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3926. Entering Into The Agony

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

The Los Angeles TIMES recently carried a touching story about an 80 year old man who entered into an agreement with three young couples who were renting apartments in his building. He agreed to allow them to buy their apartments at a very low rate. Please do not misunderstand. This was not your typical condominium conversion. He was selling them their apartments at a much lower rate than they could obtain them on the open market. This was his gift to these six young people who had been there when he needed ...

3927. I Am The Only One Left Who Cares!

1 Kings 19:9-18

Sermon

King Duncan

Many of us have felt what Elijah felt out in the wilderness. Things are quickly going from bad to worse and I am the only one left who cares! That was Elijah's weary response to God. It came after Elijah's momentous victory over the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. How quickly we can slide from the mountain of triumph into the valley of despond. Elijah did. Queen Jezebel was after his blood. He had fled out into the wilderness. He was hiding in a cave. God came to him in that cave and asked him, "What are ...

3928. Ultimate Freedom

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

An American History teacher posed the following question to her class: "A distinguished foreigner was a big help to the American colonists during the Revolutionary War," she said. "Can anyone give me his name?" One young fellow felt he knew the answer. "It was God," he said. That’s a pretty good answer. "A distinguished foreigner who helped the colonists." Is there anyone in this room who is not thankful for our God-given freedom as Americans? Please do not misunderstand. I am not confusing America with ...

3929. How Shall We Pray?

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

Mother Teresa appeared this Spring on Robert Schuller’s television program. Schuller reminded her that the show was being carried all over America and in 22 foreign countries including her native Yugoslavia. He asked her if there was one message that she would like to convey to all those viewers. Her response was, "Yes, tell them to pray. And tell them to teach their children to pray." Prayer precedes good works in Mother Teresa’s estimation. We connect with Christ before we can truly connect with our ...

3930. No Price Too High

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

Some years ago TIME magazine asked a group of Americans to rate one hundred famous events in history as to their significance. The results of that poll are quite amazing. Number one was Columbus' discovery of America. Three events tied for fourteenth on the list: the discovery of X-rays, the Wright brother's first plane flight, and the crucifixion of Jesus. Notice that: Jesus tied for fourteenth. That poll indicates that you and I have not done a very good job of communicating to the world the meaning of ...

3931. Determined Discipleship

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

Fact is often stranger than fiction. When authorities in Baldwin, Wisconsin finally caught some local cattle rustlers recently, it turned out that the men had been carrying off calves and yearling heifers in the back of a Chevrolet Chevette. That meant loading a cow of up to 600 pounds through the rear hatch of a tiny, tiny car. You have to admire their determination. Those rustlers were willing to work hard for what they stole! While a number of people might be tempted to load stray cattle into a pickup ...

3932. Are You the One Who Is to Come?

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

In his book Horns and Halos, Dr. J. Wallace Hamilton tells about one of the weirdest auction sales in history; and it was held in Washington, D.C., in 1926, where 150,000 patented models of old inventions were declared obsolete and placed on the auction block for public auction. Prospective buyers and on-lookers chuckled as item after item was put up for bid; such as a "bed-bug buster" or an "illuminated cat" that was designed to scare away mice. Then there was a device to prevent snoring. It consisted of ...

3933. Way Down In Egypt's Land

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

I hope you had the best Christmas ever. Robert Orben says city kids have a difficult time understanding the Christmas story. When he said that Mary and Joseph had to spend the night in a stable, his daughter asked, "What’s a stable?" he said, "Picture your room without a stereo!" Doc Blakely said his son is so out of it that he got a pair of cuff links for Christmas and had his wrists pierced. Just a little Christmas humor to help you get into the service this morning. Ron Gullion had a recurring dream ...

3934. Promises Kept!

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

Some years ago the Canadian Medical Association reported the strange case of Jack Traynor. Jack was an Englishman who fought in the trenches of World War I. Twice he was shot: one bullet severed the nerves and tendons in his right arm; the other put a hole in his skull. Jack was alive, but his arm was useless and his brain was damaged. He couldn’t walk, and he had constant epileptic seizures. His right arm hung paralyzed. Doctors stopped treating him and predicted his death in a very short while. The ...

3935. Set Free

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

A few years ago a large group of Vietnam veterans met in New York to commemorate the Vietnam War and its effects on their lives. Many were still suffering emotional wounds from that devastating conflict. A Vietnamese Buddhist monk came to the gathering and told a moving story. During the war, a young Vietnamese woman was killed. She left behind her husband and her young son. The husband, needing to provide for himself and the boy, traveled far and wide looking for odd jobs. Often he left the child with ...

3936. United We Stand, Divided We Fall

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

"It all started long before I came," said the Reverend Jason Kirk. Kirk is the fictional pastor of the Clyde's Corner Church in a parable by Thomas H. Troeger. The founder of Clyde's Corner, Cedric Clyde was a successful farmer at the turn of the century. To show his thanks to God, he paid for the building of the local church. Just before Cedric died, he donated to the church a lot of furniture for the parlor and one item for the raised chancel behind the pulpit: "a giant red horsehair couch whose rich ...

3937. From Foolishness To Power

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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King Duncan

Jonathan Rauch once wrote an article titled, "Why Is Japanese Baseball So Dull?" The article is not about baseball at all. It is about business. In it he discusses some differences between the Japanese and American ways of doing business. He tells of interviewing a well-known Japanese political scientist who became very excited when he discussed American meetings. The source of his enthusiasm was the fact that in American meetings he could jump up and down and call out, "I disagree! I disagree!" In Japan, ...

3938. Who's The Blind One Around Here?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

While he was a missionary in Africa in 1968, William Pruitt had an unusual experience. After a long, exhausting day he returned to a little hideaway house he'd built years before. He was exhausted when he reached the house and turned in for a good night's sleep. The next morning he awoke and "thanked God for another day of life." He prayed that God would watch over him. Then he checked a small engine he had in the storage room. He hadn't been to the hideaway for some time and wanted to see if the engine ...

3939. Taking The Risk Out Of Dy(e)ing

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

Not long ago a newspaper carried an unusual headline. It read, "Test Takes Risk Out of Dyeing." It was talking about dyeing hair. An expert on feminine beauty was being quoted. He said that a woman should make a test on one strand of her hair before dyeing all of it. That makes sense. But it was the headline that attracted my attention. "Test takes risk out of dyeing." (1) Another recent news report intrigued me even more. It was reported that archaeologists in the Holy Land had excavated the tomb of ...

3940. A New Kind Of Faith

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

Reverend Rick Lemburg, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Casa Grande, Arizona describes himself as "a Presbyterian by earthquake." He explains that his grandmother, a Baptist, moved the family from Iowa to California many years ago. A Presbyterian pastor visited her and invited her to come to the Presbyterian church. "I'm a Baptist," his grandmother said, "and it will take an act of God to get me to change." While they were chatting, an earthquake shook the home. Being from Iowa, she wasn't sure ...

3941. Meeting Jesus Along The Way

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

There is an 80-foot tall maple tree in Milford, Connecticut that hasn ™t changed much over the years. There are new leaves every spring, of course, and the leaves fall off every autumn. And there is the spot where a limb came off when Hurricane Gloria blew through in 1985. Other than that missing branch the tree on Hawley Avenue has looked the same for as long as anyone can remember. The spot where the limb was blown off caused quite a stir in the neighborhood sometime back. One of the residents, Claudia ...

3942. Dr. Life

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

Go with me for a few minutes to a quiet suburb of Detroit, Michigan ” a suburb known as Waterford Township. Turn with me down Paulsen Street. The street, surrounded by elm and birch trees, seems like any other quiet suburb. Yet people in Waterford Township call Paulsen Street, "the road of death." Four times a white van has pulled up in front of a brown, two-story house on Paulsen Street. A slender, white-haired man with glasses has emerged from the van and walked up to the door of the house. Each time he ...

3943. Stranglers Or Wranglers?

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

King Duncan

Many years ago at the University of Wisconsin, there was an undergraduate literary club. The club consisted of male students who had demonstrated outstanding talent in writing. At each meeting one of the students would read aloud a story or essay he had written, and then submit it to the others for criticism. The criticism was brutal. Nothing was held back. The students showed no mercy in dissecting the material line by line. So hateful were the sessions that the members called themselves "The Stranglers ...

3944. The Fourth Person In The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

A man named Kenneth Gibble tells of spending his after-school hours as a child in the feed mill where his dad worked. He enjoyed playing in the section of the warehouse where the bags of feed were stacked in deep rows. "I loved playing games of pretend," he says, "with the feed bags becoming in my imagination hills and valleys, boulders to hide behind, dark caves to hide inside." Sometimes one of the workers would come into the warehouse where Kenneth was playing. He would delight in spying on the worker ...

3945. Building For Durability

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Timothy Wilkins

Quite possibly the largest mausoleum in the world is the Taj Mahal. Under construction from 1632 to 1645, that oversized tombstone required over 20,000 men in the process of construction. It took 76 years to build the Great Pyramids of Egypt near Cairo. It required 7-1/2 years for Solomon ™s temple to be built. Ten thousand men were used in the process of cutting timber from Lebanon. Another 70,000 men were used for carrying the wood and constructing the temple, and another 20,900 men were used as ...

3946. How Much Do You Trust God?

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

A farmer was out driving his tractor one day when he rolled onto a stretch of gopher mounds. The earth crumbled beneath one tire and the tractor rolled over on its side. Luckily, the farmer escaped the situation with only a few bruises. He went home and told his wife. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Honey, the Lord sure was with you." The farmer surveyed his bruises and answered, "Well, if He was, He sure got a rough ride." Abraham and Sarah knew that God was with them. They were a fortunate ...

3947. The Second Step

Romans 6:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

Francis X. Bushman, the first of the old-time movie idols, started as a sculptor's model. He won "the most handsome man" contest sponsored by Ladies' World magazine. He was working in 1915 for the Essanay studio in Chicago for $250 a week. His agent David Freedman, however, knew that in the gold-rush atmosphere that prevailed among the competing film studios in those early days of movie making, the sky was the limit for talent with a proven following. How to prove it was the problem, and Freedman conceived ...

3948. Like A Rock

Isaiah 44:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

Have you ever heard or read about the one million dollar Malibu rock? Denis Waitley tells about it in his book, TIMING IS EVERYTHING: It happened one February. Rains had been pounding southern California for most of two weeks. Rocks were falling down the slopes. Some of the homeowners who lived on one section of the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu looked up and began noticing a rock that had been located directly above them since the day they had built their costly homes. They saw the 116-ton rock, perched ...

3949. It's Not Nice To Call Someone A Dog

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

One of the appealing characteristics of the historical Jesus is how open he was to people ” all kinds of people. 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 the ...

3950. To Forgive Is Divine

Matthew 18:21-35

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King Duncan

One of the hardest tasks any of us has is to forgive someone who has hurt us. Leo Buscalgia tells about one of his students who was jilted by her boyfriend. The young woman felt both hurt and rejected. At the time she felt she would never get over it. In her confusion she didn't understand her intense feelings to cause him harm in some way. It is a natural to want to hurt someone who has hurt us. This young woman had never been so hurt before in her life. Deep down, though, she knew she had to forgive. As ...

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