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1. The Master Has Come - And Is Moved With Compassion

Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45

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... compel them. Wherever Jesus went to help - and lift - and encourage - and heal - we see there the heart of God, the love of God, the compassion of God, the pain of God’s love. Love is often painful. A young woman fell in love with a young man. They were going ... go through the Cross. It was true for Jesus. It is true for us. III Third, we feel the pain of love in imitation. This compassion God has for his creation - this pain of love we find in Jesus Christ, which he had for all sorts of people - is not only ...

2. Compassion Fatigue

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... closer we walk with the Lord, the more tender our hearts become and we cry within when human needs go unmet. So it’s tough, so very tough for the sincere Christian to recognize that there is a limit to what we can offer. But we must do it – when compassion fatigue begins to set in, simply recognize and acknowledge that there is a limit to what we can offer. II Carry this idea one step further. Relax in the fact that there is a time to leave to God and to others what we cannot do ourselves. Now let me ...

3. Compassion

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and read the life of Jesus between Christmas and Easter. Christianity must never leap from the songs and bells and candles and presents of Christmas to the flowers and Handel's Messiah of Easter without passing by the dusty roads of Galilee and Judea, places where Jesus was showing compassion. Think of it. He heals 10 lepers and one returns to thank him. If that were me, I'd make the other nine sick again. But he doesn't. He bears it. He asks his friends to stay up with him while he goes off to a garden and ...

4. Making Compassion a Verb

Mark 6:30-44

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David G. Rogne

... the door, he saw Will Rogers leaning against the wall sobbing like a child over the tragic situations he was seeing. Berry closed the door, and in a few moments Rogers appeared back on the platform as jovial as ever. Christians are called to a ministry of compassion, and if we are faithful to it, it will cause us to weep with those who weep. But it is not enough simply to feel the pain of others, we also need to act to relieve it. In Albert Camus' novel, The Fall, an established, impeccable French lawyer ...

5. When Being Christian Has Worn You Down (Compassion Fatigue)

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... and sparkling freshness fade out. That’s the meaning of fatigue. We don’t have the energy to go on. I want to talk about that as it related to the core of Christian living. Boil it all down, refine it to its most precious essence, and this is it: Compassion is the call of every Christian. I could open the New Testament to almost any page and find text. I could use that summary word of Jesus in the 15th Chapter of John: “This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love ...

6. Compassion

Luke 7:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... her son. She had already buried her husband after he died, and now she was all alone. The people who walked with her were carrying the body of her son, and they were all very sad. Jesus watched the people coming towards him, and the Bible said that he had compassion for her. That means that he not only felt sorry for her hurt, but that he was going to do something about it. First he told her not to cry any more, which is another way of telling her that she would soon have nothing to be sad about. Then ...

7. Jesus’ Compassion and Authority to Do the Miraculous

Matthew 14:13-21, Matthew 14:22-36

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... subsequent verbs would seem to suggest (“they [the people vs. the men] brought all their sick to him” and “they begged him” [cf. NRSV; CEB; CEV]). 14:36 begged him to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak. Jesus’ power and compassion are implicitly communicated in this description of people coming to him for healing. The power of Jesus that comes through simply touching the edge of his cloak is reminiscent of an earlier incident in which a woman with chronic bleeding touches the edge of ...

8. A Clock or a Compass?

Mark 1:9-15

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David T. Ball

... 7-13, 24-25). Is that what has happened? No, at least not yet, and if we are looking at this through our favorite lenses, the lenses of chronological time, none of this can make very much sense. But that’s not what Jesus was talking about. Remember the compass, and the importance of direction. Chaos in the heavens and turmoil on earth proclaim that God will no longer put up with life as we know it, that a change of direction is coming, and we’d better get with the program. God no longer consented to the ...

9. Compassion Can Do More Than You May Think

Luke 7:11-17

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David R. Cartwright

... means "with passion." Empathy is perhaps the word that comes closest today. However we speak of it and regardless of the words we use, it's a very strong and powerful word. So much so, that in this story it can bring life to the dead. Our lesson for today: Compassion can do more than you may think. I recall a story I heard a long time ago, and since it has been a long time, the exact details are little fuzzy in my memory. As I recall the story, which is also supposedly a true story, it went like this ...

10. When Compassion Overcomes Irritation

Mark 6:30-44

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Donald B. Strobe

... seek to be consoled, as to console; not so much to be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, (and) it is in dying that we are born again to eternal life.” III. “(JESUS) HAD COMPASSION ON THEM, BECAUSE THEY WERE LIKE SHEEP WITHOUT A SHEPHERD.” (6:34b) What an apt description. People tossed to and fro (as the writer of the Letter to the Ephesians puts it) “by every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles ...

11. Power and Compassion

Hebrews 5:1-10

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Lee Ann Dunlap

... neither will a cardiac surgeon who chooses to vacation in Maui in our hour of need. What we most need is a physician with skill and a deep commitment to the patient. Those of us with sin-sick souls require that similar combination of sensitivity and compassion, balanced by the power to effectively heal and forgive. We need to know, in the words of the children's table grace, "God is great and God is good. "Goodness without power is ineffective, and power without goodness is demonic. The quest of the human ...

12. God Of Compassion

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... purpose, no sense of hope. So God sent Christ to be our shepherd. "I am the good shepherd," Christ says in John 10:14. "I know my sheep and they know me." There is the Good News for the day. The Creator God not only looks upon His children with compassion but he has moved into the world to redeem His children to become the shepherd of the sheep. Even more. To become a lamb slain for the sins of the world. G. Campbell Morgan was once approached by a soldier who said he would give anything to believe that God ...

13. Compassion for the Suffering

Luke 13:31-35

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... sense of calling to help in a specific way, began this movement in England in the 1950s. It later moved to the Americas and is now used everywhere and in every town. It is called the Hospice Movement, and it draws its inspiration from Jesus' own passion and compassion for his children -- "as a hen gathers her brood under her wings." My prayer is that God will continually come to us in new ways and in fresh images, so that more Cicely Saunderses among us can be moved and inspired to take risks to join in God ...

14. Conviction with Compassion

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James McCormick

... of life in Christ. And, when a brother or a sister stumbles, we don’t accuse and condemn, we forgive and extend a helping hand. As followers of Jesus, we are to be people of conviction, but also, we are to be people with compassion. Prayer: God, our Father, save us from moral indifference, from ethical wishy-washiness, from behavioral blindness. Help us to insist upon the highest standards from ourselves and from others, precisely because we care about them. Give us the spirit of our Lord. Help us ...

15. The Way of the Compass

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Source Unknown

... with him. But as usual he became hopelessly confused and was unable to find land. Finally he was rescued by his friends. Disgusted and impatient with him, they asked, "Why didn't you use that compass we gave you? You could have saved us a lot of trouble!" The sailor responded, "I didn't dare to! I wanted to go north, but as hard as I tried to make the needle aim in that direction, it just kept on pointing southeast." The old sailor was so ...

16. Christ's Compassion for the Sorrowful

Luke 7:11-17

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... we have cried in our pain; and in our crying, we have not listened for your comforting word. Forgive us for being unresponsive to your healing touch when we have hurt. Forgive us when we withdraw in our misery instead of exposing ourselves to your compassion. Reveal your Son to us in our day as a great prophet who has come to save us. In his name we pray. Amen. Hymns “Art Thou Weary, Art Thou Languid?” “Be Not Dismayed” “Come, Ye Disconsolate” “Holy Ghost, Dispel Our Sadness” “Jesus is All ...

17. God's Faithfulness and Compassion

Exodus 34:1-28

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Carl Hoefler

... reclaims us as your children: Be near us in everyday life to guide us in your ways; that we may be faithful to you with our love and devotion. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Forgive us, Father, when we test your patience and compassion with lives motivated by sin. We often act without regard for your will when our human nature takes control of our behavior. But we know we are your children; and ask that you take control of our lives in fulfillment of your promise to be our God. In ...

18. Jesus’ Compassion and Authority to Feed and Heal

Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:29-39

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... 5:3; Jonathan in 1 Kings 1:48; the psalmist in Ps. 41:13; see also Luke 1:68).4Matthew mutes any indication in his Markan source that the feeding of the four thousand focuses on Gentiles (e.g., Mark 7:31; 8:10). 15:32 I have compassion for these people. The Matthean theme of Jesus as compassionate Messiah is again reiterated (see 8:3; 9:36; 14:14; 20:34). 15:33 Where could we get enough bread in this remote place? The disciples continue to evidence “little faith,” since they have just recently ...

19. Fifth Point of the Compass

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Staff

... , its needle pointing always to the north, and showing us which directions are north, east, south, and west. It is said that one kind of ancient Chinese compass had five points. It had north, east, south, west, and where you are right now. We might wonder about the accuracy of this, but the idea is a fascinating one. Those points yonder, all four of them, are rather meaningless to me unless I can think of them in relation ...

20. A People of Compassion

Eph 4:32

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H. Stephen Shoemaker

... Abba Moses said, "My sins run out behind me and I do not see them, and today I am coming to judge the error of another?" When the council heard these words they forgave the brother. In solitude before God, faced only with ourselves, we learn the compassion of God. Perhaps it is not incidental that in the midst of ministry and the unrelenting needs of the crowd, Jesus, the good shepherd, called his disciples to join him in the desert: "Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest awhile." It is ...

21. Two Visions of Destruction Bring Compassion

Amos 7:1-9

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... to destroy Israel’s crops (7:1–3). Since the king has already had his share of the crops, this plague will hit hard the poor farmers, who would get the second crop. Because of Amos’s love for these people, he intercedes by asking God to have compassion because these poor farmers could not survive the famine that such a severe event would bring. In response God stops the plague and provides the people with more time to repent of their sins.In the second vision Amos sees a fire that is able to dry up ...

22. Prayer And Compassion Fatigue

Matthew 14:13-21

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Roger G. Talbott

... doesn't have to tell us. We know that they either felt frustrated and angry or they felt secretly pleased that they were so needed -- or both. Matthew doesn't have to tell us how the disciples felt. He does have to tell us how Jesus felt. He felt "compassion" for the crowd. That is, he felt what they felt. He felt the pain and desperation that would drive people to come so far to such an inconvenient place in the hope that they might find healing for their bodies and spirits and maybe even some meaning for ...

23. The Motherly Compassion of the Christ

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

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

Gospel Notes The verb in verse 35 rendered in English as "had compassion" means literally to have one's "guts" wrenched, vis-a-vis either the bowels or, oddly enough, the womb. What we have on Jesus' part here, then, is the kind of deeply felt, profound love for "harassed and helpless" children usually associated with motherhood, which may well have been its ...

24. Justice Tempered with Compassion

Hosea 11:1-11

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... we were lost and wandering amid sin, the Lord sought us still. Leader: We deserved God's terrible wrath, yet we received God's loving discipline. People: As a parent guides a child, so has the Lord watched over our paths. Leader: Let our witness to God's justice and compassion be clear. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, we have each one fallen so very short of what You created us to be, yet You have always guided us back into the ways You would have us go. We give You our praise and love ...

25. Obedience and Compassion

Matthew 1:18-25

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Joe Pennel

... in today's world. It calls us to respond to God's action among us. Joseph, not having all of the evidence and knowledge of the future, decided to do more than law and custom required. He elected to do more than was expected of him. He let justice and compassion guide his decision about his pregnant betrothed. He was pulled, not by the strength of custom, but by the law of love.

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