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4576. Blood Sprinkled On A Modern Altar

Exodus 24:3-8, Mark 14:12-16, 22-26, Hebrews 9:11-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... had been sent to help with sandbags for shoring up a levee. If it failed, the little town of Inota on the Iowa-Illinois border faced destruction. The criminals worked with furious passion and energy. They refused to sleep. They wouldn’t leave the sandbag brigades even to eat. Still, the levee gave way and the town, with its two hundred houses, was lost. Now the convicts wept openly in frustration and compassion. Why had they suddenly become good Samaritans? Because after dealing in drugs, violence ...

4577. What Makes A Family?

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... 're still you and I love you.' And that saved my life right there. That put an end to any thought of giving up. Then my three kids came in ” besides Will, I've got Alexandra, who's 12, and Matthew, 16. And I asked myself, How can I possibly leave them?' Of course I've had moments of feeling sorry for myself. I look at pictures of our boat and at people who can walk up stairs, and I think I've been dealt a lousy hand. But through it all, I never had any thoughts of suicide. (1) Where ...

4578. Yearning For Rejection; Thriving On Insults

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... have not changed very much. They are still outcasts. One refined, educated man in India told Yancey of the day he sat weeping in a car outside a church as his daughter got married within. He dared not show his disfigured face, lest all the guests leave. Nor could he host the traditional wedding banquet, for who would enter the home of a leper? In modern Western countries, where leprosy is rare, a new disease has taken over much of its moral and social stigma. "AIDS is the modern-day leprosy," says former ...

4579. Have You Checked On Your Investments Lately?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Greenspan replied that his favorite is the story of Bill Havens, who in 1924 was the best rower in the country and was about to go to Paris to win a gold medal ” a medal, says Greenspan, he couldn't lose. But just before the Olympic team was ready to leave, Bill Haven's wife was about to give birth. Should he go? The doctors told him to go, his wife said she would be fine. But Bill Havens decided to turn his back on his own personal dream and stay with his wife as she delivered a new life into ...

4580. Stealth Christians

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... did not break out of the huddle to move into action! Soon the red flag was dropped, and the referee stepped off a five-yard penalty for delay of game. What happened (or did not happen) next will be discussed for years! The team still did not leave the huddle! They seemed to be talking among themselves and encouraging one another, but it appeared they had forgotten that the object of the game is to move to the line and carry the ball across the goal. Again the red flag went down! Another five-yard penalty ...

4581. Motorcycles, Marriage And A Word From God

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... a man to write a certificate of divorce. Jesus answered them by going back to the Genesis account of the first marriage. "Have you not read," he said, "that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ˜For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one?' So they are no longer two but one. What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder (Matthew 19:4-6)." This answer surely shocked the Pharisees. In Jesus ...

4582. Gettin' Ready For Quittin' Time

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... keep his tobacco pouch open in his right hip pocket. As he ran the lathe, he would reach back, grab a fistful of that stringy stuff, cram it into his mouth, then chew on it for an hour or so. That entire procedure occurred without his eyes ever leaving his work on the lathe. Tex would easily chew his way through several pouches in a week. (1) One hot sticky night, Swindoll noticed a Texas-sized cricket on the floor of the shop. As he looked at the little critter, he noticed that the color of the cricket ...

4583. The Get-ready Man

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... haven’t thought of." Most of us have sins of omission and commission. There is a dark side to our character we can hide from everyone but God. Do you know how fish get caught in some parts of the world? Somebody lowers a wooden cage into the sea and leaves it so fish can swim freely through its slatted rails to feed. The cage remains for days or even weeks, until full and satisfied fish grow too wide to work their way out again. That is the way sin works in our lives. It sneaks up on us. No one ...

4584. Ready Or Not

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... story about the grandmother who took little Anne along on a shopping trip. After watching her grandmother choose and buy gifts all morning, Anne was taken to her promised visit to Santa Claus. She made her requests politely, and as she started to leave, the jolly gentleman handed her a large candy cane. "What do you say?" prompted the grandmother. Little Ann furrowed her brows in thought, then smiled and brightly announced, "Charge it." Women are probably more conscious of the nearness of Christmas than men ...

4585. The Greatness Of John The Baptist

John 1:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... during World War II. Bonhoeffer was as outspoken concerning the sins of Adolf Hitler as John the Baptist was about the sins of Herod. Friends in the United States and England, knowing the probable consequences of opposing Hitler, arranged for Bonhoeffer to leave Germany. After a few months, however, Bonhoeffer knew he must return to his homeland. There he preached ever more strongly against what was happening to his people. Needless to say, he aroused great opposition. Soon he was forced to go underground ...

4586. A Better Than Perfect Christmas

Philippians 4:4

Sermon

King Duncan

... You can say that in all societies there has always been a midwinter festival, and that many of the trappings of our Christmas are almost violently pagan, but you come back to the central fact of the day . . . the birth of God on earth. "It leaves you only three ways of accepting Christmas. One is cynically, as a time to make money or endorse the making of it. One is graciously, the appropriate attitude for non-Christians, who wish their fellow citizens all the joys their beliefs entitle them. And the third ...

4587. Good News For You

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... Caesar Augustus would be almost forgotten?" Marcie interrupts and say, "No one paid any attention when I was born either, but now everyone loves me, and I'm gonna get so many presents for Christmas, it'll make your head swim." Charlie Brown turns to leave, Bible closed, and Marcie says, "Hey! Aren't you gonna finish the story?" Charlie Brown replies, "I think you finished it." Marcie may have had no idea about the deeper implications of the Christmas story, but she knew she was loved. That is the greatest ...

4588. Love

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... excitement and the grabbing up of luggage and Christmas gifts, they had forgotten their most precious cargo “ their baby. We can forget the baby, too, if we are not careful. That's easy to do this time of year. We see visual reminders, "Don't leave Christ out of Christmas." And we try to keep that from happening. He IS the reason for the season. Brennan Manning tells a beautiful story that is recounted every Christmas in the forests of Provence in southern France. It's about the four shepherds who came ...

4589. "Catch-able" But Not "Fetch-able"

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... a reliable operation. They were renowned for the quality of their product. They didn't dilute their moonshine and they were known to deal honestly. That fact, coupled with the problems implicit in arresting a mountain clan, caused local government officials pretty much to leave them alone. However, that did not keep a newly-elected sheriff from attempting to arrest Big Haley in order to make a name for himself. The judge who signed the arrest warrant just smiled at the new sheriff's ambition and told the ...

4590. The Greatest Good News Of All

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... to such as them. Marner replies in the vernacular of his time, “. . . that doesn’t hinder. Since the time the child was sent to me and I’ve come to love her as myself, I’ve had light enough to trusten by; and now she says she’ll never leave me, I think I shall trusten till I die.” Marner discovered what you and I have discovered in the child born in the manger of Bethlehem. It is the discovery that at the heart of this universe is love. No wonder that White Christmas could cause an eruption of ...

4591. Searching For Jesus

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... wife, Kris, in Knoxville. They were on their way home to Weatherford, Texas, about 3:30 p.m. Friday when they stopped at the service station to refuel. "We normally have a head count, but this time we didn't," Glenn Payne said. "We were tired." After leaving the service station, Kris Payne drove while her husband and the children dozed. Kris talked to her son on a telephone before she and the family returned to Nashville. She said she was sick to her stomach when she found that her son was missing. When the ...

4592. His Nature Is Light

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... at Christmas. Christ was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. In 1933 the Morgan family, a group of itinerant revivalists, camped on the town square in Murphy, North Carolina. They hung their wash from the Confederate monument. They were asked to leave, and pleading poverty, requested permission to hold one more service. At that service, a lovely girl, with unwashed blonde hair, sang three lines of a song. In the congregation sat John Jacob Niles, a collector of mountain folk songs. After the service ...

4593. Would You Like To Hold The Baby?

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... killed in alcohol-related accidents than in all the other kinds of accidents combined? If the drugs of choice are so wonderful, why do they devastate every home in which they have been introduced? And if premarital and extramarital sex is so good, why has it begun to leave a trail of a death? That's what AIDS is. It's a death certificate given months or years in advance. There is NO cure. The ONLY safe sex is within a monogamous relationship held together by love and the vows of marriage. The only safe way ...

4594. Congratulations, Joseph, It's A God!

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... you go to church? Going to church is good. The person who has been crucified with Christ will be part of his body. There is no exception to that rule. But going to church without coming to Christ is a sterile exercise that will leave you perpetually dissatisfied spiritually. Knowing Christ, however, opens up a new dimension to life. Then the creeds and the liturgies that seemed so lifeless before become means of Grace. Hymns that once filled only the function of marking time before the sermon become sweeter ...

4595. God Spoke

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... come from the sermon. It may come from some hymn. Or it may come from the reading for the day. Or it may happen simply in the silence when we are bowed in prayer. But the most important thing that can happen to each of us is that when we leave this place we are able to say, “God spoke to me this morning.” And, you know, if we empty ourselves and surrender ourselves completely to Him, I believe He will speak. God spoke and the world was created. God spoke and a nation was founded. God spoke and humanity ...

4596. See My Hands and Feet

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... , for his wife Nelly. In one of his books, Tournier describes how he and Nelly were able to talk about death after her first serious bout with coronary thrombosis while they were in Greece. She knew how gravely ill she was and that a second attack could leave her severely handicapped or could even be fatal.Their last month together was a time of intimate sharing. On the last day she said to him, "Perhaps it would have been better if I had died of my heart attack a month ago." Tournier responded, "And yet ...

4597. News From The Vineyard

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... process. This brings us to the final thing to be said. GOD IS THE ULTIMATE JUDGE OF THE FRUIT WE BEAR. An emphasis on bearing fruit could be interpreted as a sermon on "works." It could also reflect the success syndrome of our day. Someone could leave this service today with a load of unresolved guilt because you feel your fruit is not as acceptable as someone else's. James Herriot, the beloved author of ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL and other best sellers about his life as a veterinarian in rural Scotland ...

4598. Mustard Seed Faith

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... was just a big jerk that lifted her into the air." said DeAndra's mother, Debby. "It carried her right over my husband's head. I'm just thankful she let go." She let go after travelling about 100 feet and fell about 10 feet to the ground, leaving her with several bruises. Obviously that was a scary experience for little DeAndra. But there is something exciting about it, too. Who among us would not like to be lifted off of the groundto experience a new dimension to livingto believe that if we said to the oak ...

4599. The Real Tragedy Of The Tv Evangelists

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... with the cause of our hurt rather than its symptoms. This brings us to the third thing to be said: EVANGELISM IS THE WORK OF EVERY CHRISTIAN. You may be embarrassed to be called an evangelist under present circumstance, but that it what you are. Your call as you leave this place this morning is to go out and lead the world to repentance, to cast out demons and to heal the sick. That is a pretty big order, isn't it? Any place you go, however, in your work or in your leisure where you walk with integrity ...

4600. God Of Compassion

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... lasted, but I wouldn't want to go back..." The heartaches of loving and losing, the fears and insecurities about the future, aging and dying, the inability to get our act together, to do those things we know in our hearts we ought to do and to leave off those that are destructive to us the difficulty in connecting lives one to another. The great philosopher Hegel on his deathbed complained, "Only one man ever understood me." He fell silent for a while and then added, "And he didn't understand me." We don't ...

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