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876. The Apostles' Creed: Maker of Heaven and Earth

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... levels. Fascinating stuff. Did that all just happen by accident? I would be hard pressed to defend such a view. On top of all that, what we have is beautiful. Halfway up a mountain road from the port of Charlotte Amalie on the island of St. Thomas is ... a clearing which commands a breathtaking view of the sea and the harbor. A sign posted there to indicate the site had been cleared by the hotel at the peak reads ...

877. David and Bathsheba

2 Samuel 11:1-27, 12:1-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of the Holy City below. One day, after a fresh air nap on the rooftop, the king rubbed his eyes upon awakening. And then, no doubt, he rubbed them again. Yes, the view was breathtaking - and especially so today. The normally panoramic vista this afternoon included the sight of a gorgeous and quite naked lady taking a bath. Whoa!!! An aside here. If you wonder about bathing up there in front of God and everybody with a higher vantage point, remember that the ...

878. Civil War Isn't!

2 Samuel 18:1-18, 19--19:8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... declares that we are still God's pride and joy." To be honest, one of the reasons I love being pastor of this church is that, for the most part, that IS the way folks treat one another around here. No question, there are wide divergences of social and theological views in these pews, but you have learned over the years how to disagree without being disagreeable. I applaud you and am proud of you, and I love you for it. Keep it up! I wish all churches could be like this. Over the course of my years, I have ...

879. "Wow!"

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... how history would be worked out, their own and the whole world's.(2) And they would never be the same again, having taken that ride. Wow! What do you think? When you have seen how everything turns out in the end, will it affect how you view the present? Of course, it will. One of my cyber-friends has recently moved from full-time hospice work to full-time parish ministry. Brice Hughes has been at the bedside of many persons who have had experiences of "seeing past the veil." He writes, Among our hospice ...

880. There's No Such Thing as Too Much Sugar

Psalm 91:1-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... sweet, pie-in-the-sky bye-and-bye, attitude that ignores or denies what is amiss in the world and sees life through rose-colored glasses. Jesus never did that. I do not want that any more than I want folks who view the same world as an abyss into which we are all falling and view every waking moment through lenses of grimy gray. Jesus CERTAINLY never did that either. But if I am going to lean in one direction or another, you know which it will be. Give me a bit more sweetness. Life, as Michael attests ...

881. The Blame Game

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... way we write history 2,000 years later. They are called GOSPEL; that means Good News, not history. They were trying to do something beyond simply recount a story - they were expressing a point of view. At the time the gospels were finally written (almost a half century or more after the actual events), Christians were viewed by many as merely a certain type of Jew; the gospels wanted to dismiss that notion. The truth, of course, is that most Jews of Jesus' day never ever heard of him and could have cared ...

882. The Good Samaritan: A New Look at an Old Story

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... this poor victim recovers, but my assumption is that he does. That being the case, what would the effect have been on him that he had been rescued by a Samaritan? One would presume that it would forever color his view of Samaritans. For that matter, one would presume that it would forever color his view of the world's victims. There would be less callousness, less inclination to lay blame for getting into such a fix in the first place, less temptation to "pass by on the other side." If Jesus' story had gone ...

883. I Have Been Baptized

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... different from yours," he said to a western visitor. "According to your rules," he continued, "religion counts only in the place where you pray. Our religion is a way of life. I have no time at all, not one minute, without Islam." Is that how the world views the Christian faith…its rules apply to its adherents only while they are in church? Where have we missed it? Why do we not understand that baptism means the beginning of new life? To paraphrase that young Muslim: "I have no time at all, not one minute ...

884. Hope Wins!

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... words that have inspired millions, "This is my Father's world, Oh, let me n'er forget that though the wrong is oft so strong, God is the ruler yet." Hope wins. John's vision on the Isle of Patmos has many interpreters. Christians have many different views concerning the nature of the world that is to come. A Sunday School teacher was telling her class of youngsters about the "crowns of glory" that await people who believe. "Now tell me," she said at the close of the lesson, "Who will get the biggest crown ...

885. More Than A Mannequin; Not Quite A Masterpiece

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... offered them its newspaper. The nephew gasped, "He's alive!" before fleeing, leaving Verna to explain to a befuddled gentleman who had fallen asleep in the Smithsonian why two strangers were trying to read his watch. (3) There are people who view the church like Verna and her nephew viewed the dozing man. They would be surprised to see how alive many churches are. They would be surprised at how many groups the church ministers to how many activities we have going on. Is it important that churches be active ...

886. All Dressed Up

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and everyone in the room felt the same way he did, that this was terrible, that these people have a totally incorrect view of what business is all about. (2) A soldier of Christ wears a belt of truth and a breastplate of righteousness. The third ... yourself when you leave these walls as an emissary of Christ? If you do not, then these images are lost on you. If you just view yourself as an ordinary Joe or Josephine who lives a very ordinary life and comes to church for a weekly feel-good spiritual bath, then ...

887. A Pre-christmas Faith

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... HERALD tells that one of the best apartments in New York is near the banks of the East River. Yet the living room windows face to the West, away from the river view. When the buildings were erected, in 1925, animal pens and a large slaughterhouse were in sight of the apartments, so the planners faced a more desirable view. This happens to people. Instead of changing the circumstances and improving the conditions . . . we simply turn away or we put our head between our knees to keep from fainting. This is ...

888. Forever Hopeful

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... a rod. With his sizable lead, though, he needed only to clank along for five laps. Toward the end of lap 199 the car quit clanking and died altogether. As DePalma watched helplessly, Joe Dawsonwho had been eleven minutes behind himwon the race. (1) Too often we sit back and view a situation as if the outcome is already decided. If the doctor tells us that only one person in ten comes back from a certain kind of surgery, we assume that we will be one of the nine who don't make it. Why not assume that we will ...

889. Teach Us To Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... in a fog. They keep going up until they CAN see." That's what happens when we make our requests to God and then pray. "For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever." We are taking that step of faith that says, "Your view of my life is superior to my view. I trust you to meet my needs." E. Stanley Jones once told about two men praying. One prayed, "Lord, please help me to hold on." The other prayed, "Lord, please help me to let go." When we have made our earnest pleas to God, then we ...

890. Ready For The Great Race

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... of victory. Years ago Bishop E.L. Waldorf put it this way: "In the old days we had copybooks given to us, and the "top line" of each page was printed for us as a pattern....every stroke properly formed. As long as we kept the `top line ™ in view we were likely to write a fair copy for ourselves, but by the time we had written three of four lines, we forgot about the `top line ™ and copied the lines we ourselves had already written.... The life of Christ is the `top line ™ which we ought to imitate ...

891. How Much Faith Is Enough?

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... things makes a big difference. Lord Chesterfield once pointed out that a horse looks pretty much like a horse when viewed from ground level, but when you climb up in the loft and look down on a horse from the top, it looks a good deal like a violin. Your perspective is the difference. It is not unusual, in the Gospels, for the same story to be told by two different ...

892. A Christmas To Remember

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... side somewhere. Joseph has no lines to speak in the Christmas drama. He just stands there. Nowhere in any of the gospels does Joseph ever say a word. We don't know a lot about Joseph other than he was a carpenter from the small town of Nazareth. "At first view there was nothing striking about this man. His simple, well-worn clothes revealed him to be a man of small means. He was a person of few words, much more apt to show his feelings by arriving at your door with his tool chest to fix that stool, table ...

893. Sinner Or Saint?

Hebrews 7:11-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... , he gave up only 1 run. Lasorda's talk (he calls it his "Sermon on the mound") had worked. (3) The question here is how we view ourselves. Can we believe not only in God but also in ourselves as God's people? Are we sinners or are we saints who occasionally sin? ... that's true. If we perceive ourselves to be sinners, then that is how we will act ” sinfully. But if we view ourselves as saints who occasionally sin, then we have an entirely different frame of reference. Anderson gives a vivid illustration of ...

894. Jesus And The Lake Wobegon Effect

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... us all. This is not to say that even at home there are not new boundaries to cross. There are. An ambitious forty-year-old executive from Nashville, Tennessee, sat in a seminar in Charlotte, North Carolina. The participants in the seminar were challenged to view life from a higher plain ” to explore new ideas and to expand their horizons. The man was becoming increasingly agitated. He had come to learn some specific how-to's ” not some abstract philosophy. By the end of the second day, he was ready to ...

895. Flies On The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... his letter. Then they drove up a steep butte at the edge of town. It was peaceful on top, offering an endless view of high desert and mountains. A gentle breeze was blowing, and when Landon released the balloon, it instantly danced away from his ... about you? How do you feel about these portraits that Luke has given us of Christ's transfiguration? Are you like the art critic who views them with cool detachment and moves on? Worse still, are you like a fly on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel with no awareness ...

896. A Message For Big Bird

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... answers that in I Corinthians 15, by saying that God gives us a new body ” for we must have a body in this understanding of resurrection ” but it is a spiritual body. Now we need not make too much of this because there is an intertwining of these views in Scripture. The important thing we need to recognize is that according to the doctrine of resurrection, this new life that we receive beyond the grave is a gift from God and it is a gift offered without condition to those who are friends of Jesus. It is ...

897. Does It Make A Difference Who Jesus Is?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the poor, the healthy more than the sick, the virtuous more than the wicked. Engai favors the Masai over every other tribe, providing them with rain and sleek cattle and protecting them against their enemies. (3) We could call such views primitive if we were not aware that this is how many Christians view God - a God who favors some people over others. But this is not the God that Jesus gave us. Jesus taught us to call God "Abba" or "Daddy" and taught us that God loves all people equally whether they are ...

898. How Do You Get To Heaven?

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , that you may not grieve, as do those who have no hope . . . ." The words "no hope" scholars tell us, reflect a common Greco-Roman view that there is no resurrection. A Latin tomb inscription reads: "I was not; I was; I am not; I care not." (4) There is a ... as it is a place where glad reunions take place. Remember E. M. Forester? He wrote A PASSAGE TO INDIA, and A ROOM WITH A VIEW. There's another little story that he wrote. He called it "The Hedge." And in it he pictures a man, twenty-five years old. And ...

899. Searching For Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... before Stan reached it, then his hit was illegitimate, and Arthur won the match. The angle and nature of the shot made it almost impossible to see it clearly. Review of the videotape didn't provide a conclusive answer. Neither the umpire, nor Arthur Ashe had a clear view of the ball. According to the rules of tennis, the umpire asked Stan if the ball had been up when he hit it. He replied that it had been. Stan won. A minor controversy arose over this matter, and Arthur Ashe was asked many times why he had ...

900. Finishing In The Top 10%

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... he ever dreamed of asking for. Jesus says to him, "Your faith has made you well." Jesus gives him the gift of salvation. Our job as followers of Jesus is not to teach people good manners, but to teach that life is good and holy. People who view life with gratitude are the most secure people in the world. They know that the spotlight doesn't always need to fall on them so they can express true gratitude. Insecure people are ungrateful and thereby bitter. In his book, The Person Reborn, Paul Tournier writes ...

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