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Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... new meaning for us. Schweitzer spoke to a graduating class in an English boys' school back in 1935. He said: "I do not know what your destiny will be. Some of you will perhaps occupy remarkable positions. Perhaps some of you will become famous by your pens, or as artists. But I know one thing: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." Those words are true. Mark them down. The unhappiness in our lives does not come from our lack of faith, but from our ...

502. Victory on a Broken Knee

2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... O’Brien in the movie The Front Page, the first of an impressive collection of films in which O’Brien would eventually star. (4) Give your very best regardless of your circumstances! That is a great secret of successful living whether you are an athlete, or an artist or a business person or a parent or a spouse. Give your best! Many of you know the name Pele--the international soccer star who retired just a few years ago. When Pele retired from soccer he said, “It is the saddest moment of my life, but ...

503. A Christmas To Remember

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... , playing with presents, and destroying presents before sundown, is the annual Nativity Pageant at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Armonk, New York." Mrs. Elson was the director, and she would tell the children what role they would play, based on their artistic abilities. For example, if you were short you would get a role as an angel, which involved being part of the Heavenly Host and gazing with adoration at the Christ Child. "Shepherd was my favorite role," recalls Barry, "because you got to carry ...

504. Time To Do Something About The Piano

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

Once there was a small jazz club in New Orleans. In a corner of that club sat an old dilapidated piano. All of the jazz artists complained about this antiquated instrument. The piano players dreaded playing on it. The vocalists dreaded singing with it. And all of the combos that played the club wished that they could bring in their own piano ” just like they could a saxophone or a trumpet. Finally, after years of listening ...

505. Crossing The Desert Or Protecting Our Vehicle?

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... be part of such a magnificent church. The truth is that when the new pastor arrived in that town he was faced with an empty building. Very few people in the little town worshipped in the grand old cathedral. The church was an artistic gem. Spiritually, though, it was dead. Thus the pastor made a very dramatic decision. He decided to move the congregation out of that magnificent edifice. Together he and some of the townspeople built a simple cinderblock church a short distance from the beautiful fourteenth ...

506. For Laughing Out Loud!

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... young to be used by God. Charles Kuralt travels across the United States meeting interesting people. He told about an old man he met in Kansas. "We never caught his name," he wrote. The old man was a pilot. Charles and his crew were doing a story about an artist whose canvases were eighty-acre fields. The best way to view this unusual art work was from a plane. Kuralt and his photographer spotted an old J-2 Piper Cub parked in a barnyard. They asked the old farmer if he would fly them. "Sure, I'll take you ...

507. Like A Rock

Isaiah 44:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... Wren, the greatest architect in the realm, argue that his planned structure was perfectly safe. The politician was adamant. He also managed to spread alarm throughout the community and succeeded in pressuring Wren to add the supports. Many years later, when both the artist and his patron were dead, some repairs and cleaning were performed on the hall. The workmen were surprised to find that, invisible from the floor below, the extra columns Wren put in were two inches short of touching the roof. Wren put in ...

508. The Riches Of God

Romans 11:33-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... , who in Christ always leads us in triumph, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere." Here is where faith and trust are critical. Many of you are familiar with the name Garth Brooks. Brooks is one of the most popular recording artists of our day. On his No Fencesalbum, he has a song titled "Unanswered Prayers." It is a song with a great insight into something that troubles many Believers. In it he tells about a lost love. There was a certain young woman whom he did not think ...

509. Treasured Relics

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Some people are gifted with linguistic intelligence, he says. These are our writers and poets. Others have what he calls logical/mathematical intelligence. They make good accountants and scientists. Some people are gifted spatially. These are our artists and architects. Some are gifted kinesthetically. Their bodies are unusually graceful and coordinated. These are our athletes and dancers. Others are gifted interpersonally. They know instinctively how to get along well with the people around them. These ...

510. About Miracles

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of responsibilities, plenty of laughter, plenty of everything...EXCEPT MIKE. And in parental math five minus one just doesn't equal plenty." Then Bob Benson turns to the reader: "And I was thinking about God. He sure has plenty of children ” plenty of artists, plenty of singers, and carpenters, and candlestick makers, and preachers, plenty of everybody ...EXCEPT YOU and all of them together can never take your place. "And there will always be an empty spot in His heart ” and a vacant chair at His table ...

511. With Your Head In The Clouds

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... the back seam which will rest at the base of the spine when the pants are worn. The company advertises, "You won't feel the crystal; you'll just feel the energy." (2) Interesting. There was another news story sometime back. New Ager Marybeth Strobel, an artist from Jersey City, NJ, explained why she wears a large chunk of quartz on a strap around her neck. "It puts a circle of power around you that keeps you feeling protected," she says. (3) Well, different strokes for different folks! You and I may scoff ...

512. Fear Of Flying

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... program. She's convinced that God rewarded her giving by giving her more to do. In 1993, Sweet Alice received a "Hero Award" and Essence magazine's "Essence Award" for her work with POW and with the homeless. She was recognized alongside Senators, artists, and Olympic athletes for her contributions to American society. And all because one person noticed her million-dollar smile. (8) Some of us are ruled by our fears because we lack confidence in ourselves. That lack of confidence is a tremendous barrier to ...

513. Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... Delhi, India. The Hindu told the conference that a few years before he had visited Rome and seen, at St. Peter's, the world famous Pieta by Michelangelo. He conceded that the sculpture of the dead Jesus held in the arms of the mourning Mary was an artistic masterpiece. Yet somehow, this deceased Jesus remained alien to him, as did the many crosses with the suffering Jesus on them that he saw in Rome. A Buddha, he said, would never have been depicted like that. Buddha died as if he were slipping away into a ...

514. Living With The Birth Pangs

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Angeles. But L.A. officials have decided it would cost too much to dismantle all 200 abandoned sirens, which went up in the 1950s and finally were disconnected in 1985. Instead, the city's Community Redevelopment Agency has offered $20,000 grants to local artists with ideas for using the sirens to brighten the streets. Sculptor Michael Tansey redesigned the first one last spring: He mounted bright yellow petals atop the 30-foot-high siren at the corner of Olympic and Figueroa to create a 10-foot-wide man ...

515. The Look Of Eagles

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... secretarial job in a Dallas bank. This was before computers took over. Betty ran across a problem that interested her. Wasn't there a better way to correct the errors she made on her electric typewriter? Betty had some art experience and she knew that artists who worked in oils just painted over their errors. Maybe that would work for her too. So she concocted a fluid to paint over her typing errors. Before long, all the secretaries in her building were using what she then called "MistakeOut." She attempted ...

516. The Messiah Who Cares About Feet

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... on couches around a table eating the Passover meal. As Dr. Ray C. Stedman once noted, "We have to get out of our minds the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting of the Last Supper, with everyone sitting on one side of the table . . . Da Vinci was a masterful artist, but he was a weak theologian. Someone has said that when they look at that picture, they imagine Jesus saying to the disciples, ˜Everyone who wants to be in the picture get on this side of the table!' But that is not how they sat at table that ...

517. The Rock

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... rock sales now net in the millions of dollars annually. Many of these granite gems are harvested from 23,000 boulderrich acres in the Sierra Nevada foothills, shipped to anyone willing to pay the price to enjoy an uncommon stone trophy. Oakland, California artist Kim Turos makes it her business to locate just the right boulder for your needs. Says Kim, "There's a calming permanence when you see that weight sitting there." (1) Did we read that right? "A calming permanence?" Big rocks as relaxation therapy ...

518. Freedom Song

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Brills are an unusual family. They are living off the lingering reputation of an ancestor, known as the Wickford Sage. The Sage was a famed New England poet. All of the characters in the Brill family are wastrels. Archie, the father, is a mural artist who never paints any murals. The young men are forever chasing after improbable jobs that won't amount to anything, and their sisters are forever chasing after rich, oldfamily males who will never amount to anything either. The Brills are bound to each other ...

519. On Being Picked For The "Rework"

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

King Duncan

... connected by a vertical axle. The potter rotated the larger lower stone with foot power while he shaped the clay on the upper wheel with his skilled and delicate touch. Modern commercial wheels use electrical power to turn the lower wheel, but many ceramic artists still prefer the footpowered apparatus that so fascinated Jeremiah and inspired this analogy. So you see, for the people of Jeremiah's day, the potter was as much an illustration out of everyday life as the making of Hershey's Kisses would be for ...

520. Finishing In The Top 10%

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Frank Lyman

Two tiny legs disappearing under the water. That is all the 16th Century Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel depicted of poor Icarus. Two tiny legs. Pieter Bruegel was a moralist as well as a paintera moralist who saw human folly in many guises. In his work, "Landscape With The Fall of Icarus," he portrayed that folly through an interpretation of the Greek myth of Icarus. We ...

521. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... the incredible love of God that caused Him to humble Himself, become human, take on our sin and our suffering, and die for us--when you truly grasp how much God must love us, then you can’t help but let that love flow through you to others. Christian artist Geoff Moore puts it this was, “Someone is watching, someone is listening, Dying to know what we know so well. It will help them believe it, if in us they see it. That’s why we must live to tell.” (11) A tranquil mind. An unquenchable joy. An ...

522. Fishing Stories

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... same. And so, as the disciples drift along on the sea at night, catching nothing, expecting nothing, Jesus appears to them again. This is the disciples' golden hour, even if they did not realize it. This is the hour that will change their lives forever. Artist Bill Herring loves his home state of Texas. He sees beauty in the landscape, even in the dry desert ground and the dull, green bushes that squat along the horizon. Ordinarily, this landscape is dry and ugly. But then there comes what Herring calls the ...

523. What Would Jesus Really Do?

1 Peter 2:13-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... know who I'm talking about. There were actually several Morton Salt girls over the years, but Dorothy was the one with the pretty yellow dress and the ribbon in her hair found on salt containers in the 1920s and 1930s. As a niece of professional artist Mary Anderson, Dorothy was used regularly as a model for various renderings of children. The Morton Salt Company began using a girl with an umbrella on their round, blue salt containers in 1914, and they introduced us to a phrase that continues today to be ...

524. When The Fish Won't Bite

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... . One of da Vinci's biggest blunders occurred when he was working in the household of an Italian nobleman, Ludovico Sforza. Sforza put da Vinci in charge of planning a banquet for two hundred guests. Leonardo intended to sculpt all the food into tiny artistic masterpieces. He created a fully automated kitchen in Sforza's mansion in order to feed that many people. But the night of the banquet, everything fell apart. The conveyor belt da Vinci had installed broke down and started a fire. Next, the sprinkler ...

525. Heroes

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... way what it meant to be a star! It might be interesting to note that Tinseltown Studios closed down after a few months of operation. (1) I'm surprised that it closed. I thought that today everyone wants to be a celebrity. Everyone, to paraphrase pop artist Andy Warhol, wants his or her fifteen minutes of fame. What the world needs, though, is not more celebrities. What the world needs are heroes. George E. Knowles in his book A WORLD TO LOVE tells a dramatic story about an Italian fisherman named John ...

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