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3101. The Placebo Effect

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Biblical scholars of many of us. Of course time spent in prayer each day is equally important. John Masefield once said, "God warms his hands at a man's heart when he prays." That is beautiful imagery. You see, the Christian faith makes the audacious claim that our puny little minds and hearts and spirits can make contact with the Divine Mind and Heart and Spirit. That is what the Incarnation and the Crucifixion and the Resurrection are all about. "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us...." writes John ...

3102. Why Jesus Was Baptized

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... not want to disgrace herself or invade her favorite movie star's privacy. So she buys a cone and departs without saying anything. Gaining her composure outside the store she realizes that, while she has her change, she's missing her icecream cone. She goes back in to claim what is rightly hers. "I didn't get my icecream cone," she says with as much dignity as she can muster. "I'm sure I gave it to you," said the man behind the counter. Finally Redford, licking his own cone, speaks up. "You'll find it in ...

3103. Behold The Lamb

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... to know--that they have won something far bigger than a state lottery. They need to know that their name has already been selected to receive the greatest prize ever awarded to anybody--an eternal victory over sin and death. All they have to do is to claim their prize. An eternal love relationship with God through Jesus Christ is theirs--and ours--simply for the asking. So, what does all this say about our lives? We are those who are called to tell the story. Following in the footsteps of our Lord, we are ...

3104. Fans or Followers

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

King Duncan

Someone named Kyle Idleman has written a very thoughtful essay titled “Why I’m Not a ‘Fan’ of Jesus.” He begins by noting that, according to a recent survey, the percentage of Americans who claim to be Christian is somewhere north of 75 percent. “Really?” he asks, “three out of four people are followers of Christ? “Let’s see, if the population of the United States is about 311 million and 75 per cent are Christians that brings the number of Christians to somewhere in ...

3105. The Ultimate Evidence of God

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... when the two met. Browning is said to have answered: “What else? I tell you I saw Shelley, and, of course, in view of that, everything else just faded from my mind.” That was the kind of feeling Simon Peter had in the presence of Jesus. Still, to claim him as the long awaited Messiah required a very demanding leap of faith. So many had come declaring to be the Christ. There were others who healed and performed great wonders. How could he know who was authentic and who was not? Do not forget that the ...

3106. Belonging To The Right Family

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... who they were in spite of their existence as wanderersnot simply because Abraham was their father, but because they felt a real connection with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That gave them their identity. It still does today wherever the children of Abraham may roam. We claim that same heritage. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is our Godnot by birth, but by adoption. That's who we are. We are God's people. His family. His children. On this Mother's Day 1990, it would be good for us to refresh our ...

3107. Response To The Resurrection: Christian People In A Pluralistic Society

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... incredible statement. No wonder people had difficulty accepting Jesus even when he met them face to face. C.S. Lewis put the dilemma succinctly: "Then comes the real shock. Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a 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 ...

3108. How Have We Made It This Far?

Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... me. Some of the finest people I know are right here in this room. Still, we are not all we ought to be. We are certainly not all God means for us to be. The amazing thing about the church is that it has not only survived, but that it claims hundreds of millions around the world in its membership. How did it happen? How can it be that with its many frailties the church continues to survive? One place we can find an explanation is Acts 1:14. In this brief verse we read these important words describing the ...

3109. You Are A Winner!

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... God has come into the world and said, "I believe in you. I believe in what you can become. I see you through the eyes of love and let me tell you, you are terrific. The very Son of God has come into this world and to back up his claims about our worth laid down his own life. We are winners. We need to tell ourselves thatevery dayevery hourevery waking moment. We are winnersnot because of anything we have done, but because of what He has done. Super salesman JUDGE ZIGLAR puts it as well as it can be put ...

3110. Why Won't They Listen?

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... of us are not more receptive to the voice of God - we have adopted the secular spirit of the society in which we live. THERE ARE OTHERS OF US WHO MIGHT BE MORE RECEPTIVE TO THE GOOD NEWS BUT WE ARE TURNED OFF BY THE PERSONAL WEAKNESSES OF MANY WHO CLAIM TO SPEAK IN GOD'S NAME. The sad saga of PTL's Jim Bakker should serve as a warning to all who serve Christ that no man or woman is above the Law of God. There is much evidence that many of the faithful have soured on all socalled Televangelists ...

3111. Out Of Our Control

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... to control the uncontrollable we resort to charms, rituals, signs. Athletes are notoriously superstitious. In the first game of a double header, former baseball star Minnie Minoso went hitless in five at bats. Between games he took a shower in his uniform, claiming he was washing away the evil spirits. Everybody laughed, but in the second game Minnie got three hits. After the game, eight players took showers with their uniforms on. The night before the final round of the 1935 Masters, a friend gave golfer ...

3112. The Pearl Of Great Price

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... . THE KINGDOM IS ALSO A PRECIOUS RELATIONSHIP. Jeremiah foretold the coming of this kingdom hundreds of years before Jesus. He wrote: "And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying ˜Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me." The claim that we can "know" the God of all creationthe notion that we can have direct access to Him the teaching that Jesus gave us that God is like a loving Father to each of His childrenis a statement of faith far beyond our feeble brains. Several ...

3113. There's A Better Way Than Shooting Somebody

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... don't shoot someone just because they are insolent to you. Do you? Tony Campolo tells about a Philadelphia man who killed a driver who cut in front of him on the expressway. The murderer explained that traffic had slowed as it was being funneled into a single lane. He claimed that he had waited in line for more than a quarter of an hour to enter the flow of traffic. Just as he was about to do so, another car passed him on the shoulder of the highway and cut in front of his automobile. As though that were ...

3114. Do We Know What We've Got?

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... together, laugh together and shed tears together. That has always been the strength of the Christian movement. A Roman historian named Lucian, writing in the first century, describes a man called Peregrinus who was in prison and seems to have claimed to be a Christian, though he was probably a bit of a fraud. Nevertheless, Christians in his community visited him in jail regularly. “They show,” Lucian writes, “incredible speed whenever such public action is taken, for their [leader] (Jesus) persuaded ...

3115. Jesus And The Ayatollah

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... love for God that drove Albert Schweitzer into the jungles of Africa. Schweitzer was a man of dazzling intellect and enormous accomplishments. But he wrote a book entitled THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS. The research for that book brought him face to face with the claims of God upon his life. When it was finished, he gave up all his academic degrees and distinguished posts and went to Africa to serve as a missionary physician. For he read Jesus' story of the rich man and Lazarus and it touched his heart ...

3116. In Praise Of Doers

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... God's overall purpose and design, we can be more effective than we ever imagined we could be. A recent magazine advertisement for an insurance/financial services firm shows a picture filled with materialistic goodies a new boat, a beautiful house, an expensive car. The caption boldly claims, "If you can dream it, you can do it." Then a subcaption whispers, "There's no limit to your ability." There's one problem with this ad. It's a lie. There is a limit to your ability. And you can't do everything you dream ...

3117. Possibly Our Best Year! (A Sermon for New Year's)

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... chuckled. They knew that white shoes are Boone's trademark. Pat Boone came back to the Crystal Cathedral a second time. He remembered what Schuller had said. He told the congregation that Dr. Schuller got tired of his image sometimes, too. "So once a year," Pat claimed, "Robert Schuller checks into a motel under an assumed name, goes to his room, pulls the drapes closed, goes into the closet, shuts the doorand shouts: `It's impossible! I can't do it!'" (1) Schuller is famous, as you may know, for having cut ...

3118. Face To Face With The Tempter

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." Such is the powerful but sometimes gradual pull of romantic attraction. It is precisely because our romantic and sexual feelings build so strongly and silently that the Bible commands us to flee certain situations. And if we choose not to flee in the beginning, we really cannot claim later that we don't know how we became involved in a situation that we shouldn't be in. The Tempter in the Garden of Eden was a serpent. From the first pages of the Bible we are introduced to the way sin comes into our lives ...

3119. I'm Mad And I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore!

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... , this mother abandoned her two-year-old son 13 years ago. Recently the son was killed in a car/bicycle collision. His dad's insurance company awarded $300,000 to the son's estate. Mrs. Benson showed up after all this time to claim half the money. Under Connecticut law if Mrs. Benson had officially terminated her parental responsibility, she could not have profited from the money. Abandonment of a baby, however, does not constitute formal parental termination. (2) So she collected $150,000. That violates my ...

3120. Connections In High Place

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the finest sections in our town. It is not our outer circumstances that determine our inner happiness. Some people surrounded by every convenience and luxury wallow in inner despair. Others in the most adverse of circumstances arise above those circumstances and claim amazing victories. Gerald Coffee, a retired navy captain, was a prisoner of war for seven years. His home was a cell that allowed him to take only three steps in any direction. Still, during these years of unbelievable hardship he was able ...

3121. The Awesome Power Of Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... love one another." Would it be possible for a hungry soul to come into our fellowship and to leave feeling nobody cares? How well do we measure up to this commandment from Christ? LOVE HAS AWESOME POWER. Dr. Karl Menninger, the wellknown psychiatrist, claimed that the most tragic word in society today is "unloved." "Love cures people," he said, "both the ones that give it and the ones that receive it." And he's right! Love cures! Love heals! LOVE HEALS HURTING BODIES. Scientific research is now confirming ...

3122. Soli Deo Gloria

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Mark McGilvey Livonia

... sickness' and when we might find someone else appealing. The commitment says that the circumstances may change, but the marriage stands. In a recent wage dispute in Diyarkakir, Turkey, 1,070 employees of Turkey's Highway Authority filed divorce suits. Their grounds? They claimed that $70/month was insufficient pay to allow them to support their wives. That's an interesting approach to marriage. Have money problems? Get a divorce! Why not? After all, a marriage license is only a piece of paper, isn't it? Not ...

3123. Noblesse Oblige

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... has called us to be a special people in this world. We are his church, his beloved bride, his brothers and sister, his own electa kingdom and priests. Now that we know who we are, let's go out to do what we must do -- claim the world in the name of our King! 1. Donald F. Ackland, et. al., BROADMAN COMMENTS 1991-1992, (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1991). 2. Charles W. Koller, EXPOSITORY PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1962). 3. Max Anders, 3O DAYS TO UNDERSTANDING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ...

3124. A Time For Silence

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... reason we come to worship. In his autobiography, Albert Schweitzer said that one of the main things his parents did for him as a child was to take him to worship services, even though he was too young to understand much of what was going on. He claimed it is not important that children understand everything. What is important is "that they shall feel something of what is serious and solemn...." Can you see Peter, James, and John as they contemplated what it meant to be in the presence not only of Jesus but ...

3125. A Pentecostal Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

In the days of the great California gold rush some prospectors discovered a very rich mine. "We've got it made," they said, "As long as we don't tell anybody else before we stake our claims." And they made a vow of secrecy. But they had to go into town for provisions and tools. When they left the town, a great host of people followed them. Why? Their "secret" was written all over their faces. It was impossible for them to hide what they had found. ...

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