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3626. No Improvement Possible

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... or he would freeze to death. Despite all of his efforts, time slipped by and his hands and feet became numb. He knew his time was short. Then he literally tripped over another man who was almost frozen to death. The hiker had a decision to make: continue in hopes of saving himself or try to help the stranger in the snow. In an instant he made his decision and threw off his wet gloves. He knelt beside the man and began massaging the man's arms and legs. The man began to respond and together they were able ...

3627. Ready For The Game Warden

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , "Yes, I guess that's right." The servant took the staff he'd carried so long and said, "Master take this with you. At last I've met a man more stupid than myself." Could that be us? Could we be that foolish? I hope not. I surely hope not. Victory belongs to those who are prepared. Preparation is an essential characteristic of character. The most important preparation we can make is for eternity. 1. Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler, LAUGHTER IN APPALACHIA, (New York: Ivy Books, 1987). 2. BITS AND PIECES ...

3628. Blessing, Testing, Response

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the hungryasking God to send them food. Because he turns right around and sends us with the food. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, once heard about a man in his community named Tom who was destitute and desperate. Wesley wrote him a comforting letter of Hope which read in part, "Dear Tom: I pray that life will soon be easier for you and your family, remember Psalm 37: 3 which says ˜Trust in the Lord . . . and verily you shall be fed.'" With this letter Wesley included a $ 10 bill a sizeable amount ...

3629. True Love

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... you a powerful example. Once years ago there was a little girl in an institution who was almost like a wild beast. The workers at the institution had written her off as hopeless. An elderly nurse believed there was hope for the child, however. She felt she could communicate love and hope to this wild little creature. The nurse daily visited the child whom they called Little Annie, but for a long time Little Annie gave no indication she was aware of her presence. The elderly nurse persisted and repeatedly ...

3630. Would You Mind Rescuing Me?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... is his name?" Her husband answered, "I think it's Pester Smith." We aren't called to pester people. We are called to offer hope to people who need rescuing. That is the second element we need to recapturea sense of what we are about. THE THIRD ELEMENT WE ... be effective in his service, we must throw our lives upon him. He is the source of our power. If we neglect our prayer life, we cannot hope to be all he calls us to be. Maybe this is why the church today is often so anemic. Douglas Hyde was a member of the ...

3631. One For All

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... I'm a sinner. I know I am unworthy of having the Lord of Life sacrifice himself in my behalf. Rather, I should be sacrificing myself for him. Today's not too late to start. By his grace I will dedicate the rest of my life to him. I hope you will, too. 1. Ewing, Edwin, Jr. "The Asgill Incident," American History Illustrated (May, 1973), pp. 10-13. 2. A. Philip Parham, LETTING GOD, (San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers). 3. "The Far Side of Paradise," U.S. News and World Report (Feb. 13, 1989), p.15. 4 ...

3632. Connections In High Place

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... a pretty good description of my life sometimes, it buckles where it should swash. That's why it is so wonderful to be in worship on Sunday mornings to hear the Gospel. "I am the vine," said Jesus, "and you are the branches." Have you ever thought about how much hope is packed into that little sentence? I. He is the Vine. He is the vine. It is He that nourishes our hungry spirits. We seek in vain when we look for nourishment in other places. A cartoon showed a man standing in a bar in a very somber mood. He ...

3633. How Do We Choose?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Nor do I really know myself. And the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe, dear Father, that the desire to please You does in fact please You, and I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And so I believe that if I do this, You will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, I will trust You always: though I may seem ...

3634. From The Rubble Of Life

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He could pass a test on clarity of purpose. Even more importantly, he could pass a test on recognizing in Jesus his hope and salvation. Notice what he did when Jesus healed him. "He followed Jesus on the way." In the 1700's there occurred ... is a response to who Christ is and what he has done for us. How about you? What would you like for Christ to do for you? I hope that all of us are wise enough to see that our greatest need is to a new heart. Our greatest need is what Bartimaeus already hada great faith. ...

3635. When The Recession Reaches Your House

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... are still very trusting and will allow you to do more with them." (3) That's true. Somewhere along the way we lose that child-like ability to trust--to rest our concerns on God. The first widow had quit trusting God. Elijah came to her and gave her hope. He told her to trust God. There is a third principle we need to remember. SOMEONE IS ALWAYS WATCHING. Jesus was watching as the second widow dropped in her two small coins. She had not quit trusting. Those two coins were all she had in the world and she ...

3636. How Do You See It Now?

Haggai 2:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... such-and-such done." The underlying message in these statements is that this is the way they are, and there is no way for them to change. As long as we believe we cannot change, the odds are against us. Once we make up our minds that there is hope, however, the whole world becomes possible. There is a true story about a mother of a small child named Walter, who was told by her doctor, "Your son has infantile paralysis. He will never walk again." Maybe that is what the doctor saw for Walter, but that is not ...

3637. It Happens In The Best Of Families

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... cartoons when she says, "I don't want ups and downs. I want ups and ups and ups!" We are more realistic than that. Still, we hope for more ups than downs. There is an old Eskimo blessing that goes like this: May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp ... other one, "I've figured out a system for getting along with my Mom. She tells me what to do and I do it." I hope our young people understand the value of obedience. I believe every young person in this room knows that Mom and Dad are on your side. ...

3638. The Majesty And The Misery

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... are even self destructive. Some of us are forever hindered from being what God created us to be. The misery of being human. But listen, there is hope. It is contained in the words that God spoke to Jeremiah when he first called him to be a prophet: "Now the word of the Lord ... he was merely one man against the all-powerful Soviet empire. Yet in that moment, he also knew that the hope of all mankind was represented by that simple cross and through its power, anything was possible. Solzhenitsyn slowly got up ...

3639. A Time For Silence

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... medicine that enabled her to go into a remission. For some time she was almost perfectly normal. Naturally, this created many hopes for her family. Had the diagnosis been a mistaken one? Had she experienced the miracle of divine healing for which her father and so many ... others had prayed? It was not to be. All of these hopes came to an abrupt end, ironically, on Easter Sunday morning, when the old pains reappeared and she went into a severe relapse ...

3640. I Am The Only One Left Who Cares!

1 Kings 19:9-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... man will know what the atom is. It is my belief that when science reaches this stage, God will come down to earth with his big ring of keys and will say to humanity, `Gentlemen, it's closing time.'" (2) I hope the Frenchman is wrong. But there is probably more reason to be hopeful on this front than any time within the past generation. There is still the threat posed by pollution of our natural resources and a rapidly growing world population. Such issues as the depletion of the ozone are enough to keep us ...

3641. Don't Give Up - He Hears!

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... take away sad, then I take away happy, too. They go together." Then, with a smile, he adds, "If somebody has a better idea, I hope they put it in the suggestion box." (2) We don ™t know why life is cruel, but sometimes it is. And the most frustrating fact ... moments of the storm, Tim was overheard praying for their family ™s safety. He closed his prayer very emphatically, "...and Lord I hope you ™re really listening!" Ricky, it may not seem like it at times, but you can rest assured that God really is ...

3642. Victory on a Broken Knee

2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... beyond where he had found the pick he came upon a rich vein of gold. Later he would learn that another man had once worked that claim. This man had invested many years of his life searching for gold. He also had begun with high hopes and great dreams. But those hopes dissipated into bitter disappointment when he labored and was not rewarded. It became harder day by day to sustain that dream, to swing the pick and lift the shovel without evidence of progress. And so he quit--just a few feet from striking it ...

3643. Don't Apologize For Success (but Give Thanks)

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... English. He had a particular problem with "g’s" and "l’s." On Thanksgiving Day he attended church services with his family. After the service he tried hard to join in the Thanksgiving greeting. He shook the pastor’s hand and said, "Happy Thanksliving, pastor!" Hopefully that is where we are. Happy thanksliving. We are to live out the gratitude that we feel. This brings us to the second thing to be said. BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN US OUR ABILITIES, TALENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES, WE ARE TO USE THEM IN SERVICE TO ...

3644. Promises Kept!

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... fear what people will say about us. We fear we won’t make it at university. We hide ourselves behind walls of trinkets and hope nobody sees what we’re really like inside. Franklin Roosevelt once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!" But even when ... . We need to hear the Cyrus’s of the world challenge us: Rebuild the walls! Show us where it is! Give us a sign of hope on the drifting sea of life! Tell us again what you’re all about, and speak to us of the promises of God! When Mahatma ...

3645. Finding Jesus

John 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the world to Gladys. "When you did that," she tells her pastor, "it seemed like all at once there might be things I could still hope for. The way I had been feeling, everything was over for me." Her voice began to tremble a little, then she got herself under control. "I ... collapse of communism, the difficulties of rebuilding the Soviet Union after a long period of spiritual bankruptcy, I hope my friend would now say, `Thank God for the little old ladies.’ Their existence provided a continuing, visible ...

3646. From Foolishness To Power

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... are growing. People are coming from fifty miles away. God is answering our prayers." Bishop Wilke concludes with these words of hope: "As they spoke, I felt the mighty hand of God in the church." (4) The reason Bishop Wilke felt the mighty ... on his shoulder for a second. Then, with his father holding him up, Derek hobbled to the finish line and finished the race. There's a word of hope for you and me. We're not saved by our wisdom, nor by our good works. We are saved because we have a Father willing to come ...

3647. Have You Changed Your Clock?

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... have always seen it as the fulfilling of the great salvation work God began in Jesus Christ. It has always been a sign of hope, not doom, for me. The Second Coming of Christ is not an appendage to our faith story, but the culmination and consummation of it. ... how in the midst of "time" God gave a promise of the Messiah who would come to save His people. This promise sparked hope for generations in God's people. Advent is a season for watching and preparing - a time of holy waiting, which is quite different ...

3648. Time To Do Something About The Piano

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... see. When the people saw the serpent high on the pole their thoughts turned to God. By the power of God they were healed. In the same way Jesus told Nicodemus he, the Christ, would soon be lifted up. By faith in him could all who seek find hope for their souls. Mother Teresa was interviewed on American television a few years ago. She said, "It is very, very important, that the families teach their children to pray and pray with them." Then she added, "And we have enough reason to trust God because when we ...

3649. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... had shared many enjoyable evenings together. Jesus was teaching one day when word came that Lazarus was sick and would probably die: "Lord, he whom you love is ill." Certainly Jesus would come at once to the aid of his sick friend. Jesus was Lazarus’ last hope. Jesus had healed other people from their illnesses. Certainly he would want to heal his friend. Instead of going at once to Lazarus, however, Jesus stayed where he was for two more days. What doesn’t make sense is that Jesus was only two miles ...

3650. A New Kind Of Faith

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... praying about all this for some time and felt she had clear guidance. She planned to send her son-in-law plane fare so he could go to church with her. At that church service she expected that her son-in-law would give his life to Jesus. She was hoping he could then be baptized that very afternoon. She spoke to one of her pastors about her plan. He tried to dissuade her, to help her see the foolishness of her plan. "God does not operate that way," the pastor told her. "You can't manipulate God or your son ...

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