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3701. Victory Over Darkness

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... was baffled by the phrase, "Mary was great with child." Grandmother did her best to explain. When the little granddaughter finally understood the phrase, she clapped her hands excitedly and said, "Oh, goody! I hope it's a girl." What children lack in understanding, they make up for in enthusiasm. What would we do without them? Tonight, though, we want to look a little deeper into the meaning of Christmas. Chuck Colson and several other Christian leaders had a meeting with the President of Ecuador. Their ...

3702. What Are You Sitting On?

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Worse, they might take it out of the box and drop it and where would you get another one? Dreams are fragile, you know. Some people in desperation give up on dreams... "I understand the fears and apprehensions of the closet dreamers, but, oh, how I admire the Mother Teresas...the Samantha Smiths, the Christa McAuliffes, the Helen Kellers and, yes, the Sarahs who write poetry on the kitchen table at night. "Are they winners? Winning is not what they're all about...What ...

3703. I Was There

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Gary Whitbeck

... with the Roman pigs who marched into our cities, took over the government and kept order with their soldiers. I'll tell you, there is much rage within a captive people. We were looking for someone, somewhere, to deliver us from this bondage. So you can understand that many of us zealots didn't get too concerned over some prophet who circulated stories of turning the other cheek, and praying for your persecutors. We needed someone who would lead a revolt and drive the Romans out of our sacred city. They had ...

3704. Jesus Prays For Us

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... ever will about the heroes of the Bible. And I will not live to see the days when people in the average congregation will sit in a cold, miserable rain to worship God like many will do to cheer on their favorite team. Perhaps that's because we don't understand the essential nature of the church. I believe if we could see the church as Christ sees the church, we would not take attendance as casually as we do. Jesus, in his prayer for the church recorded in John's gospel, helps us see the church as he means ...

3705. Why Do We Call Him Good?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... back. The Samaritan was good because he turned his face on the man, not his back, and he showed him simple human kindness. Mark Twain once wrote, "Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can read." He was right, of course. Everyone can understand the language of love. It can be spoken in any dialect and still be comprehended by a person of any nationality, by the rich and the poor, by the old and the young, by both male and female. Kindness is a universal language for it does not speak ...

3706. What Goes Around Comes Around

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... HOW MUCH WE HAVE, BUT THE WAY WE TREAT OTHER PEOPLE. The rich man was not a bad person. He kept the letter of the law. His only sin was that he failed to notice Lazarus lying in his doorway. The way we treat other people says something about our understanding of what it means to be a Christian. Do we treat the people we come in contact with in ways that Jesus would want us to? Or, like the rich man, do we pretend they are not there? Abraham answered the rich man saying, "Child, remember that during your ...

3707. A Date With Destiny

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... was a talented actress and a beautiful woman of high society. She came to see John Merrick one day, and brought along a gift: a volume of Shakespeare's plays. John was nervous and embarrassed, an ugly beast cowering before a fairy princess. But words he could understand. With his gloved hands he fumbled through the book. He found the second act of "Romeo and Juliet". His voice was broken and squeaky, but he read the words that expressed what he felt: "See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand, that I might ...

3708. A Perfect World

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... died. When he reached the gates of Heaven, he found them locked. He tried to pick the lock with his extraordinary knife, but it didn't work. He was confused. The hermit had said that his knife would open Heaven's door! The woodcarver didn't understand. Since he couldn't get into Heaven, the woodcarver went back to earth. It was winter where he lived, a stormy and difficult winter. The people of the woodcarver's town had used up all their firewood in heating their homes, and now they were only days ...

3709. When God Speaks

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... make a greater impact with my life. How Does God Speak to People? The Biblical record is unclear. Sometimes God seems to speak to people quite directly ” other times through angels ” other times through dreams. Every once in a while God sends some sign to seal the understanding. I suspect all of us have had at sometime in our lives some mysterious event occur that seemed to speak to us of God's presence and power. Randy Rowland, in his book GET A LIFE! tells about such an event. There was a point in his ...

3710. A Most Unlikely Evangelist

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Samaritan woman probably didn't like men very much, but she could not live without a man in her life. You may have known a woman like her. Books have been written about such women. WOMEN WHO LOVE TOO MUCH, one author has called them. An outsider simply cannot understand it. Such women will live with the most abusive man rather than try to live without a male companion in her life. We tell our daughters, if a man ever lays a hand on you, get out of there. That's the only solution to most cases of domestic ...

3711. A Message For Big Bird

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... troubled young women on today's scene bears the interesting name, Madonna. Our young people know much more about Madonna than I do. I don't believe any of our young people, though, would ever choose Madonna as a role model. It may help us to understand this somewhat pathetic young woman, however, if we know her past. For instance, in TRUTH OR DARE, a documentary about one of her concert tours, she is seen visiting the grave of her mother, who died when Madonna was only five years old. "My mother's death ...

3712. A Niche For Every Itch

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing. But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty." This parable is known as the parable of the sower. It should be known as the parable of the soil. It says to us that PEOPLE RESPOND TO THE GOSPEL IN ...

3713. Surprised Sheep And Graceless Goats

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Stan Meade

... mysteriously as she had appeared. The fisherman looked for her, and three other men came to try to help him in the search. Only when these three men revealed their identity did the fisherman begin to understand. Their names: Balthasar, Melchior, Gaspar the supposed names of the Three Wise Men. What the fisherman began to understand was that in ministering to the needs of that little girl, he had cared for the very presence of God. In doing that he had come alive. We can come alive too when we realize that ...

3714. Come Home For New Year's

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... and forty cents." (1) We are beginning a New Year. Like every year, this year will have its ups and its downs good luck and bad luck, if you want to think of it in that way. The person of faith, though, understands that sometimes "downs" are "ups" in disguise. The person of faith also understands that even when it seems that a season of adversity lasts for a long time when it seems like God has been silent forever God's hand of rescue comes. The people of Israel had been hostages in a foreign land for ...

3715. Body Language

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . To her it sounded like he was ordering "a sieve with all the honey." In desperation, Sam turned to a patron and told him to hand over all hismoney. The diner could have sworn that Sam said to "live a big pile of bunny." When the patron couldn't understand him either, Sam got so frustrated that he pulled out his gun. He pulled the trigger. Click. The gun wouldn't fire. Now Sam grabbed the cash register and began to run. But he didn't get far only about three feet. The register was still firmly plugged into ...

3716. On Being Picked For The "Rework"

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

King Duncan

... on the shelf looks bad, do you blame the clay, or the potter? The potter, of course! The potter was unskilled! So they object to Paul's use of the parable saying, "Using your analogy, if I turn out bad, God is at fault here, not me!" I can understand their argument, can't you? Paul is not reluctant to face their objection. "Who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, why have you made me this way? Has not the potter power over the clay that all originates from ...

3717. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To Make Sense Out Of My Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... place it can be found, and that is in Christ. We are a worshiping community seeking to exalt the name of Jesus. There are other fine churches who worship God in a slightly different way. We are seeking to be true to God's call in the way we best understand. We want you to feel at home here, but our most important purpose is to exalt Christ and to remind ourselves that he alone is the bread of life. Even the songs we sing reflect our desire to achieve both essential purposes in worship. Some of the hymns we ...

3718. Secrets Of Successful Parenting

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... was not like their son, and so the worried parents headed back to Jerusalem. It took them three frantic days before they located him. He was in the temple, sitting among the learned men, listening and asking questions. "And all that heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers." And when Mary and Joseph saw Jesus, they were astonished. And Mary asked, "Son, why have you treated us like this? We have been worried sick." And Jesus said, "Why did you worry? Didn't you know that I must be in my ...

3719. One Giant Leap

John 1:1-18, Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... wondered what he would be when he grew up. Maybe he watched the zits form on his face, and felt ashamed! Do you see it? Do you understand just how great a leap this was for the Son of God? He became fully human, just like us except for sin, says the writer of ... own self the wounds that her friend had received at the hand of her estranged husband! Do you see the picture? Do you understand the thought? In this one rare instance of empathy, the pain, and the suffering, and the cruelty endured by one became the ...

3720. Trying To Grasp The Meaning Of It All

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... will be wrong." (4) And isn't that true in all of life? If our head is wrong, our marriage will probably suffer. If our head is wrong, our priorities will be fouled up. If our head is wrong, it may even affect our health in a negative way. God understands our distress and God seeks to make us new persons so that we can handle our distress more effectively. AND THE WAY GOD MAKES US NEW PERSONS IS BY FAITH IN THE BETHLEHEM BABE. It is when we surrender to the Love of God incarnated in the manger of Bethlehem ...

3721. Whatever It Takes

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... it all right for people to feel that passionate about a soft drink but not about taking Christ to the world? Are there no places of darkness left where Christ's light needs to shine? Are there no families in crisis that need Christ's love and understanding? Are there none in poverty who need the gracious charity of the Master? Are there no teenagers in hopeless webs of drugs and violence who need to be liberated? Has our age of technological advance left us no problems which need to be alleviated, no wounds ...

3722. Yes!!!

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

King Duncan

... God's eternal "Yes!" David Ring senses that God has placed a deposit on his soul, and that one day he will be free of his physical affliction and he will lay claim to all God's promises. David Ring understands that God loves him even more than he can imagine and that, because of what Christ has done, he is a special person. David Ring knows the best is yet to come. No wonder David Ring has joy in circumstances that you and I would find heartbreaking. His life has ...

3723. A Healthy Body

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... A HEALTHY BODY OF CHRIST IS EMPATHY--THE BELIEVERS SHARE ONE ANOTHER'S JOYS AND SORROWS. As I Corinthians 12: 26 says, “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it." This is a little hard for us to understand. We tend to value rugged individualism. “I'm a self-made man (or woman). I don't ask for help. I can do it all alone. I did it my way." Empathy, that quality of sharing our lives with one another, even the most heartfelt moments, is kind of ...

3724. Building a Nation

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... to many kinds of people in many different lands. Maybe that is why it is our tradition as a nation to welcome the stranger with kindness and compassion. There are some in our land who would change all that. They would turn us into a fortress. That's understandable in light of the events of September 11th. Still, we need to be mindful of our history. We will maintain and improve that which has been handed to us, first of all, when we remember where we came from. Second, We Need to Remember What We Stand For ...

3725. On Having The Right Attitude

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... I got it, but it's not for me." These are people who have been exposed to the Gospel, think they understand the Gospel, but consciously choose to go off in another direction. A small congregation was facing some difficult decisions. Its ... it, I want it, thank God for it!" There are people--Jesus called them "good soil"--who are receptive to the Good News of Christ. They understand that faith is not meant to be an add-on. It is not a burden you carry in addition to other burdens. When we open ourselves ...

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