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826. In Search Of A Reason For Being

Hebrews 4:1-13

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King Duncan

... I have the potential to be leaders in our homes, in our workplaces, in our community. Before we can lead, though, we, too, need to follow. Our standard for abundant living is not Bucky, however. Our standard is Jesus. What would Jesus do? That is what we hunger to know. Give me the wisdom and the compassion and the insight of Jesus. Then I will have eternal life ” for he IS life and light and hope and victory. This young man came searching, but he turned away sadly. The Master diagnosed his need, but it ...

827. The Leadership Principles Of Jesus

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

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King Duncan

... a banker who took a serious interest in Florence's education and moral development. Florence's sister, Parthenope, took after their mother. Florence was more like her father. England in the 1840s was a miserable place for many people. Poverty and hunger plagued much of the population. People in Florence's social circle lived in comparative luxury. But one day Florence traveled to Egypt and Greece, where she spent some time at the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses. The deaconesses, humble women who devoted ...

828. Good News For You

Isaiah 7:1-25

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King Duncan

... was persuaded. The serial's heroine survived the disease. So did the surgeon's young patient. There is something healing about hope. That is true about individual life and it is true about the world. Hope came into the world at Christmas time. How desperately this world hungers for good news and there is no better news than this: God so loved the world that God gave God's only Son. This brings us to the fourth thing to be said. Good News is about a promise kept, a prophecy fulfilled and good news published ...

829. Flight To Egypt

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... a shudder went through Mary's heart at Simeon's words. The real story of Christmas is one in which good and evil are both shown for what they are. That is the kind of world we live in—a cruel world where crime, poverty, drug-addiction, gangs, hunger, discrimination and a host of evils threaten to overwhelm society and whose evil even impinges upon the kind of secure, happy life that we would provide for those we love. It has always been so. John spoke of the light that shines in the darkness and the ...

830. From Tears To Triumph

John 20:10-18

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King Duncan

... Jesus to watch people he loved experience such heartache. Never was there a heart more tender than his. When the crowds begged for healing, he complied. When Mary and Martha wept for their brother Lazarus, he called forth Lazarus from the tomb. When the multitude hungered, he gave them fishes and loaves. When they cursed and crucified him, he asked the Father to forgive them. Now his closest friends were grieving. They were grieving because he had been nailed to a cruel cross on a hill called "the place of ...

831. News From The Vineyard

John 15:1-17

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King Duncan

... forced to eat thirty pounds of food a day just to stay alive.The old amounts of food she used to eat couldn't sustain her physically. She would die if she simply ate three normal meals. She always needed more. Jesus said, "Blessed are those how hunger and thirst for righteousness." I don't meet many people like that. For the most part I meet people who have a great emptiness within,a God-shaped emptiness, as one philosopher has called it. That is because we have let our relationship with the vine shrivel ...

832. A Great High Priest

Hebrews 4:12-16

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King Duncan

... people living in that part of the world do, but Van Gogh had red hair and that is how he saw Jesus. There is that natural tendency to paint Christ in our own image. Yet for most of us that is not enough. There are times when our hearts also hunger to behold Christ high and lifted upto see him in his majesty and glory. We long to cry out with John, "Behold the Lamb who taketh away the sins of the world." Our text for the day allows us to see Christ in both roles. We see him as one ...

833. Lesson From A Blind Man

Mark 10:46-52

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King Duncan

... to heat the shabby room in which he lived. He sat with his hands wrapped in woolen socks to keep them warm while he composed the music that was to make him great. He died of consumption at the age of 35, his vitality lowered by constant hunger, cold, and lack of proper nourishment. Just six people followed the cheap coffin of pine, and even they turned back because it started to rain. His pitiful funeral cost exactly $3.10. (2) It is not unusual to find eventually great people among the disadvantaged. A ...

834. Welcome To The Mountain. Now Go Home

Exodus 24:1-18

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King Duncan

... stood up and began to read her paper. "I think the Seven Wonders of the World are to touch and to taste, to see and to hear, and then to run and to laugh and to love." Can you make a better list of the seven wonders? There is a hunger within human hearts to live on the mountaintop. Who can blame Simon Peter for suggesting that they build three booths, one for the Master, one for Moses and one for Elijah so they could stay there on the mountain forever? Simon wanted to capture that magical moment of being ...

835. The Love of a Father (Father's Day)

Matthew 10:1-42

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King Duncan

... sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure...." (II Corinthians 11: 2427 RSV) Yet St. Paul heard the Lord's voice saying, "My grace is sufficient for you...." (12:9) For many of us the injustice of this world, combined with the ...

836. Forever Hopeful

Romans 8:18-27

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King Duncan

... heat the shabby room in which he lived. He sat with hands wrapped in woolen socks to keep them warm, while he composed the music that was to make him great. He died of consumption at the age of 35, his vitality lowered by constant hunger, cold, and lack of proper nourishment. Just six people followed the cheap coffin and even they turned back because it started to rain. His pitiful funeral cost exactly $3.10. We have health problems, money problems, family problems. We are alone and lonely. We have problems ...

837. Time To Walk On The Water

Matthew 14:22-36

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King Duncan

... on the streets and when the lie rages across the face of the earth. "A holy anger about things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God's earth and the destruction of God's world. To rage when little children must die of hunger while the tables of the rich are sagging with food. To rage at the senseless killing of so many and against the madness of militarism. To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction `Peace.' To rage against complacency. To ...

838. The Ultimate Success Formula

Mark 8:31--9:1

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King Duncan

... a well or cultivate the landand not to dig the graves of their children." You see, Audrey Hepburn knows about starving children. She once was one of them. As a youngster in Europe during World War II, she and her family endured years of hunger and, toward the end, near starvation. "Immediately after the war," she recalls, "an organization was formed that gave us food, medicine, and clothing. That organization later became the United Nations Children's Fund [UNICEF]." Today Hepburn is repaying a debt. (4) Dr ...

839. Eat And Live

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... are obsessed with food--earthly food. Think what a difference it would make in our lives if we were equally obssessed with heavenly food--the food that Christ gives us. Jesus said to those who followed him, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger; and he who believes in me shall never thirst." And again he said, "I am the living bread which comes down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh ...

840. Save The Children

Mark 9:33-37

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King Duncan

... 3) UNESCO estimates that there are about 40 million street kids around the world. Forty million. That's about the combined population of California and New York. These kids are working at such jobs as selling papers or shining shoes to escape the poverty and hunger. They live in doorways and under bridges and even in junk cars. Then there are those displaced by war and famine. How our hearts ache for the children of Bangladesh, and Ethiopia and the Kurdish children in Iraq. It's a dangerous world out there ...

841. Opening Up Heaven

Luke 3:21-22

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King Duncan

... of three awful weeks on a little raft lost in the far Pacific. When asked how they were able to endure that experience, his answer was simply, "We prayed." For days they had drifted helplessly under the scorching tropic sun. The heat, the hunger, the exhaustion, brought Rickenbacker and his young, inexperienced crew to the breaking point. But Eddie Rickenbacker believed in prayer. And the heaven opened. This time, however, it was not a dove but a sea gull that descended from the heaven. A sea gull flew ...

842. Superstition Or Authentic Faith?

Luke 13:1-9

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King Duncan

... some social evil, or detect some moral shortcoming, and they stand and wring their hands, and say, "For goodness sakes, why doesn't someone do something about this?" It is WE who have been called to do something. We cannot answer the question why there should be hunger in the world, but we can do our part to see that some of the hungry are fed. We can't answer the question why sometimes healthy adults with families are struck down in midlife, but we can be there to bring comfort and to supply both material ...

843. Entering Into The Agony

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... only loosely bound to the cross. Then the cross was lifted and set upright in its socket. "The terror of crucifixion was this," writes William Barclay, "The pain of that cross was terrible but it was not enough to kill, and the victim was left to die of hunger and thirst beneath the blazing noontide sun and frosts of the night. Many a criminal was known to have hung for a week upon his cross until he died raving mad." (2) Paul had seen men die such deaths before. Paul knew the agony of crucifixion AND HE ...

844. Do This And Live!

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... home but was baptized the same day he made his first professional baseball appearance for a minor league club at Waterloo, Iowa, in 1975. He took a course in Jeremiah, an experience that directed his attention as a Christian toward issues of poverty, world hunger, and human need. "Following Christ is more than words like `God loves me.' He said, "We have a responsibility to feed the poor, to help set the oppressed free, to seek justice for all people." He set up the Quisenberry Relief Fund. Through it ...

845. Mentor, Mediator, Master

1 Timothy 2:1-15

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King Duncan

... is impossible in the spiritual realm to have an adequate relationship with God while trying to maintain a dishonest front, a pious lie. If we wish to walk with God, we abandon the lie and admit our need. If we prefer to pretend that everything is o.k., then our hunger for God will always go unsatisfied. Thus we come to our text for the morning: "This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God ...

846. How Much Faith Is Enough?

Luke 17:1-10

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King Duncan

... their lack of faith. Then he added, "...if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, `Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you." (Matthew 17: 2021 RSV) Wow! That story makes us hunger. I want that kind of faith! Now compare that story in Matthew to one in Luke. The disciples make a request of Jesus: "Increase our faith!" We can sympathize with their request. Who has not cried out with that man of old, "I believe, help thou my unbelief ...

847. What Do We Need For Christmas?

Luke 2:(1-7) 8-20

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King Duncan

... minds, RATHER THAN WHAT DO WE WANT." What is the need in our spiritual lives that only Christ can satisfy? What happens to us when the last turkey scraps are used and the cookies and other goodies have been devoured? What do we then do to satisfy the hunger for the bread of life that got lost in all the activity and busyness of the season? We would love to have Christ, and all the gifts, gadgets, and commerce as well. The distinguished teacher of preaching, Dr. Fred B. Craddock, shares that when he goes to ...

848. Stranglers Or Wranglers?

Acts 2:42-47

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King Duncan

... to God for all their many blessings. And they would listen to the apostles teach. The apostles had been with Jesus. It was important for this new church community to learn about Jesus. After all, he was the source of their love ” of their life. Their hunger for first-hand knowledge about him was insatiable. They wanted to learn all they could. We would do well to follow their example. Admiral Byrd, the famous explorer, once found himself about 100 yards away from the safety of his South Pole hut when a ...

849. The Conversion Of A Scoundrel

Genesis 28:10-22

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King Duncan

... . First, he changed from within. People noticed his attitude was different. Then his habits and even his language changed. His appearance also began to change. He wore clean, neat clothes. He decided to go back to work. He even made up with his parents. Steve had a real hunger for the word 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 ...

850. Surprised By Love

Matthew 22:34-40

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King Duncan

... drugs or committing crimes or fouling up their lives in a multitude of ways are where they are because they don’t know how to express or even sense the real need in their lives--their need for Christ. They need someone to put a name to their deepest hunger. That name is Jesus. Do you love God and your neighbor enough to be the one who sees that they hear that name? Can they count on you? 1. John W. Perritt, Quote. 2. “Unconditional Love,” Jennie Todd, Upper Room, January/February 1993, p. 26. 3. Annie ...

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