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Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... them. His mother saw nothing wrong with that practice. "If he were going to burn them to CDs and sell them, that would be inappropriate," she said. Notice she did not say, that would be wrong. No, it would be "inappropriate." Now I know that I am marking myself as old fashioned, and I know the rationalizations--the record companies are very rich, and you're just sharing songs with your friends, etc. but I can't help but think of an article published years ago by the Chamber of Commerce titled, "How to Train ...

4177. Needed: A Radiator Cap Solution

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... wished she could spend one evening in a sleeveless evening gown. (5) After the first Easter, in the upper room when Thomas was filled with doubt, what did he ask for? He asked to see the scars. The scars of the nail prints in Christ's hands and feet, the mark of the sword in his side. Those scars were there for you and me. See from his hands, his feet and side, sorrow and love flow mingled down. Did e're such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown? Were the whole realm of nature mine ...

4178. Finding Peace

John 20:24-31

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: None OR Bring a small flag for each child. These can be purchased at a craft store or in the cake decorating department. OR make book marks for each child out of colorful card stock. On one side write "SEE" and on the other "BELIEVE." Have you ever noticed that some days the flags outside are just hanging limp and other days they are spread out and waving? Why is that? That's right! On some days ...

4179. Worthy Is The Lamb

Revelation 5:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... , he went into a period of deep depression. One day, Lance's wife, Kristin, confronted him about his attitude. Her words changed his whole perspective. She said to Lance, "You know what? A day will come when Luke"--the Armstrong's three-year-old son--"will miss the mark, and fail. He'll be brokenhearted, and will think his champion dad will never understand. But there will be this videotape, of a day in Sydney that he was too young to remember, but where an example of how to lose was set. And I'll show it ...

4180. About Christ

Colossians 1:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... (Colorado Springs, CO: Shaw Books, 2002), pp. 121-122. 3. Daniel Butler and Alan Ray, Wanted Dumb or Alive: 100 New Stories from the Files of America's Dumbest Criminals (Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996). 4. Put Your Best Foot Forward by Jo-Ellen Dimitrius and Mark Mazzarella, Scribner, New York, 2000, p. 49. 5. Peter Lewis. The Lord's Prayer: On Our Knees and in His Arms (Chicago: Moody Press, 1998), p. 79. 6. Mary Hollingsworth, Fireside Stories (Nashville: Word Publishing 2000), pp. 162-164.

4181. Swords Into Plowshares

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... can remember at the post office, the letters to God have turned up at the Postal Authority's center for undeliverable mail in an industrial zone in Jerusalem. In the tiny warehouse, eight workers sort problem envelopes in various cubbyholes but there is one marked "Letters to God." Puzzled by what to do with the letters, one worker started taking them to the Western Wall, a remnant of the ancient Second Temple compound and Judaism's holiest site, where Jews traditionally stuff tiny notes of prayer in the ...

4182. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... .org/WITandWISDOM(tm) - November 14, 2003. 2. "City's character defined at times by its "˜characters'" by David Hunter, Knoxville News-Sentinel, August 4, 2003, p. B5. 3. Michael Peterson in Chicken Soup for the Country Soul, Copyright 1998 by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Ron Camacho(E-zine: CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL http://www.soupserver.com/). 4. Dr. Robert Petterson The Day I Met God, compiled and edited by Jim & Karen Covell and Victorya Michaels Rogers (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2001 ...

4183. Drowning In A Sea Of Stuff

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Halverson, while serving as chaplain of the U.S. Senate, made a speech in which he said that modern man suffers from what he calls "Destination Sickness." Destination Sickness is the tendency to focus all one's time and energy in the wrong direction. It is marked by the belief that money and success are the most important things in life. Halverson describes the victim of Destination Sickness like this: "He's the man who has become a whale of a success downtown and a pathetic failure at home. He's the big ...

4184. Drowning In A Sea Of Stuff

Luke 12:13-21

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: None OR make a card for each child. On a brightly colored 3x5 card, with a sharpie, write STUFF / JESUS. It can either be used as a book mark or attach a piece of adhesive magnet to the back to be used as a refrigerator magnet. (Adhesive magnet can be bought in a roll at a craft store.) Our lesson today is about the "stuff" we have. What is the favorite thing that you have? What is the most ...

4185. You Can't Please Everybody

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... on during the Sabbath was permissible--provided it was on low volume. "If there is a real alarm, you can turn up the volume but in a nonconventional manner," said the rabbis, "with a stick or with your elbow. Controlling the volume in a different manner still marks the Sabbath as different from the rest of the week." (4) Many of us wish that we had more reverence in our society for the Sabbath, but the legalists in Jesus' day had let things get out of hand. Interpreting the law regarding the Sabbath so ...

4186. Winners And Losers

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

Back in 1994, 128 runners lined up to compete in the NCAA cross-country championships in Riverside, California. Unfortunately, one of the turns on the 10,000-meter course was not well marked; only five of the 128 runners stayed on the correct path. Mike Delcavo was the first runner to notice the problem. He began waving at the other runners to follow him, but most refused. Can you blame them? One-hundred-and-twenty-three runners took the wrong path, only five ...

4187. Who Should I Invite To My Party?

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... 3) It's hard to say no to the crowd. And becoming an adult doesn't make it much easier. You may know the story of the woman who was interviewed by reporters on her 102nd birthday. When asked what was the best thing about passing the century mark, she answered, "No peer pressure!" Adults are often as susceptible to peer pressure as are young people. What professional doesn't want to impress his or her colleagues? Why do we throw big money on weddings in the first place? To impress our friends. Why do we buy ...

4188. Hungry For God

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... that they had lost "spiritual consciousness." Isaiah was begging God to revive them. At this time, the people of Israel had wandered into idolatry, worshiping foreign gods. Many of them had abandoned the guidelines for purity that had marked them as a chosen people. Widows, orphans, strangers, and poor people had once been protected among the Israelites. Now, they were exploited and oppressed. In Isaiah chapter 30, the prophet declares, "These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling ...

4189. First, Last And Always--god!

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ), p. 4. 3. From "Termination to Emigration" by Wayne Brouwer, Preaching, MarApr 2001, p. 38. 4. "The Kind of Church Jesus Would Join: An Inviting Church," by Dr. Robert R. Kopp, June 17, 2001, p. 4. 5. The Great American Bathroom Reader by Mark B. Charlton, Barnes & Noble, New York, 1997, p. 260. 6. "World Watch," edited by Anita Hamilton, Timedigital, Nov. 30, 1998, p. 107. 7. Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling, edited by Steve Zeitlin (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), pp. 49 ...

4190. What's Really Important

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... touched in its deepest place. To let it be touched there was a risk that for reasons known only to her she was apparently not prepared to take. "Because there was a sense of hollowness within, her last years--when storms can often be at their worst--were marked with sadness. "Being beautiful was her business, her art, her delight, and it took her a long way and earned her many dividends, but when, as she saw it, she lost her beauty . . . she was like a millionaire who runs out of money. She took her name ...

4191. He Calms The Storms

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... directly proportional to our faith. We can hear that gentle voice just as William Barclay heard it, just as J.C. Penny heard it, just as William Cowper heard it. It is the voice of Him who has dominion over the wind and the waves. "Peace, be still," He says. Mark says it best: "the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."

4192. If Your Eye Offends You

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... become a [person] of success but rather try to become a [person] of value." That's what is important--to become a man or woman of value. If that's your goal, if you've kept your life fixed on that standard, you are not going to miss the mark. The ancient Greeks held that when the goddess of Thebes came among them she left her track. Her footprints were in the fields and the forests. Passing by a tree that had been blackened by a thunderbolt, she paused, and afterward woodbines sprang up to cover the tree's ...

4193. Discerning The Will Of God

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... for when I grow up. I'm going to be a broker." I don't think many of us want to spend our lives being "brokers;" we would rather builders and fixers. We want our lives to count for something good, constructive, and lasting. We want to make our mark in life. We don't want to be like the non-committed fellow described in this little poem: "He led a blameless life, For him life had no terrors. St. Peter wrote the final score-- No runs, no hits, no errors." Remember Jesus' words in Revelation? "Be ye cold ...

4194. Bearing The Right Fruit

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... -six hours playing video games using a joy stick on an Atari. When she returned the borrowed game, the wounds on her palms disappeared. That sounds too much like a parable of modern life to let pass: How many of us, who think we bear the marks of the cross, have only been playing video games? There was another news item published at about the same time. A Gallup Poll indicated that Americans are strong on religion but weak on morality. Is anyone surprised? There is a lot of cheating going on in America ...

4195. A Father Pleased With His Son

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... this is my way of introducing our text for the day. John was baptizing persons in the river Jordan. Imagine his great pleasure in being the one to baptize Jesus. It must have been an important day in Jesus' life as well. Not only did this experience mark the beginning of his teaching ministry, not only did he give us an example to follow to submitting to this very meaningful symbol of baptism, but something very beautiful happened to Jesus. as he was coming out of the water, he saw the heavens open and the ...

4196. The Coming Of The Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... presence. Dr. Joe Harding has drawn a beautiful parallel to the action of wind upon sails. He notes that if you look at the old maps of the ocean currents, you will see great areas just north of the equator in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans marked "doldrums." This is an area between the prevailing oceanic winds. It is an area where the air is very warm, still and humid. Sea captains early learned to avoid the doldrums. Now and then a careless captain would sail his ship directly into the center of ...

4197. Sarah Laughed

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... even to contemplate. Absurd!! Sarah's laugh, first of all, was the laugh of futility. "I laughed to keep from crying." How many times has each of us used that expression? According to many experts, the primary function of laughter is to release tension. Mark Twain once remarked that there will be no laughter in heaven. Twain was not being sacrilegious. He did not mean there will be no happiness in heaven. In fact, he meant exactly the opposite. There will be no pain in heaven"” therefore no tension ...

4198. Yes, But How?

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... grace and goodness of God. What a wonderful, liberating thing it is to discover that I am not God, but a human being. It was never intended that I would be perfect. As St. Augustine once wrote, "Whatever we are, we are not what we ought to be." Or as Mark Twain put it: "Man was made at the end of the week, when God was tired." Maybe that explains it all. But for whatever reason God made us the way we are, you and I need to accept our inadequacy--our incompleteness. Erich Fromm put it this way: "It is ...

4199. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... those days they shall no longer say: "˜The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own sin; each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge." (RSV) Mark this down. Inscribe it upon your heart: God does not punish children for the sins of their parents. Sometimes children do suffer because of their parents. Someone here this morning may have had an abusive parent. You bear emotional scars from that experience. Television brings ...

4200. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor." What are Jesus' commandments? "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength and . . . thy neighbor as thyself" (Mark 12: 30-31). Love is the first key when you are desolate--both giving and receiving love. The second theme of this passage is truth. "He will give you another Counselor, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive ...

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