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351. How Can I Know The Truth?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... Union have been deliberately sabotaging their own maps of the Soviet countryside. Rivers, bridges, cities and coastlines have all been shown in wrong locations on maps or deliberately drawn incorrectly. Distance scales have been an absolute joke. Soviet theory, apparently, was that these errors made these maps useless to spies, invading armies, and the navigators of enemy bombers. Unfortunately, though, the maps were also pretty much useless to tourists and Soviet citizens. We can draw two conclusions ...

352. A Mystifying Question

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... is not the private domain of religion. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the great post-enlightenment thinker who has had such an impact on so much of current thinking on education, wrote an influential book called CONFESSIONS. His primary thesis, and his most influential theory, was that the best education is no education. Self-expression was much more important. But what did Rousseau do when his five children needed education? He sent them away to an orphanage. He knew they would receive an education there. There ...

353. Ultimate Freedom

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... to stay there the rest of his life if he had a sentence of eight years or more. So when the men served out their sentences, they were still, in a sense, imprisoned. Devil’s Island had a rocky shore surrounded by sharkinfested waters. There was no escape. In theory they were free, but not really. In effect they were still prisoners. (1) But there is a fate worse than that. A person can live in a land in which he or she is legally freebut still live in a prisona Devil’s Island within. There are some of ...

354. Preparing For An Unknowable Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... world or the Rapture or the Second Coming. Each time predictions are made there are people who sell their homes, cash in their life insurance policies, turn toward the heavens for signs. Of course, none of this is new. For centuries there have been innumerable theories as to when and how the world might end. In 960 a German theologian calculated 992 as the most likely year. As the time approached, panic was widespread. In 1665 a man named Solomon Eccles was jailed in London's Bridewell Prison for striding ...

355. What Is True And Who Can You Trust?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... a serious matter, ask yourself how it would feel to live in a society where no one could be trusted. Truth is essential ” even when it hurts. In his book THE DIFFERENT DRUM, M. Scott Peck presents an interesting theory about relationships. He says God designed us to yearn for open, honest, authentic relationships ” "communal" relationships. But because we choose peacekeeping over truth-telling, we end up in "pseudocommunal" relationships instead. These are marriages, family relationships, or friendships ...

356. One Came Back

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... which influenced the lives of many generations to come. "It was Christopher Columbus' genius," one historian wrote, "to marshal all of his knowledge and past experience, and use it to forge the Enterprise of the Indies...Columbus' breakthrough lay in his ability to make theory a useful tool. This was a thoroughly modern idea. The notion that ideas could be transformed into action, even on such a grand scale as the scheme of getting east by going west, was what set him apart. Columbus was born at precisely ...

357. Who Is God Anyway?

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... subscribes to more than 160,000 journals. (2) Information is exploding all around us. It is a challenge just to keep up. But keep up we must. In the April 1989 issue of Cook's magazine, Christopher Kimball, publisher and editorial director, unveiled a theory he calls the Ascending Organ Thesis. The idea has application beyond the kitchen. "During the 40s," Kimball explains, "you had to have guts." People in those days were judged by their courage and drive. The war hero and the self-made man were the ...

358. Living With The Birth Pangs

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , little rabbit?" "I'm working on my dissertation," said the rabbit. "Really?" asked the fox. "And what is your topic?" "Oh, the topic doesn't matter," said the rabbit. "No, tell me," begged the fox. "If you must know," said the rabbit, "I'm advancing a theory that rabbits can eat many quite large animals including, for instance, foxes." "Surely you have no experimental evidence for that," scoffed the fox. "Yes, I do," said the rabbit, "and if you'd like to step inside this cave for a moment, I'll be glad ...

359. Letters Straight From The Heart

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Sermon

King Duncan

... large to be felled with an ax, the natives cut it down by yelling at it. At dawn woodsmen sneak up on a tree and scream at the top of their lungs. They do this every day for thirty days. Supposedly, then, the tree dies and falls over. The theory is that yelling kills the spirit of the tree. I don't know for certain that this could be validated by science, but I have seen the spirit of some people killed by careless words. Conversely I have seen spirits raised by words of encouragement. In fact, researchers ...

360. I Didn't Expect This In Church!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... us a glimpse of what Christ's coming meant to the world. He writes, "Whether we like it or not, Christ's life radically changed human culture throughout the world . . . Before Jesus came, the world was ruled by the 'might makes right' theory. But Jesus' teaching about humility and turning the other cheek redefined our views of human character, of war, of masculinity. Jesus' commitment to the poor, to women and children opened the way for civil rights and equality for women. Marriages became more equitable ...

361. Jerry's Story . . . And Ours

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... , she turned the whole question around. She wrote that if there is an intelligent Creator and a plan behind the creation of the universe, then our purpose is decided by our Creator. But if there is no intelligent Creator behind the universe, if it all happened as the Big Bang theory says, then there is no ultimate purpose in life. (2) Did you get that? If there is no God, or if we live as if there is no God, then there is no purpose to our life. But, if there is a Creator, then there is a purpose to it ...

362. Living In Sin Or Synergy?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... that would cause it to replace steel as the flattest surface known to man. When this was done, he said, a revolution in technology would take place. After graduation, these two young physicists formed a partnership and set out to prove their professor's theory. They established a laboratory and went to work. Several years later, after a very complicated process, they had a great breakthrough. They produced such a flat surface that it could be used to measure objects within two-millionths of an inch--a great ...

363. The Present

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... inquired: “Daddy, am I still going to be four years old when we get there?" (2) When we are children, taking a short trip or waiting for Christmas can seem like an eternity. As we age, though, our perspective changes. Rabbi Harold Kushner speaks of the “instant coffee theory of life." He says that when you open a new jar of coffee (and can anything beat the taste of that first cup from the new jar?), you tend to dole out generous portions, because you have a full jar. But about halfway down the jar, you ...

364. Time For A New Vision

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Angela Akers

... rock the boat!" 5. "It's too far ahead of the times." 6. "Get a committee to look into it." 7. "You have got to be kidding." 8. "It's not in the budget." 9. "It will be more trouble than it's worth." 10. "It's all right in theory, but . . ." Today's Bible passage is about a clash of visions. Jesus' followers had a very brief and exact vision of the future. Now that Jesus had arisen from the dead, they were sure that he was going to re-establish Israel's earthly kingdom. God's chosen people would ...

365. There's Something About A Mystery

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... wooden spoons." As this class member and would-be sleuth stirred his sauce, he contemplated the physics behind the mystery of the wooden spoon and decided it must have something to do with heat conduction. He approached Mrs. Pritchard to test his theory. "Why wooden spoons?" he asked. "Because," she replied, "if I have to sit here listening to all your metal spoons banging against metal pots, I'll go nuts!" (2) Some mysteries are not profound. Others, like the incarnation, are profound beyond measure. In ...

366. Labor Day

Mark 9:14-32

Illustration

King Duncan

Eiton Mayo, a professor at Harvard, once did a five-year study at the Western Electric Hawthorne Works in Chicago to find out what effect fatigue and monotony had on productivity. He stumbled onto a motivation principle that revolutionized the theory and practice of management. Mayo took five workers off the assembly line and put them under the watchful eye of a friendly supervisor. Then he started to make frequent changes in their work conditions. But he always discussed the changes in advance. He changed ...

367. A Visit To Millennium Manor

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... of this 14room home is 19 inches, and the thinnest outside wall is 25 inches. The roof is more than three feet thick, and the floor is more than four feet thick. The roof alone supposedly weighs 423 tons. Over 4,000 bags of cement were used. In theory, however, it should be possible to remove all cement from the entire building and it would remain standing, since the only function of the mortar was to fill gaps and not to bear a load. Why did the Nicholsons build such an imposing structure? The story is ...

368. A Picture Of A King

Psalm 72:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... ; he proves it by his love for the powerless in his society. In his book Violence Unveiled, French scholar Gil Bailie writes that, for centuries, cultures sanctioned violence of the majority class against the minority class. Humans lived by the classic, Darwinian theory of "might makes right." But all that changed, he claims, the day that Jesus was crucified, the day that "God took the side of the victim." Author Philip Yancey, commenting on Bailie's book, writes, "The gospel may not make societies less ...

369. About Work

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... true of those of us who have a normal set of chromosomes. We need to work for the sake of our own wellbeing. People who don't have anything meaningful to do are generally unhappy. Work is a gift. You might say: pastor, that's all well and good in theory. But you don't know the kind of dead end situation that I'm in. My job stinks! And I know that in many cases that is true. But that's not what God intended. Work is intended to be a gift. Before you dismiss that idea, let's ask ...

370. Swords Into Plowshares

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... is saying to us: Before there can be lasting peace on earth there must be authentic justice. Here's an interesting fact: Research has discovered that no two nations with McDonald's restaurants have ever gone to war. The so-called Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention, conceived by Thomas Friedman in The New York Times, holds that countries can only support a McDonald's when they have reached a sufficient level of economic prosperity and political stability to make war unattractive to its people. (6 ...

371. Maturity In Christ

Colossians 1:27-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. It's not about us. Only when we realize that, will we discover the true meaning of life. So, St. Paul's goal is to bring us to maturity in Christ. Paul was in prison when he wrote these words to the Colossians. This isn't some abstract theory Paul is advocating, it's real life experience. He had discovered the real secret of happiness. If you want to experience life in all its fullness, allow Christ to live in you. Move from self to service; live by Christ's value system and not your own; understand ...

372. Lord, What A Bountiful God!

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... it doesn't! God has brought into being a magnificent creation with the sole purpose of providing for His children's needs. Isn't that mind-boggling? But why such extravagance, why such bounty, why such seeming waste? Generations ago John Spencer offered an interesting theory on this matter. He noted that the Jewish rabbis taught that when Joseph, in the times of plenty, had gathered much corn in Egypt, he threw the chaff into the river Nile. His purpose was to convey by means of the flowing river to cities ...

373. God Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... a great sense of confidence and boldness that would display itself after Pentecost. Even though they did not know what the future held, they knew who held the future. It is said that the wife of Albert Einstein was once asked if she understood her husband's theory of relativity. She replied,"No, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted." The disciples knew that Christ was with the Father and that Christ could be trusted. They believed that he was in charge and that made all the difference. I am ...

374. The Coat Of Many Colors

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... in to the "Clean Laughs" online board with this story: "I was in my wills and trusts course when the professor posed this question to the students: Why do people choose to have their children, rather than their siblings, inherit their estate? "After students offered various theories, one fellow raised his hand. "˜This may be a bit off the point,' he said, "˜but when I was little, when my brother and sister finished playing with me, they would put me into a drawer.'" (1) Most of us can relate to that poor ...

375. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Changes like these will make you feel different-even when you leave the content of the picture the same. (5) That is a hopeful thought. We can change how we feel about the past or even the future by changing the picture we have of it in our brain. In theory it is a splendid idea. However, when we are tired or under stress, our tendency is to revert to the ways we've learned to respond to life over our entire life span. If our tendency is to get depressed or angry or do something stupid, that's probably how ...

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