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576. A Shocking Revelation

Revelation 1:9-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... want God! We say that too, don’t we? In a variety of ways we say it: I want God! I want to see God and make some sense out of this crazy world, this world of madmen playing unholy games in the Arabian deserts; this world of murder and hostility and broken homes. I want to feel God and lose this loneliness that’s wrapped itself around my heart. I want to know God and find some purpose for what I’m doing at my job. There’s a God-shaped hole in our lives, said Augustine, and our hearts ...

577. Who's The Blind One Around Here?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... man born blind found this hard to believe, "You do not know where he comes from and yet he opened my eyes," he exclaimed. "Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind." Defensively and with open hostility the Pharisees replied, "You were born entirely in sin, and are you trying to teach us?" And they expelled him from the Temple. Jesus heard what had happened and found the man. Jesus asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" The man replied, "Tell ...

578. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... ," she said, "it didn’t seem terribly important, but it was." "A few weeks ago," Shirley told the crowd, "two officers came to our door and told us they regretted to inform us that our son had been killed in action when his helicopter was shot down by hostile Iraqi fire." It was a tragedy. A young life had been lost. "When Jack got on the airplane to leave for Saudi Arabia," his mother recalled, "he gave Lisa, his fiancée, a bride’s book, so they could be planning the wedding." Perhaps the most moving ...

579. For Laughing Out Loud!

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... up and ran out to greet them. Bowing down before them he welcomed them to his home. In biblical times hospitality was very important to people in the Middle East. It was almost a sacred obligation. Hospitality was given to any passing traveler, even a member of a hostile tribe. Abraham invited the travelers to stay with him. He and Sarah did all they could to take care of these unexpected guests. This brings us to the first thing to be said for the morning. God Has a Plan for Each of Us. God certainly had a ...

580. Are You Strong Enough To Forgive?

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... thing happened. Jerry prayed for the first time in years. "God, please forgive men like these ” like I'm doing now," he prayed, "because they are in part responsible for bringing me to You and Your Son." Jerry Levin learned to forgive his captors. The hostile, bitter men who were holding him had actually done God's work. God had used his imprisonment to get Jerry's attention. After all, he thought, why else would a middle-aged grandfather be sitting in his underwear in a bare room in Lebanon, chained ...

581. Never Too Old for an Adventure

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... on Christ. It's simply a matter of trust. It is simply a matter of accepting God's grace. It is simply a matter of allowing Christ to make the critical difference in your life. 1. James Hewett, HOW TO LIVE CONFIDENTLY IN A HOSTILE WORLD, (Dallas, Texas: Word Publishing, 1989). 2. Gordon MacDonald, REBUILDING YOUR BROKEN WORLD, (Nashville: Nelson Publishers, 1988), pp. 192-193. 3. S. D. Gaede, FOR ALL WHO HAVE BEEN FORSAKEN, (Grand Rapids, MI: Broadmoor Books, 1989), pp. 5-9. 4. James W. Moore, HEALING ...

582. Such A Friend

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... could have helped him more," said the resident. "He's moving about, and talking all the time now." It was a tremendous cathartic release for the young English boy ” just what he had needed. Lindsay had had no altruistic motives though; she was being hostile. But it helped to heal the young man regardless. Jesus' methods in treating this man who could not hear or speak were different from his standard operating procedure, but they worked. Evidently they were just what this man needed. And that is an ...

583. What Is True And Who Can You Trust?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and bitterness. Feelings of love begin to die. It's the story of too many marriages, family relationships, and friendships. Peck says the only antidote to pseudocommunity is chaos ” Bill Hybels calls it "the tunnel of chaos," where hurts are unburied, hostilities revealed, and tough questions asked. (2) Truth is essential to healthy relationships and healthy religion. This is what is so refreshing as well as vexing about children. Children have a tendency to tell the truth ” even truth we would rather ...

584. What Is The Question?

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... and act like I have and want quality in my life? Do I share that quality with others? And are others able to perceive quality in me and to respond to my way of sharing?" There are a number of alternatives to asking those questions. I could become angry and hostile. I could blame the doctors for not solving my health problems. I could take out my anxiety on my colleagues at work, and my loved ones at home. I could curse God and live an angry-get-even kind of life. But I make things worse when I do such ...

585. Victory Over Darkness

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... of them have long since forgotten the earlier significance. (4) Think of that. All year long they hoped and prayed that on this one night a priest would visit their home. In the same way Israel, for centuries, prayed for a Messiah to enter their dark and hostile world. That is why Isaiah the prophet wrote: "The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light." Isaiah was announcing the coming of Christ. Christmas Eve reminds us that Christ is the light of our world. It is his love that is the hope of ...

586. Empowered By Angels

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... already forgotten the miracle of fire from heaven and now only thought of the vindictiveness of Jezebel. ELIJAH VIVIDLY DEMONSTRATES THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING A FOLLOWER OF GOD. Called upon to prove our faith, we have difficulty trusting that God will respond. Confronted by the hostility of others, we fear that God will not protect us. Required to do the impossible, we lose confidence in our Lord. But when we do trust, when we don't give into our fears, when we do hold on to our confidence, we find ourselves ...

587. Let My Little Light Shine

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... frustrated by the institute's lack of books in raised print. He also found the symbols in raised print confusing. So he set out, at twelve years of age, to invent his own system. After three years he perfected the method, but he encountered indifference and hostility when he tried to convince the world that his system was better. Even with the support of the institute's director, he was told again and again that he was too young to have created a workable alphabet for the blind. Years passed. This young man ...

588. Hard Choice

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... Publishing Group, Inc., 1993). 3. EXECUTIVE SPEAKER'S NEWSLETTER 4. LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER, June 21, 1995, p. B2 5. LIFE, Nov. 92, p. 21 6. LOS ANGELES TIMES HOME magazine, July 25, 1976, p. 39. Cited in James Hewett, HOW TO LIVE CONFIDENTLY IN A HOSTILE WORLD, (Wheaton, IL: Word Publishing, 1989), pp. 189-190. 7. A. Dudley Dennison M.D., SHOCK IT TO ME DOCTOR! (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1970), p. 84. 8. Neil Eskelin, YES YES LIVING IN A NO NO WORLD, (New Jersey: Logos International ...

589. Why Do You Stand Looking Into The Sky?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , his troops followed behind him. (3) The disciples could not know what lay before them. All they knew was that their commander had confidence in them. So they responded in kind. Still, they must have been apprehensive about witnessing for Christ in a hostile world. In Stuart and Jill Briscoe's book PULLING TOGETHER WHEN YOU'RE PULLED APART, they tell of how they met, their marriage, their family, and their ministry together over more than thirty years of marriage. When the Briscoes were first married and ...

590. A Prize Is Waiting For You!

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... we have to do is let God reign without reservation in our hearts. If we do that, we will discover a joy that the world cannot know. 1. Isaac Asimov, BOOK OF FACTS, (New York: Wings Books, 1979), pp. 16-17. 2. James Hewett, HOW TO LIVE CONFIDENTLY IN A HOSTILE WORLD, (Wheaton, IL: Word Publishing, 1989), p. 177. 3. Anthony De Mello, AWARENESS (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1992), p. 26. 4. Warner Press

591. On Eating Peas With A Knife

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... short of the glory of God, too, but we have received grace upon grace. As Paul Tillich put it so eloquently: "Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness . . . It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us when, year after year, the longed for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign with us as they have for decades . . . Sometimes at that moment a ...

592. Justified By What?

Romans 3:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... said, "God bless you, my boys." From then on, that was Mother Tweten's nightly routine. And those hardhearted youngsters just couldn't do anything that would disappoint such a saintly lady. (6) Only the most hardened of persons will respond to love with hostility, to gentleness with violence, to grace with perversion. You and I have been justified by our faith in Jesus Christ. Even though by both our deeds and our nature we are sinners, Jesus Christ has bridged the chasm between ourselves and God. We can ...

593. What Fragrance Are You Leaving?

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the ragged pocket of her overcoat--to lovingly share it with Gerda that night. Gerda writes, "Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry and someone shares it with you, a friend." It is a haunting story. 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 ...

594. Don't Look Down

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... to step out on the water.] It makes me realize how safe and secure we have made Christian faith. There was a time when the church was challenging its young people to 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 ...

595. Behind Closed Doors

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... "pure heart" and a steadfast spirit." A few years ago, an angry man rushed through the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam. When he reached Rembrandt's famous painting "Nightwatch" he took out a knife and slashed it repeatedly. A short time later, a distraught, hostile man slipped into St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome with a hammer and began to smash Michelangelo's beautiful sculpture The Pieta. Two cherished works of art were severely damaged. But what did officials do? Throw them out and forget about them? Absolutely ...

596. Worriers Or Warriors?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He was bumped accidentally by a porter who was so bent over, carrying a heavy burden, that he had not seen him. The burden dropped, the oranges were scattered, and a bitter altercation broke out between the cyclist and the porter. Angry words, threats, hostilities were shouted. A crowd gathered to watch what was certain to become a bloody fight. The enraged cyclist moved toward the porter with a clenched fist. But just then, a tattered little man stepped out of the crowd and positioned himself between the ...

597. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Joan Benny loved her father so much. Jack Benny was not afraid to show his affection. A judge in Philadelphia, speaking of his experiences dealing with juveniles in trouble with the law, said that most of the young people who came before his court for discipline were hostile and aggressive. But their attitude didn't bother him nearly so much as the attitude of their parents. Often the child's father would be outraged: "Why do you do this to my boy?" he would ask. "œWhy bring him in here? Don't you know who ...

598. Unprepared

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... plow or fishing line. Among the professions represented on the MAYFLOWER'S manifest were two tailors, a printer, several merchants, a silk worker, a shopkeeper, and a hatter--not exactly the most appropriate occupations when one thinks of surviving in a hostile environment. With the uncertain exception of their captain, Miles Standish, probably none in the party had ever tried to bring down a wild animal. Hunting in seventeenth-century Europe was a sport reserved for the aristocracy. Even those who labeled ...

599. What Makes A Person Successful?

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... up, he sorely missed having a father to guide and love him. In his darkest moments, he sometimes wondered if his father's death had served any purpose. At one point on his African trip, Stephen found himself stranded in a small town among hostile people. He made his way to a nearby Christian church. The African pastor welcomed Stephen, and the two men began discussing their faith. The pastor had come to Christianity at a young age. Afterwards, the townspeople shunned him, his teacher beat him, his family ...

600. On Picking Your Battles

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... wall. Both vehicles came to a screeching halt. The two drivers jumped out and quickly got into an old-fashioned slugging match. In the meantime, third-place Petty cruised by for the win. (3) Good ole boy stupidity. Wouldn't it be great if we could take interpersonal hostility out of life? Wouldn't it be great if we could live in peace and harmony with all people. Well, Jesus tried to help us out with this. "If your brother sins against you," said Jesus, "œgo and show him his fault, just between the two of ...

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