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926. Why We Give

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... the people who followed him to life without God. His ideas became the norm for the governments of almost half of the world's people. His name? Karl Marx, founder of the Communist movement. The history of the the twentieth century and perhaps beyond was severely affected because one father let his values become distorted. Money became his god. He held on to the limb too long. Now the limb--his money--had him. Please pray about this with regard to your own family. It is happening to far too many of us ...

927. The Joyful Mystery of the Trinity

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... lived on this planet." "And," he said, "that influence appears to be mounting." No wonder we date our calendars either before Christ or after. Even though we may not know all we would like to know about the historical Jesus, what we do know has affected our lives forever. As Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher once put it: "If the contemporary generation of Jesus had left nothing behind them but these words: We have believed that in such and such a year God appeared among us in the humble figure of ...

928. Surprised By Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... the girls handed her an envelope. Jennie opened the envelope with trembling hands to discover it was filled with money. “It’s from everyone in the class,” one of the girls told her. “We took a collection.” Jennie was overwhelmed by the love and affection she was shown that day. She never really wanted to be part of the class, but the class showed her how much they cared for her. “I received a lot more than money that day,” she reflected, “I received unconditional love and a fresh realization ...

929. Profits And Losses

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... records. `No big deal,' he says. But it is a big deal ” to me. Some of our customers are starting to notice. The home office has started asking why our expenses are so much higher than the other offices compared to sales. Besides, it's starting to affect morale. Some of the salesmen are starting to cheat on their expense accounts. `After all,' they say, `the boss does it, why not?'" Bob thought of a "Frank and Ernest," comic strip he had seen one time. A client is sitting across the desk from a lawyer ...

930. A Life Above All Others

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... feeling about your life? Do you believe you are where God means for you to be and you're doing what God means for you to do? E. Stanley Jones truly believed that "Jesus is Lord," and lived his life accordingly. His positive faith affected every aspect of his life, including his health. He led retreats into his late seventies. He could outwalk someone half his age. Dr. Jones believed that positive attitudes enhance physical healing. He certainly proved this when he suffered a crippling stroke at age eighty ...

931. Passage To New Life

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... conquered death, Mary had new hope, new meaning, and new life. I want to tell you now about a man named Racehoss Sample. Life was not easy for Racehoss: his mother never said a kind word to him while he was growing up. She never showed him love or affection. So he grew up angry, and as an adult his anger landed him in prison. The worst punishment in prison was confinement in what they called "the tomb." This was a four-foot by eight-foot basement cell with no windows, two solid steel plates for a door, a ...

932. Once In A Lifetime

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... that sponsored the promotion was completely caught off guard when he actually made the shot. They weren't even sure how they were going to come up with the money. Calhoun's boss says, and I quote, "It couldn't happen to a nicer guy." His life has undoubtedly been affected by his good fortune. He reports of hearing from old friends that he hasn't heard from in years. (1) Once in a lifetime. The prophet Isaiah had such an experience, too. Oh, he didn't shoot a 79-foot free throw. He didn't even win a million ...

933. Whoever Would Have Thought?

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... her everywhere she went. Helen was simply overwhelmed. (1) Whoever would have thought that what a teacher did out of desperation on a Friday afternoon would have such a lasting effect on her students? You never know. You never know how something you or I might do might affect someone else. The funny thing is that we may not even think that what we did was all that important, but to another person it made a world of difference. Jesus taught us that the kingdom of God is like that. I. The Kingdom of God Is ...

934. Strength Through Weakness

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the hospital who had lost her will to live: she had no cards or flowers, and she sat all day in a darkened room. But Jim was terrified. He felt that he was too inexperienced, and that he wouldn't know what to do. And his nervousness affected his visit. First he pushed the door open too hard and it slammed against the wall. Next he walked over and accidentally kicked the bed. He stammered, stuttered and said all the wrong things in between long periods of embarrassed silence. Finally he tried to say a ...

935. Preparing For An Unknowable Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... known as chaology, the study of chaos. The basic assumption of this discipline is that some things in life are basically unpredictable. For example, the weather. Our ecosystem is so interrelated that a butterfly flapping its wings in Beijing may ultimately affect weather over New York City. There are simply too many variables to ever give a completely accurate long range weather prediction. And yet according to computer models there are patterns even to these supposedly chaotic events. The patterns are so ...

936. Giants Or Grasshoppers?

Numbers 13:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... in his life. Sometimes he wished he could go back to the days when his children were small. He wished that he had spent more time rolling with them on the floor and holding them on his lap. He knows now he did not give them the love and the affection that he might have. It was as if he were saving his love for a rainy day. Oh, he had his excuses. He was working hard to get the business underway. There was lots of stress. Difficult decisions to make. But that wasn't it. Something within him held him ...

937. Angels Announce His Coming

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... was filled by large congregations who flocked to hear Brooks preach. Brooks emphasized the incarnation of Christ and the brotherhood of humanity, always in a spirit of radiant optimism. Employing a passionate yet undogmatic style of preaching, he won the confidence and affection of all who came in contact with him. Two years after being elected a Bishop in the Episcopal church, Brooks died of heart failure. His funeral was attended by thousands of people. Tributes poured in from all over the world. Maybe ...

938. How Do You Act In The Presence Of The Queen?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... to act in the presence of God. Jesus may be partly responsible for that. He was a bit liberal, you see. But there's one thing more to be said. MAYBE NONE OF US KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO ACT IN GOD'S PRESENCE. Maybe that's why worship does not affect us more. Imagine if we came into this room with the feeling that God really is in this place. There would be no yawns as we made our way through the service ” no bored, glassy-eyed stares. Instead, we would react just like Isaiah and Simon Peter. FIRST, WE WOULD ...

939. The Secrets Of His Success

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... young age he had been gravely wronged, first by his brothers, now by his master's wife. Any one of us would probably have let such adversity get to us. We would have asked in a whiny voice, "Why me?" Many of us would allow such injustices to affect our relationship with God. We would have found ample justification to stray from God's plan for our lives. But not Joseph. His character and his commitment to his God kept shining through even in prison. The warden of the prison was so impressed by him he placed ...

940. Father, Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Philip Ware

... let you make God or Isaiah take the blame for such savage cruelty! I'm afraid it's a part of human evil to curse, abuse, cajole and hurt those who come to save us. We see love here, suffering love, and we can't stand such unwarranted affection. We can't accept unearned love until we draw blood, see tears, or watch the loved one writhe in anguish. Then, and only then, will we accept the healing help and acceptance that can redeem us, and restore the relationship that can save our souls! Why do women publicly ...

941. One Came Back

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... they would embarrass me with their love and enthusiasm," she said. Gert did not find the church people as loving and enthusiastic as she thought. What she discovered was, "Bowed heads, long faces, and funereal whispers." She expected people to shower her with love and affection for making the right choice and wanting to be part of the church. No one welcomed her. No one even spoke to her the first Sunday she went to church. "As time went on and I attended other churches," Gert writes, "in various parts of ...

942. Visioning Or Vanishing?

Proverbs 29:1-27

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... become. Our vision of what is marriage is a determining factor in what our marriages become. Likewise, visions shape the nations, movements, institutions and the church of Jesus Christ. Our visions or lack of "vision" determines our interests, our directions, our finances, and affects the totality of the human experience. No part is left untouched by its influence. Unless a church has a shared VISION, in due time, it will be forced to close it doors and cease to exist. A sad thought indeed. Those first ...

943. Do You Have A Forgiving Spirit?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to another of the men there who had first learned to hunt with it. He gave his fishing pole to another. In fact, that old man gave everything he had to the people who were prepared to kill him. He killed them first with love and affection. The impact was incredible. Seeing goodness given in the face of such animosity was more than any of them could tolerate. One by one, in shame, they turned away, and the entire lynching mob disappeared. The minister's grandson had watched everything from a distance, and ...

944. A Mountain Too High To Climb

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... science but his own knowledge, wise women were wary of the man, and so he lived a very lonely life. "One day, the man decided to use his science to win love, and he set about to concoct a chemical that would cause the object of his affections to fall madly in love with him. Soon his research succeeded, he produced the chemical, and as luck would have it, at just that time he met a beautiful, talented and good woman ” the ultimate woman of his dreams. The scientist arranged for friends to introduce them ...

945. What's The Matter? Are You Blind?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... doctors say their eyes function perfectly well. These sightless women suffer from psychosomatic or hysterical blindness. They are really blind, but their blindness stems from their minds. Psychosomatic disorders are nothing new. We know that the state of our mind can affect our speech, our hearing and our memory as well as our sight. Scientists really do not understand this phenomenon, only that it shows the power of the mind over the body. One researcher attempted to explain the refugees' disorder as ...

946. Fear Of Flying

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In an interview done aboard Air Force I, the president was asked if he had overcome the fear of flying. "Overcome it!" he retorted. "I'm holding this plane up by sheer will power." (2) Some of you can relate to that. Fear Is an Emotion that Affects Everyone. Did you realize that? You're not alone in your fears. Everyone's afraid of something. Some people have fears that are almost pathological. It has been more than 35 years since Janet Leigh saw herself on the screen in Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror ...

947. A Niche For Every Itch

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... they are planted. A plant may suffer malnutrition if it grows in rocky soil or be bruised and broken by passersby, and a plant in inhospitable surroundings has no power to move to a more favorable spot. Unlike plants," she adds, "people can make choices that affect their growth." (3) And that's true. It would be easy to surmise from the parable of the Sower that we have no power over how we respond to the Gospel. Rocky ground cannot help being rocky. Thorn-infested ground cannot resist the infestation. And ...

948. Focusing On The Possibilities

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Schuller made the observation to Dantzig that this was the first time it had occurred to him that there was a field of endeavor to which positive thinking didn't apply. Mathematical problems have only one right answer, so they can't be affected in any way by how a person thinks. Dantzig said Schuller was wrong. Dantzig explained that during the Depression he had been a student of mathematics at the University of California-Berkeley. People were hungry and desperate for any job they could get. Dantzig ...

949. Get Out Of That Boat!

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... who was bullied for bringing his Bible to school. The boy handed his Bible to his biggest tormentor and said, "Here, see if you've got enough courage to carry this around school just one day." Those three bullies became his three friends. Another story that affected Nikki was of a boy from Ohio named Jimmy Masterdiro. Ohio didn't have a state motto, so Jimmy wrote a proposed state motto, then set up a petition to get the motto legitimated by the state. Jimmy got enough signatures to take his petition before ...

950. When You Need Help

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... a Christian. When Monica learned of her son's salvation, she remarked that she had nothing left to live for, for the greatest desire of her heart had been fulfilled. Nine days later, Monica died. And the son she had spent her life praying for, went on to affect the whole world. (6) Monica never quit asking. "Live on as you are living," said the holy man. "It is not possible that the son of such tears should be lost." You are concerned about someone you love? Keep on asking God for help. Don't let your ...

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