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3251. The Young And The Restless

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... every single day. I suspect that would bug your mate after a while. Some of you husbands are thinking, "Poor man." Some of you wives are thinking, "Lazy husband." It's rare to read about someone who is addicted to change. Most people are quite resistant to change. Particularly in today's rapidly changing world. In fact, many of us find change rather scary. Think of the changes that our society has experienced since 1990, for example. Some have been exhilarating--like the fall of communism, the mapping of ...

3252. The Guiding Light for a New Year

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's one resolution you've kept for at least one week. I heard about one poor fellow who decided to make only resolutions this year he could keep. He resolved to gain weight, to stop exercising, to read less and watch more TV, to procrastinate more, to quit giving money and time to charity, to not date any member of the cast of Baywatch, and to never make New Year's resolutions again. Maybe he's onto something. Why torture ourselves when we never keep those resolutions more than a week anyway? What we need ...

3253. All My Children

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day which our nation celebrates tomorrow. Did George Wallace really change? The answer to that question is beyond our knowledge, but if he did, then George Wallace made a great leap, for it's one thing to change human laws, but quite another to change human hearts. When it comes to changing hearts, you won't find a better example than John the Baptist. He prepared the way for Jesus, but his techniques and his appearance were peculiar. His home was in the Judean desert. His diet ...

3254. As The World Turns

Matthew 4:12-17

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A piece of charcoal and a white handkerchief Good Morning, boys and girls. Jesus told people to repent. Repentance means to turn around--to quit doing things that hurt you and hurt other people. Everybody needs to repent from time to time. For some people repentance will mean choosing different friends because some friends will lead us to do wrong. Let's use an example. If you rub an unclean object with a clean one, ...

3255. Inexpressible Joy

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... started to fall apart. In the Guevara's neighborhood, kids carrying book bags were often harassed by gang members. Jesus put the word out on the street that if anyone messed with his little sister, they would have to deal with him. Whenever Angelica was tempted to quit, Jesus was there to encourage her. Today, Angelica is continuing to excel in her studies at UCLA. (2) How does it happen--that one person can overcome so much? Of course, we can't help in indulging in a little play on words with Angelica's ...

3256. "Why Don't We Just Tell Them Our Names?"

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... myself wondering what a terrorist waiting to board a plane in the gate area, knowing he intends to kill all these innocents, is thinking? One thing I can imagine that the terrorist is most surely NOT thinking, is about the individual names of his victims. No, I am quite sure he would not want to know his victims' names. As long as he can think of that plane full of people in group terms which he has been taught to use to define his enemies--the West, the Great Satan, American capitalism--he might be able to ...

3257. Ready For A Change

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... O.K. Your family was terrific. Still, you were searching. And then, just at the right moment, into your life came Jesus. MANY PEOPLE HAVE STORIES LIKE THAT TO TELL. Stories of a new beginning, stories of a sudden life-changing experience. There was quite a remarkable story in Reader's Digest sometime back. In December 1974, ten-year-old Christopher Carrier was abducted by one of his father's ex-employees, David McAllister. McAllister stabbed young Christopher with an ice pick, shot him in the head, and left ...

3258. Life Is What Happens When You've Made Other Plans

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Dr. Robert E. Lair

... Bonhoeffer's theological studies were interrupted by Hitler's Nazi conquest. Bonhoeffer was part of a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler. Bonhoeffer died in a Nazi prison. His most memorable writing was done while he was in the Nazi prison. A young aspiring poet never could quite make it, so he turned to writing novels. He was so ashamed of his first work that he published it anonymously. It was a hit. The man's name was Scott -- Walter Scott -- Sir Walter Scott after knighthood. A young man who wanted to be ...

3259. A Mother And Her Son (Mother's Day)

Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

King Duncan

A woman had quit work to stay home and take care of her new baby daughter. Countless hours of peekaboo and other games slowly took their toll. One evening she smacked her bare toes on the corner of a dresser and, grabbing her foot, sank to the floor. Her husband rushed to her side ...

3260. Tongue-tied By Three Zeros

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... allow us to see something of God's glory . . . "Theology is the art or science of trying to lift that cloud, to discover what God is in Himself. Now, that's an ambitious undertaking. Unfortunately . . . There are a lot of preachers and theologians who seem quite prepared to tackle the task. I doubt that any of us can do it. God is Mystery . . . what theologians call the mysterium tremendum, and in those Latin words one can almost hear the thundering of Mt. Sinai. (2) Therefore, if we are to know God, God ...

3261. The Benefits Of Trusting Christ

Romans 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Sheen put in a telephone call to the iconoclastic wit and critic, renowned curmudgeon Heywoud Broun. They had never met, so Broun asked, "What are you calling me about?" Sheen answered: "Your immortal soul." Nobody had ever spoken to Heywoud Broun in quite that way. He was so astonished by the experience that, a few months later, he did some radical thinking, abandoned his agnosticism and became a Catholic. Fulton Sheen had the advantage of a spellbinding presence. One Sunday the network announcer, at the ...

3262. Worried About Her Child

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... too young." "No! You are too weak." "No! It will never work." "No! You don't have the education." "No! You don't have the money." "No! It can't be done." And each "No!" you hear has the potential to erode your confidence bit by bit until you quit altogether. Though the world says, "˜No" to you today, will you determine to say, "Yes!' and prove it?" (4) This woman was persistent. And she was not easily intimidated--even by Jesus. "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs," said ...

3263. Managing Your Anger

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... and secretaries said their most satisfying career moves were out the door. Gina, a Woolworth's waitress, told how her boss once offered a ten-cent raise, "as a big favor." Gina saw it as a big insult, and her customers egged her on to quit. It made her day, she says, "to see the manager running from table to table, trying to fill her shoes." A young research chemist, a Ph.D. candidate, had spent three years separating a certain substance into its components. It was excruciating, tedious work, done ...

3264. Love Is Not Easy

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... . One day, the First Lady found out why. As Laura and George W. returned from a speech he'd given in Lubbock, Texas, George was pulling into the garage. The future President turned to Laura and asked how she thought the speech had gone. She said, "Quite honestly, George, I don't think it was very good." Laura Bush reports that George W. promptly drove into the garage wall. (1) Like most wives, Laura Bush learned to be careful how she responded when her husband asked her opinion on something he had done ...

3265. Expectant Living

2 Peter 3:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... past his doctor's prognosis. In that time, he learned to cherish every moment of life. As he said, "If you are told you will never see spring again, and you live to see spring, spring takes on a whole new life." (5) Nothing focuses our priorities quite like the knowledge of our own mortality. Advent is not a season for focusing on a morbid subject like death. But it is a season for looking beyond the present moment to the eternal, and then evaluating our life in the perspective of eternity. So the question ...

3266. The Defining Moment (A Sermon for New Year's)

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

We're only a few days away from the New Year, and I can feel the anticipation--or dread, depending on your point of view--growing. I heard one guy say he already dreads the new year. He said, "The holidays aren't quite over and already I'm about 90 days ahead on my calories and 90 days behind on my bills." Some of you can identify with him. Our calendar did not come down from above. It was established by human minds. There is no real reason why one day on the ...

3267. Hungry For Bread

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... Mother Teresa asked Christensen if he had seen Jesus. Christensen, still focused on the horror around them, admitted that he didn't see Jesus anywhere. Mother Teresa explained Jesus' teachings from Matthew 25 about taking care of the poor, the hungry, the weak. And then she said quite simply, "You did it to me." "You did it to me." Mother Teresa saw Jesus all around her 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 ...

3268. Casting Out Demons

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... WHO'S WHO. It is called WHO'S NOBODY IN AMERICA. Evans and Fulwiler say that 3,800 people have sought places in the register since they began accepting entries. Each "nobody" is limited to a twenty-five-word biography. Some of these biographies are quite amusing. According to these nobodies, you know you're nobody if: "Your twin sister dies and they bury you instead. "Your own reflection in the mirror ignores you. "You had your picture taken beside a tree and everyone admires the tree." One applicant, Evans ...

3269. Why He Came

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

Three middle-aged men--Joe, Fred and Tom--were discussing the possibility of sudden death. "What would you do if you knew you only had 4 weeks of life remaining?" Joe asked. "First of all," Fred said, "I would quit my job and for those 4 weeks I would do nothing but fish." "Not me," Tom said somberly. "For those 4 weeks, I would spend as much time as possible with my children and let them know how much I love them." Joe thought for a few moments and then ...

3270. Missing The Real Miracle

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... didn't want people coming to him for the wrong reasons. Consider our lesson for today. Jesus has just fed five thousand men and an unknown number of women and children with five small barley loaves and two small fish. I believe that would qualify as quite a spectacular miracle. And what was the result? Really, it was predictable. People started coming to him in droves. For what? For more bread. For more fish. John tells us that after this miraculous event the people began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet ...

3271. Do You Know This Man?

John 6:25-59

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: Bring several schoolbooks. Option: A pencil for each child with a Bible verse on it. These can be purchased quite cheaply at your local Christian bookstore. What do you think of when I say the word "school?" (Lessons, assignments, homework, reading, friends, teachers, etc.) What would happen if you just played all day and didn't go to school? You wouldn't learn very much, would you? In today's ...

3272. A Failure To Communicate

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

Sermon

King Duncan

... have you heard the expression, "What we have here is a failure to communicate"? Pollster Sydney J. Harris once said something I thought was interesting. He said, "The two words "亙nformation' and "歪ommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through." Maybe that is the problem in our society today. We live in the information age, but not the communication age. There is a lot of "giving out," but very little ...

3273. Something To Die For

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... sacrifice, someone else to pay the bill. The great preacher Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick once preached a sermon titled "Parking on Another Man's Nickel." That title alone should give you an idea how long ago this sermon was preached. The allusion was to a parking meter that hasn't quite expired. We pull in and park our car and see that enough time is left on the meter for us to take care of our business. Lucky us. We won't have to put any of our own money in the meter. And so we are parking on somebody else ...

3274. Something To Die For

Mark 10:35-45

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... of problem. They came to Jesus and asked if they could sit in a place of honor in heaven. They wanted to sit next to Jesus, one on the right and one on the left. How do you think the other disciples felt about that? That's right, they were quite upset. Jesus told them that whoever wanted to be great must be a servant. By that he meant that they should be more concerned with helping others than having the best place to sit. This lesson is still true for us today. It is true for all of the adults ...

3275. Living In The Kingdom Of God

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... a little over an hour ago. Evidently, one of his neighbors had reported him to the police. After the fern was taken care of, the police officers continued to make polite conversation with Steven. During this time Steven discovered that the police knew quite a bit about him. Evidently, they had some information about him. This episode sounds very foreign to us mind-your-own-business Americans, but it demonstrates one way that another country maintains social order and harmony at all times. (2) How would you ...

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