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3376. Made For The Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? We forget God's promise to return someday, "like a thief in the night," and we become complacent. After a while, we adjust to the dark and forget that we were made to be people of light. Pastor Ron Mehl has spent many years fighting leukemia. His treatments keep the disease under control, but at any time it can flare up. Mehl knows that there may come a time when God will heal him completely. Or there may come a time when the treatments will stop working and the leukemia will overtake him. A few years ago ...

3377. Running For Joy

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... anything to slow you down in your effort to be a champion for Christ. That's what sin does to us--it slows us down. It impedes us from running the race. Not that sin will send us to hell. Christ has already settled that issue. But our sin keeps us from being all we could be. On May 24, 2001, climber Erik Weihenmayer made history as the first blind man to ever climb the world's tallest mountain, Mt. Everest. Erik, who has been blind since age 13, is an accomplished athlete. His blindness has never held him ...

3378. You Can't Please Everybody

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... not on the Sabbath day." As if healing people was not the Lord's work just as surely as reading scripture in the synagogue. Now, in this man's defense, it is important for us to note that the Orthodox Jew has always maintained a strict regimen for keeping the Sabbath. The leader of the synagogue's argument was not entirely without merit. There was a news report out of Israel just a few years ago. Before the start of the first Persian Gulf war, Israel's Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu ruled that, in case of an ...

3379. Who Am I Supposed To Hate?

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... lady who was showing an insurance agent through her home. He pointed to an exquisite vase on the sideboard and asked, "Do you keep anything in it?" "Yes, my husband's ashes," came the reply. "I am sorry," apologized the agent, "I didn't know he was ... ? There he goes again. Give up all my possessions? My SUV? My widescreen TV with the plasma screen? Surely he would allow me to keep my membership at the Health Club? Relax. Jesus doesn't want you to sell all your possessions or to get rid of your family. Some ...

3380. First, Last And Always--god!

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... He will always think they're wonderful."(4) Irving Berlin hit it right on the head. Here is the critical truth about faith--it is grounded in God's wondrous love for us. We may not feel worthy to be loved, we may even repudiate that love--but we cannot keep God from loving. That is God's very nature. God is love. There is an old legend that after God finished creating the world, He still had the task of naming every creature and plant in it. Anyone who has ever faced the task of naming a newborn knows this ...

3381. Love And Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ is this principle of submission. Remember how in I Corinthians 13 he wrote: "Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, not rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. Love keeps no secret of wrongs; does not gloat over other men's sins, but delights in the truth. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope and its endurance." (I Cor. 13: 4-7) It is clear that St. Paul sincerely ...

3382. Grieve Not The Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... What was wrong with him? Does he always treat you so rudely?" "Yes, I'm afraid he does," replied Powell. "And are you always so polite and friendly to him?" asked Harris. "Well, yes, I certainly try to be," Powell responded. "But why keep trying to be polite and pleasant to him when he keeps treating you like that? He obviously doesn't want your friendliness. How can you be so unaffected by his attitude?" Harris wanted to know. "Because," Powell said, "I don't want him to decide what kind of a day I'm going ...

3383. Excited, Motivated, Changed!

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Motivating people is a perennial problem. I was reading recently that each day across this country 50,000 people quit their jobs. Some are moving to better jobs. Many are not. And these statistics ignore still other people who have also "quit" their jobs but keep coming to work. In fact, in a survey of workers across the United States, nearly 85% said that they could work harder on the job. More than half claimed they could double their effectiveness "if (they) wanted to." (2) If we could do better, why ...

3384. A Man Of Character And Generosity

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... . His purpose was to convey by means of the flowing river to cities and nations more remote the good news of the abundance laid up, not for themselves alone, but for others also. Joseph was a generous man. So often we call people persons of good character when they keep all the rules--when they're law-abiders--when they never get into trouble--when they meet all their responsibilities. And that's fine and good as far as it goes. But such people are not necessarily Christ-like. Christ calls us to go beyond ...

3385. Another Great Love Story

Genesis 29:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... a place called Penial. At Bethel, Jacob the striver struck a bargain with God. The bargain went like this: "If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my ... might give her husband children as well, Rachel gave Jacob her maid, Bilhah, to have children. Bilhah bore Jacob two sons. So, to keep things even, Leah's maid bore Jacob two sons. Jacob is probably nearing exhaustion by this point. But finally, Rachel had two ...

3386. Living The Kingdom Life

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... , interestingly enough, this church has never had a major conflict involving the entire congregation during its nearly two hundred years of service. (3) Mr. Dale speculates that the story of the spring with its moral of God's constant care has helped keep this church's history healthy. Their faith keeps them that way. That is kingdom living! They have a tatoo on their brains that says God cares for us! If I can go about my daily tasks with the conviction that God is with me--that somehow God will take the ...

3387. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of all the good things that he could think of in life. For example, he would say to himself, "Well, I have wonderful news today -- wonderful news. I am alive. That's good news. And I have friends." When we think positively like that, it helps us to keep all the negative things in our life in perspective. Life can't be all bad if there is still some good in it. And remembering the good things can also give us great strength: not just emotionally, but physically and spiritually as well. A soldier lay wounded ...

3388. Free At Last!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus' yoke is an easy yoke. As the lead ox, Jesus walks at a steady pace. If you pace yourself with Him, your burden will be easy. But if you take a passive approach to the relationship, you'll be painfully dragged along in the yoke because Jesus keeps walking. Or if you try to race ahead or turn off in another direction, the yoke will chafe your neck and your life will be uncomfortable. The key to a restful yoke-relationship with Jesus is to learn from Him and open yourself to His gentleness and humility ...

3389. The Sower and the Seed

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the church has been paid back. And many times those who ask are running a scam calling churches throughout the year asking for money. They rotate through the phonebook so as not to repeat calls. If you come to the office I can show a list of scammers that I keep on file. Yes, even the church can make you hard-hearted. That may sound surprising, but you sit in the office for one week and you will quickly come to the same conclusion. A hard heart is hard to avoid. The result is that the seed of the Kingdom of ...

3390. Witness to the Light

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... dead, his continuing presence through the power of the Holy Spirit, and his final reign at the end of time. Sounds awfully theological, doesn’t it? Who wants to think of theology at Christmas? It’s a shame the church keeps trying to horn in on Christmas, isn’t it? It’s a shame we keep trying to make Christmas into some kind of a religious holiday. Can’t we be satisfied with Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman? Personally I like Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman. But they have more to say about ...

3391. Why Shepherds?

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... nothing serious. His family, though, is grateful that this one time Max got in trouble. Why? Because that particular day his father also happened to be home, and his father, Hamilton Loeb, suffered a massive heart attack. Max performed CPR on his father, keeping him alive until paramedics arrived. At the hospital, doctors discovered that Hamilton Loeb was suffering from a viral infection in his heart. After repeated heart attacks, the doctors decided to put him in a deep-freeze coma in order to protect his ...

3392. On Living Before You Die

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... has bestowed upon us. But the person who develops what God has given him increases his usefulness. He increases in abundance. The only way to keep a gift of God is to use it for His sake and for the sake of others. This story disturbs us, or it ought to ... a man or woman out there in the future that you and I will become. What kind of person will that individual be? Suppose you and I keep living until then just as we are living now. Will we be glad to stand before God to give an accounting of our life? We all ...

3393. Amazing Grace

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... to do, as is normal on the farm. They had to do these things in order to stay in their father’s good graces and to keep the farm running as it should. One day the family decided they were going to take a trip to St. Louis. This was a once in ... today if you’re holding onto some fear in your life, some doubt, some self-willed habit, some pride in your life that’s keeping you from that right relationship with God and that sense of being at peace with Him, from knowing the cleansing from sin and the ...

3394. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... they run every way they can into pleasure, into drugs, into so many things to get away from that voice of God, that call of God. They say to God, "God, you go away, I''ll call you some day," and they cut God off. We can keep on cutting God off and we can keep on running from Him, but one day we''ll come to the end and God will cut us off for all eternity. Joel pictured life as the valley of decision. He said, "Multitudes in the valley of decision, for the day of the Lord is near ...

3395. Transforming Tragedy into Triumph

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... that he knew nothing of banking. The president told him, "Never mind, you will learn a lot faster if you just stay by my side and keep your eyes and ears open." The young boy did just that and later recalled, "Being with that man made me just like him. I began ... was so blue and despondent," continued the little lady, "I hardly cared if I lived myself. The other night the Lord told me I couldn''t keep on like I was going. I couldn''t stay buried in my grief. I had to cheer up and smile and begin to get out of ...

3396. Things That Cannot be Taken Away

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... anchor is faith. In this hour more than any other we are called to live by faith. Faith is simply trusting in Christ and his saving and keeping power. It is by putting our lives in his hands that we may say as we face the future, "I can do all things--I am ... the joys and sorrows it may hold, into the hands of Him who said, "I will never fail thee, nor forsake thee." He will keep to the end; He's your dearest friend. Place your hand in the nail-scarred hand. * Poem cited is "Sometime" (stanza 1) by Mary ...

3397. Confronting Hypocrisy with Humility

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and strive for servanthood, wait for honor and act now out of duty. Leadership, the way Jesus described it, is hard to find, even among the religious. It is difficult to find because…. 1. Hypocrisy keeps most leaders from being effective leaders. But first, what is it that keeps most leaders from being effective leaders? It is Hypocrisy. It can quickly undermine the work of the greatest teachers. What is hypocrisy? Charles Shultz illustrated it well in one of his Peanuts cartoons. Lucy is playing ...

3398. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... she sees Him: a Jewish man sitting at the well. Her steps falter. “Why does he have to be here?” Discomfort stiffens her frame. “How quickly can I reach the well, draw water, and leave?” She is aware that He has noticed her approach, but fear keeps her eyes downcast. “Will he call down a curse or spit upon me? Will he greet me with a cold, silent indifference and contempt?” As she reaches the well, nervous hands hurry to draw water. Nicodemus speaks to Jesus, saying, “Rabbi, we know you are a ...

3399. WHERE DO I GO FOR A REFILL?

Drama

Angela Akers

... , please." Waiter: "You must have a late night ahead of you." Man: "Oh yeah. I can''t let up for a few more hours at least." Waiter: "Well, our coffee''s strong enough to do the trick." Man: "Feels like it''ll take more than coffee to keep me going." Waiter: "Well, it''s the only thing that''s legal, if you know what I mean." Man: "Oh yeah, I didn''t mean that. No, I just need something more lasting than coffee right now." Waiter: "Sounds like you''re in for a long haul. Do ...

3400. ONE SHRED OF SOUL

Drama

Angela Akers

... car until last month when somebody towed it away. Now I''m on MLK Boulevard at the Hotel Dry-Out, officially called Mercy Mission. They''re crazy about You down there. I''ve got my own cot and my own toothbrush...and that''s about it. They keep preaching to me about how material possessions don''t really matter. All that matters is your soul. Well, excuse me, but all I''ve got are my material possessions. I''ve been messing up my body for years now. My mind''s not in much better shape. And ...

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