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3051. Transformed By A Babe

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... can not only cope, but we can conquer! Every Christmas, we thrill to the glorious music of Handel’s `Messiah,’ with its climactic "Hallelujah Chorus." Few know the story behind this great piece of music. In 1741, George Friedreich Handel was ready to quit. His health was shattered. His right side was paralyzed and he could barely manage to hold his pen. His money was gone. Creditors threatened him with imprisonment. Handel sank so low into depression that he found himself wondering if he should not hurl ...

3052. The Greatest Good News Of All

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

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and broke things just the way Dennis did. To which his friend replies: “Gee! He sounds like a regular fella! I wonder where he went wrong?” If you can’t imagine Jesus involved in boyhood mischief, then your understanding of the incarnation is not quite what it ought to be. When God emptied himself and invaded our world, He truly became everything we are. King George V of Britain once he paid a visit to the city of Leeds. Elaborate preparations were made for his coming. Excited crowds filled the ...

3053. Watch!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

"Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming." (vs. 42). That is what is wrong with many of us today ”we have quit watching. Rather than living on tip-toe in an atmosphere of expectancy we are drowning in pessimism and despair. Even many devout Christians are prone to operate from fear rather than faith. That is why churches are faltering today. We are afraid. We have no faith. How different we are ...

3054. Mary's Song

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

King Duncan

... man to be proud, the devil vanished. (1) No such deception occurred in Mary's situation. Still, her humility was real. In her words, "He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree." You and I do not fall into God's plan in quite the same way that Mary did, and yet each of us knows what it is to be humbled by God's concern for us. We don't deserve such providential care. After all, who are we that the God of galaxies and mega-galaxies should be aware of our needs ...

3055. The Deeper Meaning Of Christmas

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... before our inflated values, one of those sketches sold for five hundred dollars and the other sold for one thousand dollars. Ordinary wrapping paper in the hands of a great artist became a masterpiece. An ordinary manger and an ordinary stable and some quite ordinary people live forever in our memories because the Christ child was born in the stable of Bethlehem. The ordinary became an eternal masterpiece. What if the Christ child should make his entrance into our lives? Might a miracle not happen to us ...

3056. Would You Like To Hold The Baby?

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... to admit it. We try to cover it all up with clothes, makeup, the toys of success, the ornaments of the good life, with position and prestige. But inside we're like those cheap chocolate Easter bunnies--hollow and empty. Dr. Maxwell Maltz has gained quite a bit of notoriety through his popular self-help book titled PSYCHOCYBERNETICS. The theory of psychocybernetics is based on Dr. Maltz's work as a plastic surgeon. This is how he describes how he became interested in the human personality: One day a number ...

3057. God Spoke

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... powerful even if it were only a team of mules. As a young man this is how he thought of God’s power. He imagined God “ramming the world into being with a mighty shove . . .” But as he read the Bible more carefully he discovered something quite different. He discovered that God only had to speak to accomplish His great feats. “And God said, ‘Let there be light . . .’” and there was light. For the first time he understood the nature of real power. God spoke. The heavens and the earth came into ...

3058. Grace The New Fashioned Way

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... misused God's name or made light of Him?" There were other questions about family, God and conduct as the chaplain went through the Ten Commandments. When the test was completed, he asked the men to tally up their scores. One thought that he had scored quite well and had given himself a 75. He recalled in school that was considered passing. Eventually, one of the men asked, "Say Padre, what's a passing score for this test, anyway?" The chaplain answered, "100 points." The men shook their heads. "What's the ...

3059. Crying On Palm Sunday

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... How was it supposed to feel? (I must confess I am more that a little tired of reporters sticking microphones into the faces of grieving people and asking them how they feel. I'm afraid that if any should ever do that to me, I might explode and say something quite unministerial). But Stevenson seems to have taken it in good humor. When asked how he felt, he replied, "I'm too big to cry, and it hurts far too much to laugh." Where did we ever get the notion that that bigger you are, the less tears you shed. I ...

3060. See My Hands and Feet

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... love and loyalty in your hands." A similar story is told of the great missionary to Burma, Adoniram Judson. Judson went to the King of Burma to ask him if he might have permission to go to a certain city to preach. The King, a pagan, but quite an intelligent man responded, "I'm willing for a dozen preachers to go but not you, not with those hands. My people are not such fools as to take notice of your preaching but they will note those calloused, work scarred hands." After his crucifixion, the disciples ...

3061. A House Divided

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... debate." David Augsburg in his helpful book CARING ENOUGH TO CONFRONT suggests there are five possible steps to solving disagreements: The first one is "I win, you lose." That game is played everywhere and, obviously, is destructive to a relationship. The second is "You win, I quit." Most of us have seen this game played too. The third one he calls "Doormat." One person decides, "Well, walk on me; step on me; I want peace at all costsI don't care about the substance of this issue, but at least we will have ...

3062. Mustard Seed Faith

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... be about life. Their positive attitude and faith in God makes a difference." "I have never forgotten the message on the medallion I received from (television pastor) Dr. (Robert) Schuller," he says, "which had this inscription: When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!" (1) This morning we are celebrating mustard seed faith. Jesus compared the kingdom ...

3063. Something Is Missing

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... his books. They will change your mind. Many of you are familiar with M. Scott Peck's very influential book, The Road Less Traveled. Peck is a psychiatrist and a significant modern thinker. In his followup book, People of the Lie, he makes this quite remarkable statement: "I referred earlier to Jesus as my Lord. After many years of vague identification with Buddhist and Islamic mysticism, I ultimately made a firm Christian commitment, signified by my....baptism on the ninth of March 1980, at the age of forty ...

3064. Losing Favor Or Losing Flavor?

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... one. They based the third rafter on the second the fourth on the third and so on. What they didn't take into account was the width of the pencil mark. Each rafter was one pencil mark wider than the one before. After a while, this can add up to quite a difference. By lunch time they looked at the barn and discovered it was going up at a very strange angle because they had deviated from the original standard. (2) Do you not sense that our barn is a little askew today, too? Chuck Swindoll tells about a wife ...

3065. Lesson From A Blind Man

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... to push it over a wall in order to get it out of the barn. Tarmerlane watched that ant struggle with that kernel of corn pushing it up that wall. As the ant nearly reached the top, it fell, as did the kernel of corn. But the ant did not quit. It pushed that kernel of corn back up that wall. Sixty-nine times this sequence of events was repeated. Finally, on the 70th try the ant successfully pushed the kernel over the wall. Tarmerlane, watching that ant, made a commitment. He said, "If an ant can do it, so ...

3066. Lighting The World

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... advertised gas, oil, and clean rest rooms with a series of signs. That was it! Clinton decided. Beginning with an advertising budget of $200, the family painted crude, unrhymed signs, hurrying to hammer them into the ground before it froze. And something quite encouraging happened. Orders started coming in from druggists whose customers traveled the two roads where the signs had been planted. "The signs had several advantages: It took almost 18 seconds to read a series of them, which was more time than most ...

3067. Why Do You Believe What You Believe?

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... is there. On a beautiful mountaintop we feel a deep moving within. Perhaps, like St. Paul, we experience a blinding light. Most of us need an emotional element to our faith. Without that element we become overly critical. We become like a certain college professor. He was quite ill. He had a friend who was a medical doctor. The doctor had a book that could have been most helpful to the professor in his great need, but the doctor refused to give it to him. "It would serve no purpose," he said, "because the ...

3068. Choose Life!

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... Your Health. It marked a turning point in our society. Suddenly we had to face the fact that the link between tobacco and lung cancer as well as heart disease, high blood pressure and a host of other diseases was scientifically established. Did people quit smoking tobacco when that warning appeared? Millions did, but for many others the habit was too well established. Why would anyone ever choose to begin to smoke? Why choose death when you can choose life? Yet there are teenagers this year who will still ...

3069. Good Reasons For Not Cheating

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... courtroom truth was an option, and therein was the problem. Telling the truth is not an option. Always seek to do and say what is right. If, however, you find yourself tempted or pressured to do the wrong thing, get out quickly. That may mean quitting a job or breaking off a relationship. Some temptations are like giants. They are almost unbeatable. In such cases, we need to flee. Some persons delight in getting others to do wrong. We need to separate ourselves from those persons. Always be honest; if you ...

3070. Welcome To The Mountain. Now Go Home

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Peter's Basilica, and China's Great Wall. While tallying the votes, the teacher noticed that one little girl had not turned in a paper. She approached the student and asked if she was having problems with her list. The girl responded, "Yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind because there were so many." The teacher replied, "Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help." Reluctantly, the little girl stood up and began to read her paper. "I think the Seven Wonders of the World are to touch and ...

3071. The Ultimate Evidence of God

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We no longer see the movement of water in a pool as the special visitation of an angel as did the people beside the pool of Bethesda. We look to science, not religion, to answer most of our questions about physical reality. And it is quite natural that we should. There have been benefits from the process of secularization. The quest for scientific truth has brought us a host of technological wonders. But as Alexander Pope is saying, something has also been lost. God has become an abstract concept for many ...

3072. Response To The Resurrection: Christian People In A Pluralistic Society

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sin. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time... And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips." Do not expect people to respond with great enthusiasm when you make the declaration that God has become a human being. It is too much even for believers to grasp. But it is the Gospel. It is ...

3073. Are We Offering the Right Cup?

Matthew 9:35-10:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... to run into Madame Forestier, the friend from whom she borrowed the necklace. Forestier is shocked by how quickly Mathilde has aged. And Mathilde confesses what had happened--that she had lost the necklace--and what they had been through because of it. Quite shaken, her friend reveals to Mathilde that the diamonds which she had replaced at such great cost had been fake and that the necklace she had lost cost less than 500 francs, a fraction of the cost of the replacement necklace. All those sacrifices ...

3074. What Are You Afraid Of?

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... led from the parking area to the house. On stepping out of the car with a flashlight, he discovered that it would not illuminate the entire path, just the stones directly in front of him. However, by stepping from one stone to another, he could reach the house quite easily. That is how life is best lived focusing on one day, one step, one task at a time. So many of us are missing the joy of living because mentally we are off in the past or the future. Focus on todaynot tomorrow or yesterday. SECONDLY, FOCUS ...

3075. Forever Hopeful

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... ), DePalma had a 5 1/2 lap, eleven-minute lead. Any fool could see that he had the race won. Then DePalma's engine threw a rod. With his sizable lead, though, he needed only to clank along for five laps. Toward the end of lap 199 the car quit clanking and died altogether. As DePalma watched helplessly, Joe Dawsonwho had been eleven minutes behind himwon the race. (1) Too often we sit back and view a situation as if the outcome is already decided. If the doctor tells us that only one person in ten comes back ...

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