Sunday Service // DUE NORTH: Kingdom Kindness // July 28, 2024

Pastor Andy Cass Explore the transformative power of kindness. Through personal anecdotes and practical applications, Andy challenges listeners to embrace intentional acts of kindness as a daily spiritual practice, emphasizing how it can break shame and reflect God's love in a complex world. TEXT: Colossians 3:1-4,12; Romans 2:4; 2 Samuel 9:1, 7-8,11; Titus 3:4-6; Galatians 5:22 NOTES: -Kindness is meant to Lead you -Kindness has the ability to break shame, for the giver and the recipient. -Random acts of kindness are cool, but intentional acts of kindness are the true work of the kingdom. -Kindness was never meant to be practiced in a perfect, sanitary petri dish, but rather in a dirty, ever-changing, and inconvenient world. -The effects of Kindness are eternal -Kindness is something we are meant to practice. It's never meant to be put on the shelf as a trophy, past achievement, fond memory, or pat on the back. -Kindness will cost you Mother Teresa: "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Henri Nouwen: "Kindness is the language we all understand. Even the blind can see it and the deaf can hear it." St. Francis of Assisi: "Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received... but only what you have given: a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage."