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601. Search For Tomorrow

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... cell phones became commonplace. No one in the outside world knew where they were. They hadn't brought enough food for more than two days. They were frightened and bewildered as what to do next. Evening fell on the second day. Still, they had no contact with civilization. Their SUV was as unmoveable as on the day before. They divided a stale doughnut that someone found in the back of the vehicle. They were cold, hungry and greatly discouraged. Would no one find them before they had either frozen or starved ...

602. Loving From The Heart

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... kind of despair that might make a person want to take his own life. They "adopted" Dale into their support system. They visited him in the hospital and brought him gifts. After recovering from his injuries, Dale Buttenhoff entered drug rehab. He also re-established contact with his estranged daughter. He is currently training to become a drug counselor in a rehabilitation center. He also keeps in touch with the members of the Pink Phoenix. As he says, "I want them to know that what they did for me was not ...

603. What Are You Afraid Of?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... . A life without fear. Remember that... It's Awful to Live in Fear. Some people live in fear all their lives. Stan Mooneyham tells of visiting a primitive tribe in the jungles of Papua New Guinea a few years ago that had never had contact with the outside world until the mid-1970s. Their culture was dysfunctional by any measuring stick. For centuries, they had lived in jungle isolation by the law of payback, under which every slight or every wrong required retribution, usually a killing. If a man suspected ...

604. How A Christian Grieves

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... just below the bright red thingamajig and gently-- gently!--turn it in a clockwise direction until you hear a click. Attach the long thingamabob to the whatchamacallit. Do not under any circumstances allow the metal whatsit on the end to come in contact with the black plastic thingummy. Failure to follow these instructions will result in damage to the doodad. (2) I ask again. Where do they find the people who write instructions? Much of the book of I Thessalonians is concerned with giving instructions ...

605. Any Friendly Bears Out There?

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... fit. There was an article in Modern Maturity (Nov/Dec 2001) last year about a new way of getting your vitamin C. You can absorb it from a T-shirt. A Japanese company, Fuji Spinning, has developed a fiber that turns into vitamin C through contact with human skin. The company was planning to start selling the shirts earlier this year. Also on its upcoming products list: vitamin-rich underwear. No kidding. The future state of health care in our society is exciting, but also disturbing. At a 2001 workshop on ...

606. Choices

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the warehouse. His priority now was supporting a family. McGraw went away to college and got his degree. For a while, McGraw and his friends envied Dean, who earned enough money to buy a nice car and rent his own apartment. Eventually, Dean and McGraw lost contact. Ten years later, they met again. Dean was divorced now and was working a low-level job. Little else had changed in his life. McGraw was now Dr. Phillip McGraw. What happened? asked Dean. How had these two men ended up at such different places in ...

607. This Is Not What You Expected

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... like you planned doesn't necessarily mean your decisions were wrong. Sometimes there are other factors at work." (5) It's like an event that startled many first-world Christians a few years back. Five dedicated missionaries were martyred while seeking to make contact with the Auca Indians in Ecuador. A reporter was granted an interview with the widowed wives of those missionaries. He asked a question that was on many minds, "Why would God permit this to happen?" After all, these men were on an errand ...

608. Christ's Promise To His Saints

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... visited the medium, he assured her that Joan's and Sonny's spirits were present. (2) We can appreciate the desire to want to communicate with our loved ones after they have passed away. But the Bible warns us against trusting mediums or other people who claim they can contact the dead. The Bible tells us to trust God, because Christ has the power over life and death. There will come a time when we will be reunited, but for now, we trust our loved one to God's care. We tell our children that "there are no ...

609. I Can Make It By Myself . . .

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

Margo Ballantyne was shopping at a store in Scotland when it seemed that the whole world suddenly stopped. As Margo sorted through stacks of scarves, the other shoppers in the store suddenly froze in place. All conversation ceased. Sales clerks refused to make eye contact with Margo or answer her questions. What would you think if you were in Margo's situation? She assumed that she was unwelcome in the store, that she was out of place. But then, Margo remembered that on this particular day, November 11th, ...

610. It Doesn't Matter What I Do

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He was the star of the team--and his parents had never seen him play. They didn't care. They gave him no love, no encouragement, no support. This good family became concerned about the boy. They took him home with them for the night. The next day, they contacted the school and found that quite a number of students were in similar predicaments. It was just a small town, but some of the kids didn't have any love or help at home. So in cooperation with the school and the church, this couple formed a support ...

611. Finding Peace

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... . After the publication of this book, Rabbi Liebman was swamped with letters from people seeking peace. His mail was heavy; his telephone rang constantly; many people came to see him. He was a young, kind-hearted rabbi, only 38 years old. He tried to help everyone who contacted him. He died just three years later at the age of 41. He just could not stand up to the burden. But before he died, he said, "I am appalled at the multitude of people who have never learned to empty their minds." (2) The first word ...

612. Who Am I Supposed To Hate?

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... a decided conflict between love for family, or love for possessions, and love for God. There are still families in the world today where, if a son or a daughter were to become a Christian, the parents would disown this son or daughter and have no further contact with them. It would be as if they had died. You and I have it so easy. Our parents, most of them, were delighted, some overjoyed, when we committed our lives to Christ, but that is not universally true. Some people have had to say goodbye to family ...

613. You Will Not Leave My Soul In Hell

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in. You see, one reason that many of us are drowning in a sea of despair and depression is that we have lost contact with the ultimate meaning in our lives. We have lost our sense of direction and purpose. We feel tired and listless. We wonder how we ever got into this mess, yet we're unwilling to take the necessary steps to extricate ourselves from our self-defeating attitudes and ...

614. When Did We See You?

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He went home and began looking around. Suddenly he saw the telephone on his desk in a new way. He began to envision something more that he could do. He called his church leaders together. His idea was to use the telephone as a point of contact with hurting people in the community. While he was working long hours and doing all he could, he could train volunteers who would serve as listeners on the telephone line. It sounded like a great idea. They launched the very first telephone crisis-listening line in ...

615. That Believing Ye Might Have Life

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... victory! (4) Sir Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize for medicine when he discovered penicillin. But his discovery was an accident. He was a very positive, forward-looking man who noticed one day that the fungus on a glass plate had died when it came into contact with some mold that was on the same plate. Out of curiosity, he took a bit of the mold and cultured it for further study. Most people would have just washed the plate. But not Fleming! One observer commented that what impressed him about Fleming ...

616. Taking Time To Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... Adams. We have adopted him." (3) Now that's the kind of love that the world really needs. Take time to love, my friends. Love those closest to you. But do more than that. Walk in the footsteps of Jesus. Learn to love every person with whom you come into contact. That kind of love can still save this world. (1) Billy Rose in READER'S DIGEST. (2) Cecil G. Osborne, THE ART OF UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Books, 1967). (3) From a sermon by the Reverend David Rogne.

617. Free At Last!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... the food court, reads the newspaper, speaks to the airport employees. Even when offered the chance to leave and start life over in a new country, Nasseri chooses to stay. The airport's doctor believes that Nasseri has become paranoid and confused by his loss of contact with the outside world. Nasseri says, "This is my dream world. I don't have any worries." (1) Most of us would not like to be confined to an airport, or anyplace else. But, for Nasseri, it has become his home. Let's talk about freedom today ...

618. Son of Man; Son of God

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Naki to be on the backup team in what became the world’s first successful heart transplant, in December 1967. That violated the country’s laws on racial segregation, which dictated that blacks should not be given medical training, nor have contact with white patients. So very few people knew of Naki’s natural brilliance. Mr. Naki taught medical students to perform intricate liver transplants on pigs, a procedure said to be more complicated than human heart transplants. Doctors who observed Mr. Naki ...

619. God's Witness Security Program

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... job, find housing, arrange for counseling, and obtain new paperwork (like birth certificates) supporting their new identity. There are two incontrovertible rules that every relocated witness must follow in order to remain safe and remain in the program: they must never contact their old friends and colleagues, and they must never return to the town they came from. (1) Creating a new identity is no laughing matter, is it? And yet in some cases, people choose to change their identities for much less serious ...

620. Living with the End in Mind

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Some of you will remember C. Everett Koop. A controversial man, Koop is a former United States Surgeon General, our nation’s chief medical officer. Koop first established his reputation as a highly regarded pediatric surgeon whose work frequently brought him into contact with dying children and grieving parents. One day he learned that his own son had died climbing in the mountains of New Hampshire. In a moving and inspiring portrayal of their grief, Everett Koop and his wife wrote about their sadness and ...

621. Day People

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... ready to go into work? Or are you a follower of Jesus Christ who happens to be a sales person, teacher, manager, technician, engineer or whatever getting ready for a day of spreading the faith, hope and love of Jesus to the people you come into contact in your work? It makes a difference. Are you an emissary of Christ or are you simply a nice person? National Geographic carried an interesting article recently which it titled “How to Dress for War” (April 2005). It was about those people in our society ...

622. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of a life lived in harmony with it. To the Greeks, John seems to be saying: “For centuries you have been thinking and writing and dreaming about the Logos, the power which created and sustains the order of the world, the power by which one might come into contact with the Divine. Well, have I got good news for you! In Jesus Christ the Logos has come to dwell among us mortals. We have seen His glory! In the beginning was the Word, the Logos of God. And that Word, that divine Logos, is Jesus Christ! He ...

623. What about Spiritual Healing?

John 4:43-54

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Weatherhead tried to correct an inadequate notion of prayer. He said, “When A prays for B, he does not, as it were, make a ball of prayer, throw it up to God, and ask God to throw it back down to B with greater force. No. He Himself is in contact with B and both are in God’.” He tells of an experience he had in India when two farmers sank wells in separate pieces of land, only to discover that underneath the two farms there was a vast underground lake, from which they both drank. It is a parable of ...

624. Whatever became of Kingdomtide?

John 16:17-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... unredeemable, that their only choice has been to withdraw from it and let the world go to hell in its own way, while the church tends its own spiritual garden on a mountain-top somewhere, its skirts politely lifted so as not to become contaminated by contact with the world. When this happens, the church becomes sort of a rescue station which periodically dips down into the world to pluck out someone and yank that person out of the world and into the church. In this case, the church seems to have forgotten ...

625. Only the Neighbors’ Kid

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... his excellent little book, How Can It be All Right When Everything Is All Wrong?, Professor Lew Smedes says that one source of our salvation is to cultivate a sense of wonder. He reminds us that Jesus was a source of wonder to all who came into contact with Him, from the humble shepherds who were struck with wonder at the sight of blazing angels sashaying around the Judean hills to the Wise Men from the East who came and laid their gifts at Jesus’ feet and wondered. All His life Jesus made people wonder ...

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