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4751. Why Change Is Possible

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... asked a certain gentleman how far it was to Phillipsburg, New Jersey. The gentleman replied, "Well, the way you are going it is 24,995 miles. However, if you will turn around and get back on Route 22 going East, it is about 5 miles." I want to share four insights for your further reflection today as you seek God's power to change attitudes, actions, and assumptions in your journey. WE ARE RESISTANT TO CHANGE. Human nature has always resisted change. Leith Anderson, in his book, DYING FOR CHANGE, shares the ...

4752. Learning From A Little Child

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... through the most unexpected people. It's like a little girl named Schia who was 4 years old when her baby brother was born. "Little Schia began to ask her parents to leave her alone with the new baby. They worried that, like most 4-year-olds, she might want to hit or shake him, so they said no. Over time, though, since Schia wasn't showing signs of jealousy, they changed their minds and decided to let Schia have her private conference with the baby. Elated, Schia went into the baby's room and shut the door ...

4753. Pax Augusta, Pax Christi

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... letter on the table in front of him. And he poured over it in prayer all that night. And in the morning, he wrote back a letter which has become a classic in the Christian church. It's called, LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL. And in it King says, "You want me to be quiet, and in that way to bring you peace. But, in the Bible, peace is not the absence of warfare. Peace is, instead, the presence of justice!" Peace is the presence of justice! And there's the contrast between the PAX AUGUSTA and the PAX CHRISTI ...

4754. Temptation

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Grail. This time, it is Indy's father hanging desperately onto one arm while Indy reaches with the other. "I can't hold you," says the elder Jones. "Give me your other hand!" "I can reach it," says Indy. He is thinking only of how badly he wants that Grail, even though just minutes before he was pleading with the foolish Elsa just as his father now pleads with him. Luckily for Indiana Jones ” and for his fans in the theater ” he comes to his senses before he, too, drops into the deep. (7) Just like ...

4755. Power Praying

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... transportation take us around the world in a few moments or a few hours, depending on whether it is our mind or our body we want to send on the journey. In many ways, Solomon in all his glory did not live with as many advantages as you and I. The ... is a golfer, though not always a good one. Speight would hit a golf ball with all his might and it wouldn't go where he wanted it to go. One day, a stranger was playing ahead of him who had no trouble hitting the ball both straight and far. Speight, on the ...

4756. A Prize Is Waiting For You!

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... possess it. (2) Jesus says to us that the Kingdom of God is something like that. You and I already have it within our grasp. It is there waiting to be discovered. But many of us are living impoverished lives, not knowing that the Kingdom is ours if we want it. Anthony De Mello tells a story about some people who were on a raft off the coast of Brazil. They were perishing from thirst, for as you know, ocean water is undrinkable. What they did not know, however, was that the water they were floating on was ...

4757. Does It Make A Difference Who Jesus Is?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... side by side with not a word exchanged and stared straight at the rising sun. Suddenly the uncle turned and went skipping down the road. He was radiant, beaming, smiling from ear to ear. His nephew said, "Uncle Seamus, you really look happy." "I am, lad," the old man replied. "Want to tell me why?" asked the nephew. His eighty-year-old uncle replied, "Yes, you see, me Abba is very fond of me." (4) That's cause for happiness, is it not? "Abba is very fond of me." How can we know Abba is fond of us? Jesus. It ...

4758. Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... school, they broke up, and he came to Tempestt to confide his troubles. Little Tempestt tried comforting him by telling him what a great guy he was and how he'd find someone extra special real soon. Then she swallowed her pride and asked him the question she'd been wanting to ask all year would he go with her? At that moment, this young man didn't answer. But when they were back in class, he wrote her a note. The note had a strange message. It said, "Yes, as long as nobody NOT ICES." Not ices? Tempestt said ...

4759. Be Careful What You Call Me

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Sure, the Pharisees were human beings with many faults, but there was much more that was positive about them than negative. Thus, when the Pharisees are excoriated on a regular basis from Christian pulpits, it is hurtful to many deeply devout Jews. Thus, I want to make sure you understand that when I speak of the Pharisees and the criticisms Jesus made of them, I am only referring, as was Jesus, to a small minority of these men of faith. Even more important, the criticisms that Jesus made have nothing ...

4760. Washing Away The Junk

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... walking about in such conditions. But John says that the One who is coming is so great that John is unfit to perform even this lowly task for him. (4) The people of Israel had been without an authentic prophet for hundreds of years, and some of them wanted to worship John and follow him. But he deflected all glory off himself and onto Jesus, insisting that he was unworthy even to be a forerunner to him. John knew his place in the scheme of things. EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, HE KNEW JESUS' PLACE. Here is the first ...

4761. Washing Away The Junk

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... of the dirt. You could use soap, too. The soap bubbles wash away most of the dirt, but it can't get all of it. If you want to get something really clean, you've got to wash off all the dirt and germs. And it takes a special cleaner like this one to ... talk about what gets our lives dirty. It's sin. When we sin, we do things that separate us from God. We do things God doesn't want us to do. When we steal something, when we are mean to other people, when we lie, we are sinning. And whenever we sin, we make our ...

4762. Offer Them Christ

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... man who had just been brought in from the street. The dying man was dirty and the odor from him was suffocating. She knelt down and took the dying man in her arms and said to him, "I love you." Then she looked up at her guest and said, "I want you to meet Jesus. In a dying man I see and meet Jesus, my Savior. Did He not say, "In so much as you did it unto the least of these you have done it unto me?" (Matthew 25:40) Mother Teresa was who she was because Jesus lived within ...

4763. Offer Them Christ

Romans 9:30--10:21

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... house (make a dot on the map), and here's McDonald's (make another dot). And to get to McDonald's, your friend wanted to take this road, then get off on this road, and then go over to this road, and (highlight a very circuitous, out ... sure that your friend wouldn't get lost? Wouldn't you tell him/her about it? If you care about your friend, you would. Well, what if your friend wanted to know the way to Heaven? You can't look at a map to get there. Some people think that you get to Heaven by doing nice things ...

4764. Don't Forget Your Ticket

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... TO THOSE WHO WOULD BE HIS GUESTS. That is what Christ's coming is all about. A hospital patient was in an accident and was left only with her sense of smell. She could not speak, she could not hear, she could not see, but she could smell. Her mother wanted to communicate her presence, so she used a perfume the girl would remember as her mom's. Now the perfume is not the mother's essential nature, but is an extension of her real self to communicate on the girl's level. God needed to communicate to you and me ...

4765. A Colt Is Not A Horse

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... through Holy Week. Jesus on the cross is death, Jesus risen is life! A sanctuary stripped bare for Good Friday is depressing, a lily bedecked sanctuary is glorious! Who doesn't want to skip through Holy Week? Yet, the adult Philip Yancey has learned that the Bible "slows down rather than speeds up when it gets to Holy Week." What the church wants to get through quickly, the Bible takes slowly. One early Christian commentator went so far as to say that the gospels are actually the record of Jesus' final week ...

4766. The First Easter Sermon

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... governor, Pilate, also checked to make sure Jesus was dead before he was buried. Jesus was buried in a brandnew tomb, so it would have been easy to locate. Jesus' friends and enemies were equally surprised that the tomb was empty. Jesus' enemies wouldn't have wanted to encourage the perception that he had risen. If they had stolen the body, they surely would have produced it as soon as they heard rumors of Christ's resurrection. It doesn't make sense that Jesus' friends stole his body. Why would they suffer ...

4767. What It Means To Be A Family

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... kiss someone? "You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, ˜cause she'll want to have videos of the wedding." (Jim, age 10) Kelly, age 9, has her own ideas on this subject. She says, "Never kiss in front ... single but not for boys. Boys need somebody to clean up after them!" (Lynette, age 9) Concerning why lovers often hold hands: "They want to make sure their rings don't fall off because they paid good money for them." (Dave, age 8) (1) It is impossible ...

4768. You Might Be A Redneck If . . .

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... at this distance, Christianity is more a custom than anything else. I would ask that either you accept the teachings of Jesus in your everyday life and in your affairs as a nation, or stop invoking His name as sanction for everything you do. I want to help save Christianity for the Christian." (3) Satis Prasad had the spirit of those Apostles at the first Pentecost. The wind of God is blowing in this world; people of every nation, every language, every race are coming to Christ in unprecedented numbers. But ...

4769. The Parable Of The Kindly Innkeeper

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... and, asking if she needed help, insisted that she join them for dinner in a nearby restaurant. After hearing her story, the man took the teenager to the train station and bought her a ticket back to Cleveland. "Whatever your desire," he told her, "if you want it enough, you can make it happen." Then he gave her $20 and his address and telephone number. If she ever needed anything, she was to call him. The teenager returned to her family. Although she often thought of the man, she could not find the paper ...

4770. Who Will Be Crying At Your Funeral

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... I'll slow down.' That means the house will cost you five years onetwelfth of your adult life. Translate the dollar value of the house, car or anything else into time, and then see if it's still worth it. Sometimes you can't do what you want and have what you want at once because each requires a different expenditure of time. The phrase "spending your time" is not a metaphor. It's how life works.' (2) Our time is as valuable as our material treasure. How much would you pay to take your next breath? How we ...

4771. Never Give Up

Luke 18:1-8

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... never gave up, he made it easier for all of us to take pictures. Our Bible passage today is about never giving up, also. It's about a poor old woman who has been treated badly. She goes to a judge to ask for his help. The judge doesn't want to help the poor old woman. But she just keeps coming back, asking the judge over and over for his help. She just won't give up. So finally, the judge gives in and helps her. He admires the old woman because she had enough faith to keep trying. God ...

4772. What's Wrong With Laughing?

Luke 6:17-26

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... woman named Jane Addams. Jane was born about 130 years ago. Her family was pretty rich, so Jane had everything she wanted. But Jane lived in a big city where there were a lot of really poor people. Jane saw people who lived ... out for people who are sick, or who are sad, or who are hungry. God cares about anybody who is hurting, anybody who suffers. And God wants us to care about these people, too. What are some ways that we can help poor people, or hungry people, or sick people, or sad people? (Wait for 2 or ...

4773. Bracing For The Rough Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... response of the fans to this insensitive action on the part of the network was swift and vociferous. Most of it was uttered in unrepeatable terms. Now you might think, if you are not a football fan, that it was much ado about nothing. But it is human nature to want to know how things turn out in the end. Those of you who are mystery fans think what it would be like to watch the progress of your favorite mystery right up until the moment when the dastardly villain is to be unmasked and then have the power go ...

4774. To Be Abased, To Abound, To Be Content

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... to see you the next time we come to Thompsonville. Love, Frankie." A nice thank you note? Of course, and you'd expect Paul to write something similar: Dear Philippians, Hi! How are you? I am fine. Thank you for the nice gift of money. It's just what I wanted. I hope to see you the next time I come to Philippi. Love, Paul But this is not Paul's thank you note! Instead of using the accepted formula for writing good thank you notes, Paul waits until the very last paragraph of his long letter (4 pages in our ...

4775. Can A Christian Brag?

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... your life there was probably a role model or perhaps parents with high expectations pushing you toward your present ambition. I don't want to burst your bubble, but when you factor in all the influences on us over which we have no control, the truth of ... grave of his captain. As he kneels at the grave, he says, "Not a day goes by I don't think about what happened . . . And I just want you to know . . . I've tried. Tried to live my life the best I could. I hope that's enough. I didn't invent anything. I didn ...

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