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2551. Money Matters

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... coming kingdom. There is little question about that. He is a sincere young man. Jesus admonished him about using that term "Good" too easily. But then he says to him, "You know the commandments, 'Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honor thy father and mother . . .'" And you remember the young man answers the Master, "I have observed these all the way from my youth." And the Scripture says that "Jesus looked upon him and loved him." He was a fine young ...

2552. He Calms The Storms

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... the tragedy much better than those without strong faith. Why? Because faith in God helps determine what is happening in us while the storms are happening to us. Do you know how that truth became real to J.C. Penny, the founder of the retail chain that bears his name? In his autobiography, Fifty Years With the Golden Rule, he talks about being in a sanitarium one night when he thought he was dying. He wrote several letters and went to bed, fairly certain that he would not be alive the following morning. But ...

2553. To Whom Shall We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... is infinitely easier to ask questions than it is to answer them, and to pull things down than it is to build them up. This is one of the earliest lessons that we must learn, and we should never forget it. This rule applies to each aspect of life, but bears a special force on the highest questions that engage the mind. For example, isn't it easier to waste money than to earn it? Is it not easier to spoil a picture than to paint one? You can pluck a flower from its stem, but can you put it back ...

2554. A Word For Christian Fathers

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

You are familiar with the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy's marriage was a saga of bitterness. His wife carped and complained and clung to her grudges until he could not bear the sight of her. When they had been married almost a half a century, sometimes she would implore him to read to her the exquisite, poignant love passages that he had written about her in his diary forty-eight years previously, when they were both madly in love with each ...

2555. The Coming Of The Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the dealer to find out. Because the man was an important customer, the dealer sent a long cable to the Rolls Royce works in Derby, England, setting out the exact specifications of the engine, asking them to cable immediately the exact horsepower. Shortly the reply arrived, bearing one word: Adequate. (1) Some of you have come to the end of your rope with very little strength to carry on and have found God's strength was adequate for whatever need you had at that time. As St. Paul writes to the Philippians ...

2556. Playing Church Or Playing Jesus

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... discovered that the secret was a carefully constructed shaft which they dug downward into the earth sometimes as far as sixty feet to a perennial stream that no drought touches. Each night the whole busy little population hurried up and down that shaft, time after time, bearing life sustaining moisture to the surface. That is an appropriate analogy to who we are as the body of Christ. Our roots go deep. We are the temple of the living God. His Spirit dwells within us. It is from Him that we draw our life ...

2557. God Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to one brother who looked more accessible than the rest and said to him, "I'm sorry to say this, but this isn't a very warm church. What is it that you folks believe in?" The man replied grimly, "Oh, we believe in simply doing our duty and bearing our crosses until Christ returns." The salesman looked at the man's sour face and said, "Buddy, let me tell you one thing, if he's ever visited this church, he ain't ever coming back!" That salesman was a little unkind. Nevertheless, there ought to be more joy ...

2558. A Lightning Rod Instead of a Cross

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... the new bearers of the ancient flame. That is who we are today. We are not alone. God is with us. He has not left us comfortless, or powerless or without purpose. A mighty wind has roared. Tongues of fire have been kindled on the altar of God. We bear that flame in our hearts. What are the characteristics of a church that is filled with the Holy Spirit? It has nothing to do with jumping over pews and shouting and crying and dancing in the aisles if that is your image of a spirit-filled church [though there ...

2559. The Other Woman

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... in hostility toward all their brothers . . ." Hmm. Could it be that we are still paying for a father's mistreatment of his son 2500 years ago? Could we be paying for Abraham's and Sarah's unwillingness to trust God when they used a surrogate mother to bear a son because Sarah was still barren? Why are these old, old stories from the Bible important to us? Because they are still being lived out today. Problems of trust. Times of stress within families. Sins of the father visited on the children. And one hope ...

2560. Clearing Back The Jungle

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... grieves the heart of God! Just as importantly, there is something within us that keeps us from achieving our own dreams--something that causes us to grieve even our own hearts. A down-and-out derelict stood on a street comer one day and watched a big limousine bearing a boyhood friend drive by. With a philosophical shrug he sighed: "Ah, there but for me, go I." Or in the words of that immortal philosopher, Pogo, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." How do we deal with the jungle that would strangle our ...

2561. The Dynamic Law Of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christian faith is the law of love. He writes: Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. The dynamic ...

2562. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... be set on edge." (RSV) Mark this down. Inscribe it upon your heart: God does not punish children for the sins of their parents. Sometimes children do suffer because of their parents. Someone here this morning may have had an abusive parent. You bear emotional scars from that experience. Television brings into our homes the horror of babies addicted to cocaine because their mothers were addicted as they carried them in their womb. That happens. Those are not acts of God, however, but of people. There are ...

2563. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... way of communicating his love all the way from the North Pole. The symbol of the Holy Spirit is not a homing pigeon, but a dove. Still, the story fits. Christ could not remain with us in person, so he sent a dove into our hearts to bear witness to his love. Under such circumstances, who could be comfortless? "I will not leave you desolate," he says, "I will come to you." How? In love, truth, and the indwelling presence of his Spirit. 1. Dom Deluise in Laughing Matters. 2. The Interpreter's Bible (Nashville ...

2564. First Things First

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

It is an old story, but it bears retelling. A young stockbroker was opening his car when a large truck rumbled by. Before he realized what was happening the truck ripped the door right off. “My Lexus,” he screamed, “my beautiful new Lexus.” A policeman who came on the scene chided the young stockbroker on being so wrapped ...

2565. Why Shepherds?

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... out back with cows and perhaps sheep, if the shepherds couldn’t leave them alone on the hillside. Finding no other place to lay their child, the humble couple uses the crib out of which the cows fed. Matthew’s story may be of wise men bearing gold, frankincense and myrrh, but Luke’s telling the same story is about mud, manure and social rejects. And that is Christmas. It’s about people who are on the outside looking in. In fact, this is how Jesus summed up his own ministry: “The blind receive ...

2566. MONEY MATTERS

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... coming kingdom. There is little question about that. He is a sincere young man. Jesus admonished him about using that term "Good" too easily. But then he says to him, "You know the commandments, `Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honor thy father and mother....''" And you remember the young man answers the Master, "I have observed these all the way from my youth." And the Scripture says that "Jesus looked upon him and loved him." He was a fine young ...

2567. The Stewardship of Time

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... . An unknown writer suggests we can use time to think, work, play, read, love and be loved, to laugh, to give, to pray and to worship. Each day we should seek to do good to at least one person and to enjoy the beauty of the created world and to bear witness to our faith. Our best use of time is to help others to know the saving love of Christ. One other truth can help us be better stewards. TIME IS BUT A PRELUDE TO ETERNITY. The WALL STREET JOURNAL had a column recently on how we waste much of ...

2568. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... the consequences for what he had done. It was in that same period of time that another renowned basketball player and athlete who had retired from the game boasted that he had slept with 20,000 women. The passage before us this evening has direct bearing on these two incidents as well as other events happening in our world today. Paul, under arrest, had been brought before Felix, the Roman governor, and his wife Drusilla. They wanted to hear more about the gospel and about Christianity. But it was only on ...

2569. The Death of a Child

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... lost three children: one at eighteen days, after surgery; another at five years, with leukemia; the third at eighteen years, after a sledding accident complicated by mild hemophilia. Joe said, "Of all deaths, that of a child is most unnatural and hardest to bear." He did not underestimate the grief of parents. He added, "When a child dies, part of the parents is buried." (1) Such tragedies occur in presidential mansions as well as in average homes like ours. The former president of France, Charles de Gaulle ...

2570. Things That Cannot be Taken Away

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... house was on fire. The father ran into the children''s room and carried the eighteen-month old baby out in his arms, dragging his four-year-old in tow by the hand. They were halfway down the stairs when the little boy realized that he had left his teddy bear in his room. He broke away from his father to run back to get it. In the furor and confusion, Dad didn't notice that his son wasn't with him until he got outside. By now the boy was trapped by the fire and smoke in his second-floor ...

2571. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... responses to Jesus? The Samaritan woman with her cry, “Could this be the Christ?” appears to share some affinity with the Baptist. Both exalt or lift up Jesus, and are instrumental in the bride discovering the groom. Nicodemus, however, bears all the marks of one of the Baptist’s turf-protecting disciples. Everything about Jesus speaks salvation, but at what cost to his religious territory? One portrays self-abandon. The other demonstrates self-protection. One finds salvation. The other will ...

2572. THE SAVIOR HAS COME?

Drama

Angela Akers

... from Jehovah." Nathan: "You are speaking blasphemy now, and I won''t listen any longer." (Nathan starts to get up, but Simeon grabs hold of his arm.) Simeon: "You must listen, Nathan, for I am telling you the truth of the Lord. The angel . . . I almost can''t bear to say it. It is too much. The angel told us that the Lord had been born that day as a little child in Bethlehem. The angel said that this child was the Savior. And the angel told us how to find the child." Nathan: "You can''t be ...

2573. To Who Can We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... 1964-65, a memo was sent out to pastors of local churches indicating the kind of message they wished to proclaim. It went something like this: “Stress the positive, the upbeat; tell people what religion can do for them. Messages about sacrifice, suffering, and cross-bearing are out of place in our pavilion.” If Jesus had listened to those words, He would have saved Himself a heap of trouble! He would never have had to go to Calvary. God’s grace is free, of course, but Christian discipleship is costly ...

2574. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the demonic forces which so often hold our world in slavery have already been defeated in principle through Jesus Christ. When we forget that fact, it then becomes easy for us to succumb to the devil’s lies and the devil’s methods. It seems that our era bears a striking resemblance to the first century in this regard. In Jesus’ day it was easy for people to see the devil’s hand in the daily frustrations of life and the tragic persistence of evil. It seems that way to us, as well. One cannot turn on ...

2575. Doors Are for Entering

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the rough and tumble of 45 years in the Christian ministry, but the one outstanding thing he learned was this: “Life will only work out one way, and that is God’s way. (God) made it like that. Every other way has across it a barricade bearing a notice which says No thoroughfare this way.’ If you surmount the barrier, there is a precipice. (We) will not learn the truth of a half dozen words: OUTSIDE GOD THERE IS ONLY DEATH!’ “ (Key Next Door, New York and Nashville: The Abingdon Press, 1941, pp ...

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Showing 2551 to 2575 of 4681 results

2551. Money Matters

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

2552. He Calms The Storms

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

2553. To Whom Shall We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

2554. A Word For Christian Fathers

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

2555. The Coming Of The Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

2556. Playing Church Or Playing Jesus

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

King Duncan

2557. God Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

2558. A Lightning Rod Instead of a Cross

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

2559. The Other Woman

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

King Duncan

2560. Clearing Back The Jungle

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

2561. The Dynamic Law Of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

2562. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

2563. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

2564. First Things First

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

2565. Why Shepherds?

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

King Duncan

2566. MONEY MATTERS

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... coming kingdom. There is little question about that. He is a sincere young man. Jesus admonished him about using that term "Good" too easily. But then he says to him, "You know the commandments, `Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honor thy father and mother....''" And you remember the young man answers the Master, "I have observed these all the way from my youth." And the Scripture says that "Jesus looked upon him and loved him." He was a fine young ...

2567. The Stewardship of Time

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

2568. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

2569. The Death of a Child

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Edward Inabinet