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3701. Freedom Song

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the Promised Land." It was a secret code many slaves used to signal that they were planning to leave. Harriet Tubman's escape that night was successful. She traveled mostly by night and hid in fields and barns during the day. There were designated stops along her multistate trek at the homes of those sympathetic to the cause of freedom. Her destination was the Northern states, or even Canada, where many escaped slaves made their homes. Her life depended on her every step. The fact that this lone woman ...

3702. Sister Act

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Luther said in that great hymn, 'A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,' "The body they may kill, His truth abideth still." Notice he did not say, A mighty fortress is our work, or our church but our God. Tongues will be silenced, pens and printing presses will stop, meetings will cease, but our fellowship and communion with Jesus will last and last and last. From this flows the richness of faith and the strength of character, and the who, what, when, where, why and how of life. Let me close with this story: In the ...

3703. If You Really Want To Be Helpful

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." Less than one year later he had the privilege of baptizing Michael at the altar of the church where the parents dedicated him to the Lord. About a month later, as the couple was leaving the sanctuary, the wife whispered in the pastor's ear, "Stop praying." They were expecting another. One year later, as he baptized little Charles, the pastor shared with the congregation how God had answered prayer for this young couple. Then he closed the baptismal service by saying, "Every time I see little Charles I am ...

3704. Busybodies

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... THE RULES. "We have a rule," he intoned. "No healing on the Sabbath." Have you ever noticed how many stupid things are done because there are rules? Greyhound bus lines had a rule: No pets on their buses. And so late one night at a rural truck stop in Florida a Greyhound driver kicked an 80yearold woman off his bus. Her crime? She was returning home from her birthday party with her present: a tiny puppy named Cookie. You remember the story, don't you? Dogs aren't allowed on Greyhound buses and the driver ...

3705. Sitting At God's Table

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... God's love. It gives them something to hang on to when everything else seems lost." About a third of the 140 inmates attend Saturday evening services. Bradley says that inmates, with a lot of time to think, get serious about religion. "They stop blaming others and realize that something is wrong in their life, and they try to find answers," she says. Throughout the country, prison systems are putting more emphasis on faith or spiritual programs, says Ed Nesselhuf, who directs Prison Congregations of America ...

3706. Where's George?

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... own hearts completely to Jesus. Therefore, we do not have his passion for the lost sheep and the lost coins of the world. It was a cold and snowy night in January. On the floor of the hospital where Nurse Sue Kidd worked, things were pretty quiet. She stopped by Room 712 to check on a new patient, Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams had been admitted with a heart attack, and he had seemed restless and anxious all evening. He perked up when the door to his room opened, but then looked disappointed to see Sue walk in ...

3707. Entitlements

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... said to him, "Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted and you are in anguish. And besides, there is a great chasm separating us, and anyone wanting to come to you from here is stopped at its edge; and no one over there can cross to us." Then the rich man said, "O Father Abraham, then please send him to my father's home for I have five brothers to warn them about this place of torment lest they come here when they die ...

3708. Getting Rid Of Fear

2 Timonty 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... believes that God called him into this work, and so he trusts that God will protect him, even when the bullets are flying all around him. Fifteen years ago, Bill was trying to decide what to do with his life. Although he was not a religious man, Bill stopped by a church to pray over his decision. As Bill knelt in the church, he passed out. But as he was losing consciousness, he says he heard God talking to him. The voice gave him only one instruction: "Love. You are forbidden to do anything other than that ...

3709. Justified By What?

Romans 3:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Yellowstone National Park. Along the way he pointed out some of the famous sites in the park. He was so intent on the stories he was telling, that he paid no attention when his twoway radio received a message. He turned it down. Later he and his party stopped to look at some flowers and view some of the birds in nearby trees. Once again his radio distracted the ranger, so this time he turned it off. As the group neared the lookout tower, they were met by a nearly breathless ranger who asked why the guide ...

3710. What's Wrong With Laughing?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... are not Christians because everyone liked them. In the heartwarming book, A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Pamela J. deRoy shares a lesson she taught her little daughter, Lisa. When Lisa was just two, a couple of ladies on the street stopped her to compliment her on her beauty. Pamela was concerned when Lisa accepted the compliment with a blast, "Yes, I know!" Once they arrived home, Pamela sat Lisa down for a little talk about the difference between inner and outer beauty. She explained the ...

3711. We've Been Bragging About You

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... Bible passage for today is about a people under pressure. These people were followers of Jesus. Everyone around them made fun of them and persecuted them and tried to get them to give up their faith. They were under a lot of pressure to give up their faith, to stop believing in Jesus. But they didn't give up. Even though they were under a lot of pressure, even though people around them gave them a really hard time, they still chose to follow Jesus and to live they way He wanted them to. The Bible says that ...

3712. Damaged In Transit, But Deliverable

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... in an unusual way. She noticed an ant on the floor. The moment that ant felt the water on the floor, he ran straight to his tiny hole in the wall. Corrie writes, "Then it was as if the Lord said to me, ˜What about that ant? He didn't stop to look at the wet floor or his weak feethe went straight to his hiding place. Corrie don't look at your faith. It is weak . . . I am your hiding place, and you can come running to Me just like that ant disappeared into that hole in the wall.'" (5 ...

3713. To Be Abased, To Abound, To Be Content

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... "Thanks for your love . . . and the love of God." Paul has learned the secret of the good life. It's not the cash in your pocket, it's your cache of friends and God's love which make life worth living! During this Thanksgiving week of plenty, Paul's words stop us: ". . . for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am . . . to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound . . . in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need." I'm not ...

3714. Why We Gather At The Table

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of our faith. THE TABLE TEACHES US THAT WE ARE A COMMUNITY OF FAITH. We gather here like a family assembled to break bread. At his table we are one. In the summer of 1966 a Boy Scout troop, en route to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, stopped at the Sequoia National Park in northern California. One of the guides shared a valuable insight. He said that you will never find a Sequoia tree in isolation. Sequoias only survive by being close to each other. Despite the very large size to which they grow, they ...

3715. Is Suffering Really Necessary?

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

King Duncan

Sometimes you just can't win. A man had been driving all night and by morning was still far from his destination. He decided to stop at the next city he came to, and park somewhere quiet so he could get an hour or two of sleep. As luck would have it, the quiet place he chose happened to be on one of the city's major jogging routes. No sooner had he settled back to ...

3716. Embedded In Bedrock Or Destroyed By A Typhoon

John 18:25-27

Sermon

Dale Dickerson

... . Not out of his own strength, but out of the grace of Jesus Christ. In all situations God WILL have the last word. Back in 1968 Robert Schuller traveled to the Soviet Union. "I believed that God's word was direly needed by the people," he said. He was stopped in customs for trying to smuggle Bibles. That might have been the end of his trip, but miraculously he was allowed to enter the country. When he was in Leningrad he was both shocked and intrigued when he learned that there was in the city a Museum of ...

3717. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... the locked Upper Room. Their Messiah was dead, their enemies surrounded them. All hope was gone. Now let’s return to the Upper Room just a few days later. The door is open. The sounds of laughter and joyful singing fill the air. Men cannot stop talking about the joy, the incredible wonder of the risen Christ. In fact, they want to go out and tell the whole world about it! As Pastor Weatherhead writes, “Almost everything in the world was different. It was after Easter.” (8) The disciples had discovered ...

3718. What Would Jesus Really Do?

1 Peter 2:13-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... keep him from living as normal a life as possible. He even attended college, although he had to work much harder than the average sighted student. After a late night of studying, Jim often took a break by walking through the dorm. Sometimes, he would stop and visit with the dorm maintenance man, Jimmy Carter--no relation to our former president. Jimmy Carter, the maintenance man, took great pride in his work, and he expected those around him to do their very best too. He often asked Jim, "Are you squared ...

3719. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To Make Sense Out Of My Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

"Life is truly a ride," says comedian Jerry Seinfeld. "We're all strapped in, and no one can stop it. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of ...

3720. Four Ways To Defeat Stress

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... do people drive that way? Anxiety! They aren't trying to be obnoxious. They can't help themselves. They are driven no pun intended by free-floating fear. They don't even know what it is that is eating at them. They only know that if they stop running, something dreadful will happen. "Every tomorrow has two handles," said Henry Ward Beecher. "We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." Let's see how Jesus handled problems. Let's learn from the Master how to deal with stressful ...

3721. Don't Look Down

Matthew 14:22-36

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... ! I bet most of your mommies and daddies carry an umbrella in their car. They keep the umbrella with them, even on sunny days, just in case it happens to rain. Of course, the umbrella can protect us from the rain and the wind, but it doesn't stop us from being afraid in a storm, does it? Our Bible story today is about a great big storm. Jesus' followers, the disciples, were out on their boat, fishing, when a great, big storm kicked up. All the disciples were really scared. Then they saw the strangest thing ...

3722. A Birthday Celebration

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... , I dropped him off at my mother's house. She's taking care of him until the party's over. It wouldn't have been any fun with him along." How ridiculous--a birthday celebration for a child who wasn't welcome at his own party! Yet, when you stop to think about it, that's no more foolish than going through the Christmas season, with all of its festivities, without remembering the One whose birth we are supposed to be honoring. (4) And yet we know it happens. Many people never get it. They're impressed by the ...

3723. Spin-masters Need Not Apply

Matthew 5:13-16, 1 Corinthians 2:1-5

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... , we're taking in bad stuff through our ears. When we watch TV shows or movies that have a lot of meanness or bad stuff in them, then we're taking in bad things with our eyes. And when we let sin into our hearts, and don't try to stop it, then we're taking bad things into our hearts. We want to be very careful every day that we don't let bad things into our lives like that. Let's pray and ask God to help us know the difference between the good and bad things we bring ...

3724. Trees

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... prove beneficial in many ways. Even as we speak, pharmaceutical companies are combing through jungles in search of herbs which might prove beneficial to the healing of our bodies. What a wondrous thing is nature. Actually trees have some advantages over human beings. We might stop and consider some of these advantages before we get to our scripture for the day. TREES NEVER HAVE IDENTITY CRISES. They never ask, who am I? What am I doing here? As far as we can tell, they are content being who they are. There ...

3725. Yes!!!

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Confederate soldiers cruelly! But when Lincoln entered the hospital tent, he began to cry. He bent over the injured soldiers' cots and spoke softly them. He patted their hands and stroked their hair, just as a father might do. And when he left, the men couldn't stop talking about what a good man he was. They had expected a tyrant, and found instead a kind and gentle and forgiving leader. (1) One day you and I will discover that the God whom we serve is kinder and gentler and more forgiving than any of ...

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