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551. What Would You Have Him Do For You?

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... beggar named Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus was crying out louder than all the rest, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" So Jesus stopped to see what he could do. BARTIMAEUS WAS DESPERATE TO CHANGE HIS SITUATION. That is the first thing that we need to ... the incident, "Many sternly ordered him to be quiet." But this just made Bartimaeus call out all the more loudly. Jesus heard Bartimaeus, stopped, and asked his disciples to call the blind man to him. This was what Bartimaeus was waiting for. He didn't waste a ...

552. Angels Announce His Coming

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... them. After a while, Lincoln said he must be going, thanked them for the party, and asked them how they liked his new beard. Then he walked to the waiting train. The final scene is priceless. Lincoln's campaign train goes right through the town without stopping! It goes right past all the waiting politicians and local dignitaries; right past the loud playing band and the flag-draped platform; right past the ladies and gentlemen in their Sunday best. For Lincoln had just come to visit and say thank you to an ...

553. Resisting The Power Of Temptation

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... insist," pressed the farmer. "Have some." "No, thanks ” really," said the young man. The farmer wasn't going to take no for an answer. He stopped the truck and grabbed his shotgun from the rack in back. He pointed the gun at the lad and roared, "I said, take a drink ... on his plane. He jumped in another plane and gunned the motor. A man seeing him do this shouted and waved for him to stop. The pilot ignored him and roared off into the sky. The man said, "That plane will never stand it." And, true enough, as ...

554. Father, Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Philip Ware

... suicide, before parents, students and teachers recognize the seriousness of the young man's social and psychological estrangement from school and family? Why did Hitler have to exterminate half of the Jewish race in the 1940s before the rest of the world rallied to stop the Nazis? Why did the great Christian nation of Germany, that produced a Bach and a Schweitzer, allow the Nazis to come to power in the first place? William Shirer, the noted radio reporter stationed in Europe during the awful days of World ...

555. Responding Instead Of Reacting

Jeremiah 28:1-17

Sermon

Dr. B. Bruce Humphrey

... try the speed of his greyhounds against a herd of antelope grazing two miles away. On the spur of the moment, he left his troops and took off after the antelope. He chased this herd several miles but couldn't catch up with them. By the time he stopped he realized he was lost out on the Great Plains. Looking around to try and get some directions, he spotted his first buffalo. Giving in to the emotions of the moment, Gen. Custer spurred his horse and took off after the buffalo. After chasing the huge bull for ...

556. More Than Meets The Eye

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... at Buffalo. If he cannot make a decision he has already decided. His indecision has not interfered with the flow of the river, and if he debates long enough concerning his stop at Buffalo he will awake and discover he is already past the stop, thereby rendering his decision irrelevant. "Indecision is a decision of the most final sort." (4) It's not a question of how much faith we have but how we choose to use that faith. There's one more dimension to consider. FAITH ENABLES US TO DO THE THINGS THAT JESUS ...

557. A Date With Destiny

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... on? Maybe she's a woman of the streets, and people would assume he'd been with her! Maybe she's been attacked, and someone would harm him if he'd try to help! But by this time, he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. The splashing has stopped. It's too late. She's drowned! And as he moves on, conscience on trial, he's marshalling his arguments for the defence. He justifies his failure to act. And Camus closes the scene with these words: "He did not answer the cry for help. That is the man he ...

558. "Say It Ain't So"

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the human experience and responsibility. Dr. William Sloane Coffin once shared at Riverside Church in New York City a November 1983 Reader's Digest that featured the following five articles: "How to Stay Slim Forever" "Five Ways to Stop Feeling Tired" "How to Get Your way" "What it Takes to Be Successful" "How Safe Are the New Contraceptives?" It would appear that the editors have concluded that their millions of readers are ” consecutively ” fat, lazy, frustrated, unsuccessful and lascivious ...

559. Pardon Me, But Do You Know God?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... be passing near one of these quarries, but the young man thought he could avoid it. Though the night was starless and inky-black, he set out through the rock and heather. Suddenly he heard a voice call out with great urgency, "Peter!" A bit unnerved, he stopped and called back into the dark, "Yes, who is it? What do you want?" No response. Just a bit of wind over the deserted moorland. The lad concluded he'd been mistaken and walked on a few more steps. He heard the voice again, more urgent than before ...

560. Fishing Stories

John 21:1-14

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... its magnetic power. It wouldn't work right anymore. In order for magnets to keep their power, they need to stay stuck on something. Sometimes, we Christians can be like magnets. We have the power of God in our lives. But if we stop coming to church, if we stop reading our Bible, if we stop praying, we can start to lose that power. Just like a magnet that's been taken off the refrigerator can lose its magnetic power, a Christian who doesn't spend time with God starts to lose the power in their lives. We come ...

561. Don't Look Down

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... water is a common occurrence in human life. WITHOUT PEOPLE WHO TRY TO WALK ON WATER, THE WORLD WOULD NEVER MOVE FORWARD. No one would ever get married if we took risk-taking out of life. A woman is walking down the street when she hears a voice shout, "Stop." And she stops, and a piece of metal falls from space just in front of her--perhaps debris from a satellite. If she had gone one step farther, she would have been killed. She looks around to find the person who saved her life and sees no one. A few days ...

562. Straight Backs And Rekindled Dreams

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... football out in the West Texas fields. The fields where Max and his friends played were full of grass burrs that stuck in their skin. Sometimes, after a big tackle, a player would have a leg or arm full of grass burrs. They stung horribly. The game came to a stop while the player pulled out each of the burrs. Some players wanted to keep on playing in spite of the burrs, but it was usually too painful. Lucado trusted no one but his father to pull out the burrs. So he would leave the game, go home, and get ...

563. Living In The Kingdom Of God

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'" But Jesus didn't stop there. He continued, "The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." Then the ... Zig Ziglar tells a fun story about a couple who were driving through a lonely stretch of back country and decided to stop at a cabin for a drink of water and to make conversation with a grizzled old settler. The husband visited with the ...

564. A Visit To Millennium Manor

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... sunny skies. As they neared the border, they saw an amazing sight. The torrential rain had washed away enough sand to clearly reveal metal disks planted across their path. They found themselves looking at an Iraqi minefield. (4) Major Halt had prayed that the rain would stop, and yet without the rain the minefield would not have been exposed. This is a good reminder to us that prayer is not a way of manipulating God. That's the way many people think about prayer. They give God His orders. "Here God, this is ...

565. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... time. Hey, I'm no hypocrite. I've given the same reasons myself: "He'll just spend it on booze. It might be dangerous to stop. I've got hospital calls to make." But back in the deep recesses of our brains, this story remains. And it troubles us. In the ... for us." How much does God love us? [Arms extended to make a cross.] That much. No other God has scars in His hands from stopping to help a stranger beside the road. Love is the heart of faith--particularly for the follower of Jesus. And that brings us to the ...

566. Who Did He Praise?

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... calls and be working in no time. Stage two: None of these jobs in the paper are good enough for me. Now that I've stopped shaving, maybe I'll just stop bathing too. Stage three: Geez, I'm not qualified for any of these jobs, but the house sure is clean. Stage four: Maybe I'll ... God wants me to lose weight, God will keep me from desiring ice cream." Or, better yet, "If God doesn't want me to stop at [Krispy-Kreme], there won't be a parking place out front when I drive by." One guy prayed that prayer, and as ...

567. Taking Time To Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... Papa again. So the scene switches, and there she is, twelve years old, and she's gone back in time to that wonderful day she remembers. She comes down the stairs in a pretty dress. But her mother is so busy making the cake for her birthday that she cannot stop long enough to look at her. She says, "Mama, look at me. I'm the birthday girl." And Mama says, "Fine, birthday girl. Sit down and have your breakfast." And Emily stands there and says, "Mama, look at me." But Mama doesn't. Papa comes in, but he's so ...

568. The Sower and the Seed

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and thorns indeed taken over the garden. Much to his surprise and total delight, however, he discovered that the garden was in tact and more beautiful than ever. What had happened? Just a few months after he had filmed the original story a Korean lady drove by and stopped at the park. She too was met by the kindly old man. She said that she didn’t really want to go through the entire garden but he insisted. A few weeks later, after she had returned to her home to the West Coast, the gentleman called her ...

569. Is There Hope for the Hapless Wedding Guest?

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... soft. Anticipation builds. Then the trumpets blow. The band strikes up. The spots blaze as the great king comes in. The banquet hall explodes with sustained applause, which quickly dies down as the king solemnly scrutinizes his guests. Suddenly his head snaps back. The music stops in mid-beat. All eyes turn to focus upon the object of the king’s obvious displeasure. Gasps of shock and whispers of disgust echo as spotlights zero in. Can’t believe it! No suit and tie! How did he get in? What nerve! What ...

570. A Way Made Ready

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... Jesus, in the way of the cross, where we discover that we really save our lives when we lose them. The way in which we realize that we find ourselves by denying ourselves. The way where we learn that we gain purpose, meaning, and significance in our lives when we stop trying to create our own way and receive the Lord’s will for us, which is the way of Christ. This is a driving motif in the entire gospel of Mark, which climaxes as Jesus is going through the city of Jericho on His way to Jerusalem (10:46-52 ...

571. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... They confronted John with an implicit concern, “Master, Jesus is getting one up on us. He has become a threat to your ministry instead of an ally. He is going to destroy everything for which we have worked and invested. We’ve got to do something to stop the downward slope on the bar graph of our significance. What are we going to do?” John the Baptist had prepared the way for Jesus’ coming to be received, yet somehow his disciples missed Him. Could it be because the proper self-understanding we call ...

572. So Who Needs A Shepherd?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . I love the one who is in trouble until he is safe again. And I love the one who is farthest away until he comes home.” Jesus said, “That is what God is like. God is a Divine Parent whose love never stops, a Parent whose love will never give up. You may stop loving God, but God will never stop loving you. You may run away from God, but you will soon find that your legs are too short. You can’t get away from God. And that is not a threat, but a promise! God is out on every road where ...

573. Whatever Happened to those Mansions?

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... if I can’t do anything, what is heaven for?” Came the reply, “Oh, sir, you’re not in heaven!” A place without growth or movement or challenge would not be heaven, but would, in fact, be hell. “In my Father’s house are many dwelling places.” We may stop and rest awhile in one of them, but I have an idea that we then move on to greater glory. This is a most helpful notion, for it answers the age-old question: “What is God going to do with those who have sinned and fallen short, and who might ...

574. Whatever became of Kingdomtide?

John 16:17-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... with the daily paper in one hand and the Bible in the other. Against all of the monstrous evils of our world we must place the good news of Jesus: “I have conquered the world!” The world did its worst to Him, but its worst was not bad enough to stop Him. Let the scholars debate whether the author of the Fourth Gospel was reading words back into the lips of Jesus from the perspective of Easter; what we cannot deny is that if it were not for Easter there would have been no Gospel for him to write. The ...

575. Dealing with Our Doubts

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... subject. In it he reports the following letter: “Dear God, I have doubts about you sometimes. Sometimes I really believe. Like when I was four and I hurt my arm and you healed it up fast. But my question is, if you could do this why don’t you stop all the bad in the world? Like war. Like diseases. Like famine. Like drugs. And there are problems in other people’s neighborhoods too. I’ll try to believe more. (Signed)Ian.” (age 10) (p.121) Who of us cannot relate to that child’s letter to God? Who ...

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