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176. What's Mine Is Yours

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... . A frown creased Mr. Barnes’ face. He lazily stroked the left ear of his faithful dog Ajax, who as always was stretched out beside his master. "Where do we go from here?" the wealthy farmer asked of the world in general. Ajax expressed his concern and sympathy by wagging his white-tipped tail. His master sighed. "All that beautiful wheat and no place to put it." The dog looked up at his owner with soulful eyes which signalled his desire to bear some of the burden which weighed his master down. At this ...

177. Recognizing The Hidden

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... of the room. Beads of perspiration stood on his forehead. His hand was fixed to his chest. The old friar, speaking from years of ritual, but with kindness in his voice, mumbled a few Latin words, looked heavenward, made the sign of the cross. With a look of sympathy, but with authority, he said, "Make your peace with God." The words of the priest cut through the pain. The look of pain changed in an instant to the look of fear, the terror of death. Fear settled in that little shop as truly as the growing ...

178. Commanded By Example

John 13:31-38

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." That is the height of love. Freely, abundantly, lavishly, and openly Jesus gave himself to others. He shared his time willingly, spent his strength liberally, poured out his energy unselfishly, and gave his sympathy generously. When he was needed, he was always there. He gave himself to all needs of all people. He gave his life because he believed that only by so doing could he save people and bring them back into his father’s house. Look at the ...

179. Academics, Fanatics, and Other Disciples

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... be mistaken." Yes, Jesus calls us to discipleship -- thinking, learning discipleship accompanied by devotion and energy. II. If some of Jesus' disciples have tended to be fanatics, others have tended to be academics. I must confess that I have a definite sympathy for this kind of discipleship. My world has long been the world of classrooms, libraries, lecture halls, and seminars. After spending four years in college and six years in graduate schools with four earned degrees, I find my life still resonates ...

180. King of Atlanta

Romans 8:28-39

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... to help organize things more broadly. I feel torn in two directions. I owe a lot to Dexter Avenue Church. But I feel a need to keep the movement spreading. When I saw how the white citizens of this city finally began to give us their support and sympathy, I realized miracles were possible after all. I don’t know where it all will lead. I only know I need Christ more than ever. Keep me in your prayers. His servant, Martin. ANTAGONIST: Do you really think you can change people’s hearts by changing the ...

181. Twenty-First Century Reformation

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... a part in it. Perhaps the best tribute ever paid to the great sixteenth-century reformer was by his faithful, understanding, loving wife. Some weeks after Martin’s funeral, Katherine Luther wrote her sister Christina: Kind, dear sister! I can easily believe that you have hearty sympathy with me and my poor children. Who would not be sorrowful and mourn for so noble a man as was my dear lord, who much served not only one city, or a single land, but the whole world? Truly, I am so distressed that I cannot ...

182. The Friends of Jesus

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and defeated. These were dark days. Guest went to the drugstore the next morning to pick up something. When he entered Jim Potter stopped what he was doing and asked Jim to step in the back. “Eddie, he said, I really cannot express to you the sympathy I have for you in my heart. If you need anything, you can count on me.” Many years later Edgar Guest recalled that incident. He wrote: “Just a neighbor across the way, a passing acquaintance. Jim Potter may have long since forgotten that day when he ...

183. Lent 3

John 4:1-26

Bulletin Aid

C. David Godshall

... what we suspect could justly happen to us. Assistant: Persecution and disaster do not always seek out evil people, but frequently afflict the righteous. People: Do not allow us false security because we may not have suffered, but give us a sense of sympathy with those who do suffer, and a conviction of thankfulness that you stand with your people through good times and bad. Pastor: Continue your lovingkindness to us, O God, and give us strength to risk faith and to seek righteousness before you. Assistant ...

184. Christ and Time

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... human relations. It is Christ who has elevated woman from a position of domestic slavery to dignity and honor. It is Christ who has inspired a new attitude of tender care for the child. It is Christ who has led men to realize their responsibility to treat with sympathy those who are unfortunate and need help. It is Christ who stirs the world’s conscience to sorrow over wrong and to struggle for the right. Not in vain do we sing in one of our loveliest Christmas carols: "Long lay the world in sin and error ...

185. God With A Human Face

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... in Brooklyn he saw one Christmas Eve two Christmas wreaths on a door. The one had a red ribbon and the other had a black ribbon. He sensed that the family had a death. Although he was not their pastor, he felt constrained to go and offer his sympathy. It was a family with children who had just moved there recently. When Peale knocked on the door, the man said, "Come in." In the living room was a casket holding the body of a six-year-old girl. When Peale offered his condolence, the father replied. "It ...

186. Why Prophets Get Under Our Skin

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... , he resembled the austere severity of the wilderness where he sounded forth his message which has rebounded through the corridors of history for twenty centuries. No street corner prophet this. No televangelist con artist, this prophet. No panderer after the sympathies of the rich and famous. No sycophant of the elite and powerful, this man. This man was a man of God -- fierce, unyielding, piercing, penetrating, forthright, and forceful. He sought no coveted memberships in elite organizations. He asked no ...

187. The Promising Child

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... Penninah, did have children. Each year Elkannah took his entire family to worship at the temple which was at Shiloh. At whatever festival the family was celebrating they had a special feast, and Elkanah would present gifts to each member of his family. Out of love and sympathy for Hannah, her husband gave her double portion of the gifts. Yet Hannah was not consoled. She refused to eat and went to the temple and prayed through tears for God to bless her with a child. In her prayers she vowed to God that were ...

188. It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

James W. Moore

... to his son’s face. The little boy was stunned by the impact of the elbow. It hurt… and he was just about to burst into tears. But then, he looked into his father’s eyes and instead of anger or hostility, he saw there his father’s sympathy and concern; he saw there his father’s love and compassion. Then, instead of exploding into tears, the little boy suddenly burst into laughter. What he saw in his father’s eyes... made all the difference! This is one of the reasons Jesus is so important to us ...

189. Remembering 9/11

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... not only generous to our own; we are generous with the whole world. That is why the questions came later that day: "Why would they do such a thing? Why do they hate us so?" One of the pleasant surprises of 9/11 was the flood of sympathy from around the world. Remember? Even nations we would normally not think of as friends stood in solidarity with us and condemned the attacks. Cuba? Yes, even Cuba. The footage shown on TV of some young Palestinians celebrating the news was played over and over again, and ...

190. The Powerful Moments that Change Your Life Forever

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

James W. Moore

... staff that I would be there to help with Holy Communion. As we were getting ready to go to church and June was helping the children to get ready, I decided to look through the mail. A huge volume of mail was there with letters and cards of love and sympathy and compassions and caring. Then I saw it, I knew what it was, it was a big box with a Winston Salem postmark on it. I knew before I opened it what it was, and I was right. It was our Christmas presents from my mother, carefully selected and beautifully ...

191. The View from the Mountaintop

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Brooks, in a memorial sermon after the assassination said, "He fed us faithfully and truly. He fed us with counsel when we were in doubt, with inspiration when we sometimes faltered, with caution when we would be rash...He fed hungry souls all over the country with sympathy and consolation...He fed us with solemn, solid truths...Best of all, he fed us with a reverent and genuine religion. He spread before us the love and fear of God just in that shape in which we need them most, and out of his faithful ...

192. The Trouble with Stables

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... service hearing the preacher talk about life and hope and resurrection...but they are not really listening. Both are thinking the same thing: "Where did we go wrong?" Who knows? Finally, the funeral is over. The people who came by the house to offer their sympathy and condolences are gone. All that is left is a kitchen full of uneaten food...and two people full of unanswered questions. They have gone to bed now and lie quietly thinking that this will be a miserable Christmas. The house is dark - just a ...

193. Good News For Broken Hearts

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... have a breaking heart? Have you ever let go and let the tears fall without regard for what others might think? Luke tells us about a woman who did just that. He tells us about a woman whose heart was breaking in two. Now, we might not have too much sympathy for this woman. After all, she was "a woman of the city . . . a sinner." You could tell it by the way she dressed, by the way she made herself up, perhaps by her mannerisms. She was not fit company for decent folks. Her place was on the streets, not in ...

194. Comfort My People

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... head. "It was out of love and compassion for me," said his mother who now wears a blond wig. "It's just tragic that someone would have to take a beating for a haircut." It is tragic when someone is beaten because he shaved his head in sympathy with his mother. Do you see a deeper meaning here, though? Someone else was beaten because of his deep identification with another's life. Jesus identified with us and how was he treated? The same way Joshua was treated. He was beaten, bruised, wounded. Why? So that ...

195. Driven To Serve

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... to feel important in church will seek that recognition and acceptance somewhere else. Several years ago, on the eve of his execution for a well publicized crime, a doomed criminal was interviewed by a newsp aper reporter. One of the things he said evoked genuine sympathy: "If in my childhood I had been paid one percent of the attention I am now getting," he said, "I wouldn't be going to the chair." Children. Those are our first customers. But Christ has other customers equally as important. WE ARE ALSO HERE ...

196. It Makes No Difference Where You Belong

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... trace their origins through the patriarch Abraham. All three embrace the Mosaic law. All three are monotheistic. And yet as the political walls of this world come tumbling down, the religious walls seem to grow higher and higher. How tragic. I have great sympathy for that strange man in Wisconsin who, one dark night, went around his village and painted over all the different church names! When they arrested him, he announced, "God told me to!" I don't know. Maybe God did. Religious prejudice has always ...

197. Do We Know What We've Got?

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christian love and fellowship. We may not be articulate theologians but we can be a friend to one another and to the world outside. That is our task. That is the ministry to which Christ has called us--to be a caring community. To reach out arms of sympathy and support to those who are in distress. To rejoice with those who rejoice and to weep with those who weep. Kahlil Gibran once remarked that we can forget those with whom we have laughed, but we can never forget those with whom we have cried. Millions ...

198. What Are You Working For?

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... do you do for a living?" This usually is a good ice breaker. Most of us are comfortable talking about our work. If things are going well it gives us a chance to boast a bit, tastefully, of course. If things are going poorly, perhaps we'll get some sympathy. There is a far more important question, however, than what do you do? It is a question drawn from the teachings of Jesus. The question is: For what are you working? There is a second question like unto it -- for whom are you working? I assume you are ...

199. Entering Into The Agony

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... , have no place in the universe and human society will never be saved until sorrow is discredited. The people eagerly accept this teaching, and tears and sorrow are banished. Years pass. All suffering is repressed with the result that the race gradually becomes selfish. Sympathy ceases to exist; the very word is deleted from the dictionary. No poets are born, for poets are the children of pain, who learn by suffering what they teach in song. Music and painting are no longer practiced, and the loss of these ...

200. You Can Dress Them Up...

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... observation about finding fulfillment. In his career as a writer and journalist he has interviewed a wide range of people. He divides these people into two groups: stars and servants. For the stars, super star athletes, famous authors, TV personalities, he has only sympathy. These "idols," he says, "are as miserable a group of people as I have ever met." According to the standards of this age these people have it made. They are famous, they have their pictures in magazines, they live in big, expensive homes ...

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