Mother's Day)

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ” and its refrain “Come Home, Come Home.” Or here is an alternative ending that brings in the fathers, which could be followed by the “Come Home” refrain of “Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling.”} Alternative Ending: In a book by Dennis Covington called Salvation on Sand Mountain comes a personal story from the author's childhood that speaks eloquently to the nature of “The Good Shepherd” and what it means to listen for the voice of love that seeks always to ...

127. Come Home

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Jesus is calling? Calling for you and for me; Patiently Jesus is waiting and watching? Watching for you and for me! Come home! come home! Ye who are weary, come home! Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, Calling, O sinner, come home! Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading? Pleading for you and for me? Why should we linger and heed not His mercies? Mercies for you and for me? Oh, for the wonderful love He has promised? Promised for you and for ...

128. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... her on her way Even to the mournful place where Adonais lay. XXIV. Out of her secret Paradise she sped, Through camps and cities rough with stone, and steel, And human hearts, which to her aery tread Yielding not, wounded the invisible Palms of her tender feet where’er they fell: And barbed tongues, and thoughts more sharp than they, Rent the soft Form they never could repel, Whose sacred blood, like the young tears of May, Paved with eternal flowers that undeserving way. XXV. In the death-chamber for a ...

129. Paul's Ministry in Thessalonica

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... by Morris). Trophos, in this verse, is “nurse” rather than “mother,” but the reflexive pronoun suggests that the image is of a nurse caring not for someone else’s children, but for her own. In short, the metaphor is of a nursing mother—as tender an image as one could find to represent the pastor and his/her people (cf. Gal. 4:19; also Num. 11:12; see W. A. Meeks, The Moral World of the First Christians [Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986], pp. 125–30). The verb, thalpō, means strictly ...

130. Ruth and Boaz on the Threshing Floor

Ruth 3:1-18

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... 5), Boaz trembles. Perhaps Boaz is startled by a Job-like nightmare experience: “You will lie down, with no one to make you tremble” (kharad, Zophar to Job in 11:19, my translation). Targum poetically speculates that Boaz’s “trembling” (rtt) is the trembling of “tenderness” (rkk) but quickly adds that Boaz feels no “erotic desire” for Ruth (yts ryh, Tg. Ruth 3:8). Perhaps Boaz is startled by Ruth’s elbow in his ribs! 3:9 When Boaz asks Who are you? Ruth does not call herself a “foreign ...

131. Hosea's Wife and Children

Hosea 1:1-2:1

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Not pitied” is an outrageous name for a daughter, but it is the prophetic symbol that Yahweh will no longer be moved by the need of his people, even though they are totally dependent on Yahweh for life. From the beginning, Yahweh had such tender pity (cf. Exod. 3:7). Now that sympathy, which prompted his help for Israel throughout their history, is gone. Verse 7 is very likely a later Judean insert into this passage. It interrupts the carefully constructed structure and in its final phrase switches from ...

132. Repentance to Bring Blessing

Hosea 14:1-9

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the images drawn from nature in verses 5–7. To understand the force of these images, however, we should realize that they are pictures drawn from love poetry (so Wolff, Hosea; see the notes below). They are images of Yahweh wooing this people (cf. 2:14), speaking tenderly to them, loving them as a young man loves his betrothed. God will be like the dew to Israel. The abundance of dew was absolutely necessary to life and growth in Palestine’s arid climate (Deut. 33:13). In fact, dew was later used as a ...

133. The Three Visitors

Genesis 18:1-15

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... . 5; however, pat, “piece, morsel,” standing before lekhem, favors the literal meaning “bread”), Abraham hastened to prepare a feast. He instructed Sarah to bake bread from fine flour, the kind of bread served on very special occasions. Next he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf (Judg. 6:19; 13:15), a gesture that showed his high regard for these visitors. After Sarah and the servant had prepared the food, he set before his visitors curds (a rich yogurt made from milk fat), milk, and ...

134. Praise and Prayer

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... 9:7 and 37:32 promised and what 42:13 and 59:17 claimed—to be the mighty warrior that Yahweh is supposed to be (9:6; 10:21; 42:13). The parallelism of the lines at the end of verse 15 tells us that fierce warlikeness and tenderness and compassion belong together, as two sides of a coin. Both the latter characteristics are words that use images taken from the human body (more literally, “the rumbling of your insides and your womb”). Again the prophet is asking that Yahweh act on the feelings claimed in ...

135. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

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

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... that we can have when we fear the Lord alone. The first stanza reads, We rest on Thee, our Shield and our Defender! We go not forth alone against the foe; Strong in Thy strength, safe in Thy keeping tender, We rest on Thee, and in Thy Name we go. Strong in Thy strength, safe in Thy keeping tender Hymn: “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” by Civilla D. Martin. The author of this hymn shared the story behind her famous chorus. One spring, while she and her husband were on holiday, they met another couple, Mr ...

136. The New Heaven and New Earth

Revelation 21:1-27

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... face-to-face with his glorious presence (22:4), rather than cowering in fear, God’s people will experience tender comfort and perfect protection. Like a compassionate parent caring for a suffering child, God will wipe away our tears. Furthermore ... : “no more” death, mourning, crying, or pain. When positive images appear, they are relational: God as the faithful husband (v. 2), God’s tender hand wiping away tears from our face (v. 4), God giving a drink of water to a parched traveler (v. 6), God, the ...

137. “In God I Trust and Am Not Afraid. What Can Mere Mortals Do to Me?”

Psalm 56:1-13

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... ; the fear of men is mastered by the fear of God.”11 Teaching the Text This psalm gives us an opportunity to deal with the deepest sorrows that grow out of life’s detrimental circumstances and, at the same time, offers us an occasion to make the tender request of God that he would store up our tears. As we begin our preparation (and this can be part of our presentation), we should note that this psalm has a refrain (56:4, 11), virtually identical, in which the suppliant’s trust in God is concentrated ...

138. The King and the Maiden Banter

Song of Songs 1:1-17

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... projections directed to the shepherd lover she has left behind and not as direct responses to Solomon’s flattery. 1:2–4 · In the anxiety and confusion of her separation from her home in the northern hill country and her shepherd lover, the maiden recalls the tenderness of his affection and the pleasure she experienced when kissing him (1:2–4a). The pleasure of the lover’s kiss is likened to wine, a connection well attested in ancient literature (4:10; 5:1; 7:9; Prov. 9:2, 5). More than the physical ...

139. Hope: God Loves You

Hosea 11:1-11

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... this to the covenant people he loves so much. In many ways it is impossible to compare God’s feelings to the emotional response of humans, but on the other hand, these kinds of human analogies are the only way God can explain to human beings his tender love for his people. God’s heart is overcome with compassion for his people. Although God will discipline his children, he will not act in fierce anger against them; he will not completely destroy Israel off the face of the earth. He is a holy God; he ...

140. In Remembrance

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... He prayed that every time he took the bread and the cup that his heart would be stirred as if it occurred only yesterday. He prayed that the Lord’s Supper would never become a mere formality, but always a tender and touching experience. (3) This is what the Lord’s Supper should be for us as well--a tender and touching experience. It reminds us that Christ died for us. This, in turn, reminds us of just how much God loves us. “See what great love the Father has lavished on us,” says John in his first ...

141. Be Holy

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... in v. 4 he makes this explicit. Furthermore, the meaning of chrēstos is richer than “kindness” (Luke 6:35; Rom. 2:4; Eph. 4:32). An “easy gentle relationship” (Matt. 11:30) paraphrases the sense intended here. How can new believers, who have now experienced the tenderness of divine love when they came into contact with Jesus Christ for the first time, ever want to slide back into their old way of life? But it will be only too easy to do so unless they continue to grow in the faith and the knowledge ...

142. Family Ties and Good-byes

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... confronted by his frustrated and conflicted family as crowds gathered around him to hear his stories, behold his miracles, and observe with great interest the conflicts he had with religious leaders from Jerusalem. Conflict. But there were also good, tender, and beautiful joys in Jesus' family. Look at the tenderness at the time of his birth. Good-byes and ties. All families have stress, as well as happiness, times of anger as well as times of joy, times of agony and times of ecstasy, times of good-bye as ...

143. So, You Want to Get Well?

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... , she fell at Jesus' feet. "I did it," she confessed like one who has sinned greatly. "I touched your robe." Reaching down to touch the one who had touched his robe, Jesus said, "Daughter." "Did he just call me daughter?" she must have thought. "What a tender way to speak. What will he say next?" "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering." Here in this story of the befuddled, desperate, suffering woman we meet what might be called the courtesy of Christ. The woman's ...

144. Telling the Truth

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... and their broken dreams. Then in a stunning reversal, chapter 40 turns everything around. The people are still failing, still flailing in the arid desert of exile, but God, through the prophet, transforms judgment into joy. “Comfort my people,” God says to Isaiah. “Speak tenderly to them. Proclaim that the glory of the Lord has come, that the glory of the Lord is coming, that the glory of the Lord will come again. Tell my people that the penalty has already been paid, and that the rough plains will ...

145. A Loving Parent

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... are times when we need to be reminded of that promise. We all come to those times in our lives when we need God’s tender care--when no one else can offer the comfort we need. There are hurts that only God can heal. There are burdens only God ... saying, “Abba” or “Daddy?” Let the cynics scoff. For all His power and might and majesty, the God of the Bible has the tender heart of the most loving mother or father. Tim Gustafson tells of a grandmother in Burundi proudly displaying two photos, one of her ...

146. You Are My Beloved

Mark 1:10-11

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... away our good feelings and perceptions about ourselves, making us forget we are created in the image of God. Marilee Zdenek has written a tender little book of poems titled Splinters In My Pride. She tells, "Once, I knew a little girl who spent her own money to buy ... . I have carved you in the palms of my hands and hidden you in the shadow of my embrace. I look at you with infinite tenderness and care for you with a care more intimate than that of a mother for her child ... you belong to me. I am your father ...

147. When You Know How It Ends

Mark 13:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... his musicians play this song with great emotion. Instead of using notations to drive the pace of the music, his notations read, “Play tenderly, play with ecstasy, play with love.” (10) Even if we don’t know the future, we don’t have to live in fear. Like the ... beautiful quartet written in a prisoner-of-war camp, we can live tenderly, live with ecstasy, live with love. We only have to trust His promise that God knows the future, and our time is safe in ...

148. With Challenge And Invitation

John 10:1-10

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... anyone who might try to harm them or steal them away. Jesus’ disciples and all of us are the sheep who belong to him, who gather together, who listen for his voice. As a parable of our relationship with God, this word picture paints a warm and tender portrait. However, in the context of the gospel of John, this parable also functions as Jesus’ commentary on his healing of a man who had been blind from birth. These ten verses appear at the start of chapter ten, and the chapter break might suggest that ...

149. Comfort My People

Isaiah 40:1-8

Eulogy

George Reed

... some of these memories and beginning to sow those seeds of healing. We continue that process today as remember [NAME] and the way God’s love was shared with us through his/her life. [Personal reflections] “Comfort, O comfort my people.... Speak tenderly. ” God comes to speak tenderly to us today. We remember [NAME] today and celebrate their life. We reach out to one another to offer comfort. And we trust that as God now receives [NAME] into the depths of God’s love for all eternity, so God wraps us ...

150. For a Special Woman

Proverbs 31:10-31, Luke 10:38-42

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... tell you to remember there are other worlds in which to sing. And she wanted you to know that what was true for your canary was also true for her.” I tell that story because I could picture Kate being that operator. She had a warmth to her, she emanated tenderness, and she exuded kindness. As someone told me at the wake, she was a perfect combination of honey and sugar. If there was anyone in need of help, she was there. So, it would be just like her to reach out to that boy on the telephone to calm his ...

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