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926. Driven To Serve

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... and healthy, Mark paid no attention to the slowly changing mole on his lower back ” until it was too late. The mole was a cancerous melanoma. In the early stages, melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, is completely curable. Mark had waited too long. The cancer had penetrated deeply within his skin and had begun its slow spread into the bloodstream and vital organs. Mark was given two years to live. Unlike some who withdraw from life when faced with such a grim prognosis. Mark vowed that he would ...

927. After The Beep

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... No, I won't. It may be the boss calling me in to work. Oh, but I should. What if it is Ed McMahan calling to award me my ten million in sweepstakes winnings?" "Screening" calls has been around for a long, long time, long before Alexander Graham Bell. Adam and Eve did a fine job of screening their calls long before the technological wizardry of our day. In Genesis 3:8 the Bible tells us about a call Adam and Eve received one gorgeous day. They didn't want to pick up the phone because they thought it might be ...

928. A Time For Hope

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... about the matter, but he found that he didn’t really want to turn it over to God. He then tried an experiment. He tried to completely relax ”to push every thought from his mind. As he sought to relax, he felt deep within himself a "a vague longing" for the coming of one he called simply "the Friend," the one who understands, even in the time of anger when we are not ourselves. Leslie Weatherhead writes that an overwhelming sense of peace suddenly flooded his being. He didn’t see a vision. He didn’t ...

929. Getting Ready

Mark 1:1-8

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... difference. The road is smooth. The road looks great. There is an easier way that would cause less inconvenience--all the highway workers would have to do is patch the holes. And then next year they would have to come out and do the same thing. In the long run this would not solve the problem. John the Baptist is our highway engineer who calls us to prepare for the coming of the Messiah. And the preparation involves much effort on our parts. A lot of hard work goes into changing the direction of our lives ...

930. Searching For Jesus

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... to see and to love beauty. His father used to take him out in the evening, and the father and son would lie in the long grass beside the wood. They would watch the rabbits play, and the birds swoop by, and the corn field rippling like the waves of the ... issues of life before a time of crisis. Where, then shall we find him? Most of us find him just where Mary and Joseph found him long ago “in his Father's house. Here in the community of faith is where most people find God. I know, church is not always the ...

931. What If The Lord Really Did Come Today?

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... a church great. In Christ's eyes a great church is one in which people care ”about one another, and about the world for which he died. Bishop Hazen Werner tells of being in the home of a woman whose husband had just died. She told of her husband's long nights of suffering and how she had cared for him, not having the money to employ a nurse. He wondered how she could have kept going, and she told him that the neighbors had kept their lights burning through the last few nights. She said, "I knew that they ...

932. Freedom!

Romans 6:3-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... freedom. Still, political freedom is not the most important kind of freedom. There have been many who have been imprisoned for long periods of time who have been freer in their minds and hearts and spirits than many who walk around enjoying the ... How does a man maintain such dignity, such grace, such ability to articulate the concerns of his people after being confined for such a long period of time. His body may have been imprisoned, but not his mind, not his heart, not his soul. The Apostle Paul knew what ...

933. What About the Weeds?

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... on which he accepted no avoidable appointments. He wrote from breakfast until dark. He might be thinking about his next project all week long, but he did not put it on paper until Tuesday. He wrote on Tuesdays. By following that simple plan he left behind a great ... you are a greater fool than I.” A beautiful garden requires a vision, a plan and a commitment to cultivate it as long as necessary. I like what Tom Landry, the legendary coach of the Dallas Cowboys once said. It went something like this: “I ...

934. Walking On The Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... born with two fears already present according to psychologists fear of loud noises and fear of falling. It does not take us long, however, to accumulate many othersfear of the dark, fear of lightning and thunder, fear of dogs, fear of other people. For ... and the waves and was afraid. Then he began to sink. That is the nature of the life of faith. I can do all things through Christ as long as I keep my eyes on Him and don't start thinking about the waves that are lapping at my feet. There is a story about the ...

935. Jesus And The Ayatollah

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... comedian said it best. He said historians have recently found the very first treaty the United States government ever signed with the Indians. The treaty states that the Indians can keep their lands "for as long as the river runs clear, as long as the buffalo roam, as long as the grass grows tall, and as long as the mountains stand proudor ninety dayswhichever comes first!" That is the natural way for human beings to behave. To love their own and to despise the foreigner, the stranger, the outsider. It is ...

936. No Improvement Possible

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... sequence on All in the Family several years ago in which Archie Bunker is arguing with "the Meathead", his son-in-law, a professed agnostic. The son-in-law asks, "Archie, if there is a God, why is there so much suffering in the world?" There is a long, awkward silence. Finally Archie yells, "Edith, would you get in here and help me? I'm having to defend God all by myself." God does not need our defense. Sometimes the church does, however. Sometimes we forget what it is that God really requires of us. We are ...

937. Would You Mind Rescuing Me?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... from the highmindedness of the majority. Still, many of us have a feeling that the church is not all Christ has called her to be. That is sad. The church of Jesus Christ is the most important institution in all of society. Even those outside the church long for the church to be all Christ called it to be. There is a delightful scene in WINNIE THE POOH that goes something like this: Pooh: "Did you fall into the river, Eeyore?" Eeyore: "Silly of me, wasn't it?" Pooh: "Is the river uncomfortable this morning ...

938. A Most Confusing Doctrine

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... simply, "Why don't you ask your father or mother?" The little girl thought to herself as she left, "If I had lived with God as long as my father and mother and Sunday School teacher, I think I would be able to tell a little girl what He is like." That's ... Is your God big enough? Can you imagine a God for whom time does not even exist? We talk about `forever.' People say, "Forever is a long time." That's not it at all. Where God is, there is no time. As Augustine taught us, God created time just as He created ...

939. Breaking Down The Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... , each of them by at least two feet. He returned to the dugout, walked past all the other players on the bench, sat down in the corner next to Larry Doby and put his head in his hands. No one ever asked Joe Gordon if he struck out deliberately. As long as they played together after that, however, every time Larry Doby went out on the field, he first picked up Joe Gordon's glove and tossed it to him. Doby went on to become one of the strongest hitters in major league history. (1) I don't know anything about ...

940. Why We Give

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... any moment, the eagle could have turned loose of that icy perch and soared into the blue sky. But it did not turn loose. It remained too long, so that the eagle's talons froze onto the limb and it could not let go. At first the eagle had the limb, but now the ... 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 ...

941. The One Thing That Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... thought pearls were the prettiest jewelry in the world. You thought they were prettier than any other jewelry except your wedding band. A long time before we got married, I asked the Lord to help me put this string of pearls around your neck. You never knew ... it: "I could hear him bubbling through his tears, `I did it because I love you so much!'" Then he added, "I have often wondered how long that big old man stayed on his knees weeping in the lap of that little woman who had less than a year to live." Those ...

942. A Pentecostal Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... whisper to stop grinning-he was in church. Then when the tears came to the little fellow's eyes, his mother said, "That's better." (1) I doubt that anyone would mistake that mother's demeanor for drunkenness or joyful excitement. How sad. Many of us long to see the modern church infused with the same joy, the same love, the same energizing power that characterized the church on the day of that first Pentecost. That is only natural. We need to understand, however, that the first Pentecost was an unique event ...

943. Way Down In Egypt's Land

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... with him ” even in the worst of times. (3) THE SECOND TRUTH REVEALED HERE IS THAT THE HOPE OF THE WORLD RESIDES IN THIS CHILD WHOSE PARENTS FLED INTO EGYPT. This is why he must be protected at all cost. It was he that the world had awaited for so long. All of us have seen those signs, "Keep Christ in Christmas." I hope you did that this year. There are many people who celebrate Christmas who have no idea at all that Christ is the hope of the world. It’s like one family I read about. They were gathered ...

944. Set Free

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’d go join the church again. I’d walk down to the front and renounce my sins and ask Jesus Christ to come into my heart. And all of a sudden I had a new slate in the eyes of the Church. Then I’d slip off and smoke a long strip of cedar bark rolled up in a newspaper ” and suddenly I was back facing the fiery furnace again." "Each time I went to the front and rededicated my life," Nelson wrote, "I wanted to leave my sins with God and walk away clean. I felt I shouldn’t have ...

945. Get Your Third Class Tickets Here!

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... attending church. One Sunday morning when the invitation was given to accept Christ, one of the young people came forward with his younger brother, followed closely by their mother. All three of them made commitments that morning to Jesus Christ. And before too long this family was bringing other families. Eventually most of those children and youth and even some of their parents made decisions to follow Christ. God used this woman who felt she was incapable of teaching. (4) God could use her because she ...

946. For Laughing Out Loud!

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... farmer if he would fly them. "Sure, I'll take you up," the farmer replied. "We need to take the door off so I can take pictures," the photographer told the farmer. "Fine!" was his reply. Flying at 2000 feet the photographer asked the old pilot, "How long ago did you get your ticket?" "Ticket?" the man asked. "You know, your pilot's license," the photographer explained. "I don't have any pilot's license," the old farmer told them. "I just found this thing wrecked out here and patched it up and taught myself ...

947. Building For Durability

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Timothy Wilkins

... is going to be gone. The life that is built on sand collapses. F. W. Robertson, the great London-born preacher, said, "it is an awful moment when the soul begins to find that the props, the foundation on which it has blindly rested so long are rotten; when it begins to feel the nothingness of tradition, and in that horrible insecurity begins also to doubt whether there is anything to believe at all." Sometime back, the world stood shocked to learn that the former President of the Phillipines, Ferdinand ...

948. Strong Faith

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... The people present that day would remember those events for the rest of their lives. And no wonder. On that hillside long ago Jesus gave his followers a foretaste of the heavenly banquet that is yet to come ” a banquet prepared from the ... they finished singing, they stood up with a shout and were ready to go out and face the challenge of another day. (5) On a hillside long ago people ate bread and fish together. And they marvelled at the love and the power of a simple teacher from Galilee. We don’t know ...

949. Afraid Of The Water

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... do," they pleaded, "our Jewish neighbors are being dragged out of their homes and off to the gas chambers. And many of our own are hearing the knock of the Gestapo on the door at night. Tell us, Herr Doctor, tell us what to do." Kramer was silent for a long, long time. Then he spoke with the conviction that characterized his life. "I cannot tell you what to do," he said, "but I can tell you who you are!" And with that he opened his Bible and began to read. (5) The implication is clear. Once we know who we ...

950. The Salvation Army Parade

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... It worked; Olav finally arrived in the United States. "It is a miracle," he told his hosts as they hugged each other at the airport. Olav was very nervous at his first speaking engagement. He had never spoken in English at a public meeting. There was a long awkward moment while he searched for a particular verse of scripture in the English version of the Bible. He began by reading: "Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus... I will go before you and level the mountains, I will break in pieces the doors ...

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