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2476. Beneath The Cross

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to be part of it. On that first Palm Sunday expectations were running high. Something was about to happen. Everyone could feel it. And something did happen. FOR ONE THING, JESUS FULFILLED A PROPHECY. On the outskirts of Jerusalem, with the holy city looming clearly in their view, Jesus sent two of his disciples ahead to find a donkey and a colt. Jesus told them, "Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me." We are given ...

2477. Crossing The Desert Or Protecting Our Vehicle?

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... sharing his witness with the Athenians. He, above all people, knew the tragedy of an unfulfilling faith. In Christ he had found something infinitely better, something life-transforming, something real and satisfying and he wanted to share it. Standing among the inquiring Greeks Paul viewed his situation as an opportunity to tell the people about the One, true God, the God who created the heavens and the earth. FOR PAUL, SHARING HIS FAITH WAS THE MOST NATURAL THING IN THE WORLD. Many of us act as if it were ...

2478. For Laughing Out Loud!

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... the United States meeting interesting people. He told about an old man he met in Kansas. "We never caught his name," he wrote. The old man was a pilot. Charles and his crew were doing a story about an artist whose canvases were eighty-acre fields. The best way to view this unusual art work was from a plane. Kuralt and his photographer spotted an old J-2 Piper Cub parked in a barnyard. They asked the old farmer if he would fly them. "Sure, I'll take you up," the farmer replied. "We need to take the door off ...

2479. Building For Durability

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Timothy Wilkins

... foolish builder thought, "I ™ll save time, I ™ll save money and I ™ll save energy in putting it right here where the ground is already flat." There are some sharp differences between these two builders. One of the builders, the wise builder, had a long view. He was looking far enough ahead so as to prevent having to reconstruct his house. The other guy, the foolish builder, was spiritually confronted with two goods, the good for the moment and the good for the long run, and it was the long run that ...

2480. Waking To A World Upside Down

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... comes responsibility. Chuck Colson tells about a book titled The Criminal Personality, written by Stanton Samenow and Samuel Yochelson. In it the authors describe their careful study of 250 habitual criminals. When they began, Samenow and Yochelson held the conventional view that criminals are victims of abuse and deprivation. They were looking for the social, psychological, or economic factors that could be said to "cause" crime. To their surprise, they couldn’t find any. They did find one thing that ...

2481. Stepping Out In Faith

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... to rest for awhile and then continue up the mountain. Breathing heavily, they climbed slowly upward. Young hikers swung past them as if it were nothing. "Pausing frequently and praying silently," Myrtle said, "we reached the teahouse at last." The view from the top of the mountain was marvelous. Lakes, trees, rocks, waterfalls, and cloud-caressed mountaintops set their souls singing with praise and thanksgiving. Myrtle says, "There are many kinds of mountains we must climb during a lifetime. Our faith ...

2482. Are You Strong Enough To Forgive?

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... you sold me here for God sent me before you to preserve life." JOSEPH WAS ABLE TO FORGIVE HIS BROTHERS, FIRST OF ALL, BECAUSE HE TRUSTED GOD. He believed God was with him. Sometime back Jerry Levin was assigned as Middle East bureau chief for CNN. He viewed his assignment as a challenge and a new adventure. One day in 1983 Jerry felt a light tap on his shoulder. A short bearded man in his early twenties pushed a green handgun into his stomach. Jerry and his colleagues at CNN had talked about the possibility ...

2483. When Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Matthew 21:23-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... before. This time only twelve persons indicated that they would be willing to attend. Let's set our parable for the day in it's proper context. Tension was in the air the day Jesus entered the temple. Certain religious officials were plotting against him. They viewed him as a threat. Jesus' teachings ran counter to their tradition. They had to do something to silence him. They decided to try to try to incriminate him. They asked him a two-part question, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who ...

2484. Someone Is Calling In The Night

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... this, but God assured him he would not be alone. We need to understand that if God calls us and we respond, "Here I am," there might be changes in store for us, too. Peggy Terry was living in Montgomery, Alabama during the bus boycott of the 1960s. Viewing the turmoil firsthand absolutely changed her life. "It didn't leave you in the same comfortable spot you were in," she says. You had to be either for it or against it." She remembers seeing white men picking up black women and throwing them into the buses ...

2485. A Life Above All Others

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Greeks wanted to meet him. They knew from experience Jesus considered no one a nuisance. Certainly, Jesus would want to meet people who traveled such a great distance. Jesus, however, surprised them. He didn't say a word about going to meet these visitors. Instead, he viewed this incident as a sign. Jesus said to the two disciples, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified." We don't know whether Jesus ever met with the Greeks or not. Philip probably felt silly. He had left those visitors on ...

2486. Aren't You Glad?

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Anne-Rose Reeves

... . And what made some people in the congregation gasp with surprise was that the pastor had put a great big rubber apron over this white and gold brocade chasuble. The altar guild couldn't believe their eyes...the kids were all oohing and aahing as the lamb came into view, and many of the good parishioners of St. Michaels didn't know what to say or think, or whether they should even continue singing the hymn. Pastor Jones went up to the altar and said, "I know that this is a bit unusual, or maybe even a lot ...

2487. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... gingerly across the glassy rocks to a lookout point very near the falls from which they could see the water drop off. The footing was slippery, and the spray was cold, but they were closer to the waterfall than either of them had ever been before, and the view was fantastic. Mike wanted to go just one step farther onto a rock that was just a few feet nearer the rapids. But as he eased himself onto the wet rock, worn smooth from years of running water, his feet slipped and he tumbled into the foaming river ...

2488. Sleeping Through A Tornado

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... county. The next morning Bill's grandparents woke up to a beautiful sunny day; there wasn't a cloud to be seen anywhere. But as they looked out on the fine day they were surprised to see trees lying everywhere. Going outside to get a better view, they were astonished at how close the path of destruction had come to their house. Their garage was gone ” there was no sign of it anywhere. However, their old Chevy was still there, without a scratch on it. Later that day a neighbor brought them their mailbox ...

2489. Once In A Lifetime

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... fifty three! Among the garbage there were buoys, light bulbs, shoes, toys, cans and miscellaneous bits of plastic. After the buoys, the largest class of junk was 171 glass bottles from 15 countries. And over a third of them were whiskey bottles. (2) In order to view the wonders of the undersea world that no-one else had ever seen, Admiral R. J. Galanson, chief of U.S. Naval Materials, peered through the portholes of a U.S. Navy deep-submersible craft nearly half a mile below the surface of the Pacific. The ...

2490. Freed From Fear

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... been working overtime - there was no real danger, but they they thought there was, and they experienced a gut-wrenching fear. Someone has turned the word fear into an acronym. Fear, they say, is False Evidence Appearing Real. When we fear, we have a false view of reality. Fear makes us give up before we even begin. It causes us to take an alternate route rather than the road that leads to our destination. It makes us see obstacles rather than opportunities. Some of you may remember the hysteria that swept ...

2491. Battle With The Law

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

King Duncan

... ice cream treat known as a sundae got its name? The year was 1875, and the ice cream soda was about a year old and fast gaining in popularity. However, in Evanston, Illinois, the elders of the Methodist church were taking a very dim view of this ice cream treat. Some of these church leaders believed that "soda water," or carbonated water, was a "mite intoxicating." Community leaders were pressured into making a law that forbade the selling and serving of ice cream sodas on Sundays ” on the premise that ...

2492. Whoever Would Have Thought?

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... give up some seed will sprout. Just when we think nothing will happen, growth will take place. We need to be patient and not give up, because sometimes growth takes longer than we expect. God works in ways we don't understand, often hidden from view. And we have to be patient. Clarence and his wife adopted a daughter whom they were told had emotional problems. The administrator at the orphanage told Clarence frankly that the child would be better off staying there. But Clarence and his wife said faith and ...

2493. How Do You Know?

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... occasion. Not everyone who says to him, "Lord. Lord. . ." will be among the elect. IF someone is in Christ. . . Do you remember some years back when a study was made of the attitudes of Americans? The study showed very little difference between the views of the average churchgoer and the average non-goer. But among those who were very active in their churches, the differences were major. The inner core of Christians were found to be much more compassionate, much more giving ” more Christ-like, if you will ...

2494. All You Need Is A Miracle

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." (5) The feeding of the five thousand was an important incident in the life of the church. Each of the gospels mentions the event at least once. When the early church was struggling, they remembered fondly the time when Jesus fed the crowd. They viewed themselves as ones who were taking their small beginnings, their few loaves, and distributing them to the entire world, offering hope to the hopeless, and performing a great miracle of faith. Miracles are possible. They occur every day. But we must give of ...

2495. Sons And Daughters Of Thunder

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... around their attempts to jack their own chair to a higher position. They work wildly to outdo one another. Finally they move off the top of the screen altogether. (2) James and John envisioned themselves at Jesus' right and left side in the coming kingdom. They viewed themselves as VIPs, perhaps one as Secretary of State and the other as Secretary of Defense. They longed to have positions of power and prestige. "You do not know what you are asking," Jesus said. "Are you able to drink the cup that I drink ...

2496. What Is True And Who Can You Trust?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... could ask politicians to chew on rice before debating. It is so hard to know what is true. YET TRUTH IS ESSENTIAL TO LIFE. Can a marriage survive where there is no trust? Can a society survive without integrity? When the blue light shines in our rear view mirror, it gives us anxiety. But imagine a world in which we could no longer trust our officers with the enormous power they wield. Think of the terror if the police were another set of thugs. The pharmacist mixes the drugs upon which our very survival may ...

2497. Will This Be On The Test?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... alone. There is no other. God is the one and only. We are to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, which we define the place of all our emotions ” the very depth of them being love. We are to love the Lord with our souls ” which we view as our very being, the existence that makes us tick, our life's breath. We are to love the Lord with all our might, and that means with force and strength, or with all of our energy. In the gospel of Mark the words by Jesus also include loving God ...

2498. Jesus Goes To School

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... their guide, they saw by the light of their lanterns the geological wonders of the stalactites and stalagmites in a nearby cave. Then, as they turned a corner, a wall covered with the engravings made by other groups of campers years earlier came into view. To his great delight the college president discovered his father's initials scrawled on the wall. That deeply moving experience later became symbolic. Many college students would hear him say that college could give them a light and put a lantern in their ...

2499. A Great And Wonderful New Year

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... end of a long passageway. Carter drilled a small hole in the door and stuck an iron-testing rod into a dark, blank space. He then inserted a candle into the hole and peered in. As his eyes grew accustomed to the light, details emerged into his view, and he saw strange animals, statues, and everywhere the glint of gold. He wrote of that moment, "For the moment, I was struck dumb with amazement." A partner asked, "Can you see anything?" And Carter's reply was, "Yes, wonderful things." (2) St. Paul gives us ...

2500. About Miracles

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... harassing the local pastor. His one delight in life seemed to be making the pastor appear inadequate intellectually. The pastor bore these challenges to his theology and faith with great restraint. One day the skeptic was heckling the pastor about his views on miracles. "Give me one concrete example of a miracle," the skeptic taunted. "One concrete example." Whereupon the pastor hauled off and kicked the skeptic furiously on the shin. The skeptic couldn't believe it! The pastor asked, "Did you feel ...

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