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3251. Do This And Live!

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... still she resisted. Her story is our story, is it not? There is a respectable lawyer in Albert Camus' novel, THE FALL. He is walking in the streets of Amsterdam one night and hears a cry. A woman has fallen into the canal and is crying for help. Then the thoughts come rushing through his mind. Of course he must help, but...a respected lawyer getting involved in this way? What would the implications be? ....what about the personal danger? After all, who knows what has been going on? By the time he has ...

3252. Teach Us To Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... no idea of how to keep the plane aloft or even more importantly, how to bring it in for a landing. Her only thought was to press the button on the microphone as she had seen her husband do so many times before and pray that someone ... of whom he was fond. When he got to the city, however, he forgot his upbringing. He fell into a life of crime. He became a petty pickpocket. He thought nothing about it until one day he picked a man's pocket as he had done so many times before, but this time a pair of eyes were ...

3253. How Shall We Pray?

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the auction sale a marvelous opportunity to get rid of it. So she sent it all off to be sold. But when the time came for the auction, Mildred was ill and couldn’t go. Joe went instead. You guessed it! Joe saw this lawn furniture and bought it. He thought he had found a terrific bargain. Poor Mildred! She had to wait another year to get rid of the stuff. (2) We don’t worry about our daily bread. We worry about gaining weight. We don’t worry about life’s essentials. We worry about what to do with all ...

3254. Persistence In Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... her request. And this was no ordinary judge. Jesus described him as one “who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.” In the Old West he might have been described as a hanging judge. Strong men dreaded appearing in his court. Lawyers ... is that we are creatures and he is Creator, we are children and he is Father, we are finite and He is infinite. It is a humbling thought. We are so sure that we know best. It is infuriating to think that God may be saying to us even as we say to our children, “ ...

3255. Thankful For The Right Things

Colossians 1:11-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... m not referring to the calories we will consume or the risks we will take being on the highway traveling home to Grandma’s. No, I am suggesting that Thanksgiving can be dangerous in a spiritual sense if we are not conscious of the needs of others. Give it some thought for a moment. When we give thanks for our good health, what does that say to people who do not have a well body? Does that say that we are more deserving than they, or that somehow God loves us more? When we thank God for our nice homes or ...

3256. Preparing For God's Great Gift

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... TO BRING OUR LIVES INTO TUNE WITH GOD. Jesus reminded his disciples of the example of Noah. Noah was in tune with God. His neighbors were not. Noah obeyed God and began preparing for the flood by building an ark in fair weather. Noah’s neighbors must have thought he was crazy. But Noah knew what was about to happen. He was in tune. We need to be in tune as well. A few weeks before Christmas, eight-year-old David’s mother asked him and two of his classmates, "What Christmas songs are you learning in ...

3257. Set Free

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... I was thrown out of that car with terrific force. My body skidded along the pavement; all of my clothes were torn off. I was bloody, raw, and battered, but I was alive." He continued his moving story. "The next thing I remember was two medics standing over me." They thought he was dead and so did a policeman. "I watched him as he felt my pulse and listened for my heartbeat. He said I was dead, too." But they decided to take him to the hospital. He could not make a sound. "I prayed and prayed the whole time ...

3258. Lord, When You Came Down To The Jordan

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... got to be pretty good friends by the time we were there, where her daughter lives, and her grandchildren." The older woman was tired and out of breath when they finally found their destination. She thanked the girl for helping her. "She said thank you so many times I thought she’d never stop!" Ginny said. "She grabbed my arm, and she said God sent me to her, and she’d pray to Him later, before she went to sleep, to thank Him for me." At first Ginny wasn’t sure the woman was serious. "But I looked at ...

3259. United We Stand, Divided We Fall

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... arms and dark mahogany legs, each carved like the claw of a lion. Time passed, and that couch became the subject of a bitter debate between members of the Clyde family who wanted to keep the couch where it was and newer members who thought the couch did not belong in the sanctuary. This debate sparked tension between the established members and the newer families who had moved to the country to get their children away from the drugs that were spreading into their suburban neighborhoods. The new families ...

3260. Time To Do Something About The Piano

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... to an end when she developed cancer. During one visit to her hospital room her pastor found her in great pain. She was propped on her side, facing a big window that looked out into the broad expanse of a South Dakota sky. As her pastor prayed with her, a thought came to his mind. He asked, "Kathy, would you like to have a cross in the room?" With most of her strength gone all Kathy could do was nod. The pastor went to the church sanctuary and took the large, silver cross off of the altar and carried it in ...

3261. Meeting Jesus Along The Way

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... Where in the world do we find Jesus? That question has been asked by every generation. Where do we find Jesus in times of heartache, in times of disappointment, in times of tragedy? The residents of Milford, Connecticut saw what looked like a face on an old tree. Some thought it was the face of Jesus and that somehow it was a message from God. In recent years people have reported seeing Christ ™s face on the side of a house, on the side of a barn, and on a town ™s water tower, among other places. Where ...

3262. Confused But Not Forgotten

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... slave. Hagar and Sarah didn't get along; there was deep resentment and bitterness on Sarah's part. Sarah saw Ishmael playing with her son Isaac. She was filled with jealousy and anger. She wanted Abraham to get rid of this woman and her son. You would have thought that Sarah would have been grateful for having a son in her old age. Instead she was so eaten up by jealousy that she wanted Hagar and Ishmael out of her life forever. Sometimes Life Is Unfair, But Because of God's Love, We Are Able to Overcome ...

3263. Grace Greater Than Our Sin

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... was a story about an African-American man whose house had been newly painted. Within days someone had spray-painted graffiti all over it. Who would have done something like this in his neighborhood, he wondered? He was angry and rightly so. At first he thought it was racially motivated. Someone did not like him living in their neighborhood. He asked around hoping to find out who had spoiled his house. He found that the graffiti was painted by an eleven-year-old boy. It was nothing more than a childhood ...

3264. Finding The Real Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Mary, on the other hand, was a young woman far from home and family. Her birthing room hung heavy with the "strong stench of animal debris." Mary would have no health care professional to assist her through labor. In that setting on a cold New England night Wendy thought about Jesus' birth many years before, "It was a vision that took my breath away," she said. (3) The angel's words probably took Mary's breath away, too. She would bear a son. He would rule over the house of Israel. Mary's response was one ...

3265. A Cross In A Cradle

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... long with a three-foot wingspan." Airplanes interested young John. He was sure the plane in his garage just had to be for him. "Surely my mother would give the treasure to me," he thought. But as Christmas Day approached his mother delivered the airplane to someone else. "This seemed like the meanest thing a kid's mother could do," John thought at the time. John was very disappointed on Christmas Day when he did not get the airplane. One day in the spring John's mother asked him to go along with her on one ...

3266. Help Me Make It Through The Night

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... against her to comfort him, he touched her round abdomen. Little Bob asked, "Mama, is it dark inside there where my little brother is?" He was convinced that his yet unborn sister would be a boy. "Yes," his loving mother replied, "it's dark in there." As Bob thought further he asked, "He doesn't even have a night-light, does he?" "No," Sue responded, "not even a night-light." Then Bob hugged his mother as she patted his head. Bob had one more question for this mother that night, "Do you think my brother is ...

3267. Aren't You Glad?

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Anne-Rose Reeves

... that the tale seemed indeed too crazy to be believed, let alone grasped by anyone. Why, in John's gospel, he remembered, the disciples locked the doors when Mary Magdalene showed up with the news. And in Luke, even those who should have known better thought the women were telling an idle tale. So what could Pastor Jones possibly say about Easter that would make a difference to anyone? Just then the phone rang. "Pastor, this is Bill, Bill Haney. Listen, I'm not sure whether the Sunday school is doing their ...

3268. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... is the vinegrower." Now there were vines growing all over the place in Palestine. And when Jesus said he was the "true vine," people knew right away what he was talking about. But besides being familiar with vines in the everyday sense, the people of Palestine also thought of themselves as God's vineyard. As the prophet Isaiah proclaimed, "For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel." (5:7) So what did Jesus mean when he said, "I am the true vine"? WELL, FIRST OF ALL, HE MEANT THAT OUR ...

3269. Where God Can Be Seen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Day cards left when she returned to the store. She picked up a card with great anticipation. Did God lead her to just the right card? She read the gold print on the cover. It said, "To My Daughter, On Mother's Day." "That's not right," Mavis thought. "I'm looking for a card for my mother ” not my daughter." But then she pictured her mother standing at a card rack trying to find a card to send her. She remembered all the birthday cards her mother had given her that said, "To My Wonderful Daughter." Surely ...

3270. Freed From Fear

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... After a moment, somewhat to his surprise, Tom got up and ran into his house. He told his mother what had happened, but she assured him that there was no panther. (3) The boys' imaginations had been working overtime - there was no real danger, but they they thought there was, and they experienced a gut-wrenching fear. Someone has turned the word fear into an acronym. Fear, they say, is False Evidence Appearing Real. When we fear, we have a false view of reality. Fear makes us give up before we even begin. It ...

3271. Battle With The Law

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sabbath on the doorstep of his house after his return from a three-year voyage. When another man who had fallen into some water absented himself from church to dry his only suit of clothes, he was found guilty and publicly whipped. "(4) A Scottish minister, asked if he thought it was wrong to take a walk in the country on Sunday, said, "Well, as I see it, there's no harm in takin' a walk on the Sabbath, as long as ye dinna enjoy yourself." Do you see the problem? When legalism enters the picture, we take ...

3272. You Can Face Your Giant

1 Samuel 17:1-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will save me from the hand of this Philistine," David said. David had something to teach Saul and his army. He called on the name of the Lord ” something no one else in camp had apparently thought to do. DAVID WOULD NOT GO INTO BATTLE ALONE, BECAUSE GOD WOULD BE WITH HIM. It's like a certain father who listened as his son told him about his first serious conflict at school. He had been picked on by three bullies who punched him and knocked him off ...

3273. All You Need Is A Miracle

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... complained of a sore throat. "I have some holy water from Lourdes that I got from my mother," the grandmother said. "Should I put some on your neck?" The girl thought for a moment and then asked, "What's the expiration date on it?" Such skepticism. But unfortunately, that's how most people deal with miracles. Not even the disciples thought in terms of the miraculous. They had forgotten who it was that was with them. Jesus probably smiled sadly at the disciples and their skepticism. Then he took the small ...

3274. Christian Living As It's Meant To Be

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... my whole life." Now when Tony heard that, something clicked inside. He went over to the waiter and asked if the women came in every night, which they did. Then he then asked if he could hold a birthday party for the one woman, Agnes. Well, the waiter thought it was a wonderful idea, and agreed. Tony was back at the diner the next morning at two-thirty to decorate. He brought some crepe paper decorations and made a big birthday sign out of pieces of cardboard. He covered that diner from one end to the other ...

3275. The Three-fold Journey

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... very small. There were a number of snickers as he sadly took the fish off the hook and tossed it back in the water. But, he thought to himself, the day was just starting. He had lots of time to catch bigger fish. So he cast out into the lake again. And again ... and that she could not save herself. Valerie was sensing God's presence in a way she had never expected or even thought possible. She tried desperately to regain her composure as the service continued. But long before the service ended, her head was in ...

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