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2651. Temptation Island

Genesis 3:1-24

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... the answer from a dog. Let me explain. A man was telling about his dog. His dog is very well trained. He said that he can put a piece of meat near his dog and tell it not to eat it and it will not. The dog won't even touch it, if its master tells it not to. But it is interesting. It also won't even look at the meat. It will look at its master the whole time it is resisting the temptation to eat the meat. Maybe it knows that if it takes its eyes off of ...

2652. All My Children

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... ?" "Yeah," he said. The maintenance man said, "I just finished changing your tire and wanted to know where you wanted me to put the spare." Lyman couldn't believe it. He was witnessing a miracle, as far as he was concerned. He expected to see Della Reese and the "Touched By An Angel" gang at any moment! But this was real! The man who fixed his tire wouldn't accept any money, he wouldn't even give his name, he just wanted to be helpful. That unknown Good Samaritan's gift to Pastor Lyman was a gift of grace ...

2653. I Wish Life Came With An Eraser!

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... said, if you really want to change and be a better person, make a list of the good things you are going to do that day and put the list in your shirt pocket. Next chapter"”set aside some time each day to write one letter to someone who has touched your life in a positive way. Next chapter"”volunteer two hours per week and always be reading a positive book. Next chapter"”have at least three conversations a day with positive people, and so on, and so on. Willimon says, "By the end of the book, I was so ...

2654. Loving From The Heart

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... They visited him in the hospital and brought him gifts. After recovering from his injuries, Dale Buttenhoff entered drug rehab. He also re-established contact with his estranged daughter. He is currently training to become a drug counselor in a rehabilitation center. He also keeps in touch with the members of the Pink Phoenix. As he says, "I want them to know that what they did for me was not in vain." (4) I long for our church to be more like those ladies of the Pink Phoenix. That would be Christianity at ...

2655. A Mother And Her Son (Mother's Day)

Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... with joy. They give our lives meaning and purpose. Some unknown author has put it like this: "The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock. That doesn't even touch college tuition . . . But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into $8,896.66 a year, $741.38 a month or $171.08 a week. That's a mere $24.44 a day. Just over a dollar an hour. Still, you might think the ...

2656. The Benefits Of Trusting Christ

Romans 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the first time his two-year-old nephew saw snow. The whole family gathered around to witness this momentous event. The boy's eyes grew wide with awe as he saw the sparkling crystals fall from the sky. He quivered at the touch of a snowflake on his face. As Yaconelli writes, "His mind was a confusion of strange, conflicting realities: white, cold . . . tingling . . . melting"”causing an overload so great, so overwhelming, he fell backward (into the drifts) . . . He had given up trying to understand snow ...

2657. Love Is Not Easy

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... what you know to be right. It's called character, and it does matter. You don't have to be a prude or a member of the Religious Right to be concerned about the moral drift in our society. It may not be great poetry, but country singer Steve Vaus touched a sympathetic chord with many middle-aged and older people with his song, BLACK AND WHITE. The lyrics go like this: You could hardly see for all the snow,/ Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go/ Pull a chair up to the TV set,/ "Good night David, Good ...

2658. A Tale Of Two Brothers

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... profound statement: "The work of the first disciples still influences you. Centuries ago, men and women were commissioned to make disciples of all nations. Although they have been dead for almost two thousand years, the effect of their work has traveled through history and touched us. It is felt in our lives and in our churches today." (4) A handful of people 2,000 years ago turned the world upside down. Why? Because they were brilliant? There is no sign of that. Because they were powerful? Hardly. They ...

2659. Reaching Our Full Potential

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... , "Lord, let me make a difference for You that is utterly disproportionate to who I am." (6) That is the prayer of a man who is an obedient servant of God. Lois Cheney in her book, God is no Fool, tells a revealing parable about a man who was touched by God. God gave this man a priceless gift--the capacity for love. The man was grateful and humble, and he knew what an extraordinary thing had happened to him. He carried this capacity for love like a jewel and he walked tall and with purpose. From time to ...

2660. An Invitation To Know God

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... too old to believe. Faith is simply a matter of letting go and letting God. A man descended into a deep well by sliding down a rope which was supposed to be of ample length. But to his dismay he came to the end of it before his feet had touched the bottom. He didn't have enough strength left to climb up again, and to let go and drop would seemingly dash him to pieces in the unseen depths below. He held on until his strength was utterly exhausted, and then dropped, as he thought, to his death. But he ...

2661. Why He Came

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... they start lining up outside your door. Jesus' ministry was a success from the beginning. "To be a success," says TV's Dr. Robert Schuller, "find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it." Jesus was certainly doing that. Nearly every family is touched by one sickness or another, and so people were bringing their loved ones to Jesus in droves. After all, there were no hospitals, no twenty-four hour medical clinics. Where else could they turn except to Jesus? Wouldn't you? If you knew that someone was ...

2662. Wedding, Wine, And Wonderment

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to lead us to consider this ancient practice of self-denial. However, a fast is not a diet. The purpose of a fast is to interrupt the dull routines of everyday life in order to sharpen our awareness of the Eternal. The purpose of fasting is to put us in touch with what matters most in life--the love and grace of God. Fasting is not meant to baptize God's people in lemon juice and make us sour-saints. This is one reason Jesus taught in the "Sermon on the Mount" that our fasting was not to be seen by ...

2663. Redefining Life

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Christians. After his conversion, he became the most influential Christian evangelist in history. God gave him visions and miraculous powers. In Acts 19: 1112, we read, "God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them." (NIV) In fact, Paul could have been the first Christian celebrity, on a par with Christian rock stars and televangelists today. He could have ...

2664. Faith-based Living

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... not to worry about what they eat or drink or wear, because their heavenly Father knows that we need all these things. When he turned water into the best wine, when he caused the disciples to catch a net full of fish, when he healed everyone he touched, and when he fed thousands of people with a small serving of fish and bread, Jesus was demonstrating the abundance of God's kingdom. And that abundance is still available to believers today. God is without limits, and there is no problem we can bring to God ...

2665. Clean Hearts And Dirty Hands

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... like this: Put five monkeys inside a cage. Hang a banana on a string in the cage and put a set of stairs under it. Before long, one of the monkeys will go to the stairs and start to climb up toward the banana. As soon as his feet touch the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. After a while, another monkey will make an attempt to get the banana, which will also result in all of the other monkeys being sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs ...

2666. A Failure To Communicate

Hebrews 1:1-4, Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... s cross. All he had to do was not make trouble. But he chose a different way. The writer of Hebrews indicates that it was the only way that the great divide between God and humanity could be bridged-- that Christ lay down his life. There is a touching story about a man known to his neighbors and friends simply as "Mister John." Mister John was a great, compassionate man who was the beloved principal in a public school for many years. He was a devout church member. More importantly, Mr. John knew the love of ...

2667. A Penny For God

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... the sofa upside down, and shook it hard. Then they picked up all the coins that tumbled out of the sofa, jumped back into their car and drove away. Have you ever noticed that some people have a gift for making money? It seems like everything they touch turns to gold. Then there are other people who have missed out altogether on that gift and have no such luck. If money were a highly contagious and deadly virus, they would be healthy all their lives. Our scripture reading for today concerns a woman who had ...

2668. I Am Forsaken

Psalm 29:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... embarrassing moment of your life?" "Yes, I certainly do," said Carol. "Next question?" Embarrassments happen. Heartaches happen. Sorrows happen. Life throws us difficult pitches. And every once in a while a real tragedy occurs. On the wall of the museum at Dachau is a large, touching photograph of a mother and her little girl standing in the line to enter a gas chamber. The child, who is walking in front of her mother, doesn't know where she is going or what is about to happen. The mother, walking behind ...

2669. I Am Only . . .

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... say, "˜I am only a boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you, Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord." Then the Lord put out his hand and touched Jeremiah's mouth; and the Lord said to him, "Now I have put my words in your mouth . . ." Only a boy. And yet, a messenger from God. Here's a good word to eliminate from your vocabulary--it's the word, "only." Only a teenager, only a woman, only an ...

2670. Finding Peace

John 20:24-31

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... wounds. Thomas said he wouldn't believe them unless he saw the nail holes in his hands and put his own finger on the wound on Jesus' side. Eight days later, Jesus appeared to them again. This time, Thomas was there. Jesus showed Thomas his wounds and Thomas touched them. Thomas said, "My Lord and my God!" He believed because he saw. Jesus said, "Blessed are those who do not see and yet believe." Do you know anyone who can believe something like this, just on faith and without seeing it? Yes, we all fit in ...

2671. Like A Tornado

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... day forward. They were people not much different from you and me. They weren't well educated in a worldly sense, but they had studied, nonetheless, under the greatest teacher of all. And now that his physical presence was gone, his spiritual presence led them to touch the lives of thousands of people. I take great hope from that fact. The church uses human efforts. Our own church could not carry out its mission without the work of many of you who give sacrificially. I want you to know how much I appreciate ...

2672. Bacon Grease And Abounding Grace

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... his feet with her tears. This was too much for the Pharisee. "Evidently Jesus isn't a very good judge of character," the Pharisee thought to himself, "or he would have smelled the bacon grease. He would have known what kind of woman this is who is touching him. She is a sinner." Jesus knew what his host was thinking. "Simon," he said to him, "I have something to say to you." Simon said, "Teacher, speak." "A certain creditor had two debtors," Jesus said. "One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other 50 ...

2673. Loved By The Father

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... of self-esteem by giving children rewards even when they knew they had not done their best. Erik Weihenmayer is blind, and yet he has accomplished many extraordinary things in his life, including climbing four of the seven highest mountains in the world. In his book, Touch the Top of the World, Erik tells about his life's journey. Once, in the first grade, Erik came home from school bragging that he had gotten all the words right on a spelling quiz. He proudly showed his mother the paper. At first she was ...

2674. Winners Every One

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing." St. Paul has been giving young Timothy spiritual mentoring. In today's lesson he provides the crowning touch. We can sum it up like this--a life well lived, a race well run, a crown much deserved. Paul is looking back over a life, well lived. He could stand before Christ as one with no regrets. Had Paul lived a perfect life? Not at all. He had ...

2675. About Christ

Colossians 1:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... redemption, the forgiveness of sins." There are so many families in which forgiveness needs to be practiced. Pastor Peter Lewis and his wife Valerie were reading through the love messages published in their local paper on Valentine's Day. They came across a touching note from some adult children to their parents. The message was short and sweet. It read: "The rebels failed, for our Utopia was the home we fought to leave." Imagine the joy and pride those parents felt when they read this message. "The rebels ...

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