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601. The Young And The Restless

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... spiritual health is the ability to adapt to change. Abraham obviously was a man who could adapt to change. To leave a place where he was secure, to leave his father's house where he knew he would always be taken care of, to make a new start in a hostile environment--Abraham was a man who could inspire us as we cope with a world of change. IN FACT, NOT ONLY IS IT HEALTHY TO ADAPT TO CHANGE, MANY OF US WOULD BE HELPED IF FROM TIME TO TIME WE WOULD SEEK OUT CHANGE. Some people change only when they ...

602. Managing Your Anger

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... that the number one killer in America is heart disease. But would it interest you to know that the number one cause of heart disease is anger? According to Dr. Redford Williams, director of Duke University's Behavioral Medicine Research Center, "The hostility and anger associated with Type A behavior is the major contributor to heart disease in America. People who struggle with anger are five times as likely to suffer coronary heart disease as the average person. People with heart disease more than double ...

603. Beautiful Words Of Life

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... known mammal on earth is the opossum. This is unusual, because the opossum is not a particularly hardy animal. It is not very fast or smart or aggressive, and it has few ways to defend itself. So how has the opossum survived so well in this hostile world? For starters, the opossum will eat anything. There is almost no substance that it finds inedible. Also, the opossum is not susceptible to any diseases. It even has a built-in resistance to certain types of snake venom. But the single most effective defense ...

604. It Isn't Easy Getting Ready For Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... next: "Travel was difficult, and some civilians secured passage on the troop ship Mauritania. Passengers included thousands of Allied soldiers, 500 German prisoners of war, and 25 civilian women and children. "The ship traveled slowly and cautiously, constantly in danger from hostile submarines patrolling the ocean depths. It was Christmas Eve and they had traveled for a full two months. They had only made it as far as the coastal waters of New Zealand, and everyone on board was homesick, anxious and ...

605. A Picture Of A King

Psalm 72:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... to ignore the drunk man, which only made things worse. Finally, the drunk man forced a confrontation. The bank vice president had a choice to make. He looked the man straight in the eye and said gently, "You know, God really loves you." In that instant, the drunk man's hostility melted away. He sat down and said, "My mother used to talk like that," and then he began to open up. The two men sat and talked for a long time on that train, and the V.P. told the drunk man about God's love, and how God could ...

606. It's Not About Us

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... This is how the Bible ends. It's all about him. Christ is saying to us, "Come." He is reaching out his hand to us today. 1. Fleming H. Revell, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 70. 2. Ed Young, Against All Odds: Family Survival in a Hostile World (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992). 3. "Anew" by Henry Coffeen, III, Guideposts, November 2001, pp. 33-35. 4. "Life in These United States," Reader's Digest, October 2003. 5. A friend of Morgan's, a fellow North Carolina pastor, H. Warren Casiday, shared this with us ...

607. What Do You Really Know?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... (Elgin, IL: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1990). 4. "A Very Merry McCaughey Christmas" by Kathryn Casey, Ladies' Home Journal, December 2003, p. 54. 5. Adventist Review, May 29, 2003, http://www.adventistreview.org/. Cited by Wit&Wisdom. 6. Cited in Ed Young, Against All Odds: Family Survival in a Hostile World (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992).

608. Something To Brag About

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... tell you about someone who found that kind of freedom. Her name is Lori Trice. From the outside, Lori's childhood home looked perfect. Her parents were active in the community. Everyone liked them. Their friends and neighbors never could have guessed the hostility and violence that dominated Lori's parents' marriage. When Lori was 12, her father killed her mother and her mother's best friend, then shot himself. Lori and her younger sister witnessed the murders. They were forced to climb over their parents ...

609. The Not-So-Secret Service

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... member from Brooklyn who became an international evangelist after he gave his life to Christ. A few years ago, Cruz and Pastor Jim Cymbala from the Brooklyn Tabernacle traveled to Lima, Peru, for a series of evangelism services. They were met with a very hostile reception. At a press conference, a number of reporters demanded to know why a Puerto Rican thought that he could preach to Peruvians about their social problems. Didn't the U.S. have just as many problems with crime and violence? Nicky Cruz' reply ...

610. You Can't Please Everybody

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... my bones, but words will never hurt me." But that's not true. Words do hurt. In a study published in the magazine Psychosomatic Medicine, researchers noted that criticism can do actual physical damage to our bodies. In married couples, angry or hostile behaviors--including criticizing, blaming, etc.--were linked to increased blood pressure and heart rate and a falloff in immune response. Women were more likely to show negative immunological changes than men. (5) Ladies, I'm not going to ask you to raise ...

611. When The World Goes Crazy!

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Well, how 'bout that? I'm lost! Looks like we'll have to stop and ask for directions. 9. You know Pumpkin, now that you're thirteen, you'll be ready for unchaperoned car dates. Won't that be fun? 8. I noticed that all your friends have a certain hostile attitude. I like that. 7. Here's a credit card and the keys to my new car. GO CRAZY!! 6. What do you mean you wanna play football? Figure skating's not good enough for you, son? 5. Your Mother and I are going away for the weekend. You might ...

612. The Other Woman

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... all of Abraham's considerable wealth. However, the twenty-fifth chapter of Genesis contains a dramatic footnote to our story. It says that Ishmael's descendants settled near the border of Egypt. And listen to these words from the eighteenth verse: "And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers . . ." Hmm. Could it be that we are still paying for a father's mistreatment of his son 2500 years ago? Could we be paying for Abraham's and Sarah's unwillingness to trust God when they used a surrogate mother ...

613. The Divine Family

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... them feel competent as persons. I wish every one of us had inscribed on the walls of our home the words of Dorothy Law Nolte's work, "Children Learn What They Live": If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn . . . If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight . . . If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive . . . If a child lives with pity, he learns to feel sorry for himself . . . If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy . . . If a child lives with jealousy, he ...

614. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace." Why would anyone set his or her mind on death, when you can choose life? Perhaps the next verse explains the problem: "The sinful mind is hostile to God," writes St. Paul, "It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so." The first word is risk. The second is rebellion. There is a part of the human soul that is in rebellion against God. This is the message of the story of Adam ...

615. God's Witness Security Program

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... . They are easily led astray by false teachings. Some theologians call the book of I John a book of “tough love.” John wants so desperately for these new congregations to understand what it means to be a Christ-follower and how to live out that identity in a hostile world. And this is his message to them: “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear ...

616. Great Reasons for Great Giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... came to take away our sins. "He bore our sins in his own body on the tree," says Paul. He did this so that we might have our guilt removed and the tyranny of sin over our lives vanquished forever. He came to take away the wall of hostility and indifference toward God and to make us His children with all the rights and privileges that being children of the King include. When we become his own, Christ comes to dwell in our hearts. He strengthens us with eternal hope. Our highest hopes and deepest needs, then ...

617. In the Meantime: Between the First and Second Comings

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

David Busic

... us into new creations. And yet, shouting from the rooftops does not take us out of the land of the living. We live life, and life is not perfect. We are redeemed, but the world remains fallen. And its fallenness comes to fruition in agony at times, hostility and strife, pain and bloodshed. The Incarnation did not bring this to an end. It was a new beginning, in which we participate. But the complete fulfillment of the promises of Isaiah 2 are still to come. We live with the tension of what some call, “the ...

618. Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blond

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... what we say is not as important as the way in which we say it. The most important non-verbal body-language is the look on people’s faces. Have you ever noticed that some very polite faces seem to mask indifference or downright hostility? Other very frank and open faces invite us to be ourselves and we feel attracted to them. In his book, “The Vital Balance,” Psychiatrist Karl Menninger discusses at one point the negative personality who always says “no” at first to everything. He calls people ...

619. On Doing the Truth

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , poverty, or war. I suppose that our proper response to them ought to be, “Can you tell me just where in the Gospels we are told that what we do is out of harmony with what our Lord told us to do?” Those persons who react in hostility toward Christ or toward those who are sincerely trying to follow Christ, are those persons whom John describes as being in love with the darkness rather than the light. Again to quote Barclay: “The terrible thing about a really good person is that he (sic) always has a ...

620. Little Jimmy

Mark 3:13-19

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... not necessarily be the same as the standards of the world. Those who exalt themselves will be put down, and those who abase themselves will be exalted. Jesus noticed that the rest of the Twelve were listening with great interest. They were probably hostile, wondering who James and John’s mother thought she was, making such a request. So Jesus told them the basic Christian paradox: “Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave.” That ...

621. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... their neighbor. Their kind is surely not all dead, yet! And one must ask the question “Who are the possessed in this story?” The people’s eagerness to reject Jesus, to get rid of Him, shows that they, too, are “possessed”...subject to evil powers hostile to the kingdom of God. There comes a point when our possessions possess us. There are some businesses Jesus is just plain bad for: any business which puts profits ahead of people, any business whose sole aim is to hurt people. When I visited the ...

622. Who Is the Light of Your Life? (I am the light of the world)

John 8:12-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Salvation." It was a light that the darkness could not take away. The darker it became, the brighter the light shone. It is said that you can see the stars best at night. During the civil rights era in our own nation as the marchers prepared for the hostile crowds and beatings by police, they sang "This little light of mine--I''m gonna let it shine." It was a powerful reminder to them of what the purpose and focus of their witness was that day. They could not use the tactics and strategies of darkness, but ...

623. The Greatest Table in the World

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... he made him do extra work, extra exercise, and made fun of him in front of the others. Every opportunity that arose, he took full advantage of it to make the young recruit''s life a literal hell. But not once did the recruit return that hostility. He always acted with kindness. He always acted with courtesy toward the drill sergeant and it infuriated the drill sergeant even more. The young recruit was confined to the barracks on a weekend. He was kneeling beside his bed praying when the sergeant came in ...

624. Hissing in the Garden

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... world whose mission is not of God''s design or desire. You may call it a variety of names but nevertheless it is very real. You may call it the devil, satan, the serpent or simply evil. The point is that even Jesus had to wrestle a power hostile to God working on the human scene. The Christian faith boldly declares, unless you have a living relationship with Jesus Christ, you will be a victim not a victor. As Dr. Arthur Landwehr shared, there is much evil in the world today. Unfortunately, evil is a topic ...

625. The Powerful Fragrance of Sharing and Caring

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... all, Paul, thank you for sharing the Biblical principle that when you keep your eyes on Christ every circumstance comes into a proper focus. Thanks for the witness that the Christian faith cannot only thrive, but comes "alive" even in the midst of the enemy''s hostile sod. I close today with a hymn written by Dr. Charles Tindley, who was the distinguished pastor of a United Methodist Church in Philadelphia, Pa. It may be familiar to some of you, and it is titled, "My Secret of Joy." 1. You ask me where ...

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