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2551. Missing The Real Miracle

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... of devotion and sacrifice foreign to most of us. They spent time in prayer and worship, they gave sacrificially of their possessions. Their commitment would put us to shame. They wanted salvation. They just wanted be able to buy it off the supermarket shelves. They viewed religion as a commodity to be obtained--not a life to be lived. A cartoon in Leadership magazine shows a man shaking his pastor's hand at the end of the service. The man is remarking to the perplexed pastor, "I realize salvation is free ...

2552. Do You Know This Man?

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sunday." Brian pulled Stanley through a hole in the wall. Both men made it out safely. (7) These two men paint us a different picture than we might expect of two highly paid men in New York City's financial district. You may not have the same theological views as Stanley Praimnath, but is there anyone who doubts that he is a man who truly knows God through Jesus Christ? He understands what abundant life is. He has taken Jesus into his life, and has been changed from the inside out. And because he knows the ...

2553. Flesh-eaters; Blood Drinkers

John 6:51-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... joy. We should gather around the Eucharist table and yell, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3: 16) And then we should dance for joy. If you only view the Lord's Supper in terms of Jesus' suffering and death, then you are missing its full meaning. Jesus promised eternal life to those who take his life into theirs. He wanted us to remember him with joy. And secondly, we come to the table with an ...

2554. The Perfect Antidote For Worry

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... Father. In Matthew 6:8 of this passage, Jesus reminds his listeners to pray sincerely because, "your Father knows what you need before you ask Him." Author G. K. Chesterton claims that you can learn all the most vital information about person's basic world view and approach to life by asking them this question: "Do you think the universe is friendly?" Chesterton used the word "universe," but really he is asking the question, "Do you think there is a God? And if there is a God, does God really care about ...

2555. God, The Promise Keeper

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... were many religious people who denounced them as agents of the devil. You and I can see today that surely God has been at work in our country making us the kind of society we should be, but often we only recognize the hand of God in the rear view mirror. Here's another example. Have you noticed lately that in most major cities our air is cleaner than it used to be? Have you noticed that our lakes and rivers are cleaner? Some bodies of water that seemed almost irredeemable a few decades ago are now full of ...

2556. Two Women Of Faith

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... around the miracle of Christ's birth. That's a painful feeling. That's how Mary Ann O'Roark was feeling one year. She faced the joy of Christmas with a heart full of disappointment and cynicism. She found a few minutes of peace by stopping to view a nativity scene on the front steps of a local church. But the peace was soon interrupted by a homeless woman nearby who was screaming and cursing. Once again, Mary Ann's Christmas spirit disappeared. A few days later, Mary Ann was passing by this same church ...

2557. A Picture Of A King

Psalm 72:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... builder had the last laugh, though, of course, neither he nor the king lived to see it. Power is a subjective thing, isn't it? Like beauty, power is in the eye of the beholder. You can learn a lot about a people by knowing how they view power. What represents power in our culture? Is it physical strength, is it wisdom, is it a beautiful appearance, is it money, is it titles, is it intelligence, is it family ties? What is the difference between power and control? What are legitimate and illegitimate uses of ...

2558. What Love Looks Like

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... of dirty feet on it. Then we would know what love is. People who are doing marketing for diamonds might think about showing story lines of husbands and wives washing one another's feet. That would actually depict love in action. We have such an odd view of what love is that we're confused whenever we're confronted with the real thing. What does it mean that Jesus washed his disciples' feet? Only the purest love can humble itself to that extent, and that kind of love can only come through Jesus' Spirit ...

2559. It's Not About Us

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

In his book Rewriting the Family Script, Roger Hillerstrom notes that young children are egocentric. This means that their view of the world is so small that they think they are the center of things. Hillerstrom says that as a child he and his family took a drive one evening. He remembers assuming that, as they traveled, the moon followed them home and then stayed there all night hovering over ...

2560. The Forward Look

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... are not able to enjoy the present or prepare for tomorrow because they are still living in the past. Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe has put it like this: "Do not say, "˜Why were the former days better than these?' You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you down. We must learn from the past but not live in the past." Or as Thomas Holdcroft once put it, "The past is a guide post, not a hitching post." Noted preacher John Claypool ...

2561. Maturity In Christ

Colossians 1:27-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... . You and I look back and see him as a leader of the church. After all, he was the great apostle to the Gentiles. Without St. Paul, Christianity might have remained primarily a Jewish sect. He was one of the great religious leaders of all time, but he viewed himself as a servant. The best leaders are always of that mind-set, whether it is in church or business or politics. To paraphrase Jesus' words, we are not here to be served, but to serve. Maturity in Christ means moving from self to service. It also ...

2562. Who Should I Invite To My Party?

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Strauss marched into the office of RCA's CEO and announced that the machine they had given him chewed up tape and turned it into spaghetti. Strauss said, "The product doesn't work. We can't advertise it." The RCA CEO replied curtly, "If that's your point of view, we'll give some other agency the entire RCA account." The CEO's threat didn't faze Strauss. He turned to walk out the door. "Wait a minute," shouted the RCA chief. "If you feel so strongly you're willing to sacrifice the whole account, it must be a ...

2563. You Will Not Leave My Soul In Hell

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... truth dawned on them, they became listless and stopped singing. The quality of their work suffered. Commenting on this, the author said, "The roads to nowhere are difficult to make. For a person to work well and sing, there must be an end in view." (4) Victor Frankl discovered in the Nazi concentration camps that those who survived and even thrived by prison standards were the ones who clung to finishing a book, returning to their children, or to helping others bear their suffering. They had something to ...

2564. On Names That Preach

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... Never was this truth more eloquently expressed than in John's gospel. John begins his gospel saying that "In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God." Note. With God. Not with us. But the transition, the condescension, the incarnation, is in view by verse 14: "The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. " Emmanuel. God with us. It all started with Isaiah's message from God. Our acquaintance ...

2565. Frustrated By Their Lack Of Faith

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... Gallup had taken a poll back then, it would have shown that a fairly sizeable number of the early fathers and mothers thought it would be suicide to defy the British empire. The faith of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and others is even more thrilling when viewed in that light. Then there was Francis Scott Key detained aboard a British ship while the bombardment of Fort Henry took place. All night long the British ships' guns pounded the shoreline. But morning broke and Key saw "by dawn's early light the ...

2566. To Whom Shall We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... you give up on God? Let's examine the alternatives. Sometimes a course may appear to be ready-made to our hands, to be simple and self-justifying. Yet when we ask about the results of that course of action, or the alternatives, we may get a new and better view of the situation. So let's look at some of the options. How about atheism? Is it really a viable option in this world? If you can put away the mystery of God, you get the greater mystery of godlessness in return. Your account of creation can then be ...

2567. Bearing Fruit

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... at the same time and in the same yard. The atheist was a very intellectual person, and a skilled debater. He had been promised all sorts of favors if he could just make Niemoller lose his faith. Each of the two men enjoyed presenting his own point of view, and they talked together for four days. On the fifth day, the atheist begged Niemoller to lend him his Bible, a book that had assumed a new meaning to him. The very same day the atheist was moved to another cell. Bearing fruit is essential to Christian ...

2568. A Date With Destiny

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the cross where he would be crucified. He rode on because he knew that his life and his death would make a difference. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, when he was in a Nazi prison and was destined to be hanged on year later, made this statement, "In view of our supreme purpose, the present difficulties and disappointments seem trivial." Jesus had that supreme purpose, that certain sense of destiny, that conviction that his life did matter. On this day when we celebrate his entry into Jerusalem, it is vital for each of ...

2569. Bearing The Right Fruit

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the midst of the Israelites; now it was at their head. The ark had always gone with the people, but now the people were to go with the ark. God had commanded them not to move towards the Promised Land until they saw the ark. As it came into view they were to follow it; and it was to be kept in sight all the time. When the priests, carrying the ark, stepped into the swollen river, the waters halted and rose in a heap. And while the priests, still carrying the ark, stood in the middle, the entire nation ...

2570. A Word For Christian Fathers

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... men, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of my parents." The truth of the matter is that all of us stand on the shoulders of our parents. May I take the analogy one step further--the straighter and taller and truer that our parents stood, the better view of life we have. There was an awful ruckus in a neighborhood in Scotland. A father was so upset that his boys had been involved that he ran out of the front door of his house, with one of those old blunderbuss guns, to get the ones who led his ...

2571. The Coming Of The Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... about strength just to hang on. We are talking about strength to go out and fight the devil as it were. Remember when Jesus told Simon Peter that he was building his church "on this rock and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." For years I viewed the church as a kind of fortress with the world and the devil beating against its gate. What a twisted image that was. Jesus is saying here that hell is the fortress and the church of Jesus Christ is the one with the battering ram, and the gates of ...

2572. Three Promises

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... juvenile and so cruel, but that's a side of human nature many of us would like to ignore. If you look to human beings to provide ultimate solutions to human problems, you are going to be sorely disappointed. If there is no vertical dimension to your world view, you cannot help but be a pessimist. But if you believe Christ is alive and at work in the world--if you believe that Christ has power over life and death and over every demon that vexes the human spirit--then you can go out into the world confidently ...

2573. Excited, Motivated, Changed!

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... That first Pentecost, there was a great enthusiasm. There was excitement. IT WAS THE KIND OF EXCITEMENT THAT CHANGES LIVES. Sometimes we get excited, enthusiastic, revved up and nothing happens except we feel good. This is one reason the church has always viewed with suspicion excessive enthusiasm. There is always the danger of putting our emphasis on the experience, the good feeling, the EXCITEMENT of the Spirit and neglecting the FRUITS of the Spirit. Enthusiasm that does not lead to a more godly life is ...

2574. Hey, Gang, We're Moving!

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... the self-sufficient person who has made life comfortable, who is adjusting well to the world and likes living here, who longs only to be a little better"”and a little better off"”than he already is." (3) This idea clashes with the American Christian view that security and comfort are blessings from God. Maybe security and comfort are masking our spiritual deadness. God's calling takes us out of our comfort zone in order to build our character. There was an item in Men's Health magazine sometime back. It ...

2575. Sarah Laughed

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

In a time when many couples are choosing not to have children, we simply cannot appreciate the humiliation that Sarah felt at being barren. Her condition was not looked upon as a gynecological problem in that pre-scientific time. Her condition was viewed as a sign that she was out of favor with God. Sarah was an embarrassment to her husband, Abraham. She had failed in her primary function as a wife--to bear him an heir. There were surely nights when she cried herself to sleep. "What is the matter with me ...

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