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4626. Forever Hopeful

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... would contribute $5,000 to your favorite charity." That got Peale's attention. He said, "Yesterday I went to a place where thousands of people reside. As far as I could determine, not one of them has any problems. Would you like to go there?" "When can we leave?" answered George. "That sounds like my kind of place." "If that's the case, George," Peale said, "I'll be happy to take you tomorrow to Woodlawn Cemetery because the only people I know who don't have any problems are dead." That's true. To be alive ...

4627. What About the Weeds?

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... which humans will resort. What about the weeds? Our concern today is not about the final judgment that Jesus describes--when the wheat and the weeds will be separated. For most of us that matter has already been settled. By faith we have been saved. We will leave to God the determination of what happens to the truly depraved. We aren’t responsible for what others do with their lives. But we are responsible for our own lives. What about the weeds in our lives? How do we deal with those weeds--those pesky ...

4628. Out Of Our Control

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... or enough wisdom to perfectly determine our lives. As someone has wisely said, "If God would concede me His omnipotence for twenty-four hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me his wisdom too. I would leave things as they are." Thomas Carlyle once wrote: "Does the minnow understand the oceantides and periodic currents, the trade winds and monsoons and moon's eclipses, by all of which the condition of its little creek is regulated, and may, from time to time, be ...

4629. Where Are Your Loaves And Fishes?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... persisted, "No you must come today and tell my people about your great God." Again the leader tried to explain that they could not go with him that day, but would be glad to come another day. This did not satisfy the chief. As the mission team pushed off to leave, the chief waded out into the water calling after the missionaries, "White man, if you don't come tell my people about your God, I'll tell your God on you!" I hope nobody ever tells God that we heard that 40,000 children are dying each day from ...

4630. Living In Spite House

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... neighbor on the west side bettered the previous offer by only a few dollars. "Look," the neighbor said smugly, "I've got you over a barrel. You can't sell that lot to anyone else and you can't build on it. So there's my offer. Take it or leave it." The millionaire was beside himself with rage. Within a few days, he hired an architect and a contractor to build one of the strangest houses ever conceived. Only five feet wide and running the full length of his property, his house was little more than a row of ...

4631. Time For Action

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... Dirty, bloddy, and shivering, this little boy limped from one house to the next begging for help. But he always got the same response. People were afraid to help. Fianlly in desperation, he knocked on a door, and just before the lady of the house could tell him to leave, he cried out, "Don't you recognize me? I am the Jesus you say you love?" The lady froze in her tracks for what seemed like an eternity to the little boy. Then with tears streaming down her face she threw open her arms. She picked up the boy ...

4632. Designer Religion

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

American Humorist Robert Benchley was leaving an elegant tavern one evening. As usual he had a little too much liquid refreshment and was a little tipsy. He found himself face to face with a uniformed man whom he took to be the doorman. “Would you get me a taxi, my good man?” Benchley asked. The uniformed ...

4633. Blessing, Testing, Response

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... member of our family simply because we did not have the $.60 for the medical vaccine which would have prevented the disease from which they died. In the October 1974 issue of Newsweek Magazine I read that in India, men were having to leave their families in order to look for food. The Indian Press reported cases of families committing suicide rather than die a lingering death of starvation. It even reported of distraught parents throwing small children into rivers to drown them rather than face starvation ...

4634. Ultimate Thanksgiving

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... be lived. Blessings are not to be squirreled away. They are to be shared. There is a story of a poor artist who was regally entertained in a castle. It was one of the high moments in his life. However, he had nothing with which to repay his friends. Before leaving, however, he shut himself up in his room for some days, locking the door, and refusing to come out, or to let any one in. When he finally came out and bade his hosts, "Adieu!" a servant found the sheets of his bed missing, and thought that he must ...

4635. You're A Good Kid!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... handling the communion cup, accidentally spilled some of the wine on the carpet. There the similarities end. The priest in the Eastern European church, seeing the purple stain on the carpet, slapped the little altar boy hard across the face and shouted, "Clumsy oaf! Leave the altar!" That little boy grew up to become an atheist and a Communist. He was the strongman dictator of Yugoslavia from 1943 to 1980. His name was Josip Broz Tito. The priest in the church in Illinois, upon seeing the stain near the ...

4636. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... suicide. The creatures are called lemmings. They have given us the phrase, "like lemmings headed for the sea," for that is what they do. Every few years when their population has grown too large and the food supply has become too scarce they leave their burrows and like a mighty army, swarm out of the mountains and rush downward toward the sea. Normally, lemmings fear and avoid water. During their mass march, however, they brave streams and lakes. They also devour everything in their path. After running ...

4637. Face To Face With The Tempter

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1938, Pg 115. 3. Wayne Ansterman. "Armor for the Soldier," CIVIL WAR TIMES ILUS. (Jan., 1988), p. 36. 4. Lauren Bacall, LAUREN BACALL BY MYSELF (New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1978), p. 105. 5. "Stuck Amusement Ride Leaves Dizzy Fairgoers Unamused," THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL (Aug. 27, 1990), Section A, p.5. 6. Published in GUIDEPOSTS (July, 1988). Requoted here in condensed form in "But You Promised" by Iron Eyes Cody, READER'S DIGEST (June, 1989), p. 131.

4638. A Story Almost Too Big To Tell

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... men to pull the triggers. But then he noticed their faces. Gone was the hate and rage, and when the leader spoke again, it was without contempt. "You have helped us," he said, "and we will help you. We will speak to the rest of our company and they will leave you alone. Do not fear for your life. It is in our hands and you will be protected." Relief and joy flooded through Sempangi's heart. God's love had given him the strength to say a simple prayerone that changed the lives of those five men forever. (4 ...

4639. How Do We Choose?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... if I do this, You will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, I will trust You always: though I may seem to be lost in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for You are with me and You will never leave me to face my peril alone." So, were the disciples right to cast lots to choose their twelfth comrade? We can say this: they were right to go ahead and make a decision, whatever the method. The life of faith is a life of action. And the life of faith ...

4640. God's Plan For His World

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... don't know where I'm going, but just look where I've been!" (3) We need to be reminded from time to time who we are. God has chosen a special people. WHAT IS MORE, GOD HAS REVEALED TO THIS SPECIAL PEOPLE HIS ETERNAL PLAN. When each of us leaves this room this morning, I want us to have a clear picture of what God has called us to be and to do. Having that clear, mental picture or vision is the first step in seeing God's plan realized. Any great work begins with a vision. As you go ...

4641. What Are You Working For?

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... labor for the food which perishes," he says, "but for the food which endures for eternal life...." There are people who are sweating blood, working their hearts out, driving themselves to early graves, who will one day have nothing to show for their labors. They will leave this world just as empty handed as they came into it. There will be not a single mark on their canvas, because everything they work for is perishable. They have missed the whole point of living. And what is the whole point? Perhaps we can ...

4642. Eat And Live

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... to fragments, and each took his souvenir of the illustrious dead." All their lives that little bit of coloured cloth would speak to them of the admiral they had loved. "I've got a piece of him," they said, "and I'll never forget him." In a sense, when we leave here this morning, each of us will take with us a part of Christ. We have reached out and touched him. Of course, theologically we realize that it is not we who are able to reach out to him. Rather, it is he who reaches down to us. As F ...

4643. Read My Heart As Well As My Lips

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... meets Mother Teresa remarks on her warm smile. How, after 30 years of working in conditions like that does she keep a warm smile on her face? Well, its interesting. She says that at age 18 she left Yugoslavia to become a Christian servant. She said, "When I was leaving home, my mother told me something beautiful and very strange. She said, `You go put your hand in Jesus hand and walk along with him." And that's been the secret of Mother Teresa's life ever since. (2) Most of us here have good jobs. And we ...

4644. Save The Children

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... about a young man named David who left home for the first time. From the age of seven he had lived with his uncle and aunt, who sold fruit at a peddler's stand. They had loved and cared for him. He stood on the train platform getting ready to leave. He grabbed the rough hands of his peddleruncle and said, "How can I ever begin to repay you for what you've done for me!" His uncle spoke: "David, there's a saying, `The love of parents goes to their children, but the love of these children goes to their ...

4645. If It's The Lord's Will

James 4:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... if I can figure it out." We can sympathize. The ways of God are not our ways. Still we trust in His divine care. He is in control of His creation. Of that we can be sure. The writer of James would want us to know that. But before we leave here this morning, I want to stress something James is not saying. JAMES IS NOT SAYING THAT WE ARE TO PASSIVELY ACCEPT WHATEVER LIFE MAY SEND US AS THE WILL OF GOD. Do you know what I am talking about? I am talking about the person who caves in too ...

4646. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... say to us some day when we ask him about our sins. "I don't have any record of your ever having done wrong." Do you believe that? Do you believe, as our lesson for the day teaches, that he has taken away your sin forever? Then why not leave your guilt, your shame, your constant selfberatement here at his altar today. You can rid yourself of it through the power and the grace that only He can give. Forgiveness begins at the foot of the cross. Why not experience that forgiveness today? 1. PAUL HARVEY'S FOR ...

4647. What We Are About

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... Thick carpeting, plush chairs, a checkerboard, a kitchen. Soon what had been a rescue station became more and more a social hall, a meeting place for the members. Now when the alarm sounded, fewer members of the rescue squad responded. They found it difficult to leave the comfortable confines of the rescue station. Do I need to spell out the implications of the rescue station that became a social hall? It can happen. It does happen. Those who stand before the throne of God and before the Lamb are dressed in ...

4648. The Secret Of His Success

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... futile and frustrating to St. Paul to carry on. To make matters worse there was that thorn in the flesh about which he wrote. Was it malaria? Some scholars think so. Others suggest epilepsy. "I have pleaded with the Lord three times for it to leave me," Paul wrote. There was no medication to control such things back then. Some of history’s greatest people have suffered from epilepsy, if that is what it was, but it is an uncomfortable affliction socially as well as medically. What kept this little man ...

4649. Ultimate Freedom

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... to get Jennie’s overshoes, because her new shoes were getting wet and muddy. Both girls perished with that foolish decision. (2) We shake our heads in wonder when Luke, the gospel-writer, tells us that Lot’s wife perished because she would not leave her possessions. We say, "How can that be?" But Jennie Paulson and Elizabeth Bryan perished over a pair of shoes, and many other Johnstown Flood victims died while trying to save bits of property. That can happen to us. It was a penetrating and appropriate ...

4650. Living Smart

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... job. (1) Nowadays people in business talk about "working smart." That is, it is not how hard you work, but how effectively, how efficiently. Many executives who spend long hours at the office are not necessarily more dedicated than their peers who leave early. Those who burn the midnight oil oftentimes have not learned how to use their time wisely. In fact a recent brain study by psychologist Richard Haier of the University of California at Irvine confirmed that smart thinkers are not necessarily working ...

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