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426. My Younger Brother Gets Away With Everything

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... already know. He was irate. How many of you parents have heard your children say, "It isn't fair? You treat him better than me." It's the most human of all responses. "You never killed a fatted calf for me," said the elder brother. He feels betrayed. He has stayed at home. He has worked all his life so that Dad would be proud of him. Is this the reward he receives ” to be forced to attend a party honoring his worthless younger brother? He is furious. He refuses to go in to the party. Two sons, one who has ...

427. Prayers That Work

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... man was watching the performance with amused interest. Grinning, he suggested, "Why don't you just try putting on the emergency brake?" (1) Our subject today is prayer. To the mind of the unbeliever, watching someone pray is the equal of watching someone say "Stay," to their automobile fully expecting it to obey. To the unbeliever prayer is an exercise in futility. But to the believer, prayer is the most powerful and the most reliable force in the world today. It is clear that Jesus believed in prayer. His ...

428. Did You Ask How Much It Was Going To Cost?

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... MUST MAKE A DECISION ABOUT FOLLOWING CHRIST. We must decide whether we will be spectators or gladiators in the arena of his service. We must decide whether we will be mere observers of the passing scene or movers and shakers for the kingdom. We must decide whether we will stay among the curious or take up a cross and follow in his steps. There is no standing on the sideline, Jesus tells us. Either you are in the game or you are not. A rather sobering story is told by Franz Kafka in his novel, THE TRIAL. A ...

429. Last Words

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high." These were Jesus' last words. These were undoubtedly words that Christ meant for his disciples to remember. These were words that summed up his mission and theirs. It is interesting what part of ...

430. The Ultimate Evidence of God

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Elijah on a mountain. That is a truth that you and I need to learn. This sanctuary is a sacred place to most of us. We meet God here. For some of us this is the most beautiful and meaningful hour in our week. We could pitch our tents and stay here all week long. Some of our most active members are thinking to themselves, “I might as well, as much time as I spend here.” But we need to remember the time-honored story of the lady who happened in on a small Quaker congregation. They were sitting in silence ...

431. Preparing For God's Great Gift

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... into we would take extra precautions. We would make sure all the windows were locked; we might even install some additional locks on our doors and windows to prevent a burglary from taking place. If we knew when the thief was coming we would be sure to stay home with plenty of lights on and even the television blaring. We would take every precaution we could. We would be ready. The problem is that we do not know when the thief will strike. We must always be ready. Dan and Celia Coleman were walking home ...

432. Jesus And The Lake Wobegon Effect

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... up the whole experience on the minus side of the ledger. But he didn't go. He went out for a jog instead. He felt he needed some exercise and some time away, to work out the tension. He chose a back road near the motel where he was staying. As he trotted along the back road, he suddenly heard a tremendous growl and barking. The hair on his neck stood on end! There, growling behind a thin wire fence about three feet high, was a huge, young, and hyper Doberman Pinscher, eyes blazing and teeth bared! The dog ...

433. Annie's Gift

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... active and busy, alright! It took the whole family to keep a household running then. We helped out with the cooking and cleaning and farm chores. There's only so much trouble you can get into when you're digging up potatoes not ten feet away from your parents. We stayed plenty busy. And then, hardly before we knew it, Frank and I were married. We were so young. "Ella Jones doesn't like our little pastor. She says he caters too much to the young. Of course, it's not in Ella's nature to like a preacher. I'm ...

434. The Truth About Miracles

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... brokenness and sadness that he did what he did in a daze. Needless to say the air came out of the tear in the blownout tire as quickly as he pumped it in. He says he doesn't know what he was expecting. But trembling and crying, he just stayed there in the dark carrying out a hopeless task. Then the miracle happened! Suddenly he realized that the tire was hard. Somehow and in some way that is impossible to explain, the tire was holding air. He stood up, confused and happy. He remembers yelling out loud, "Oh ...

435. Sitting At God's Table

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... been a terrible mistake; Caldwell Parish didn't allow people of color in the club. Dondre was not welcome to play. Murphy gathered together his seniors, including Dondre, to break the news. The players listened in stunned silence as he explained. If they stayed, Dondre couldn't play. If they left, they forfeited the tournament. Without hesitation or discussion, the whole St. Frederick's golf team gathered up their bags and headed to the van. They would not play. Moments marked by true integrity, backed up ...

436. The Bridge Builder

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... has compiled a list of excuses called "101 Easy Ways to Say 'No.'" Whenever you need an excuse for getting out of something you don't really want to do, remember these. Each starts out with, "I'd love to, but . . ." The man on television told me to stay tuned. I have to check the freshness dates on my dairy products. I'm observing National Apathy Week. I'm being deported. 5. I've come down with a really horrible case of something or other. My Psychic Friend advised against it. None of my socks match. My ...

437. What Are You Tied To?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... lives? Jesus tells us in John 15:11, "I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete." We are connected to Christ so that we might live productive lives and find true joy. Now what is the formula for staying connected to him? Listen carefully. Too many Christians miss this formula which is found in both the fourteenth and the fifteenth chapters of John. IT IS THE PRINCIPLE OF LOVING OBEDIENCE. Jesus says in John 15:9-10, "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you ...

438. Children Of The Light

1 Thessalonians 5:5

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... lights in the darkness that spread hope, and peace, and joy, and love to the whole world. But just like light bulbs can't produce any light unless they're connected to a lamp or a light fixture, we can't share the light of God's love unless we stay connected to God. How do we stay connected to God? That's right, through praying, and reading our Bible, and coming to church, and doing nice things for other people. Those are all good ways for us to ...

439. Held Hostage

John 18:33-37

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... colder soon. And there's nothing better to drink in cold weather than hot cocoa. (Pour cocoa from thermos into mug) That's what I like about this thermos. A thermos is a container that keeps hot stuff hot. I can put my hot cocoa in here, and it will stay hot for a couple of hours. How does it do that? Why doesn't the cocoa get cold? Well, the thermos has layers of stuff inside it that keep liquids hot for a long time. And that's a good thing, because there's nothing yuckier than cold cocoa. Don ...

440. Why He Came

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... to pray. Jesus took time to pray. NOTICE ALSO THAT JESUS TOOK TIME FOR PEOPLE. Jesus was no ascetic who shut himself off from others in his desire to commune with God. He was "a man for others," as he has been so aptly described. He may have preferred to stay in the garden, or on the mountaintop, or in the home of a friend, but there were people who needed him and so he was out doing the work of his Father. In his memoirs about surviving the World War II concentration camps, Elie Wiesel claims that he and ...

441. Worthy Is The Lamb

Revelation 5:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... children for their answers to a question. The question was, "What does God look like?"One child wrote, "Jesus and God both have a circle over their heads. They try to walk careful and stay right underneath it because it lights up. They live in heaven. Sometimes God comes here but most of the time He stays up high. In church He stays way in the top part." Another child wrote, "God wears a nightgown and shoes like you wear at the beach and He's tall . . . He never goes to sleep because at night everybody's ...

442. What Do You Really Know?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... of you will remember the story of the man who was told by a fortune-teller that he would die in a plane crash. So he avoided flying. Six months later he. . . . died in a car crash. An airplane fell on his car. According to this philosophy, even if we stayed in bed on that preordained day, a car could come crashing through our bedroom wall. So, would you want to know that was going to happen? Some of us would like to have the gift of knowing the future. But most of us probably would rather not know. It is ...

443. If Your Eye Offends You

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... worry at all!" And the third man applying for the chauffeur's job said, "I wouldn't go anywhere near the edge of that cliff--I'd stay at least 6 feet from the side!" It was the third man whom the rich man hired. "I wouldn't get even close to the edge ... is a destructiveness in human life within each of us, and we need to watch out for it, we need to be on guard, we need to stay away. We dare not be ensnared. That's the first thing I believe Jesus meant when He said, "If your eye offend thee, pluck it out." ...

444. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... revealed its greatest beauty. It had died in the same form it had lived: closed. How similar to those roses are we humans? How many of us never grow to our full potential? How many of us never display the full glory of God? How many of us stay tightly closed against the world all our lives, and die never knowing what we could have achieved? (6) So it is with those who never open their lives to the Spirit of the living God. Instead of beginning a relationship with God, they take unacceptable risks. Without ...

445. Living with the End in Mind

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... praying man beside his casket and the devil himself were so frightened to see a dead man come to life that they jumped up and ran away as well. When the priest arrived at the graveyard, he discovered it was empty. None of the young men had the courage to stay all night. (7) It’s very human to fear death. Our natural inclination is to cling to life. And that’s good. God means for us to treasure life. All of us have seen people whose bodies were wracked with pain who have seen death as a deliverer. That ...

446. On Living Before You Die

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... a piece of candy or gum. Maybe someone had put in a coin and forgot to pull the lever. The one-talent man went through life hoping he could do well without investing himself or his talents, but he displeased his master in the end. We cannot stay in the harbor of life and be pleasing to God. We must venture out into the deep. And God will reward such faith. Being faithful in little things, the faithful servants earned the right to greater responsibility and greater joy. They earned the blessing of the master ...

447. What about Spiritual Healing?

John 4:43-54

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... his Gospel, he seems to be saying that the man had such faith in Jesus’ word that he took his own sweet time in returning home. Why should he rush? The Lord had said that everything would be O.K., and that was enough for him! He seems to have stayed overnight someplace, for it was as he was “going down” the next day that he met his servants coming to tell him that his son had taken a turn for the better. From Arbela to Capernaum is about a five and one-half hour walk, three hours up and two ...

448. The Greatest Table in the World

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... her got up. Then the people on each side of them got up and then the whole table. As she started to leave, the entire restaurant got up to leave. Then the large man with the greasy apron said, "Oh, now wait a minute. Everybody sit back down, she can stay." He even brought her a bowl of gray soup. Craddock asked the man next to him, "Who is she?" The man said, "I never saw her before in my life. But if she ain''t welcome, ain''t nobody welcome." Craddock said in that new atmosphere he began to eat ...

449. Secrets Shared for the Journey of Life

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... would not have designed this experience and trip, but what at first seemed to be a limitation was used by God in a great way to spread the greatest story ever told. Yes, our faith enables us to walk through the valley of the shadow of death--not to stay camped out for the rest of our lives in the place of despair and fear. Our source of joy is always greater than the source of despair. Now to verse 13, in which Paul shares, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." During the Korean conflict ...

450. God's Timing or Our Timing -The Tension of Time

James 4:13-17

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the Soviet Union admitted something it had denied for nearly 60 years. During the Stalin era, officials once forgot to set the national clocks back one hour when they came off winter daylight-saving time. They were so embarrassed by the oversight that the Soviet government stayed on the wrong time and denied the whole thing for nearly six decades. (1) The issue of time is at the center of our Biblical text for today. We would do well not to deny its crucial importance in our sacred journey. Today, I want to ...

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