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276. The Fourth King In The Christmas Story

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the kind of story the print media is looking for to demonstrate the spirit of caring that Christmas brings about. Unfortunately there is a follow up story. The local Salvation Army office began getting phone calls about the gold coins. The coins were stolen. A thief had dropped them in the kettle to get rid of them. Royko then told another story about a man driving home from work on Christmas Eve who saw a young boy fall through the ice in a nearby lake. The man stopped his car, jumped out, tore off his ...

277. Temptation

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... how badly he wants that Grail, even though just minutes before he was pleading with the foolish Elsa just as his father now pleads with him. Luckily for Indiana Jones ” and for his fans in the theater ” he comes to his senses before he, too, drops into the deep. (7) Just like a person who is being tempted. He knows better, but the lure is almost irresistible. Spouses KNOW that cheating can end their marriages and lead them to disgrace. Smokers KNOW that tobacco will coat their lungs and may prematurely ...

278. Bracing For The Rough Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... money and the glamour were not enough. Her low self-esteem made her feel like no amount of success was enough. She kept thinking that business success or people around her could fill the void, could make her happy. But nothing did. So Rene Russo dropped out of the business. She left behind her successful and glamorous career, and began taking classes in theology. For four years, Rene Russo studied theology, and slowly she began to realize that her lack of self-esteem stemmed from a lack of faith. She had ...

279. What Would It Take?

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... went farther back into the room, he saw the crowns of kings and beautiful jewelry from princesses. Then the guide said, "Yes, these were all things that the world uses to impress people, symbols of significance. But they don't impress God! So we have everybody drop them right here before they come to stand before the Almighty!" (3) What are those things that you will need to leave behind in the Court of Status Symbols in order to stand before God? Billionaire H.L. Hunt was once asked for his philosophy of ...

280. Behind Closed Doors

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Bruce Larson notes that when someone enters the army at a place like Fort Dix, New Jersey, there is a great box at the entrance with a big hole in the top. The rule is that you may drop in that box, with impunity, any illegal substance you have with you--drugs, alcohol, knives, guns, whatever. No questions asked. You drop those items in the box and begin a new life in the army. However, if you keep them and are caught, you are held accountable.(2) As most of us reflect on our lives, we recognize that we ...

281. I Didn't Expect This In Church!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... -goods store, kept slipping away so he could catch the big game on the radio. Your man played golf while you were sick with the flu? The day five years ago when tests showed Linda, now forty-two, might have a kidney tumor, Mitch picked her up at the hospital, dropped her at home with her mother, his mother and their three-week-old colicky baby, and went on to his regular Friday afternoon racetrack date with his friends. (Fortunately, Linda did not have a kidney tumor.) But even Linda could not top the jaw ...

282. Jerry's Story . . . And Ours

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... matter to God. And if you really, truly believe that, it will change your life too. AND FINALLY, IF WE APPLY THIS PASSAGE TO OUR LIVES, WE LEARN THE GREAT TRUTH THAT WE ARE NEVER ALONE. Admit it: there are times when you think God just created you and then dropped you into this cold and lonely world and left you here to fend for yourself. That was Jeremiah's first fear when God called him to be a prophet. That's why he made excuses. He thought that God was calling him to this harsh and difficult job under ...

283. Inexpressible Joy

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... had to overcome what Angelica Guevara overcame, it is truly outstanding. Angelica came from a poor neighborhood in Los Angeles. No one in her family had ever graduated from high school before. Angelica's parents struggled with poverty and alcoholism, and they pressured her to drop out of school and get a job. But Angelica has a brother who would not let her fail. His name is Jesus. Throughout her high school years, Angelica owned only one pair of shoes. Jesus helped her nail the soles on when they started ...

284. You Feed Them!

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... old at the time, who read about Dr. Albert Schweitzer's missionary work in Africa. He wanted to help. He had enough money to buy one bottle of aspirin. He wrote to the Air Force and asked if they could fly over Dr. Schweitzer's hospital and drop the bottle down to him. A radio station broadcast the story about this young fellow's concern for helping others. Others responded as well. Eventually, he was flown by the government to Schweitzer's hospital along with 4 1/2 tons of medical supplies worth $400,000 ...

285. An Invitation To Know God

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... 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 fell just three inches, and found himself safe on the bottom. Some of us are in that predicament: we are just three inches from trusting God, but we're afraid ...

286. Finding Something Amazing To Live For

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... At once," says the Gospel of Mark, "they left their nets and followed him." Doesn't that seem a bit abrupt to you? They're working at their nets and a stranger comes by, and he says, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men." And they drop their nets and immediately they follow. Jesus goes a little farther and he sees James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets. Without delay he calls them, and they leave their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and follow him ...

287. Are You Ready For Your Inheritance?

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... dogs stagger to their feet and half-heartedly attempt to pull the sled. The dogs were in really bad shape when they staggered into John Thompson's camp at the mouth of the White River. Thompson told the men that the ice was melting and the bottom was about to drop out of the trail. He advised them not to try to go any farther. But Charley and Hal rationalized that if they had made it this far without the ice breaking under them, they could make it the rest of the way. Hal got out the whip again. "Get up ...

288. An Unforgettable Day

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... big milk bottle with two little hands. Let's go out to the back yard and fill the bottle up with water. Then we'll see if you can figure out a way to carry it without dropping it." The little boy learned that if he grasped the bottle at the top with both hands, he could carry it without dropping it. It was a wonderful lesson! This renowned scientist then remarked that at that moment he knew he didn't need to be afraid of making mistakes. Instead, he learned that mistakes were just opportunities for learning ...

289. You Can't Please Everybody

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... military people are less intelligent that the general population?" Then he pushed down on the colonel's arm again, exerting the same pressure as before. The colonel's arm muscles weakened, and Yoho was able to bring the colonel's arm down instantly. The colonel's jaw dropped just as fast as his arm, and the onlookers were dumbfounded. Dave Yoho had made his point. (6) Words can hurt. Words can drain us of our energy and make us feel diminished as human beings. Again, I'm not going to ask you to hold up ...

290. The Bread Of God

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... in this hand-to-mouth fashion so that they could learn to cling to Him. And in this way their daily bread nourished them in two ways: it fed their bodies and strengthened their faith. In the same way, God sometimes lets our blessings trickle to us drop by drop, instead of pouring them in a flood all at once upon us. He does this so that we may taste the peace and strength of continuous dependence and the joy of continuous receiving. He could give us the "principal" in one "payment," but He prefers to pay ...

291. Three Promises

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Brewing Company in Milwaukee discovered that Beverly suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, they began making sudden loud noises to watch his fearful reactions and to watch him dive for cover. For two years employees dropped tables, broke beer bottles, popped milk cartons and paper cups, dropped fork-lift loads, and set off fireworks in attempts to unnerve Beverly. A bottle rocket fired at Beverly in the company lunchroom finally finished him off; he spent the next seven months in a psychiatric ...

292. Wrestling With God

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... all mean? Who am I, really? Does my life really matter? As he wrestled with God that night, the encounter was so demanding that he threw the hollow of his thigh out of joint. One thinks of Jesus kneeling in the garden of Gethsemane with drops of sweat like great drops of blood falling from his brow. This was that kind of encounter for Jacob. From this day forward, he would never be the same again. For you see, Jacob needed more than anything else in life to understand that God is the Master of the universe ...

293. When You Are Uncertain About Your Salvation

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... us best loves us most. As E. Stanley Jones once put it, "When you surrender to Christ, all self-hate, all self- loathing, all self-rejection drop away. How can you hate what He loves? How can you reject what He accepts? How can you look down on what He died for? You ... sighed his regret and his repentance, I assure you, my son, that that sigh was heard in heaven, and that the first drop of Jesus' blood was shed for Judas Iscariot.'" (3) Jesus' blood was shed even for Judas Iscariot. His blood was shed for ...

294. Why the Church?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... or not Christ’s agenda is carried out. That is why pastors become so concerned when church members drop by the wayside and become lax in the worship of God, and in receiving the sacraments, lax in trying to do the work of Christ in the world. When we ... leave the Church it means far more than dropping out of the country club or resigning our lodge membership. We are leaving the Body of Christ. It is Christ who is hurt, Christ ...

295. The Glorious Interpolation

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... condemn; The Love that drawest us nearer Thee Is hot wrath to them. And so it was. One by one they dropped their stones and tried to creep away with whatever dignity they could muster under the circumstances, until no one was left ... WERE SOME WONDERFUL PLACE In the land of Beginning Again: Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches And all of our poor selfish grief Could be dropped like a shabby coat at the door And never be put on again. Well, the Good News of the Gospel is that there is such a land. ...

296. Some Said It Thundered

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a few years. We are unsure of Jesus’ actual age.) No one wishes to die upon a cruel Roman cross. John’s Gospel does not give us the story of Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, where the Synoptics tell us that He sweat great drops of blood in fearful anticipation of the cross, but John does have Jesus, in the very last week of His life, shrinking back from the frightening realization that the path he was treading would inevitably lead to a cross. As Betty told her daughter Kathy, real courage ...

297. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... “honk” him back into place. Again we have a picture of the Church, flying in a spiritual “V” formation, each one strengthening the other. I am afraid that we don’t do a very good job of “honking” one another back into line, however. People can drop out of the formation and nobody seems to care, nobody seems to miss them, or take the time to check to see whether they may be having some special needs. “That’s the minister’s job,” people say, forgetting that each and every Christian by ...

298. When Compassion Overcomes Irritation

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Hansberry’s play, “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” Sidney cannot give up caring. In response to one of his wife Iris’ outbursts of “Who cares!” Sidney shouts: “Is that all you can ever say? Who cares, who cares? Let the bomb fall, if someone wants to drop it, ‘tis the last days of Rome, so rejoice ye Romans and swill ye these last sick hours away! Well, I admit it: I CARE! I care about it all. It takes too much energy NOT to care. Yesterday I counted twenty-six gray hairs in the top ...

299. When Tradition Gets in the Way

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is the story of a small boy who came to his parents one day with a guilty look all over his face. He said, “Mom, Dad, do you remember that valuable vase which has been passed down in our family for generations? Well, this generation just dropped it!” It is possible for our generation to drop it, to fumble the ball, as it were, and become the weak link in the chain of tradition which gets the Gospel across the gap from one generation to the next. It is a bit sobering to realize that there will not be a ...

300. On Keeping Quiet about Easter

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... and tell no one anything. And instead of reporting a glorious epiphany in Galilee, the Gospel ends abruptly with no resurrection appearance at all. The one group of faithful followers finally fails; the resurrection predictions are fulfilled, but the second shoe (appearance to the disciples in Galilee) never drops.” (INTERPRETATION: Mark, Atlanta, John Knox Press, 1983, P. 28) BUT- THANK GOD THE STORY DIDN’T END THERE! There were other Gospels written which completed the story, other Gospels which ...

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