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4101. On Telling Time With Computers And (holy Red) Cows

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... for a wiredto thewazoo society such as ours. One state prison's computer misread the release dates of several prisoners. Set for release in the year 2000, the computer thought they should have been released in 1900. As far as the computer was concerned, they had been held in prison 97 years too long! Visa has already recalled several credit cards with expiration dates of 2000 2003, thinking the cards expired during the McKinley administration! It's clear that a major overhaul of the world's computers ...

4102. The Parable Of The Kindly Innkeeper

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... us as a light set on a candlestick. God has planted us in the world to set an example of both kindness and decency. After people see our willingness to get involved, then they will get involved too. Not only do we respond to human need out of our neighborly concern, but also as our way of witnessing to God in the world. There is a man on a cross who says to us, "What I did for you, you are to do for others." This is what following Jesus is all about. Our text for the day comes in response ...

4103. If You Really Want To Be Helpful

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ changed me." Joe followed by asking, "If Jesus Christ changed you, how did it happen? How did he get your attention?" The minister responded, "He got my attention through my wife." Joe then said, "In the past you seemed to go your own way without any real concern for what she wanted. I would like to know what she said that caused you to be open to the leading of Jesus Christ." "It was not what she said, it was what she did," replied the minister. Joe laughed, "What in the world could she have done ...

4104. Sitting At God's Table

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The Kingdom of God is a family celebration. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS A CELEBRATION OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD. The reason we are brothers and sisters is that our relationship to God is that of children to a Divine Parent. You may be confused by teachings of Jesus concerning the Kingdom. Some of the time he seemed to be describing a world yet to come. But most of the time, he described a world that was here and now. What we can deduce from his teachings is this: Wherever God is, there is the Kingdom. That is the ...

4105. Where's George?

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... of selfesteem and hope. But there is another reason we are not very good at finding lost sheep and coins. THEY DON'T WANT TO BE FOUND. Where's George? They don't want to be found. At least, not by us. For some reason, they don't perceive our concern as real. Some anonymous cynic put it like this: I was hungry and you formed a humanities club and discussed my hunger, Thank you. I was imprisoned and you crept off quietly to your chapel in the cellar and prayed for my release. I was naked and in your mind ...

4106. Entitlements

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the U.S. visited Hell, Norway sometime back and then sent a postcard to their pastor back home. He read it at a meeting of the ministerial association, and it broke up the group. "Dear Pastor," it said, "We passed through Hell today, and we're concerned. Almost everyone here seems to be Lutheran." (4) That's like the old tale of the enterprising Arnica Salve salesman. Years ago Arnica Salve was a medical preparation that was regarded as a sure cure for all kinds of external miseries. A religious zealot had ...

4107. Getting Rid Of Fear

2 Timonty 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's death, with no official capacity, Mrs. Roosevelt continued to be a spokesperson for dozens of causes. When President Truman appointed her to the newly formed League of Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge gave her what was considered an inconsequential committee concerned with human rights. Lodge did not realize that he gave Roosevelt a perfect platform from which to launch a worldwide fight for fairness and equality. She was, at first, ignored and minimized. Every place she turned she encountered barriers that ...

4108. Never Give Up

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... keep coming back with her request. And finally she wore him down. What a great lesson for each of us. For the high school student who feels left out and rejectedfor whom life is almost intolerable. Hang in there! Don't give up! For the middleaged person concerned about his or her job. Worn down with anxiety about finances. Hang in there! Don't give up. For the retired person, living on a fixed income, weary with the burden of living. Hang in there! Don't give up! We often characterize this persistent woman ...

4109. What's Wrong With Laughing?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... heartwarming book, A 4th Course of Chicken Soup for the Soul, Pamela J. deRoy shares a lesson she taught her little daughter, Lisa. When Lisa was just two, a couple of ladies on the street stopped her to compliment her on her beauty. Pamela was concerned when Lisa accepted the compliment with a blast, "Yes, I know!" Once they arrived home, Pamela sat Lisa down for a little talk about the difference between inner and outer beauty. She explained the importance of taking care of those in need, being kind to ...

4110. Damaged In Transit, But Deliverable

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN EACH OF US WILL NEED TO BE COMFORTED. Isn't that true? Each of us will come to the time when we will be "damaged in transit." Perhaps it will be the loss of a loved one to death. Our lesson from the Gospel concerns a woman who was widowed seven times. Once is enough for most people. Or perhaps that damage will come from a divorce or a crisis with our health or the loss of our job. None of us will escape life unscathed. All of us will need comfort sometime. Rabbi Sidney ...

4111. Bracing For The Rough Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... opera fans. Imagine watching your favorite soap right up until the time that Jennifer has to decide between Larry and Mark (I'm making these names up as I go along) and suddenly a breaking news story interrupts (the world has come to an end or other such trivial concern) and you are left not knowing which one of the men won out. It is a horrid thing not to know the ending when you have been intimately involved in the drama for so long. Jesus' disciples wanted to know how their story was going to come out ...

4112. What Fragrance Are You Leaving?

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... money - you get closer to the truth." That was Judas' philosophy. He followed the money. Mary is criticized for her extravagance because the money could have been used to feed the poor. Jesus responds by saying that they will always have opportunities to express their concern for those in need, but at this moment Mary is expressing a greater need--a need to satisfy the deepest longings of the heart and spirit--to express devotion to God. For the first fourteen chapters of Mark's Gospel we see Jesus had been ...

4113. Wounded, In Pain. Serving Still

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... pronoun is plural. "Satan has desired to sift you (i.e., all my followers) as wheat." In other words, the enemy intends to damage, not just Peter, but you and me. Only then does Jesus focus on Peter in particular. "But I have requested concerning you (singular), that your faith fail not. When once you have returned, strengthen your brothers (plural)." I call your attention to this unique shift to show that all followers of Christ are under attack. Others will be wounded. Others will fail. Others will betray ...

4114. The Patron Saint Of All Who Are The Last To Know

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side I will not believe." (6 ) By the implication of his words, it is quite apparent that Thomas feels none of this will ever happen. As far as he is concerned, Jesus is dead, and the others better get used to it! The Patron Saint of All Who Are the Last to Know. Because he feels left out of the initial excitement and cannot believe what his friends have told him, Thomas is known as the patron saint of all who ...

4115. Four Ways To Defeat Stress

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? What would you do if five extra people came for supper much less five thousand men with their families? Talk about stress. What will they do? After all, food doesn't come out of thin air! Not, at least, since the Exodus. Granted the disciples had cause to be concerned. But what we need to see is that this is the way they approached every problem. They were nervous Neds. They saw a cloud to every silver lining. They lived by fear, not by faith. They were much like many of us. Do you know anybody who gets ...

4116. Straight Backs And Rekindled Dreams

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... reed and planted shoots from this reed by her door. She tended these reeds carefully. One day when neighbors were in her house she cut a tall reed, bound coconut fronds to it and began to sweep with her back straight. When the people questioned her concerning the reed, she told them where they might find them growing. Four years later, when Emma and Homer were back in Pittsburgh, they received a letter from the headman of the village thanking them. The letter read: "œIn the village of Chang Dong today, the ...

4117. Trying To Grasp The Meaning Of It All

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... for us to sit back and reflect on the meaning of it all. TIME magazine put out a Special Issue a couple years back. In that issue was an article titled, "Physician, Heal Thyself." This article contained two stories that I find fascinating. The first concerned a Vietnamese man named Dan, a construction foreman from Hanoi. Both Dan's brother and his father were addicted to opium. "œAll around me," says Dan, "there were drug addicts." The habit eventually led to his father's death in 1976 and his brother's ...

4118. Spin-masters Need Not Apply

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... the spirit of the times. In the sad saga of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, more was at stake than the reputations of a president, his young lover and even the nation. What was at stake was an attempt to redefine the traditional Judeo/Christian ethic concerning sexual behavior. There has been a growing consensus among some of our intellectual elite and the general population as well over the past 30 years that sex is not a big deal. This consensus began with the so-called New Morality of the 1960s that ...

4119. Making Relationships Work

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Forgive me.'" "THE KNOT OF VIPERS by Franqois Mauriac tells a similar story of an old man who spends the last decades--decades!--of his marriage sleeping down the hall from his wife. A rift had opened thirty years before over whether the husband showed enough concern when their five-year-old daughter fell ill. Now, neither husband nor wife is willing to take the first step. Every night he waits for her to approach him, but she never appears. Every night she lies awake waiting for him to approach her, and he ...

4120. I'm O.k.; You're A Little Suspect

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... 'S GOSPEL TELLS US THAT WHEN WE PASS JUDGEMENT ON OTHERS, WE ARE TAKING THE PLACE OF GOD. We are all sinners. It sounds like a cliche, but it is the hard Gospel truth. None of us has any bragging room as far as righteousness is concerned. We would like to believe that there is a hierarchy of sin. In our minds, there ought to be a grading scale for beginning sinners, intermediate level, and advanced-placement hypocrites. People Magazine once did a survey called “The Sindex: A Reader's Guide to Misbehavior ...

4121. Destined For Greatness

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Wall Street Journal that read like this: "Iran must have the wildest drivers in the Middle East. It is a country of fatalists who believe that all accidents are preordained by Allah. Thus highway safety is really in higher hands and not of concern to mere motorists." Then the reporter adds this observation: "Judged by the accident rate in Iran, [Allah] would seem to be a vengeful deity indeed." (3) Christians are not the only ones to struggle with the question of determinism. It is an ancient argument ...

4122. A Healthy Body

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor . . . But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other." As the pastor of this church, I have the honor of standing before you each week. But my importance to this church is no greater than any other member of the body of Christ. Every last one of us, from the youngest to the oldest ...

4123. On Having The Right Credentials

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." Sanctified means "set apart to God." In Old Testament times sanctified persons, places, and things were never used for profane or ordinary purposes. No one ever accused Paul of being profane or ordinary. In other words, character counted as far as Paul was concerned. "One of the reasons for the decline of the American spirit," says Richard G. Capen, Jr., in his book, Finish Strong, "is a pervasive loss of trust. Everywhere we look we find evidence that no one trusts anyone anymore." If you think that ...

4124. Faith In Conflict

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... man. And he went to jail for his role in the Watergate scandal. While in prison Colson had a genuine conversion experience and today he is a leading spokesperson for evangelical Christianity. He has first-hand experience of kingdoms in conflict. Our story from Mark's Gospel concerns a man caught in a conflict. His name is Herod. Thinking about Herod reminds me of a census taker in West Virginia who was climbing to a cabin nestled high up on a mountain side when he met a youngster. He asked the boy, "Do you ...

4125. Like Everest Without Oxygen And Wimbledon Without A Racquet

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... from the perspective of the man in the ditch. He didn't care if the man who cared for him was a Samaritan, a Galilean, a Judean, a Pentecostal, a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran or a Methodist! He only knew that the one who provided care and concern was neighbor to him. Jesus got his point across. Jesus asked the lawyer, "Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?" Though the lawyer could not say the despised word Samaritan he understood Jesus' point ...

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