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John 13:1-17

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to do something unimaginable. He was asking them to use the servants' entrance. Not the way of power and might but the way of piety, charity and humility. One of the things that we must constantly remind ourselves is that these twelve disciples were not perfect. As Jesus gathers them in the Upper Room, we must get out of our heads those pictures of the Last Supper--where all the disciples have halos and angelic faces. As we know from other gospel accounts, the disciples came into this setting with frowns ...

2602. Fishing Stories

John 21:1-14

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... you like them? What kind of magnets do you have on your refrigerator? Have you ever wondered why magnets stick to your refrigerator? Magnets will stick to anything that has iron or steel in it. Your refrigerator door probably has iron or steel in it, so it's a perfect place to stick magnets. The strange thing about magnets is that they need to stick to something with iron or steel in it. If they don't have anything to stick to, they start to lose their power. If you took a magnet and put it away somewhere ...

2603. Straight Backs And Rekindled Dreams

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... the prison mortuary and hide in the coffin with the dead body. He would take the coffin out the next morning and bury it in a shallow grave. When no one was looking, he would slip back out and dig up the woman and release her. The perfect escape. Everything went as planned. On the night the woman heard the death bell, she slipped down to the mortuary and hid in the waiting coffin with the dead body. The coffin was transported outside the prison walls and buried. The woman waited hopefully, anxiously, but no ...

2604. Two Promises For A New Year

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... , as his son cringed in embarrassment. “It's a talking metronome," he insisted. “Look, I'll show you." He took the box and flipped a switch, realizing that he had no idea how it worked. “One . . . two . . . three . . . four," said the metronome in perfect time. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. As they gathered their belongings, Tom's son whispered, “Aren't you glad it didn't go 'four . . . three . . . two . . . one . . . '?" (1) For the past few weeks we have been counting down the days until ...

2605. Passing The Test!

Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7, Matthew 4:1-11

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... . Whenever we're tempted to do stuff that we know is wrong, it's kind of like we're being tested. Will we do the right thing, or will we do the wrong thing? Well, Jesus did the right thing. He didn't listen to Satan. He passed the test perfectly. A+! Because Jesus knew that it's never good to give in to temptation. You know, sometimes we might feel we're being tempted to do the wrong thing. We might want to hit our sister when we're mad at her. We might want to take something, like a ...

2606. The Secret Of A Great New Year

Luke 3:1-20, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... can rely on--they have only themselves. Film Producer Sherry Lansing, chairman of Paramount Pictures, tells what a great role model her mother was. Her mother escaped from Nazi Germany when she was 17 and came to this country. She sold dresses and learned to speak perfect English. When Sherry's father died of a heart attack, she saw her mother cry and mourn, and then take over his real estate business. Sherry remembers one of her mother's office managers saying, “You can't do this. You don't know anything ...

2607. Smart As A Goat

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the signs? For one thing, your spiritual gift will be something that stimulates and fulfills you. When you perform that certain task, whether helping others, giving generously, or interpreting the Bible, you will feel like you are “in flow," like you've just found the perfect fit for a puzzle piece. God doesn't call us to a ministry without first equipping us for it. You are part of the grand human puzzle that makes up the body of Christ. Without your special gifts, the puzzle is incomplete. Even when we ...

2608. Finding The Right People

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... looking to hire someone to work for you, where would you begin? Wouldn't you begin with someone you could trust? Jesus saw something in these men that helped him to know that he could depend on them. This is not to say that the disciples were perfect. Certainly they were not. There is a silly story about Jesus having his Last Supper with his disciples. As they ate, he looked around at them. There, in one direction, he saw Judas Iscariot, who would betray him to the authorities before three hours had passed ...

2609. Beaten Up, But Still Standing

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... out of love, but out of a calculated self-interest. "œI'm going to become a Christian," we would say, "œso that God will take care of me and my family." Becoming a Christian would be the same as signing up with an HMO--except we would have a perfect physician. But then we would also have no freedom to believe or disbelieve. We would be enslaved because of our fear of pain and death. And that is clearly not what God had in mind. Life happens. When it comes to many of life's vicissitudes, we are vulnerable ...

2610. Trouble Brewing In The Kitchen

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Graham M. Bingham

... think of Martha you think of WORK. It reminds us that there needs to be a balance in our lives between our WORSHIP and our WORK. Do you have a place for WORSHIP in your life? Do you have a place for WORK in your life? Charles Wesley said it perfectly in one of his hymns: I still would choose the better part; Serve with careful Martha's hands, And loving Mary's heart. We have looked at the SISTERS IN THE HOME, now notice THE SCENE IN THE HOME. Try to picture the scene. Mary is sitting at the feet ...

2611. A Great Love Story Gone Awry

Genesis 24:1-67

Sermon

King Duncan

... . This Hebrew maiden was passing the test with flying colors. Think about this simple test for a moment. It’s a pretty good test of character. Rebekah showed compassion for the servant and for his animal as well. The servant believed he had found the perfect bride for Isaac. He asked her, “Whose daughter are you?” And much to his delight he discovered she was from exactly the right family. Now listen to these interesting words. They are the words of the servant: “Then I put the ring in her nose ...

2612. Clean Hands and Dirty Hearts

Matthew 15:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... pay you $10.00." Ten dollars was a fortune to a young boy back then, so Lee set about his task with vigor. He collected as many different leaves as he could find. But when he laid all the leaves before Jim, Lee realized that none of them were a perfect match. As he pondered the unique nature of each leaf, Lee understood that the same lesson could be applied to human beings too. At a young age, he learned to see the unique quality of every person he met. (4) This is Christ's will for us. Let's not ...

2613. God Is Not Fair (Grumbling in the Vineyard)

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... stairs gave way and the roof fell in. The man had waited too long and was buried beneath the ruins. (3) So it is with those who depend on their own righteousness, or even God's justice. God is not just; God is generous. Come to Him now. You are perfect in God's eyes just as you are because of what Christ has done in your behalf. Come to Christ. His arms are open for you today. 1. Chuck Cavalaris. "Key Waits Out Hole-In-One Competition," The Knoxville News-Sentinel (July 2, 1990), Section C, p. 1, 4. 2 ...

2614. So, You Want To Know About Love?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... , I think of Jackie's scars." (9) There is another person whose body bears scars because of his love. It is Jesus Christ. Love was the whole reason he came. It is the legacy he commanded us to share with the world. He gave us the perfect example of love himself. CHRIST-LIKE LOVE IS SECURE, IT IS SUPPORTIVE, IT IS SACRIFICIAL. Mother Teresa was in Russia ministering to the survivors of a terrible earthquake. A mother and her infant had been pulled alive from the rubble after eleven days. When Mother Teresa ...

2615. On "supersizing" Our Vision

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... praised the woman for her small, but heartfelt gift. The King James Bible calls it "widow's mite." Writer Angela Akers tells of traveling on American Airlines. Out of sheer boredom, she began flipping through the airplane shopping catalogue. These catalogues are perfect for bored passenger with too much money on their hands. They are filled with expensive doodads. Among the jewelry items, there was a necklace that caught Ms. Akers' eye. It was labeled "The Widow's Mite Necklace." No, they weren't kidding ...

2616. Held Hostage

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... a forgotten passageway where you could escape? History is full of exciting stories of people who have been held hostage especially during times of war, and the heroic steps they took to survive. During the Vietnam War, American prisoners-of-war perfected ingenious methods for communicating with one another even under some of the most barbaric conditions. They created an intricate system of sounds that represented various letters of the alphabet. This alphabet could be tapped out on the walls of prison cells ...

2617. Look Who's Giving Thanks!

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

For the past twenty years or so, a team of nutritionists and home economists on Butterball Turkey's Turkey Talk-Line have answered every conceivable question about how to cook a holiday turkey to perfection. One woman called to find out how long it would take to roast her turkey. To answer the question, the Talk-Line home economist asked how much the bird weighed. The woman responded, “I don't know, it's still running around outside." Leadership magazine had a story sometime back ...

2618. The Difference Between God And Santa

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... . She would put little Christie and Greg on the kitchen floor, then put her false teeth down in front of them. Grandmother would warn them not to move, or the false teeth might bite them. Christie reports that she and her brother always stayed perfectly still until their grandmother came back and retrieved her teeth. (2) We can appreciate that grandmother's concern. Taking care of kids is a demanding task. I suspect that every parent dreams of a harmless weapon that they can use to enforce discipline. MY ...

2619. The Ultimate Solution For Sin

Mark 9:38-50

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... it back in and listen some more. There, that's better. Oh, I love this part! Listen really carefully. (Volunteer pulls plug again) What in the world is happening to my music? Oh, the tape player is unplugged again. Boy, that's frustrating! This tape player is in perfect condition, it's all ready to play beautiful music, but if it's unplugged from the wall, it just won't play. That's because all the power for the tape player comes from the power source in the wall. Without its main source of power, the tape ...

2620. It's A Terrible Thing To Be Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... in our eyes." Jesus was quoting Psalm 118: 22-23. He was applying it to his own life. People in his own community dismissed his preaching. People of his own faith labeled him a blasphemer. And the eventual price for his rejection was the cross. The perfect Lamb of God rejected by his own people. The gentle carpenter from Nazareth crucified between two thieves. Some of you know what it is to be rejected. You have been rejected by someone you loved. You have been rejected in school or in the workplace. Some ...

2621. Standing Tall

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... place. In 1995, journalist Bob Greene wrote a sympathetic story for the Chicago Tribune about Tucker Church's struggle to live a normal, happy life. One reader contacted the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Houston, Texas. The doctors there had perfected a new kind of surgery that specifically treated Tucker's leg problems. Three surgeries and much physical therapy later, Tucker Church walked out of Shriners Hospital six inches taller. He walks so straight and tall that few people even realize he ...

2622. Entertaining Angels

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... to be noticed. He was tall, dressed rather like Chris usually did, in a flannel shirt, new Levis and lace-up work boots that appeared as if they, too, had just been taken off the shelf. “There was no real age to him," Melissa says. “No wrinkles. Just this perfectly smooth and pale, white, white skin and ice blue eyes. I mean I've never seen that color blue on any human before. They were more the blue like some of those Husky dogs have. I'll never forget the eyes." Chris seemed to want to be left alone ...

2623. A Powerful Testimony

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... down with scripture and talked the question over with Christian friends, then prayed for God's guidance asking all the time what would Jesus do?, my guess is that we would be able to give a good approximation of what Jesus really would do. It might not be a perfect response, but it would be a better response than we are likely to make using any other guide for our behavior. The real problem is that most of us don't want to know what Jesus would do, because we would rather do it our way--without the guilt ...

2624. It's A Question Of Priorities

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" Suddenly it got very quiet. Why? Because the disciples were embarrassed. They had been arguing about who was the greatest. They were arguing over who was number one. How is it that this argument seemed perfectly reasonable and important to the disciples until they had to lay it before Jesus? Suddenly, they saw it for what it really was: sinful, petty pride. No wonder they were embarrassed. No wonder they didn't want to tell Jesus what they were arguing ...

2625. Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Oklahoma some years ago. Many people thought he would win easily. After all, Jay Wilkinson was an All-American at Duke who married a Miss America finalist after graduating from Harvard Divinity School. Young, handsome, and idealistic, Jay was a perfect subject for Madison Avenue wizardry. A television commercial was designed which pictured Jay and his wife walking hand-in-hand through an Oklahoma pasture. As they walked, they looked soulfully upward at the sky to the accompaniment of soft music with ...

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