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4101. I Can Make It By Myself . . .

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

Margo Ballantyne was shopping at a store in Scotland when it seemed that the whole world suddenly stopped. As Margo sorted through stacks of scarves, the other shoppers in the store suddenly froze in place. All conversation ceased. Sales clerks refused to make eye contact with Margo or answer her questions. What would you think if you were in Margo's situation? She assumed that she was unwelcome in the store, that she was out of place. But then, Margo remembered that on this particular day, November 11th, ...

4102. It Doesn't Matter What I Do

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

King Duncan

"Five Things Christians Should Never Say," #5 A would-be burglar in Pennsauken, N.J. needed to make sure the door to the company he was looting wouldn't fully close while he was burgling the place, so he stuck a piece of paper in the door. The piece of paper was a traffic ticket he'd been issued for driving with a cracked windshield. Police found the ticket, with a name and address on it, still in the door the next day, which proved helpful in their pursuit of the burglar, who was arrested at his home in ...

4103. How Did You Do On The Test?

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

Fred was a young man from the mountains of eastern Tennessee. He was a general ne'er-do-well. When he was called up for duty in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Fred had high hopes that he would be turned down because of his double vision. The doctor said, "See that chart on the wall over there?" "Not very well, Doc. It's all blurry," said Fred. "You've passed," said the doctor. Fred protested, "How can I pass when I told you it's all blurry?" "That," said the doctor, "was your hearing test." Have you ...

4104. Haunted By The Cross

John 18:1-11; 18:33-19:16; 19:28-42

Drama

King Duncan

A Drama for Good Friday [This Good Friday drama can be approached in two ways: Ideally you have talented people in your church who will memorize their parts and perform in costume. This would be powerful and memorable. Otherwise, it could be presented as Readers' Theater, with a narrator and actors simply reading their lines. Suggested hymns to play softly in the background during readings and monologues: 1. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Simon Peter) 2. Just As I Am, Without One Plea (Samaritan woman) ...

4105. Who Are Those Strangers In White Robes?

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

A couple of years back a movie came out that had phones ringing all over this nation. The movie was "Bruce Almighty." And the reason phones were ringing was that, for the first time, Hollywood published God's phone number. In the movie, a TV newsman played by Jim Carrey is endowed by God with divine powers, allowing him to perform such feats as parting a bowl of tomato soup like the Red Sea. God's phone number is repeatedly displayed on Carrey's pager whenever the Lord tries to summon him. Usually, movies ...

4106. Begin With The End

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

Pastor Kent Crockett tells a powerful story in his book, I Once Was Blind, But Now I Squint. Years ago Kent and his wife Cindy recorded many of their family highlights using an 8mm home movie camera. Some of you are too young to even know about 8mm film. Others of you took your first home movies with them. They were silent, and the picture wasn't very sharp. But they were sufficient to capture some of the important moments in your life. Kent and Cindy collected years of precious memories on numerous spools ...

4107. "yes, And..."

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

King Duncan

Before television, there was vaudeville. Vaudeville was where many of our best old-time comics learned their trade. Entertainers in vaudeville had to face some pretty tough audiences. So, many of them ended their acts with show-stopping moves to ensure applause at the end. One performer named Eddie Leonard announced at every performance that this was his last show. He guessed (correctly) that very few people would be heartless enough to boo a man who was performing his last show. So, for 20 years, the ...

4108. It's Not About Us

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

In his book Rewriting the Family Script, Roger Hillerstrom notes that young children are egocentric. This means that their view of the world is so small that they think they are the center of things. Hillerstrom says that as a child he and his family took a drive one evening. He remembers assuming that, as they traveled, the moon followed them home and then stayed there all night hovering over their house. Wouldn't that be nice? Your own personal moon? An acquaintance whose last name is Steele told ...

4109. Like A Tornado

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

Few of us will ever have the experience that John Neidigh of Jackson, Mississippi, had many years ago. John became trapped in the eye of a tornado. Even more amazing was the fact that he lived to tell about it. By the time John learned of the tornado's presence, it was too close for him to escape. His mobile home began moving up and down, as if it were a surfboard on a killer wave. Trees and debris flew by. The wind peeled off his roof. The sound was like the howl of a freight train. Suddenly, Neidigh's ...

4110. Trust Your Upbringing

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

King Duncan

A Christian pastor named Scott has a sweet tooth. His wife was going out to run some errands and she knew that the chocolate chip cookies she'd just baked might disappear before she returned. To discourage her husband from getting into those cookies, she taped a Bible verse on them. It was I Corinthians 6:12, "Everything is permissible for me--but not everything is beneficial." When she returned she found half the cookies gone and another verse, Proverbs 13:25, attached to the plate in which they had ...

4111. Why Just Once A Year?

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

I love Thanksgiving. We could celebrate Thanksgiving several times a year as far as I'm concerned. Storyteller Donald Davis had a kindergarten teacher named Mrs. Rosemary who also believed in celebrating holidays more than once a year. She liked a good celebration, and saw no reason to wait until a holiday came along before celebrating it. In fact, every Monday morning Mrs. Rosemary's class celebrated a different holiday. In an average school year, the children might celebrate Memorial Day, Valentine's Day ...

4112. Maturity In Christ

Colossians 1:27-28

Sermon

King Duncan

What would you say are the top three tourist spots in the world? Time's up. The three most-traveled-to places in the world are: Rome (the seat of Catholicism and Vatican City), Mecca (the holiest site in the Islamic world), and Orlando, Florida (the home of Disney World). (1) More people visit those three places than any other on earth. I'm not exactly sure what that says about us, but it's an interesting fact. I guess it means that the three most influential figures in the world are the Pope, Mohammad, ...

4113. Drowning In A Sea Of Stuff

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

A 6th grade teacher posed the following problem to her arithmetic classes: "A wealthy man dies and leaves ten million dollars. One-fifth is to go to his wife, one-fifth is to go to his son, one-sixth to his butler, and the rest to charity. Now, what does each get?" After a very long silence in the classroom, little Joey raised his hand. The teacher called on Joey for his answer. With complete sincerity in his voice, Joey answered, "A lawyer!" He's probably right. Where there is a will, there is often a ...

4114. You Can't Please Everybody

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

Have you ever noticed that no matter what you do, you can't please everybody? Somebody, somewhere is going to criticize your best efforts. Former president John F. Kennedy once told about a legendary baseball player who always played flawlessly. He consistently hit and was never thrown out at first base. When on base he never failed to score. He never dropped a ball and threw with unerring accuracy. He ran quickly and played perfectly. Actually, he would have been one of the all-time greats except for one ...

4115. Marks Of A Champion

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

One of the first things many young women have to do when embarking on a career in corporate America is to learn a new language--the language of metaphors from the world of sports--metaphors like "swing for the fences," "full-court press," "knock-out punch," etc. Let's face it. Men, for the most part, talk about sports. Surely you've read Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. Men talk about sports; women talk about relationships. At least, that's what the experts say. The Apostle Paul was a man. And so ...

4116. First, Last And Always--god!

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

I am always thrilled and uplifted by the faith of little children. Maybe that is why when anyone sends me a list of CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO GOD, I read them not only with a smile, but also with a sigh: Oh, to have faith like that. Here are a few that are circulating right now: God, Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident? --Norma Dear God, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't You just keep the ones You have now? -- Jane Dear God, Who draws the ...

4117. The Christ Of Healing

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

It seems that we receive good news on the medical front almost every day. Did you know that fewer men are dying of heart attacks today, particularly young men? It appears that our concerns about exercise, diet, and cigarette smoking are beginning to pay off. I know that there are some of us will never give up our bad habits. We identify with Robert Maynard Hutchins who wrote: "I never run when I can walk. I never walk when I can stand still. I never stand when I can sit down. I never sit when I can lie ...

4118. Strategy For Greatness

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

Not far from the geographic mid-point of the United States, a small railroad and cattle town advertises itself to incoming motorists with the sign: "This is the center of the universe." That sounds so very human, doesn't it? "This is the center of the universe." "Conceit," someone said, "is what makes a little squirt think he is a fountain of knowledge." No wonder the disciples were embarrassed when Jesus asked them what they were discussing. They were discussing who among them was the greatest. They had ...

4119. Casting Aside His Garment

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

Blind Bartimaeus sat begging by the roadside. There were no welfare programs for him to count on, and no food stamps to supplement his income. He was totally at the mercy of passers by for sustenance. That's a tragic situation for anyone, to be begging at the side of the road, hoping someone will notice and offer to help. Have you ever been in such a situation? Some of you have been there, particularly if you've ever been young and unsure of yourself. I can imagine a young woman alone at the edge of a ...

4120. Bread From Heaven

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever. During Operation Desert Storm, Al and Barbara Davis, a retired Virginia couple, read that soldiers in the field weren't getting enough potassium and protein. One problem was that bananas, an excellent source of potassium, spoiled before they could get to the soldiers. So Al and Barbara had an idea: why not make banana-nut bread and send it to the soldiers overseas? Their ...

4121. Gathered Around The Throne

Revelation 7:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

I want to set the mood for today’s celebration with some words from Dr. R. G. Lee. I quote, “Mother and I were very close. We lived on a poor farm . . . so poor that you could hardly raise an umbrella on the place, much less a mortgage. One day the family was in town, except for Mother and me. She was sitting in a rocker on the old porch, knitting. I was lying on the floor, my face in my hands and my heels sticking up in the air. I looked at my Mother’s hands. They were hard and toil worn. I asked her, ‘ ...

4122. A Father Pleased With His Son

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

Is there any son or daughter in this world who is not thrilled by this little declaration of praise from a parent, "I'm proud of you?" When baseball great Henry Aaron hit his 715th home run breaking Babe Ruth's remarkable record, that is what he said: "I don't' remember the noise, or the two kids that ran on the field. My teammates at home plate, I remember seeing them. I remember my mother out there and she hugging me. that's what I'll remember more than anything about that home run when I think back on ...

4123. Like A Big Happy Family

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

King Duncan

It was just after Ben Franklin's kite flying days. Some Frenchmen were experimenting with electricity. They wanted to know how fast it moves. The Abbot of a large monastery volunteered his monks for the experiment. The monks had taken a vow of obedience so they had no choice. They lined up a thousand of the monks, each holding the hand of those next to him. Then the electric current was applied to the first man in line, and according to an account of this experiment, every one of those 1,000 monks jumped ...

4124. He Came To Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

In the late 1800s in the mountains of East Tennessee, there was a famous moonshiner know as Big Haley. The woman's real name was Mahala Mullins, but since she weighed somewhere around 500 pounds, "Big Haley" was not an inappropriate name. Big Haley and her sons ran a reliable operation. They were renowned for the quality of their product. They didn't dilute their moonshine and were known to deal honestly. That fact, coupled with the problems of arresting a mountain clan, caused local government officials ...

4125. God Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

In his book, ON A WILD AND WINDY MOUNTAIN, William H. Willimon tells of being in New Haven, Connecticut as a student at Yale in l970 during the famous Black Panther Trial. Those of you who remember that turbulent era recall the strife, discord and agony that tormented our society. During the week that the crisis at New Haven reached its peak, Willimon attended a choral mass at a nearby Catholic Parish. A boy's choir was singing, "Deus Ascendit, "God Has Gone Up." Willimon mused, "Just as I thought. God Has ...

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