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3201. Gambling On God

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... is a story about the dangers of gambling or the dangers of messing with bears. I do know, however, that some forms of gambling can be hazardous to your well-being. There was an article in the Associated Press sometime back about a Frenchman, Andre-Francois Raffray, who thought he made a shrewd deal 31 years ago: he agreed to pay a 90-year-old woman $500 a month until she died as a way purchasing her apartment. This is a common practice in France. The elderly owner enjoys a monthly income from the buyer, who ...

3202. A Firm Grip On Your Balloon

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... on individual lives in our own century ” more than 1900 years later. A few of you are old enough to recall that traumatic day more than fifty years ago when the Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor. What a day! Who can put into words the outraged thoughts the American people had about those Japanese bombers? Do you know what became of the pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor? After the war he came to the United States to train to be a Christian missionary. His was name was Captain Mitsuo Fuebida ...

3203. Where Is Your Home?

2 Corinthians 5:6-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... several points in the flight. Mom was oblivious, however, to what was happening in Teddy's mind. If there were things he wanted, one would never know because he sat quietly throughout the entire flight. No words or touches were exchanged. Teddy did not share whatever thoughts he had about things he wanted to do or learn. In many ways, he was flying alone. (6) Doesn't that example make you wonder how many children are flying alone through life? How important it is for parents to understand that no matter how ...

3204. Finding Calm In The Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... her off her feet into the ocean. She managed to get up on her feet, but the sand was flowing out from under her feet. Then another wave struck, and she had no footing. She cried out for her parents. All she could see was the vast ocean ahead. She thought she was doomed. Just then two strong arms reached out from behind and pulled her to safety. "Don't be afraid," her father said. "I've been watching you all the time." (6) Those are Christ's words to us. He is not sleeping. He is watching over us. Why ...

3205. A Soap Opera For Saints

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... being out of their lives for 10 years. It is going to be difficult re-entering now that they have a stepdad they like. I'm writing in the hope that others will consider the ramifications before they jump. Just sign me ” SECOND THOUGHTS IN P.A." Ann Landers responded like this: "DEAR SECOND THOUGHTS: I could use the rest of this column to reflect on 'sowing and reaping,' but it would serve no useful purpose. I'm sure you also know that a father can't disappear for 10 years and expect his sons to welcome ...

3206. Cut Your Losses!

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... turned it down while his family lives in poverty? Get real! Somebody should tell Shridhar that he needs to cut his losses, so to speak. I thought about Shridhar when I read our text for the day: Jesus said, "If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off . . . And if your ... His modestly successful law partner was promising to be Mayor of New York City by the time of David's bar mitzvah. He thought Koch had lost his mind. Thirteen years later, Ed Koch was Mayor of New York, and David Schwartz had his bar mitzvah at ...

3207. After The Beep

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... when speaking with someone face to face. I'm usually relaxed and speak in a natural voice. I'm fairly confident in organizing my thoughts in the way I want to express them. Ah, but not so when I'm asked to leave a message "After the Beep." ... Genesis 3:8 the Bible tells us about a call Adam and Eve received one gorgeous day. They didn't want to pick up the phone because they thought it might be God. They had broken God's rules and didn't want to answer for it. They "heard the voice of the Lord God walking in ...

3208. A Time For Hope

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... He took great delight in savoring the anticipated effect of each cruel word. He tried to pray about the matter, but he found that he didn’t really want to turn it over to God. He then tried an experiment. He tried to completely relax ”to push every thought from his mind. As he sought to relax, he felt deep within himself a "a vague longing" for the coming of one he called simply "the Friend," the one who understands, even in the time of anger when we are not ourselves. Leslie Weatherhead writes that an ...

3209. Centering On God

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

... they were walking toward the terminal a stranger approached them. He asked the couple a question. "Why is it," this stranger asked, "that you Americans are always so sad?" Or consider an American missionary who lives among the people in South America. At first he thought he could really make a difference. But as time went on he began to wonder and question whether he was doing any good. What was he teaching the people, he began to ask himself. One day he confided to a friend, "These people experience more ...

3210. Peace

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... . All the world’s people are created in the image of God. By working together, and with God’s help, the world can yet be saved from destruction. Perhaps you know the legend about the big tower full of bells ”there were 12 of them. And each of them thought that he must be more important than the rest, and so they had an argument on the subject. Number One bell said, "Well, I’m Number One, of course, I’m the most important. I ring first, there can be no doubt about that." Number Two interrupted, "No ...

3211. The Manger Is Empty

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... bunk while the ship pitched and rolled. When J.E.B. Stuart finally managed to raise his head from his bunk, he discovered that the boat was docked at Galveston, Texas, and it had been for some time. The ship had been docked for the last 12 hours while Stuart thought he was fixing to die from seasickness. He could have walked the few feet to solid ground at any time. * That's exactly how close God's help is, whether we take advantage of it or not! Whether we're prepared or not. And so the voice of John the ...

3212. The Greatness Of John The Baptist

John 1:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... similar circumstances. When the new infant was born, there was much joy in the home of Zacharias and Elizabeth. On the eighth day they took him to be circumcised. It was the custom to give the child its name at this rite of circumcision. Family and friends thought that the infant boy would be named Zacharias after his father. But Elizabeth spoke up and said, "Oh, no! His name is John." "But none of your relations is called John," they replied. And they made signs to the poor mute Zacharias to see what name ...

3213. Good News For You

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... where we are free to read and study the Word, in a time when more good translations of the Bible are available than ever before, it is absurd that we should neglect the spiritual treasures at our fingertips. Dwight L. Moody once wrote, "I prayed for faith and thought that some day faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, 'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.' I had (up to this time) closed my Bible ...

3214. The Greatest Good News Of All

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... compositions and everyone is going wild. Even the coarseness of his voice and the limitations of his piano playing cannot spoil the effect as he sings, "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know." (1) As he sings, the thoughts of every G.I. in the audience drift back to happier days, warmer days ”family and friends and sweethearts back home. How can you explain or describe or quantify what Christmas means in our lives? Norman Vincent Peale tells about two men who were standing ...

3215. The Things In Mary's Heart

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... she first beheld the majesty of God, how Mary's heart must have burned within her as she gazed upon her new-born son. In a way like no other time in her life, God must have seemed very real to her. He must have been very much in her thoughts; He must have seemed very near. There is something about Christmas that causes us to sense God's presence. I feel his presence this morning, don't you? In the joy and love of family life, in the warmth of these familiar Christmas melodies, in the fellowship of Christian ...

3216. Some Things To Get Choked Up About

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... Day is boring. For others the feeling is not so much of boredom as of let-down. There has been so much preparation, so much pressure, so many parties. Now it is here. The celebration is nearly over. The gifts have been given. What next? For some, the thought of peace and quiet is a blessed relief. For others it is a real downer. By now most of the presents have been opened. I hope Santa was good to you. I always sympathize with children who are at that transitional age when they receive more gifts of ...

3217. The Other Side Of Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and there were so many people she wanted to see. She packed the car and started on her way. A few miles down the road the engine sputtered, and the car finally stopped on top of an old bridge. As the missionary opened the door to go for help, she thought she heard a baby crying. Following the sound, she went under the bridge where she found a tiny baby boy ”very hungry, but very much alive. Next to the infant lay his frozen mother. The missionary picked up the baby and took him to her home. In time, she ...

3218. What If The Lord Really Did Come Today?

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... be good news? Yes, we might be surprised. There is an old and good story about a man who came to the gates of heaven and asked for admission. The gatekeeper asked his name, and then asked him, "What have you done to deserve admission to heaven?" The man thought hard for a minute or two. "Well," he said, "I went to church at Christmas and Easter." Said the gatekeeper, "We don't keep church records up here." "I gave some of my money to religious causes." "But," replied the keeper of the gate, "we do not keep ...

3219. Watch!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... as 149 to "too many to count," the pupils were fairly much in agreement. That is, all except Bobby who answered positively, "Three". "But, Bobby," asked the teacher, "how is it that you saw so few stars when the other children found so many?" Bobby thought a minute. Finally he answered: "Well, our backyard is awfully small." That is our problem, isn't it? Our back yard is too small. Our faith is too puny. There is not that sense of expectancy, of excited anticipation that fired those early disciples. It ...

3220. From Tears To Triumph

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Any break in a relationship can bring pain. Sooner or later we all feel it. Mary was weeping, first of all, because she had lost someone she loved. MARY WAS ALSO WEEPING BECAUSE SHE DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE FULL GRANDEUR OF THE GOSPEL. She was weeping because she thought she was standing beside the tomb of someone who was dead. Perhaps she had heard Jesus say that he must suffer and die and after three days would be raised to life, but somehow it never became a reality in her own life. It might have been a ...

3221. News From The Vineyard

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... that person to question him, and then were referred to someone on another ship. The investigation went on for three months until they were finally able to find the culprit who started the whole thing: Dawson Trotman. That's how the ministry of the Navigators began. I thought of Dawson Trotman this week as I contemplated the words of Jesus recorded in John's Gospel, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser. Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear ...

3222. The Path To Real Success

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... had one of the catalogues. The old man would sadly shake his head as he told his pastor how they turned away from the things that used to mean so much. As they turned the pages of the catalogue, they forgot the beauty of the mountains around them. They thought, instead, of the many things they did not possess. (3) Can you identify with that? We are the ME generation; we want what we want and we want it now. How strange these words of Jesus seem in this context. "If you would follow me you must deny yourself ...

3223. Losing Favor Or Losing Flavor?

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... children." He said, "Yes, I love them in the abstract but not in the concrete." The world is looking for concrete demonstrations of Christian love in action. John Killinger, in a sermon entitled, THE GREAT IMPORTANCE OF LITTLE DEEDS, concluded by saying, "It's an exciting thought that when we die and come into the presence of God and all its fullness, it will not be our major achievements that speak for us, `He was president of a bank. She was the first woman senator from her state. He was the author of ...

3224. It's A Wonderful Life

Isaiah 35:1-10

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... : a lightbulb Good morning, boys and girls. I want to tell you a true story. It is about a little boy named Thomas. Thomas was born many years ago, back in the 1840s. That's about 150 years ago. When Thomas was little, his teachers thought he wasn't very smart. They thought that Thomas would never learn anything. They didn't want him in their class. So Thomas' parents took him out of school, and he never went back after that. His mother kept him home and taught him there at home. Thomas seemed to get in ...

3225. Leadership Styles For A New Millennium

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... to look at Herod, the petty tyrant on his throne and we need to say to ourselves, God is more like the Bethlehem babe than like Herod. Does this answer all our questions about God and about our lives? No. Recently, Life magazine set out to record what various kids thought about God. They handed out cameras to 56 kids between the ages of 8 and 13, and they asked each kid to go out and take pictures that reflect who God is. Anything that made them think of God was fair game for a photo. One nineyearold took a ...

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