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401. Rise Above It

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , is no joke. Pain is an inevitable part of life. SOME PAIN MAY EVEN BE ESSENTIAL FOR OUR EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH. All sunshine makes a desert we say. Lucy was essentially right in her advice to Charlie Brown. Some adversity does build character. Consider the unique situation of birds in New Zealand, for example. That island nation has more flightless birds, I understand, than any other country on earth. Among these are the kiwi and the penguin. Scientists tell us that these birds had wings but ...

402. How Do You Get To Heaven?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... feel forgiven by God. It seems far too easy to simply ask for forgiveness and believe it will be granted. Many of us would like to have some kind of prescribed penance. But here is what we need to see: JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF GOD. In a recent issue of GUIDEPOSTS magazine, Fulton Ousler, Jr. told a beautiful story that I believe is appropriate here. Young Ousler was only 19 when his father died, but he had worked closely with his father in the last years of his life. At ...

403. A Date With Destiny

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... carry with them the weight of judgment, but promises kept are richly rewarded. The poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning admired Charles Kingsley. She saw a radiancy about his life that was remarkable. She asked him one day to tell her the secret of his joy, the essence of his character. "Madam," he said, "I had a friend!" There it is! I had a friend who stayed with me, through thick and thin! I had a friend who lived with me as a promise! I had a friend I could count on! I had a friend! Remember what Jesus ...

404. When You Need Help

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... This would be easy for him. But wait. Matthew tells us Jesus did not answer the woman. We don't even know if he looked in her direction. Here was a woman in great distress and Jesus doesn't even acknowledge her existence. That was totally out of character for the Master. His whole life was directed at reaching out to others. What happened here? Well, let's examine this scene and find out. MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE OF HER TIMING. Matthew tells us that Jesus had withdrawn into the district of Tyre and Sidon. Jesus ...

405. Good Intentions

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... , just follow HIM." (7) A father had two sons . . . 1. Mark C. Young, Facts on File, An Infobase Holdings Company. 2. Source unknown 3. "At Work," Sasha Myary, July 1995, p. 84. 4. "What Are We Waiting For?" 14 April 1985. 5. BOOKS THAT BUILD CHARACTER, (New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc.) 1994. 6. Dr. Robert H. Schuller, REACH OUT FOR NEW LIFE, (Garden Grover, CA: The Cathedral Press, 1977 and 1991), pp. 25-26. 7. Author unknown. Plainview UMC, Longs Island, NY newsletter. Contributed by Dr. John Bardsley.

406. A Misplaced Holy Day

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... the temple. No wonder, on the day of Epiphany, we like to take out this one last snapshot of the Holy Family, Mary and Joseph and the young child. It is the last one we will have until the child is nearly grown. Of course, there is another character who is not in our snapshot but without whom the story would not be complete KING HEROD. Herod represents all the cruel and cunning people in this world who use power to satisfy their own distorted agenda. Herod came from a long line of ruthless leaders. He did ...

407. Future Tense

Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... afraid because of our spiritual poverty? We are afraid because of an emptiness within a longing a God-shaped void that has never been adequately filled. Jimmy Stewart was one of Hollywood's most loved and most respected actors. According to all accounts, Stewart's character and integrity were byproducts of being raised by loving and honorable parents. He himself once wrote of his father's wise and loving advice to him before Jimmy went off to fight in World War II. In a letter, Alex Stewart wrote, "My dear ...

408. Pretenders

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Plato's Republic, about a shepherd who finds a magic ring. A simple twist of this ring bestows on the shepherd the gift of invisibility. The shepherd takes advantage of this new power, and uses it to engage in all sorts of evil behavior. Plato's characters wrangle over the question raised by this myth: how does a person choose to live when he knows no one is watching? If we knew our actions would not have any consequences, would we live ethically or unethically? (5) Most, if not all of us would still ...

409. Barking Pigs and Determined Disciples

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... things we've never done before." (6) Or as Marv Levy, the former coach of the Buffalo Bills football team once said, "You have to take some chances. If Michelangelo wanted to play it safe, he would have painted the FLOOR of the Sistine Chapel.” There is a character in the classic work Don Quixote named Sancho Panza. Sancho Panza hangs in fear from the ledge of a window all night long, too frighted to let go. When morning dawns he discovers his toes are only an inch off the ground. It's amusing to think of ...

410. Family Survival

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Stephen DeFur

... . The peace--the shalom is broken and shattered, because each time the brothers see the robe, they die just a little bit inside. Now, we know what this did to the brothers, but what effect did it have on Joseph? Interestingly, the writer doesn't say much about his character at this point. But anybody here want to guess that maybe he grew up just a little bit spoiled? We see from the third verse that he was a helper to some of the sons of his father, and he would bring bad reports about some of them. Being ...

411. Wrong Way. On Purpose

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... , kept well-hidden until chapter fifteen? Upon her appeal for assistance, Jesus replied, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Jesus is telling this woman, "My compass is pointing in the direction of Israel, not of Phoenicia." That alone seems out of character for the Lord we have come to know. But it gets worse. It gets downright nasty. When she is bold enough to add an addendum to her plea for help, Jesus brushes her off. "It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to ...

412. The Problem With Keeping All The Rules

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... each had a thin mattress and a pillow. There was a toilet and a sink. No, it wasn't too bad, unless, of course, you had to stay there! Anibal (pronounced “uh-nee-ball") did. He was a striking sort of man. The tattooed anchor on his forearm symbolized the character of the man. He was cast iron. His broad chest stretched his shirt. The slightest movement of his arm bulged his biceps. His face was as leathery in texture as it was in color. His glare could blister a foe. And, yet he had a smile that was an ...

413. One Life To Live

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... heading of righteousness. But here is what we need to see. YOU CANNOT ATTAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS BY WORKING FOR IT. Those of you who made resolutions for the New Year were doomed before you started. It is very difficult for us to change any part of our character by merely resolving to do so. What we need is a new heart and a new spirit. Righteousness is a fruit of our being joined with Christ. Christ does not call us because we are righteous. Christ calls us and then righteousness comes out of our relationship ...

414. Counterfeit Christianity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... and priest and pastor. However, Jesus found a superficial righteousness in many of Israel's teachers of the law. Obedience became a public performance for others to see rather than an inner devotion to the living God. Christ wanted conduct which flowed out of character--not out of a desire to play to the gallery. Thus Jesus warned us of those who masquerade an outer beauty, but inwardly are rotten and shallow. Appearances can be deceptive and destructive. All that glitters is not gold. A bank put up this ...

415. The Idiot's Guide To Christianity

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... others. He is pure in thought, word, and deed. This makes him a fool in other's eyes. At the same time, all these empty, cynical, status-seeking people are strangely drawn to him. He attracts others, not through money or power, but through the strength of his character. (5) The Idiot. If that is what an idiot is, I wish that we could all be idiots for Christ. So, our Idiot's Guide to Christianity is complete. It has two sections: "When You See Jesus, You see God"and "When You see Your Neighbor, You See ...

416. Willing And Able

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... , but simply human beings in disguises. (1) Now forget the lawsuit. We don't even know how it was resolved. Focus instead on the three children. They were forced to come to grips with what they believed about Mickey and Goofy and all the rest of the Disney characters. Our text for today calls us to come to grips about what we really believe about God. A man with leprosy came to Jesus. He knelt in front of the Master and pleaded, "If you are willing, you can make me clean." THIS MAN KNEW JESUS WAS ABLE. He ...

417. Can We Really Trust God?

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... odd." We may feel odd in today's world when we live truthfully. In 1998, for example, 20,000 middle-and high-schoolers were surveyed by the Josephson Institute of Ethics--a non-profit organization in Marina del Rey, Calif., devoted to character education. Ninety-two percent of the teenagers admitted having lied to their parents in the previous year, and 73 percent characterized themselves as "serial liars," meaning they told lies weekly. Despite these admissions, 91 percent of all respondents said they were ...

418. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... people are saved, other than by the love of Jesus. So, who is my neighbor? Anyone who needs my love--anyone who needs the love of Jesus. 1. Chapnotes, http://www.chaplainsnotes.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 ...

419. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... is staying. Reaching the door, Nicodemus straightens from the partial crouch he has employed through the dark alleys. He adjusts his pharisaical robe, puts on his best, dignified, “Teacher of the Law” look, and asks for entrance. The Samaritan woman is of a different character than the righteous Pharisee. She is a loser, a loser at love, and at life. She is involved in her sixth broken relationship with a man. Five husbands have come and gone, each marriage ending in disaster. Now she is with a man not ...

420. Is Suffering Punishment for Sin?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... God who loves us more than we can imagine, and who can bring some good out of whatever evil happens to us. After all, we are talking about a God who could take a Good Friday and make an Easter Sunday out of it! And, as a character in William Goldman’s play “The Lion in Winter” says, “In a world where crucified carpenters rise from the dead, anything can happen!” David Read said in the sermon I alluded to a while back, “I believe in the Christian Gospel not because it offers the best explanation ...

421. Does God Give Out Blank Checks?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... that to merely mention the name of Jesus in our prayers will guarantee results. But in the Bible, “name” stands for a person’s character. When Moses met God on Mt. Sinai, he asked the question “What is your name?” Name, in the Bible, represents character. When our Lord tells us that we should pray in His name, He means that we should pray according to His character. We should pray as He prayed, and for the kind of things for which he prayed. As the Biblical commentator William Barclay put it ...

422. The Second Commandment: What Is Your Golden Calf?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of everyday living. Americans spend twice as much money on beer that they do on books. Then we wonder why our bellies are twice the size of our brain. Sow a thought, reap an act. Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny. We know how easy it is for alcoholism to repeat its painful pattern of destructive behavior in family after family. We know people who are child abusers were once abused themselves. We see it in third or fourth generations of families living ...

423. Nightline

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... ? He did not ask them what church they belonged to or denomination or faith tradition, but what was their faith doing for the building up and establishment of character. We must sometimes admit that our faith has not had much input or impact on the establishment of our character. Sometimes it has not challenged the evil and sinfulness in us--sometimes it has only been an excuse for it or an extension of it. Sometimes our faith permits us to be spectators to the human drama rather than responding to a ...

424. The Wideness in God's Mercy

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... . Life is not all black and white. People are not either good or bad. Decisions are not always either all right or all wrong. I am reminded of a comment made by the theologian, Paul Tillich: "The character of human life, like the character of the human condition, like the character of all life, is 'ambiguity': the inseparable mixture of good and evil, the true and false, the creative and destructive forces -- both individual and social." As I read Mark's account of Jesus healing a leper, this ambiguity ...

425. The Meaning of It All

Mark 1:9-13

Drama

Angela Akers

... wear a large sign that reads “Creme Wafer” with a picture of a Creme Wafer on it) Doughnut (have the character wear a large sign that reads “Doughnut” with a picture of a doughnut on it) Setting: A therapist’s office. Have a couch for the therapy client and a desk for the therapist. On the therapist’s desk is telephone and a large sign that reads “Cookie Therapist.” Nearby have ...

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