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4626. Treasure Hunt

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... a byproduct of living with a sense of purpose, perspective, and appreciation. When people try to be happy they usually seek an activity that will “make them happy” like going to an amusement park. However, after enjoying such pleasures, you typically are left with a feeling of “what’s next?” and “is that all there is?” Being cheerful is literally as easy as whistling a happy tune. You can choose to be cheerful. (2) Not so with happiness. You can’t choose it, you can’t earn it, and you can ...

4627. Trust

John 4:43-54

Sermon

James Merritt

... your finances; more concerned with your faith than he is with your fitness; more concerned with your faith than he is with your feelings; more concerned with your faith than he is with your fortune; more concerned with your faith than he is with your future. You ... medicine they can’t pronounce; they will take it to a druggist they don’t know, and go home and take it and expect to feel better the next morning. Now if you can have that kind of faith in a doctor and a druggist, how much more can you have ...

4628. Lost Baggage: Losing Your Baggage

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... nothing but the clothes on your back. Before you think you are somehow unique, realize that airlines lose about 26 million bags each and every year. So despite the terrible inconvenience, the reality is that you are just a small part of a much bigger statistic. You might feel like the guy who was standing in line to buy an airline ticket. He stepped up to the counter with three pieces of luggage. He said, “Ma’am I want this first suit case to go to Phoenix, the second suitcase to go to Seattle, and the ...

4629. The Journey Begins

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... !) I will do what You ask.” God honors faith and faith is simply trusting Jesus and doing what He asks in spite of the feelings within you, the circumstances around you and the consequences before you. It is this second step of trusting the Son of God that makes the ... . It is amazing to me that Peter wanted to send the Lord away, but Jesus wanted to draw Peter closer. At the point you feel most far from God is the point that God wants to be most near to you. When you meet Jesus and you recognize who He ...

4630. Sometimes You Have to Do Something

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... is the number of people who never achieve their potential. Get out of the slow lane. Shift into the fast lane. If you think you can’t, you won’t. If you think you can, there’s a good chance you will. Even making the effort will make you feel like a new person. Reputations are made by searching for things that can’t be done and doing them. Aim low: boring. Aim high: soaring.” Simon Peter wanted to soar. Maybe not in a lawn chair, but Peter had a sense of adventure. Perhaps this is why Jesus chose ...

4631. She Had Great Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... at some time in your life. Maybe you have been hurt or rejected or betrayed by someone who represented Christ to you. Or maybe you have given into a temptation and the weight of your mistake has caused a wall to be erected in your own mind that makes you feel a stranger to God’s grace. Listen, the Canaanite woman was a part of a despised people, but that did not keep her from having a claim on God’s grace just like every person who has ever walked this earth. Bring your hurt, your need, your urgent plea ...

4632. How to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... dying. For years he’d been at odds with Bill, formerly one of his best friends. Wanting to straighten things out, he sent word for Bill to come and see him. When Bill arrived, Joe told him that he was afraid to go into eternity with such bad feelings between them. Then, very reluctantly and with great effort, Joe apologized for things he had said and done. He also assured Bill that he forgave him for his offenses. Everything seemed fine until Bill turned to go. As he walked out of the room, Joe called out ...

4633. Living “I Don’t Know” While “In the Know”

Matthew 21:23-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... pc czars, people who live and listen and read at red-alert for anything not politically correct. Every age lives in a “pc” world. So they took the “pc” course. They chose not to come clean: “We do not know.” We all “know.” We all know when something feels wrong. We all know when something is wrong. We all know when something will be wrong. We all know what we know — and in our hearts we know the truth. Many of us are not good at directions, hardly knowing our left from our right. But in ...

4634. Learning to Live Like Jesus

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... adds 71% extra flying range. In the same way church people who share a sense of community can help each other get where they are going more easily . . . because they are holding one another up. We’re told that when a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly moves back to take advantage of the lifting power of the birds in front. If we are as wise as those geese we will also stay in formation with those headed where we want to go. We are willing ...

4635. Leave Your Calculator Home

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... they are stored, not when they are being used. His point was that when we store up God’s resources they don’t accomplish anything: we have to use them or they become like moth-eaten garments or rust-encrusted tools. The widow Nell went home from that banquet feeling a little guilty about the amount she had pledged to give in light of the large amount she was storing up. She walked up to her front door and opened her purse to get out her key, and she was shocked by what happened next: somehow a huge moth ...

4636. A Lesson from Jay Leno's Mom

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... .” He pointed out that too many people attend worship services as if they were attending a play. They see the ministers, musicians, and choirs as the actors and themselves as the audience. Looking at it in this way, they feel they can critique the service as to how it touched them or didn’t touch them. They feel they have a right to say: “I just didn’t get anything out of worship this morning . . . I didn’t like the hymns, the choir didn’t sound as good as they sometimes do. There were too many ...

4637. About that Salesman

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... how they rate Before St. Peter spots them, A foot’s inside the gate. Selling is an honorable profession. However, how would you feel if you encountered a sales person who really did not believe in his or her product? New Testament scholar N. T. Wright tells ... just scoping it out, trying to see if church folk were real about following Jesus? Is there a parent in this room who doesn’t feel like a hypocrite from time to time? We may not be like Roy’s father, but there is no such thing as a perfect parent. ...

4638. Risky Business

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... George Bernard Shaw, the great English playwright and philosopher, had difficulty with God because his father had been a scoundrel, an absentee father who cared mostly about cricket and pubs. It was difficult for him to separate his feelings about his father from his feelings about God. Likewise, C. S. Lewis, who, with his writings continues to inspire many Christian believers, struggled to overcome the imprint left by his father, a harsh man who would quote Cicero to his children when scolding them. When ...

4639. Winners and Losers

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the Ft. Lauderdale, FL area. Max became friends with one such street person named Archie. Archie has severe gout in each foot and can barely walk. Each day he sells the Ft. Lauderdale paper out on the sidewalk. Selling the daily newspaper is his livelihood whether feeling bad, sick, tired rain or shine, Archie sells those papers. He lives in a little one‑room apartment that rents by the day. He depends on the sales of each day’s papers to pay the rent and pay for the food and utilities. One day Max ...

4640. Those Amazing Two Words (Thanksgiving)

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... , be with us yet/ Lest we forget lest we forget!” It is so easy to forget the One who is the source of all our blessings. And the more we have the more tempting it is forget. That is the demonic thing about affluence. It causes us not only to feel entitled; it causes us to actually look down on those who have not been as blessed as we are. If we had the heart of Christ, that is the last thing we would do. Rather, our sentiments would be like those expressed by an unknown author: “Even though I clutch ...

4641. An Announcement to a Virgin

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... The Lord is anxiously looking out over the parapets of heaven, trying to decide what to do with the sinful situation on earth. Gabriel enters with his horn tucked under his arm. Sensing the Lord’s dilemma, he brushes his lips across the trumpet to keep the feel of it and asks, “Lord, has the time come for me to blow the trumpet?” “No, no,” said the Lord, “don’t touch the trumpet, not yet.” God continues to worry with the problem. Gabriel asks the Lord again what he plans to do. Will he send ...

4642. Traveling Tables

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... we have been called to do with our “matter” is turn it into a traveling table that serves others. Even the Pope has the technical title of “Servant of the Servants of God.” That is why the liturgical axis of Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year’s holiday celebrations feel so good and so right. This is also why we need to keep them going all year round. The table feeds not just our bodies, but our souls. The table provides us with a sense of being and belonging that we long for during the rest of the ...

4643. I'm Listening

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... do not know how to listen to each other. Even the one who looks so strong and adequate may be trying to communicate, “Help me. I’m frightened. I’m lonely.” Every year there are parents and children who will begin an irreparable breach because of feelings that can’t be put into words. Family members speak past each other and a relationship diminishes.” (6) Listening may the most important sign of love. Samuel listened to the voice of the Lord and became a great man. We will become greater men and ...

4644. A Call for Repentance - Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... of his days.” (2) I don’t know what your need is. Maybe as the ashes are applied to your forehead this evening, this will be a turning point in your life, a turning back to God. Or maybe the reason you are here this evening is that you already feel very close to God. The imposition of the ashes will simply be an outer witness to an inner faith that you already have. Whatever it means for you, the prophet Joel was right about one thing. God is a righteous and loving God. God is faithful to His promises ...

4645. Why He Did It

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... a medical student,” White said. “Big deal,” said the nurse, “You got it the same way as everybody else; now you can stand in line like everybody else.” White writes: “In the end I managed to explain to her why I was there, but I can still feel the sense of shame that made me balk at standing in line with the . . . men who [actually] had a venereal disease. Yet Jesus shunned shame as he [went to the cross]. And the moral gulf that separated him from us was far greater than that separating me from ...

4646. The Condemning Heart

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... But God is not an historian or an archaeologist; he doesn’t dig up our past sins. He comes into a relationship with us, forgives and restores us. Too often we forget that when Jesus died he took our past, present and future sins with him. If you are feeling estranged from God by any past sin, I hope you will lay it down this morning and accept Christ’s forgiveness. Remember Christ’s teaching that we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Some of us are too hard on ourselves. And it stands as a ...

4647. Table Manners

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... sorts of utensils to down a whole variety of new courses. The meals are prettier and there are whole new flavors and new cuisines from around the world that are making it onto my plate. Yet I feel discomfort and anxiety. This is how I suspect a lot of lay people feel about much of the offerings of religious scholarship that are showing up in sermons, worship, and discussions. There are now feminist readings, liberation readings, gay/lesbian and transgender readings, and native aboriginal readings, to name ...

4648. Jesus Heals Body and Soul

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... . One of the things I love about Lincoln was his sense of humor. Abe Lincoln laughed at himself, and especially at his appearance. He was reportedly a very plain looking man. I particularly like one story that Lincoln told on himself. He said, “Sometimes I feel like the ugly man who met an old woman traveling through a forest. “The old woman said, ‘You’re the ugliest man I ever saw.’ “‘I can’t help it,’ the ugly man said. “‘No, I guess not,’ the woman admitted, ‘but the least you ...

4649. The Law of Unintended Consequences

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... nerve endings cease to send signals of pain, and the body is damaged by actions as simple as wearing cramped shoes or grasping a splintered rake. “Pressure sores form, infection sets in, and no pain signals alert the person to tend the wounded area.” They have no feeling in parts of their body. So the affected person is vulnerable to losing fingers or toes or even a nose because they have no way of knowing an infection has set in. Often they go blind, because they do not know to blink when dust gets in ...

4650. Christians and Grits

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... was their own, but they shared everything they had . . .” “That’s socialism!” some people will say. No, socialism is when the state orders that property to be shared. But this is Christianity in its purest sense when people feel the presence of God’s Spirit so strongly that they feel a responsibility for everyone’s well-being, and they share what they have with one another so that no one is needy. Let me contrast this attitude with a true, and I think, tragic story. I heard recently about a ...

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