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3626. A Society Out Of Control

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... happened. When the fences were removed, the children did not run the length and breadth of the playground the way they used to. Instead, they huddled in the middle of the playground and demonstrated behavior indicating intense feelings of insecurity. As soon as the fences were replaced, their feelings of security and freedom were renewed.(3) Rollo May, in his outstanding book, Love and Will, observed at one point that the gospel of free expression of every impulse disperses experience like a river with no ...

3627. News From The Vineyard

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... is it something special?'" In no time at all Lucy analyzes his problem and gives an instant answer: "Whatever it is, you ratings are down., Five cents, please.!" Poor Charlie Brown. He senses that nothing much is happening in his life. Some of us may feel that way, too. We know our lives should be more vital, more productive, but somehow we cannot seem to get untracked. The solution to this dilemma is found in the second obvious truth from our text: FRUIT BEARING IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO OUR RELATIONSHIP ...

3628. The Real Tragedy Of The Tv Evangelists

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... say to you: LOOK INTO YOUR OWN HEARTS!" 3 He got their attention. He was right. Something is wrong in the human heart. Something is wrong, in your heart and mine. Now please. I am not trying to make us feel guilty. In HOW TO BE A JEWISH MOTHER by Dan Greenberg (Random House, 1964), mothers are advised to make their sons feel guilty: "If you don't know what he's done to make you suffer, he will." That is not my intent. It is my intent to underscore the fact that there is a brokenness in human life that only ...

3629. Something Is Missing

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... m just not happy. I don't have inner serenity. And I don't have the guts to do anything else." Paul Newman seemed to have it all: fame, fortune, looks, even a good marriage. But SOMETHING SEEMED TO BE MISSING. That seems to be a universal feeling in our society. "Is this all there is? Somehow I expected more. Something seems to be missing." Such emptiness fuels the sale of self-help books by the millions. A NEW YORKER cartoon recently poked fun at our whimsical willingness to believe in anything for an easy ...

3630. Jesus' Object Lesson

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... . "I don't know kiddo. I don't know if I'm bored or tired or depressed," Daddy answers. Elizabeth answers, "Everybody feels like that sometimes, Daddy. It's nothing to worry about." Daddy responds, "What do you think you are, a doctor?" Elizabeth says, "No but ... I wrote you a `perstripshun.'" Her father reads the note and hugs Elizabeth and says, "I feel better now." Mom comes in and says, "Is that a note from Elizabeth, honey? What does it say?" He smiles and hands her ...

3631. Polished Up For Christmas

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... many men in our congregation will relate. The Mall of America published a poll recently that states that 31 percent of men believe they have a better chance of winning the Heisman trophy than finding the right holiday gifts for their wives. Only 18 percent of women feel the same sense of doom about shopping for their spouses. (1) That means that a third of the men here this morning are under real pressure. It isn't easy getting ready for Christmas. That is why each year about this time we hear the voice of ...

3632. It's A Wonderful Life

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Dad in the bunk house for several days during the Christmas break at school. On Christmas Day they ate Spam and crackers and drank Pepsi. Don says it was wonderful! (5) Why? Because they were with their Dad. Nothing else meant as much. That is the way believers feel in the presence of Jesus. His coming means hope for the hopeless, help for the hurting, and unutterable joy for those who call him Lord. And that is what Christmas is all about. Christ has come to our world in the form of a tiny babe. No wonder ...

3633. The Placebo Effect

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... of people fueled with boundless enthusiasm. Now certainly there is nothing wrong with that. A positive self image and a positive feeling about your work and about life in general is one of the nicest things that can happen to anybody. Charles Kettering ... I come." Gough said he felt that he would like to lend him what voice he had, and help him sing if he could. "And so God feels toward us when we try to serve him or simply believe [in Him]. He would help us in our failures, and unlike Gough, he is able ...

3634. Why Do You Believe What You Believe?

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... tradition, there is a limit to how far reason will take us. Tradition? Reason? SOME COME TO GOD BECAUSE OF A PARTICULARLY POWERFUL EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE. In a time of desperate need we reach out and an unseen hand is there. On a beautiful mountaintop we feel a deep moving within. Perhaps, like St. Paul, we experience a blinding light. Most of us need an emotional element to our faith. Without that element we become overly critical. We become like a certain college professor. He was quite ill. He had a friend ...

3635. He Is Risen!

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... he could get to his feet and climb back up onto the seat and turn the key. Keillor said, "That man lost his life and got it back again. I think after an experience like that you would have the feeling of absolute liberty and freedom. A greater weight would be removed from you. You would feel the sort of liberty you read about in the epistles, when a person has died and been reborn. He, I think, had discovered the meaning of life." (4) Keillor's half right. That farmer discovered part of the meaning of ...

3636. A Most Successful Sermon

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will be leaving at 5:00 o’clock.” In other words he was saying, everybody needs a little extra work. That’s true of us as well. There are many of us who feel that repentance is for others. We are like the six-year-old girl who said to her mother, “The number one problem in the United States is climate change. I read that in my Weekly Reader. Everybody,” she continued, “knows that the number one problem in the United States ...

3637. Christ Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... as if to say, “I’m sorry.” The lady next to him whispered, “We just don’t do that in our church.” When the hymns were sung, this guy forgot himself again and sang more loudly than the rest of the congregation combined. Again he could feel people looking at him with disapproval. After the service, nobody greeted him with much enthusiasm. No one expressed their pleasure that he was there. In fact, they all stood around with what he thought was a pained look on their faces. Finally he came to one ...

3638. What On Earth Is The Trinity?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... As good Jews, they believed in One God. But they had experienced the presence of God visiting them in the person of Jesus, who they called the Christ: "God's anointed One," (the Revealer of God). And when Jesus was no longer with them in the flesh, they did not feel that God had left them. Indeed, Jesus Himself had told them: "It is to your advantage that I go away, (for) I will send the counselor to you...the Holy Spirit. I have been with you. He shall be IN you." (See John 14:16) Jesus Christ, we believe ...

3639. You Are A Winner!

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... incompetent, unworthy, unlovely and unlovable? The answer to this question may effect your health, your personal habits, your sense of morality, your aspirations, your ambitions, and your accomplishments. The extent of their impact cannot be overstated. People who feel good about themselves are healthier, happier and more productive. They are less likely to fall into selfdestructive behaviors. They are less likely to commit irresponsible actions. They make better grades in school and earn more money on the ...

3640. Why Won't They Listen?

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... anyone againhesitant to make the kind of commitment required to move this church forward. Of course mature Christians recognize that a pastor, even the most dedicated pastor, is only a human being. We do not put our faith in a person, but in God. I feel for Jim Bakker. I feel even more deeply for his followers. Wounds such as these heal slowly. That is why Jesus said that it is better to have a millstone hung around your neck and be thrown into the deepest sea than to lead one of his "little ones" astray ...

3641. Living In Spite House

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... he or she, is our brother or sister. How about it? Are you still living in the house of spite? It's much nicer out here in the fresh air of forgiveness. Why don't you ask God to help you let go of those feelings of anger and resentment today? 1. (Portland: Multnomah, 1989), p. 19. 2. William A. Marsano, MAN SUFFOCATED BY POTATOES, (New York: New American Library, 1987) 3. Herb Miller, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN VERBS, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989). 4. Adrian P Rogers, MASTERING YOUR EMOTIONS, (Nashville ...

3642. God And The Irs

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... every department of the government, but you really have to hand it to the IRS." Another cynic has said, "Death and taxes may always be with us, but at least death doesn't get any worse." Arthur Godfrey once said, "I feel honored to pay taxes in America. The thing is, I could probably feel just as honored for about half the price." One last observer noted that the Eiffel tower is the Empire State building after taxes. God and the IRS. "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and unto God the things ...

3643. Face To Face With God

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... there and stand right under that statue and look up into its eyes," his wife whispered. "It will give you the strangest feeling." He obligingly wandered over, expecting nothing of significance. But the steel blue eyes looking down at him seemed so real that he ... out of the life of George Matheson, one of the renowned preachers of Scotland in another generation, that gives us a "feel" for what this experience must have done for these three disciples. When Matheson came to one of the great Presbyterian ...

3644. Face To Face With The Tempter

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... could not be stopped for about 20 minutes. When people were finally rescued from their thrill, all were sick and some were taken to the hospital. There is something exciting about certain areas that the Bible tells us to avoid, but the excitement is an emotion one feels when he gets on the ride, not when he gets off. (5) Ask the person whose adultery has cost him his marriage and the respect of his family and friends. Ask the person whose carelessness with his company's funds has cost him his job. A little ...

3645. What Are You Working For?

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... aid in the building of a college where the daughters of poor clergy might be educated at low expense. Miss Elliott, being ill and unable to assist in the final preparations, lay on her bed, feeling sorry for herself. She felt so useless. On the following day, when all of the other members of the family were at the opening of the bazaar, a feeling of peace and contentment suddenly came over her. She realized that God had accepted her just as she was. She didn't have to DO anything...except be open to God's ...

3646. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... twentyfour war criminals tried in Nuremburg to admit his guilt, Speer spent twenty years in Spandau prison. Interviewer David Hartman referred to a passage in one of Speer's earlier writings: "You have said the guilt can never be forgiven, or shouldn't be. Do you still feel that way?" Colson says he will never forget the look of pathos on Speer's face as he responded: "I served a sentence of twenty years, and I could say `I'm a free man, my conscience has been cleared by serving the whole time as punishment ...

3647. It Happens In The Best Of Families

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... best good," they really mean it. Even though parents can make mistakes, and often do, what's in their heart is what counts. Most young people appreciate that. A recent survey of teenagers shows that most of them have a very positive feeling for their parents. Jesus had positive feelings about His parents. From the other side, Mary scolded Jesus; but notice, she kept these things and pondered them in her heart. She loved her son. She wanted to understand Him. She wanted to reach out to Him. The picture the ...

3648. Opening Up Heaven

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... particular day two miners did lose their way. Their lights finally went out, and they were in danger of losing their lives. After wandering around in the darkness for a long time, they sat down, and one of them said: "Let us sit perfectly still and see if we can feel the way in which the air is moving because it always moves toward the shaft." There they sat for a long time, when suddenly one of them felt a slight touch of air on his cheek. Up he sprang to his feet, exclaiming, "I felt it!" They went in the ...

3649. He Can Change Water To Wine

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . 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 like an eagle as though I had wings..." Then Little Chap becomes even more wealthy. He ... boat will finally make it to the dock. We long for life to take on new meaning, new purpose, new direction, new excitement. We feel like we've missed something somehow. We identify with the old lady who was celebrating her one hundredth birthday. She sat rocking on her ...

3650. A Time For Silence

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... the main things his parents did for him as a child was to take him to worship services, even though he was too young to understand much of what was going on. He claimed it is not important that children understand everything. What is important is "that they shall feel something of what is serious and solemn...." Can you see Peter, James, and John as they contemplated what it meant to be in the presence not only of Jesus but also Elijah and Moses, and then on top of all that, to hear the voice of God as well ...

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