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3126. Why Did I Do That?

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... White Fang right in the middle of the chickens. This was a supreme test. When White Fang saw his favorite food walking around right in front of him he obeyed his natural impulse and lunged for a chicken. He was immediately checked by his master's voice. They stayed in the chicken yard for quite a while, and every time White Fang made a move toward a chicken, his master's voice would stop him. In this way he learned what his master wanted--he had learned to ignore the chickens. Weeden Scott's father argued ...

3127. Sons And Daughters Of God

Romans 8:18-27, Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the milkshake got the better of him, and he bent down without looking in order to take a sip from the straw. The straw missed his mouth and ended up in his nose. Embarrassed, but not at a loss, he thought that, if he straightened up, the straw would stay in the shake. But when he lifted his head, the straw came out of the shake and remained in his nose, dripping the milkshake down the front of his suit. In a moment, all his confidence evaporated. (1) Have you ever done anything that made you fell like an ...

3128. Love Is Not Easy

Romans 13:8-14

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A telephone Good morning, boys and girls. The great storyteller, Aesop, once told a story about four bulls who were great friends. They went everywhere together, fed together, and lay down to rest together. Always they stayed close to each other so that if any danger were near they could all face it together. Now there was a lion which had been stalking them for some time, but he could never get at them singly--for they were always together. The lion knew he was a match ...

3129. Would You Please Listen To Me?

John 1:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... each day for lunch and to tell jokes. Naturally, they hardly listened to each other. They were too busy thinking of a story to top the one being told. One day, one of the writers came to the table late and rather gloomy. "Sorry guys," he said, "I can't stay long today, my mother died and I'm flying home for the funeral." One of his colleagues jumped right in. Smiling at everyone, he said, "You think that's funny? Listen to this one!" (2) Isn't it frustrating to feel like no one is listening to you? Don't ...

3130. The Difference Between Looking Good And Being Good

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... Publishers, 1998), pp. 84-85. 6. Josepha Sherman. Rachel the Clever and Other Jewish Folktales (Little Rock: August House Publishers, Inc., 1993), pp. 147-149. 7. Us Weekly, April 29-May 6, 2002, p. 53. 8. Robert H. Spain, How to Stay Alive (Nashville: Dimensions, 1992), p. 13. 9. Leadership. Spring 87. Contributed by Wayne Rouse. 10. Michael P. Green, Illustrations for Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Book House, 1989). Cited in Tommy Barnett. Adventure Yourself (Lake Mary, FL: Creation House ...

3131. Hungry For Bread

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... every day. (5) During the war in the Balkens, a Catholic nun in Croatia found a unique way to get help for the war refugees. Dressed in her nun's habit, she would go to a door and plead with those who answered her knock, "I have no place to stay. I'm hungry. Can you take me in?" Croatia is a deeply Catholic country, so the answer to the nun's plea was almost always, "Of course, Sister." Then the nun would step back to let the real refugees with her be seen. They were usually taken in by the ...

3132. Better Ignorant Than Uncaring

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... heat were disqualified because of false starts, Moussambani was forced to swim alone. Eric Moussambani was, to use the words of an Associated Press story about his race, "charmingly inept." He never put his head under the water's surface and flailed wildly to stay afloat. With ten meters left to the wall, he virtually came to a stop. Some spectators thought he might drown! Even though his time was over a minute slower than what he would need to qualify for the next level of competition, the capacity crowd ...

3133. Willing And Able

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them." But this man ignores Jesus' admonition. "Instead," Mark tells us, "he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere." Surely Jesus knew he was asking the impossible from this man. Don't tell anybody? He had been healed from leprosy. Leprosy was one of the worse diseases ever to plague ...

3134. Leaving The City of Regret

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... the paralyzed man in today's story from the Gospel of Mark was living in the City of Regret before he met Jesus. When we pick up the story, Jesus is preaching in Capernaum. Hearing that he was in town, so many people gathered at the house where he was staying that there was no room left, not even outside the door. Some men came, bringing to Jesus a man who was paralyzed. Since they could not get the man to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it ...

3135. Redefining Life

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... few moments I need for you to put on your thinking cap. Use your imagination. How can we re-define the negative qualities of suffering in our lives as positive qualities? Let's start with this: suffering destroys our illusions. This is a hard teaching, but stay with me. Suffering destroys our illusions. Most of us are under the illusion that our primary purpose in life is the pursuit of our own happiness. My life is all about me and my desires, me and my agenda, me and my self-actualization. Then something ...

3136. Missing The Real Miracle

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... Maria's father was too emotionally devastated to care for her. When she was old enough, Maria was sent away to a boarding school, where she was physically and emotionally abused. By her early teens, Maria began experimenting with drugs. She took up the party lifestyle, staying out all night at clubs. She tried anything that would give her a high. She moved in with a wealthy young man named Michael. Michael's money allowed them to live in luxury. While on a vacation in Mexico, however, Maria finally began to ...

3137. Do You Know This Man?

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... up to receive God's spirit, we will discover it is far more rewarding to have a relationship with God than simply having a responsibility to God. 1. Sunday Sermons. 2. Brad Preston, Bradford, PA. 3. John Kramp. Getting Ahead by Staying Behind (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1997), p. 137. 4. By the Bathroom Readers' Institute. Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader (Ashland, OR: Bathroom Readers' Press, 2002), p.68. 5. Bruce Wilkinson. Answers to Life's Most Perplexing Problems, compiled by ...

3138. Clean Hearts And Dirty Hands

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... was always the same: "I'm not making much progress, but I'm well established." One day the pastor was driving past that man's farm, and he saw that the farmer's tractor was stuck in the mud. No matter what the man did, mud flew, and the tractor stayed put. After the farmer gave it one more try and was no better off than he had been before, he started cussing up a storm. At that point, the pastor rolled down his window and hollered out to the man, "Well, you're not making much progress but you certainly ...

3139. Why Jesus Didn't Hire A "Public Relations Guy"

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... night before, he had hit rock bottom. There had been a street fight and he had almost killed someone. After making sure that his victim was recovering in a nearby emergency room, the young man came to the church, found an unlocked door and went inside. He stayed there all night, crying, praying, and thinking. He asked God to forgive him and show him the way. All at once God's presence became very real. He knew God was there, and he felt God's forgiveness. A wonderful peace overcame him. He committed himself ...

3140. Aging Is Mandatory; Maturity Is Optional

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... Gospel for today. It begins with some words with which we have become familiar: "They went on from there and passed through Galilee. [Jesus] did not want anyone to know it . . ." There it is again. The stealth Messiah, quietly going about his business, trying to stay out of the public eye. This time Mark provides us with an explanation: ". . . for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, "˜The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he ...

3141. A Failure To Communicate

Hebrews 1:1-4, Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... t have the courage of our convictions. Common Man never makes waves. Common Man chooses apathy and silence over sacrifice. There is nothing that he would die for. Common Man's last words after the execution of Sir Thomas More are, "You know, it is not hard to stay alive . . . just don't make trouble." (4) Jesus could have avoided Calvary's cross. All he had to do was not make trouble. But he chose a different way. The writer of Hebrews indicates that it was the only way that the great divide between God and ...

3142. Did He Dance?

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... know you trust Judas with the money, but secretly I've had my doubts about him. Why can't I travel with you like them?" And maybe Jesus replied, "Bart, just as surely as I need for Peter and James and John and Matthew and the rest to stay with me and devote themselves to remembering my words and recording my actions, I need other people who will go back to their communities and become responsible parents and responsible members of the community. I need people who will work in the fields or the factories or ...

3143. Christ's Promise To His Saints

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... t realize a tap on the shoulder would scare you so badly." "It isn't your fault," said the driver. "Today is the first day I've driven a cab. I've been driving a hearse for the past 25 years." (1) When somebody's dead, we expect them to stay dead, right? Unless Jesus is in the picture. All of you know the story by heart. Jesus was summoned to the home of his friends Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. Lazarus was fatally ill; in fact, he was already dead by the time Jesus arrived. When Mary saw Jesus, she approached ...

3144. Living In The Kingdom Of God

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... . "You are not far from the kingdom," Jesus told the scribe. I suspect that most of us are in that state. We're still standing just outside. But it takes only a baby step for admittance. Love God, and love your neighbor as you love yourself. 1. Staying Up, Up, up in a Down, down World (Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, TN, 2000). 2. "Watering to Endanger," by Steven Wrage, Atlantic Monthly, June 1996, pp. 41 42. 3. R. C. Sproul, In the Presence of God. Cited in Fireside Stories of Love, Life and Laughter ...

3145. An Unforgettable Day

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... ' parents went up to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. But something happened on their pilgrimage when Jesus was 12 that made that particular trip memorable. After the Feast was over, Mary and Joseph started home, but without their knowledge or consent, Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Mary and Joseph were traveling with a large group of pilgrims, so they didn't think anything of it when they went a full day without seeing Jesus. They assumed he was with some of his friends. But, before too long ...

3146. I Am Unworthy

Jeremiah 1:1-19, Jeremiah 6:1-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... fight, and someone had been beaten almost to death. After making sure that the victim of his assault was in the emergency room of a nearby hospital and would recover, the young man came to the church, found an unlocked door and went into the sanctuary. He stayed there all night, crying, praying, and thinking. He asked God to forgive him and show him the way. All at once God's presence became very real. He knew God was there, and he felt God's forgiveness. A wonderful peace came. He committed himself to ...

3147. A Terrifying Darkness

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... past eight years. At 87 and 107 years of age, Bill and Helen like to go dancing, and they act in plays at their retirement center---plays which Helen frequently writes and directs. At age 90, Helen tried white-water rafting. Helen claims that she stays vital by learning new things and keeping a positive attitude. As she says, "You can tell I'm an optimist--grateful for everything, every day. The cup is always full. Everything's good. After reading my memoirs, my nephew asked if there had ever been anything ...

3148. The Voice Of The Lord

Matthew 3:13-17

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: None When your mom or dad call you in from play, why do you come? What if they tell you to stay away from something because it is dangerous (like putting your finger in a light socket!), do you believe them? Why? You believe them because you trust them. Now, I have another question. We trust our parents so we believe what they say. Can we trust Jesus? Why? Today's scripture ...

3149. Needed: A Radiator Cap Solution

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... loved, you and I would have to be ripped from our cultural moorings. Something radical would need to happen in our hearts and minds--something akin to a new birth. There was an interesting discussion recently on the Internet about radiator caps. Yes, I said radiator caps. Stay with me for a moment. A man posted an article he had written on the Internet about an old car he once had. In his words this car was ratty and ragged, driven when he was a poor college student. He was having trouble with something he ...

3150. Finding Peace

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... was deeply disturbed. Most of us would not make a scene on a plane, but that doesn't mean our hearts are at peace. It doesn't mean that we have no concerns. There are some of us who try in vain to sleep at night. And our digestive systems stay in turmoil. We snap at loved ones for no apparent reason. And we sabotage ourselves in our work and in our relationships. We're troubled, unhappy people. And the sad thing is that we don't know why. Years ago, Rabbi Joshua Liebman wrote a best-selling book titled ...

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