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4726. What's The Matter? Are You Blind?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... in bed and mourned my life. The only hope I could seem to see was just junking it all, moving to Europe, and starting everything all over again. It was then my sister, in a last-ditch visit, marched up right beside my bed and said, Fine, go to Europe, leave it all behind, start your life again. But before you go, tell (my little girl) how you can sing that Jesus can help her through anything in her life, but that he couldn't help you.' " Those words hit home with Amy Grant. Amy and Gary began marriage and ...

4727. Bad News, Good News

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... then the helicopter that has been perched on the edge of the building begins to fall straight toward them and the crowd below. But Superman merely grabs it with his one free arm and gently sets both it and Lois safely back on the landing pad. When he turns to leave, an astonished Lois stammers out the words, "Who ARE you?" "A friend," Superman replies warmly, and as he flies straight up into the air with a sort of half twist Lois faints in a heap. (5) That's the way we would like for Christ to come to us ...

4728. Power Praying

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... at public school graduation ceremonies. After all the diplomas had been passed out at the May 28 commencement at River Valley High School in Three Oaks, MI, an unidentified graduate deliberately sneezed loudly. In unison, all 95 graduates exclaimed: "God bless you!" (3) Leave it to young people to figure out a novel solution to a complex problem. But I don't believe I would count that as a prayer. Prayer is not a meaningless ritual. NEITHER IS PRAYER A SUBSTITUTE FOR HARD WORK. As Sam Levenson observed ...

4729. Fear Of Flying

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... taking showers, and even now I take only baths," she says. In fact, when the actress stays in a hotel or at a friend's home where only a shower is available, she panics. "I make sure the doors and windows of the house are locked," she says, "and I leave the bathroom door and shower curtain open. I'm always facing the door, watching, no matter where the shower head is." (3) Can a scene in a movie make anyone that afraid? Yes. In fact, there are some people who ought to be very careful about which movies or ...

4730. A Cup Of Cold Water

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... Cherie. The doll became her most valuable possession. About that time, her cousin, Doris, came to live with her family. Doris was 12 and her father had just died. Doris played with Cherie and also became quite attached to the doll. When the time came for Doris to leave, she held Cherie tightly against her. The girl's mother said, "Doris has lost her father, and she needs the doll more than you do. Let Doris have it. God will return it to you." The woman told how hurt she was and how she wept bitterly. As ...

4731. Focusing On The Possibilities

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... something Charles F. Kettering once said when he was Research Head of General Motors. When he wanted a problem solved, Kettering would call together his staff. However, he would first place a table outside the room where they would be meeting with a sign that read like this: "Leave [your] slide rules here." If he didn't do that, he says, he'd find someone reaching for his slide rule in the middle of the meeting. In a few minutes, this person would be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it." Isn't that ...

4732. Get Out Of That Boat!

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... reassurance that comes from knowing that it is at those times when our hearts are troubled and we feel most helpless that Christ comes to us. CHRIST COMES ACROSS THE TROUBLED WATER AND SAYS TO US, "DON'T BE AFRAID, IT IS I." AND HE BECKONS US TO LEAVE THE SECURITY OF THE BOAT AND WALK ON THE WATER. What powerful imagery! I don't know what walking on the water would mean for you. It means different things to different people. A mother wrote in to Reader's Digest sometime back to tell about her son, Nathaniel ...

4733. Does It Make A Difference Who Jesus Is?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... for humanity. In one of his books, Gordon MacDonald tells about a young Florida man who became devoted to Elvis Presley. For Dennis Wise, devotion meant spending every bit of money he had to collect Presley memorabilia (books, magazines, pillows, records, and even tree leaves from the Presley mansion in Memphis). Wise never met Presley but he saw him perform several times, and he had once seen him at a distance when he looked through the gates at Graceland (Presley's home). He had stood there for more than ...

4734. The Greatest Temptation Of All

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The researcher invites the children, one by one, into a plain room and begins the gentle torment. "You can have this marshmallow right now," he says. "But if you wait while I run an errand, you can have two marshmallows when I get back." And then he leaves. Some children grab for the treat the minute he's out the door. Some last a few minutes before they give in. But others are determined to wait. They cover their eyes; they put their heads down; they sing to themselves; they try to play games or ...

4735. The Terrible Burden Of Judging Others

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

King Duncan

... and narrow. But they had to get home. So, Pastor Simmons drove home with his bright lights on. The reaction of other drivers as they approached him from the opposite direction was interesting. Some would simply honk their horns. Others would switch on their bright lights and leave them on. Some even swerved into his lane and made vulgar signs at him. He had no way of communicating that he couldn't help his condition. His lights were stuck on bright. He wanted to scream out of the window, "I can't help it ...

4736. Good Intentions

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... never got to his chores. Procrastination? Something more appealing came along? We don't know, but we do know it's very much a part of human nature to make commitments that we do not keep - to make promises that go unfulfilled - to leave behind a mountain of good intentions. The Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina, released a study of twenty-one high potential executives who were terminated or forced to retire early from their companies. The one universal character flaw which always ...

4737. How Do You Get To Heaven?

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... tells about a friend of his son's whose grandmother died. Everyone tried to explain to this six-year-old what happened to his grandmother. The usual explanations were given. "Your grandmother," they said, "has gone to be with Jesus in heaven." Not having seen her leave and having no concept of travel without a car, his question should not have come as a surprise. Out of profound innocence he asked, "Did they build a road to heaven?" Good question. Is there a road to Heaven? How do you get to Heaven, anyway ...

4738. Teamwork

Nehemiah 1:1-11

Sermon

Rev. Dr. Ward Williams

... two drove out to the hospital the following Sunday, and Durante did his number. The audience was ecstatic and shouted, pleaded for more. What happened then surprised even Ed Sullivan who was watching from the wings. He was well aware that Durante had to leave immediately for the city if he was to make his radio date. Hearing the applause, Durante grabbed the mike and proceeded to do two more complete routines! When Durante finally left, to a standing ovation from the vets, Sullivan said to him. "Jimmy, you ...

4739. Passing The Baton

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... , everything was green," Hawkins said. "Robin had twisted the fine tune so far that it broke inside." Cost: $115 to repair the television. The next day, Robin's mother, Bernie, went to pick up her husband at work. Robin was sleeping in her safety seat, so Mrs. Hawkins decided to leave her while she ran in to get him. She put the keys in her purse and left the purse in the car. Robin drove the car about 400 feet before running into a tree. Cost: $1,029.52 to repair the car. Robin has also lifted $620 out of ...

4740. Pardon Me, But Do You Know God?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... supports his system: "Once you start to compromise," he said, "the whole thing will break down. You have to stick to the rules." But David is not satisfied. He meets an older student from this neighborhood who also has been deeply influenced by the system. He cannot leave the school, much as he would like to, because his father is a trustee. But he says with deep emotion to his younger friend: "Don't let it happen to you, Davey! Get out! Get away from this dish towel religion!" As Stan Mooneyham says in his ...

4741. The Most Difficult Commandment

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... requires that he must carry a gun at all times, even in church. His life is continually in danger. Yet he is committed to his job. When Mal asked him why he didn't pursue the opportunity to emigrate to another country, the officer replied, "Mal, I would leave tomorrow if it wasn't for the fact that this is where God has called me to be . . ." He has chosen to stay at his post in spite of the danger. (8) Do you think either Rohan or this police officer made their extraordinary decisions because they loved ...

4742. Searching For Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Jesus is called to sainthood. We are called to live merciful lives, peace making lives, lives of integrity and justice and generosity. We may not wear a bracelet that says W.W.J.D., but that is to be our credo, "What would Jesus do?" And we are to leave the world a better place because we have been here. Author Kurt Vonnegut said something quite profound sometime back in USA TODAY. He wrote: "I got a letter from a woman a while back. She was pregnant, and she wanted to know if I thought it was a mistake ...

4743. Annie's Gift

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... did they put me in this position? I already tithe. Now they've added this building program and they're asking people to make a threeyear pledge. Why, I may not even be around in three years. It's not fair. Besides they're asking people to come forward and leave a pledge card at the front. I don't really like parading my giving in front of everybody. Like Frank always said, ˜The peacock doesn't give half as much as the hen, it just makes a better show of it.' I'll bet some of those who are making ...

4744. A Misplaced Holy Day

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... following a life of adventure. The text recounts how Christ avoided crucifixion and ended up on Japanese shores. According to the legend, he married a woman named Miyuko and had three daughters. Some 100,000 tourists visit the graves each year, leaving change or fruit because the ground is believed to have magical healing powers. Village authorities have turned the grave site into a park with an enormous billboard that says "Shingo: Hometown of Christ." Until recently, Shingo residents painted crosses on ...

4745. Body Language

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... steepled his hands or not. He used body language of a different sort. What St. Paul does is compare members of a church to parts of a body. Some of us are eyes, some ears. Some of us are mouths, some feet, and some of us noses, etc. I'll leave it to you to figure out who among us is what. Paul's message is a very simple one and yet it is also vital. FIRST OF ALL, ST. PAUL SAYS, EACH ONE OF US IS INDISPENSABLE. A physical body is in trouble if it loses one of its members ...

4746. Getting The Proper Nourishment

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... live our lives the way God wants us to, when we trust in God, then we are letting God feed our soul just like water feeds a blackberry vine. And just like the sun can dry up a blackberry vine, not trusting in God can dry up our faith and leave us feeling unhappy and lost. God gives us life and joy and peace, just like water gives life to the blackberry vine. But how does the blackberry vine get water? It waits around for someone to water it, or it waits around for the rain to fall. And how do ...

4747. Internal Medicine

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... did something wrong. You fasted to say to God: I'm sorry! I'm really sorry! A sixteenyearold girl got her driver's license. Suddenly she knew how to drive! And that summer her family was going to go on a long trip together. So the day before they were leaving, she asked if she could wash the car. Get it all ready for the travels. It was a nice thought, of course. But all she wanted was a chance to drive the car. So she opens the garage doors. It was a really small garage. Car barely squeezes in. Mom ...

4748. Offer Them Christ

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... ENABLES US TO CONTINUE. Most of us who have been students of the actions of Christians in Germany immediately before and during World War II, have been inspired by the faith and the courage of Dr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great Christian leader who chose to leave a safe teaching position in America in order to go back to Germany to oppose the methods of Adolph Hitler. Just before the war ended, Dr. Bonhoeffer was executed. Before his death while he was suffering in prison, he wrote notes and smuggled them ...

4749. Bound By A Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... I cared for him," EssexWolfe said. "He was a charmer. He married a lot of beautiful women, a lot of young women." They spent only one week together last year before getting hitched in front of cameras for a British documentary about marriage. Unwilling to leave her hometown, the bride flew back to Indiana. Unwilling to venture into the cold, the groom remained in California. They stayed in touch by writing letters. (1) Scotty Wolfe was married 29 times, but he died alone with no one to give him a proper ...

4750. Grumblers Among God's People

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... GRUMBLERS IS THAT THEY HAVE DIFFICULTY EXPRESSING THEIR DISSATISFACTION IN SPECIFICS. They talk in innuendoes. They hint without saying what they really mean. Leaders can't figure out what they're unhappy about. Subtle innuendoes, rumors and suggestions cannot be pinned down, leaving the leaders little to which they can respond. Sometimes it shows up in phrases like "I'm just not being fed." What does that mean? The grumblers don't even know what it means. They know they are spiritually unhealthy, but they ...

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