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951. The Edge Of Night

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... events surrounding his Passion. That is why the day is properly called Palm/Passion Sunday. Jesus didn't have to arrange his own ovation when he entered Jerusalem. Word about him had been spreading throughout the countryside. Healer, Teacher, Leader--he was becoming quite a celebrity as holy week begins. Too much of a celebrity to suit the entrenched bureaucracy. And so, even as the crowd waves its palm branches and shouts its hosannas, the shadow of a cross looms in the background. In the bright sunlight ...

952. Loving From The Heart

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... to Christians who were suffering during a time of intense persecution. It was written to give counsel and to give comfort. Quite remarkably, it is a letter brimming with hope and confidence in God. Peter reminds his readers that they were not redeemed "with ... . . . but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ." And then he says something quite interesting: "Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love ...

953. Who's Your Daddy?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... missed you so much!" His son smiled somewhat shyly, averted his eyes and replied softly, "Me, too, Dad!" Then the man stood up, gazed in the eyes of his oldest son (maybe nine or ten) and while cupping his son's face in his hands said, "You're already quite the young man. I love you very much, Zach!" They too hugged a most loving, tender hug. While this was happening, a baby girl (perhaps one or one-and-a-half) was squirming excitedly in her mother's arms, never once taking her little eyes off the wonderful ...

954. His Name Was Rocky Johnson

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... enthusiastic about his Lord that already he has jumped out of a boat and tried to walk to the Master on the water. Of course, he sank, but that he is another story. Peter senses that in Jesus he has aligned himself with a winner. He doesn't quite understand what kind of kingdom the Master is setting up, but Peter knows he wants to have a leading role in its coming. Still, there are signs that things will not proceed as smoothly as Peter might hope. Jesus has warned his disciples to beware of the teachings ...

955. Why Did I Do That?

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... Irish and everyone knows how the Irish love to drink. So, the rental car company should never have rented him the car. It was the rental car's fault that a young lady was dead. What nonsense! Imagine the problems the rental car company would have if they QUIT renting cars to anyone who was Irish. People of Irish descent would be suing them left and right for discrimination. St. Paul doesn't blame anyone else for his problems. He says that the problem is in his own mind and heart. He is under what he calls ...

956. Nothing Is Impossible With God

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... letters telling the recipients that they were "great with child." Among the recipients of the letters were six elderly men. (1) Can you imagine the surprise of those six men? "Your doctor at Such-and-Such hospital is pleased to inform you that you are expecting a baby!" Quite a shock, to say the least. Some of the women were probably surprised as well. "How can it be?" some of them may have asked. "That's not possible! I think I'm going to be sick!" There was possibly some high anxiety in the homes of some ...

957. If God Is For Us

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... calling." When Abraham left the land of his forefathers, and went forth, not knowing where it was he was to go, he was quite safe, though in the midst of implacable enemies, because God had called him. On that memorable occasion, when Abraham returned from the ... he do it? I believe God was with him. It is one thing to say, "God is on our side" when you are waging war. It is quite another to say, "God is on our side" when you are risking your own life to save others. "If God is for us, who can be against ...

958. Redefining Life

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... was supposed to do. But when it came time to bring Merle on stage the promoter got excited and forgot about the line, "the poet of the common man." Instead, he exclaimed: "Ladies and gentlemen! Here he is, Merle Haggard!--the POOR and COMMON man." (1) Well, that's not quite what the manager had in mind. But life is like that. One minute you're a celebrity, the next minute you're a poor and common man or woman. Nobody wants to be thought of as common, do we? We all want to be like the citizens of storyteller ...

959. Beautiful Words Of Life

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ and a refusal to hear and believe his wonderful words of life. One Christmas years ago, a letter was addressed to Santa Claus. It was intercepted by a postal clerk in England. The clerk suddenly realized it was written by his own daughter, who was quite young. The girl told Santa that recently her little brother, Charlie, had died. She asked Santa to take Charlie's presents up to heaven so that he would have something to play with. And then she told Santa of her parents' deep grief. She asked Santa ...

960. How Did You Do On The Test?

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... too sad. I have done my best and can die with a clear conscience. Also try not to be bitter against my captors. They have suffered much in their lives. I love you all. God bless and goodbye. -- Terry." Terry gave the letter to his captors for mailing. Quite naturally, they read it. Then, they pulled him to his feet and pressed the muzzle of a gun against his temple. This was it--the moment he had dreaded for so long. And then, the executioner put the gun down and left the room. Never again did Terry Waite ...

961. Taking Charge

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... handsomely . . . and that's fine. But I wonder how often it works out well for these offspring? We often see children of the very wealthy whose lives are a mess. Some eighteen-year-olds would have the maturity to handle a half million dollars quite responsibly. But my guess is that most of us put in that situation at that stage in our lives would do just what the young man in Luke's Gospel does--he squanders his inheritance. It's party, party, party. And soon the bank is calling. His checks are overdrawn ...

962. Boldly Going . . . Nowhere

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... surrounding sand. The result was that the Humvees suddenly acquired a distinctly pinkish cast. As you can imagine, this became quite a source of humor for the soldiers. Someone even made a bumper sticker for one of these Humvees. It read ... re living for. Most of us reach that place gradually. Some of us, on the other hand, reach that point of evaluating our life quite suddenly--due to a sudden crisis. Rather than a slow evolution--we find ourselves rudely awakened. When best-selling author John Grisham was in ...

963. He Was Afflicted

Isaiah 63:7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... he confessed, "I don't know how long I have been among the spirits, and I don't care. I don't know anything. I'm quite a baby. Never mind. I don't care. I'd rather be a baby." (4) Scrooge felt like a baby with his new insights. Perhaps Dickens was ... saying that Scrooge was experiencing a new birth, something like the new birth Jesus told Nicodemus that he must experience. It's quite a remarkable thought that God became a baby. No other religion makes such an astounding claim. God became flesh. He experienced ...

964. Something To Brag About

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... me that some of the people who wave the flag so publicly resent the fact that they have to pay their fair share of taxes, resent having to serve in the military, and even resent having to vote in our elections. What kind of ingrates are these people? I've quit preaching and gone to meddling, as the old joke goes, but it's true. How can you say that you're "proud" to be an American, and despise its basic institutions? And then there is our debt to God. Do not misunderstand. None of this has anything to do ...

965. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... is uniquely so for Christians. Why? I don't know of any other God in any other religion who has scars in His hands, do you? Scars from having hung on a cross. Why did Christ go to the cross? Because of love. That's amazing. Were we deserving? No, quite the opposite. It was because we were helpless. We were lying beside the road, beaten and bloody and about to breathe our last breath and God saw us lying there and had mercy on us. "While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." How much does God love us ...

966. You Can't Please Everybody

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , but they sure can criticize those who do. Jesus encountered people like that. He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. A woman was in the synagogue with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, "Woman, you are set free from your ailment." When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant ...

967. On Names That Preach

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... or nicknames. As a result, our Christian witness is a timid "Guess Who I Am?" This Advent season, as we contemplate the names given our Lord, let us rejoice that God's Son took the form of human flesh, "God with us, " Emmanuel. Quite a name. Quite a sermon in that name. (1) Reader's Digest, date unknown. (2) A. Kirk Grayson, "Tiglath-Pileser," in The Anchor Bible Dictionary. (3) Henri Cazelles, "Syro-Ephraimite War," in The Anchor Bible Dictionary. (4) An excellent sermonic treatment of this subject may be ...

968. When Did We See You?

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a story from the life of Dr. Gunsaulus, a famous Chicago pastor, that we need to hear. One Sunday morning while Dr. Gunsaulus was in his study writing a sermon, his nephew came in. The boy was a fine athlete about twenty-five years old, but he had never been quite able to find himself. He noticed his uncle's sermon text, "For this cause came I into the world" (John 18:37). That is a statement of Jesus to Pilate. The boy said, "Uncle, I wish I knew why I was born." That gave the preacher a chance to say ...

969. Like A Big Happy Family

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... every one of those 1,000 monks jumped up into the air precisely at the same moment. That must have been quite a sight. I draw three conclusions from this story: first, electricity moves with astonishing speed; second, abbots in French monasteries ... made me whole. God has set me free to fly to the heights again." (3) I have seen God do that sort of thing for people. Quite often he uses the church to lift the broken and bruised bird to life and freedom once again. Look around this room this morning for someone ...

970. Excited, Motivated, Changed!

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We want the kind of excitement, the kind of enthusiasm, that motivates us to change. Motivating people is a perennial problem. I was reading recently that each day across this country 50,000 people quit their jobs. Some are moving to better jobs. Many are not. And these statistics ignore still other people who have also "quit" their jobs but keep coming to work. In fact, in a survey of workers across the United States, nearly 85% said that they could work harder on the job. More than half claimed they ...

971. The Other Woman

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... deserve our sympathy. While we can never condone acts of violence against innocent civilians, neither can we ignore the legitimate grievances of this large segment of the world's population. Would you like to know how the story of Abraham and Sarah ends? It's really quite fascinating. Sarah died at the age of 127, and Abraham mourned for her. He bought a very expensive, special field in which to bury her. Abraham was ten years older than Sarah. When she died, he was 137. He lived 38 more years after her ...

972. When The Economy Goes South

1 Kings 17:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's true. Somewhere along the way we lose that child-like ability to trust--to rest our concerns on God. The first widow had quit trusting God. Elijah came to her and gave her hope. He told her to trust God. There is a third principle we need to ... : Someone is always watching. Jesus was watching as our second widow dropped in her two small coins. Her resources were meager, but she had not quit trusting. Those two coins were all she had in the world and she was willing to turn them over to God. That's faith! No ...

973. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... , might it not be possible that mentally the great scientist was color blind? That is, some people cannot see traces of green where other people cannot help but see it. Could it be that this was Huxley's problem--that he was simply blind to truth that was quite evident to others? Huxley, being a man of integrity, admitted that this was possible, and added that if it were, he himself, of course, could not know or recognize it. (2) We believe Huxley was blind to a great many truths. To people of faith, it is ...

974. God's Design and Our Destiny

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... the favor by stealing her purse. (6) There is something foul in the human heart, something that goes to the very core of what it means to be homo sapiens. If it were simply a matter of some people being saints while others were sinners, God could solve the problem quite easily. He could wipe the sinners from the face of the earth as He did in the story of Noah, but it’s not that simple. All of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Thus God confronted a dilemma. Either wipe the slate clean ...

975. Why Shepherds?

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... wasn’t all that great. Neither were their manners. They certainly weren’t among the religiously elite. In fact religious people looked down on them. William Barclay tells us that shepherds were despised by the orthodox good people of the day. Shepherds were quite unable to keep the details of the ceremonial law; they could not observe all the meticulous hand washings and rules and regulations. Their flocks made far too constant demands on them for that, and so the orthodox looked down on them as very ...

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