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976. He Is Who He Says He Is

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... after day he'd walk up and down the streets with his product. No one would buy a thing. Every day he knocked on the same woman's door. Every day she turned him away. Finally, he appeared on her doorstep for the umpteenth time. Just to keep the man from ever returning, the woman made a purchase. The next day, the man rang her doorbell again. "What are you doing here?" she asked, exasperated. The man replied, "Well, now that you're an established customer..." (3) Jesus' disciples had a persistence to their ...

977. Help Wanted, Dad. Ask For Calvin And Hobbes.

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Lowell D. Streiker

... his stuffed tiger, ready to be tucked in by his father.) Calvin: Here Dad, read this story tonight. I wrote it and Hobbes illustrated it. Dad:...Um. OK. (He reads aloud.) "The Dad Who Lived to Regret Being Mean to His Kid." Hobbes: What are you pausing for. Keep reading. Dad: Barney's dad was really bad. So Barney hatched a plan. When his dad said, "Eat your peas!" Barney shouted, "NO!" and ran. Barney tricked his mean ol' dad and locked him in the cellar. His mom never found out where he's gone, 'cause ...

978. Pray Constantly

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... asking, `Please give me a sandwich, I asked for a sandwich, please give me a sandwich,' you don't like it. You say, `Please be patient.' You're talking about our Heavenly Father. Maybe He wants you to be patient. Maybe it wouldn't do any good to keep asking Him. Who knows, maybe the Lord is going to take away your pain instantly. Maybe He's going to curse the roots of the tree. Just accept it." Barbara felt her spirits lift. "His attitude made me feel good...He did not raise his voice or wave his hands ...

979. Hope For The End Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... come to an end and Jesus has not returned. Still, we wait. We look around at the world in which we live filled with violence and crime and racial tension. We read about child abuse, spouse abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, and we say, "Things just can't keep on going the way they're going." Times of uncertainty and crisis trigger thoughts about the end of time. And people always want to know when. Jesus and his disciples were in Jerusalem for what would be Jesus' last week on earth. It was a confusing time for ...

980. Bound By A Promise

Genesis 15:1-12

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... Sarai, have wanted a baby all their lives. But now they are way too old to have a baby. They are older than most of your grandparents. Nobody has a baby at that age. So Sarai, Abram's wife, laughed at God for making such a promise. But God always keeps His promises. His promises never go bad. And soon, Sarai got pregnant, and then she and Abram had a baby. You see, God's promises are always good. The Bible is full of God's promises to different people, and there are even some promises that God makes to you ...

981. Living With Pizzazz

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... was only seeking the welfare of the debtors! He can't be a bad man when he works for the good of the community! So he'll have a welcome in every home! Which is just what he wanted in the first place! Now, if Mr. Rich decides to keep the matter quiet, a whole different scenario will unfold. The people of the community will praise him for his generosity, and his esteem will increase enormously. And that's the picture Jesus leaves us with. Richie Rich stands at the door of his home, surrounded by the praise of ...

982. Never Give Up

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... combine marriage and a career." Gloria Steinem Our last one is from Zsa Zsa Gabor: "I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house." It has never been easy being a woman, but it is a picnic today compared to the world in which Jesus lived. Women had ... him. She could not bribe him or influence him because she had no money or connections. (1) All she could do was to keep coming back with her request. And finally she wore him down. What a great lesson for each of us. For the high school ...

983. Building A Church

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... was in an accident while driving to the game. In spite of his injuries, he still hitched a ride to the stadium and made it there by kickoff time. He is determined to cheer on his team, come hell or high water. As he says, "Only death will keep me from a football game." (7) We encounter people who are passionate about many things nowadays, but rarely are they passionate about their faith. That which should be at the center of their lives is now peripheral. How can we expect to build a church with people who ...

984. Held Hostage

John 18:33-37

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... hot cocoa. (Pour cocoa from thermos into mug) That's what I like about this thermos. A thermos is a container that keeps hot stuff hot. I can put my hot cocoa in here, and it will stay hot for a couple of hours. How does it do that? Why doesn't ... the cocoa get cold? Well, the thermos has layers of stuff inside it that keep liquids hot for a long time. And that's a good thing, because there's nothing yuckier than cold cocoa. Don't you wish there were ...

985. A Mother And Her Son (Mother's Day)

Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." (Matthew 12:49-50) Didn't he know who his real family was? What was happening to him? Have you ever been baffled by your own children? Children keep us on our toes, don't they? Asa Sparks tells when he was a Christian Education Director in Birmingham, Alabama. He and his wife had invited his secretary, Charleigh, and her family to their home for dinner. As they were sharing around the table after the meal ...

986. Why Jesus Did Not Hire A P. R. Guy

Mark 7:31-37

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... it a secret, don't they? I've known small children who were so excited about the present that they didn't even realize they had told the secret. Jesus often told people to keep his coming secret. But sometimes, instead of doing as he asked, they went and told everyone they could find. We aren't told exactly why Jesus wanted the people to not tell others about his miracles. We're going to talk about that in the adult sermon today. Maybe it ...

987. Did He Dance?

Mark 10:46-52

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... , have mercy on me!" Jesus called Bart to him and healed him because of his faith. It is a good thing Bart didn't give up, isn't it? There is a lesson in this for us today too. When we see the opportunity to do something, we should just keep trying and trying. Have you ever heard the saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again?" That's what Bart did. That's what we should do also. If you have paddle games for the kids, pass them out now and say "While you are trying to ...

988. I Can Make It By Myself . . .

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... "afloat" by using their gifts to help one another. God gave each of us unique and multifaceted gifts so that together we could create a dynamic, interdependent, effective community. Where one member is weak, another member is strong. We all have something to offer, and this keeps us humble. We need each other. All of us have our individual gifts, and each of us has his or her place. None of us is any more important than anyone else. In March of 1981, President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr., and was ...

989. Sacred Memories

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... misery because they can't let go of hurtful memories? How many marriages would be improved if one partner or the other could just forget? In A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving says, "Your memory is a monster; you forget--it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you--and summons them to a recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!" (6) And for some people that is true. Like the chemist there are people who would do anything to ...

990. A Terrifying Darkness

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Testament. In the Hebrew faith salvation came through righteousness. Only people who did right in the eyes of the Lord could expect to be rewarded. But, says the writer of Genesis, because Abram believed God, it was counted as his being righteous. Believing God was more important than keeping the Law. I wonder how many of us believe God. This may be why so many of us have a sour attitude toward life. We believe in God, but we do not believe God. We believe that God exists, but we don't really trust that God ...

991. A Life Without Apology

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

King Duncan

... so many jokes about raising children. "We child-proofed our home," said one comedian, "but they are still getting in." "If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache," says another, "do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "˜TAKE TWO ASPIRIN' and "KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN." Some of you will identify with Rita Rudner's line: "I think about having children, because time is running out. I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them." One mother listened as her seven ...

992. The Not-So-Secret Service

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... ' 11". For female spies, the upper limit is 5' 8". All the actors who have played James Bond in the movies have been 6' or taller. By MI5's current standards, none of them would have been qualified to serve as real domestic spies. A secret agent can't exactly keep his secret status if he stands out too much. (1) Who would have thought? James Bond was too tall, as well as too flamboyant to be a real spy. I doubt that Jesus chose his disciples on the basis of their height, do you? As he sent them out into ...

993. Rebellion in the Vineyard

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... home, walking a mile a day, though her eyesight was gradually worsening. She loved people and was always helping them. Even in the nursing home she used a walker to spread her joyful faith. “Facing each day is not easy for her,” White reflected, “but she keeps her spirits up.” How? She felt that even at ninety-eight she had a mission. There in the nursing home she was able to touch the lives of other residents as well as some employees. In fact some former employees who changed jobs still returned ...

994. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... the sight and good for food...And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to till it and to keep it." There are some life-shaping implications in these verses. One is that our world is not self-generating. It was created by the Lord of ... that we are stewards of all the earth''s resources. We are to till the earth, according to the writer of Genesis, and to keep it. The former we have done with diligence. The latter we have regarded with dangerous neglect. INDEED A VERY GOOD CASE CAN BE ...

995. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hell!

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... miserable. Wives sometimes don''t love their husbands. They develop distorted priorities. Sometimes it is something as simple as keeping a perfect house, and they don''t want their husband around because he messes up that house.Fault- ... I don''t know how to put this, maybe except to put it in religious terms. Once you start sinning, you either stop or you just keep going and going, and then you carry this guilt around, subconscious perhaps, but it''s always there and there''s always tension. It''s one of ...

996. Tomorrow Doesn't Always Come

James 4:1-12

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... with the Lord. Jesus reminded us that obeying his commandments proves our love for him, and he tells us that if we love him we will keep his commandments. We shall know the truth and the truth will set us free. God wants you to know his will. That''s one of his ... went right into the mouth of the cave. And then he untied the rope and he took a big rock and put it on the rope to keep it from swinging out of his reach. He knew that if he didn''t secure the rope, he''d have no hope of leaving the cave again. ...

997. On Panicking Close to Shore

John 6:16-24

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the electronic Bible on my computer, and could not find them even once! But I found similar ones, and I am sure that the meaning is there. And I need no “proof text” for every day of the year. All I need to hear is the words of Jesus which keep coming back to me again and again, “It is I. Do not be afraid.” That is enough. But that is everything! In the words of Charles Wesley, Jesus! the Name that charms our fears, That bids our sorrows cease; Tis music in the sinner’s ears, Tis life, and health ...

998. Honestly, Are You Worried about Tomorrow?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... let me go. I rest my weary soul in Thee; I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be.''" (2) Like George Matheson the blind woman had found the resources and perfect peace that God gives to keep on keeping on the journey of life. They both knew that we were commanded to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness and all things in life will be shared with us. God didn't remove the woman''s physical blindness, but gave her spiritual eyes that were the stepping ...

999. Facing Difficult Decisions in Life! Part VI

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... any great distance, he would put a saddle on it and ride the horse. The horse played an important role in his life. "One day a bee stung the horse and, in fright, he ran up into the mountains. The old farmer tried to follow him, but he couldn't keep up. He came home that night to tell the whole village that he had lost his beloved animal. His neighbors began to come in and say, `I''m sure sorry to hear about your bad luck, about your losing your horse.'' "The old farmer shrugged and said, `Bad luck, good ...

1000. Tired of Trying?

James 5:7-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the inhabitants to concentration camps. Seven months later, Anne died in the camp at Bergen-Belsen. She wrote that day in July: It''s really a wonder that I haven''t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can''t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ...

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