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Antonyms: deficient, imperfect
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Sermon
King Duncan
... Research Center, "The hostility and anger associated with Type A behavior is the major contributor to heart disease in America. People who struggle with anger are five times as likely to suffer coronary heart disease as the average person. People with heart disease more than double their risk of a heart attack when they get angry." (4) Be careful how you express your anger. Just as important, don't hold on to your anger. And then we should FIND A WAY TO CHANNEL YOUR ANGER IN A POSITIVE WAY. Learn from ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... in charge of his property. To the first, he gives five talents, to the next two talents, and to the next servant he gives one talent--each according to his ability. Then he leaves. The servant with five talents "goes at once" and puts his money to work, doubling it. The servant with two talents invests his and earns two talents more. The servant with one talent digs a hole in the ground and hides his master's money. "After a long time" the master returns. He asks the servants to give an account of their ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... free from all that. And they were proud of their freedom and flaunted it. Paul could understand that. He himself wrote eloquently of the freedom that Christ gives. But Paul had a higher vision and an even more tender heart. He knew that freedom had a double edge. Many of the more recent converts to Christianity had been worshiping idols before they came to Christ. And part of their worship involved sacrificing food to the idols. Afterwards they would feast on that food. This was a social event as well as a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1960). 2. Source unknown. 3. H.S. Vigeveno, Letters to Saints And Other Sinners (New York: A.J. Holman Company, 1972). 4. Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island, p. 201. 5. Ron Mehl. The Tender Commandments (Sister, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 1998), pp. 159-160. 6. The Double Search.
Sermon
King Duncan
... park's homeless to join them. It now takes several of the homeless to help carry the coolers, thermoses, pots, pans, and other containers they unload from their pickup each Sunday afternoon. In less than a year their original group of about 10 to 15 has nearly doubled. On an average Sunday they cook about 20 pounds of potatoes, make a half gallon of gravy, go through several loaves of bread and a large pot of beans or other vegetables, and feed two to three dozen people. How can they afford it? S. R. Morris ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
Object: None or be prepared with the song and actions, "Deep and Wide." Have you ever played the game, "I love you more?" I know some children who would say "I love you more" when their parents told them they loved them. Or sometimes they would say, "I love you double!" And the battle would be on as to who loved the other the most! It's hard to say how much we love, isn't it? One of the things that impresses me is how much Jesus loved people who had a disability-the blind people, the people who could ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... they began working on the movie Ben Hur, DeMille talked to Charlton Heston--the star of the movie--about the all-important chariot race at the end. He decided Heston should actually learn to drive the chariot himself, rather than just using a stunt double. Heston agreed to take chariot-driving lessons to make the movie as authentic as possible. Learning to drive a chariot with horses four abreast, however, was no small matter. After extensive work and days of practice, Heston returned to the movie set and ...
Sermon
King Duncan
Fred was a young man from the mountains of eastern Tennessee. He was a general ne'er-do-well. When he was called up for duty in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, Fred had high hopes that he would be turned down because of his double vision. The doctor said, "See that chart on the wall over there?" "Not very well, Doc. It's all blurry," said Fred. "You've passed," said the doctor. Fred protested, "How can I pass when I told you it's all blurry?" "That," said the doctor, "was your hearing test." ...
534. Loved By The Father
Galatians 3:26--4:7
Sermon
King Duncan
... extend to himself. He does not treat himself the way he treats the people in his branch. He never takes time for himself, never lets himself off the hook. When he is sick, he is still at work. He never stops, praises, or rewards himself. Clearly, Ethan has a double standard that leaves him with less than anyone else. Why? It turns out that he believes that he will not be noticed or liked unless he is doing things for others, and that he himself does not merit very much. That was how he felt in his family ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... was attending a conference when he was approached by a young boy asking for contributions to a mission fund. Wilkinson told the boy that he only contributes if he knows that the person asking has also contributed some of his own money first. He offered to give double, triple, or even quadruple the boy's contribution, depending on how generous the boy was willing to be. The young boy confessed that he couldn't give any more. He had already given all the money he had to the mission fund. For a little kid on ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... that if land was not sighted within forty-eight hours, they'd head home. Land was sighted the next day. "Columbus died without ever reaching the Spice Islands or realizing what he'd really discovered. As commercial ventures, his voyages were failures, but he doubled the size of the earth and opened an age of discovery . . ." (2) Doesn't this description make your heart race just a little faster? Now listen to these words from Hebrews concerning a man of faith named Abraham: "Now faith is the assurance of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Knowledge plays a bigger role in our lives ever before. More new information has been produced in the last 30 years than in the previous5,000. About 1,000 books are published internationally every day, and the total of all printed knowledge doubles every eight years. (3) Still, as Daniel Goleman so ably noted in his book, Emotional Intelligence, IQ offers little to explain the different destinies of people. "When ninety-five Harvard students from the classes of the 1940s were followed into middle age ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... he gave $5,000. To the second he gave $2,000, and to the third he gave $1,000. Then he left on his trip. The man who received the $5,000 immediately invested it and made another $5,000 in return. Likewise, the servant who received the $2,000 doubled his money. But the man who received the $1,000 dug a hole in the ground and hid the money for safekeeping. Can't you just see it? Jesus isn't simply telling a story here. He's describing the way many people respond to life. "He dug a hole ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... are not. And these statistics ignore still other people who have also "quit" their jobs but keep coming to work. In fact, in a survey of workers across the United States, nearly 85% said that they could work harder on the job. More than half claimed they could double their effectiveness "if (they) wanted to." (2) If we could do better, why don't we? Ah, that's the question, isn't it? If we could answer that question, we could write a best-selling book and retire for life. Everybody is asking how it is done ...
540. The Competitor
Genesis 25:19-34
Sermon
King Duncan
... for some way to get ahead of his brother. Even though Esau and Jacob were twins, Esau held the honor of being the older son. As such, he automatically received abundant blessings that were denied to the other children of the family. The eldest son received a double portion of the family's estate. He also inherited any positions or titles of his father's. And since Isaac was in a covenant relationship with God, this was also a part of Esau's inheritance. But Esau seems to have been spiritually dull. He did ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... or not we're satisfied with their product. Our hunger for excellence extends to the way we treat our bodies. We love to see the discipline and precision of the Olympic athletes. We're saddened when we realize that our own bodies fail to measure up, and we double our efforts to get in shape. There seems to be an appreciation for excellence--for the people who go beyond the ordinary and refuse to settle for second rate or second best. So the question for the day is, isn't it time for us to seek excellence ...
542. After Katrina
Song of Songs 8:1-14
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... , they are down in the valley where the floods come. Then, once the floods finally recede, the destroyed dwellings remain destroyed because the poor cannot afford insurance. New Orleans was particularly vulnerable because the poverty rate there - 28% - is double the national average. Unfortunately, because of the tepid response by our government, this disaster has some ugly elements of racism stirred into the mix. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have expressed outrage at the lack of federal action ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... the apostle of Jesus, and there was another who is called “the presbyter” (or elder) and some ancient Christian writers claim to have visited both of their graves! And, as if we were not confused enough, already, the Fourth Gospel is filled with double meanings, plays on words such as “wind” and “spirit” which are the same word in Greek and in Hebrew. One may ask, “Why the differences between John and the other Gospels?” Edward Bauman suggests that the relationship of John to the Synoptics ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... life.’” The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water’” (John 4:9-15) Now, whenever you come across a reference to water in the Bible, there is most probably a double meaning. It may mean simple water to assuage the thirst, but it is also a metaphor for humanity’s greatest need and God’s greatest gift: grace. In Jeremiah 2:13 God is Himself described as “the fountain of living waters.” Psalm 42:1-2 says, As a deer ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... , it was routine to take it to the local rabbi for a decision. In the eyes of Jewish law, adultery was an extremely serious crime. It ranked right up there with murder and idolatry as the three most serious sins anyone could commit. Unfortunately, however, there was a double standard. As we have noted, the position of women in the ancient world was not very good, and still is not good in much of the Middle East. And so adultery was considered a much more heinous crime for a woman to commit than for a man ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
I make no apology for the pun in the title of this sermon, for the author of the Fourth gospel delights in just such puns. Many of the words which he uses have double meanings, meanings which can only be understood fully against the background in which the words were originally spoken. That is what makes this Gospel so exciting. There are hidden depths of meaning which can be found beneath the surface John says specifically that Jesus spoke the words during the Jewish “ ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... not paying attention. It seems that during worship we often put our minds in neutral. We park our brains in the narthex, thinking that we will have little use for them for the next hour or so. Only once in my forty-year ministry did I ever conduct a double marriage ceremony. It is a complicated affair, for you have to administer two sets of vows and promises to two sets of brides and grooms. I remember asking one of the grooms if he took the bride to be his husband. He allowed as how he did, and nobody ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... what God created you to be: a whole person, wholly committed to God.” Some have suggested that this story is not so much an account of an actual event, but is, instead, an allegory. After all. in the Fourth gospel many things do have a double meaning, and everything seems to point to something else. Those who would allegorize this story tell us that the helpless man stands for Jesus’ own people, the Jews, trying to live under the Law of Moses. The thirty-eight years stands for the thirty-eight years ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... also have inscribed other words of Jesus, “I am the door!” Jesus said that, also, and He meant it. But nobody understands that to mean that He was a literal door, swinging on hinges! In this Fourth Gospel we must constantly be on the lookout for double meanings, and nowhere more so than in this sixth chapter. Earlier on John wrote “the word became flesh and lived among us.” Now he is saying that that Word, Jesus Christ, wants to come and live within us, within our hearts and minds and lives, to ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... and as dinner-time was approaching, Jesus had them sit down. He asks Philip, “How are we to buy bread that these people may eat?” (John 6:5) These words suggest that Philip may have had the job among the Twelve of keeping the supplies. The question is double-edged, for it means not only “Where are we to get the money?” but also “Where can we find a kosher deli here in this pagan Gentile area on ‘the other side’ of the Sea of Galilee?” John says that Jesus put this question to Philip only to ...
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