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2126. A Miracle Story

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... shows no particularity, but that in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him” (v.34). Wow. *It only took a lifetime of living and working with Jesus. *It only took watching Jesus extend his love and compassion and healing powers to lepers and Gentiles and tax collectors and “sinners” of all stripes, for the entirety of his ministry. *It only took the miracle of the resurrection — the greatest event in the history of the world, the divine demonstration of God’s ...

2127. The Christian's Royal Jelly

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to a friend, a co-worker, your spouse, your child, your parent? When did you last apply some royal honey to a grievance or a wound? When criticism lashes out at you, red in tooth and claw, did you keep it red, but red in forgiveness and compassion and royal jelly? When was the last time you shared the special sauce of Jesus Christ, and affirmed to someone that because of God’s gift of Christ to the world, there are no insurmountable obstacles, no bottomless pits, no dead ends. Christ came for all the ...

2128. The Lifesaver App

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... by” app? Take half an hour of a busy day to check in on someone shut-in and shut-off from easy access to the world. How about a “turn the other cheek” app? This may be one of the hardest apps to run. Choose compassion over confrontation, acceptance over self-assertion. How about a “Barnabas blast” app? This may be the easiest and most fun to keep running, and the one that brings the most personal pleasure. Offer an unlooked for compliment and unsolicited encouragement to every one you meet ...

2129. When Fishermen Don't Fish

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... (2) It is sad. We have so much to do as the body of Christ. Christ calls us to make a difference in this community. Christ wants us to show this community that we are a caring people because Christ is a caring Savior. Christ wants us to model compassion, forgiveness and a passion for righting the world’s wrongs. What does it say to them if we cannot get along with each other? When fishermen don’t fish, they fight. It’s also true that when fishermen don’t fish, they run away. There is a little story ...

2130. Nothing to Hide

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you . . .” That’s us! We are like a horse, or in some instances a mule that must be controlled by a bit and bridle. There is no inner control, no spiritual compass that leads us to follow God’s will. Hiding is a lot like holding your breath. Do you remember when you were a small child and someone challenged you to a contest of “See-who-can-hold-his-breath-the- longest”? At first, it’s not too hard. But ...

2131. Framed, Changed, Challenged

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Tony Everett

... coach hugged Coach Kris, thanked him and said, “You’ll never be able to know what your folks did for these kids tonight. Thank you.” But who won the game? Jesus of course. He has framed, changed, and challenged us to show the same compassion to others. What signs of wonder and encouragement are part of everyday life in your congregation? What generosity flows from your worship space into the world around you? How do you learn and teach the Jesus story? What does breaking bread from house to house ...

2132. Jesus Light

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... knows our name, and naming is the key to healing. This is what Jesus calls each of us to do: to see other people as he sees them. This is the new perspective that Jesus-light gives disciples: we direct our thoughts and tasks, our compassion and love, to individuals with names, not institutions or instruments with numbers. The “light” that Jesus gave his disciples enables us to act as “glow-worms” to the world. Jesus light does more than make us a lighthouse beacon to the benighted and lost. Jesus ...

2133. What Does Jesus Look Like?

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Tony Everett

... servant, God chose to defeat the control of sin and suffering. Aha! Now even more detail can be added to Jenny’s multi-colored drawing. In addition to a body tormented with suffering, we can also see a heart filled with love, eyes over flowing with compassion, and arms outstretched with an embrace for the whole world. Today, Good Friday, God shows us what love looked like on the cross. Today, Jenny’s multi-colored drawing invites us to see what God’s love can look like from the cross into the midst ...

2134. Prelude to the Passion

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... him, and by his wounds we are healed” (53:5). He knew exactly what he was doing. He was displaying for all the world to see the evil that resides in humanity. The innocent Son of God, who never hurt anyone, whose every action was guided by love and compassion for the least and the lowest, this innocent Son of God hangs there on a tree with nails driven in his hands and feet and a sword thrust into his side. Every time a church is bombed or a synagogue destroyed or a mosque desecrated or a temple attacked ...

2135. Remember the Rooster

John 18:25-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... Peter. Simon asked, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus undoubtedly looked at Simon Peter with compassion as he said, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.” “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter blurted out in his characteristic way, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!” Then Simon Peter asked the Master, “Lord, where are ...

2136. Honk If Something Falls Off

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... accompany a horn blast are often not full-fingered hand encounters if you catch the drift. Indeed, if something of yours falls off in my lane of life, I’m going to let you hear about it all right. But so much for pity, compassion and understanding. Try condemnation, vilification and humiliation. “The way we respond to people’s imperfections, one would think their old trucky lives meant to drop pieces in our path . . . ‘Accident?’ [they scream,] ‘No way! That was personal. Don’t try to tell me ...

2137. Fear of Missing Out

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ’t so bad to be called a vegetable. And in Julia’s case, no one wanted to miss out on being part of her healing presence. It is that new reality, the reality of God’s presence made human on earth through a body of human beings, where love and compassion become the driving forces in our lives, that is the heart of gospel. And it must be the Heart of the Church. The Sermon on the Mount tells us that no one has to miss out. In His message on that hill with people from everywhere and all walks of ...

2138. Peace Be With You

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... of emotional stress. The fifth is, “Refuse to indulge in self-pity when life hands you a raw deal.” Accept the fact that nobody gets through life without some sorrow and misfortune. The sixth is, “Cultivate the old-fashioned virtues love, humor, compassion and loyalty.” Number seven is, “Do not expect too much of yourself.” When there is too wide a gap between self-expectation and your ability to meet the goals you have set, feelings of inadequacy are inevitable. And finally, number eight is ...

2139. You Have a Friend (Memorial Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Missionary Society and a towering figure in the 19th century. Stanley spent several months in Livingstone’s company, carefully observing the man and his work. Livingstone never spoke to Stanley about spiritual matters, but Livingstone’s loving and patient compassion for the African people was beyond Stanley’s comprehension. He could not understand how this missionary could have such love for and patience with the backward, pagan people among whom he had so long ministered. Livingstone literally spent ...

2140. A Prayer for Persecuted Christians Everywhere

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... always have a common identity: love for Jesus. The kidnaping, incarceration, and forced “conversion” of the young women in Nigeria is a wake-up call to our Christian call to love. Our call to pull together as a community of faith. A call to reach out in compassion to parents who have had their children ripped away from them. But even more, a call to proclaim the love of Christ over the forces of hatred and evil. And it is a time to look inward, to look closer to home. Acceptance and love starts next ...

2141. Where the Church Gets Its Power

John 17:6-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... the god in mine demands the best.’ She had given her perfect baby to the god of the Ganges.” (1) Do you suppose these people needed to be liberated by the good news that God is not a God of darkness but of light, not a God of cruelty but compassion, not a God who demands fear but one who creates faith? No wonder that in the developing countries, so many people even today are turning to Christ. Nor do we need to go half way around the world to find people who need the good news that Christ brings. There ...

2142. Good News about Sparrows

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... having convulsions. He brought him to Jesus. Jesus’ disciples were powerless to help the boy. Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” The distraught father answered, “From childhood . . . if you can do anything,” he pleaded, “have compassion on us and help us.” And Jesus said to him, “All things are possible for one who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:21-24) Maybe that’s your prayer ...

2143. Follow the Directions

Psalm 119:9, 18, 89

Sermon

James Merritt

... a decision as to how I am going to respond or react in a given situation where do I turn? Let me make it personal. When it comes to establishing a standard for the personal morality you are going to practice, what is your ruler? When you need an ethical compass to find your way out of an ethical jungle how do you determine where North is? When you are on a stormy, churning sea of emotion, which lighthouse do you use to show you where to find the shore? I have found in my own life the Bible really comes ...

2144. Ignite: The Fire Burns Brightly

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

James Merritt

... of us needs to look after the good of the people around us asking ourselves, ‘How can I help?’” (Romans 15:2, MSG) Do you know why this is so foreign to us? So much of our culture drives us to an individualism that totally cuts the heart out of compassion and caring. From an early age, we are taught to have things our way and to make sure our needs are catered to. Can I be honest? It is the attitude that says, “I want church to be the way I want it whether it reaches the next generation or ...

2145. Up Close & Personal: Seeing Clearly

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... to the name of God in the Old Testament refers to God as “holy.” That adjective is used for God more often than all of the other adjectives in the Old Testament put together. The chief attribute of God is not mercy, grace, love, compassion, power or knowledge. The chief attribute of God is holiness. The central meaning of the Hebrew word for “holiness” is “separate” or “separateness.” It comes from a Semitic root that means “to cut” like cutting an object in half so you can separate the ...

2146. Get Off Your

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... else’s gifts. The gifts Paul cites are all over the place, a sampling and not a summary. There are gifts of prophecy (NOT common), gifts of teaching, gifts of preaching, gifts of giving, gifts of governance, gifts of generosity, gifts of compassion. All of these gifts, Paul insists, are equal, because they are equally "transforming." For all those who are touched and transformed at the moment of their confirmation with the risen Christ, there is no other existence except that of a wholly transformed ...

2147. How to Hug

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Love fills the Law with purpose and meaning. Conversely, law divorced from love is cruel and even dangerous. A common caricature in literature and particularly in movies and on television is the overtly religious person who is devoid of love and compassion. Such people are all too common in the church, particularly among the nominally committed, and they are hurtful to the cause of Christ. Several years ago, in his book The Christian Salt & Light Company, Professor Haddon Robinson gave a stunning example ...

2148. How to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... the money needed to repay such a debt! The king was ready to have the man, his wife, their children and all their possessions sold to satisfy the debt. The man begged on his knees for more time. The Scriptures tell us that the king was moved with compassion and completely forgave the man his debt. What relief! What joy! But wait . . . You know the rest of the story. That same man had someone who owed him a debt a hundred silver coins, a piddling amount in that currency. Do you think he forgave the man who ...

2149. Learning to Live Like Jesus

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... St. Paul’s message to the church at Philippi. Listen to his beautiful and profound words: “Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests ...

2150. The Landlord's Dilemma - World Communion Sunday

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... his life? Love. Love for you and for me. But what was his goal? What did he hope to achieve? His goal was that his life would be the cornerstone for a new way of living. Why have we not understood that this world was created for love, for compassion, for sharing, for jumping off a railroad platform to save a stranger in distress? What would it take for us to understand that this is the kind of world that God desires, a world where those who live in abundance share with those who have so little? What would ...

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