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3176. Rejoice

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... we rejoice that the Lord is at hand? Three reasons: FIRST, IT REMINDS US THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL. Bill Clinton is not in control. The Republican Congress is not in control. God is in control. Augustus Caesar ruled over the greatest empire of his time. Augustus Caesar thought he was in control. King Herod ruled over Judea. It was not Rome, but it was obviously important to him to be the big fish in a little pond. In that little pond, at least, he was in control. But Augustus Caesar and Herod were wrong. They ...

3177. Put Out Your Nets

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... and said in a questioning tone: "Ty Cobb ” .367 ” that's it?" "Right," said the rabbi. "Ty Cobb ” .367. He got a hit once out of every three times at bat. He didn't even bat .500 ” so what can you expect already?" "Ah," said the man who thought he was a wretched failure because only half the time he did not succeed at what he must do. (2) All of us get discouraged at times. We can sympathize with these fisherman standing beside their boats with nothing to show for their labors. All they can do now ...

3178. Love Your Enemies

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... pay. Another year went by. One Sunday afternoon Kenneth's mother walked into the room with that file of debts in her hand and announced. "Son there is something that is eating at me about these debts and I have decided to do something about them." Kenneth thought, we are finally going to get a lawyer. Kenneth asked, "What are you going to do?" She said, "I am going to forgive them." "How are you going to do that?" Kenneth asked. She said, "Follow me and I will show you." They went out into the backyard ...

3179. What We Have Is A Communication Problem

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... not be familiar with. It is called "gaslighting" ” a phrase coined from the Alfred Hitchcock thriller GASLIGHT, in which the husband convinces his wife that she's going mad. See if this dialogue sounds familiar. "She seems like a nice girl," Mother says thoughtfully. But Brian chooses to read something else into her statement. "You sound as if you don't approve," he says. Now at this point Mother neither approves not disapproves. In all fairness she doesn't know the girl well enough to judge. But Brian ...

3180. Now Is The Day Of Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... is the question he asked: "Would it make any difference in your life if Christ had not died on the cross?" Remember now, he asked this question of church members. Here are the results: 45 said they didn't think it would make any difference. 25 said they thought so, but when asked what the difference would be, they weren't sure. 20 said it made all the difference in how they lived and believed. 10 said they didn't know, because they didn't understand what the cross was all about. (2) Is there something wrong ...

3181. The Secret Ingredient Of Success

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... hand, I had an acute power of observation, and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed. I could put down in clear terms what I saw...I knew that I should never write as well as I could wish, but I thought, with pains, that I could arrive at writing as well as my natural defects allowed." Somerset Maugham discovered the secret of genius. The point is that life does not ask us to become what we are not. The fig tree was only required to produce figs. No more. You and ...

3182. Been There, Done That, No Thanks!

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It was quite a chore for her mother to get them all prepared, especially the girls, because it required that she spend time getting their hair all braided. Her mother was so busy trying to do everything, she just hadn't gotten to little Maxine yet. Waters thought she would be left behind. "Then Ms. Carter came," says the Congresswoman. "She would not leave without me. She took me to her own home and washed and braided my hair and got my clothes together so I could go on the picnic. And it stayed with ...

3183. Reality Maps And Rolling Stones

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus' followers? Never again would they think of death in the same way. Once a reality map has been shattered, it can never be put back together. When a stone is rolled away, the world can never again be the way it was. At one time people thought the world was flat. Columbus sailed his boats and a stone was rolled away. The world was forever changed. At one time scientists and theologians believed that the earth was the center of the universe. Then Galileo rolled away a stone. Never again would humanity's ...

3184. A Fishing Trip To Remember

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... other man's hands and feet, and these scars were shining like the sun. (2) Now I hope you don't get hung up on the thought of Jesus shooting a gun. It's a parable. Christ comes to confront us when we would shrink back from our responsibilities. He comes to confront ... recognize their risen Lord, but still they are disconcerted by the recent chain of events. While they are lost in their thoughts the resurrected Christ takes some bread and breaks it and gives it to them. Then also the fish. Then he turns to ...

3185. God Is Greater

John 10:22-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... them eternal life, and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand." God is greater. That is the thought for the day. God is not a captain who has abandoned us. God is a shepherd who is able to protect us from whatever may threaten. NOTICE, FIRST OF ALL, THAT GOD IS GREATER THAN ANY TEMPTATION. That's saying a mouthful, isn't it? Temptation can really play havoc ...

3186. On Being Mistaken For A Mannequin

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

King Duncan

... paralysis to hyper elastic skin, an extremely low pulse rate, and intense concentration. He may not laugh at your jokes, but he readily admits that he still has to breathe and blink ” occasionally. (1) I read about Bill Fuqua, the motionless man, and I thought about so many churches. So many congregations have mastered the art of doing nothing. We read about the church on the Day of Pentecost ” the flames of fire, the sound of a mighty wind, the strange excitement that catches the attention of passersby ...

3187. Good News For Broken Hearts

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... watering his feet with her tears and using her long hair to wipe them dry. Kissing his feet and anointing them with ointment. Altogether it was quite a pathetic display of emotion. Good people don't get carried away like that, do they? If Jesus really were a prophet, thought the Pharisee who was playing host to him that day, he would realize what kind of woman this was, and he wouldn't even allow her to come near him much less let her kiss his feet. But Jesus made no effort to stop the woman ” even though ...

3188. Created For Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... institution. When the van made its next stop, the prisoner sneaked out from under the hood ” hot and dirty. His plan was thwarted when he discovered that he was in the yard of another prison just four miles from the first. On this Independence Day weekend our thoughts turn to freedom. We thank God for our freedom. And we thank those men and women who have gone before us who sacrificed so much to give us the freedom we enjoy. Our lesson from Paul's epistle is about freedom. "For freedom Christ has set us ...

3189. Drooping Arms And Crooked Feet

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... me give you a terrific example of this phenomenon. General George Patton once recalled an incident which occurred during the Argonne offensive of 1918 in the midst of heavy fighting. "I felt a great desire to run," says Patton. "I was trembling with fear when suddenly I thought of my progenitors and seemed to see them in a cloud over the German lines looking at me. I became calm at once and saying aloud, `It is time for another Patton to die'. . . went forward to what I honestly believed to be certain death ...

3190. The Most Vexing Question In The Bible

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... used all kinds of diagrams, mathematical formulas, and models to teach the law of the pendulum to the class, and he could tell by the look on the teacher's face that the teacher thought he had done well. When Ken finished, he asked the class how many believed in the law of the pendulum. All hands flew up, including the teacher's. The teacher thought the lesson was over at this point ” but it had just started. Ken asked his teacher to come to the front of the room and sit in a chair placed against the wall ...

3191. What's This World Coming To Anyway?

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Randolph W. Barr

... deck of the good ship St. John's Church. Both men were still dressed from the day's work, at the office for Hank and on the road, selling, for Wayne. Suit coats were off. Shirt sleeves were rolled up. Ties were now loose around their necks. Pastor Smith thought that he had walked into the church kitchen for a bowl of soup. It was more like a hornet's nest! "I didn't know that you guys worked on the property committee," the pastor said with a breeze of humor. Sharp glances and thinly veneered anger flashed ...

3192. Hope For Those Whom Life Has Cheated

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... sometimes overlooked: "My God," he wrote, "I have never thanked Thee for my thorns. I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorns. I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross: but I have never thought of my cross as itself a present glory. Teach me the glory of my cross: teach me the value of my thorn. Show me that I have climbed to Thee by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made my rainbow." (5) That's beautiful, isn't ...

3193. No More Pain!

John 8:31-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... : "If all the good people in the world were red and all the bad people were green, what color would you be?" A little girl thought mightily for a moment. Then her face brightened and she replied: "Pastor, I'd be streaky!" The sad thing is that many of us take ... opened the lunch box. All my friends were there and watched me. As I walked back through my second-grade lunch experience, I thought, MAMA DOES CARE. I AM IMPORTANT." (4) That is the freedom that Christ wants to give us. We are important! We matter! We ...

3194. Moving Toward Sainthood

Isaiah 26:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... such folks would have on our society. Author Kurt Vonnegut, of all people, said it best sometime back in USA TODAY'S "Opinion Line." He wrote: "I got a letter from a woman a while back," writes Vonnegut. "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," Vonnegut continued, "what made being alive almost worthwhile for me was the saints I met. They could be almost anywhere. By saints I meant people who ...

3195. Comfort My People

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a young fellow named Joshua Martinez. Joshua made the news because he shaved his blond hair in solidarity with his mother, who lost her hair from chemotherapy. Joshua paid the price at school for his non-conformity. He was beaten up by students who thought he was a skinhead. "I had people hollering out across the hall, saying skinhead' or KKK,'" Joshua, 13, said as he accompanied his mother, Tracy Jernigan, to a chemotherapy session for her breast cancer. "Her hair was her life," says Joshua. "Her looks ...

3196. Be Joyful

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... have you recommended that particular church? There must be several churches nearby that you could have recommended." The policeman smiled and replied: "I'm not a church man myself, but the people who come out of that church are the happiest looking church-people in St. Louis. I thought that would be the kind of church you would like to attend." (4) You and I can relate to that, can't we? Who doesn't want to be around happy people? This is the great secret that many of us have hidden from the world. God's ...

3197. A Very Special Man

Luke 2:22-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... accepted people like he accepted them. Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Bob Richards put it like this: "One reason why I think a great deal of Jesus is . . . He never pointed out the weaknesses of people and never dwelt on their failures and shortcomings. He always thought of the dream that God had for their lives. Never emphasizing their failures, He simply said, Go and sin no more. Be what God intends you to be.'" (8) Now, what has this got to do with you and me? Peggy Noonan was a celebrated speech writer ...

3198. Was The President's Advisor's Sin Really That Bad?

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... a terrible price for the gross irresponsibility of our generation . . . A survey of Rhode Island teenagers last year revealed that 2/3 of the boys and nearly half of the girls thought it acceptable for a boy to force a girl to have sex if the two had dated for 6 months. And half the kids surveyed thought that a young woman dressed seductively was asking' to be raped. "The shocking attitudes of these youngsters," Bill Reel continues, "no doubt result from dehumanizing TV fare that has dirtied their minds ...

3199. I, Caiaphas

John 18:12-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... be done, and fast! Although Pilate had brought extra troops to enforce the peace while the Passover crowds flooded the city, we knew if the Nazarene called for open rebellion, Rome would very likely not be able to control the outcome. Discussion went just as I had thought. Some were reticent to take any kind of definite stand. By now Jesus was very popular with the crowds, so no one knew what could happen if steps were taken to have him arrested. The last thing we wanted was for Rome to find some excuse to ...

3200. More Than A Mannequin; Not Quite A Masterpiece

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... a humble voice that he had hesitated to answer the question truthfully because he was afraid that his concern would seem so trivial beside the vast issues that others had introduced. But he went on to say that since the point of the program was to share what you really thought, he might as well admit that what he feared most was "not being loved." (5) That is the great fear that haunts all human kind, isn't it? We want to be loved. We want to be recognized. We want others to think well of us. We have a need ...

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