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3351. How Do We Choose?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Anglican Church one Sunday and the Methodist Church the next. The people of the Anglican Church invited him to join their church, and the Methodist people invited him to become a member of theirs, but he could never make up his mind. When he died, his wife wanted his body buried in the Anglican churchyard. Church officials didn't think this was quite right. If you visit this churchyard today, you will find his body buried so that half of it is inside the fence and half outside. (2) A lot of us would prefer ...

3352. The Secret Of Winning

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's house. The cup from which Jesus and his disciples drank meant giving everything they had. Are you able to drink from that same cup? There needs to be more folks like the widow who gave fifty thousand dollars to East Texas Baptist University. She was asked how she wanted to designate her gift. She didn't understand at first. It was further explained that she could give her gift in the name of a loved one. Then she caught on. She wrote on the bottom of her check: "In the name and for the sake of the Lord ...

3353. Why We Give

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... from a guy--blood?" "Oh, no," Hensley assured him. "That's not until tomorrow." (1) When you announce a sermon on giving, somewhere there is a silent scream in the congregation: "What do you want from a guy--blood?" An Indiana pastor had a creative way of approaching this subject. He told his congregation, "As you know, our budget has increased eighteen percent this year. Let me suggest that all of you consider giving one-tenth of your income. Your church is in real financial ...

3354. Lost In America

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... trouble. We care, not because it is fashionable, or because we are goody-goody, bleeding heart liberals. We care because God cares. The people who want to make sure that everybody gets what he or she deserves have no idea in the world what the Gospel is. If it were God ... He would never have sent His Son into the world to die for our sins. We hope that we don’t get what we deserve. We want mercy. And thus we are able to show mercy. "There but for the grace of God go I," is our response to meeting one who is ...

3355. I Should Have Written That "Thank You Note"

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... quarter of a mile outside the prison wall. The acting warden found hundreds of prisoners crowded around the main gate. He knew what they wanted. He said to them, “I’m going to trust you, boys. You can go to the house.” Then he opened the gate. No ... years?” The father paused and looked up at his son. “I saw one the other day, and realized that someone twenty or thirty years ago wanted to share it with me. And so he planted it for my enjoyment. Some day, I said to myself, I’m going to plant one ...

3356. A Christmas To Remember

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... can picture Mary making a wide detour with her water jar on the way to the well and walking ever so slowly past Joseph's shop." (3) Joseph must have been the happiest man in all of Nazareth. Mary would soon become his wife. Then one day everything changed. Mary wanted to speak with Joseph. She told him about an angel visiting her who told her that she would have a child who will "be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High." (Luke 1:32) Matthew tells us that Joseph was a "righteous man" but he was ...

3357. Crossing The Desert Or Protecting Our Vehicle?

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... in leading her Christ. What made a difference in Laura’s life was not eloquent, persuasive speeches. Her transformation from skeptic to believer had mostly to do with how John lives. A turning point came one morning when John took one of her calls. It was someone Laura wanted to avoid. "Tell him, I’m not here," she said. John took the call but later felt badly about having lied. He talked with Laura about it. He told her he had confessed to the Lord his sin of lying and that he could no longer lie for ...

3358. Confused But Not Forgotten

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... or in any way abusive to him. They were simply playing together in the midst of a celebration. Sarah called to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son, Isaac." Sarah wanted action and wanted it now. How sad. For Sarah, for Hagar, and especially for Ishmael. He would be cut off from his father. He would no longer know his father's love. Unfortunately, Ishmael's problem is not rare. There are many persons whose fathers have not been ...

3359. You Can Dress Them Up...

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... TV in Phoenix, she was 24 years old and the city's first female anchor. At a young age she had everything she ever wanted. But then her life began falling apart. Working long hours she often went days without seeing her husband. He accused her of putting ... been a long time since she'd talked or listened to God. That morning she prayed, "God, what am I doing so far from home? I want to walk Your path, but I don't know how." Within a year Mary Jo was back in Phoenix working at a rival television station. Things ...

3360. Trying To Get The Pageant Right!

John 1:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... course, to put a single mitten on a plastic doll, but there was something very right about this act as well. Christmas is about adoring Jesus. John the Baptist knew. "I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandal," John told those who questioned him. John didn't want people to get the wrong idea. He was a witness to Jesus who was about to arrive on the scene. "He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him." And that, of course, is our job this morning as well. We are ...

3361. Face To Face With The Devil

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... really big. You know what that's like! You know how that stuff makes you crazy." She told the women that a few years before she and her boyfriend robbed a gas station. "It was as simple as taking candy from a baby," she said. That night her boyfriend also wanted to rob a convenience store, but something inside of Verleen told her it was wrong. Her boyfriend beat her up for refusing to go along with him but she felt good saying no, "cause that was the only time in my life I ever said no to anything," she ...

3362. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... though some of the smaller branches are 200 feet from the main stem, they bear plenty of fruit because they are joined to the vine and allow the life of the vine to flow through them. The great truth Jesus that is trying to tell us is that if we want life in all its fullness, then we must connect to the "true vine," the very source of life. "Abide in me as I abide in you," Jesus said. We draw our life from him. Gary Parker recalls the time when he and his college roommate, Mike, went to Whitewater Falls ...

3363. Where God Can Be Seen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... its mouth-watering aromas and beauty ” which he eats alone. It is about then that he realizes there is something more that he needs to find happiness. After a fairly short while he grows so terribly bored and unchallenged that he tells one of his attendants, "I want to get out of this. I want to create some things on my own again. I'd rather be in hell than be here." To which the servant replies quietly, "Where do you think you are?" (3) So what does it take to be happy? I can't give you a precise answer ...

3364. What Is The Question?

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... I saying...with whom am I talking and visiting...where am I going with my life right now?" (1) After that I could ask some other right questions: "Is my attitude on the upbeat? Do I have a sense of humor? Do I talk and act like I have and want quality in my life? Do I share that quality with others? And are others able to perceive quality in me and to respond to my way of sharing?" There are a number of alternatives to asking those questions. I could become angry and hostile. I could blame the doctors for ...

3365. A New Look For A New Year

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... his wobbly passes dropped to the ground. "You can do it, Pat," they told him when he was stuck on a school project. And they would encourage him to work harder. "You can do it, Pat. You can do it." "I ended up knowing that I could do anything I wanted to do," Pat remembered years later. And time after time Pat Haden beat the odds and proved the confidence of his older brothers to be correct, "You can do it, Pat." (2) Don't you wish you had an older brother like those two older brothers? The good news is ...

3366. About Miracles

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... sound. It is evident, though, that he had something else on his mind. "Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied. "My time has not yet come." Still, Jesus' heart went out to his hosts. He felt their embarrassment. He cared about their predicament. He wanted to do something to help. That is the first lesson we learn from this story. PEOPLE MATTER. G. A. Studdert-Kennedy was an English chaplain in World War I. He believed life's basic question is, "What is God like?" He visited a wounded soldier in ...

3367. Where Is Your Citizenship?

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... rewarded. And even though we are far from perfect people, we know that the One who created us will accept us just as we are and will take us unto Himself. It is somewhat like the story of a very wealthy young man who had all that a person could want ” materially. However, he was born with a deformity which left him with a very ugly face. Because of this one flaw he would stay in his house and walk around in his garden, which was closed in by a high wall. However, in the evening he would leave his walled ...

3368. The Peace That Christ Gives

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... sting the head with fury. The fight might last for hours. That is the way some of us are on the inside. There is part of us that wants to move ahead and a part that wants to stand absolutely still. There is a part of us that wants success and recognition. There is another part that wants to sit on the river bank and while away the hours. There is a part of us that wants to serve Christ. There is another part that says, "No, I've enough to do right now. Let someone else take their turn." There is a fierce ...

3369. One Came Back

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... come from God. When he caught up with Jesus he fell at his feet and thanked him. This brings us to the first thing we want to note this morning. IN SAYING THANK YOU WE OFTEN RECEIVE MORE THAN WE EXPECT. Returning to Jesus to say thank you, this man received ... over, Coach Puny put his arm around Rather and issued his verdict. "Son," he said, "I watched you out there the whole time today. And I want to tell you something I hope will stay with you the rest of your life. Because if it does, it'll be of no small ...

3370. Setting The Record Straight

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... soul. Since there was no mention of the dead being brought back to life in the first five books of the Bible, they concluded that there was no such thing. They were not the least bit open to Jesus' teachings. In fact, they were trying to trap him. They wanted to embarrass him ” to discredit him and expose him as a fraud. They brought him a complex riddle. If a man married and died before he had any children, it was the custom of the day for his next oldest brother to marry his widow. In their riddle the ...

3371. Visioning Or Vanishing?

Proverbs 29:1-27

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... lack of ability ” but availability. We are not putting ourselves at God's disposal. What hampers and keeps the church from being the church that Jesus Christ is calling it to be, is a lack of a bold and courageous vision ” the kind of a dream that Christ wants us to dream in this place. Just like those children who lived on the island off the coast of Maine, being surrounded by water in every direction, we also often miss the VISIONS that are often right in front of our eyes if we would only take the ...

3372. Do You Have A Forgiving Spirit?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... hang the black gentleman if he refused to sell. The farmer came out on the porch to meet them wearing his best clothes. He said that he was ready to die and that he had asked the minister to draw up for him his Last Will and Testament, which he wanted to have read at that time. The minister read the will, and those present realized quickly the old man was giving everything to them. He willed the farm to the banker who seemed so hellbent on having it. He gave his rifle to another of the men there who had ...

3373. A Journey To A New Life

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... they have lost hope. But here is the good news for the day: Change is possible! Baptism tells us so. Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity, was a millionaire by the age of twenty-nine. As such, he could buy his wife "everything" he thought she possibly could want. But one day he came home to a discover that she had left him. Millard went after her. He caught up with her on a Saturday night in a hotel in New York City. They talked into the wee hours of the next morning as she poured out her ...

3374. It's Hard To Be Number Two

John 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... 'd just had for lunch. Recalling this incident from his youth Bob Laurent concludes, "I don't believe I've ever really gained anything by trying to impress people; it's a game for losers, and the world can keep it." (1) Is there anyone here today who hasn't wanted to impress someone somewhere along the way? Maybe it was a member of the opposite sex. Maybe it was your friends. Why talk in the past tense? There are people you and I enjoy impressing right now. Perhaps it's our peers on the job. I can tell you ...

3375. Good Intentions

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... faded from view, and all that was left when living was through Was a mountain of things he intended to do Tomorrow. Good intentions. Isn't it interesting how easy it is to put off doing the things we ought to do? Some of us even put off things we want to do. Ann Wells in an article in the Los Angeles Times told about the preparations for her sister's funeral. Her brother-in-law handed Ann a lovely box in which lay a gorgeous silk and lace nightgown. It had never been worn, never even removed from the box ...

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