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751. The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... and alcohol for years. This week he accepted Jesus as his Savior and asked to come to the service this morning. I told him there might be a time when he could come forward and say he had accepted Jesus. When you asked the servers to come forward, he thought that was the time. Then you handed him the communion trays, and he was confused and embarrassed. He didn't know what to do with them." The pastor stepped back and looked the man in the face. His once-hardened features were soft with tears. "God loves you ...

752. Stealth Christians

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked, "What can you say using signs?" He held up his hand flat to say STOP. She asked another little boy to do one, and he gave the Catholic sign of the Cross, touching his forehead and crossing his chest. That just thrilled this devout teacher who once thought of becoming a nun. She said, "Jerry, what does that mean?" He said, "That means I'm gonna shoot a free throw." (6) A religious sign out of context can be confusing. What is not confusing is when we live our lives with the integrity, love and self ...

753. The Get-ready Man

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Gulf of Mexico. Stuart was violently seasick and lay helplessly in a bunk while the ship pitched and rolled. When Stuart finally managed to raise his head from his bunk, he discovered that the boat was docked and had been for some time at Galveston, Texas. While Stuart thought he was about to die from his seasickness, he could have walked a few feet to land at any time during the previous 12 hours. That, likewise, is how close God’s help is, whether we take advantage of it or not! * Listen to the words of ...

754. You Shall Call His Name Jesus

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... continually weeping over the plight of the crushed beetle and other misfortunes, and the Cowardly Lion was consistently courageous. In short, each possessed those capacities he had been taught, either by others or by experience, that he lacked. (1) If for some reason you have always thought that church was the place you came to find out how bad you are, you are sadly mistaken. The coming of Christ into the world was an affirmation of faith by God in man. The babe lying in the manger is God's way of saying ...

755. Surprises

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Timothy Smit

... . God's ways are different from our ways. We live in an age where research and opinion polls are conducted weekly. We know what other people think about the many issues that we face. When we have a decision to make we would like to think that we've thought through the decision very carefully. Before we make a purchase we like to look up the product in CONSUMER REPORTS. God is not like that. God sees what we cannot see. God is full of surprises. God's way of doing things is different from our ways. The Old ...

756. God Sometimes Changes His Mind

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sometimes our prayers are prayers of thanksgiving. Sometimes they are supplications for forgiveness. More often than not, however, we pray for God somehow to change his plan. We are like the five-year-old, who told his dad he'd like to have a baby brother. His dad thought for a moment and then replied, "I'll tell you what. If every night for two months you pray for a baby brother, I guarantee that God will give you one!" My guess is that dad knew something that little Bobby didn't. That night this young boy ...

757. Casting Out An Evil Spirit

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... a trembling voice he asked the monk who was riding with him in the basket how often they changed the rope. The monk thought for a moment and answered brusquely, "Whenever it breaks." There have been times in my life when emotionally I have been suspended in ... a trembling voice he asked the monk who was riding with him in the basket how often they changed the rope. The monk thought for a moment and answered brusquely, "Whenever it breaks." There have been times in my life when emotionally I have been suspended ...

758. Christ Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... thankful that I am not in charge of the universe. When I look over my life and see the times when I acted out of what I thought was good judgment and yet made some stupid choices, I am glad God is in charge and not me. I got a chuckle out of a story ... greeted him with much enthusiasm. No one expressed their pleasure that he was there. In fact, they all stood around with what he thought was a pained look on their faces. Finally he came to one brother who looked more accessible than the rest and said to him ...

759. Forever Hopeful

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... and get back to the paper. From the other side of the cockpit there was a deafening silence. Then he heard these unsettling words: "Aren't you the instructor?" Some of us have been in situations like that one. Our lives have been going along smoothly. We thought we were in control, when "oops!" a little voice has whispered in our ear, "Aren't you the instructor?" and we realized we were in trouble. OUR TEXT FOR THE MORNING IS A RECOGNITION THAT LIFE DOES NOT ALWAYS OPERATE ACCORDING TO PLAN. St. Paul writes ...

760. In Defense Of Ceremony

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... our son an agnostic." Later Robert Short found a new relationship to Jesus Christ in college and felt a call to the ministry. At home he told his mother of his decision. Sitting at that same kitchen table, with tears running down her cheeks, she said, "I never thought it would come to this my son, a religious fanatic." Some of us can identify with that, can't we? Some parents view baptism as an innoculation rather than an initiation. Innoculation is where you get a little bit of a disease in a safe form so ...

761. The Waiting Father

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... allowed to use a real golf ball because that would be very dangerous so near to the house. So he used a practice ball hollow and made of light plastic with holes in it. You couldn't hit it very far and it could do no damage. One day he thought that both his parents were out and the house empty, and he longed for the feel of a real golf ball on the head of his club. Just this once wouldn't matter. He teed up a real golf ball and swung. You guessed it, he sliced his stroke and ...

762. From Foolishness To Power

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... , I suspect, to the church at Corinth. The church at Corinth obviously had some people who did not mind shouting, "I disagree! I disagree!" The church experienced some problems after Paul left, as we noted last week. Cliques formed and feelings were hurt. Some thought of themselves as super Christians who had some special gift that made them better than others in the church. Paul wanted them to see the error of their ways and work together as the body of Christ. Thus, he sought to focus their attention ...

763. Transforming Moment

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... deceiving myself, and there was little I was actually controlling. He offered to take care of the situation for me. "It was the most difficult thing I’d ever done ” to leave the situation in the hands of God ” but He came in and by His power resolved it. I thought if God can do what I had tried to do for five years without success, then what would the rest of my life be like if I had the guts to turn it over to Him?" Frank did "turn it over to Him." He took a year off from Motown ...

764. A New Kind Of Faith

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... shocked they did not know what to do next. They were afraid and kept a low profile. They were living in fear because they thought what had happened to Jesus might very well happen to them. And then early that Sunday morning one of the women found the stone ... risen Lord like the others had. The apostles told Thomas, "We have seen the Lord." Thomas was unconvinced. It wasn't that he thought his friends were lying; their story was simply too good to be true. Thomas wanted proof. He wanted to see Jesus for himself ...

765. The Fourth Person In The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the time, " Ron recalls, "I found the remark amusing." But there was something unsettling about it, as well. At the time Ron had a full beard and a white robe. "I probably did look like pictures of Jesus that the child had seen," he says. As he thought more about the incident, he felt more and more uncomfortable about being mistaken for Jesus. Meeting with a colleague a few days later Ron shared the experience. His friend asked what his routine was with the children each Sunday. "I give them each a hug," he ...

766. The Conversion Of A Scoundrel

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... of God. He talked about his relationship with Jesus and how others led him to Christ. It was the love of strangers in that church that turned Steve’s life around. And God was able to use Steve in ways that he never in a million years would have thought possible. This young man eventually went to seminary and is today the pastor of a church in southern California. (4) Jacob had gotten himself in all sorts of trouble, but God was still able to use him in positive ways. Jacob’s dream affirms to us that God ...

767. Stepping Out In Faith

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and Peter takes his eyes off Jesus. As soon as he does that he begins to sink. Truly frightened now he cries out, "Lord, save me!" It's actually kind of an amusing scene. Impetuous Simon Peter has stepped out on the water, but now he's having second thoughts. It reminds me of one of Jerry Clower's stories about Eugene Ledbetter. Eugene and Jerry went coon hunting. They treed a coon but could not budge him from the tree. So, Eugene decided he'd climb the tree and shake the coon loose. But, to his surprise ...

768. It's Not Nice To Call Someone A Dog

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... it was the young man who had pulled Linda from the water! She was relieved that he did not know what she was thinking. The women thanked the man again as he climbed on his motorcycle and roared away. "How quick I had been to judge," Martha thought, "categorizing him on the basis of how he looked." (2) That’s a danger we all face, isn’t it? It’s so easy to place people into categories of "desirable" and "undesirable" on the basis of their clothing or their color or their family background. Two little ...

769. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... why Jesus didn't share their excitement. According to worldly standards Jesus was a smashing success, an overnight sensation, a hit. His picture was on the cover of the Rolling Stone, as they say. The disciples were trapped into thinking that more was better. They thought this was what Jesus wanted. There were times they didn't understand Jesus at all. If wealth and fame and acceptance don't bring happiness, where are they to be found? HAPPINESS BEGINS WITH A TOUCH. Jesus was visiting in the home of Simon ...

770. Never Too Old for an Adventure

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... challenging undertaking. The long years 1947-1984 passed with his often thinking of trying his luck in Alaska and always drawing back with apprehension: "I'm too old." Then irrationally, after a major heart attack and a quintuple bypass and just before his 80th birthday, he thought... "If I'm ever going to do that Alaska book, let's do it now while I have the energy." Without any further speculation or hesitance he moved to Alaska, set up his typewriter in a log cabin on the campus of a junior college and ...

771. Unlocking The Doors

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... alive! Rebecca Manley Pippert recalls the time when she first came to faith. Up until that time she had been afraid that if she surrendered her life to God, He would take away her identity. Even worse, she was afraid she'd become somewhat strange in the process. She thought of religious persons she had known and wasn't sure that she wanted to be like them. She wondered what changes she would have to make in her life: would she have to give up her love of jazz music? Would she have to act religious all the ...

772. Why Are You Troubled?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... day of the year," her friend said, finishing her sentence. (3) There is one ˜Fear not,' for every day of the year. A coincidence? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But God does not want His people to be afraid. "Why are you troubled?" Jesus asked his disciples, "and why do thoughts arise in your hearts? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see... And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet." Jesus wanted his disciples to know that it was all real. He was alive. Death ...

773. The Unexpected Jesus

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... they were very concerned about him. They had heard disturbing reports about his teachings and healings. It was all so radically new that they thought he was beside himself. So when they heard that he was home in their village they set out to see him. If only they ... ." (3) It was because of acts like these that Jesus' family, his mother and other family members, were concerned about him. They thought he was overdoing it a bit. They came to talk some sense into him, and possibly take him with them. Then there ...

774. Coming For The Right Reasons

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... own reasons ” like Billy, who wanted to learn how to grow up. But when they find out that they will not get what they thought they would, they lose interest. But what exactly do we get out of faith? If not bread for our bellies, then what? Jesus told ... quit but he couldn't. He says he wasn't able to quit because he was only dealing with the symptoms and not the cause. "I thought my problem was drugs," he said, "but it's not." His problem was his attitude. He felt unworthy. "After all I had done and did, how ...

775. Jesus Goes To School

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... Well, try this: Imagine being a sixth grade math teacher and having Einstein for a student. Imagine being a junior high school basketball coach and having Michael Jordan on your team though my memory is that Jordan didn't make his junior high school team. Still, the thought is intimidating. Imagine that a twelve- year-old Tiger Woods asked you to give him a few golfing tips. Imagine being a rabbi and having Jesus in your class. Scary. You know what it says to me: IT SAYS TO ME THAT ANY TIME YOU HAVE CONTACT ...

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