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Showing posts with label Compassion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Compassion. Show all posts
Monday, August 18, 2025

Sermon Video: Be Kind and Compassionate - Ephesians 4:31-32

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  As the culmination of his examples of the new attitude that is needed now that we are in Christ, the Apostle Paul proclaims that "all...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Sermon Video: Abraham: A foreigner in a foreign land, Genesis 21:22-34

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The interactions between Abimelek and Abraham serve as a template for God's teaching on the respect and kindness God expects from his fo...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Sermon Video: The God of the downtrodden - Genesis 21:8-21

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After the birth of Isaac, both Sarah and Abraham fail to treat Hagar and Ishmael with kindness.  In fact, Sarah seems to hate them both, and...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Sermon Video: The same attitude toward each other as Jesus had -Romans 15:1-6

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Why should Christians of "strong" faith bear with those whose faith is "weak"?  The answer certainly isn't to bolste...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Sermon Video: Living like Jesus in the everyday things - Romans 12:13-16

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As disciples of Jesus, imitating him is a key aspect of our faith.  Here in Romans 12, the Apostle Paul offers 4 examples of behavior that h...
Friday, September 3, 2021

The folly of the "Sin of Empathy" - A self-inflicted wound to Christian Fundamentalism

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Sin is a big word for Jews and Christians, it is an especially toxic word among Evangelicals and Fundamentalists.  When some attitude, thoug...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

The troubling whitewashing of Jonathan Edwards' ownership of slaves by John Piper

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Coming to terms with the flaws of your heroes can be rough.  We all need heroes, mentors, those who will inspire us and open our hearts and ...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Sermon Video: Jesus was indignant? Mark 1:40-45

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  When a man with leprosy comes to Jesus asking, "If you are willing, you can make me clean." Jesus' emotional response was t...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

Coronavirus: It will reveal our true character

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In the past twenty-four hours, the impact of the Coronavirus upon life in America accelerated greatly:  The NBA is on hiatus (with other spo...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Seeing the world through a father's eyes

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For those of you who don't know, I came to fatherhood later in life than most of my peers.  My wife Nicole and I had already been marrie...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Sermon Video: God's Chosen People: Bound together in love - Colossians 3:11-14

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Having already told the people of the church at Colossae of the need to "put to death" their earthly nature with all of its vices,...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Why we can never allow "them" to be singled out.

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After World War II, Pastor Martin Niemoller, who was imprisoned by the Nazis in 1937 and eventually confined at Dachau concentration camp, ...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Sermon Video: The Prodigal Son's brother - Luke 15:11-32

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The Parable of the Prodigal Son is the third parable in a row told by Jesus in response to the muttering of the Pharisees and teachers of th...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Sermon Video: When rules choke out compassion - Luke 13:10-17

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While teaching in a synagogue, on the Sabbath, Jesus was confronted with the implications of a cultural/religious phenomenon known as expans...
Saturday, June 21, 2014

Sermon Video: Those Forgiven Much, Love Much - Luke 7:36-50

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The intro and first 1/2 of the initial Scripture reading were inadvertently not taped, the message proceeds as usual from that point......
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Sermon Video, "As a father has compassion on his children" Psalm 103

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When searching for a sermon text for Father's Day, it becomes painfully clear that there are few fathers in the Bible who are known for ...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Manti Te'o, online relationships, and real people

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Having moved 400 miles away from my hometown after 37 years this past year I value online communication via Facebook and e-mail with those I...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

A day in the life of a church pastor

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I know that some people wonder what a pastor does during the week.  Well, it took me 30 minutes to write this next sentence because I was he...
Friday, October 19, 2012

A seed is planted...Mustard Seed Missions of Venango County

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There have been several pleasant surprises here in Franklin in my first ten months: the ease of making the transition due to the overly frie...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Sermon Video: "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick" - Luke 5:27-32

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Jesus once again does the unexpected when he calls the tax collector Levi (Matthew) to be his disciple. In 1st Century Judea tax collectors ...