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4601. Walk In Love

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... high price is paid for uncontrolled hostility. The Los Angeles police department reported that during one considerable period, 80 percent of the morning rushhour accidents were caused by people who had earlier been involved in arguments with their mates before leaving home. ONE OF THE MOST EASILY DOCUMENTED FACTS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE IS THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS. Hatred, hostility, bitterness are expensive indulgences. Historians tell us that World War I left the nation of Germany in shambles ...

4602. Walk With Confidence

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... and face the world wearing the armor of God! The difference in our lives would be extraordinary. Young person at schoolmen and women on the jobbattling temptationovercoming discouragementstanding up to the bullies of this world. I wish every person in this room could leave here walking in the confidence that there is an unseen strength and power that goes with us. FOR YOU SEE, CONFIDENCE MAKES SUCH A DIFFERENCE IN LIFE. Television entertainer Ed McMahon says his father impressed him at an early age with a ...

4603. The Path To Real Success

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... that she was abdicating. She left her husband and her children behind in order to be herself. We are the ME generation. We want what we want and we want it now. I was reading about drive-through funerals down in Pensacola, Florida. Mourners don't even have to leave their cars at Willie J. Jr's. funeral parlor, to pay respects to the recently deceased. All they have to do is drive by a serenely lit 8 by 10 foot window to view their departed loved one. A pullout tray even lets them sign the guest register ...

4604. Losing Favor Or Losing Flavor?

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... the world needs from us. There is a time honored story about a pastor who was supposedly a great lover of children. One day he looked at the sidewalk leading up to his house that had been freshly poured. Some youngsters were playing in it and leaving footprints in the fresh cement. He rushed out and yelled at the children. Someone said to him; "Well pastor, we thought you liked children." He said, "Yes, I love them in the abstract but not in the concrete." The world is looking for concrete demonstrations of ...

4605. A Great High Priest

Hebrews 4:12-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... the little white lies that are part of our normal etiquette as a society. For example, on his first pastoral call, he got along fine at first. He drank some tea, leafed through a family photograph album, and chatted pleasantly. Then after about an hour, he stood to leave and he said, "Well, I really must be going now." The hostess, trying to be polite, said "Oh, must you go so soon?" Well, being totally honest, he had to admit that he really didn't have to go at that particular moment. So he sat back down ...

4606. Polished Up For Christmas

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... heard of heaven?" And the beautiful bird went on to describe the grandeur of the Eternal City. She told of streets of gold, and the gates and walls made of precious stones; of the river of life, pure as crystal, upon whose banks is the tree whose leaves shall be for the healing of the nations. In eloquent terms the swan sought to describe the hosts who live in the other world, but without arousing the slightest interest on the part of the crane. Finally the crane asked: "Are there any snails there?" "Snails ...

4607. The Most Beautiful Story Ever Told

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... who would tell others what God had done in their lives. Then they, in turn, would tell others what they had experienced, and as the story of God's coming is told over and over againhumanity would be won. Not with dramatic signs that would leave people unable to resist, but with gentle lovethe love of a baby. How else could God reveal Himself in all His completeness except to come to us incarnatein human flesh? Pastor Clifford Stewart of Louisville, Kentucky, sent his parents a microwave oven one Christmas ...

4608. Lighting The World

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... the responsibility for transmitting that light not only to the following generation but also of transmitting that light to everyone on earth so that darkness is finally driven out for all time. We are like those angels who sang over the Bethlehem stable, but the song is unfinished. Now we leave to sing Christ's tune to our dark world as well. 1. (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1997), pp. 2930. 2. Voicings 3. It Wasn't All Velvet (New York: Kensington Publishing Company, 1988), pp. 103104.

4609. He Brings Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... . There is light that shines as a fixed reminder of eternal verities. There is another kind of light, however. It is the search light of compassion and concern. It is the light that moves out into the darkness to seek the lost. This is the light of the shepherd who leaves the ninety and nine and goes out on the hillside to find the one sheep who is lost. It is the light a woman shines looking for a precious coin. It is the light of a loving God who will not let us go. Halford Luccock asked his two ...

4610. Fans or Followers

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... as the apostoloi, those sent out in ministry to the world, we will stagnate and die in our own spiritual pilgrimage. At the beginning of his ministry Jesus called four men--Simon Peter and his brother Andrew and two other brothers, James and John--to leave their nets and follow him. He called them not to be fans, but to be followers. These were four ordinary men but God did extraordinary things through them. The first part of their pilgrimage was spent in the fellowship of Christ and other believers in ...

4611. How God Gets His Kicks

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... house. You've got to get down here." Peck tried to say in a very sweet tone, "Darling, you have to realize that I'm about to shoot a scene. We have six hundred hired extras. The set is prepared. I have to be here all day shooting. I cannot leave." "But honey," she said, "you've got to come." "Not really, darling," he answered, "You've got to understand the picture. I am in full-dress uniform and I'm playing General Douglas MacArthur. My hat has all the stars across the front. My lapels shine in the light ...

4612. Why Do You Believe What You Believe?

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... for years...Because of our tradition everyone knows who he is and what God expects of him...Tradition. Tradition! Without our tradition our life would be as shaky as...as...as a fiddler on the roof!" We see the power of that tradition when his no. 2 daughter leaves to follow her lover to Siberia. Teyve is waiting with her at the train station. Will he see her again? Who knows. Then she gives him a special gift. She says, "I promise you I will be married under the canopy." You see, Teyve is a devout Jew ...

4613. Choose Life!

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the ship came to a sudden halt. The reason? It was the Ferguson’s youngest daughter, 20-year-old, Kelly. Kelly was homesick for her boyfriend back in California. She wanted to go back home instead of going through with the family vacation. So, she decided to leave a couple of fake terrorist threats in one of the women’s restrooms in hopes it that one of the ship’s stewards would find them and the ship would return home. One of the notes said, “I have been sent on a mission to kill all Americanos ...

4614. Waiting For The Angels

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... him. Life does that to us sometimes. Life is difficult. Jesus was led into the wilderness. Sometimes we must enter that wilderness as well. IT IS IN THE WILDERNESS, THOUGH, THAT WE EXPERIENCE GOD'S MINISTERING ANGELS. That is the Good News for the day. Satan leaves us and the angels come. Usually those angels are other people. The Russian writer Dostoevski tells about an experience he had as a boy. As a child, he loved to walk in the forest on his family's country estate. Often he searched for mushrooms in ...

4615. Follow that Dream

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... been a man like that as well. We don't know how God spoke to Abramfor that was his name before he accomplished his dream. Could it have been an audible voice? Perhaps. A still small voice within the heart? Maybe. Somehow Abram knew that God was telling him to leave his homeland and to move to land which God would show him. There he would found a new nationa great nationa nation that would be a blessing to the world. What a dream! What a vocation! I don't know about you but most of my dreams seem inadequate ...

4616. Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... , weak and permanently crippled. Throughout the years Philo was growing up, he was the object of his father's hatred and bitterness. "You're not the son I wanted," was Pilate's constant reminder to his broken son. As soon as he was old enough to leave home, Philo left the palace of his father and wandered alone in the countryside. There he heard of a Galilean who went about preaching love, healing the sick and lame, and feeding the hungry. Philo sought out Jesus. Jesus healed him, not only physically but ...

4617. Not Having Seen Him, You Love Him

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... resurrection. They told of his promise that he was coming back. That's all these second generation Christians hadthe testimony of those who had known him and walked with him. That was all but that was enough. It was enough to convince many of them to leave everything they owned to follow him. In Peter's First Epistle, they are accorded this word of praise, "Without having seen Him, you love Him." Such is also our situation today. You and I have not beheld Christ either with our physical eyes. We have not ...

4618. Coming Alive To Christ

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... monastery was a hut that was visited from time to time by a rabbi from a nearby town. One day the abbot was led to come to the rabbi to ask his advice for their dying monastery. The rabbi responded that he had no advice to give. But he did leave the abbot with this strange message: "The only thing I can tell you is that the Messiah is one of you." When the abbot returned to the monastery, his fellow monks gathered around him to ask, "Well, what did the rabbi say?" "He couldn't help," the abbot answered. "We ...

4619. A Man Who Walked the Talk

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

King Duncan

... many of us have. An old Scottish story tells of a man who feared he was on his death bed. He sent for an acquaintance with whom he had had a bitter quarrel and asked that they put away their feelings of enmity. The acquaintance agreed and started to leave the room. The old man rose up on his elbow and spoke one final word, “But remember, if I get well our old quarrel still stands.” We can understand his attitude. The need for revenge is a powerful emotion. However, compare his attitude with a woman in ...

4620. Belonging To The Right Family

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... s boy?" In rural America folks want to know about your people. Today, we are a rootless societymuch on the move. In an average year, some 40 million Americans move. Put another way, every ten years, between 40 and 60 percent of an average America town's population leaves. We have lost much of the connectedness of our rural past. In a sense we have to carry our sense of identity with us. We are closer to the nomadic existence of Abraham than we are to rural America of the early 20th century. Abraham's people ...

4621. Response To The Resurrection: Christian People In A Pluralistic Society

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... 700 copies of the booklet that he had ordered. He was bombarded! We, too, are bombarded with evidences for the existence of God. In the cartoon "For Better or Worse," Elizabeth and her older brother are walking along the street and he says to her, "The leaves are starting to turn, Elizabeth." Elizabeth answers, "Unhuh." Her brother says, "I wonder why some trees make yellow or orange ones. It's almost as if God does it on purpose just to make this time of year more beautiful." Elizabeth answers, "Yeah, He's ...

4622. Christ Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... see the times when I acted out of what I thought was good judgment and yet made some stupid choices, I am glad God is in charge and not me. I got a chuckle out of a story about a young woman who went away to college in the fall leaving her plants and her goldfish in the care of her mother, who had a tendency to be forgetful. Some of us may know somebody with a “brown thumb.” This mother had one. The plants that the daughter left behind in the care of her mother died at the end of ...

4623. How Have We Made It This Far?

Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... love . . . It was wonderful! Suddenly, the meeting was disrupted by a young man who pushed his way into the room. He began to shout his disapproval of what was happening there and proclaim some particular conviction which he held. He was asked to leave as people stared in disbelief. He refused, continuing his diatribe at top volume. His face was stern and his voice shrill. Finally, after he was forcibly removed from the meeting, they were able to continue and complete the evening, though the spirit of unity ...

4624. Freedom!

Romans 6:3-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... his size, he could not squeeze through to freedom. He was too large. Still there was hope. All he had to do to be a free man was to go on a diet. His brother even offered to restore his title and wealth as soon as he was able to leave the room. His brother knew Raynald's weakness, though. Each day he had sent to Raynald's room a variety of delicious foods. Instead of growing thinner, Raynald grew fatter. He was a prisoner not of locks or bars or iron gates. He was a prisoner of his own appetite ...

4625. What Are You Afraid Of?

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... happen to them or someone they love. A man was awakened by his wife. She heard a burglar downstairs. He slowly got up, went grumpily downstairs, and found himself staring into a gun. The burglar ordered him to hand over all the household valuables, then started to leave. The husband stopped him. "Before you go," he said, "I'd like you to come upstairs and meet my wife. She's been expecting you every night for over 30 years." "You did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear," writes St. Paul ...

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