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3076. Take Time To Pray

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... him to list the most important things he had to do the next day. "Now number them in the order of their true importance," Lee said. Schwab did as he was instructed. "Tomorrow morning," Lee suggested, "you begin with number 1 on your list. After it is taken care of completely, move on to number 2 and complete it. Don't worry if you do not get all the way through the list. At least you will have completed the most important tasks. "Do this every working day. After you have convinced yourself of this system ...

3077. I Should Have Written That "Thank You Note"

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... . She found a blind prisoner in utter despair, so she had him taught Braille and brought in Braille books for him to read. She learned sign language to talk with a deaf-mute prisoner. When people asked her if she was afraid she replied, “We care for the boys and they care for us.” One day in 1937 Kathryn Lawes was killed in a car accident. Next day her body lay in a casket in a house a quarter of a mile outside the prison wall. The acting warden found hundreds of prisoners crowded around the main ...

3078. Persistence In Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... parable about a widow who had had a fierce determination for justice. Her determination was so great that she pestered a certain judge until he granted her request. And this was no ordinary judge. Jesus described him as one “who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.” In the Old West he might have been described as a hanging judge. Strong men dreaded appearing in his court. Lawyers tread softly as they approached his bench. But this stern judge was no match for this persistent widow. She was ...

3079. Marriage In Heaven? No. Heaven In Marriage? Yes.

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... about to hand the text to the clerk he hesitated. "Now why do I have to write `profitably'? Certainly, my wife knows that I am no dummy. Would I sell my wheat at a loss?" So he crossed out the word "profitably." Then he went over the telegram more carefully. "Tsk-ask! What have I done? Doesn't my wife know already that I went to town to sell my wheat? So why the devil do I write the words `sold wheat'?" He crossed out "sold wheat." Made doubly cautious now by his errors, he reread the telegram. "Heavenly ...

3080. Thankful For The Right Things

Colossians 1:11-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the free gift of God. It is an inheritance that is bestowed upon us the moment we become children of God. Father John Powell in his book, Unconditional Love tells about when he was serving as a chaplain in Germany. A dear little nun, 87 years young, was assigned to care for his room. He says that every time he left the room, even for a moment, the good sister cleaned it. She would wax the floors, polish the furniture and so forth. On one occasion when he left the room for a short walk, he came back to find ...

3081. Promises Kept!

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... have loved you with an everlasting love! And we need to find in the Church those promises made visible! That’s why we sing that old hymn of Timothy Dwight: "I love your church, O God! For her my tears shall fall! For her my prayers ascend! To her my cares and toils be giv’n till toils and ...

3082. Transforming Moment

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , he thought, "I was so thrilled that there could be good feelings mixed in with faith that I really didn’t care about her opinions." More than ten years have passed since that special night. "I was on a mountain top that night," ... life, then, at that point in time, I realized I had been deceiving myself, and there was little I was actually controlling. He offered to take care of the situation for me. "It was the most difficult thing I’d ever done ” to leave the situation in the hands of God ” but ...

3083. Beyond Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Jewish tradition about a rabbi who went on a journey with his servant named Jacob. Their cart was drawn by a lively horse of which the rabbi was very fond. When they came to a roadside inn, the rabbi went in to rest, leaving his horse in Jacob's care. In the meantime, a horse trader passed by and, seeing Jacob, soon made friends with him. He plied him with drink and Jacob soon was so intoxicated it was easy for the horse trader to induce him to sell him the horse for a song. Although drunk, Jacob was ...

3084. Time To Do Something About The Piano

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... to find out more about him and his teachings. THERE COMES A TIME WHEN WE MUST CLAIM JESUS AS OUR LORD ” WE CAN NO LONGER PUT HIM OFF. Nicodemus came by the cover of darkness to speak with the Master. Being a respected leader of Judaism he had to be careful whom he was seen with. Nicodemus felt safe as he made his way through the darkness to meet with Jesus. Nicodemus hoped that Jesus could help him fill the void he was feeling in his life. Jesus told Nicodemus, "Very truly I tell you, no one can see the ...

3085. Confused But Not Forgotten

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Despair that God Once Again Spoke to Abraham. "Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman," God told Abraham. "I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring." Once again Abraham trusted God knowing that Ishmael would be cared for. And in one of the saddest scenes in all the Bible, Abraham gives in to Sarah and casts out Hagar and Ishmael. A woman and her son cast out into the desert with only a skin filled with water and a little bit of bread. How long did ...

3086. The Conversion Of A Scoundrel

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... before. His parents had kicked him out of their home. He slept on a cot in the garage, and his meals consisted of beer and corn chips. At night he would take drugs. But there was something about Steve that made people in the congregation take care of him. They showed him concern and love, something he obviously had not experienced much in his life. Slowly Steve’s life began to change. The walls began to crumble. First, he changed from within. People noticed his attitude was different. Then his habits and ...

3087. Stepping Out In Faith

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... He was walking on the water with Jesus. He took another step. It was a moment of triumph. It was a victory of faith. And this brings us to our second lesson: FAITH INVOLVES OUR VENTURING OUT, DOING THINGS WE HAD NEVER DREAMED OF, TRUSTING THAT GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF US. Faith is not simply a passive trusting that God will come to us when we are down and out. Faith is an active process of living a vital, full life - going places we would never go, loving people we would never love, living life to the fullest ...

3088. The Riches Of God

Romans 11:33-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... say to us, "Hey, that won't work. You'll kill yourself if you keep that up." Yet He allows us to pilot our own ship. If we ask, though, if we enlist His help, if we will entrust our lives to His care, He will lead us beside still waters. We will see the glory of His care. He listens. He leads. HE LOVES. That's the conclusion to the matter. He listens and He leads because first of all He loves. Patrick M. Morley in his great advice book, The Man in the Mirror, tells a heart-wrenching story about ...

3089. Surprised By Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... . “It’s from everyone in the class,” one of the girls told her. “We took a collection.” Jennie was overwhelmed by the love and affection she was shown that day. She never really wanted to be part of the class, but the class showed her how much they cared for her. “I received a lot more than money that day,” she reflected, “I received unconditional love and a fresh realization of what it means to belong to the church.” (2) Our society bombards us almost daily with the message that we should ...

3090. Roll Call

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... employers ” even with ourselves. That is the humbling effect of a bad habit. We discover we can't even control ourselves. We have only one hope ” to yield to God's control.When we are able to do that, we can rest assured that God will take care of us. William Hinson recalls the time when his children were younger and one child's pet died. Dr. Hinson says that he practiced "replacement therapy." When one pet died it was replaced by another pet. One time his youngest daughter Cathy's cat died. Together ...

3091. A Most Disagreeable Man

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... his parents by their hands and literally pulled them down to where the surf was pounding on the beach and where John was drowning. They pulled John out of the water as the mother ran for help. John was rushed to the hospital where he would be in intensive care and on life support for several days. Today John is alive and well! This accident served as John's wake-up call to life. In fact John claims it was the best thing that ever happened to him. It changed his life. It changed his values, his commitments ...

3092. Aren't You Glad?

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Anne-Rose Reeves

... lot...but I want you all to sit down for a minute. There is something I have to do. And then, with his free hand, pastor Jones carefully set aside the candles and the missal on the altar. He pulled out an old rug from beneath his apron, laid it on the table and put ... was no more, trampled underfoot, gone forever. The flowers we have here today will surely last the season if we plant them carefully. The eggs are indeed a symbol of new life. But the flowers will eventually fade and pass on, and new life isn't ...

3093. Why Are You Troubled?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... close to a wall, listening intently. This went on for some time before an attendant finally came up and asked him what he was doing.. "Sh!" whispered the patient, motioning him over to listen as well. The attendant pressed his ear to the wall and listened carefully. "I can't hear a thing," he finally said. "That's right," replied the patient with a troubled look on his face. "It's been like that all day!" Erma Bombeck tells about another worrier named Estelle. She is a mother from Path, Rhode Island; and ...

3094. Walking Into The Heart Of God

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Their offering goes back to the little church for outreach ministries to orphans. (4) That's the kind of church that is "like walking into the heart of God." Love is our primary witness to the world. As the saying goes, "People don't care how much we know until they know how much we care." But there's one thing more that we need to see. Love is a gift from God. There's a bumper sticker that reads: "Perform an unnatural act ” love somebody." And it's true. Pure love is not an attribute of humanity, but of ...

3095. Where God Can Be Seen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , D. H. Lawrence said that their moral could be characterized like this: "Avoid one thing only: getting connected up (to anyone)." Scott Donaldson, in a study of Hemingway, says that that really was his philosophy. Hemingway once fired a babysitter because his sons were starting to care for her too much. Hemingway said that you could only love a person so much, but then you had to stop or you'd get hurt. C. S. Lewis pretty much had that same attitude until he gave his heart to his beloved Joy. Some of ...

3096. You Can Face Your Giant

1 Samuel 17:1-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... a worthy opponent? Goliath had all the trappings of a warrior, while David carried a shepherd's staff. Full of himself and overly confident, Goliath mockingly said, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" Then Goliath cursed David. He told David that he could take care of him with very little effort. Then David told Goliath, "You come to me with sword and spear and shield; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied." David knew that more ...

3097. Preparing For The Second Part Of Life

James 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... let our faith lead us into action. Particularly does our life come alive when we reach out to other people and offer them Christlike love. For when we reach out to others we will be blessed in the process. True faith, says James, is "to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world." 1. M. Scott Peck, FURTHER ALONG THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), pp. 155-156. 2. Contributed. Source unknown. 3. Diana Bonet, THE BUSINESS OF LISTENING, as ...

3098. Working For Love

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... he is quick to give the credit for his recovery to God. He knows that it is God who has taken care of him, and that He will continue to do so. Recalling his former life John says, "If people could go back and see the way I was drinking, and then see ... how much my life has changed, I don't care what their life was like, they'd have to know that it was possible for them to change, too." (6) John discovered, even through his pain, ...

3099. People Who Dread Christmas

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the water cooler. After a long drink of cold water, he took a taxi to his solitary apartment and freshened up. In a short time he was back at the office. Nobody asked him how he had spent Christmas. Nobody had even missed him. Nobody seemed to care. After that experience, George Mason put a sign on the back wall of the vault. The sign was to remind him of those desperate hours. It read, "To be indispensable somewhere, is the secret of happiness. To love people, is the purpose of life." (3) Now we don ...

3100. Jeremy And Jesus

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... of faith. Faith is important to family life. There would come a time when both Elizabeth and Mary would have to entrust their sons to God. They knew their children were a gift from God. Regardless of what followed, they knew their children were always in God's care. That was their greatest hope and it is your hope and mine too with regard to everyone we love. This Christmas let us affirm our faith in the God of Elizabeth and Mary and their two sons who changed the world. *A Child Shall Lead Them, Marie L ...

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