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1926. What Would Jesus Say About Modern Churches?

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... that were lost over the holidays." I don't know if God cares about lost rings; I know He cares about lost people. When religious persons criticized Jesus for spending too much time with tax collectors and sinners, he gave them a trilogy of parables describing God's compassion for the lost. One sheep is lost out of a hundred; the good shepherd leaves the 99 and searches for the one. A coin is misplaced and a house cleaning happens until the coin is found. A lost boy comes home and a father throws a party ...

1927. What Would Jesus Say About the Marginalized?

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... beside the church and hear the sound of bells. I'd like to build a rescue shop within a yard of hell. Will you help me? We cannot live in the suburbs isolated from the city and hope to be saved. Here is a way to go about it. Practice compassion in Jesus name. In Jesus' troubling parable of the last judgment and the separation of sheep and goat. (Mathew 25: vs 31). The Son of Man comes in all his glory to separate people as a shepherd separates sheep from the goats and on his right he will assemble the ...

1928. Using the Best Materials

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of the 1970’s that tumbled the presidency of Richard Nixon. People often asked the one-time politician now turned pastor, “How could such a bright, young, good, well-educated American have gone so badly wrong?” Jeb would reply, “We simply lost our moral compass.” Self-control does that for us. It keeps us morally tethered to the right when we are greatly tempted to do the wrong. People capable of great good are also capable of great harm. Oskar Schindler was the German businessman who daily risked ...

1929. Are You Able?

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... so much suffering, yet you radiate so much peace and joy—how do you do it?" He said, “In my meditation I allow all the suffering of my people and our oppressors to enter into the depth of my heart, and there to be transformed into compassion." The most caring, compassionate, concerned people I know are those who have walked through the valley of the shadows of death and learned to fear no evil. Jesus was a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. Jesus said, You will indeed drink from my cup ...

1930. Checking Out the Scene

John 1:35-42

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... is not good for you to be alone. I will make a helpmate for you.” We were made for community. The Church is God’s best hope for “loving and being loved.” While we are certainly not perfect at it, the Church does offer community, extend compassion, and offer prayers for those in need. It was Bonhoeffer, that great leader of the Church during the Holocaust that says, “Because God has bound us together in one body with other Christians long before we entered into common life with them, we enter into ...

1931. Repent

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... CAN I? Historically, there are four movements to repentance. The first is recognition. Are you ready to get real? This all has to do with being real. King David cried to the Lord, “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me” (Psalm 51:1-3). Are you ready to be honest? Are you ready to come out of denial? Are you ...

1932. The Greatest Story Ever Told

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... In desperation the son turns toward him, the father. Jesus strains the language and stretches the sentences to describe this homecoming of a lost boy. Listen to it carefully. In Verse 20 we read, “While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son and embraced him and kissed him.” Do you catch the emotion that is going on in this powerful scene? And while he was a long way off, his father saw him. The eyes of mercy are quicker than the eyes of ...

1933. Finding Our Reason For Being

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ? That is a question I would like to raise with you today. Heal me hands of Jesus and search out all my pain Restore my hope, remove my fear, and bring me peace again. It’s time to recover the power of prayer. It’s time to extend the compassion of Christ. It’s time to comfort those who mourn. It’s time to build up the brokenhearted. May the Gentle Healer make himself known in our midst today. V. WE ARE HERE TO EXTEND AN INVITATION. In a Seinfeld dialogue between Elaine and her boyfriend, Elaine asks ...

1934. What is the Connection Between Church and State?

Mark 12: 14-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... some houses of worship to receive tax dollars for the delivery of social services. President Bush, in presenting his Faith Based Initiative, effectively threw down the gauntlet to churches and religious organizations saying, “It’s time to unleash the armies of compassion in every city of America to provide hope for people where hope doesn’t exist.” Oh I know, any partnership between government and churches is laced with poison and packed with dynamite. It raises all kinds of questions about the ...

1935. The Power of a Personal Commitment

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

While my farmer father only had a fourth grade education, he was a wonderful story teller. One of his favorite yarns was about a chicken and a pig who encountered a hungry man beside the road. Moved with compassion, the chicken said to the pig, “Why don’t you and I go together and give this man a great ham and eggs breakfast?” The pig pondered the proposition for a moment and then replied, “For you that would be a contribution; but for me that would mean total commitment.” ...

1936. The Power of a Vision

2 Corinthians 5:11-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ” but “when” it will happen again, not to mention billions of dollars in national debt. If a small group motivated by hate could do that, what could a large group of people motivated by love accomplish in our world? What difference would countless actions of compassion, love, and kindness make on society? Is evil stronger than good? Is right at the mercy of wrong? Is fear the master of faith? No, says Paul, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us. For I am convinced ...

1937. What Can Christians Learn from Buddhists?

Romans 8:18, 28

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... see the act of Holy Communion through my eyes as I look into the eyes of recipients: - Eyes troubled by battlefields of our own making and prisons of our own decisions - Eyes dimmed by pain that you didn't ask for and don't deserve - Eyes filled with compassion for others you feel for - Eyes perplexed by trying to figure it all out. Face after face, person after person, life after life, the Body of Christ, broken for you, the Blood of Christ shed for you, and you, and for you. What would have happened if ...

1938. From Greed to Generosity

Mark 10:17-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... for extreme makeovers. It takes some crunching for all of us self-sufficient people to admit our need for God. It takes the Holy Spirit to teach us how to know what is right and what things we need what things we ought to let go. It takes a spiritual compass, a counter-cultural way of life to do what Paul said in Romans 12:2: Don't let the world squeeze you into its mold, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. For as of all people, Bob Hope said, “If you don't have charity in you ...

1939. The Power to Look Up

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... have lost their lives in this conflict and over eighteen thousand others have been wounded, many of them seriously. Let us pray for soldiers who are still there and for innocent civilians who have suffered so much for so long. May the God of Grace and the Lord of Compassion look out for all His children. More than looking back, more than looking out, I invite us today to look UP, to look all the way up to Jesus, the author of our salvation, the perfecter of our faith. When we don't know where we're going ...

1940. Pray

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... speaks, and listening to His voice, New life the dead receive; The mournful, broken hearts rejoice, The humble poor believe." When it comes to prayer, are you a good listener? II. PRAYER IS CONCERN FOR OTHERS Since the beginning of time, people of compassion have wanted for others more than they could provide themselves and that has led them to intercessory prayer. “Pray for one another so that you may be healed; the effectual, fervent prayers of the righteous availeth much" (James 5:16). Jesus said, “I ...

1941. In Prayer’s Way

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to it as soon as possible. But for her shut-in, ninety year old Auntie, Elizabeth was, in all her imperfection, an answer to prayer. “I now know that her prayer was not for cookies. Her prayer was for family, for fellowship, for the touch of love and compassion to come into her life.” All of us in attendance here today are an answer to an ancient prayer. That prayer is two thousand years old. It was a prayer uttered and answered in today’s gospel lesson. In that ancient prayer Jesus prayed that his ...

1942. By Faith

1 Peter 1:3-9

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... make it to our lips. I was channel surfing the other night when I ran into an interview with Bethany Hamilton. Once ranked as the best amateur teen surfer in Hawaii, Bethany lost an arm to a tiger shark in 2003. But the accident did not dampen her compassion or competitive spirit. She is back surfing again and holding her own in the toughest of competition. Here is what Bethany said, “I'm looking forward to the future. I want to show the world that I still have a life, and that my life is filled with ...

1943. By Enduring

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... that you should follow in his steps." Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: “We are not Christ, but if we want to be Christian, we must have some share in Christ's large-heartedness by acting with responsibility when the hour of danger comes, and by showing a real compassion that springs not from fear, but from the liberating love of Christ for all who suffer." Jesus did not bring a revolution. He brought redemption. Verse 24: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and ...

1944. Honoring God in a Pluralistic Society

Matthew 22:37-40

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . Let God love you. Let God love through you. Live by the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. C. The evidence of love is Cooperation. The religions of the world will never believe alike. But have we not the common ethical compassion to love alike? A friend sat in my office last Sunday and said, “I just can't begin to comprehend this tragedy that has struck South Asia." Then he said, “If there is anything redemptive to come from this awful human tragedy, could it be that the ...

1945. Finding Plenty in the Midst of Scarcity

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . So, if you use modern trends of church attendance, there could have been, ministerially speaking, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 people present on that Galilean hillside when Jesus fed the multitude. At least we know it was a large crowd and that Jesus had compassion on them. Come, let us take a closer look. I. THE HUNGER IS REAL As evening approached, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a remote place and it is already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages ...

1946. The Gentle Healer

John 9:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . It stimulates all the other senses. It stimulates language and communication. It promotes bonding and attachment. Hugged children are happy children and for a price, they will come and teach you how to hug your children. Another promotional item says, “Touch unlocks compassion and heartfelt care between the provider and the client which makes them equal partners in facilitating health and healing." As I read a dozen or so websites all talking about the power of touch, almost all of them from a new age ...

1947. Living on the Easter Side of Life

Colossians 3:1-4

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... meant to be a child of God and I have been living into that reality ever since. Have you discovered your purpose of living? Whatcha got on your mind today? Are your thoughts full of lust, greed, anger, rage, malice, slander, or do you concentrate on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience? Do you forgive as the Lord has forgiven you? Does the peace of Christ rule in your heart? These are the thoughts of those whose minds are set on things above, says Paul. These are the kinds of things that ...

1948. By Humbly Doing Good

1 Peter 5:6-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... is to be constantly respectful of others. What do you communicate when you enter a room — Here I am, or How can I be of help? What do you convey when you carry on a conversation — Are your words full of affirmation or anger, gossip or goodness, compassion or conflict? When you talk with friends, do you run people down or build people up? What are your normal, ordinary conversations like? Or maybe the most important question of all, how do you live your life? Do you live it seeking to serve or seeking to ...

1949. The Broken Body of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Jeremiah cursed the day he was born. On another occasion he prayed, “O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night for my people." Still, it was Jeremiah who wrote in his Lamentations: “Your compassion, O Lord, never fails. Morning by morning, new mercies I see; great is your faithfulness, oh Lord, unto me." We bring our brokenness and place it under God's blessing. God uses broken things. He uses broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give us ...

1950. Embracing Christ—The Light of the World

John 8:12-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Tiger Woods is a Nike man from head to toe. They pay him about one hundred million dollars to wear Nike footwear, Nike clothes, Nike gloves, Nike hats, and yes, he hits Nike balls. Paul says to the Church at Colosse, “Clothe yourselves in Christ. Put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience. Forgive as the Lord forgives you. And above all, love one another." My mother used to say: Christ has no hands but our hands to do his work today, He has no feet but our feet to lead men in His way, We ...

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