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3226. He Brings Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... wondered. Then he noticed a copper kettle hanging on a wall opposite a small window. Soon he deduced that sunshine coming in the window reflected just enough light over into the dark corner where the potatoes lay, to allow them to sprout. That's my job as a Christian, thought this believer. I may not be a great light in the world, but at least I can reflect enough light from God's Son that I can bring some cheer into the darkest corner. "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine...." says the little ...

3227. How Have We Made It This Far?

Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ?” he asked the next paratrooper. “The greatest experience in my life, sir!” exclaimed the young soldier. “How do you like jumping?” he asked the third. “I hate it, sir,” this paratrooper replied. “Then why do you do it?” asked Westmoreland. The young man thought for a moment, then said, “Because I want to be around guys who love to jump.” (2) There are many reasons why people join a church, but I suspect the main reason is because they want to be around the people who love Christ. I ...

3228. Are We Offering the Right Cup?

Matthew 9:35-10:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... this ministry. Mary and Harold became so absorbed in the needs of others that they soon forgot their own troubles. Their lives became immeasurably richer and fuller. (3) Probably Mary and Harold would never have thought of what they were doing as evangelism. It didn’t fit the cup that they pictured when they thought of that word. They were simply showing compassion to people in need--in Jesus’ name. And, my friends, that is what the church of Jesus Christ is all about. Jesus had compassion on the crowds ...

3229. Freedom!

Romans 6:3-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the strains of a hymn: "Saved by grace alone, this is all my plea. Jesus died for all mankind, and Jesus died for me." His hearing, however, was not very good, so when the congregation came to the words, "Jesus died for all mankind," he thought they were singing, "Jesus died for ol' man Kline." "Why," he exclaimed, "that's me!" Stopping in his tracks, he turned and entered the small auditorium. There he heard the simple message of the Gospel and believed. It was then that he became convinced that Jesus ...

3230. Why Won't They Listen?

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... favor of Mother Nature to provide us with food for our table. The Supermarket handles that. The doctor looks after our physical ailments. As far as our other physical needs, we will have our regular paycheck as long as the economy is strong. We live pretty well without giving much thought to God. Oh, we believe He is there in case we need Him. But for the most part, our God is safe and silent. And that's the way we like Him. We are like the little girl who was afraid to go to bed in the dark by herself ...

3231. What About the Weeds?

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... behind a great body of work. You have heard it before because it is true: Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. Jesus talked about the foolishness of those who build towers without first sitting down and figuring the cost. Successful living requires that we give some thought to the future. We have a vision of the beautiful garden we hope to be. Now we sit down and make a plan. What would I have to do to make my dream a reality? Of course, a meaningful plan for our lives will include all of eternity. There ...

3232. Out Of Our Control

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... God is working for good with those who love Him. How can we get our minds around this great truth? Wendell P. Loveless once explained it in terms any of us can understand. He said, "My wife can make better chocolate cake than anyone I know. So one day I thought I'd go into the kitchen and see what wonderful ingredients she used. First she sifted some flourthis didn't appeal to me at all, for it was dry and unappetizing. Next she added a cup of sour milk. Now the batter looked very distasteful. Then, to make ...

3233. One Word Changed Everything

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... Who do people say that the Son of man is?" I doubt that Jesus was really all that interested in what the crowd thought about him. He knew the masses of people are quite fickle and easily led astray. There was a glaring example of this not ... this by holding up one finger. "One?" asked the devil. "Are you telling me that you want to say just one word?" God nodded. The devil, thought, "I suppose that even God could not do much with just one word." So the devil removed the bond from God's tongue. Then God spoke ...

3234. Living In Spite House

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... once said that Peter did not seem to think that he was in danger of falling into sin. His question was, "How often should I forgive my brother?" But very soon we hear that Peter has fallen. "I can imagine that when he did fall," said Moody, "the sweet thought came to him of what the Master had said." Peter was forgiven for denying the Master. Could he not forgive those who sinned against him? Maybe this is why Jesus recommended that we become like little children. A nine-year-old was on his way out the door ...

3235. The Way Life Ought To Be

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... for one another. The way life ought to be. Unfortunately, reality isn't quite like that. Life isn't always fair, and people frequently are not reasonable. Take the true story of an Illinois census counter. One day last Spring she approached a house, saw no dogs, and thought she was safe. When she rang the bell, a woman came out of the house and attacked her and bit her. The bite broke the skin, too, and required medical treatment. It's a crazy world!Still we dream. We share with St. Paul that idyllic hope ...

3236. No Improvement Possible

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... the stranger's arms and legs.(3) We cannot truly love another without enobling ourselves. Even when love is crucified on a cross, love is not in vain. There is an ancient legend about a priest who found a twisted branch of a thorn tree he thought would make an excellent crown of thorns on the altar for Lent. As the weeks passed by, he became used to the crown of thorns and hardly noticed it. Until early Easter Sunday morning he remembered that twisted branch still on the altar. "That is not appropriate ...

3237. The Day God Repented

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and now the aged prison is being torn down. If there is one thing Rudolph Hess should be remembered for, it should be this: He never repented. Guilty of the most atrocious sins a man could commit, he never once felt any remorse. Until the day he died he thought of himself as the deputy fuhrer of the Nazi party. Listen to Hess' last public statement at the Nuremberg trials. I was allowed for many years of my life to work under the greatest son that my people produced in their 1,000 year history. Even if I ...

3238. Connections In High Place

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... should swash." That's a pretty good description of my life sometimes, it buckles where it should swash. That's why it is so wonderful to be in worship on Sunday mornings to hear the Gospel. "I am the vine," said Jesus, "and you are the branches." Have you ever thought about how much hope is packed into that little sentence? I. He is the Vine. He is the vine. It is He that nourishes our hungry spirits. We seek in vain when we look for nourishment in other places. A cartoon showed a man standing in a bar in a ...

3239. A Most Confusing Doctrine

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... for her daughter either. She said, "Honey, why don't you ask your Sunday School teacher?" The little girl went to her Sunday School teacher with the same question, "What is God like?" The teacher said simply, "Why don't you ask your father or mother?" The little girl thought to herself as she left, "If I had lived with God as long as my father and mother and Sunday School teacher, I think I would be able to tell a little girl what He is like." That's one horn of the dilemma. We are Christians. We have ...

3240. If It's The Lord's Will

James 4:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... is right? Who can say? We're not God. We do know that however God chooses to act, His way is best. According to an ancient legend a certain small village sought to strike a bargain with God. They had been experiencing many years of poor harvests. They thought they could improve on God's way of doing things. They asked God for permission to plan the weather for the next year's harvest. God agreed. Whenever they asked for rain, God sent rain. Whenever they asked for sun, God sent sun. That year, the corn and ...

3241. Looking For Mr. Right

James 4:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Then we will be ready to be Mr. or Miss Right. A little boy sat through a Sunday School class and learned about the time Jesus went to a wedding and made water into wine. "And what did you learn from that story?" asked his father afterward. The boy thought for a moment and answered, "If you're having a wedding, make sure Jesus is there." Pretty good advice. The question for the morning is not, have you found Mr. or Miss Right for your marriage partner. The question is, are you willing to be Mr. or Mrs ...

3242. When The Recession Reaches Your House

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... TO THIS WIDOW AND HELPED HER THROUGH THE DROUGHT. We read in I Kings 17:8, "Then the word of the Lord came to [Elijah]. `Arise, go to Zarephath...and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you." Elijah, this holy man of God, thought God was providing for his needs. But God was also looking our for this widow and her son! They were all under God's watchful eye! And so, my friend, are we. In Vienna, Austria, people swim down the perilous Danube River. There are whirlpools in the Danube ...

3243. Noblesse Oblige

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... to do. I can tell you who you are. If you know who you are, you will know what to do." These persons became part of the Dutch Resistance Movement. That may remind you of a scene in the movie MOONSTRUCK. It is an amusing and sometimes thoughtful movie about the trials and concerns of an American Italian family. Olympia Dukakis plays the mother. Her husband Cosmo is involved with another woman and this faithful wife and mother is aware of it. Then she meets a nice man whose company she enjoys. She shares a ...

3244. The Awesome Power Of Believing

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... were bloody. He shouted for help until he was so hoarse that he was nearly speechless. "I'll freeze to death before anybody finds me," he thought to himself. Panic seized his mind. In the box car he found a piece of a knife and painfully he began carving a message onto the ... poverty of values of a self-made man who never understood the true meaning of his life. Have you ever sat down and thought about the meaning of your life? God has richly blessed most of us. Are we making our gift back to life, or are ...

3245. A Tragic Waste

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... share our faith with someone else in such a positive way that they might be brought into the family of Christ. Not every one of us can do that. Can you imagine, though, what might happen to our church if ten percent of our church body thought of themselves as evangelists and sought to exercize that gift by being actively engaged in the business of seeking out persons who need the love and fellowship of Jesus Christ and this church family? We would see growth, both numerical and spiritual, as we have never ...

3246. The One Thing That Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... fasten them. She caught the pearls in her hands and burst into tears, crying, "They are real! They are not mine. They can't be." Then that young husband told an unbelievable story. "You know before we were married you said you thought pearls were the prettiest jewelry in the world. You thought they were prettier than any other jewelry except your wedding band. A long time before we got married, I asked the Lord to help me put this string of pearls around your neck. You never knew about this box. I started ...

3247. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... , what is wrong?" his parents asked. "I was at the market," said the boy, "and coming down the street I saw a big crowd. I went over there, and I saw Jesus." His father asked, "Do you mean the Jesus that we have loved? The Jesus that we have always thought was a good man, who taught good things?" "Yes, sir! That's the man!" the boy replied. "I saw Jesus, and, Daddy, He was carrying our Cross, a Cross that we made right here in our shop! We made the Cross that Jesus was carrying! They are going to kill ...

3248. Blessed Are The Believers

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... be a Christian. He concluded, "Unbelief is usually due to indolence, often to prejudice, and never a thing to be proud of." (4) For most of the world's people, there is certainty enough. This is not to say that faith is to be accepted without careful thought. God gave us minds to protect us from gullibility to every silly idea that comes down the pike. We need to closely examine every new idea to which we are exposed, whether it comes from a preacher, a politician, a professor, a news publication or a TV ...

3249. The Wondrous Possibility Of Change

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... the advent of antibiotic drugs. In a short time he was dead. It need not have happened. If only he had been aware of the blister. Some people are not even aware of their deepest spiritual needs because they never give any thought to their souls. They never give any thought to where they stand with their Creator. There must be, first of all, a desire for change. But there must also be a design for change. Constructive change happens best when we plan for it. Successful people are goal setters. They visualize ...

3250. A Mystifying Question

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... for a long period of time in a public place-just to see what type of reactions he’d get. His curiosity definitely paid off. One lady, for example, walked by him, stared, then touched him. When her action brought no response, she actually remarked, "Oh, I thought it was a real person!" Since then, Bill has advanced to the point where he now holds the world’s record for doing nothing. On one occasion, he stood motionless for ten hours and six minutes to earn his place in the GUINESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS ...

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