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Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... the crowd. He refused to even to be delayed. He cast off his mantle, sprang to his feet, and came to Jesus. Then Jesus asked him an interesting question, "What do you want me to do for you?" Couldn't Jesus tell that Bartimaeus was blind? What kind of question was this? There are two possible explanations for Jesus' question. Perhaps Bartimaeus' blindness was not his deepest need. Imagine that he had a child on death's doorstep. That might have been far more critical to him than his lack of sight. There are ...

3877. Why We Give

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... Land and settle it and farm it, they are to take a portion of the first harvest and bring it to the priest. The priest is to take the offering and place it upon the altar of God. Then the person who is bringing the offering is to perform a kind of ritual before the Lord. He is to say something to this effect: "A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt where he became a great nation. But there he fell under evil taskmasters. The Lord heard the cry of his people, however, and brought them ...

3878. Idle Tale Or Eternal Truth?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... , HOWEVER, WAS THE GENUINENESS OF THE CHANGE THAT CHRIST'S RESURRECTION MADE IN THEIR LIVES. From defeated to dynamic, from heartsick to heroic, from doubting to death defying, the radical change that took place in the lives of those who followed Jesus is not the kind of change one will find among persons who are perpetuating a fraud. One does not die defending a fairy tale. The disciples were witness to an event that divides all of human history into before and after. Jesus Christ had risen from the dead ...

3879. Blessed Are The Believers

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... was ready to go. He had his faith and he said he was locked in the arms of the Lord. Sometimes I wish I had that kind of faith. But I don't. I just have questions." (1) That is interesting, don't you think? His father's death was harder on the ... and now I would like to learn something about him...." (3) That soldier believed the evidence in his own mind and heart. Living in the kind of magnificent world in which we find ourselves, it is easy to agree with the Psalmist: "The fool says in his heart there is no ...

3880. The Joyful Mystery of the Trinity

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to feed his sister's hungry children has made a promise to Cosette's mother Fantine to try to help raise her daughter. Now in the darkness of this terrible night, Cosette is suddenly relieved of the heavy burden. She looks up in the shadows to see the kind and gentle face of Valjean, the man who has made the commitment never to forsake her. Suddenly she realizes that he has been there, walking beside her, and she hasn't even been aware of it. (5) What great good news it is that there is someone who has ...

3881. Do This And Live!

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... ...a respected lawyer getting involved in this way? What would the implications be? ....what about the personal danger? After all, who knows what has been going on? By the time he has thought it through, it is too late. She has drowned. He moves on, making all kinds of excuses to justify his failure to act. Camus writes, "He did not answer the cry for help. That is the man he was." (3) We would have done better, we tell ourselves, and yet all around us are people in need. Not just physical needs. Emotional ...

3882. Teach Us To Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... get much simpler that. "Lord, meet my needs for the day..." That is another way of stating the matter. Could you be satisfied with that kind of request--Lord, give me what I need? Would you trust God to know what you need and to provide it or do you feel more ... in the countryside to a large city. In the village he had grown up among good people. In his school he sat next to a very kind young girl of whom he was fond. When he got to the city, however, he forgot his upbringing. He fell into a life of crime. He ...

3883. Where Have All The Heroes Gone?

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... have been a hero." The bishop replied, "My boy, every age brings its opportunity, and if you cannot be a hero now, you would not have been a hero then." God is still in the business of creating heroes. You and I can be heroic if we choose. Of what kind of stuff are heroes made? There are many ingredients of course that go to make up a hero. Let's center on the three most important. FIRST OF ALL, HEROES ARE PEOPLE OF GREAT COURAGE. Two small boys walked into the dentist's office. One of them said bravely. "I ...

3884. Ready For The Great Race

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... is so difficult. The fat cells are trying to defeat us. Many people, when they go off of a diet, will gain back more weight that they lost in. For people who have that problem, dieting will be a lifelong battle. Recovered alcoholics know they face the same kind of endurance test. They learn to live one day at a time knowing that they face an enemy that will be with them as long as they live. Do you remember the first "Rocky" movie starring Sylvester Stallone? It was one of the most successful movies ever at ...

3885. God Loves An Underdog

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink...I was naked...sick and in prison...." Does that sound like he identified with the best people in town? What kind of kingdom is it in which the first shall be last and the last first? Let's put it to a vote. How do you feel about it? Sounds kind of radical to me. Almost un-American. Of course, for those who believe God is an American and middle-class at that-there is another way to look at it. Americans love an underdog and so ...

3886. No Price Too High

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... at your life in the same way again. It might even mean that you would lose your life. But it is the cross that gives our lives wings-for the cross represents our giving our best to a cause greater than ourselves. Bertoldo de Giovanni knew what that kind of commitment was all about. You may not be familiar with Bertoldo's name. In his own time, he was an important sculptor. Today he is all but forgotten. Except that he had a pupil whose name was Michelangelo. Michelangelo was only fourteen years old when he ...

3887. Determined Discipleship

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of God, to live a Christlike life. Nothing is more beautiful or more winning than that. We are representatives of Jesus Christ. An old eastern fable tells of a man who possessed a ring with a beautiful opal. The ring bestowed upon the wearer qualities such as kindness, truthfulness, bravery and justice all the qualities to make a man much loved. The ring was passed from father to son until it happened that a man had three sons. Before his death he had two copies made so each of his sons would have a ring ...

3888. Why Jesus Likes Sinners

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... that this is not a bad prayer. The Pharisee wasn't like the riffraff of society, and thank God for it! I am thankful for the kind of values that have been instilled in me, aren't you? Some of us could pray the Pharisee's prayer with some justification. But listen to ... was addressing: "He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others...." The kind of moral he was drawing was determined by the audience to whom he was speaking. If he had been speaking to a ...

3889. Marriage In Heaven? No. Heaven In Marriage? Yes.

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... was not the end but the beginning of your spiritual pilgrimage. Suppose you were baptized and joined the church and that was it. You never gave another thought to God or the Kingdom again. (I feel like I am describing someone you or I may know.) What kind of commitment would that be? So also in marriage, the wedding ceremony is not the end of your courtship of your spouse but it is only the beginning. I read somewhere that the Golden Gate Bridge is continually in the process of being repainted. An army of ...

3890. Meeting Jesus Along The Way

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... religious" ” whatever that means. She told a reporter, "I ™m not reading the Bible all the time." The tree for Claudia is some kind of sign, though. "I just think people may be able to take some hope from it," she says. Eve Mizera, another Hawley Avenue ... hearts burned within them and they began to discover who it was that walked with them. A man named Dan Wakefield made that same kind of discovery. Dan grew up going to Sunday School but left the church and was away from it for many years. Until one day ...

3891. For Laughing Out Loud!

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... bed into his room. The next morning, he woke to find a puddle of water in the middle of the new bed. The upstairs bathroom had a leaky drain. (1) What do you do at times like that? Five years from now, it will be funny. There are all kinds of reasons to laugh. In fact there is a man in the Bible who got his name because his mother laughed at an inappropriate time. Our story begins one hot summer afternoon. The temperature was above 100 degrees. The only relief available was the shade of a tree. Activity ...

3892. It's Not Nice To Call Someone A Dog

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Will Rogers once said he never met a man he didn’t like. Jesus never met a person he didn’t love. People from all kinds of situations found themselves comfortable in his presence. He didn’t come across as stuffy or pretentious. It reminds me of the story of a priest in the mountains of Kentucky who had come home with a family of new converts for dinner. He was received cordially by all but ...

3893. Diamonds Falling From Your Lips

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... was at a fountain drawing water, when an old woman asked her for a drink. She readily gave the woman a drink. "You are truly kind and helpful, dear," the woman told the young girl, "so I have a gift to bestow on you. Whenever you speak, a rose or ... to the whole church what a hypocrite he had been. Then as he looked out over the congregation he said, "A lot of you are the same kind of hypocrite I've been. I've cleaned up my act and made my peace with God." Recently he has been giving his testimony in other ...

3894. For Future Generations

Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... the band is tired and his eyes are growing old. But his blood runs through my instrument, and his song is in my soul. My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man. I’m just a living legacy to the leader of the band.” And somehow, that kind of testimony speaks volumes to parents. (5) A woman in Florida tells about asking a 5-year- old girl where she got her pretty red hair. The little girl thought about it for a minute, and then she said: “I must’ve got it from Daddy... because Mommy still has ...

3895. A Most Disagreeable Man

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... a preaching mission. But Jonah didn't want to go. Nineveh was a foreign city with a reputation for evil ways. The Ninevites weren't Jonah's kind of people. No way was Jonah going to Nineveh. In fact he got on a ship and headed in the opposite direction, as far away from Nineveh ... raise money for printing the commentaries. This would be their mission project for the school year. Students found all kinds of interesting ways to raise money. One girl helped her father milk their cows. Another girl went to market ...

3896. Passage To New Life

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the governor's office, the first to serve as a probation officer, and the first to serve on the staff of the State Bar of Texas as a division head. He eventually received a full pardon and changed his name to Alfred Sample in 1976. (4) That is the kind of assurance that I would wish for each of us this Easter morning ” that we could say with Mary, "I have seen the Lord!" Easter confronts us with the reality of death. Easter tells us there is a time of letting go and trusting God. Easter calls us out of ...

3897. Watchers, Walkers And Worshipers

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... the temple were amazed to see a man who could not walk jumping around for joy. They turned to Peter and John as if they were some kind of miracle workers. But Peter would have none o it. He said to them, "Why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or ... we are capable of is not watching or even walking ” it is worshiping. Once there was a man named Minnesota Foulk. He was the kind of person most people just naturally liked. But at the moment he was down on his luck. He had just been released from ...

3898. Freed From Fear

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... talk about the risk of faith, but there is risk involved. Jesus talked in terms of losing one's life in order to save it. That kind of talk is not for timid souls. You and I both know that there are some people who would never willingly lose their life. They ... One day as he was riding to church with his father, Dolph said, "Dad, I wish I could drive a car." His father's answer was kind and gentle, "You know why you can't drive, don't you?" Dolph replied, "Yes, because I have Down's Syndrome, and in the state ...

3899. The Real Leap Of Faith

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... girl moving about. They had never seen anything like this. The dead do not come back to life! Then Jesus told them to give the girl something to eat ” signifying that everything was all right. Jesus gave Jairus and his family the gift of life restored. I wonder what kind of effect this miracle had on Jairus? There is a man named John Ulrich who is a new person thanks to such a miracle. In 1976 Ulrich's son was taken to the hospital with no heartbeat and no brain waves. Co-workers had found him at a work ...

3900. All You Need Is A Miracle

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... her husband would only eat biscuits and milk. But that night when the stew was passed around, there was plenty. There was even enough for seconds. And afterwards, when her guests thanked her for the delicious meal, there were actually leftovers. (1) Doesn't that sound kind of familiar? It sounds to me an awful lot like the feeding of the multitude. It was Passover, and Jesus went up a mountain with his disciples. Now when the people saw Jesus go up the mountain that day, it reminded them of Moses going up ...

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