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4651. A Cat In a Tree

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... to protect them from summer heat and winter cold. As he admired these statues, a beggar pulled at his sleeve and asked for a crust of bread. “Here are statues of stone covered with expensive clothes,” thought Rabbi Joshua. “Here is a man, created in the image of God, covered with rags.” Then he thought, “A civilization that pays more attention to statues than to people shall surely perish.” (7) We all know he was telling the truth. It would be good if we would pay close attention to Rabbi Joshua ...

4652. In Search of Heroes

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... and fought to hold on. Within about three feet of the culvert, his free hand felt a rock protruding from the bank. He clung desperately to the rock as the water tried to tear the child away. “If I can just hang on until help comes,” he thought. However he did better than that. By the time fire department rescuers arrived, he had pulled the girl to safety. Both were treated for shock but the little girl was spared. On April 12, 1989, Ray Blankenship was awarded the Coast Guard’s Silver Lifesaving Medal ...

4653. When You're Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked for Littman’s help. Littman turned him down. He tried to discourage Nicholson by telling him that he thought directing was a sensible job, and that writing was an accomplishment, but acting [in his estimation] was a lifetime ... with our feelings of hurt and despair. How do we deal with feelings of rejection? Think about that for a few moments while I suggest a couple of thoughts. First of all, when we’re rejected, we do not give up the fight. We don’t drop out of the race. We don’t crawl off ...

4654. Getting It Right in the Coming Year

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... me one morning,” he carried on, “when I added up the number of Saturdays an average person who lives to 75 has, I discovered that it was 3,900 Saturdays. I did this by multiplying 75 by 52.” Tom was engrossed with the old gentleman’s story. “See Tom, this thought hit me when I was 56 years, meaning I had spent 2,912 Saturdays with 1,000 left if I am lucky enough to live to 75.” “One day, I dressed up and headed over to a toy store where I bought 1000 marbles and placed them in a transparent ...

4655. Rethinking the Formula

Illustration

James Emery White

... in American grocery stores. He says, "On my first shopping trip, I saw powdered milk--you just add water, and you get milk. Then I saw powdered orange juice--you just add water, and you get orange juice. And then I saw baby powder, and I thought to myself, what a country!" One of the most basic assumptions made about life change is that it happens instantly at salvation. According to this belief, when someone gives his or her life to Christ, there is an immediate, substantive, in-depth, miraculous change in ...

4656. Spiritually Prepared

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... things they later regretted as well? “I’m loyal to a fault,” quipped comedian Steve Allen. “I’ve got a great many faults and I’m loyal to every one of them.” He could have been speaking for many of us, but our faults, by definition, are thoughts and practices that keep us from being all God means us to be. I read about a small country church that had just concluded a revival meeting and was conducting a baptism service in the local river on a cold January day. After baptizing the first person ...

4657. The Sacred Power of a Listening Heart

1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19

Sermon

King Duncan

... you every day and admire your beauty.” “We rarely talk,” said the wife. “I know you like to read a lot,” said the husband. “I read because we don’t talk,” said the wife. There was a pause. “And we never go out,” said the wife. “I thought you liked to stay in,” said the husband. “I only stay in because I’m waiting to go out,” said the wife. The counselor continued to take notes. “He’s also very mean to me,” said the wife. “In what way?” asked the counselor. “Well, at ...

4658. Everyone Is Looking for You

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... and driven away, he realized that he had left the gas cap on top of his car. He stopped and looked and, sure enough, it was gone. He thought for a second and realized that other people must have done the same thing, and that it was worth going back to look by the side of the ... manuscript. The caption read that the greatest scientist of our era could not finish his greatest masterpiece. “What,” thought young Kaku, “could be so difficult that such a great scientist could not finish it? What could possibly ...

4659. Noah and the Robots

Genesis 9:8-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... in His image, giving us the freedom to decide our destiny, and what did we do? Certainly not what was pleasing to God. We read in Genesis 6: “The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, ‘I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created--and with ...

4660. A Law Written On Our Hearts

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... County, WV. In that county it is illegal for a member of the clergy to tell jokes or humorous stories from the pulpit. (1) Thank God that’s not a crime in our community. That’s enough silliness for the day. But we do want to give some thought to the Law. Our lesson for the day is one of the most beautiful and important prophecies in the Hebrew Bible. It is from the prophet Jeremiah: “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with ...

4661. Faces of Failure: Jesus’s Family

Mark 3:20-21, 31-35

Sermon

Don Tuttle

... be blind to the truth of Jesus’ Sonship. One is to suggest that Jesus was lying about his relationship to God. In essence, he was a con-man rather than the Christ. A second suggests Jesus believed he was the Son of God, but that he was, as his family thought, a lunatic. A third is that Jesus never claimed to be the Son of God but that after his death the disciples created the myth and wrote it into the Gospels. (By the way, that’s an odd argument since it means all of the disciples died to keep a ...

4662. Some Greeks

John 12:20-33

Sermon

John Jamison

... the house, a sign of respect from the host whose servants did the washing. While Mary was busy serving, one of the servants was making his way around the table with a bowl of water and towel, washing the feet of the guests. I don’t know if she had thought about it and planned it, or if it just struck her at the moment and she reacted, but when the servant came to Jesus, Mary went over and took the servant’s place. Instead of using the bowl of water, Mary took a small vial from around her neck and ...

4663. Where It Ends

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

John Jamison

... perhaps out of embarrassment at what Jesus was doing, but Jesus simply smiled and calmly reached out and pulled the guy’s feet toward him so he could complete his task. Then Jesus came to Peter at the end of the table. If Peter had a thought on his mind he spoke it, even if that thought was better left unspoken. In this case, as Jesus moved to pour his handful of water onto Peter’s feet, Peter did not just pull his legs away, but he sat up from the table and asked, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet ...

4664. Out of Control (Good Friday sermon)

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

John Jamison

... quiet with her memories. There was Mary, the wife of Clopas, someone we don’t know much about. She is here because of the third woman, who was her sister. The third woman stood there, arms at her side, her eyes unmoving from the man on that cross. Her thoughts raced back to the well in Nazareth and the angel. She remembered Bethlehem and Egypt, and so many other things. Her son — whatever else that man on the cross may be, or may become — in her eyes at this moment in time, he is her son. No more, no ...

4665. What a Friend

John 15:9-17

Sermon

John Jamison

... spent a lot of time, and even when you were not together, there was something between you that kept the two of you near in your thoughts. This friend became a real part of your life, and in a very real sense, life would just not be the same without them. This friend ... to hang out or chat about the weather. You may not pat them on the back when you see them or share your private, personal thoughts with them. But they are there and have offered to do what they can do to help out if you ever need them. They are ...

4666. What Does the Kingdom of God Have to Do With Anything Today?

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... when we do not expect it or deserve it. A story from today may help to drive home the point of God's personal, powerful, and profound love for sinners. Her name was Gert Behanna. Her father, who was very wealthy, had high expectations for her. He thought she would be smart enough to discover the cure for cancer. Her mother was beautiful. Gert was not. After becoming an alcoholic and drug addict and failing at three marriages, Gert tried to commit suicide. When she failed at that, she was told by her doctor ...

4667. Close Calls

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... at first may ask: "Does God even care?" Later, we may get the big picture. Our story leads us into the deep waters of two life-changing questions: Is the Lord asleep when we need him most? and Who is in charge here? That's what the apostles thought and said to one another on the storm tossed waves of the Lake of Galilee. In fact, as the waves broke over the boat and nearly swamped it, the exhausted Jesus was sleeping in the stern. The frightened apostles, some of them fisherman by trade, woke Jesus with ...

4668. Giving Up Control

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... the feeding of the 5,000, our resources are inadequate for many of the tasks we face today. A little boy went forward for the children's sermon in his church. The pastor asked, "What is gray, has a bushy tail, and runs up and down trees?" The little boy thought for a moment. Then said, "It sounds like a squirrel, but since this is church, the right answer must be Jesus." It's not just in church that the right answer is Jesus; it's in all of life. Our resources are limited. Some tasks are just beyond what we ...

4669. Just Who Does This Guy Think He Is?

John 6:56-69

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... he think he's kidding? Some of the religious leaders, some of the powers that be, began to complain about him. And that was bad... it was very bad. Already, the most astute among the crowd knew that this was not going to end well. These religious authorities thought it was ludicrous that he would refer to himself as the bread that came down from heaven. It seemed so obvious to them that this was impossible. After all, they knew his father, Joseph and they knew his mother, Mary. He was a man and not some God ...

4670. Gouge-Your-Eye-Out Sunday

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... s safe to say that Jesus is serious about sin. To put it mildly, he stressed that sin was a bad idea. To put it bluntly, he thought that it would be better for us to go through life without one or more appendages than to sin, and especially, to cause someone who believes ... was simple: If I didn't, if I picked and chose passages myself based on the ones I liked, or the ones I thought my congregation needed to hear and pay attention to, my tendency would be to skip over the tough ones, the ones that called ...

4671. No Reason to Worry

Matthew 6:25-33

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... turning to worry, so her Lenten practice became more about stopping worry than being able to give it up altogether. Still it was a good exercise that helped her to examine her life and to turn her thoughts toward Jesus. In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus addressed many practical issues of faith and life: How to deal with someone who wrongs you, how to pray, how to understand the law, what to do about temptation, what to do about hypocrisy, and in our text for today what ...

4672. Why Bother?

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... of the temple. Herod's building project was magnificent, but again Jesus wasn't impressed. He knew that the temple was just a building made by human hands, one that would eventually be destroyed. Before our story we have Jesus unimpressed by the scribes who thought they were so great. And after our passage, we have Jesus unimpressed by the temple. In the middle -- bracketed by those two unimpressive things -- we have what really impressed Jesus: the poor widow who put two coins in the treasury, who put in ...

4673. When I Am Weak, I Am Strong

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... say to her about not letting this get her down. But before he could get a word out, she said “Daddy, I won two of the races!” Larry Lee couldn’t believe it! And then Sarah said, “I had an advantage.” “Ah,” says Lee, “I knew it. I thought she must have been given a head start . . . some kind of physical advantage. But again, before I could say anything, she said, ‘Daddy, I didn’t get a head start . . . My advantage was I had to try harder!’” (4) Let me tell you, Larry Lee’s daughter ...

4674. Searching for Happiness

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... served her the largest piece of pie. It was his gentle way of showing his affection for her. And then there were her kids. The joy and happiness she saw on their faces while they played made her grateful for her job as a mother. Before, she thought of mothering as boring, but now, as she took photos of her children holding out their hands to her as they playfully explored their world, she discovered how much joy and wonder there was in her world. Through the art of gratitude Hailey found herself lifted out ...

4675. What Really Counts

Mark 9:38-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... man is casting out demons . . . As we’ve talked about before, we don’t really know what that means--to cast out demons. Is this another name for people with mental and emotional problems? Or maybe in that day and time a disease like epilepsy was thought to come from demon possession. We just don’t know. Whatever it means, it means someone was suffering. And here was someone who was trying to help the suffering person, and he was doing this act of kindness in Jesus’ name. And all the disciples could ...

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