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3176. Be Careful What You Call Me

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... continue is no credit to us. There is no greater shame that we bear than that our faith has been used as a pretext for persecuting Jews. Horrendous deeds have been done in the name of Christ. Many of our Jewish friends are quite naturally sensitive to such transgressions. We saw it last year in the reaction to the announcement of a major Christian denomination that they would target Jews for evangelization. One of the major stumbling blocks in Jewish-Christian relations is the New Testament characterization ...

3177. How Do You Get To Heaven?

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... over to Christ, then try to live as vitally and courageously as you are able, trusting that Christ will help you overcome. You lose a loved one to death. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you do not shut yourself up in a darkened room and quit living. You believe that someday death will be defeated and you will be reunited with the one you love. There is a Christian way to grieve it is with hope. When the Communists were struggling for control of Rumania many years ago, one of the many atrocities they ...

3178. Living With The Birth Pangs

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... my dissertation," said the rabbit. "Really?" asked the fox. "And what is your topic?" "Oh, the topic doesn't matter," said the rabbit. "No, tell me," begged the fox. "If you must know," said the rabbit, "I'm advancing a theory that rabbits can eat many quite large animals including, for instance, foxes." "Surely you have no experimental evidence for that," scoffed the fox. "Yes, I do," said the rabbit, "and if you'd like to step inside this cave for a moment, I'll be glad to show you." So the fox followed ...

3179. Surprised Sheep And Graceless Goats

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Stan Meade

... the young woman. She was simply unaware. Is that such a terrible offense? Well, it doesn't seem so terrible, yet the Lord was infuriated by it in the goats. "Lord, when did we see you hungry, naked, thirsty, in prison, sick, lonely, hurting, depressed, not quite yourself, or whatever?" The truth of the matter is that they didn't see the Lord that way at all. Had they seen him in that condition, some of them would probably have ministered to him. Nevertheless, because they did not see him in the lives ...

3180. Is It Wrong To Be Ambitious?

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... , he was asking for directions to my NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE!" You've known people like Ziggy, haven't you? Good people, nice people, people you like to have as best friends, next door neighbors, buddies on the job. They're good hearted folk but they never quite get their lives together. They are always on the outside looking in ” watching life go by but never having any aspiration to lead the parade. I thought about Ziggy as I wrestled with the question suggested by today's lesson from the Gospel, "Is it wrong ...

3181. The Most Difficult Commandment

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... other people. Red people, yellow people, brown people, black people, white people…people of every race, people of every religion, people of every nation, people of every political persuasion. We shall love one another. How difficult can that be? Well, evidently, it is quite difficult. Here, in our own nation a nation fashioned on Christian principles as we like to remind ourselves we are a nation divided. We are divided by race, by religion, by economic position. What is the solution? How can we have the ...

3182. Searching For Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... , lives of integrity and justice and generosity. We may not wear a bracelet that says W.W.J.D., but that is to be our credo, "What would Jesus do?" And we are to leave the world a better place because we have been here. Author Kurt Vonnegut said something quite profound sometime back in USA TODAY. He wrote: "I got a letter from a woman a while back. She was pregnant, and she wanted to know if I thought it was a mistake to bring a little baby into a world as troubled as this one is. And I replied ...

3183. Come Home For New Year's

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back." 1. J.R. Miller, THE 901 BEST JOKES (Nashville, Tn. 1991). 2. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. 3. Lewis R. Timberlake, IT'S ALWAYS TOO SOON TO QUIT (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1988). 4. M. Hirsh Goldbert, THE BOOK OF LIES (New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990), pp. 4445. 5. Stephen Friedman, CITY MOVES (New York: McGrawHill Publishing Co., 1989). 6. "The Americanization of Edward Bok," BITS & PIECES ...

3184. Peace, Blessed Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the chicken and left her to her misery. Hazel Goddard goes on to say, "What a picture of the guiltridden Christian who, because he is more aware than the unbeliever, picks at himself constantly." (3) We need to accept God's acceptance of us. We need to quit picking at ourselves over sins God forgave long ago. But we also need to forgive others. How many of us are hurting right now because we are filled with resentment toward someone else? Deep in our hearts there's a simmering desire for revenge, and this ...

3185. Do You Have The Glory?

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Gandhi were uneducated, but not always. One day the train Gandhi was on came to a sudden stop. A passenger had pulled the emergency cord when he saw a lawyer fall headfirst from the train. (Sounds like I'm about to tell a lawyer joke, doesn't it?) The lawyer quite remarkably stumbled to his feet, unhurt. It appeared to be an obvious case of good luck that he was not hurt, but the lawyer said no, it wasn't luck. He told Gandhi he had escaped injury because he was riding on the same train as the great Mahatma ...

3186. On Eating Peas With A Knife

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... verse by an unknown poet that goes something like this: I eat peas with honey, Been doin' it all my life; It tastes kind of funny, But it keeps the peas on my knife. Most of us have never known anyone who eats peas with a knife. It sounds like quite a feat. I suspect I would scatter those little green varmints all around the dining room if I tried it. And yet I understand that there was a time when some people practiced that quaint custom. I thought about this when I read a story that appeared in GUIDEPOSTS ...

3187. Fighting Over Daddy's Will

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... But God said to him, ˜Fool! Tonight you die. Then who will get it all?' "Yes," Jesus concluded, "every man is a fool who gets rich on earth but not in heaven." NOTICE, FIRST OF ALL, THAT MONEY CAN BE A BLESSING OR A CURSE. Family members who have quit talking to one another because of a contested will are evidence that money can be a curse. And all of us have seen people who had abundant wealth but it wasn't enough. Remember that bizarre case last year of the wealthy St. Paul, Minnesota family that was ...

3188. On Being Picked For The "Rework"

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

King Duncan

... perfection. (1) Steve's job is not as difficult as the numbers suggest. He admits that the large majority of the 1,200,000 Kisses that pass him every hour are already perfect by the time they reach him. But, he admits, some pieces don't quite pass the perfect specifications that are required. The public's expectations of what a Hershey's Kiss is supposed to look like when it is unwrapped are so high that only perfection will do! Steve will not allow a defective piece of chocolate to pass his station ...

3189. Living With Pizzazz

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... off about 500 denarii's worth from each settlement package. And the deed is done. Now, says Jesus, it doesn't take long for Richie Rich to find out what's happened. After all, good news spreads fast. And the word on the street is that he's become quite a hero. In fact, those who've just had their debts reduced come crowding his door. Local custom requires that they voice their thanks! So there they are, mobbing his mansion, and shouting his praise! What a generous man he is! So what does he do? What can he ...

3190. Getting Rid Of Fear

2 Timonty 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... lonely. They have fewer close friends and date less frequently than nonshy people. Shy people earn less money and have more difficulty advancing their careers. (4) It is no fun being shy. Of course, you don't have to be shy to be timid. Some of us who are quite gregarious lose our tongues when we hold an unpopular opinion we seek to blend in rather than stand out when we are out of step with the crowd. We are timid souls at heart. Just when we are called to be courageous our resolve weakens, just when we ...

3191. When The Going Gets Tough

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... jabbed from every side. But then I read about the Apostle Paul, in chainsnot gold chains like men wear todaybut heavy prison chains, languishing in jail. And his only crime was being a follower of Jesus. When I contrast them with Paul's situation, my problems seem quite trivial. Paul describes his situation like this: "For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time has come for my departure. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in ...

3192. We've Been Bragging About You!

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... as a way of offering encouragement. The church was undergoing a period of intense persecution from the civil authorities. And there were internal problems. There were believers in the Thessalonian church who had become so fixated on Jesus' return that they had quit working and were just waiting around. However, when Paul compared the church at Thessalonica with the church at Corinth, he came to appreciate the Thessalonians. (3) Corinth, a cosmopolitan city, was so immoral that it spawned its own word "to ...

3193. Thanks For All You've Done

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... in his native country. His family settled in New York City and began building a life for themselves. Stanley's father worked as a fruit vendor, and Stanley worked hard right alongside him. Eventually, Stanley entered the aluminum business, and his hard work earned him quite a fortune. When Stanley Newberg died at the age of 81, he bequeathed his estate of more than $5.5 million to the government of the United States. His will states: "It is my expression of deep gratitude for living in this kind of ...

3194. An Unlikely Witness

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... world was due to women. He went on and on about women and the problems they cause. After the message the pastor was greeting the people as they left church. An older husky woman came up to the pastor and, as she was shaking his hand, she squeezed it quite unmercifully. He cried out, "That hurts." She asked him, "What was the telephone number of the Garden of Eden?" He said, "I don't know." She continued to squeeze his hand even harder. She again asked the question and once again he said, "I don't know." She ...

3195. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... victorious Christian living, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale suggested one more character trait of a Christian. He called it “An irrepressible sense of victory.” These four elements--a tranquil mind, an unquenchable joy, an outgoing love and an irrepressible sense of victory paint quite a complete picture of Easter. (4) LET’S BEGIN WITH A TRANQUIL MIND. A tranquil mind comes from knowing that God is at work in the world. For several decades now, the country of South Africa has been one of the most troubled ...

3196. Four Ways To Defeat Stress

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... stones. But this stirred up so much mud he could see nothing. Not knowing what else to do, he sat quietly for a while. Then, glancing down, he saw clear water again. He also saw his coin. (4) Sometimes the best thing we can do is to quit running around frantically and just sit down or kneel down compose ourselves and commune with God. Jesus showed his confidence and his calm. HE ALSO SHOWED HIS COMPETENCE. He blessed the loaves and multiplied them. He fed the people. He fed the people spiritual bread and he ...

3197. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To See God

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... a perfect representation of a slender, bearded face onto the surface of the bread. Now I am not certain how Mrs. Rubio knew that this was Jesus, but she convinced a reluctant priest to bless the piece of bread, then she built a shrine around it. Mrs. Rubio quit her job so she could devote all her time to tending the tortilla shrine. Friends, neighbors, even strangers stopped by to look at it, or to pray in front of it. Mrs. Rubio, who also prays nightly in front of the tortilla, has said, "I do not know ...

3198. Where Is Your Heart?

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... out a radical level of commitment even when we are not very good at that sport. Two men were chatting casually at work. The conversation turned to golf and one asked the other, "Do you play?" "Yes, the younger man replied, "I used to, but I quit because I wasn't very good. I consistently shot in the lower seventies." There was a long, low intake of breath, then the other man said, "Lower seventies, huh?" "Yes," his coworker said. "Consistently?" asked the other man. "Every hole," the man said with a sigh ...

3199. Where Is Your Heart?

Luke 12:22-34

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... another from a distance of three feet that's about this high (demonstrate). Did you know that in a very short time those drops of water would begin to sting and then hurt and then start to make sores and soon even the strongest man would be begging me to quit. One drop of water would be nothing, but drop after drop starts making a difference. Drop after drop of water will carve an impression into solid rock. It ought to remind us that though we may not be able to make much of an impression in the world, if ...

3200. When The Fish Won't Bite

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... 's life, we back up to the fourth chapter of Luke where Jesus enters the small Galilean village of Capernaum. There Jesus stays at the home of Simon Peter's mother-in-law. Since this house would later become the headquarters for Jesus and his disciples, it's quite possible that Peter and his wife lived there with her mother. Now, there's nothing inherently wrong with you and your wife living with her mother, but, in the "man's world" of the Bible, living with your mother-in-law doesn't exactly label you a ...

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