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751. A Soap Opera For Saints

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Can David and Bathsheba undo the wrong they have done and put their lives whole once more? That is a more difficult assignment. God's grace does not make us immune from the law of sowing and reaping. As someone has said, many of us want to sow our wild oats and then pray for a crop failure. Life does not work that way. When we break the laws of God, we not only hurt ourselves. Often we end up hurting those we love most. It is like something Jo Coudert observed about divorce. "The divorced person," she ...

752. Have You Checked On Your Investments Lately?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... and preparation, and he was dressed in regular street clothes and work shoes. The day was oppressively hot. But Felix's face shone with joy as he jogged mile after mile of the marathon route. The crowd in the stadium that day cheered for the winners, but they went wild when Felix appeared. Felix had won no medals or honors that day, but he had won the admiration of millions of people from around the world. The athletes passed the hat to pay Felix's way back to Cuba, where he went back to his job as postman ...

753. The Greatest Good News Of All

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... voice is terrible ”like a hoarse tomcat with his tail in a clothes wringer. But as Irving Berlin begins to sing, the loudest cheers of the day erupt. Some of the fellows are shouting themselves hoarse. Berlin is singing one of his own compositions and everyone is going wild. Even the coarseness of his voice and the limitations of his piano playing cannot spoil the effect as he sings, "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. Just like the ones I used to know." (1) As he sings, the thoughts of every G.I. in the ...

754. Behold The Lamb

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... as three hundred thousand people came out to be baptized by John. (2) John was somewhat eccentric, to be sure, dressed in a garment made of camel’s hair and girded with a leather belt, surviving in the wilderness on a diet of locusts and wild honey, and devoting himself to warning his generation of the wrath that is yet to come. But undoubtedly that was part of his appeal. He was so completely different from the temple priests in Jerusalem who dressed in fine linens. John was not an establishment figure ...

755. He Is Risen!

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... went into church. The pastor delivered a stirring resurrection sermon and then, as was his custom, invited the members of the congregation to respond. Whereupon, George stood up and with deep emotion said firmly, "Rosie lives!" Then he began to sing "My wild Irish Rose/ the sweetest flower that grows..." One person joined in, then another, and another. Finally everyone present was joyfully singing the most beautiful Easter hymn ever sung in that church. (5) Rosie lives because Jesus lives. That is why many ...

756. Christ Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the racial strife in our society today--particularly the tension between the “Black lives matter” movement and police departments across our land. However, some of you are old enough to know that we have been here before. In his fine book, On a Wild and Windy Mountain, William H. Willimon tells of being in New Haven, Connecticut as a student at Yale in l970 during the famous Black Panther Trial. Those of you who remember that turbulent era recall the strife, discord and agony that tormented our society ...

757. Lightning Struck

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... perish." Those of us who have been in the church for a long time need to be particularly on guard at this point. There was once a primitive people who lived in a beautiful valley. As time passed, however, the soil played out. The number of wild animals thinned. Food was scarce. Life was hard. Some of the young braves had heard that beyond the distant high mountains there lay another beautiful valley that had not been despoiled by human habitationwhere the soil was still rich and the game plentiful. At much ...

758. Ultimate Freedom

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . They have their whip, of course, and a pistol by their side. But invariably they will also carry a stool. Hinson says that it is the most important tool of the trainer. He holds the stool by the back and thrusts the legs toward the face of the wild animal. Those who know maintain that the animal tries to focus on all four legs at once. In the attempt to focus on all four, a kind of paralysis overwhelms the animal and it becomes tame, weak and disabled because its attention is fragmented. The secret of ...

759. Out Of Our Control

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... AREAS OF OUR LIVES BEYOND OUR CONTROL AND THIS IS GOOD. With our finite minds, we could never order a perfect world. There are many ancient fables illustrating this truth. There is an old Hebrew legend that tells of a man journeying on a mule through a wild and desolate area. His only companion was a rooster whose shrill crowing at sunrise awoke him to his devotions. At nightfall he came to a small town looking for shelter, but the inhabitants turned him away. Outside the village he found a cave to sleep in ...

760. Vive La Difference

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... the street before him and hold the door open for him. Dr. Criswell told him that would be great. Tony went ahead and proudly held the door open as his pastor entered the church auditorium. A few days later Tony dropped dead. Dr. Criswell said that maybe it was just wild fancy, but he believed that when he got to heaven, Tony would be there to open the door for him. He couldn't do much, but he did what he could, and he did it to the glory of God. (4) We have some talented people in this church. Some ...

761. The Mighty Tide Of God Rolled In

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . That is our purpose and a mighty purpose it is. How do we achieve it? We achieve it by committing ourselves without reservation to His service. Let me use what I believe is an exciting analogy. It is from Jack London's masterpiece, THE CALL OF THE WILD. It is the story of a magnificent dog named Buck. Buck was half St. Bernard, half Shepherd. He was 150 lbs. of pure muscle. Because he was such an impressive animal, he was stolen, kidnapped, off the streets of San Francisco and transported to Alaska where ...

762. From Coping To Conquering

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... when your horn gets stuck behind a Hell's Angels motorcycle gang...when you see a 60 MINUTES news team waiting in your office...when you hit a hole-in-one in golf, and you're playing alone. A cowboy out west was in a heap of trouble. A wild bull was after him. Head down and nostrils snorting, the bull charged toward him. The cowboy dove into a convenient recess in the ground. As soon as the bull passed over the hole, the cowboy leaped out. The bull came back, madder than ever. Right before the bull reached ...

763. Looking For Mr. Right

James 4:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... the only verse that came to his mind. It was, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Most of us got married at an age when we didn't really know what we were doing. Our friends were getting married. Our hormones were running wild. Thus, before we knew it, we were standing before an altar vowing that we would love and cherish a relative stranger "till death do us part." We were too young to know ourselves, too much in love to seriously object to any weakness in our beloved, and totally ...

764. When The Recession Reaches Your House

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... is not to give up! THE SECOND THING WE DO IS TRUST GOD. As much as we talk about faith, that's hard for some of us to do. The great philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once described a familiar boyhood experience. He was being taught to swim by his father. Splashing wildly with both arms and kicking with one leg, he called to his father, "Look at me, look at me. I'm swimming!" But, says Kierkegaard, all the time he was holding onto the bottom of the swimming pool with his big toe. Many of us are like that in our ...

765. The Waiting Father

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... that many of us make in our own mindshard as in God or soft as in Jesus. Jesus showed us a God who was like a loving Father. But Jesus did not rescind the law of consequences. As one cynic has put it, "Some of us want to sow our wild oats and then pray for a crop failure." The prodigal son abused his freedom. He squandered his wealth and was reduced to feeding swine. For the Jews, pigs were unclean. How could a nice Jewish boy fall much lower than feeding pigs? The Bible says that the young man gladly ...

766. What We Are About

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... . But there is one more vital task for the church. WE HAVE A MESSAGE AND A MINISTRY FOR THE WORLD. Obviously the early church did not confine itself to maintenance and ministry to its own members. If it had, it would not have spread like wild fire throughout the Roman empire. It obviously had a message to proclaim and a ministry to perform that was directed outward to the world for whom Christ died. This third function we call mission. The church is a threelegged stool, and if it somtimes seems wobbly ...

767. Forgiven!

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... done it all continually thanked God for the change God had made in his life. "I can’t express," he said, "the gratitude I feel that God has changed my life." The talk show hostess knew where he was coming from-for she, too, had walked on life’s wild side before coming to Jesus. She said, "I know what you mean. Every day that I live I thank him for saving me." Then she added a very profound statement: "You know what I’ve noticed though? People who have always been in the church, always done the right ...

768. Take Time To Pray

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

It is said that one of President Reagan's favorite stories was the one about the minister's son who was taken out camping one day. His companion warned him not to stray too far from the campfire because the woods were full of wild beasts of all kinds. The young boy had every intention, really, of following that advice but inevitably he was drawn by curiosity and wandered farther and farther from the fire. Suddenly, he found himself face to face with a very large and powerful looking bear. He saw no means ...

769. The Secret Of Champions

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... and clumsy. He looked more like something out of a circus, than a professional ball player. They made fun of the way he walked, and the way he looked with a catcher ™s mask on. He swung at bad pitches, had problems behind the plate, his throwing was wild. He was criticized and laughed at, but would not quit. He was determined to stay with it. He worked hard to overcome his shortcomings as a catcher; he spent extra hours in the batting cage; he studied rival hitters, until he knew their every weakness, and ...

770. Preparing The Way

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... risk I had taken, I heard the voice of a preacher," Dr. Long recalled. "There behind me on a Times Square street corner was a preacher trying to proclaim the Gospel. His appearance was about what one might have anticipated. His eyes were searching wildly, his urgent voice screeching through a distorted five-watt amplifier, his hands beckoning to the crowds which passed his asphalt pulpit. His message was not entirely lucid, but even in its disconnections you could feel him trying to get his words around a ...

771. Beyond Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... whinny. "What on earth are you doing?" murmured the rabbi, frightened to death. "Have you gone out of your mind?" "Don't be angry with me, Rabbi," pleaded his servant Jacob. "Years ago a great misfortune happened to me. I was a young man then, a little wild and foolish, and, may God forgive me, I sinned with a woman. So to punish me, God turned me into a horse ” your horse. For twenty long years you have been my master, Rabbi, little suspecting who I really was. Well, it seems my punishment is over. I ...

772. Is There Any Wind?

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... route through the desert. But now it was different. "I saw a contrast that was nothing less than miraculous," he says. By mid-August the desert is usually green from summer rains, but this year it was positively luxuriant. Countless patches of brightly colored wild flowers dotted the roadside. The extremes were notable even to those most familiar with the rebirth that rain brings to the desert. (4) That’s what happens when a life-bringing wind blows across a desert. That is also what happens when the wind ...

773. Waking To A World Upside Down

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... wheel from its post and toss it over the mountain side. His panic stricken rider didn ‘t know that he had installed foot controls for steering. McDermott also had a house replete with secret tunnels and sliding panels. It was best known for the wild parties held there. The house featured a hidden room which was upside down. The rugs and furniture were fastened to the ceiling; and the drapes, pictures and even the fireplace were upside down. The floor had an elaborate chandelier thrust upwards from its ...

774. How Much Do You Trust God?

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... first flight, a traveler on a piston-engine, propeller-driven DC-6 airliner struck up a conversation with a fellow passenger. The passenger happened to be a Boeing engineer. The traveler asked the engineer about the new jet aircraft. The engineer was wildly enthusiastic about this new, improved way to travel. He began speaking at length about the extensive testing Boeing had done on the jet engine before bringing it into commercial service. He recounted Boeing's experience with engines, from the B-17 to ...

775. Like A Rock

Isaiah 44:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... ROCK. There are times we are called not only to be present for others but to be strong, to be steadfast. "Do not tremble," God says, "do not be afraid." That’s easier said than done. A Texan was telling a crowd of Easterners about the viciousness of the wild steers on the range. "I was walking along close to a mesquite thicket the other day," said the Texan, "when one of these critters crashed out and came for me. I ran for the closest tree. The lowest branch on it was twenty feet up. There was nothing to ...

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