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Sermon
King Duncan
... wondered what it was. And a crowd was gathering at what seemed to be the center of the disturbance when the disciples began emerging from the house. Now Jerusalem was a cosmopolitan city, filled with people from all over the known world who spoke a variety of languages. And every person in that crowd heard the disciples speaking in their own tongue. The people were amazed. They hadn't a clue as to what this meant or who these strange men were. Some were mocking the disciples, saying they were drunk. Amidst ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , but we are also here to get in touch with God. Theodore H. White, Pulitzer Prizewinning expert on American politics, coined a new word recently. Someone asked him about the effect of television on politicians. White answered, "Politicians remind me of a certain variety of plant--the kind that grow under porches and other places where the sun doesn't penetrate. Botanists call these plants Heliotropic, meaning that as they grow, they bend in the direction of the sun. Well, politicians today are what I call ...
Sermon
Caroly R. Gibson
... for Christ; called to share the story of our faith in Christ with others. Do we not often find ourselves so bogged down with stuff, with burdens, with activities, we can barely get out of our own way? Dragging so much baggage with us, so preoccupied with such a variety of things, we find it difficult to focus on Jesus and his call on our lives. The twenty-third Psalm, familiar to all of us, offers a helpful image. David writes out of his own knowledge as a shepherd. One line of the Psalm is "He restores my ...
479. Family Resemblance
1 John 2:28--3:10
Sermon
King Duncan
... to his father's house. He was a man of strength and robustness, a man who had seen and accomplished many things. Yet not long after he returned home, Charles Darwin became an invalid again. His strength failed him, and he suffered from a variety of physical problems. He even lost all taste for the great music, poetry, literature, and art that had once enchanted him. He became depressed. Yet doctors couldn't find the source of his sudden decline. There was seemingly no physical reason for his suffering ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... of our sacred dead? Perhaps a disproportionate number of redneckssince so often the people from the lower economic levels are the first sent to fight. There are also many young AfricanAmericans lying in those cemeteries. And Hispanics. And Native Americans. And people who had a variety of lifestyles. In a day in which our society is so divided, we need to remind ourselves of a group of country bumpkins who sought not to divide society, but to unite it. In fact, a spokesman for the group a later convert more ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
There was a man who did not feel well for an extended period of time. His pastor suggested he go to a certain internist who was good at making accurate diagnoses. The doctor examined this man and ordered a variety of tests. The doctor was concerned about the man's heart, and how the health of his entire body was affected by his heart. The man's arteries were clogged. The man had been overweight for some time, and he was always under stress. He allowed good health to deteriorate ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... feeling toward someone else, you are cheating yourself out of the abundant life that Christ promised. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison organized a study of two groups of veterans with coronary artery disease. All these men dealt with a variety of conflicts, ranging from marital or job stresses to painful memories of their war experiences. One half of the veterans were educated on the subject of forgiveness and taught techniques for forgiving others. The other half of the veterans served ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... a profound gratitude for all we have. Thus we find true happiness. Thus we find true blessedness. In 1989, columnist Nick Clooney decided that he, like a modern-day Huck Finn, wanted someone else to do his work for a little while. So he invited a variety of local celebrities from the Kentucky-Ohio area to send in their ideas on a column about epitaphs. What would these famous men and women want to have written on their tombstones? He was surprised by the wit and sincerity of the various responses. Ira Joe ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... members, but someone placed the wrong caption under the picture. Beneath the photo were these words: "Naive and vulnerable, the sheep huddle for security against the uncertainties of the outside world." Can't you just imagine that caption, asks Neff, under a variety of photographs? Under a picture of the president and his advisers? Or perhaps Congress? "Naive and vulnerable, the sheep huddle for security against the uncertainties of the outside world." (1) Most people don't want to be thought of as sheep ...
485. Passions
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
Sermon
Frank Lyman
... Smith would talk to his students about how we can discover truth, how we determine what is genuine and authentic. After some discussion, Dean Smith would suddenly ask the students, "How wide is my desk?" The students would look at the desk and then make their best guesses. A variety of answers would ring out. "I think it's about 72 inches wide." "No, I believe it's more like 68 inches wide." "Looks like 75 to me." "I'm going to guess 74 inches." Then some wise guy from the back of the room would say "71 and ...
Sermon
Dr. Robert E. Lair
... sudden illness or death of a loved one, we know what it means to have the unexpected happen to us. Theologian Reinhold Niehbuhr used to call such unexpected intrusions "the vicissitudes of life." Such intrusions of the unexpected evoke a variety of responses from us: irritation, frustration, anxiety, rage, grief, bitterness, or despair (usually according to the severity of the unexpected intrusion). Intrusions of the unexpected, however, are not the unusual. They are the usual. "Life is what happens when ...
487. You Feed Them!
Matthew 14:13-21
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Dr. Paul Brand is a medical doctor who writes of the wonders of God. He tells about what he calls the "perfection" of "God's design for providing food for newborn babies. A mother's body extracts the raw materials for the milk from a wide variety of vegetables and fruit, grains and meat, which have been eaten, digested, and absorbed into the bloodstream. This milk is the perfect food for a baby it's predigested and full of necessary nutrients. God designed a woman's body so that this process only occurs ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to note that the word "witness," used in both its noun and verb forms, appears more times in the Gospel of John than in any of the other three Gospels combined. This is John the Baptist's "singular purpose" in the world. John used a variety of images to communicate his mission. In a discussion with his own disciples about his relationship with Jesus, John said, "You yourselves can testify that I said, "˜I am not the Christ but am sent ahead of him.' The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
Object: Take a variety of membership cards with you to show the children. For example, a membership card for the Y; a membership card for Scouts; Sam's Club membership; a certificate you received when you joined the church, etc. [Show each card you have with you and discuss it with the children, telling ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... it is the prayer used in most 12-step programs. There are people who are addicted to alcohol and drugs, of course, and some of these are the nicest people you would ever want to know. But there are also people who are addicted to a variety of sexual deviancies. They are a little more difficult to accept. There are people addicted to gambling. There are even people addicted to television. Don't hold up your hands. One self-proclaimed "TV addict" in Redding, Connecticut cut down his neighbor's 83-year-old ...
491. Don't Be Ashamed . . .
2 Timothy 1:1-2:13
Sermon
King Duncan
... to their next-door neighbors whom they hadn't even met. Embarrassing! Do you ever get embarrassed? We could have fun this morning going around asking each of us to tell the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to us. We won't--for a variety of reasons. Let me ask you a very personal question: Are you embarrassed about your faith? If tomorrow at work someone asked you what you believe and why you believe it, would you fumble and mumble and hang your head in embarrassment? An old man sits ...
492. Do Not Disturb
Isaiah 11:1-10
Sermon
King Duncan
... 2004. What did Mr. Vernetti do that was so extraordinary? He made the Guiness book because of his enormous collection of "Do Not Disturb" signs. In his travels to 131 countries, Vernetti has amassed a collection of 2,915 "Do Not Disturb" signs in a variety of languages. He dreams of collecting such signs from all 191 countries of the world. (1) Who would have thought that this would be a universal sign? "Do Not Disturb." On second thought, that is the sentiment of many, many people. "Leave me alone." "Let ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... be an avalanche researcher in Montana. Ed Adams places himself in a small shed on the side of a snowy mountain, then he has his assistants trigger the chain of events that will cause an avalanche. From within the raging mountain of snow, Adams measures a variety of factors so that researchers can better predict how and why an avalanche occurs. In his line of work, he has been buried alive twenty times. He deliberately places himself at risk so that his work can save the lives of others in similar situations ...
494. Who Are You?
Psalm 16:1-11
Sermon
King Duncan
... to the ground without your Father's will. . . Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows" (Matthew. 10:29,31). Think of what Jesus was saying here! There are literally billions of birds in the world. I have heard that there are over 500 varieties of hummingbirds alone, yet each of those tiny creatures is under God's watchful eye. So if He has regard for each of them, think how carefully and lovingly He must regard each of us. Lift your head a little higher this morning, straighten those ...
495. Free At Last!
Matthew 11:25-30
Sermon
King Duncan
... thoughts and secrets. Her great listening skills led her to collect gossip on all the most prominent citizens in her town. Aunt Lina used this sensitive knowledge to raise funds for her pet cause, Hebrew University. Each year, she would call up a variety of people and promise them secrecy in exchange for a donation to the University. University officials never guessed that one of their most effective fund raisers was blackmailing their donors. (7) I wonder if there are any of us who carry around secrets ...
496. Why the Church?
Matthew 16:21-28
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... the Creed speaks of the communion of saints, it is not talking about perfect people. The word saint in the New testament does not refer to someone in stained glass or up on a pedestal. It is the Biblical way of speaking of the ordinary, common garden-variety Christian. We are all called to be saints. III. STILL, WE HEAR PEOPLE SAY: I BELIEVE IN GOD, AND IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. BUT I DONT BELIEVE IN THE CHURCH. That statement sounds logical on the surface, but it must be examined carefully. The truth of the ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... require asceticism or long hours of prayer.” What, then, is different? What is new? Fr. Nouwen says: “What is new is that we no longer experience the many things, people, and events as endless causes for worry, but begin to experience them as the rich variety of ways in which God makes his presence known to us.” “And the Word became flesh and lived among us!” And continues to dwell among us. The Christian Faith began when the Word became flesh and lived among us. It continues when that same Word ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. Tending to give freely; generous.” Sounds like a pretty good definition of an ordinary garden-variety Christian to me! But those who try to tinker with the world and to eradicate the world’s evils are often persecuted and have had to endure epithets shouted at them. During the Red-scare period of U.S. History Methodist evangelist E ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... Jesus would have learned at His mother’s knee. Fortunate is any child who has parents who share their faith with their children. I once heard of a Sunday School teacher who suddenly asked her pupils, “Why do you believe in God?” She got a variety of answers; some full of simple faith, others obviously insincere. One that stunned her came from the son of a minister. He answered, almost apologetically, “I guess it just runs in our family.” I used to discount that sort of thing, saying that religion ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... BELONGED? For us, the word may mean several different things. It may refer to a building or a denomination, but the primary New Testament meaning is a community. The Church is the people of God in the world. In the New Testament it is called by a variety of different names. Paul’s favorite was “The Body of Christ,” i.e., the means by which Christ gets His work done in the world. The early Christians believed that when Jesus came into the world, “The Word became flesh.” But the Word made flesh was ...
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