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226. How Do You Know?

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... year his little daughter gave him the perfect antidote for his homesickness. It had black beady eyes, a red bow tie and orange feet. It was a stuffed toy penguin that stood about five inches tall, and attached to its left wing with paste (still wet when he tore away the wrapping) was a wooden sign bearing the hand-painted declaration, "I Love My Dad!" The salesman immediately granted it a place of honor on his dresser. Later the salesman was going through customs at Kennedy Airport in New York. A customs ...

227. What Would You Have Him Do For You?

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... her idea didn't catch on because most of the workers packed their own lunch, but gradually more and more of the workers bought her pies at a nickel apiece. For the next few years, on balmy spring days, blistering summer noons, and in cold, wet, and wintry storms, Annie never disappointed her customers. The workers came to depend on her and her delicious meat pies. Before too long her simple stall became a store carrying meat and cheese. (2) Annie had stepped from the road which seemed to have been chosen ...

228. Isn't It Time To Get It Right?

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... our lives are constrained with fear, we are often our own worst enemies. Jamie Buckingham tells about a pilot in Ecuador who was involved in a plane crash because of a passenger's fear. The wheels of the heavily loaded Cessna 206 had barely left the wet jungle airstrip when the passenger, sitting in the co-pilot's seat, panicked. The pilot had the throttle pushed all the way forward to the firewall. He had done this many times before and was confident they would clear the huge trees towering at the end ...

229. Thankless Jobs

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... job, indeed. Yet this is exactly how Christ portrayed himself ” as a shepherd. And that is the most familiar image we have of Christ ” a shepherd holding a lamb in his arms. How sweet ” how tender. But a lamb is not a full-grown sheep. Its wool is not wet and matted. It isn't caught in a crevasse. It is not bleating for the shepherd to come to its rescue. OF COURSE THERE IS A CERTAIN BONDING THAT TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP. Jesus put it this way: "To him the doorkeeper opens, and ...

230. I Love You, Man!

John 21:15-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... mini stry he had from that day forward. I like Warren Wiersbe's description of the impact of that question on Simon Peter's life. Wiersbe writes, "At one time Peter had wayward feet, but Andrew brought him to Jesus. And then one night Peter had some wet feet because he was walking on the water. Then he had washed feet when Jesus knelt before him and washed his feet (John 13). He had wandering feet when he denied the Lord. [Later] he had willing feet." Then Wiersbe adds the words of St. Paul, "How beautiful ...

231. Damaged In Transit, But Deliverable

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... noticed an ant on the floor. The moment that ant felt the water on the floor, he ran straight to his tiny hole in the wall. Corrie writes, "Then it was as if the Lord said to me, ˜What about that ant? He didn't stop to look at the wet floor or his weak feethe went straight to his hiding place. Corrie don't look at your faith. It is weak . . . I am your hiding place, and you can come running to Me just like that ant disappeared into that hole in the wall.'" (5) Corrie found her hiding place ...

232. An Unlikely Witness

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... 7:36-50). Simon probably lived in Capernaum, which was not far from Magdala. While Jesus was visiting Simon's house, a woman who, Luke tells us, "had lived a sinful life" brought an alabaster jar of perfume, and as she stood at Jesus' feet weeping, began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she stooped down and wiped his feet with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them. Jesus said to this woman, "Your sins are forgiven." Was this woman Mary Magdalene? Many scholars believe it was. No one knows for ...

233. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To Make Sense Out Of My Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... wit, Cynthia Kraman asks, "What If the Hokey Pokey IS REALLY what it's all about? . . . I used to have a handle on life," she says, "but it broke . . . Don't take life too seriously," she continues, "you won't get out alive . . . We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse . . . Life's a rash," she concludes, "and then there's death and the itching's over." (1) After the feeding of the 5,000 the crowd wanted to crown Jesus king. They had never experienced anything like this before. They were in ...

234. Whatever It Takes

1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... and slowly learn how to swim and float and paddle around in the pool (or lake). That's the slow and easy way of learning how to swim. But there's another way to learn how to swim. You can just jump right into the water, get your whole body wet all at once, and start flopping and paddling around until you've learned how to swim. You know, there are two ways we can become followers of God, too. Some people just give God a little tiny bit of their hearts at a time. They say, "Okay, God, I'm ...

235. Building A Life

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

King Duncan

In a park on the beautiful island of Bermuda there is a rock hanging on a rope with a large sign beside it. The sign reads: “Weather Station . . . Check the Rock . . . If it's wet, it's raining . . . If it's moving, it's windy . . . If you can't see it, it's foggy . . . If the rock is gone, it's a hurricane." Today we check the Rock . . . or better yet, to use the language of our text from I Peter, the Stone--the Cornerstone ...

236. What Are You Tied To?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... successful families are connected to the church. Church is important, of course. Most successful families are quite active in church. A church in Kansas laid a cement sidewalk in front of its doors over twenty years ago. A mom asked if she could stand her baby on the wet cement. Her request was granted. And when people pass by that church today, they can still see two baby feet with the toes pointing toward the church. It's the story of a mom who wanted her child to start life in the right direction and be ...

237. How To Be Truly Wealthy

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... wash forks between the main course and dessert.” “You’re rich when your television set has all the knobs on it.” “You’re rich when you can throw away a pair of pantyhose just because it has a large hole in it.” “You’re rich when your dog is wet and it smells good.” (2) How about you? Are you rich? How would you even define the term? That’s not just an idle question. Money matters a great deal to most of us. Many of us base our self-worth and identity in that number on our paycheck. So ...

238. General Hospital

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... take years off their lives. Who could resist such a prospect? So, many wade into the water, cover themselves with mud and wait to see the years melt away. Jesus gave the blind man his sight and there should have been joy, but the Pharisees threw a wet blanket over everything. The healing had taken place on the Sabbath, the day of rest, and some of the Pharisees were bent out of shape because Jesus had "worked" on the Sabbath by making mud! I kid you not! The Pharisees decide that further investigation is ...

239. Ready For A Change

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... door. A salesman wanted to know if he needed any brushes. Slamming the door, the man returned to the bath. The doorbell rang again. On went the slippers and towels, and the man started for the door again. This time, however, he took one step, slipped on a wet spot, fell, and hit his back against the hard porcelain of the tub. The man struggled into his street clothes and, with every move a stab of pain, drove to the doctor. After examining him, the doctor said, "Nothing's broken. But you need to relax. Why ...

240. Any Friendly Bears Out There?

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... . "Then the impossible happened. One morning as Keller sat on a large rock overlooking his grazing sheep, he noticed, out of the corner of his eye, a black-and-white form coming up behind him. The man sat motionless, his hands braced behind his back. Suddenly he felt a cold, wet nose on his hand. "After a moment, Keller turned slightly. The dog stayed. The man put his hand on the dog's head. The hint of a wag stirred the end of the dog's tail. And at that moment the bond was sealed between man and dog. "The ...

241. Yes, But How?

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Jesus Christ. There comes a time when we must let go and let God. There comes a time when we have done all we can, and now we must trust Him to do the rest. Some people in a heavily loaded Cessna 206 tried to take off from a wet jungle airstrip. The pilot had done this many times and was certain they would clear the huge trees at the end of the short runway. He had the throttle full forward as they taxied down the strip. Apparently the passenger sitting next to him panicked. He saw the looming trees ...

242. The Longest Night

Psalm 143:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... to young Joshua. The people of Israel march by and tell Moses farewell. It is a moving scene. Soon Moses is left all alone. The people are singing in the background as they march forward to the future but Moses must stay behind. His face is wet with tears and he begins to slump to the ground. Suddenly the Lord appears from behind a rock wearing a tall black hat. He puts a hand on Moses' shoulder. Moses recognizes his touch immediately. His whole countenance begins to change. He straightens and throws back ...

243. After Katrina

Song of Songs 8:1-14

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . The dam had been poorly maintained, and every spring there was talk that the dam might not hold. But it always had, and the supposed threat became something of a standing joke around town - it was just crying "Wolf!" Then, just after 4:00 on a chilly, wet afternoon, a low rumble came that grew to a "roar like thunder." After a night of heavy rains, the South Fork Dam had finally broken, sending 20 million tons of water crashing down the narrow valley. Boiling with huge chunks of debris, the wall of flood ...

244. Things That Cannot be Taken Away

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... we shall understand fully, even as we have been fully understood." The poet says, "Sometimes, when all life''s lessons have been learned, And suns and stars forever have set, The things which our weak judgements here have spurned, The things for which we grieve with lashes wet; Will flash before us out of life''s dark night, As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue: And we shall see how all God''s plans were right, And what most seemed reproof was love most true." * LIFE IS TRANSIENT, OUR KNOWLEDGE IS ...

245. Let the Son Shine In

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... reasons, but they didn’t make a bad choice, symbolically. The fact of the matter is that we do not know just when Jesus was born. Some scholars suggest that it may have been April, because shepherds do not usually watch their flocks by night in the wet and cold of winter nights in Bethlehem. Others think that it may have been in the fall, after the farmers had finished with the fields and the shepherds could use them for grazing their sheep. But we simply do not know. In fact, the first Christians had ...

246. Whatever became of Kingdomtide?

John 16:17-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Him a favorite guest. Little children instinctively loved Him, and children do not ordinarily take to a grouch. Therefore I cannot for the life of me understand the gloomy picture that some people want to paint of our Lord, as the sort of person who would bring his wet blanket to every party. In one of his Chicago Poems Carl Sandburg said of Jesus: “(He) had a way of talking soft and outside of a few bankers and higher-ups among the con men of Jerusalem everybody liked to have this Jesus around because he ...

247. The Laying on of Hands

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... poignancy. These folks came with the tragic news that Jairus’ daughter was dead. “But Jesus ignored them” (v. 36) Mark says. I like that. There are some people whom it is best to ignore. The doomsayers, the folks who always say no, the people who bring their wet blankets to every party! What can you say after the experts have pronounced the patient dead? But to Jesus the report of such doomsayers was never the last word. He knew (as we who live on the other side of Easter are supposed to know) that ...

248. Childish or Child-like?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... world.” To which Groucho, always quick on the uptake replied, rather ungraciously, I think, “I want to thank you for taking so much out.” He was ungracious, but he had a point. A lot of religious folk seem bent on bringing their wet blankets to every party. Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), the American humorist who wrote thick dialect humor under the pseudonym of “Mr. Dooley” once said of Thanksgiving: “’Twas founded by th’ Puritans to give thanks f’r being presarved from th’ Indyans, an ...

249. Where Is My Guest Room?

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... has ever seen. But when she has left and Brian has returned, we see what it is really like for Mark. Brian has lost control of the ordinary functions of his body and says, “I’m disgusting.” “No, you’re not,” says Mark, “you’re just wet,” and Mark helps him out of sight into the bedroom, where he will change his clothes for him. Killinger says: “It is a moving experience to see something like that and to realize how the gentle people who change bedding and clean the incontinent folk and ...

250. Half-Time is Now Over

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... t budge. The coach looked back and called to him. Riegels didn’t move. Coach Price went over to where Riegels sat and said, "Roy, didn’t you hear me? The same team that played the first half will start the second." Roy Riegels looked up, his cheeks wet with tears. "Coach," he said, "I can’t do it. I’ve ruined you. I’ve ruined the university’s reputation. I’ve ruined myself. I can’t face that crowd out there." Coach Price reached out, put his hands on Riegels'' shoulder, and said, "Roy, get ...

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