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1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... FOR US. That is the crux of the matter. When we take responsibility for others, we are only doing what we ask Christ to do for us. When we make sacrifices for others, we only do what Christ has already done for us. There is a moving story of the artist Steinberg and a gypsy girl. Struck with her beauty, Steinberg took this young woman to his studio and frequently had her sit for him. At that time he was at work on his masterpiece "Christ on the Cross." The girl used to watch him work on this painting. One ...

477. Get Off The Orphan Train

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... Worry About Before)": Innocently opening a package in your home ” boom. Developing a brain tumor from your cellular phone. That flesh-eating strep-A bacteria. Radioactive waste in space, orbiting the Earth. Airborne tuberculosis or meningitis in an airplane . . . On-line stalking: pedophiles, con artists. (5) And the list goes on and on. We live in a climate of unreasonable fear. This is not to hide our heads in the sand and declare that there is nothing to fear in our modern world. It is to say that the ...

478. Finding Calm In The Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... . These were not inexperienced sailors. These were fishermen who had fished these waters many times and had experienced many storms. But this storm was different and they were afraid. Is there anyone in this room who has never been afraid? The artist Rembrandt once painted a canvas titled "Storm on the Sea of Galilee." Examining the painting carefully you will note that there are fourteen men in the boat. There are the twelve disciples plus Jesus. That makes thirteen. Who is the fourteenth passenger ...

479. A Time For Hope

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... high school, Joni broke her neck in a diving accident. She was paralyzed from the neck down. Rising from deep depression, Joni found refuge in a strong Christian faith. She now leads an active life. In spite of her handicap, she has become "a successful commercial artist, a best-selling author, and the star of a two-million-dollar film version of her life." (TIME, Dec. 28, 1980). In one of her books, A STEP FURTHER, she writes, "If God’s mind was small enough for me to understand, He wouldn’t be ...

480. God's Time

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... to as "Kairos" -- God's time. St. Thomas Aquinas tried to explain God's time like this: In the beginning when God first created heaven and earth, God also created time. Because God created time, he stands outside of time. He is timeless. He is eternal. Artists sometimes portray God as an old man. How false that portrait is. God is ageless. God has no clock to which he must conform. There is no yesterday or tomorrow in eternity. There is only now. Because God stands outside of time according to Aquinas, He ...

481. Are You Going Down?

Luke 2:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... more about entertainment figures than about Jesus. Ernie Pyle, the famous war correspondent in WW II, wrote to a friend, "If you have any light, shine it in my direction. God knows that I have run out of light." God knew that the world had run out of light. An artist once painted a picture of a wintry twiligh, the trees heavy-laden with snow and a dreary, dark house lonely and desolate in the midst of a storm. It was a sad picture. Then, with a quick stroke of yellow oils he put a light in one window. The ...

482. Searching For Jesus

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... missing from your family, from your life? When shall you begin searching for him? Tomorrow? Next month? Next year? This brings us to our last question. WHERE SHALL WE FIND HIM? The answer, of course, is everywhere. Some people find him in the beauty of nature. A great artist says that it was his father who taught him to see and to love beauty. His father used to take him out in the evening, and the father and son would lie in the long grass beside the wood. They would watch the rabbits play, and the birds ...

483. Mary's Song

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Mary and Joseph and the new babe are forced to flee to Egypt to escape the wrath of Herod. So once again Mary and Joseph were on the move ”fleeing to protect the life of their son. Martin Luther, in commenting on the flight to Egypt remarks, "The artists give her a donkey. The gospels do not." Probably, she trudged over the hills in winter on foot, nursing her precious child and leaning on her beloved Joseph for support. It was not until after Herod's death that the young family was able to return to ...

484. A New Daddy

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... up at him with tears in his eyes and said, "But Daddy! WE WERE JUST TRYING TO LOOK LIKE YOU!" There was one little boy who didn't get a spanking that night. Instead he got an explanation and a hug. (1) Either Peter Andrew was a great con artist or he was stating a profound truth about children. They want to look like their Daddy. This is Father's Day. We celebrate the male contribution to the Christian family. In this day when the family is on the endangered species list, we need to affirm those men and ...

485. Mustard Seed Faith

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... of mustard seed faith that we want to consider this morning. These are also three important elements to successful living. I. The Celebration of Little Things First of all, mustard seed faith is the celebration of little things. Michelangelo, one of the world's great artists, was also a great sculptor. One day a visitor was looking at a statue that Michelangelo was making. The visitor said, "I can't see that you have made any progress since I was here last time." Michelangelo answered, "Oh, yes, I have made ...

486. God Of Compassion

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... interest, Savanarola observed that day after day, she came and did homage before the statue. "Look how she reverences the Virgin Mother," Savanarola whispered to one of his fellow priests. "Don't be deceived by what you see," the priest responded. "Many years ago an artist was commissioned to create a statue for the cathedral. As he sought a young woman to pose as the model for his sculpture, he found one who seemed to be the perfect subject. She was young, serenely lovely, and had a mystical quality in her ...

487. Something Is Missing

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... Where are we headed? What does it all mean? For many people there is no meaning. This is the message of our art and literature over the past few decades. All art has a message, and it speaks of the times in which it was created. Take modern artist Jackson Pollock, for instance. He became famous for his "random" artwork done purely by chance. If you took your child to a modern art museum and saw a Pollock painting your child might say, "That looks like a guy just let paint spill over the canvas." After your ...

488. Walk Wisely

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... left wondering what the producers' reservations about her might be. Assuming that the decisionmakers were concerned about the disparity between Getty's true age (in the neighborhood of 60) and Sophia's scripted age, Getty, with her managers' encouragement, hired a Hollywood makeup artist to age her before she went into her fifth reading for NBC's top brass. She also went shopping for a thriftshop polyester dress a couple of sizes too big for her, a funny little hat, laceup shoes and a flat little handbag ...

489. Walk With Confidence

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour." The secret of Harry Houdini's success as America's greatest magician was his emphasis on preparation and timing. Only once was he caught offguard. Houdini was an artist who left the masses gasping at his performances. He escaped from a crate bound with chains at the bottom of New York harbor, he burrowed his way out of graves and squirmed out of straight jackets while hanging suspended in midair. He even freed ...

490. Rushing And Realizing

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... the door roused him from his grief. The young soldier in the doorway introduced himself as the one whose life had been saved by the old man's son. He had come to express his appreciation and to give him a gift. The soldier explained that he, too, was an artist, and he had painted a picture of the man's son. The father was amazed by the lifelike quality of the painting. He hung it on the mantel of his study, and there it brought him great comfort. It became his most prized work of art. A season passed, and ...

491. We Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

1 Corinthians 2:9

Sermon

King Duncan

... some time and read I Corinthians 15 concerning the new body that will one day be given to the believer. If you marvel at the wonder of the physical, wait until you behold the spiritual! That is what St. Paul is saying to us. We are told that the artist John Linnell was very sensitive about friends wanting to see a masterpiece he was working on before it was finished. He feared that someone might come into his studio in his absence and sneak a look, so whenever he was out of the room, he covered the easel ...

492. Who Is He?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Something happened on the cross of Calvary that bridged the gap between God and man. Jesus Christ is our Revelation ad our Redeemer. One thing more. HE IS ALSO OUR RISEN LORD. Two famous Broadway producers were pallbearers at the funeral of the great escape artist, Harry Houdini. As they lifted the beautiful and heavy casket to their shoulders, one of them turned and whispered to the other, "Suppose he isn't in there!" He was, of course. Only one man in human history has conquered the grave and it is ...

493. Vive La Difference

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... have discovered that the left and right hemispheres of our brain function in different ways. Some experts say that they perform different tasks. The left hemisphere is concerned with language and logic. The right side is said to be the creative, emotive, artistic side. Our educational system is set up to cater to left brain aptitudes those that require logic and language skills. Suppose you happen to be a right brain dominant child, however. You are labeled as slow, a dreamer, an underachiever. Maybe not ...

494. The Way Life Ought To Be

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

We all love happy endings. We like to see life work out. There is a story about Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn. He once listened to director Billy Wilder describe in detail the true life story of a famous artist. Wilder thought it would make a great movie. "Does it end happy?" Goldwyn wanted to know. "Well," said Wilder, "it winds up with the guy in an insane asylum thinking he's a horse." Goldwyn threw Wilder out the door. But Wilder wasn't discouraged. He poked his head back ...

495. Hey! I Want To Believe!

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... more evidence of His existence? Why doesn't He answer just a few more of our prayers? Why does He keep Himself just a little beyond our reach? Dr. H. H. Farmer once wrote, "If only God would, so to say, sign some of His gifts. If only, like the artist, He would put His signature at the foot of some masterpiece of coloring in the sky." Many of us have probably had the same wish. Why doesn't God reveal Himself to us in such a way that never again would we have to live in doubt and despair? Perhaps ...

496. Would You Mind Rescuing Me?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... 't know who we are. Let's consider an analogy. The painter Rubens is recognized even today as a genius. His work has been so influential that we sometimes talk about the "Rubinesque" figure. Rubens was also quite a businessman. Unlike many other immortal artists, Rubens was fortunate enough to taste the fruits of success while he was still alive. He was highly commissioned for his work. In fact he was so highly compensated that he opened what one writer called a painting factory. He hired a school of pupils ...

497. The Majesty And The Misery

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... day a peasant girl who was employed in his parents' home chided him about his hair. "Hair shows a person's character," she said sarcastically. "Yours is the worst I've seen!" The young fellow was nearly devastated. One day, though, while visiting his grandmother he saw a great artist's picture of the Apostle John. In the painting, John had unruly hair! The boy thought to himself, "He was a saint, yet he had unruly hair. I can't be all bad. Maybe God can use me too." By the time that boy was thirty, he was a ...

498. Idle Tale Or Eternal Truth?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... forgot why he was there. He took his portrait of Casals with the little bald-headed man bent over his cello, frozen in time against the plain stone wall of that chapel. Karsh said that he took it that way to capture the loneliness of the truly great artists and the loneliness of exile. Years later, when the portrait was on exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, another old, bald-headed man came day after day and stood for long moments at a time in front of the portrait. The curator of the museum ...

499. The Joyful Mystery of the Trinity

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... congregation responded with one loud voice, "And with you also!" Well, both statements are probably true. There is something wrong with all of usbut thank God, the Lord is with us. It is he that empowers us. It is said that Gainsborough, the artist, longed also to be a musician. He bought musical instruments of many kinds and tried to play them. Once when he heard of a great violinist who brought ravishing music from his instrument, Gainsborough bought the violin on which the master played so beautifully ...

500. Where Have All The Heroes Gone?

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... of a great river, the Hudson, and how, each morning, he hunted ducks, geese and seals. Mitek, in the eyes of his countrymen, was a very honest man. His neighbors treated him with rare respect. (1) History is replete with misunderstood geniuses, tortured artists and unappreciated prophets. Greatness has its price. Society is often unprepared for truth. Ask Galileo. The pioneer-the pathfinder, the innovator-risks ridicule every time. It is not easy being a hero. Maybe that is why there are so few of them ...

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