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2776. Why We Give

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... know the story. A hunter once observed an eagle alighting on an ice crusted limb floating in a river rushing down toward a waterfall. At any moment, the eagle could have turned loose of that icy perch and soared into the blue sky. But it did not turn loose. It remained too long, so that the eagle's talons froze onto the limb and it could not let go. At first the eagle had the limb, but now the limb had the eagle, and it perished. There is a point in our drive for a better life when we are forced ...

2777. The Waiting Father

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... image who will somehow deliver us from our own misdoing. The idea of a soft, indulgent God reminds me of something that was once said about the dynamic businessman, Harold Geneen. Geneen has always been something of an enigma. Long after he had been running ITT, he remained a mystery man to such an extent that the press often misprinted his name as Geheen or Green. People in his own company were not even certain how to pronounce his name. There was a joke about it inside ITT: "Is the g hard as in God, or ...

2778. Help For Troubled Hearts

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... knew he was looking for me," he said. "Whenever I heard a noise, I jumped. Every time I heard a car door open, I’d jump up and look out the window." Even after he learned there were no clues linking him to the robberies, Berthiaume said, he remained glad he had confessed. "I realize that, even years later, I would always be worried that someone would still come and snatch me out of my home for bank robbery." (3) The Land of LookBehind. What a terrible place to live. During Billy Graham’s London Crusade ...

2779. Harmony Within The Family

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... , "Insight For Living," and his wife Cynthia declare their commitment to each other several times a year. He says, "We get alone, often for an overnight somewhere cozy and private. While there, we look at each other and verbalize our promise to remain faithful. We actually declare aloud our commitment. We can’t explain how or why it works, but there’s something reassuring about putting things like that into words. As our ears hear what our mouths are saying (from our hearts, actually), our loyalty ...

2780. A Pentecostal Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... army. This was the responsibility of relatives and friends. Christians in the prisons had no problem, though. They were well cared for by friends and family. In fact, so much food was brought them by fellow believers and church groups that enough remained to feed the unbelieving prisoners also. This observable love, vibrant though nonverbal, brought many to seek the Lord. Such love was previously unheard of. As a result the word spread far and wide. Nonbelievers sought out believers to learn more about the ...

2781. I Am The Only One Left Who Cares!

1 Kings 19:9-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... up at a meeting to protest air pollution. After the meeting they got in forty seven cars and went home. Until people everywhere and nations everywhere are willing to pay the price of conservation, the problems of the exploitation of the earth will remain. We need to remind ourselves of something Thomas LaMance once said, "Despite all his accomplishments," LaMance commented, "man owes his existence to a sixinch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains." We live on a delicate planet. It is something for ...

2782. Ultimate Freedom

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... thing to hell on Earth. The penal colonies there were established in 1852, when Emperor Napoleon III closed two prisons in France and sent the convicts to one of these three islands. There they would serve out their sentences and then be freed to remain there to establish a new French colony. But this colonization drive was a dismal failure. A former prisoner wrote that the men fought two things: the climate and each other. The heat, the insects and the confinement cells were all very uncomfortable, but the ...

2783. Teach Us To Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... once told Charlie Brown that she had discovered that if she held her hands upside down she got the exact opposite of what she had prayed for. Is that the secret? Do we need to vary the position of our hands? That is absurd, of course, but the fact remains that prayer is one of the most puzzling experiences in the Christian life. No wonder the disciples came to Jesus one day and asked, "Teach us to pray." Teach us to pray. Does that not say to you and to me that prayer is more than the impulsive babbling ...

2784. Where Have All The Heroes Gone?

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... . When the paramedics came upon the scene they found her in shock due to a loss of blood from a severed right leg. She was pinned in the wreckage and it was some time before they could free her and treat her wounds. All the while she remained conscious and alert. They were amazed at her calmness in view of the serious injuries she had sustained. Later one of the paramedics said to newsmen covering the story, "I guess the only thing that saved her life was the singing." Puzzled at this revelation, they asked ...

2785. Determined Discipleship

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... people going across." She replied, "Don ™t look at them. Look at the light and follow it." That ™s good advice, but many of us have quit looking at the light. We are content to watch other people and to do as they do. And thus we remain adrift with no fixed point of reference for our lives. In the novel, THE CAINE MUTINY, Herman Wouk has one of the characters, Willie Keith, receive a letter. The letter came from his father who was dying of an incurable disease. His father offered three bits of advice ...

2786. From Timid To Terrific

2 Timothy 1:6-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... to increase the dosage. Keep loving until you reduce that door to splinters. Donald Nicholl tells of a man lying desperately ill in a hospital. He was terrified, confused, and in despair. His world had stopped. As Nicholl put it, "Nothing of his true self seemed to remain except a tiny particle the size of a grain of mustard seed. Outside that particle was chaos and darkness. Suddenly he heard a voice from the nearby corridor,`I’m so bloody lonely I could cry.’ It was the voice of an old miner who was ...

2787. How Much Faith Is Enough?

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... LIVES IS NOT OUR LACK OF FAITH BUT THAT WE DO NOT PUT THE FAITH WE HAVE INTO ACTION. We seem to vary between two extremes. Some of us are experiencing the "paralysis of analysis." Until God gives us some sign that He is real and in control we remain immobile. "Don't just do something, sit there!" is our credo. It is amazing how many truly passive Christians there are in this world. Two-thirds won't even bother to roll out of bed on the average Sunday morning. Most are decent law-abiding folks. But no one ...

2788. Don't Give Up - He Hears!

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Revolution by the civilian population kept the food from reaching Washington ™s army. Of 11,000 American troops beginning that winter, about 2,500 died, more than 2,000 deserted or refused to reenlist at the end of their expired term, and about half of the remaining 6,000 men lacked sufficient shoes or clothes to be able to go out to fight. During that famous winter at Valley Forge, the real battle that the Americans fought was the inner desire to quit and go home. They did not quit, of course. That ...

2789. Don't Apologize For Success (but Give Thanks)

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... the offering, and was very enthusiastic in his duties. One day, while taking up the offering, he stopped in front of the town’s old miser, who was known never to put anything in the plate. This man paid no attention to him, but the young fellow remained standing, with the plate under the miser’s nose. Some of the other ushers tried to signal him to move on, but he continued to stand there. Finally, in a clear voice that carried around the church, he asked the miser, "Ain’t you goin’ to put anything ...

2790. Promises Kept!

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... story at the start of the book of Ezra, too! In the sixth century B.C., there was only one thing you could say about the Jews: No one in their condition could ever recover! They’ve had it! They’re gone for good! What little remains of them is paralyzed and ready for the grave. The Ministry of Pensions in Babylon kept sending the disability cheques. And the Doctors of Theology had already signed the death certificate. The Jews were a wasted people, shot through the head when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the ...

2791. Set Free

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... odd jobs. Often he left the child with neighbors. After one long trip looking for work, the man returned to find his village demolished and his neighbors gone. Searching through the rubble, he found scattered about some small bones. He was sure that these were the remains of his beloved son. He wrapped the bones in cloth and carried them with him everywhere he went. Many years passed, and one night the old man heard knocking on his door. He called out, "Who’s there?" "It is your son!" the voice outside ...

2792. Finding Jesus

John 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... . At that moment she saw clearly how she could bring about healing in her life. At that moment it was as if God had spoken to her in a most dramatic way. (2) God had told John in a personal epiphany, "He on whom you see the spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit." When John saw the Spirit descend upon Jesus in the form of a dove, he knew without a doubt that Jesus was the Messiah. John believed that day because of a personal act of revelation. Sometimes that happens to people ...

2793. Time To Do Something About The Piano

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Kathy's room, he held up the cross and said, "See what I have?" She looked up, tears filling her eyes, and said, "For me?" He placed the cross on the sill in the center of the big window, where Kathy could see it silhouetted against the sky. It remained there for the last two days of her life giving her strength and indescribable comfort. (6) Our faith and our strength come from the cross of Christ as well, for through the cross we see the love of God. Through the cross we receive the gift of eternal life ...

2794. Who's The Blind One Around Here?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... the conversation between Jesus and the man who was born blind. They took offense at what Jesus said. "Surely, we are not blind are we?" they said to Jesus. "If you were blind, you would not have sin." Jesus replied. "But now that you say, `We see,' your sin remains." In John's gospel the only sin or blindness is unbelief. The people who claimed they could see were in truth blind. They did not recognize Jesus in their midst. A man who was born blind could see through the eyes of faith who Jesus was, and he ...

2795. Dr. Life

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... secretary who had often wondered how it felt to be handcuffed. She found out the hard way. She tried on some old handcuffs that her boss had brought to the office. Unfortunately she forgot to ask if the boss had a key to the cuffs. She remained handcuffed for two hours until firemen working with electric cutters freed her. There are people who live their entire lives in handcuffs, as it were, because of fear. And they never realize that Christ has the key. Fear is an interesting phenomenon. A little fear is ...

2796. Is There Any Wind?

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... was prayer. Selected people around the country were asked to pray for each of these 192 patients. Their conditions were described in detail. The people praying were to focus their prayers toward "beneficial healing and quick recovery." The remaining patients were given the usual medical care without prayer. Ten months later, the results revealed a startling conclusion. The patients who were prayed for experienced markedly fewer incidences of cardiac-related infections, pulmonary edema and mortality than did ...

2797. It's Not Nice To Call Someone A Dog

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... from religious phonies. We will also protect our society. For an authentic witness of Christian faith and love will find a ready audience in today’s world. As someone has wisely noted, the Christian faith has not been tried and found wanting. It still remains to be tried. People are people whatever label they may wear. Faith is faith wherever we may encounter it. One final thing: LOVE WILL FIND AWAY. This Canaanite mother was determined to find help for her daughter. Jesus’ mission was to the lost sheep ...

2798. To Forgive Is Divine

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... slave! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?" Because he was unwilling to forgive his fellow servant he was thrown into prison where he would spend the remaining years of his life in hard labor The point is obvious. WE FORGIVE OTHERS BECAUSE GOD HAS FORGIVEN US. That is what empowers us to forgive. We have been forgiven. If you do not know yourself to have been forgiven, you have nothing to pass on to another ...

2799. Roll Call

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and they are bound to happen at one time or another, Jesus says, "rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven." All through the ages there have been saints who have suffered because of their Christian convictions. They took unpopular stands, but they remained strong in the faith. They did not waver in the face of adversity. Such persons are examples for us. They offer us a word of hope. They endured and so can we. When Margaret Helminski was seven, she received a gift from her grandmother. It ...

2800. A Cross In A Cradle

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... shepherds had come to peek at the baby, and the wise men had brought their gifts. The angels had given their message. Then all the cast in the story of the first Christmas began to leave...wise men, shepherds, angels. Only Mary and Joseph and the child remained. Then Joseph turned to go. And Mary, glancing back at the crib, began to follow. But suddenly she turned back, snatched up the baby doll by the foot, clutched it under her arm, and left." (1) It was that final episode that struck Jo Carr. Mary had ...

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