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526. Ultimate Freedom

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... lesson from Exodus concerns the birth of that great liberator Moses. The people of Israel were slaves in Egypt. But there stood Moses sent by Yahweh to declare to the Pharoah, "Let my people go!" Moving to the New Testament, we discover that no one wrestled more with the notion of slavery and freedom than did St. Paul. He writes, "I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from ...

527. The Pearl Of Great Price

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... the coming of this kingdom hundreds of years before Jesus. He wrote: "And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying ˜Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me." The claim that we can "know" the God of all creationthe notion that we can have direct access to Him the teaching that Jesus gave us that God is like a loving Father to each of His childrenis a statement of faith far beyond our feeble brains. Several years ago the newspapers carried a human interest story about ...

528. Time To Walk On The Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... step out on faith and act now! Simon Peter was one of those rare few. SIMON PETER MADE MISTAKES. This incident on the Sea of Galilee was only one of them. Who did he think he was, trying to walk on the water in the first place? What an absurd notion. Jesus had gone up to the mountain to pray. He had instructed his disciples to take the boat to the other side of the lake. They were now many furlongs out from the shore. The wind and waves were beating their little boat, when suddenly they saw what appeared to ...

529. God And The Irs

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... KINGDOM WE SEEK FIRST? IS CHRIST LORD OF OUR LIVES? Once that essential decision has been made, the question of the use of our resourcesour time, our talents, our money becomes an easy one. This is not to say that we have to give up the notion of prosperity. There is an interesting note in the writings of John Wesley, patron saint of the Methodists. Wesley had a most enviable problem. He was committed to a life of relative austerity. Christ was indeed first in his life. He saw how material possessions could ...

530. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... tunnels burrowing through chalk beneath the 31mile stretch of the English Channelbegan in 1986 and won't be ready for train travel until June 15, 1993. Though the much-ballyhooed tunnel connects two countries with a history of animosity, the notion of a link has been discussed by inventors and politicians for more than two centuries, including Napoleon. During Chunnel construction, 450 drivers and 120 locomotives pulling carloads of excavated material travel a distance equivalent to two trips around the ...

531. Superstition Or Authentic Faith?

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... with this question when confronted with a man who had been blind from birth. His disciples wanted to know was it his parents' sin or his own that was responsible for his condition? Please note, if you have not already done so, that Jesus consistently condemned the notion that human tragedy is punishment for sin. In the Sermon on the Mount he established this sacred principle once and for all: "[God] makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust." (Mt. 5:45) In ...

532. Help For Troubled Hearts

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... tangible grounds for their fears. Do you know anyone like that? Lois Gould in her novel, SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, has a character who is convinced for years that sooner or later he would have cancer. His wife said of him, "His living faith rested firmly on the notion that something terrible was just about to happen." You’ve known people like that. They can’t enjoy today for worrying about what tomorrow will bring. If it’s sunny today, don’t enjoy it too much. We’ll pay for it tomorrow. Some of you may ...

533. The Joyful Mystery of the Trinity

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... persons can yet be one? Some theologians have solved this problem by taking a look at the Greek word PERSONA which originally meant "mask." The Greek actor would play many roles in the same play. He would assume each new role by putting on a new mask. Hence the notion that the one God makes himself known in three masks: Father, Son, Spirit. Others have considered the role each of us play each day. The same man can be at the same time a father, a son, a brother, an uncle, a pastor, etc. The same man but ...

534. Ready For The Great Race

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... seats and to stretch those tired and aching muscles to take our place among the participants. Let ™s examine for a few moments this exciting summons that God, speaking through the writer of Hebrews, gives to each of us. First of all, let ™s consider the notion that we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. No wonder one pastor came home after worship one Sunday morning filled with enthusiasm and joy. When his wife, who had been home with a virus, asked him how many persons had been in worship he ...

535. The Fourth Person In The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . At church one evening in her hometown in Sweden, Ingrid Widdell heard a voice. At first she tried to ignore the voice by concentrating harder on the worship service, but the voice kept speaking to her, "Go down to the harbor!" She tried to dismiss this notion by telling herself that the harbor was in the roughest part of town. She would not be safe going there by herself late at night. She imagined the drunks and prostitutes who roamed the deserted docks in the evening hours. There was no way she wanted ...

536. The Salvation Army Parade

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Yet Jesus' action was a contradiction of what the people hoped for. Jesus was riding a colt, a symbol of peace, not a horse, a symbol of conquering. Jesus approached Jerusalem in peace as a humble servant and not a mighty warrior king. The people were so preoccupied with the notion of political and economic power that they were blind to what was taking place before them. God was at work, but not in a way that they could see. That's a reminder to us ” God is at work even when we can't see Him. We have all ...

537. How Do You Know?

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... . A new attitude is part of that transition. AND CERTAINLY A NEW SET OF RELATIONSHIPS IS INVOLVED. At the heart of the Gospel is the concept of relationship. The Trinitarian formula which we embrace ” Father, Son and Holy Spirit ” carries the notion of that relationship. Some very sincere Christians are trying to find a new way of expressing those relationships without the masculine connotations. "Father and Son" are disturbing to some, but the important thing to see here is the sense of relationship ...

538. Sons And Daughters Of Thunder

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... taught them, "Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave to all." This certainly wasn't what James and John had in mind. They wanted power and prestige, but Jesus turned their notion of greatness upside down. Jesus taught that, in the kingdom, true greatness is found in serving others. Bob Pierce knew how to find true greatness. He knew he was dying, and he wanted to see his friend, Borneo Bob Williams, a missionary who had started ...

539. Jeremy And Jesus

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... to cry. Finally, Grandma could be silent no longer. "Put down the book," she told her children, "and pick up the baby." Good advice. Put down the book and pick up the baby. Spend time with your children. Particularly at Christmastime. We have the mistaken notion that good parents give their children lots of things. Wrong. In a survey done of fifteen thousand schoolchildren the question was asked, "What do you think makes a happy family?" When the kids answered, they didn't list a big house, fancy cars, or ...

540. One Came Back

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... Columbus' genius," one historian wrote, "to marshal all of his knowledge and past experience, and use it to forge the Enterprise of the Indies...Columbus' breakthrough lay in his ability to make theory a useful tool. This was a thoroughly modern idea. The notion that ideas could be transformed into action, even on such a grand scale as the scheme of getting east by going west, was what set him apart. Columbus was born at precisely the right place, and grew into manhood learning precisely the right ...

541. A Message For Big Bird

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... to see is that JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A FRIEND OF JESUS DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU WILL NOT GET YOUR HEART BROKEN FROM TIME TO TIME. I have to say that to you, because so many of us have lived such protected lives that we have built up the notion in our own minds that nothing really bad can ever happen to us. And when it does, we are shocked, and we are in despair and some of us never recover. Earlier generations of people were not as fortunate as we, but they were better prepared to deal with life ...

542. Searching For Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... because they have been here. Anthony de Mello, in one of his books, tells of such a man. According to his story, this man was so godly that even the angels rejoiced at the sight of him. But, in spite of his great holiness, he had no notion that he was holy. He just went about his humdrum tasks, diffusing goodness the way flowers unselfconsciously diffuse their fragrance and streetlights their glow. His holiness lay in this that he forgot each person's past and looked at them as they were now, and he looked ...

543. An Unlikely Witness

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... her. "Rabboni," she answers, which means, "Teacher." In contemporary dramas like JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, there is the suggestion that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were romantically involved. That is only natural given our society's obsession with physical love. But the facts dispute this notion. Notice, in this most intimate and emotion-laden moment, Mary does not call Jesus by name. She uses a formal term, Teacher. He is the one who set her free from her terrible past--whatever that past may have been. He was ...

544. Four Ways To Defeat Stress

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... slave, had heard from a certain slave minister when she was a girl. The slave preacher was allowed to come to the plantation and preach about four times a year, and on each occasion he had drilled into the consciousness of all of his hearers the notion that they did not have to feel inferior because they were slaves. As Thurman used to tell it, everything in him quivered with the pulsing tremor of raw energy when in his grandmother's recital, she would come to the triumphant climax of the slave minister ...

545. Don't Look Down

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... go out as missionaries all over the world into lands that were hostile and foreboding. And young people by the thousands traded in their lawn mowers for motorcycles. During the Civil Rights movement there were Christians who risked their lives to promote the notion that all people are created equal. Some were beaten, some were ostracized, some died. Where is the battlefield today? Where is the challenge? Has the world gotten that much safer, that more loving, that more just, that more like Jesus--or have we ...

546. What In The World Is Happiness?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... . And many of us are not happy, either. In fact, according to some studies, people in our affluent, safe, comfortable society are more depressed than they have ever been! Where have we missed it, Lord? Where is happiness to be found? First of all, let's dispel the notion that Jesus was a dewy-eyed dreamer--out of touch with the real world. Do you know Thornton Wilder's Heaven's My Destination? It's a comical little play about a poor soul who attempts to put the Sermon on the Mount into practice. The results ...

547. Sarah Laughed

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... no teenager when we pick up the story. In fact she is an old woman--90 years of age. No wonder that she laughs when she hears the Lord tell Abraham that she will bear a son. Abraham is one hundred and she is ninety. What a preposterous notion that they are headed toward a maternity ward! And so Sarah laughs. Like the smile of Mona Lisa, there is something enchanting about the laughter of this ninety-year-old woman who has been given this absurd announcement. If you think that Sarah's laugh is incidental to ...

548. Preparing the Way

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... Arabic calligraphy proclaiming “Eid.” By now it was clear that this was not such a simple errand after all. “Actually,” he said, “I was looking for the ones with the mother and child. I’d like some Christian Christmas stamps.” (1) What a radical notion. Christian Christmas stamps. We are getting our homes, and our community and our church ready to welcome the King of Glory. Last week we said that the best way to prepare was to acknowledge the awesomeness of God. This week we focus on one of ...

549. Father? Almighty?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of sometimes proclaiming a view of God which makes Him look more like the Ayatollah than a loving, personal, Divine Reality whose name and nature are love. But if we start our theology with Jesus Christ, then I find it hard to see how some popular notions of God can possibly be reconciled to Him. John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem which includes these words: “Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood; To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good.” Yes, but ...

550. Who Is Jesus Christ?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , that by placing the emphasis on the word Father, we can find a new meaning. I believe that what Jesus is saying is that because of Him, one can come to know God as Father; that is, as infinite, unlimited, compassionate love. It is possible to come to other notions of God in other ways, but Jesus Christ is the one who revealed that God’s name and nature are love. In the words of my favorite Charles Wesley hymn: “Tis Love! Tis Love! Thou diedst for me, I hear thy whisper in my heart. The morning breaks ...

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