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2851. Damaged In Transit, But Deliverable

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The newspapers reported a touching story of a mother who was taking her young son to Salt Lake City on a melancholy mission. The boy had lost the sight of one eye several years before, and in the intervening years doctors had tried valiantly to save his remaining eye. "Now they had come to the reluctant conclusion that the eye could not be saved. Before the darkness set in, his mother wanted the boy to have a fond, lingering look at the majestic mountains of Utah so that he could take that splendid image ...

2852. Bracing For The Rough Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... , mostly male into outrage. The New York Jets were playing the Oakland Raiders on the West Coast. It had been a long drawn-out game. The Jets were ahead by 10 points. Just as the game was moving into its critical moments only two minutes remained someone at NBC (an insensitive clod at best, according to football fans; a cultural terrorist at worst) made the decision to cut from the ball game to show the children's movie Heidi. During those two minutes Oakland snatched victory from the jaws of defeat ...

2853. Thanks For All You've Done

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... adulterer, doesn't mean that Christ has not raised you from the dominion of darkness. Any time there is darkness in our hearts, the seeds for wrongdoing are but waiting to be sown. For many of us, it was our commitment to Christ that caused us to remain on the straight and narrow. And, looking back, we can say "Thank you, Lord." Thank you for deliverance, thank you for delivering me from the darkness within even before it became a stumbling block in my life. This prevenient grace is part of what Paul means ...

2854. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... TRANQUIL MIND. A tranquil mind comes from knowing that God is at work in the world. For several decades now, the country of South Africa has been one of the most troubled and most troubling spots on earth. On one occasion, when asked if he remained hopeful as he looked at the pain of an uncertain future, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu responded, “I am always hopeful. A Christian is a prisoner of hope. What could have looked more hopeless than Good Friday? But then, at Easter, God says, ‘From this ...

2855. It's A Miracle

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a voice in her head saying soothingly the words from Matthew 28: 20, "Lo, I am with you always." She felt complete peace as her friend eased Elaine's broken body out of the car. She didn't panic or go into shock. Throughout the whole frantic evening, Elaine remained calm. She knew she was wrapped in God's love, so she didn't need to fear. (5) Friends, that's a miracle. Crowds won't gather in amazement. Church inquiries won't bother to test its authenticity. It is not as dramatic as a talking pig, but it ...

2856. The Gift Of Freedom

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Landon Winstead

... away his life. He knows the ˜why' for his existence, and he will be able to bear almost any ˜how.' "In the concentration camp every circumstance conspires to make the prisoner lose his hold. All the familiar goals in life are snatched away. What alone remains is the last of the human freedoms . . . the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances . . . The prisoners were only average men, but some, at least, by choosing to be worthy of suffering proved man's capacity to rise above his ...

2857. The Patron Saint Of All Who Are The Last To Know

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... his own experience." "Give me your hand," Jesus says to him. What Cleopas SAW in order to believe, what Mary HEARD in order to believe, Thomas must TOUCH. Thomas must touch the wounds made by nails and the wound made by piercing spear. Doubting Thomas did not remain a cynic. He asked for proof, and when he received it through the prints of the nails and the wounds in the side of Jesus, his doubt yielded to conviction. He fell before Jesus and exclaimed, "My Lord and My God!" Thomas did not allow his honest ...

2858. A Birthday Celebration

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... the year, one deduction about the day of His birth may be made. It almost certainly was not during the month of December. At least two observations lead us to this conclusion. "First, in the Middle East, December is not a month when shepherds or sheep remain in the open fields at night. Luke records, 'Now in this same district there were shepherds out in the fields, keeping watch through the night over their flock, when suddenly there stood before them an angel of the Lord' (Luke 2:8, 9, NEB). "Winters in ...

2859. Christmas Brings Us A New Heart

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

John Pugh

... dismissed him he went home with orders to work to achieve a steady level of physical exercise. He could never get past the point of his sick heart. I saw him a number of times out walking. He acted like every step was painful. He spent all the remaining months of his life walking through as though he was stepping on eggs. He could not bring himself to believe that his heart had been repaired. So his life was always shadowed over with fear that he might break it again. I think some folks are like that ...

2860. Two Promises For A New Year

Matthew 2:13-23

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... brings joy to our hearts. It is a story that never grows old. And we try to keep the Christmas spirit all year long. But now we move on in the church to Jesus's childhood and adulthood and his death and resurrection. Jesus didn't come at Christmas to remain a baby. He had a far greater mission. It was to show with his whole life and his death on the cross and his resurrection just how much God loves us. So we throw away the wrapping paper and put away the ornaments, but the love of Jesus lives in ...

2861. When The Fish Won't Bite

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... , struggling with his identity. Oscar Wilde described this mystery when he wrote from his prison cell, "The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?" (3) Failure. It's not a dirty word--and yet we sometimes act as if it is. Every great person fails at some time in his or her life. Leonardo da Vinci did. In addition to his ...

2862. Trees

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... between them and stay on opposite sides of the island. The first thing they prayed for was food. The next morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the island, and he was able to eat its fruit. The other man's parcel of land remained barren. After some days, the first man was lonely and he decided to pray for a wife. The next day, another ship was wrecked, and the only survivor was a woman who swam to his side of the island. On the other side of the island, the second man had ...

2863. Hurting People Hurt People

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... stomped from his room, totally distraught! She headed for the den to confirm her fears. When she saw the wall, her eyes flooded with tears. The message she read pierced her soul with a dart. It said, "I love Mommy," surrounded by a heart. Well, the wallpaper remained, just as she found it, With an empty picture frame hung to surround it. A reminder to her, and indeed to all, Take time to read the handwriting on the wall (1) Hurting people hurt people. Parents take out a hard day on their children. Religious ...

2864. Extreme Sports, Extreme Fashions, Extreme Faith

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... Laurence Olivier flew from London to take the role of Nicodemus. Many big stars played in minor roles. "Claudia Cardinale was the most determined of the stars. She persisted in asking the director for a part in the film, and when she was told that all that remained was the part of the adulteress whom Christ forgave, she accepted. She flew from her home in Rome to Tunisia, arrived on the set on a very hot day, put on her makeup and her costume, and spent five hours in the blistering heat before the cameras ...

2865. Who Are Your Gentiles?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Landon Winstead

... being presented, the Holy Spirit pours out onto the Gentiles, and they began praising God, and speaking in unknown languages. Peter now realized what his vision had been about. God shows no favorites. Even the Gentiles could be baptized Christians. And Peter remained with them for some days. This was the beginning of the witnessing about Christ to all people, and not exclusively to the Jews. This was literally a New Era in Christianity. Later, Saul, the persecutor, a Pharisee and a persecutor of Christians ...

2866. Living With Difficult People

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

Our Jewish friends are wonderful story tellers and they do not mind making fun of themselves. Here are two samples: During a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, when the Shema prayer was said, half the congregregants stood up and half remained sitting. The half that was seated started yelling at those standing to sit down, and the ones standing yelled at the ones sitting to stand up. The rabbi, educated as he was in the Law and commentaries, didn't know what to do. His congregation suggested ...

2867. Beaten Up, But Still Standing

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... a professor at the University of California. He conducted a ten-month study of 393 patients admitted to the coronary care unit at the hospital over those months. One hundred ninety-two of those patients were assigned to a prayer group. The remaining 201 were not. Neither the patients, nurses, nor attending physicians knew which group the patients were in. Dr. Byrd recruited Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish groups around the country to pray for the designated 192 patients. They were given the patients ...

2868. What Does It Mean To Be Really Free?

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... high-paying starring role. The more you have--and the more these things define who you are--the more you live in fear that these things will one day be taken from you. You become the bird in the gilded cage. And while the cage may be gilded indeed--it remains a cage. St. Paul was free because he had nothing to lose. The sooner you and I realize we have nothing to lose, the happier we will be. There was once a twelve-year-old boy who had been given an assignment by his father to work in the yard ...

2869. Time to Pull the Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... a few years ago a woman noticed a few bees buzzing around the attic of her home. Since there were only a few, she made no effort to deal with them. Over the summer the bees continued to fly in and out the attic vent while the woman remained unconcerned, unaware of the growing city of bees that was taking up residence just above her ceiling. The whole attic became a hive, and the ceiling of the second-floor bedroom finally caved in under the weight of hundreds of pounds of honey and thousands of angry bees ...

2870. The Gates of Hell

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... behalf, I don't have to worry about my eternal destination. But I do know that there are people in our very community who are in torment, there are people whose pain is unceasing, there are people who have been in hell for many years and remain captive there today. They are the people for whom the Gospel is indeed great good news. And they are the people who need what we have to offer. John M. Buchanan, Pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago tells a wonderful story about Elaine Pagels. Pagels ...

2871. The Good Parent

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... stomped from his room, totally distraught! She headed for the den to confirm her fears. When she saw the wall, her eyes flooded with tears. The message she read pierced her soul with a dart. It said, "I love Mommy," surrounded by a heart. Well, the wallpaper remained, just as she found it, With an empty picture frame hung to surround it. A reminder to her, and indeed to all, Take time to read the handwriting on the wall. Well, the handwriting on the wall for today comes from Jesus' description of the Good ...

2872. People Who Inspire Us

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... through turbulent rivers to get to their destination. There were very few bridges over these rivers, yet local citizens had no problem walking through the rushing water and over the slippery rocks. You see, they had worked out a fool-proof way to remain sure-footed in a slippery situation: each citizen, before crossing the river, would pick up the largest, heaviest stone he could carry. This stone would weigh a person down enough that it would keep his feet firmly planted. He could stand securely because ...

2873. Take This Job And Love It

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the path of Hurricane Andrew, which devastated South Florida in the late summer of 1992. Yet almost every house built by the Habitat for Humanity volunteers survived the destructive forces of the hurricane's winds and rains. On one street, the only houses whose roofs remained were the houses built by Habitat. The leader of the Greater Miami chapter said simply, "We didn't cut corners when we built them." (3) You and I appreciate people who don't cut corners, don't we? It's a matter of character. It's ...

2874. Look Who's Giving Thanks!

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... to comfort her, but the woman rejected every positive thing he said. According to Caliandro, her philosophy seemed to be, “This is the day the devil has made, let us complain and be miserable in it." Even after the woman recovered fully, her negative attitude remained. On the other hand, Dr. Caliandro tells of another woman named Helen Baker. Helen has spent her life in pain from a rare nerve disorder. But she thanks God every day for the chance to witness to others through her illness. She even thanks ...

2875. If You Are The King Of The Jews....

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Jeffery Ginn and his family of Colonial Heights, VA served as missionaries to Cali, Colombia. One morning Jeffrey entered his office to find that a map of the world that he had taped to the wall had fallen during the night. A corner of the map had remained taped to the wall as the rest fell. Jeffrey took the torn piece from the wall and knelt to repair the map. At that moment his toddler daughter came in. She plopped on the floor and watched her father intently. Jeffrey's wife, noticing that their toddler ...

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2851. Damaged In Transit, But Deliverable

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

2852. Bracing For The Rough Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

2853. Thanks For All You've Done

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

2854. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

2855. It's A Miracle

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

2856. The Gift Of Freedom

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Landon Winstead

2857. The Patron Saint Of All Who Are The Last To Know

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

2858. A Birthday Celebration

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

2859. Christmas Brings Us A New Heart

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

John Pugh

2860. Two Promises For A New Year

Matthew 2:13-23

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

2861. When The Fish Won't Bite

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Frank Lyman

2862. Trees

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

2863. Hurting People Hurt People

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

2864. Extreme Sports, Extreme Fashions, Extreme Faith

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

2865. Who Are Your Gentiles?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Landon Winstead

2866. Living With Difficult People

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

2867. Beaten Up, But Still Standing

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

2868. What Does It Mean To Be Really Free?

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

2869. Time to Pull the Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

2870. The Gates of Hell

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

2871. The Good Parent

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... stomped from his room, totally distraught! She headed for the den to confirm her fears. When she saw the wall, her eyes flooded with tears. The message she read pierced her soul with a dart. It said, "I love Mommy," surrounded by a heart. Well, the wallpaper remained, just as she found it, With an empty picture frame hung to surround it. A reminder to her, and indeed to all, Take time to read the handwriting on the wall. Well, the handwriting on the wall for today comes from Jesus' description of the Good ...

2872. People Who Inspire Us

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

2873. Take This Job And Love It

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

King Duncan

2874. Look Who's Giving Thanks!

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

2875. If You Are The King Of The Jews....

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

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