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3601. My Younger Brother Gets Away With Everything

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... had the strict discipline his brother had. Nor has he had all the attention that the older boy got during the critical first years of his life. The younger boy has got to try his wings. It's not that he wants to hurt his Dad. He just doesn't feel that overwhelming need to please his parents that motivates his older brother. He's more into pleasing himself. So one day he comes to his Dad and he says something very cruel, "Dad, I want my inheritance." In other words, "Dad, I don't want to wait until you are ...

3602. How To Stay Young Forever

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... of that still-to-be-solved disease. And the physical challenges of a lifetime of wear and tear on the body can be daunting. Nevertheless, there are many positive advances being made that should influence how we feel about the aging process. More than ever there is truth to that time-honored cliche, "You're only as old as you feel." And that brings us to a second thing we need to think about: WHAT REALLY MATTERS IS NOT THE CONDITION OF THE BODY, BUT THAT OF THE SOUL. It is good that people today are taking ...

3603. When What's Lost Is Found

Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... where it is, so you can go to sleep." "It was dark," Ken Davis writes, "so I didn't see her fist coming ” but I did feel it land. In twenty years of marriage, that was the only time she ever hit me. It was also the last time I ever took her ... more than at that moment when he changed his attitude and came back to me." (6) Jesus said that this is how God feels about each of us. Sin is serious business. God will help us conquer our sins. Even more important, there is forgiveness ” total, complete, ...

3604. Are We On Speaking Terms With The Almighty?

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... pig." "Oh, all right," said the TV evangelist. "I'll go sleep in the barn." A few minutes later, there was a knock at the door. It was the cow and the pig. That is an old joke, of course, and it could be told on anyone to whom we feel superior. It has been told on politicians and lawyers and film critics, etc. Pharisees probably told it on tax-collectors. "Two men went up to the temple to pray," said Jesus, "one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed, God, I thank you ...

3605. A Time For Miracles

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... you're all FBI agents? Agent: That's right. Everyone here is an FBI agent. Can you remember to bring the pizzas and sodas to the service entrance in the rear? We have the front doors locked. Pizza Man: I don't think so. Click. Bzzz. (3) The feeling that the Pizza Man had as he participated in that conversation must have been something like a teenaged girl named Mary felt that first Christmas. An angel, Gabriel, had come to her and said, "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you!" Was it a dream? Was she ...

3606. Running From God

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... has a presentation to make for which he or she is not prepared. Sometimes when we are not prepared or when something just doesn't feel right or we simply don't want to do something, we will go to desperate extremes. I wonder if the prophet Jonah thought of calling ... you! Why couldn't you believe me?" (4) Why couldn't he believe her? What was he running from? And why are we running? Do we feel unworthy of God's great love? Are we afraid that God will ask us to do something we do not want to do? Do we not ...

3607. Swimming With The Sharks

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... a monster, not a human being . . . My soul seemed to shrivel up and collapse in on itself, to be sucked into a black hole of despair. I was left with an indescribable and terrifying emptiness. I was alone in the way the souls in hell must feel alone." Finally, he came back to the States to meet with his young bride, Brenda. Just before Brenda arrived, Roever watched the wife of another burn victim tell her husband that she wanted a divorce. Then Brenda walked in. "Showing not the slightest tremor of horror ...

3608. When The Waters Begin To Rise

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ground. At that point, he called for his son and told him to tie the end of the rope to something secure. The boy tied the rope to the bumper of the car, which was in the driveway. It seemed to work well and the man proceeded with his work feeling the greatest sense of security. Then his wife, who was unaware of her husband's ingenious security measure, decided to run an errand which required the use of the car. She did not see the rope tied to the bumper, and pulled out of the driveway. You know the result ...

3609. Only Heroes Need Apply

Mark 8:34-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... ; indeed they did look like the shoes you see in paintings of Jesus and the Disciples. They talked for a few minutes. The nurse told him she had been working 14 hours non-stop: She and her husband both worked overtime just to make ends meet. Feeling less sorry for himself, he resumed his walk. With his sandals clomping along beneath him he wondered if he could turn the long days in the hospital into a unique experience . . . unobtrusively walk in Jesus' footsteps while his own life got back to normal. From ...

3610. The Problem With The Big Ten

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... qualifying for the following year's Masters. Love began 1995 needing to win a tournament to get into the event. When someone asked how much it would bother him if he missed the Masters for calling a penalty on himself, Love's answer was simple: "How would I feel if I won the Masters and wondered for the rest of my life if I cheated to get in?" The story has a happy ending. The week before the 1995 Masters, Love qualified by winning a tournament in New Orleans. Then in the Masters he finished second, earning ...

3611. Who Could Forget That?

Mark 14:32-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... after his father, sobbing, "forgive me!" And seizing his father's hand he presses it to his lips and bursts into tears. (6) It is a modern dilemma, isn't? How can you experience God's forgiveness when you don't really feel you have done anything wrong? That's where many of us are. We don't really feel that our sins are all that bad. The cross says to us that sin is serious business. Sin brought about the shedding of Christ's blood. Sin drove nails into his hands and feet. Sin drained the life out of him as ...

3612. Connected

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Many of you have had the experience of being cut off from someone you love by death or divorce. There is no more devastating experience in life, is there? The loneliness and the sense of isolation can be overwhelming. All kinds of experiences can cause us to feel disconnected. Sometimes it's having your children grow up and leave home. I understand that there is a luncheon group of older mothers in New York. They call themselves the "It Wouldn't Hurt You to Call Me Once in a While" club. Paul Tournier tells ...

3613. What Makes A Family?

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... , I've got Alexandra, who's 12, and Matthew, 16. And I asked myself, How can I possibly leave them?' Of course I've had moments of feeling sorry for myself. I look at pictures of our boat and at people who can walk up stairs, and I think I've been dealt a lousy ... doctor thinks she is a good mother. Finally, a working mother of two would have made herself immune to the guilt feelings she developed when others criticized how she raised her children. (3) Having a family is not easy. All families have problems. ...

3614. Finding Calm In The Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... boat. There are the twelve disciples plus Jesus. That makes thirteen. Who is the fourteenth passenger? It is Rembrandt himself. We all know what it is to be afraid. Maybe we all know what it means to be on the verge of panic. Mickey Brown knew that feeling. Mickey was raised in the church but as a young adult found his faith was weak. Mickey went to Vietnam as a medic. "There life seemed fragile and ephemeral," Mickey says, "and, looking for something solid to hold on to I began attending services in the ...

3615. Stealth Christians

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... night so that she's too tired to attend the worship service the next morning? Doesn't she ever ˜beg off' to attend picnics or family reunions, or have headaches, colds, nervous spells, or tired feelings? Doesn't she ever oversleep or need time to read her Sunday newspaper? Hasn't she ever become angry at the minister or had her feelings hurt by someone and felt justified in staying home to hear a good sermon on the radio or TV? WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH MRS. CRAIG ANYWAY?" (2) My guess is that Mrs. Craig has ...

3616. A Time For Hope

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... circumstance life may send their way. I guess this is the most refreshing thing about being around young people: their feeling that nothing is impossible. Whether it is righting the world’s wrongs, curing society’s ills or even avoiding death, youth is convinced ... that an answer can be found. Not every young person feels that way, of course. Many are doomed by what we might call a "Charlie Brown complex." Poor Charlie Brown can’t do ...

3617. When Are You Coming?

Isaiah 63:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... a people in trouble. Have you ever felt God-forsaken? Welcome to a large and distinguished company. Every believer will feel that way at sometime or another. It may very well be a necessary condition for spiritual growth. God never forsakes us ... 2) God so loved the world . . . He came. Someone is this room is living a life of what the poet called "quiet desperation." Sometimes it feels as if you can't hold on much longer. You need to know God hasn't forsaken you. God will come. Maybe, like Isaiah's people ...

3618. Gettin' Ready For Quittin' Time

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... be called out of the stands. That rarely happens in a major college game. Just because something rarely happens, though, does not mean that it won't happen. Lloyd Ogilvie says that when he sits down to breakfast with his wife, she often asks him how he feels about the coming challenges for the day. He answers with the motto of a Highland regiment in his native Scotland: "Ready, Aye, Ready!" That's an intelligent way to live. We don't know what opportunities may come our way. We don't know what tragedies may ...

3619. Preparing For A Royal Visit

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... they live on in us.We have a duty before God to make them values worth adopting Have you prepared your family for the coming King? Chances are that you HAVE transmitted to them your values. That almost always happens in families. The question is, will they feel uncomfortable in the presence of the King with the values that you have given them? Will those values be appropriate for the kind of King we are awaiting? If we were on the committee we would want to prepare our communities. We would want to prepare ...

3620. How Shall We Prepare Ourselves For Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It is not enough for us to attack our weaknesses as an isolated part of our personality. Mark David Chapman says that he feels great remorse for killing John Lennon. Chapman goes on to say, however, that the slaying doesn't make him an evil person. "You can ... back down in that drum of tar. She said, "Boy, it'd be a lot easier to have another one than to clean you up." God must feel that way about some of us sometimes. It would be easier to have another one than to try to clean us up. But He does clean ...

3621. Ready Or Not

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... bad half-good No! the two kinds of people on earth I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean." Are you one who lifts or one who leans? Evelyn Underhill once wrote: "The saints do not stand aside wrapped in delightful prayers, and feeling pure and agreeable to God. They go right down into the mess; and there, right down in the mess, they are able to radiate God because they possess Him . . . " Prepare ye the way of the Lord . . . .In the hurry and scurry of this Christmas season, remember that ...

3622. Transformed By A Babe

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... circus. For a few minutes they were all in total darkness. They had just started the act with the tigers in the cage with the trainer. When the lights came on he was still alive. He was interviewed by TV and newspaper reporters. They asked him, "How did you feel in that cage with all those big cats in the dark . . . .when they could see you and you couldn’t see them?" The tiger trainer’s answer was this: "But they didn’t know I couldn’t see them! . . . So I just cracked my whip and shouted commands ...

3623. Unwrapping Christmas

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... what it could be by it's size and weight. Is it clothes, shoes, a book or a toy? You can't wait to get it home. You open it, and inside that brown postal paper you find the box wrapped in bright colored Christmas paper. You shake it. You feel it. You smell it. It's very presence fills you with anticipation. In Bill Keane's "Family Circus," Billy is standing in front of a calendar that reads December 18, and he says: "Only seven more hoping days 'til Christmas." And in a very real sense, he's right. These ...

3624. Excited By Our Faith

John 1:35-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... they have to somewhat restrain the new believer's unbridled enthusiasm. The popular sociologist and prominent Baptist minister, Harvey Cox, tells us that the only advice his father ever gave him concerning religion was, "Don't be a fanatic." It is amazing how uncomfortable we feel in the presence of someone who is really charged up about his or her faith. Yet there is something about a fresh experience of Christ that has that kind of effect on us. The story is told about a missionary in Kenya who was given ...

3625. God Sometimes Changes His Mind

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... the streets, they all turn from their sin. When that happens, God changes his mind. He decides not to destroy Nineveh. This embarrasses Jonah beyond belief. He has told the people of Nineveh that God is going to destroy them. Now God is not going to do it. Jonah feels utterly humiliated. Besides, he didn't like the people all that much anyway. Angrily he says to God, "I knew it! I knew that you were that kind of God." Jonah is so upset that he goes out and sits on a hillside overlooking Nineveh to mope. He ...

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