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726. The God Of Peace

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... next morning, however, on the barracks wall was a notice: "C Company will report in full gear, this afternoon at 1300 hours, for a 25 mile hike. And a little child shall lead them . . . on a great big horse." (2) Every year, at this time, we rekindle our hope for peace. We look forward to that day when the wolf shall indeed lie down by the lamb and the leopard by the kid, and a little child shall lead them. WE LONG FOR PEACE “PEACE WITHIN OUR OWN HEARTS, PEACE WITHIN OUR HOMES, PEACE WITHIN OUR WORLD. We ...

727. "Catch-able" But Not "Fetch-able"

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... intuition. Truly God is neither catch-able nor fetch-able. Can clay describe its potter? Can fish do justice to the one who changes the water in their aquarium? How can tiny human brains that cannot understand electricity or produce a cure for the common cold ever hope to comprehend the wonder of the eternal Creator God? We cannot. Fortunately, we do not have to. Why? Because God has come to us. As people in business would say, that is the bottom line when it comes to Christmas. God has come to us! GOD CAME ...

728. The Other Side Of Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... jokes that her son was the One who would redeem his people. So again and again she would go to the chest and gently touch the gifts, as if to convince herself that the promises were real. It may have been the only concrete contact she had with the golden hopes of thirty years ago. And on this day, as she caresses the golden crown and the casket of frankincense and the vase of myrrh, suddenly she sees on the back wall the shadow of the cross. From that day forth the shadow is ever before her. (2) That was ...

729. Flight To Egypt

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... last cartoon shows her walking away only to turn and drop a casual comment to the puzzled Charlie Brown. "Of course you realize," she says, "that I'm just experiencing my regular, post-Christmas letdown." (2) Most of us are sad to see Christmas pass. I hope this was the best Christmas ever at your house. Brenda Roberts of Stone Mountain, Georgia is a Sunday School teacher. She was reading the story of Jesus' birth to her day-care children one morning. As usual, she stopped to see if they understood. "What ...

730. Do Not Lose Heart

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... BELIEVE IN THE FUTURE. St. Paul writes, "For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen..." St. Paul had a hope about the future that all the fiery trials he went through could not consume. Sir Winston Churchill was once asked by a reporter, what was the greatest weapon his country possessed against the Nazi regime of Hitler? Without pausing for even a moment he said ...

731. What Makes You Blush?

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... hero who kept his principles. And such things are possible today. I was glad to see that Amy Grant had the number one song on the Rock charts not too long ago, and I'm gratified to read about the strong faith that Whitney Houston is. I hope they're able to hold on to their principles. We need models of moral courage. Without such models, society will continue its journey downward into a moral quagmire. Some tourists were visiting a West Virginia Coal Mine and were preparing to go down into the mine. One ...

732. Victory Over Darkness

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... his brand-new L.A. Gear Light Gear athletic shoes. These are shoes that are battery powered so as to illuminate the wearer's every move. Officers found $800 worth of cocaine in Acree's pockets. We might say that Alfred was letting his light shine. (5) We hope that our light will be more constructive. Our light is the light of God's love as revealed through Bethlehem's babe. Obviously, it would be a mite expensive if we tried to outfit everyone in this congregation with a pair of glow-in-the-dark athletic ...

733. Responding To The Roadblocks Of Life

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... periodically that threaten our dreams and seemingly can provide the evidence to color our lives in the most negative ways. There is hope for our lives. Today I want to share with you the story of St. Paul, one of God's finest servants ... people, we are always pilgrims on a journey to answer the call of God. Yes, God always offers a larger, greater,and grander dream and hope for the fellowship of the redeemed than the secular world will ever offer. God has promised that if we are faithful to His leading, He ...

734. Why We Gather At The Table

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Donghua Li won a gold medal for the Swiss gymnastic team in the 1996 Olympic Games. (2) When we gather at the Lord's table, we are reminded that there is One who cheers us on in the game of life. We are reminded that we are people of hope. The Lord's Supper had its origins in the Jewish Passover, the remembrance of the night that God sent death upon the first-born of all the Egyptian households but "passed over" the households whose doorposts were covered by the blood of the lamb. It was this incident that ...

735. Loving From The Heart

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... be committed to be a kokua. (2) Christ became our kokua. That is the message that permeates Peter's epistle. We were not saved by our own hand, we were saved by the love poured out on Calvary. It was love that brought Christ into the world. Here is where hope is to be found. At the center of this universe is a heart of love. In an editorial letter in the Dec. 2001 issue of Rosie magazine, Rosie O'Donnell wrote of her six-year-old son's reaction to the Sept. 11th bombing. For some reason, Rosie's son ...

736. How A Christian Grieves

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... to do when that time comes. So, for any of us who are as wise as Mike, listen to what the apostle Paul writes: “Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him . . .” (NIV) Dying is an important part of living, so let’s spend a few moments thinking about this unique event in human experience. LET ...

737. He Came To Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... human intuition. Truly God is neither catchable nor fetchable. Can clay describe its potter? Can fish do justice to the one who changes the water in their aquarium? How can tiny human brains that cannot understand electricity or produce a cure for the common cold ever hope to comprehend the wonder of the eternal Creator God? We cannot. Fortunately, we do not have to. Why? Because God has come to us. As people in business would say, that is the bottom line when it comes to Christmas. God has come to us! GOD ...

738. Sarah Laughed

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... its main gate the sign, "Home for Incurable Children." "They'll get me in there one of these days," the writer commented, with a twinkle in his eye. That is what we should strive for--to be incurable children--to regard the world with awe and wonder. To hope that somewhere, somehow two and two sometimes make five, for indeed sometimes they do. The story is told of a high school lad who was reading Tennyson's "Flower in the Crannied Wall" for the first time. He had come to the place where the poet muses on ...

739. "God News" For Bad Times

1 Kings 17:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... a fresh word from God. Is that not what we also need when we are dangling from a cliff supported only by a fragile daisy? What hope is there for us if God turns his back? That was Israel's cry in its hour of need and that is ours as well. Isaiah ... the way Charlie Shedd described it in one of his original promises to his tiny son, Peter. Listen to his sensitive and helpful words: "I hope that I will be able to make religion natural to you. It is natural. In fact, I think this relationship with God is the only ...

740. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... I want to tell him something that''s new." Well, I may not have anything that exotic to tell you that''s new today, but I hope that I can share with you the gospel, for as one great theologian and preacher said, the gospel is old news, and new news, and ... judgment Felix was alarmed and said,Go away for the present; when I have an opportunity I will summon you.'' At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him. But when two years had elapsed, ...

741. A Way Made Ready

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... we cannot change it. The prophets, however, didn’t leave humanity to languish in despair over that piece of news. They offered a message of hope: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and ... men and women who are blind, lame, deformed, deaf and mute. Their handicaps cause them to be shunned. Their only means of livelihood is to hope for pity on the thoroughfares of the city. As Jesus walks by, there is a man on the side of the road. We don't ...

742. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.” It is a careful, probing statement, trying to give neither too much nor too little away, but unmistakable in its hope. Jesus is neither careful nor probing in His response, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.” A pointed conversation follows about second birth, water, Spirit, and the wind, a conversation meant to reveal, and lead ...

743. To Hell and Back

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... with God was a bummer. He said it was a ball! Therefore, why would anyone want to wait? God loves you! Repent! (which means turn around) and let God receive you now! Does that mean that everyone will make it to heaven? Who knows? I don’t. I surely hope they do. The question is: would I be offended if they did? I get the impression that some Christians think of heaven as an exclusive club, and their enjoyment of it depends upon how exclusive it remains. They are sort of like Groucho Marx who said that he ...

744. Reconciliation: Our Gift And Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Jesus Christ. Now get that. There is no newness of life, no reconciliation of God, apart from Jesus Christ. Now open your mind to what I hope will be a jolting truth. No person need ever stay where he is or the way he is, if where he is and the way he ... fortress, nothing, absolutely nothing, could separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus. That’s the gospel. That’s the hope of the world. That’s the reconciliation that all desperately need, and I experienced it in Estonia in the rarest of ways. ...

745. The Fourth Day Comes

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it all in order to try to forget. To sort out their feelings and somehow find a way to start again, with chins dragging and hope at low ebb, they head west together, talking again as if somehow it would go away. Retelling the story in order to give each other ... m talking about, don’t you? Emmaus is every person’s town. Then there is a second truth to be garnered from this story. I hope it will be etched clearly in your mind. In our walk to Emmaus, in the midst of or in the aftermath of defeat and despair ...

746. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... his secret plan for the sons of men. And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come. "So, naturally, we proclaim Christ! We warn everyone we meet, and we teach everyone we can, all that ... Let's look at these facets of the mystery of Christ in you. I. First, our share in the mystery. "Christ in you, the hope of glory." That's the hinge word of our scripture lesson there in verse 27. We are the recipients of the mystery. Christ ...

747. The Church Of Our Dreams

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... world to break in upon us. We are a hospital for sinners -- for broken people. We are a kind of oasis to which people come for refreshment, for teaching, for renewal, for that power which enables them to go out and live in their day to day world with more hope and more direction and with a greater sense of well-being and identity. I read an article not long ago in a sports magazine which talked about getting lost in the woods. The writer said that when we get lost we have a tendency to travel in circles. We ...

748. The Stone Was Rolled Away (easter)

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have died. For this ... II. Now, a second word. Jesus is alive, and because of that, the stone of defeat and despair is rolled away, making a way for hope."If we are honest, then we know we are human, and we have all known defeat. It's better not to play, "Let's pretend ...

749. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... recovery from a serious illness. He's modest about the claim he makes. He does not want to lead others into any false hopes. He did not even talk about what happened to him until about ten years after it happened. The event occurred in 1964, and ... lot of thinking and talking about happiness is superficial, and I don't want to fall into that snare. So register my affirmation, which I hope will become yours. I'm happy that I can be unhappy. I read recently of a man who was going to jump off the bridge into ...

750. From Hurting to Helping

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... Have you ever done that? Called out to Jesus, "Have mercy on me!" Perhaps it was in a crisis. The police called. One of your children had really messed up. Or the doctor told you the lump was malignant. Or your marriage was in trouble and you thought all hope was lost. And you cried out like Bartimaeus, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" If you haven’t done that sometime before now, your time is coming. Pastor C. Wayne Hilliker tells about a woman with seven children who knew what it was to cry out ...

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