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551. Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... day be a great respected military leader, a son who would make him proud. When Philo was born, however, Pilate's pride was dashed. Philo was born sick, weak and permanently crippled. Throughout the years Philo was growing up, he was the object of his father's hatred and bitterness. "You're not the son I wanted," was Pilate's constant reminder to his broken son. As soon as he was old enough to leave home, Philo left the palace of his father and wandered alone in the countryside. There he heard of a Galilean ...

552. What About the Weeds?

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... Again! Never Again!” (2) Human evil is a continuing reality in our world. We see it on every continent. We recoil at the idea of the judgment of God, but what about the weeds? What about the evil within the hearts of men and women--the hatred, bigotry, envy, bitterness, lust, anger, greed, etc. A young woman in one of our public schools was asked to write an essay on Evolution. She wrote, “According to this theory man descended from the apes and has been descending ever since.” There is some truth in ...

553. When Someone Else Gets The Honor

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

We have been dealing the past couple of weeks with some of the most basic human emotions--anger, hatred, resentment. This morning we want to deal with another--envy. A popular form of humor recently has been light bulb jokes. For example, "How many Wall Street brokers does it take to screw in a light bulb?" The answer: "One, The broker holds the light bulb and the universe revolves ...

554. Jesus And The Ayatollah

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... and its neighbors, the enmity between Pakistan and India, and a host of lesser known tensions throughout the world all conspire to cause us to wonder if the next confrontation will not take us back to the Middle Ages when most of the killing and torture and hatred in this world was done in the name of religion. Every religion I know of sees itself as a beacon of light for the rest of the world. What a terrible shadow has been cast through the ages, however, by religious conflict and persecution. And don't ...

555. Why Did He Do It?

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the decision that the cause of his difficulty was in his bitterness and lack of forgiveness toward his fellow painter. He came to the conclusion that you cannot at the same time be painting the features of Christ into your own life, and painting another with the colors of hatred and enmity.* That is true in our lives as well. Christ offers forgiveness to all. May we forgive others as he has forgiven us. *From a sermon by Don Emmitte

556. Breaking Down The Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... . A therapist was brought in. The therapist told him, "Imagine that you're in your hometown. There is the theatre, there is the marquee, there is your name in lights." At that point this young man jumped out of his chair. His face was red with anger and hatred. "No! No!" he shouted. "They don't deserve it! They don't deserve to see me as a success!" The therapist now knew that there was a reason the young man was sabotaging his own success. He was angry at his mother and father. Something so terrible had ...

557. Blessed Are The Believers

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love... "When evil men plot, good men plan. When evil men bomb and burn, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glory of love...." Newscaster David Brinkley once put it like this: "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." Where are you this morning-on the side of the doubters ...

558. How Shall We Pray?

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... produces a great tree. Wherever God’s will is done, whether in Heaven or on earth, there is the Kingdom. You and I need a passion for the Kingdom of God in our time. It is unbelievable that 2,000 years after Christ our world would still have as much hatred, as much violence, as much evil as it does. If we had maintained Christ’s passion for the Kingdom, it would not. For you see, by teaching us to pray for the Kingdom Christ surely expected us to be working for the Kingdom as well. A little girl is ...

559. Narrow Doors-limitless Horizons

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... fence and half outside. (4) Whether you are an Anglican or a Methodist is not a matter perhaps of eternal significance. But the decision to follow Christ is. There is a cross to shoulder and there is the burden of sin to be left behind. There is hatred and animosity to be shed and love and acceptance to be taken up. Meaninglessness and despair are to be no more. They are replaced with direction and positive faith. Van Varner, editor of GUIDEPOSTS, tells of a summer drive he and his godson David were taking ...

560. Don't Apologize For Success (but Give Thanks)

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... centers on the character of Ephraim Cabot, a closefisted, greedy, self-righteous hypocrite. Through a series of tragedies, the play ends with Ephraim Cabot left alone on his farm. His self-centered goals have led to the death of his wife and to nothing but hatred and rejection from his sons. As the sheriff leaves Ephraim there by himself, the sheriff comments that it is the best farm in the county, a place anyone would want to own. It may have been the best farm around, but it was probably the loneliest ...

561. Where God Can Be Seen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... officer lying wounded on the street. As she watched the ambulance carry him away, someone told her what had happened. He had been shot by a street person. The officer died later that day, and Deborah became very upset by what happened, and her anger grew into hatred. She couldn't look at a street person without blaming him for the officer's death. As a Christian Deborah recognized that she would somehow have to reconcile her anger. She felt that the best way to do this would be to work for the people she ...

562. Advice For Soldiers At The Front

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... had come." Have you ever been on the front line? Thankfully, most of us have never had to fight in an actual war. Every day of our lives, though, we are engaged in a war. It is a war of the spirit ” a war of hope vs. despair, love vs. hatred, right living vs. sin. We are on the front line and sometimes things look tough. Paul knew what it was like to be on the front line. Indeed, he was under arrest when he wrote to the believers at Ephesus. His own words were that he was an "ambassador in ...

563. A Time To Remember - Memorial Day

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... . They marched down the streets of what was left of their town to a cemetery. There they decorated the graves of the soldiers. ALL the soldiers ” Union as well as Confederate. The mothers and daughters and widows had buried their dead. Now they buried their hatred. The time for healing had come. It was the first Memorial Day. Have you ever wondered why Memorial Day is marked in May? Its date doesn't recall some historic battle. Or the start of some war. Or the signing of an armistice. Why, then ...

564. A Perfect World

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... make some kind of speed. The command PREPARE means to push obstacles out of the way. (4) In the same way John comes to us and tells us to repent of our sins and to join in the work of removing obstacles from the path of the King. Obstacles like hatred and fear, ignorance and exploitation. And the question is, who is going to move them if we don't? Now, we have to be careful here. Theologians are very quick to tell us that we cannot build the Kingdom of God. The coming Kingdom is God's Kingdom, and God ...

565. The Appearance of Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The people who have perpetrated these acts love neither their neighbors nor God. Imagine facing God some day and saying, "I burned one of your places of worship." While these are probably isolated acts of desperately unhappy and tormented individuals, such overt acts of racial hatred are encouraged by the climate of suspicion and distrust that still pervades many of our people in this land. You and I need to search out our hearts and see if there is more that we might do to introduce people to the love of ...

566. Pardon Me, But Do You Know God?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... legalistic dish towel religion. Many Christians have one, too. (3) Just because you keep all the rules and the regulations of religion does not mean you know God. There are many people who live within the letter of the law who have hearts heavy with bitterness and hatred. Living by the law does not mean you know God. NEITHER DOES BELONGING TO THE CHURCH MEAN YOU KNOW GOD. I love the church. I believe in the church. Some of my greatest experiences have been in church. I can relate to some of the stories that ...

567. The Forgiven

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... there is a hidden place where there is so much resentment toward another human being, that secretly you wish them dead, there never are enough rocks. S. I. McMillen wrote a book titled NONE OF THESE DISEASES, in which he detailed the effects that unresolved anger and hatred have on us. He writes: "The moment I start hating a man, I become his slave. I can't enjoy my work any more because he even controls my thoughts. My resentments produce too many stress hormones in my body and I become fatigued after only ...

568. Generous Religion

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... sister and her family out of poverty, and so one day a desperate Valjean steals a loaf of bread from a baker's shop, to keep the children from starving. He is soon arrested and thrown in jail, where his young heart becomes hardened with anger and hatred. After spending half his life in prison, Valjean is released to a world that doesn't want him. His criminal past causes him to be rejected and ostracized everywhere he goes. Finally, he stumbles on the house of a kindly bishop. The bishop treats Valjean with ...

569. Bridges Over The River Kwai

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... give Takashi that peace of mind. He wrote to Takashi and told him that he had not been forgiven. Takashi wrote back a sad, gentle letter, expressing his desire to meet Eric again someday. This letter spoke to Eric's heart. He couldn't hold onto his hatred and anger anymore. The two men met again that year at the old prison camp where their paths first crossed. Nagase Takashi expressed his deepest sorrow over his actions in the war, and Eric Lomax was able to forgive him. After their visit together, Eric's ...

570. Finishing In The Top 10%

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... more authentic, than the Jewish Torah. They refused to worship at the Temple in Jerusalem, having their own Temple on Mt. Gerizim. As we read in Luke 9, Jesus himself had already been rejected by the Samaritans once he set "his face towards Jerusalem." The hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews is captured in this moment of Jesus' rejection. Jesus' own disciples, James and John, ask him if he'd like them to command fire to come down from heaven and consume these Samaritans! Apparently James and John had ...

571. What Fragrance Are You Leaving?

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . To think that in such a hostile place such a lovely act could still live on is a testimony to the enduring power of love and the triumph of the human spirit over great odds. Ilse left a lovely fragrance that helps us overcome the stench of hatred and evil from that terrible time in history. There was another Jewish woman who left a fragrance in Jesus' life. The last week of our Lord's earthly life and ministry was like a Hollywood movie. It was lights - cameras - action. The opening act of this dramatic ...

572. Who Are Your Gentiles?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Landon Winstead

... passed the word that he was secretly married to another woman; another falsehood. He did right, but he paid dearly. Abraham Lincoln also took up the torch against slavery during his years as our sixteenth president. The result? He became the object of hatred, and not just in the South. Some of the stories of the treatment he received from fellow Americans are beyond comprehension. Prejudice ultimately killed him in the form of an assassin's bullet. When Martin Luther King, Jr. began to promote his vision ...

573. I Didn't Expect This In Church!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... had more than one daughter. But Christians valued the life of all people, whether male or female, and prohibited the killing of any children." (4) But the revolution is not complete. We still live in a pre-Christian world. There is still too much hatred, too much violence, too much debasement of human dignity. If you are comfortable in Jesus' presence, you simply do not see him as he really is. Chuck Swindoll tells about a commercial venture of one of the largest department stores in our nation. It proved ...

574. So, You Want To Know . . .

John 13:31-38

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... let it die, or you can plant it and watch it grow into something wonderful. In the same way, sometimes we choose to throw away our love, too. When we are mean to other people, when we call them names, when we don't share with them, when we feel hatred towards another person, that's just like taking all the love in our heart and throwing it away. It doesn't do any good. But when we choose to love people, when we choose to treat them nicely, and say nice things to them, and share what we have with ...

575. What In The World Is Happiness?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... rugs, and rare paintings. Sizoo said to a friend, “How happy the people must have been who lived here!" “But they weren't," his friend replied. “Although they were millionaires, the husband and wife never spoke to each other. This place was a hotbed of hatred! They had no love for God or for one another." (4) Where are you going to turn for happiness? Your work? There is certainly much satisfaction to be found in a job well done. But today's fast-changing world is turning many talented, intelligent ...

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