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3601. Face To Face With God

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... few decades is former president Dwight David Eisenhower. W. Howard Chase handled the public relations part of Eisenhower's first campaign for the presidency. He tells about an incident that he believes was a turning point in that campaign. Eisenhower was scheduled to make a stop in Colorado prior to the Republican convention. One of his supporters, a member of the meat cutter's union and a veteran of the 101st Airborne invasion of Normandy Beach, came up with an idea. How about an arrival lunch for 2,000 or ...

3602. The Awesome Power Of Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... I read about a pastor who asked his congregation if they knew of anyone who was suffering. A little girl, raised her hand and said, "My father is, but he won't tell anyone." The girl then hugged her father tightly. The father, already embarrassed, said, "Stop hugging me. You're hugging me to death." "Oh, no, Daddy," she cried, "I'm hugging you to life." That's what many people need more than anything else. They need someone to hug them to life. We live in a fragmented, alienated society. People desperately ...

3603. A Most Confusing Doctrine

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the ballcarrier. Obviously that left a large hole in the center of the offensive line. It was the quarterback's job to hit all the big linemen who poured through that hole. Rockne was once explaining the play to a fellow coach when the coach stopped Rockne's explanation to ask how effective the play had been. Rockne admitted that he didn't know. He said his quarterback had never been stupid enough to call that play. (2) It is beyond our comprehension that the God of billions of galaxies would humble ...

3604. Do Not Lose Heart

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... War, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara busied himself with the minor details of war planning to distract himself from the futility of that terrible war. Toward the end of his tenure he knew the war could not be won. Yet he stopped questioning the military or political significance of sending 206,000 more troops into Indochina. He concentrated instead on the logistical problems of getting them there. His wife reported that, as he fulfilled the requirements of efficiency and effectiveness during his own ...

3605. If It's The Lord's Will

James 4:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... all I need." He did this for many days, but nothing happened. He almost starved. He was nearly at death's door when he heard a voice say, "O, you who are in the path of error, open your eyes to the truth! Follow the example of the tiger and stop imitating the disabled fox." (3) That's good advice for us. It was Ben Franklin, not the Bible, who said, "God helps those who help themselves." There's a lot of honest truth there. We are not to depend on God for matters that we can handle ourselves. We are ...

3606. The Secret Of Winning

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... The ultimate discovery of a polio vaccine made Dr. Jonas Salk a winner in the world of medicine. Carl Lewis, after he won the gold medal in the 1984 Olympics, was asked how many years he'd spent developing his tremendous skills. He replied, "The day I stopped crawling I took up running." Winning comes by paying a price. Inevitably. Jesus asked, "Are you able to drink the cup that I drink?" We know what winning over death and darkness cost Jesus. Are we willing to pay the same price? Pastor Don Emmitte tells ...

3607. In Defense Of Ceremony

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... to a minimum. The professor began thinking, trying to understand the deeper ramifications of the situation. After a few moments, the son said, "Dad, this is not the time to philosophize. It is time to mop!" (3) Baptism is our statement that we are ready to stop philosophizing and ready to start mopping. Zig Ziglar reminds us that the largest locomotive in the world can be held in its tracks while standing still simply by placing a single one-inch block of wood in front of each of the eight drive wheels. The ...

3608. He Can Change Water To Wine

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... colds, by the way? That's true, according to Dr. Joyce Brothers. Being in love is good for us--mind, body and spirit. We fantasize about money even though deep in our hearts we know that it can't buy happiness. We remember Little Chap in the musical, "Stop the World I Want to Get Off!" Little Chap is driven by a fantastic ambition to become rich and famous. Finally he succeeds in making a million dollars, and proud, prosperous and successful, he sings, "For once in my lifetime, I feel like a giant, I soar ...

3609. A Time For Silence

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... ourselves daily. "The voice of God is a gentle voice," Evelyn Underhill wrote, "and we can't hear it when it is in competition with other voices." There is a time for silence. There is a time for shutting out all conflicting noises. There is a time to stop talking and to listen. So, maybe those four nuns in New Jersey are on to something. Maybe we should all lock ourselves away from time to time. Not in protest, but in prayer. To listen. In silence. Peter, James. and John were silent and heard the voice of ...

3610. Winning When It Really Counts

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... . When the executive flipped the switch, there was a buzzing sound, and the lid slowly rose. As it did, a mechanical hand emerged. Slowly, but surely, the hand reached down, turned off the switch, and went back in the box. Then the lid came down and the buzzing stopped. That’s all there was to it--a machine that did nothing but switch itself off! (3) So many people are like that machine. They have no real purpose in life. They get up in the morning, go to work, come home at five, watch television till ...

3611. A Pentecostal Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... 't bothering anyone, but every once in a while he would turn around and smile happily at everyone behind him. He did this several times to the pleasure of everyone who could see him. Suddenly his mother jerked him around and told him in a loud whisper to stop grinning-he was in church. Then when the tears came to the little fellow's eyes, his mother said, "That's better." (1) I doubt that anyone would mistake that mother's demeanor for drunkenness or joyful excitement. How sad. Many of us long to see the ...

3612. The Joyful Mystery of the Trinity

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... A.W. Tozer said, "If the Holy Spirit were withdrawn from our churches today, 95% of what we do would go on, and no one would know the difference. If the Holy Spirit were withdrawn from the New Testament Church, 95% of what they did would stop, and everybody would know the difference." The difference is not in the violin but in the violinist. It is God's spirit dwelling within us that empowers us to accomplish. A.J. Gordon was visiting with an English friend traveling to Niagara Falls.The Englishman remarked ...

3613. Ultimate Freedom

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... at Zindbergh Junior High School. The $160,000 concrete wall is to serve as a bullet-barrier, protecting children from the frequent gunfire that erupts in the nearby neighborhood. I wonder if anyone has thought of investing that money in the surrounding community to stop the hail of bullets rather than spending the money to build a wall? Yet that is actually a very accurate picture of how many Christians deal with areas of sin in their lives. They invest their energy trying to escape the consequences of the ...

3614. Do This And Live!

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... radiant with excitement. "I've had the most wonderful day," she said. "This morning I could not get my car started, so I called the pastor and asked him if he could drive me to my appointment with you. He said he would, but on the way he had to stop by the hospital and make a few calls. I went with him and while I was in the hospital I visited some elderly people in one of the wards. I read from the Bible and prayed with them. By the time the morning was over, I was higher than a ...

3615. Take Time To Pray

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... it be dry? The answer they discovered was that the well had been fed by hundreds of tiny rivulets. When water was drawn out of the well, it was refilled by water flowing through those tiny openings. After years of disuse, however, the tiny rivulets had become stopped up. The well had dried up not because there was no water but because the well had fallen into disuse. Obviously there is a parallel here to the devotional life of a Christian. When we fall out of habit of daily communication with God, there is ...

3616. Living Smart

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... now is to spend some time kneeling or sitting at the feet of Jesus. Our lives are out of kilter. Our values are out of focus. Our priorities are hopelessly skewed. Like the poor man who destroyed his house and his car, our molehills have become mountains. We need to stop where we are and to pray, "Lord, help me to know what those thing are that really need to matter in my life and help me always to put you first." There was once a man who was trying to read the evening newspaper after he had come home from ...

3617. How Shall We Pray?

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the story about the young man who went ice fishing for the first time in his life. He arrived with all his equipment and began to cut a circle in the ice. Suddenly he heard a deep voice say, somberly, "Don’t cut that ice." The young man stopped, looked around, didn’t see anyone, so he moved to a different part of the ice and started to drill another circle. Again the deep voice from nowhere announced, "Don’t cut that ice." Finally the young man yelled, "All right, what’s going on here? What are ...

3618. God Loves An Underdog

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... plane to be at an altitude of 30,000 feet, flying over the mountains of Tibet. Three men were in the cabin talking, when suddenly there was silence. One of the actors had forgotten his lines. Being a live production, of course, there were no retakes, no stopping of the action. That was it. Millions of eager viewers were glued to their black-and-white screens, waiting to see what would happen next. What did the actor do? He got to his feet, in an airplane cabin supposedly 30,000 feet over the mountains of ...

3619. Mentor, Mediator, Master

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the water is seeping in. We've shored it up, but the shoring does not seem to hold. What do you think we ought to do?" The father did not answer. In a few more weeks the son wrote again, "Look Dad, this is serious. We are not able to stop the water. What do you think we ought to do?" Still no answer from the father. Finally the son frantically wired his father: IF YOU DO NOT GIVE ME AN ANSWER SOON, WE ARE GOING TO LOSE THE ENTIRE MINE. WHAT SHOULD I DO? The father wired back: TAKE YOUR ...

3620. Determined Discipleship

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... , pathetic life of people who are continually making excuses rather that making progress. You have infinite potential within you. All you have to do is take hold of it. On the trip home from the Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm, prizewinning physicist Richard Feynman stopped in Queens, N.Y., and looked up his highschool records. "My grades were not as good as I remembered," he said, "and my I.Q. was 124, considered just above average." "He was delighted," reported his wife, Gweneth. "He said to win a Nobel ...

3621. From Timid To Terrific

2 Timothy 1:6-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The antidote, of course, as E. Stanley Jones says, is to increase the dosage. Keep loving until you reduce that door to splinters. Donald Nicholl tells of a man lying desperately ill in a hospital. He was terrified, confused, and in despair. His world had stopped. As Nicholl put it, "Nothing of his true self seemed to remain except a tiny particle the size of a grain of mustard seed. Outside that particle was chaos and darkness. Suddenly he heard a voice from the nearby corridor,`I’m so bloody lonely ...

3622. Why Jesus Likes Sinners

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... While the two ministers were praying, the custodian happened to walk by and overhear them. Impressed, he went in, knelt beside them, and repeated the same prayer: "Oh, Lord, I, too, am the worst of sinners. I am nothing. I am a worm." The associate pastor stopped praying, looked over at the custodian, then with his nose turned upward, he turned to the senior pastor and whispered, "Look who thinks he's nothing." One of the chief reasons that the medieval church put pride at the top of the list of the Seven ...

3623. The Baptism of Our Work

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... contribute to building God's world." That must have been a satisfying event in his life. However, you do not have to have a creation of yours in the heavens to feel that you are a participant in God's plan for the world. A visitor in a coal mine stopped to talk to one of the miners. He told the miner how sorry he was for him, spending his time monotonously picking coal down there in those dark tunnels. The miner picked up a piece of coal and said, "I don't think you understand. This is not just a ...

3624. The Problem with Being Idle

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the pastor of Calvary Temple in Denver, Colorado, once told about. "It happened late one afternoon as he was leaving the church parking lot at the end of a demanding day. As he turned onto the street, he caught sight of a woman sitting at the bus stop, alone and weeping. He circled the block, parked the car and made his way to her. Introducing himself, he asked if she was all right. His concern obviously embarrassed her. She hastily dried her tears and said, 'Yes, I'm fine. Just tired, that's all. Really ...

3625. Don't Apologize For Success (but Give Thanks)

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... , WE ARE TO RETURN A SHARE OF OUR BLESSINGS FOR USE IN GOD’S WORK IN THE WORLD. A new convert to the Christian faith was put to work ushering and taking up the offering, and was very enthusiastic in his duties. One day, while taking up the offering, he stopped in front of the town’s old miser, who was known never to put anything in the plate. This man paid no attention to him, but the young fellow remained standing, with the plate under the miser’s nose. Some of the other ushers tried to signal him to ...

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