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551. Jesus And The Ayatollah

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... life!" There is quite a kernel of truth in that little story. There is only one time. That is now. And there is only one reason for life and that is to do good. And the object of that good is anyone with whom you or I happen to have contact. Tolstoy would have been the first to have given assent to one final truth: REMEMBER WHENEVER YOU DO AN ACT OF LOVE TO ANOTHER, YOU DO IT UNTO CHRIST. That's the Gospel in its totality. God loves us through Christ. We love God through our neighbor. To try it ...

552. Face To Face With The Tempter

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... THE SERIOUSNESS OF IT. In her autobiography, Lauren Bacall described how she became romantically involved with Humphrey Bogart. Bogart was married at the time, but his marriage was going badly and his wife was an alcoholic. Bacall and Bogart were thrown into constant close contact filming the movie, "To Have and Have Not." Bacall says, "From the start of the movie, as Bogie and I got to know each other betteras the joking got more soas we had more fun togetherso the scenes changed little by little, our ...

553. Hey! I Want To Believe!

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... told of a member of his congregation whom he met on the street one day. She had been active once but in recent months drifted away. She told Niles that after suffering numerous personal and family problems God had become distant to her. She felt she had lost contact with him. This was how Niles answered her: "Not only now but even in the future, there will always be times when God seems distant; when it looks as if God has forgotten and does not care; when prayers go unanswered and life is difficult. And at ...

554. The Awesome Power Of Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... man named Robert Browning. In just one visit he gave her so much joy and happiness that she lifted her head. On his second visit she sat up in bed. On the third visit they eloped. (1) Love heals the body! No wonder people were healed by coming into contact with Jesus. He was love incarnate and that is what He calls His church to be today. Love made flesh. Love can heal the body. LOVE CAN ALSO HEAL THE HEART. Somewhere I read about a pastor who asked his congregation if they knew of anyone who was suffering ...

555. The Mighty Tide Of God Rolled In

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... slow; word had to spread from one prayer cell to the next, from church to church, from city to city. It was a movement inspired by the fervor of thousands of Christian laypeople." (3) What were these laypeople doing? They were praying. They were making contact with Divine energy. An exciting church is a praying church. EXCITEMENT ALSO GROWS OUT OF CHURCH PEOPLE TRULY CARING FOR ONE ANOTHER. I'm reminded of a Peanuts cartoon sometime back. It's a baseball game. Charlie Brown, Lucy and Shroeder are sitting on ...

556. God's Plan For His World

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... in 2 Corinthians 5:18, "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, and giving to us the ministry of reconciliation...." And where do we begin? We begin right here, right now, reaching out in love to everyone with whom we come into contact. When we as a church fulfill that one simple mission, the gates of hell cannot long endure. Dr. Fred Craddock, professor of New Testament and Homiletics at Emory University in Atlanta, tells about his growing up years in Middle Tennessee. Craddock's father did ...

557. Looking For Mr. Right

James 4:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , how easy it is to observe couples in a restaurant and to determine which are courting and which have been married for some time. The courting couple is attentive to one another, they are carrying on rapid conversation, there is lots of eye contact. If a couple is sitting silently staring off into space, they are usually married. When couples are determined to be right for one another, there is lots of conversation, they laugh together. They are not only lovers, but friends. Of course, these expressions ...

558. A Tragic Waste

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... of miracles?" I've known some workers of miracles through the years, but they have gone about their work in a quiet and nonspectacular way. There are individuals and there are churches that have been turned completely around because they came into contact with a miracle worker whose faith, devotion and vision were so contagious that others were inspired to exceed their own inclinations. There are some potential workers of miracles in this congregation. What is the gift of "evangelist?" One noted expert in ...

559. How Can I Know The Truth?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... is going to speak to us, we must approach it prayerfully. We need the interceding power of the Holy Spirit to help us translate that Sacred Word for the Twentieth Century. Of course all of life should be "handled with prayer." Why? Because prayer is our contact with the mind of Christ. Prayer helps us interpret not only the Bible, but also our daily experiences. I have seen miracles in my life, haven’t you? I know God’s grace is true because I have experienced it. Henry Ward Beecher recalled a difficult ...

560. A Mystifying Question

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... work and announced that the family would no longer be attending the local synagogue. Instead they would be attending the local Lutheran church. "Why?" asked the young son, who was greatly disturbed by this change. "Because," answered his father, "I need the business contacts. It will be very profitable for our family to make the change." The young man became angry and later bitter. He left Germany and went to England. Later he would write, "Religion is the opiate of the people." Today millions of people ...

561. You Are Not Yourself!

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... down and sunk her first sub, and something else happened, too. The men on the England changed. Over the next 11 days the England sank 5 more Japanese submarines, wiping out all but two of the enemy underwater armada. Every sub that the England contacted, she sank. Often her sister ships located an enemy submarine and fired futilely for awhile before the England was given a chance. Usually she dispatched the enemy on the first try. Even the Japanese assumed that no one ship could inflict such damage. They ...

562. The Secret Of Champions

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... lady perked up and said: "Oh, then you ™re single?..." Now that ™s a one-track mind. We need to develop one track minds. We need to keep our minds on those things that are really important to us. Particularly do we want to avoid any contact with sin-that great destroyer of potential champions. "Let us lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely and let us run with perseverence the race that is set before us...." IN THE SECOND PLACE, CHAMPIONS HANG IN THERE. They run with perseverence. It ...

563. Dr. Life

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... life confused with having lots of stuff. And stuff can never bring us happiness. I sense that a change is taking place in our own society, don't you? The decade of greed is coming to a close. People are hungry for values, for relationships, for contact with God. They are hungry for those things that really matter. That is the perspective that Christ restores to our lives. Perhaps a little story sums it up best. A rich man named Carl loved to ride his horse through his vast estate to congratulate himself ...

564. Whoever Would Have Thought?

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... and placed in a detention center, and later into half-way houses and foster homes. Clarence and his wife lost track of her, and they lost all hope of ever seeing her again. However, years later they did manage to reestablish contact with their daughter. They discovered, much to their amazement, that she had finished high school, attended college, married, and was raising two well-adjusted children. "We lost faith," Clarence says, "but God was faithful. God never stopped answering our prayers." (3) Whoever ...

565. How Do You Know?

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... no people, but now we are God's people." I once read that one third of all the people who went forward at one of the Billy Graham Crusades gave false names and addresses. (6) I wonder why. It seems odd to me. Were they afraid someone would contact them after the crusade to invite them to join a church? Maybe they wanted the thrill of the experience without the burden of service. If that's the case, then what they received may have been momentarily satisfying, but they should not confuse it with being in ...

566. Christian Living As It's Meant To Be

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... children, and live in love, as Christ loved us." But what does this mean, to be "imitators of God"? How are we to live in love? Well, in a very practical way this teaching reminds us to treat other people, the everyday people we come in contact with throughout our lives, in the same way that God treats them. It means treating others fairly, and being honest in all of our relationships, whether personal or professional. And most importantly, we must be as forgiving of others as God is of us. Tony Campolo ...

567. Working For Love

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... territory he could insulate himself from people in distress, he was wrong. People with problems are everywhere. Years ago there was a Methodist Bishop named Cavanaugh. In one of his pastorates he met a physician who was a skeptic. Their work brought them into contact with each other quite regularly, and soon they became friends. One day as Cavanaugh was walking down the street, the physician pulled his buggy up to the curb and invited him for a ride. They talked about the weather for a bit, but then ...

568. A Family Celebration

Hebrews 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... there called for patient Robert McDonald. Two men got up and started to follow her through the military hospital. Then the younger man noticed the mix-up and held back. But his curiosity was piqued, and Cpl. Robert C. McDonald, Jr., 21, asked his doctor to contact the other man's doctor. That doctor confirmed that the two McDonalds' middle initials also were the same. That led to a reunion between a father and his son after 16 years apart. The McDonald family had dissolved in divorce in 1977. The son, who ...

569. A Long Line Of Love

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... Virginia, who made sure that there was enough food for the young girl and her mother. That's why her mother named her Virginia: after the doctor who helped feed, clothe and pay the rent for them. As Virginia grew and her family moved, she eventually lost contact with that caring doctor. Years later, when Virginia was grown, she was visiting Mexico when she saw a picture of a poor girl in the newspaper. At that moment Virginia realized that, if it hadn't been for that one doctor many years before, she could ...

570. What Is True And Who Can You Trust?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... of speaking the truth. And sometimes we need the truth spoken. Otherwise we become like the widow who was talked into a shady real estate deal by a fly-by-night developer. After she calculated her losses at over $50,000 from her life savings, she contacted the Better Business Bureau to file a complaint. The Bureau representative chastened her a bit: "Well, it sounded fishy right from the start. Why didn't you come to us before you invested your money? Didn't you know about our services?" "Oh, I did," she ...

571. Angels Announce His Coming

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... who flocked to hear Brooks preach. Brooks emphasized the incarnation of Christ and the brotherhood of humanity, always in a spirit of radiant optimism. Employing a passionate yet undogmatic style of preaching, he won the confidence and affection of all who came in contact with him. Two years after being elected a Bishop in the Episcopal church, Brooks died of heart failure. His funeral was attended by thousands of people. Tributes poured in from all over the world. Maybe, though, a small girl paid him the ...

572. Jesus Goes To School

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... is intimidating. Imagine that a twelve- year-old Tiger Woods asked you to give him a few golfing tips. Imagine being a rabbi and having Jesus in your class. Scary. You know what it says to me: IT SAYS TO ME THAT ANY TIME YOU HAVE CONTACT WITH A YOUNG PERSON, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE POSSIBILITIES MIGHT BE. A pastor looked over the assembled members for his Thursday afternoon confirmation class. Only one teenager was there for the class that should have been filled with fifteen youths. Only one young girl ...

573. A New Look For A New Year

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the new neighbors invited her and her husband to a housewarming party. The woman wanted to make a better impression this time. She colored her hair, struggled into a girdle, painted her lips, applied eye shadow and false eyelashes, painted her fingernails, and popped in her contact lenses. She admired herself in the mirror and said to her husband, "Well, tonight they are going to see the real me!" Appearances matter. And God wants to give us all a new look for this new year. Turn with me if you will to ...

574. Jesus Prays For Us

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... OF ALL, JESUS PRAYS FOR OUR UNITY. He prays "that they all may be one." (RSV) Christ desires his church to be a close-knit family! He desires us to be unified. I suspect many of us underestimate how much we need one another, how much we crave contact, how much we hunger for true Christian fellowship. Recent research has indicated that those persons who attend church are less likely to be ill over time than those who do not attend church. I don't know what that says to you. Possibly, it says something about ...

575. Change Is Possible

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... can change if we are willing to surrender our lives completely to God. 1. By William K. Quick in "Signs of Our Times: A Vision for the Church," and submitted by Donald Brenneman in Circuit Rider 2. Source unknown. 3. Holzman and George S. Klein, "Motive and Style in Reality Contact," BULLETIN OF THE MENNINGER CLINIC 20 (1956): 181-91. Cited in Dr. Nelson Boswell, INNER PEACE, INNER POWER (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985). 4. AMERICAN HISTORY ILLUSTRATED, March/April 1992, p. 8.

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