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4876. Who Is God Anyway?

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... who walk with God will tell you that it was in the providence of God that they met and married the person they did. It doesn't always happen that way but most of the time it does. When you take God's presence and providence seriously, you do sense God's hand in all of life. Amy Carmichael, that devout and dedicated missionary to India, very much wanted as a child to have blue eyes like most of her friends. One night she earnestly prayed that her brown eyes might later change to blue. However, the next ...

4877. The Appearance of Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

Pastor Phil was sitting quietly in his office going over some last minute notes on his Sunday sermon when his wife, Connie, appeared in the doorway and stated, "We have to talk!" Phil, knowing his wife was usually a very calm person, sensed that something disturbing had happened, and so asked his wife to come in and close the door. Connie, looking deeply concerned, came into the office, closed the door and sat down. "We have a problem," she sighed, and then handed a crumpled up piece of note paper across ...

4878. Family Resemblance

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... you and I are heirs. Old Testament scholar, Walter Brueggemann put it this way, "It is great freedom to know who owns you. If you do not know to whom you belong, you are apt to be the pawn of anyone whose identity is strong enough to overwhelm your own sense of inadequacy." We don't have to feel inadequate. We may be flawed. Our families may be flawed. But we know who our Father is. We know God loves us. We know we are valued human beings. A college student returned to the campus after going home for a ...

4879. Thanksgiving: Where Are You Looking For It?

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... this spirit of giving. I realize that. Some Christians remind me of that humorous scene in the movie SISTER ACT in which the Reverend Mother is approached by a priest about keeping a show girl (played by Whoopie Goldberg) in the convent for safekeeping. Sensing her reluctance, the priest says, "You made a vow of hospitality to help the needy." The Reverend Mother replies, "I LIED." Thanksgiving reminds us of our interdependence with other persons our need for one another. No person is an island. We share a ...

4880. Teamwork

Nehemiah 1:1-11

Sermon

Rev. Dr. Ward Williams

... of ourselves to other people, then the second thing we should remember is that when people cooperate with one another, their combined effort is often greater than their individual endeavors could produce. There is a third thing that is important, as well: COOPERATION GIVES US A SENSE OF WELL-BEING THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE WHEN WE ARE ONLY CONCERNED WITH OUR OWN SELF. Back in the late 40s, just after the close of World War II, Jimmy Durante got a call from Ed Sullivan. Sullivan asked Durante to go with him to a ...

4881. Is It Wrong To Be Ambitious?

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... glad for the Ziggys of this world, but Ziggy will never make a great and lasting contribution to humankind. As Colin Powell said in bowing out of the presidential race last Fall, you've got to have "fire in the belly." And it's true. In a sense Mother Teresa is ambitious. So was Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobody accomplishes very much in this world nor contributes very much to the world without a dose of ambition. In fact, given enough ambition, even the least likely of people can make a difference ...

4882. The Most Difficult Commandment

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... problems. In a widely discussed study, Baumeister confronts a primary assumption of the self-esteem movement: that criminals and bullies suffer from low self-worth. Baumeister discovered that just the opposite is true that outlaws most often have an INFLATED sense of self-worth. In fact, he says, many violent crimes result when an individual defends a bloated self-image against a perceived attack. Baumeister's study suggests that even bad behavior on the part of noncriminals temper tantrums, irrational ...

4883. Washing Away The Junk

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... be baptized by John. The Jews already practiced baptism before John the Baptist, but their baptism had little to do with repentance and confession of sins. Among the Jews, clothing, utensils, and even articles of furniture were ceremonially cleansed. They were, in a sense, baptized. Jesus' baptism occurred during the Feast of Weeks, a time when many believers from surrounding areas came to the Temple for the blessing of the "first bread made from the new harvest of spring grain." It was a perfect time for ...

4884. Body Language

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." So the nose and the mouth left. But after a while the convention hall caught fire and destroyed all the ears because no noses were there to smell the smoke and no mouths were there to warn them the place was on fire! (3) A person who loses her sense of smell suffers. A person who loses his eyes is in serious trouble. St. Paul is saying the same thing about members of Christ's body, the church. Every one of us is essential. Everyone is indispensable. C. S. Lewis once said something about the church that I ...

4885. Getting The Proper Nourishment

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... pastor surveyed prays only three minutes each day. No wonder the church is floundering. If those of us who lead the church both clergy and laity do not keep the lines of communication open to God, how can we hope to hear God's voice? How can we hope to sense God's leading? Many of us need to go to our knees more often than we do. I read a humorous item recently about Neil Marten, a member of the British Parliament. Marten was once giving a group of his constituents a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament ...

4886. Bound By A Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... country that he was sacrificing to serve, affected Mel deeply. Most of us would be demoralized and discouraged by such treatment, but it just increased Mel Pender's resolve. He decided that he would have to achieve great things in order to buttress his sense of selfesteem. In speaking of the painful experience later, he noted, "In fact, that experience drew me closer to God." Mel Pender, a man of deep faith, decided that he would rise higher in the ranks and become a commissioned officer. He also decided ...

4887. Don't Forget Your Ticket

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

Sermon

King Duncan

... 14:1,2 ) God has blessings in store for God's people. SECONDLY, NOTICE THAT THE KING ISSUED PERSONAL INVITATIONS 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 ...

4888. The First Easter Sermon

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... 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 persecution, torture, and death for something they knew wasn't true? After Jesus' death, many witnesses reported having seen him alive. These were people from a wide variety of backgrounds, and the sightings ...

4889. Do You Have The Glory?

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... , true God . . . Awesome. God is a 100% guarantee of a problemfree life." (Don't you wish!) Others said things like, "I believe in the God that sent his only Son to die on the cross . . . He loves all people even me . . . Kind, just, merciful, stern . . . Fun has a sense of humor . . . He wants me to obey him. (5) Those Junior High young people have a pretty good grasp on who God is. Certainly God is all those things and more and all of these are wrapped up in God's glory. Jesus, of course, shared in God's ...

4890. Future Tense

Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... , England, was once quoted in the newspapers saying it is morally justifiable to steal from large supermarkets because these stores are putting smaller ones out of business. What great spiritual advice coming from a pastor. We are in a moral slide. In a sense, we are replacing being good with feeling good. Being good requires too much of us. Feeling good requires nothing at all. Remember the hullabaloo a few decades ago when we were told that movie makers were embedding subliminal messages into their movies ...

4891. Becoming One of the Beautiful People

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... he says, most of us follow the wrong strategy. We puff ourselves up and we think that makes us more beautiful. We couldn't be more wrong. There is nothing more beautiful than genuine humility nothing more attractive than a warm, relaxed smile nothing more winning than a sense of confidence that wherever your seat is, it is the best seat in the house. However, says Jesus, if you really want to become one of the beautiful people, there is one thing more you can do. Jesus turned to his host. "When you put on a ...

4892. On Being Picked For The "Rework"

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

King Duncan

... image, he anticipated that some would blame God. "Well, Brother Paul, if God is the potter and I am a mindless, motionless chunk of clay, then let's reason this out if I am marred, it's not my fault, but his! It's his negligence, not mine." That makes sense, doesn't it? If you are shopping and a piece of pottery on the shelf looks bad, do you blame the clay, or the potter? The potter, of course! The potter was unskilled! So they object to Paul's use of the parable saying, "Using your analogy, if I turn ...

4893. Living With Pizzazz

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He lies to his business associates. And yet, says Jesus, here's somebody from whom we need to learn! How could he do that? What are we missing, that the people in Jesus' world knew? How did they hear this story, and receive it with some sense of religious authority? Let's take a second look at it. A Fortune 500 tycoon finds out that his administrator has mismanaged things horribly. He's squandered away properties. He's reduced the value of holdings. He's brought the estate to the edge of bankruptcy ...

4894. Finishing In The Top 10%

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... of a person with leprosy: "The person who has the leprous disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head be disheveled, and he shall . . . cry out, ˜Unclean, unclean.' . . . He shall live alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp." Can we sense the agony of this life? Now comes a surprise. When Jesus nears a Samaritan village, ten men with leprosy approach him, but they don't cry out, "Unclean, unclean!" Instead, they call out, "Jesus, Master!" In Luke's gospel, the Greek word for "master ...

4895. Justified By What?

Romans 3:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

Florence Littauer was speaking at a Church Growth Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Florence was winning the crowd with her great sense of humor and anecdotes of everyday life. She told one delightful story about a speaking engagement during which she was focusing on the sinfulness of humankind and the need for God's grace. Spontaneously, Florence asked, "Does anyone here know what grace means?" A 7yearold girl on the front row, ...

4896. Can A Christian Brag?

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , even to persecute others. C. S. Lewis once put it like this, "Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense." The letter to the Ephesians was probably written during Paul's imprisonment. If anyone could have boasted about their good works, about their sacrifices for the faith, it would have been Paul. He had been persecuted, beaten and imprisoned for his faith. Surely this ...

4897. Is Suffering Really Necessary?

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... : ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP, notes that life crises can have long-term positive effects. He cites a study in which more than 87 percent of people studied said crises like the death of a loved one, illness, breakup, divorce, etc., gave them a stronger sense of purpose in life. (4) Dr. Samuel Zwemer notes the striking fact that the only thing Jesus took pains to show after His resurrection was HIS SCARS. His disciples recognized neither Him nor His message on the Emmaus road. Not until He broke the bread and ...

4898. What Fragrance Are You Leaving?

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... and joy--the watch. In the meantime Jim sells his precious watch to purchase a set of expensive combs for her lovely hair. Each gives the other all he or she has to give. Each holds nothing back. Each gives, not out of a cold calculating sense of duty, but out of the extravagance of love--the same kind of love which Christ poured out on Calvary. Some people never understand that complete, unrestrained giving of oneself--with no reservations, no limits, no strings. Obviously Judas did not. Maybe here was the ...

4899. The Gift Of Freedom

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Landon Winstead

... a given set of circumstances . . . The prisoners were only average men, but some, at least, by choosing to be worthy of suffering proved man's capacity to rise above his outward fate." (2) What is freedom really about? Who of us is really free? Does our sense of freedom rely on our circumstances, which we cannot control, or something else? The old alcoholic had it right when he said: "Let Go, Let God." Some of us are prisoners because we cannot let go. Whatever the circumstance, we must be in control, which ...

4900. Singing The Song Of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... he knew himself once. He knew himself once, because he knew the melody of his life. And he's saying that somehow he forgot that tune one day. And the only way he's ever going to find himself again is if someone helps him remember that song. IN A SENSE MUSIC TELLS US WHO WE ARE, DOESN'T IT? Tell me what kind of music you listen to and I will be able to tell a lot about you. Hum me a few bars of your favorite songs, and I will have a window into your soul. Martha Williamson, executive ...

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