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3626. Preparing The Way

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... . His message was not entirely lucid, but even in its disconnections you could feel him trying to get his words around a text: `And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth...' Most people were, of course, passing him by. Some stopped for a brief and curious stare. Even the hired Santa Claus positioned several feet down the pavement paused to listen every now and then. A good many people smiled benevolently as they walked by, a few laughed out loud and one person asked him what he ...

3627. Finding Jesus

John 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... commands that we love one another." Tears welled up in her eyes. "It was a very loving thing you did. I can’t just keep silent and let you go away." Gladys, in a passionate plea says, "Dr. Hammond, you are a good disciple. You mustn’t stop now." (3) It is clear that this pastor’s witness of love had a profound effect on the faith of this woman. That has been true for many of us. We have found Christ through the witness of others ” Sunday School teachers, kindly neighbors, most importantly, devout ...

3628. United We Stand, Divided We Fall

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... considering joining the church. "Why would I want to be a part of that church?" someone might think. "All they do is fight with one another all the time. I would be better off staying home on Sunday morning." United with one focus there is no stopping the church of Jesus Christ. Together we in the church can accomplish great things; divided the church will not accomplish much of anything. The church at Clyde's Corner that was quarreling about whether or not the old red horsehair couch should remain in the ...

3629. The Difference Is You

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... between older and younger prisoners, or between first time offenders and repeat offenders. One of the women stood up at a church meeting and said she was beginning to feel that "our city jail is a disgrace." "It ™s doing more to encourage crime than to stop crime," she said. The more time the women spent helping unfortunate people in jail, the more they saw things they did not like. They saw things that few citizens of Pine Mountain had seen. They noticed the attitude of the police toward their work. They ...

3630. Who's The Blind One Around Here?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... able to help that young blind man on the street corner with love and kindness. She gave him a birthday party. He met a blind girl and was beginning to fall in love with her when someone with sight told him that she was unattractive. As a result he stopped seeing her. "It brought tears to my eyes," the woman said. "He'd been seeing fine." (2) Yes, he had been seeing fine ” until some so-called seeing person misguided him. There are two kinds of blindness” of the eyes and of the heart. That is the first ...

3631. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It’s even worse when we’re concerned about someone we love. In our gospel lesson we find a family experiencing a crisis. Lazarus and his sisters, Martha and Mary, were close personal friends of Jesus. Jesus spent time in their home. He would stop to visit with Mary, Martha and Lazarus whenever he passed through. They 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 ...

3632. Meeting Jesus Along The Way

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... a month to take comprehensive exams in his senior year in college. Being madly in love and having to be away from his fiancee made him very sad and depressed. He was on a bus traveling from Ithaca, New York to New Haven, Connecticut. The bus stopped at the Binghamton Greyhound bus station. The station left a lot to be desired. Troeger sat down at a little dinette on one of those circular pedestal stools with the stuffing coming out. The counter was U-shaped and he found himself sitting directly across from ...

3633. Dr. Life

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... adventurous, but this was all too sudden. This was a decision too big for her to make on her own. She returned home and to her job feeling that she would somehow be guided. The next day, in flight, she found herself wondering what to do. To perk up, she stopped in the rest room and splashed a bit of cool water on her face. There was some turbulence, and a sign lit up in the rest room: PLEASE RETURN TO THE CABIN. She did - the cabin back in the mountains with Mr. Wonderful. I wonder how her decision turned ...

3634. Crossing The Desert Or Protecting Our Vehicle?

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... isn’t something we can borrow from our neighbors or parents or fellow churchgoers, or anyone else. We must claim faith as our own if it is to make any difference in our lives. The Apostle Paul was completing his missionary journey when he stopped off in Athens. At that time Athens was the center of western civilization, the home of the great philosophers, and the intellectual center of the world. Being the intellectual giant he was, Paul probably enjoyed roaming the streets of the renowned town. As he ...

3635. The Fourth Person In The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... THAT FOURTH PERSON IS ESSENTIAL TO GOD’S PLAN FOR HIS WORLD. Let me begin with a story. A pastor named Ron Delbene tells about the early days of his ministry when he was responsible for the Sunday School program of his church. Each Sunday morning he would stop in each class to read the Bible lesson for the day and talk with the children. Sometimes he would tell the children a story from the Bible. He would only stay five or ten minutes in each class and then leave for the next classroom. The teacher would ...

3636. The Second Step

Romans 6:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... said, "Oh, let me prepare a Japanese meal for you and your guests." After some courteous hesitation they agreed. At least that settled a discussion they had been having about what they might serve her. The day after the wedding they picked her up and stopped at the most impressive grocery store in the city. She immediately began to load the basket with jumbo shrimp, filet and other very fine and expensive foods. About the time Pastor Hoffman was beginning to calculate how much this was going to cost, she ...

3637. The Greatest Discovery Of All

Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... of a cane on the sidewalk. It was an old man "bent from the years ” his rough, knotted hand purposefully clutching a cane." But this old man had a peculiar custom as he roamed the streets of this small town. When this gentleman saw a child he would stop, reach into his pocket and give the child a picture of Christ. "He would thrust it into the child's hand and continue on his way, never speaking a word." What this gentleman did certainly doesn't seem like a big deal. However, this small act of kindness ...

3638. Stepping Out In Faith

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... difficulty, and they sapped all of her strength. Her strength was returning but ever so slowly. One August she and her husband were hiking two and a half miles up a mountain to a small log teahouse. The going was tough. Just past the half-way point they stopped to rest beside a lake. A younger couple greeted them. The younger couple advised them to turn around and go back down the mountain. They would never make it to the top. The path was too difficult. Myrtle and her husband decided to rest for awhile and ...

3639. Generic Christians Or Disciples?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... is a nobody. Last year, though, twenty-three-year-old Valerie Place went to Somalia to work as a nurse. She wanted to help people who had nothing. She wanted to offer them a better way of life. Valerie was concerned about her safety, but nothing would stop her from doing her work. She was in charge of a feeding center in Mogadishu. Through her life-saving efforts, children who had been near starvation were fed. Valerie even established a school so the children could learn and have some hope for the future ...

3640. Partners In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... ' home in Richton, about one hundred miles away. It was sleeting and the road was becoming icy on that unusually cold night. It was close to midnight out on a dark, lonely highway. Then it happened. Their car stalled. There wasn't much hope of anyone stopping to help them at that hour of the night. The children were getting colder, and Dunnam and his wife were getting anxious. After what seemed an eternity a car came to a screeching halt beside them. Maxie told the driver that their car had stalled, and ...

3641. When Christ Shall Come

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... at theashram Stanley and others had founded in India. The Brahmins were drawn from the upper caste in India. Everyone in the ashram was expected to participate in the community chores, including the cleaning of latrines. At that task the former Brahmin stopped short, claiming the job was beneath him. When Jones insisted that in Christ there are no unsuitable tasks and that those converted to His lordship should have no trouble cleaning latrines, the Indian responded, "Brother Stanley, I'm converted, but not ...

3642. For Future Generations

Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... in a shooting gallery. So was the priest who followed them, even though he was waving a white handkerchief. So was an elderly man who bent over them to say a prayer. It was a scene from a slaughterhouse or a battlefield. Finally, the gunfire stopped, she said. The British troops did a house-to- house search, looking for members of the Irish Republican Army. Thousands of people were trapped inside the Catholic ghetto. Armored cars blocked the exits. And panic kept them in their rooms with the doors locked ...

3643. May Christ Be Born In You

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... invited to preach at a nearby country church he had never been to before. As he set out he was uncertain which road to take since most rural roads are not clearly marked and the directions he had been given left something to be desired. He stopped to ask directions along the way. The person he asked tried, but mistakenly steered him down the wrong road. The morning was pleasant and although the road seemed a little longer than the pastor had expected, he cheerfully continued on his way. Finally he arrived ...

3644. Finding The Real Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... mahogany stable...It was in front of a crumbling-down hotel, and the stable wasn't much different from [this] old streaky awning hanging over the sidewalk." The little girl watched in awe as Amos' friends acted out the Christmas drama. So did other passersby who stopped to watch. "Angel," Amos whispered, "the Baby Jesus is one of us. Don't you ever let anybody make you feel different...He walked the same kind of road we walk. From now on wherever you go, you just remember he's walking right there with ...

3645. Someone Is Calling In The Night

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... worked out as she had hoped. It did not. She had to move in with a relative for a while. Although this was not what she wanted, she felt sure she was where God wanted her to be at the time. Ruth learned a lesson she would never forget. "By stopping to listen for God's voice," she says, "I was and am learning to be calmer in the storm." (3) Perhaps we have missed God's call because we've been too busy being in control of our lives. God speaks. Some of us haven't been listening. This brings ...

3646. A Most Disagreeable Man

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... . A violent storm rocked the vessel. Even hardened sailors were terrified. Jonah got the idea that maybe God was angry with him and he was the cause of the storm. The sailors pleaded with Jonah to help them. Jonah told them to throw him overboard and the storm would stop. The sailors were in no mood to argue. They did as he suggested. And yes, the storm did indeed cease. We might think that this would be the end of Jonah. Not so. Jonah finds himself inside the belly of a large fish. For three days and three ...

3647. Never Too Old for an Adventure

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... they rode in heartbreaking anguish, jostling against one another and the other prisoners who were jammed into the car. They were absolutely terrified. They knew they were going to die in one of Hitler's extermination centers. Finally, as daylight was breaking, the train stopped. The doors of the cattle car were opened and they were marched out. The guards had them line up along the railroad tracks. The pastor's family looked at one another knowing they would soon be separated from each other and led off to ...

3648. Help Me Make It Through The Night

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... had been praying for. Instead God met her in her pain and gave her life new meaning and a new direction in spite of her suffering and disappointment. Joni's honesty set that dying young man free. He was able to let go of his bitterness and anger. He stopped seeing himself as one who did not have enough faith. Instead he came to see Christ in a new way. Not long after that crusade the young man died, "but his parents were able to rejoice," Dr. Graham says because, "he had not died angry and bitter. He simply ...

3649. The Salvation Army Parade

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Register did a feature story on Tommy. The reporter interviewed Tommy for several hours. Tommy was asked what he thought his impact would be on world peace. Tommy replied, "I don't think I am old enough yet; I think you have to be eight or nine to stop all the wars in the world." (2) As a result of the newspaper article Tommy appeared on national television. And who knows, maybe Tommy's effort has brought the world one step closer to peace. I believe God has a special fondness for people like Tommy Tighe ...

3650. Walking Into The Heart Of God

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... much his brother resembled their father. He saw their father's expression. He noticed their father's look. And as he saw their father in his brother's face, his enemy once again became his brother. Daniel walked toward his brother. His brother saw him, stopped, turned and started to run. Daniel quickly caught up with him, though, and grabbed him. Expecting only the worst, the brother was taken by surprise when, instead of having his throat crushed, he found himself in a giant hug. And the brothers stood in ...

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