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4926. Setting An Example

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less. We buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness. “We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a ...

4927. Standing Tall

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... 100 billion galaxies has at least 100 billion stars in it. A God who could create all those galaxies and all those stars must have powers beyond anything we could ever imagine. Bartimaeus was not a person who would passively accept his fate. Somehow Bartimaeus had a sense of personal dignity and worth even though he was only a blind beggar. And he called out to Jesus. And Jesus heard his cry, and Jesus healed him. AND THAT'S THE FINAL THING WE NEED TO SEE: JESUS HEALS PEOPLE. Sometimes he does it through ...

4928. On Picking Your Battles

Matthew 18:15-20

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: a smoke detector with battery (might want to test it beforehand) Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have seen one of these around your house? Can you tell me what it is? That's right, it's a smoke detector. A smoke detector can sense if there is smoke in the air. Usually, if there is smoke in the air then that means there is a fire nearby. And a fire can be a very dangerous thing. So we keep smoke detectors around the house to let us know if there is a fire starting ...

4929. That's What Friends Are For

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... that he, too, is an excellent golfer. Tiger was a bit skeptical that the blind musician could play golf well, but he was too polite to say anything. "When I tee off," the singer explained, "I have a guy call to me from the green. My sharp sense of hearing lets me aim." Tiger was impressed, and Stevie suggested that they play a round. When Tiger agreed, Stevie asks, "How about if we play for $100,000?" Tiger insisted he wouldn't play for money, but Stevie argued until Tiger finally relented and said, "So ...

4930. A Powerful Testimony

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... of God, He is the standard by which we discern right behavior, AND HE IS THE MEANS BY WHICH WE LIVE OUT THE BEST THAT IS WITHIN US. Our worship of Christ is no mere orthodoxy to which we ascribe. It is no cold rationalism that helps us make sense out of life. It is a living relationship with the One who stands at the center of the universe, and at the same time lives within our own heart. Mike Minor had a life-changing experience this past November 14th. Mike was at home having a lazy Sunday. Flipping ...

4931. How To Be Truly Wealthy

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... in apathy and despair, had its start in Paris during a time of great prosperity and peace too. Author Walker Percy clears up the mystery when he points out that hard times often bring out the best in people, like courage, determination, and a sense of humor. But prosperity and abundance often lead to misplaced priorities, boredom, and apathy. (7) Comedian Joan Rivers jokes, “People say money is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured that if you have enough money, you can have a key made ...

4932. I Smell Bread

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Mebane Pridgen McMahon

... bread was ready. It was true. I smelled bread. Rev. Mebane Pridgen McMahon How many of you remember the popular sitcom of the 1970s called MASH? If you do, then you recall that it was about a group of doctors and nurses trying to make sense of their assignment to the 4077 Mash unit during the Korean War. In one particular episode, Major Winchester, who often protects himself from the horror of suffering and death around him, finally breaks and is left defenseless. He slips into depression and struggles to ...

4933. Come Home To God

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Angela Akers

... the people to repent. Humorist Garrison Keillor, who grew up in the Lutheran Church, jokes that Lutherans "repent in the same way they sin: discreetly, tastefully, at the proper time, and bring a Jell-O salad for dessert." (3) I love Garrison Keillor's sense of humor, but there is nothing discreet or tasteful about the description of repentance that we find in these verses. "Even now," declares the Lord, "return to Me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your ...

4934. The Young And The Restless

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... named Abram--or Abraham as he would later be known. Abraham was a man in his seventies when God spoke to him. Now that marks him as being rather old in today's world. But consider this: He died when he was 175. (Gen. 25:7) So, in a relative sense, we could say that even in his seventies he was still among the young and the restless. Abraham was living in a very prosperous city, a center of trade and commerce when God came to him and said, "Leave this country, and your extended family, and go to a land ...

4935. Dark Shadows

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... his life, grew angry with God and withdrew from participation in his church. Welch is still a believer and he contends that the principles that made him a success in business grew out of his Roman Catholic heritage, but he lost his enthusiasm and his sense of commitment when he felt forsaken by God in his own wilderness experience. We can only pray that, for his own peace of mind, Jack Welch works through this estrangement from God. (4) But it's not an unusual experience. This world is filled with perils ...

4936. General Hospital

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... regaining his sight, the world proved miraculously new and strangely wonderful to him. Along with his renewed vision, he put to use the creative imagination developed during his years of blindness. Fuller's visual re-engagement with the world was accomplished by a sense of awe and new passion for discovery that others seldom know. He claimed his excitement for life was intensified beyond anything that would have been possible had he always been able to see. (2) Don't you imagine that this man Jesus healed ...

4937. Search For Tomorrow

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." EASTER IS A DAY FOR REFLECTING ON THE MEANING OF LIFE. There was a Sunday last September when many churches were full like this. Do you remember? It was the Sunday after the terrorist attack. We were all stunned, bewildered, grief-stricken. We needed help making sense of it all. And so we turned to the one place where help is to be found at such times. We turned to God. J. Wallace Hamilton, the great preacher of yesteryear, once told the story of a group of American soldiers stationed in London during ...

4938. The Servant-king

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Angela Akers

... successful, busy executive to spend time with poor, women with limited intelligence? What kind of love doesn't expect anything in return? This kind of love costs us something. It is inconvenient. It is messy. It is sacrificial. It hurts. This kind of love makes no sense. And that's why it is so powerful. OUR ACTS OF AGAPE LOVE TOWARD OTHERS ARE THE BEST EVIDENCE WE CAN GIVE THE WORLD OF THE REALITY OF JESUS. In his first church assignment, Pastor Ron Mehl learned that one of his many responsibilities was to ...

4939. Schadenfreude

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Rev. Dr. S. Ronald Parks

... is added to injury. A huge party is thrown in honor of the wayward son. This is preposterous! Is it any wonder the older brother refuses to join in the celebration? I wouldn't go in if you paid me. If my father is going to do away with all sense of decency and fair play, I'll have no part of it. Does the older brother ever relent and welcome his sibling? Is there peace in the household? The author does not reveal the rest of the story. This much is certain, however: the fate of the family rests in ...

4940. The Benefits Of Trusting Christ

Romans 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... --no more hatred of people who have hurt us. Think what positive, dynamic human beings you and I could be if we truly believed that because Christ lives, we can live too! Handling our problems, our stress, our frustrations would be a breeze. We would have a sense of victory in all things, if we truly believed the Gospel. "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." St. Paul says, " . . . if you confess with your mouth, "˜Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the ...

4941. Worried About Her Child

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... put off. "Yes, Lord," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." If this woman felt rebuffed by Jesus' words to her, she does not let it show. To me that is the best evidence possible that she did not sense that Jesus was rejecting her on the basis of her ethnicity. But Jesus was impressed by her answer. "Woman," he said, "you have great faith! Your request is granted." And immediately her daughter was healed. You and I can learn some important lessons from this lady ...

4942. His Name Was Rocky Johnson

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... no one is more thrilled with Christ's teachings than Peter. In fact, he is so enthusiastic about his Lord that already he has jumped out of a boat and tried to walk to the Master on the water. Of course, he sank, but that he is another story. Peter senses that in Jesus he has aligned himself with a winner. He doesn't quite understand what kind of kingdom the Master is setting up, but Peter knows he wants to have a leading role in its coming. Still, there are signs that things will not proceed as smoothly as ...

4943. Set Free Through Forgiveness!

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... to myself, "They've taken everything from you that matters. Your cause is dead. Your family is gone. Your friends have been killed. Now they're releasing you, but there's nothing left for you out there.' And I hated them for what they had taken from me. Then, I sensed an inner voice saying to me, "˜Nelson! For twenty-seven years you were their prisoner, but you were always a free man! Don't allow them to make you into a free man, only to turn you into their prisoner!'"(7) You can never be free to be a ...

4944. It's A Good Thing There Weren't Unions . . .

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... the same--the presence, purity and power of perfect love. We shall see Christ face to face. There's an old story told about a little church west of Winchester, Virginia. One Sunday morning, their minister was rather preoccupied. His sermon did not make as much sense as it usually did. As the congregation listened, they became concerned about him. At the close of the service, before he pronounced the benediction, he said, "You know that my wife and I have a daughter we haven't seen in awhile: She was living ...

4945. Would You Please Listen To Me?

John 1:1-18

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... . But he had only one purpose and that was to prepare the way for Jesus. I would like to be as good at my job as John the Baptist was. I want to prepare the way for Jesus. In fact every Christian is a lowly person, a minister in this sense. We are all to prepare the way for Jesus by spreading his love, his peace, his joy to all the world.

4946. How A Christian Grieves

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... Ooh, that hurts. And finally, on a steering-wheel lock was this counsel: “Warning--remove lock before driving.” (1) Unless, of course, you plan on making right turns only. But even worse than the really obvious instructions are instructions that don’t make sense at all. Ones that read like these: Grasp the gizmo in your left hand. With your right hand, insert the doohickey into the little whosit just below the bright red thingamajig and gently-- gently!--turn it in a clockwise direction until you hear ...

4947. The Heavyweight Championship of the Universe

Illustration

Peter Kreeft

Calvary is judo. The enemy’s own power is used to defeat him. Satan’s craftily orchestrated plot, rolled along according to play by his agents Judas, Pilate, Herod, and Caiaphas, culminating in the death of God. And this very event, Satan’s conclusion, was God’s premise. Satan’s end was God’s means. It saved the world. Christians celebrate the greatest evil and the greatest tragedy of all time as Good Friday. In the symbolic language of Revelation, the meek little lamb (arnion) defeats the great and ...

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