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151. Investing Our Inheritance

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

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Douglas J. Deuel

... not let the street kids in their shops and she knew it. She was an outcast. She was despised and rejected by her own people. Each day for two weeks, whenever the minister came out of his hotel, the little girl would come running up alongside of him. Tenderly she would slip her hand into his and she would hold on tightly for as long as he would allow. The minister came to understand that even more than the food he bought for her, this little girl hungered for the love and affection he offered. Now, when ...

152. A Faith That Overcomes

Acts 9:32-43

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Douglas J. Deuel

... of you. You're the best! Maybe Santa will come to your house and put magic stuff in your stoc_esermonsking that will make you all better. Love - Laura Just as you and I feel the pain of our loved ones, God feels our pain. Just as we reach out in tenderness to those who need it most, God reaches out to us. In our times of pain, we must continue to trust in God's loving presence in our lives. Trust In God's Power The second thing we learn from today's passage is to trust in God's power ...

153. The Compassionate Healings

Mark 5:21-43

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Ron Lavin

... lament." Henri Nouwen writes, "What does it mean to care? Let me start by saying that the word care has become a very ambivalent word. When someone says: 'I will take care of him!' it is more likely an announcement of an impending attack than of a tender compassion..." Real care is not ambiguous. Real care excludes indifference (as in "I don't care.") ... It is the opposite of apathy.1 To care means to suffer with the other person. That's what the woman with a bad theology saw -- Jesus cared. Jesus entered ...

154. Rich In God's Sight

Luke 12:13-21

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Richard Patt

... sinner draw near ... delay not, delay not, the hour is at hand." The Advent hymns breathe the urgency too: "Prepare the royal highway; the King of kings is near! Let every hill and valley a level road appear!" Or how about the old Gospel hymn: Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me; Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing, passing for you and for me. There are spiritual urgencies concerning our salvation that we need to tend to! Does not this urgency also have to do with the ...

155. The Perisitent Noise Of Solemn Assemblies

Luke 10:25-37

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Maurice A. Fetty

... the hiding places, install more lights, increase police patrol and then search out ways to reform the criminal, investigating the social and economic factors leading to the crime. Nor are we to believe Jesus would tolerate those who play injured and sick, milking the tender-hearted of their money. Jesus' demand for justice and his understanding of love would not allow that. He calls us all to be responsible selves. And once the victim is well he is expected to leave the sick room to perform responsibly in ...

156. The Advent Of Our Lord

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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Robert A. Hausman

... oppressors (v. 19a). He is not only a powerful king, but also a devoted one. "... he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing ..." (v. 17b). This is a king who is tender and caring, taking away judgment and reproach, saving the outcasts, turning their shame into praise and renown (vv. 18-19). The end of this restoration is a glorious homecoming. The people will be gathered from afar and brought to Jerusalem. There, their fortunes will be ...

157. Lent 4

Psalm 32:1-11, Joshua 5:1-12, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Luke 15:1-7

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William E. Keeney

... The use of heaven is a euphemism for God. Jews were reluctant to use the word God for fear that they would be misusing it and suffer dire consequences as a result. 9. "Kissed Him." (v. 20) The force of the Greek term would be that the father kissed him tenderly. 10. "The Best Robe." (v. 22) The father would have no second best for his returning son. It signified that the son was returning equal to an honored guest. 11. "Put a Ring on His Finger." (v. 22) The ring was a symbol of authority. It means that the ...

158. Proper 19

Psalm 14:1-7, 1 Timothy 1:12-20, Jeremiah 4:5-31, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

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William E. Keeney

... actions and attitudes have pushed the person away and thus contributed to their lostness. That may require that the Christian make some changes and take the initiative in the recovery and restoration of the lost. They may also consider how they can communicate the tender love such as a shepherd shows for a lost sheep. The church should look at the members who have become unattached. They should ask how they can help such persons to become reattached, if not to this particular congregation, at least to one ...

159. God On His Knees

John 13:1-17

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Don M. Aycock

... Maybe, just maybe, the die wasn't cast yet. Maybe Jesus could still reach through the false layer of shallow commitment and lay hold of that part of every person that longs to believe. Jesus kneels down, and begins to pour the water over the feet of Judas. With tender compassion, he bathes the feet of one set to destroy him. "I was wrong about this man," thinks Judas to himself. "He almost had me convinced that he was the Son of God, the Messiah. But look at him! He looks like any slave which can be bought ...

160. How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Stephen M. Crotts

... it with verve! Then there is a fight, some disappointment, and resentment settles in. A slow leak. As the poet has written, " 'Twas not love's going hurt my days, but that it went in little ways." The snap is gone. Sex becomes routine. She can't remember a tender time. He can't recall her support. So they quit trying together. Two single men were talking. One remarked, "If I ever get married I want a wife who is an economist in the kitchen, a lady in the living room, and a bobcat in the bedroom." He did ...

161. Mirror, Mirror ON The Wall . . .!

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Stephen M. Crotts

... touring the National Gallery of Art in Washington once when I stopped to admire Murillo's painting of the return of the prodigal son. The picture was fascinating. On one canvas the artist seemed to have captured all of the joy, the excitement, the tender pain, and great spiritual longing of a long overdue embrace. As I stood admiring the masterpiece, a young couple strode up and gazed at the painting in silence. Finally the girl whispered, "Beautiful." "I agree," the man said. Then both together bent over ...

162. Take Up Your Ministry

Mark 9:38-41

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Steven E. Albertin

... visitor bearing that cup of water offering to quench your thirst, to salve your desperation. And likewise God comes to do his rescuing "in the name of Jesus" -- in the waters of the font, in the eating and drinking of the table, in the tender touch, husky hug, and assuring words of an unauthorized minister. God comes to remind you that regardless of what the world might insinuate about you, regardless of how you might be accused by your own conscience or God's own holy presence, you are nevertheless ...

163. Do You See What I See?

Mark 10:46-52

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Steven E. Albertin

... home. Over the course of fifteen years you see a lot of lives go past you. One such life was Hilda. Hilda loved to come to my Thursday morning worship services. She was an old feisty German on the outside, but on the inside she was tender and soft and loved Jesus. Hilda suffered badly from diabetes. She was losing her eyesight. She was almost totally blind. She was confined to a wheelchair because of the poor circulation in her legs. Every few months she would have less of her legs because of another ...

164. When The Fat Lady Sings

Mark 13:1-31

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Steven E. Albertin

... with the certain hope that new birth, new life, a new beginning is about to happen. It is like that fig tree to which Jesus refers in today's Gospel. It may be the dead of winter, but the signs of new life are upon us. As that tree becomes tender and puts forth its first new shoots, we are sure and certain that summer is near. We wait with hope, between the times, already knowing that the summer has begun even though it has not yet actually arrived. I once heard a preacher describe the battle of New Orleans ...

165. Miracle Three: Healing A Leper

Mark 1:40-45

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Harold H. Lentz

... discovered something which pleases but perplexes them. Sometimes a patient suffering from this disease for which there is no known cure would experience a definite slowing of its progress. Looking more closely, they discovered that such patients were the recipients of much tender, loving care. Some member of the family or a good friend had kept them reassured that they were deeply loved. Love does wonders to the human persona and in some cases can be a powerful healing factor. This is especially true of ...

166. Lighting A Fire In A Cold Room

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Harold Warlick

... red with rage. He never attended worship after that. He sort of retired from religion and kept his son, Jotham, at home. And young Jotham never forgot that. He never formed the habit of worship attendance in his childhood since his father had quit. In his young and tender years, he never sat down and thought the matter through. The Bible tells the complete story of Uzziah's son, Jotham. He was 25 years old when he came to the throne. Scripture says, "He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his ...

167. Held In His Arms

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

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Paul W. Kummer

... he pleases, whenever he pleases. I want to show you how God flexed his muscles on our behalf and displayed his powerful arms in our text on this Holy Weekend. First, the arm of the Lord formed the Son (v. 2). Jesus grew up before his Father "like a tender shoot" after God's Spirit overshadowed Mary and she began to carry Jesus in her womb. Just as God is actively involved in the formation of each embryo in the womb (and even before that in his mind), so imagine the joy God received seeing the arms and legs ...

168. Come To The Light

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Sandra Hefter Herrma

... quotes at the beginning of his gospel: "... the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned." Zechariah, father of John the Baptist, echoes that prophecy in Luke 1:78-79: "By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death." John's gospel, filled with references to Jesus as the Light of the World, begins with a great hymn: "What has ...

169. Where Are You?

Hosea 11:1-11

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Richard L. Sheffield

... , but that God is coming to get you and hold you in his arms. In spite of all the wrong that God's people had done, says Hosea, God still said: "How can I give you up ...? My heart recoils within me (at the thought); my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my fierce anger; ... For I am God and no mortal, the holy one in your midst, and I will not come in wrath" (Hosea 11:8-9, adapted). God does not come to where we are in anger, but in love and forgiveness. That's where ...

170. Salve To Soothe Our Souls

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

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Richard L. Sheffield

... his people. Who cries as he cries out the wrath of God. One who is sorry for the sorry state of affairs in which he is called to minister, but to which he must still speak the truth. Jeremiah speaks the truth in tearful lamentation and in tender love. Recently as the Lima community dealt first with the senseless death of a Lima Senior High student, apparently by murder, and then the senseless death of a second Lima Senior High School student shortly after, I was called and asked to be one of several pastors ...

171. The Second Meal

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Robert F. Scott

... he offered forgiveness; by faith she accepted his gift. Now she was a new person, able to demonstrate her response of love. She could go in peace: peace with God, peace in her own heart. The story is charged with emotion. Jesus' correction of Simon, his tender reception of the sinner, the eloquence of her silent actions, all fit into the picture of God's concern.The living God is not indifferent; God loved the world so passionately that God sent the only son -- sent him so that everyone who believes in him ...

172. When The Saints Come Marching In

Revelation 7:9-17

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Robert S. Crilley

... Moreover, the sentimental soundtrack, which at first seemed like such an intrusion, begins, ever so slowly, to transform the way you look at life, amplifying the all too obvious dissonance between the brutality around you and the hopes within you for a world of tenderness, faithfulness, and abiding love. And in this passage, it seems to me that John is doing much the same by inviting us to see an alternative vision, to listen to a different truth, to experience another existence, to participate in a new way ...

173. A Misguided Game of Hide-and-Seek

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Robert S. Crilley

... for a missing coin, crawling beneath the furniture with a flashlight, and feeling about in the dark nooks and crannies with wounded hands. It's the love of One waiting wistfully at the gate where the road winds in from a far country, tenderly whispering a name through choked tears, and hoping that someday -- perhaps even this day -- the silhouette of a long lost child will again appear upon the horizon. I suppose, when everything was finally said and done, the Israelites might very well have been involved ...

174. Life's Loose Threads and The Tie That Binds

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

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Robert S. Crilley

... lives with a pat on the head, and murmured assurances that all of our unattained goals do not really matter in cosmic terms. Rather, it is the One who falls to the earth beside us, picking up the pieces of our broken dreams, and tenderly whispering, "Oh, but it does matter. It matters eternally." And it matters eternally, because our unfinished stories are part of God's unfinished story. Our unfinished business part of God's unfinished business. For when the final pattern is knit, the concluding stitch sown ...

175. Heaven's Wait

Joshua 24:1-27

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Robert S. Crilley

... canopy, surrounded by flowers and the gentle sprinkling of tiny cards which read: "You have our deepest sympathies." And I watched a woman -- now for the first time a widow -- slowly move to the casket, pinching off the stem of a single rose and clutching it tenderly to heart. "Reverend," she would later confess, "I don't think my world will ever be the same again. He was my very best friend." Life entails change. Sometimes it is welcomed, other times it is not. But in every instance, it serves as a silent ...

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