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676. Grace The New Fashioned Way

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , doubles as a part time chaplain to our U.S. Olympic team. Once he suggested that the kingdom of heaven is like the best, first class athletes. Seeing them train at the Air Force Academy practice field with all the technology and their native skill he concluded that here might be the pearl of great price and commitment. But then he wandered down to the running of the Special Olympics, which feature the physically and mentally limited persons of all ages, races and backgrounds. He watched while eight of ...

677. News From The Vineyard

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... cites an amazing example of lasting fruitfulness. In Hampton Court near London, there is a grapevine under glass; it is about 1,000 years old and has but one root which is at least two feet thick. Some of the branches are 200 feet long. Because of skillful cutting and pruning, the vine produces several tons of grapes each year. Even though some of the smaller branches are 200 feet from the main stem, they bear much fruit because they are joined to the vine and allow the life of the vine to flow through ...

678. Something Is Missing

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... by chance. If you took your child to a modern art museum and saw a Pollock painting your child might say, "That looks like a guy just let paint spill over the canvas." After your knowledgeable assurance that what the two of you are looking at is highly skilled art work, you might go to the museum guide and ask him how Pollock painted. The guide would reply, "the guy just let paint spill over the canvas." Indeed he did. He would rig up paint cans and hang them on a scaffold, tipping slightly, and then place ...

679. Walk In Love

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... They called him Ozzie the Rabbit, which he hated, so he got in a lot of fights, rebelled, and finally was courtmartialed and dishonorably discharged from the marines. There he was, without family, friends, and love. He was losing his hair, and had no skill or selfrespect. He eventually married an immigrant, who bore him two children. But soon, even his marriagethe only source of security he had ever knownbegan to crumble, and his wife hated him. Having lost all selfworth, one day he crawled to her, begging ...

680. Walk Wisely

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... following the rules to compete against others who are not." "Many Special Olympians eventually move into other sports programs (in schools, recreation departments, etc.). They will be better prepared for that transition if learning and competing by rules is one of the skills they take with them." (2) That sounds pretty smart to me. Some of us can do a better job of teaching our bright collegebound kids that successful living means playing within the rules. That is the first way in which people are foolish ...

681. He Has Done All Things Well

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... per cent were all right. In school, 85 percent is pretty good. His boss retorted, "A grade of 85 may be good enough in school but I'd soon go out of business if 15 per cent of my material is spoiled. When you work quickly, you must work more skillfully." Giving what others give and then some. William Barclay once told about a monk named Telemachus. Barclay tells us that this monk wanted a holy life so he went into the desert to pray, to fast, and to save his soul. In that lonely life, he sought nothing but ...

682. Waiting On God

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... mission work in the Orient; but today millions of Chinese embrace the faith he so patiently planted and tended." (3) George MacDonald failed as a parish minister. Humiliated, he became a writer. For years he wrote with only modest success. But finally, his skill as a writer of fantasies, children's stories, and poetry won him acclaim. He became one of the bestknown and mostloved English writers of his time. It was one of MacDonald's books that gave C.S. Lewis his first nudge toward Christianity. Lewis ...

683. Behold The Lamb

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... many of us. It did not overwhelm this young man. Four years later at the Melbourne Olympics he was back and he did it again. Another gold medal. This time he shot with his left hand. How much time and effort do you suppose he devoted to mastering this skill a second time? We have in us the ability to turn tragedies into triumphs--or, in Robert Schuller’s famous phrase, to turn “scars into stars.” One of the keys to that, however, is to have a God who is big enough to handle any problem we may have ...

684. People Who Would Destroy God’s Temple

1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... s lesson in chapter 3 of this same epistle. Paul is writing to the Corinthian church--a church in conflict. The source of this conflict? Some in the church are claiming to be followers of Paul while others are claiming to be followers of Apollos, a skilled preacher much admired in the early church. In other words, some of the members are still linked to their former pastor and will not accept the current pastor while some others in the congregation have now grown close to the new pastor and are saying bad ...

685. Ready For The Game Warden

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... Is it the will to succeed?" "The will to succeed is important," replied Bobby Knight, "but I'll tell you what's more importantit's the will to prepare. It's the will to go out there every day training and building those muscles and sharpening those skills!" (3) No wonder Bobby Knight has been so successful as a coach. Another famous coach believed the same thing. "Hurry Up" Yost was the football coach at the University of Michigan. A player once assured Coach Yost that their team was sure to win on Saturday ...

686. The Day God Repented

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... multiplied when she died quite suddenly. The only thing he had left was his faith, and it was weakening. One day when he was out looking for work, he stopped to watch some men who were doing the stonework on a church building. One of those men was skillfully chiseling a triangular piece of rock. Not seeing the spot where it would fit, he asked, "Where are you going to put that?" The man pointed toward the top of the building and said, "See that little opening up there near the spire? That's where it goes ...

687. Face To Face With God

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... wife whispered. "It will give you the strangest feeling." He obligingly wandered over, expecting nothing of significance. But the steel blue eyes looking down at him seemed so real that he waited breathlessly for the figure to speak and correct his lack of observational skills. This was the main thing in that roomnot the elaborate stairway, but the Christ. (4) Mark tells us the disciples "no longer saw any one with them but Jesus only." There is more to those words than we might suppose. All other concerns ...

688. God's Plan For His World

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... A lady asked about him. "You would be sad, too," she was told, "if you were in his plight. He's chewed the tag off the crate, and doesn't know where he's going." Sounds like many churches I know. The church today has resources untold. We have a skilled, well-educated, talented work force. We claim the allegiance of the best people in our community. We serve a Master who for 2,000 years has inspired people's hearts and changed their lives. And yet we are only a shadow of what we might be. What is the problem ...

689. The Secret Of Winning

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... days a week, for five years. The ultimate discovery of a polio vaccine made Dr. Jonas Salk a winner in the world of medicine. Carl Lewis, after he won the gold medal in the 1984 Olympics, was asked how many years he'd spent developing his tremendous skills. He replied, "The day I stopped crawling I took up running." Winning comes by paying a price. Inevitably. Jesus asked, "Are you able to drink the cup that I drink?" We know what winning over death and darkness cost Jesus. Are we willing to pay the same ...

690. Soli Deo Gloria

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Mark McGilvey Livonia

... sensual pleasures, so he paid handsome sums to indulge his every hedonistic urge. He wanted more thrills, so he designed, built and piloted the fastest aircraft in the world. He wanted more power, so he secretly dealt political favors so skillfully that two U. S. presidents became his pawns. All he ever wanted was more. And yet this man concluded his life emaciated; colorless; with a sunken chest; with fingernails which resembled grotesque, inches-long corkscrews; with rotting black teeth, and innumerable ...

691. Staying Close

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... physician who discovered the smallpox vaccine and later introduced vaccination to medicine was showing the same type of dedication as his famous forebear. The ten running, throwing, and jumping events in which Jenner excelled constitute the most comprehensive test of strength, skill, speed, and endurance an athlete could ever face. "I just wanted to excel in something and I wanted it to be something I could do on my own," the decathlon winner said when being interviewed by "Newsweek." Though he was hampered ...

692. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's crucifixion. His wife suggested to him one day that the Roman government was advertising for carpenters to make a bid on crosses that they used for execution. They could sure use the extra money, she reminded him. The carpenter was reluctant to sell his skill to perpetuate such barbarity, but she pressed her point using the arguments we have all used. "We can use the money," she said and "If you don't, somebody else will." Sometime later in that same house a little boy was crying. "Son, what is wrong ...

693. A Shocking Revelation

Revelation 1:9-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... us with His overpowering glory. He shelters us from the twists of fate that leave us hanging. And there’s a third thing that happens: HE SHAPES US IN NEW WAYS Some time ago I was reading about the 18th century German sculptor Johann Heinrich von Dannecker. His skills were impressive. He could bring stone to life with his tools. At the height of his powers, he wanted to do something special with his gifts, he wanted to shape a statue of Christ that would stand out as a witness to his world. For two years ...

694. Lord, When You Came Down To The Jordan

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... minister who preached every Sunday on baptism by immersion. His folks agreed with his doctrine, but they were tired of hearing the same subject dealt with every week. The deacons undertook to solve the problem through diplomatic means. They complimented him on his pulpit skills and suggested to him that he was such a natural preacher that they wanted to try an experiment. They wanted to hand him a piece of paper with a scripture lesson on it just before he stepped into the pulpit. "We believe that you ...

695. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... with the vine. Branches cannot grow by themselves. Donald Grey Barnhouse tells about a grapevine in Hampton Court near London that is about 1,000 years old. Some of its branches are 200 feet long, and its single root is at least two feet thick. Because of skillful cutting and pruning, that one vine produces several tons of grapes every year. And even though some of the smaller branches are 200 feet from the main stem, they bear plenty of fruit because they are joined to the vine and allow the life of the ...

696. Preparing For The Second Part Of Life

James 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Finally the exasperated student said, "Well, I'm listening!" "You see," said Copeland, "you're learning already!" It's like psychologist Carl Rogers once said: "The biggest block to personal communication is one person's inability to listen intelligently, understandingly, and skillfully to another person." Another wise man once said that talking is sharing, but listening is caring. The cost of poor listening can truly be high. There was once a $100,000 error caused by a dispatcher who routed a fleet of ...

697. Sinner Or Saint?

Hebrews 7:11-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... But the coach isn't about to take "naw" for an answer. He finally convinces Biff at least to give track a try. So Biff starts working out with the track team and discovers that he really can run. He changes his eating and sleeping habits and his skills improve further. In fact, he starts winning some races and posting some excellent times for his event. Finally Biff is invited to the big race at the state tournament. He arrives at the track early to stretch and warm up. Then, only a few minutes before his ...

698. Catching The Thanksgiving Spirit

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... Wouldn't it be awful to have all the bountiful blessings that you and I enjoy and have no one to thank? Thanksgiving is no holiday for atheists. Hal Olsen, veteran missionary from Kenya, told of a doctor who had come to the field to use his skills to relieve suffering and pain. On one occasion he performed a delicate operation that saved a woman's life. As the patient recovered, she didn't express even one word of appreciation, and the doctor was hurt. Olsen said, "One of the first lessons a new missionary ...

699. What Are You Sitting On?

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... had an annual income of over $20,000, which at the time was quite a respectable sum of money. They were essentially their own bosses, they enjoyed one another's company and they took pride in doing their work to the best of their ability. They took the skills they had and applied them to the opportunities at hand. God has so constructed His world that there is a niche for everyone of us. That is why each of us has our own respective talents and abilities. But many of us are sitting on our opportunities. And ...

700. The Secrets Of His Success

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... said? Here was an extraordinary man who made an enormous success of his life against all odds - from slave to second in command in the greatest empire of its time. What was his secret? It was not his intelligence or his talent or any special skills. It was his character, his commitment, his confidence in God. There are few stories in all of literature more important for our lives than this one. Why? Because following his example, we can live successful lives, too. It requires no special talents or gifts. Be ...

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