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901. Wrestling In A Title Bout

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Mark Clark

... . That's the Jacob attitude toward life. That's how you become a supplanter. Pure and unadulterated selfishness. There's a downside to such an approach to life, though. Our selfishness leaves us just like Jacob: alone, in the dark, on guard against everyone, and restless. It's a bitter thing to be alone with the scoundrel within. I think that Jacob had a lot of soul searching to do that night by the ford of Jabbok. He was a cheat, and I think that he had come face to face with the fact that he had cheated ...

902. When What's Lost Is Found

Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... believe God has forgiven them. They don't realize how much God loves to forgive. Forgiveness is what God is all about. Roy Angell once told a beautiful story about a widow during the First World War who lost her only son and her husband. She was especially bitter because her neighbor, who had five sons, lost none of them. One night while this woman's grief was so terribly severe, she had a dream. An angel stood before her and said, "You might have your son back again for ten minutes. What ten minutes would ...

903. Overcoming "Work-avoidance Syndrome"

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... promised an excellent future ” but three years later, he found himself going in circles, caught in a depressing holding pattern. No one seemed to appreciate his enthusiasm, his suggestions or his aggressive talents. Not one of the promotions ever promised panned out. He was bitter and disillusioned. One afternoon, he decided to quit. He was ready to pull up stakes, and head for California. But on that very day, while walking home, he spied a green object in the gutter. He picked it up, and to his complete ...

904. When The Waters Begin To Rise

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... support. The waters around are rising. Life does that to us sometimes, doesn't it? There was an amusing story in the papers recently about two African gentlemen who stowed away on a Norwegian freighter in Cape Town in hopes of reaching Europe, only to learn the bitterly cold truth three days into the trip. The ship was bound for the Antarctic. "Not in their wildest dreams had they imagined ending up on the South Pole ice. They probably hadn't even seen ice and snow before," the ship's officer Jan Rise told ...

905. Friends

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... slowly walked, with the help of a cane, to the grave side. With only President Truman in attendance, the service began and ended quickly. On the walk back to the car the minister looked at Truman and said, "Mr. President, why are you here? It's cold and bitter. You shouldn't be out!" Harry Truman looked at him through his very thick glasses and said, "Pastor, I never forget a friend." (6) In that way Harry Truman was like his Lord. Jesus never forgets his friends. An aging man had been part of the invasion ...

906. Marriages That Last

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... involved in an affair. His wife became angry and decided to retaliate in kind. According to Don, the tension was electric. The husband sat on one side of the room hurling accusations. The wife sat on the other side, cold as ice, but occasionally blasting away with bitter fireball-type epithets at him. Don suggested to this couple that they start over. He suggested that they go back to that point in time where they were in love. To which the man replied, "But I don't love her anymore." Don said to the man ...

907. A Time For Hope

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... how he came to cope with his most vexing problems. One evening he came home from a difficult meeting, exhausted and quite depressed. Actually he was angry at someone at that meeting. He wanted in some way to express his anger. He thought of writing a bitter, cruel letter to crush his opponent. He constructed horribly mean phrases in his mind. He took great delight in savoring the anticipated effect of each cruel word. He tried to pray about the matter, but he found that he didn’t really want to turn it ...

908. You Shall Call His Name Jesus

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... takes away the sins of the world," and he thought to himself, "If only he COULD take away the sins of the world. What a tremendous and joyful thing that would be “no more wars, no more broken homes, no more abused children, no more hatred, envy, bitterness and strife. If only he COULD take away the sins of the world." Christmas has become more of a secular holiday than a sacred one. It has become an occasion for blatant materialism and superficial piety. Persons who never think of Jesus the rest of the ...

909. The Explosive Power Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... preacher like John Jasper. He might not even make us a very eloquent lay speaker. But he will give us strength in our time of weakness, patience when we feel we can hold on no longer, hope in our seasons of despair, and love when we are enshrouded with bitterness. For you see, in spite of what we might consider to be excessive enthusiasm on the part of some believers, the Holy Spirit is none other than the Spirit of Jesus Christ, himself, in our hearts today. We may not get up and dance around. But when we ...

910. God Of Compassion

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... day. C.S. Lewis said that he grew up believing that God was an "Old meany looking around to see if someone is having a good time, to put a stop to it." Where do we get such ideas? Such a view of God must come from sick minds and bitter hearts. A man approached Horace Greeley one day to ask for a donation for foreign missions. Greeley turned him down but the man continued his plea and Greeley again said no. Finally the unfortunate one said: "Why, Mr. Greeley, wouldn't you give $10 to save an immortal soul ...

911. Behold The Lamb

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... head of the sculpture began to droop. The majestic Christ with arms lifted up and head thrown back was transformed into a Christ with head bent forward and arms stretched downward as if in a pose of gentle invitation. At first Thorvaldsen was bitterly disappointed. As he studied the transformed sculpture, however, he came to see a dimension of Christ that had not been real to him before. It was the Christ who is a gentle, merciful Savior. Thorvaldsen inscribed on the base of the completed statue, “Come ...

912. The Ultimate Evidence of God

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Phillips described as supremely gentle but absolutely authoritative, looked at him smiling, gently shook his head, and pointed him back to the miserable slope down which he had run. Phillips own words best conclude the story: “I have never known such bitter disappointment, and although I turned obediently, I could not help bursting into tears. This passionate weeping must have awakened me, for the next thing that I remember was the figure of the night-nurse bending over me and saying, rather reproachfully ...

913. Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... great respected military leader, a son who would make him proud. When Philo was born, however, Pilate's pride was dashed. Philo was born sick, weak and permanently crippled. Throughout the years Philo was growing up, he was the object of his father's hatred and bitterness. "You're not the son I wanted," was Pilate's constant reminder to his broken son. As soon as he was old enough to leave home, Philo left the palace of his father and wandered alone in the countryside. There he heard of a Galilean who went ...

914. In The Valley Of Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... illiterate when it comes to the Scriptures. Thus we miss a tremendous source of comfort and strength. The brilliant writer, Katherine Mansfield, died of tuberculosis. She came upon the Bible only in her mature life, never having read or studied it until then. "I feel so bitterly," she wrote in her journal, "that I have never known these writings before. They ought to be part of my very breathing." That is true of all of us. Particularly when we are in the valley of dry bones. We need the written Word of the ...

915. What About the Weeds?

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... !” (2) Human evil is a continuing reality in our world. We see it on every continent. We recoil at the idea of the judgment of God, but what about the weeds? What about the evil within the hearts of men and women--the hatred, bigotry, envy, bitterness, lust, anger, greed, etc. A young woman in one of our public schools was asked to write an essay on Evolution. She wrote, “According to this theory man descended from the apes and has been descending ever since.” There is some truth in that little piece ...

916. Out Of Our Control

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

No matter what happened to a certain gold miner he always described it as pure luck. It was a particularly bitter winter. He was nearly freezing to death, but he kept digging for gold in the granitelike ground. Finally, as the Earth thawed in the Spring and he was down to his last meager ration of food, he broke through the hard crust and dug and dug until at last he ...

917. Started Toward A Great Tomorrow

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... and commit yourself to today alone? Are you ready to go into immediate action? The year was 1934. A National Football League championship game was played between the New York Giants and the heavily favored Chicago Bears. The game was played in bitter cold weather, on a field covered with ice. At halftime the Bears were leading 103. During the halftime, however, the Giants switched from cleats to sneakers which they had borrowed from the Manhattan College basketball team. Suddenly, the Giants had the edge ...

918. I'm Mad And I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore!

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... into the inner city of some of our large metropolitan areas is God's judgement on our failure to correct some of the injustices in our own land. For you see, as the saying goes, what goes around, comes around. The fruits of injustice are bitter indeed. There is a most interesting story from American history about a man named George Wythe (pronounced with), a signer of the Declaration of Independence and perhaps one of the period's most noted legal minds. In 1776 George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and Edmund ...

919. Why Did He Do It?

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... whom he had quarreled. However, when he came to paint the face of Christ he couldn't make any progress at all. Something seemed to be frustrating even his best efforts. At length he came to the decision that the cause of his difficulty was in his bitterness and lack of forgiveness toward his fellow painter. He came to the conclusion that you cannot at the same time be painting the features of Christ into your own life, and painting another with the colors of hatred and enmity.* That is true in our lives as ...

920. If It's The Lord's Will

James 4:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... they asked for sun, God sent sun. That year, the corn and the wheat were higher and thicker than ever before. When harvest came, however, the farmers discovered that the tall corn had no ear, and the thick wheat had no head of grain. They complained bitterly to God. God replied, "When you asked for rain, I sent rain. When you asked for sunshine, I gave sunshine. You never asked for the harsh north winds, however. Without the harsh north winds, there is no pollination, and with no pollination, there is no ...

921. He Can Change Water To Wine

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... more wealthy. He makes additional millions. He is elected to parliament, is knighted by the queen, receives the highest honors. He has a series of love affairs. but they are meaningless, for he loves only himself. Toward the end of the play, we see him as an old, bitter, cynical man who sings, "What kind of fool am I?...an empty shell, a lonely cell in which a lonely heart must dwell..." We know money won't buy happiness, but still we dream. We dream that something life-changing will happen to us, that a ...

922. Why We Give

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... their Jewish traditions and join the Lutheran church. When the stunned family asked "why" the father explained that it would be good for his business. The youngster was bewildered and confused. His deep disappointment soon gave way to anger and a kind of intense bitterness that plagued him throughout his life. Later he left Germany and went to England to study. He sat daily at the British Museum formulating his ideas and composing a book. In that book he introduced a whole new world view and conceived of a ...

923. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... we who are betrayers can come to the cross, and have that terrible weight of our misdoing taken from us. If on the other hand, we are among those who have been betrayed, there is hope for us as well. At the cross we can find relief from our bitterness and hurt. Forgiveness is what Jesus is all about, and he offers to us the deliverance of a forgiving heart that we might also forgive. If only the original Judas had known that. There is a legend about the last day on earth, the Judgment Day, that Scripture ...

924. A Real Solution For Real Problems

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? He walked into his kitchen and found some marshmallows and some roasting forks and he and his wife and two children and their neighbors roasted marshmallows on the fire the bigots had ignited. If there is anger in your heart today or hatred or bitterness, are you ready for a Damascus Road experience? Are you ready for a heart transplant, a personality transformation? Authentic Christian conversion means a real change. From hate to love, from fear to faith in Jesus Christ. THIS IS TO SAY THAT WHEN WE MEET ...

925. A Mystifying Question

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... Lutheran church. "Why?" asked the young son, who was greatly disturbed by this change. "Because," answered his father, "I need the business contacts. It will be very profitable for our family to make the change." The young man became angry and later bitter. He left Germany and went to England. Later he would write, "Religion is the opiate of the people." Today millions of people believe his atheistic philosophy. His name? Karl Marxthe founder of Communism. (5) Of course hypocrisy is not the private domain ...

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