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1001. Preparing for the Unexpected

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... the point in their spiritual lives that they respond instinctively as he would have them respond. And that takes work. It takes practice. Can you see that the same principles of preparation that apply in our work and in school and in athletics and the arts apply to our living the Christian life? People who are prepared are better equipped to experience the blessings and the benefits that faith has to offer. People who are not prepared are at a disadvantage. For example, we shouldn't have to do much thinking ...

1002. God Believes In Us, Too

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Dr. Chane M. Hutton

There is a well-known and widely practiced tactic in sports and in life known as "messing with your opponent's mind." They tell us that one of the most adept practitioners of this art was Dizzy Dean, the great St. Louis Cardinals pitcher of years ago. One day the New York Giants put runners on first and second with two out, and Dean intentionally walked Hughie Critz to load the bases. It seemed like a dumb move as the dreaded Bill Terry, the last ...

1003. In Search Of A Reason For Being

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

What is your one great goal in life? The one vision that fires you up and stirs you to transcend the daily grind? Well, for John Searing, an arts-supplies salesman from New Jersey, it was to yell, "He-e-e-ere's Johnny!" on the old "Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. Searing had watched "The Tonight Show" since he was a child, and he had always thrilled to the sound of Ed McMahon bellowing the introduction. So, in ...

1004. The Greatest Good News Of All

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... of divine love—resides in our lives. 1. Bob Hope, DON’T SHOOT, IT’S ONLY ME, (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990). 2. Norman Vincent Peale, “The Wonderful Excitement of Christmas,” December, 1984. 3. GUIDEPOSTS, January, 1984, pp. 2-5. Cited in Ted W. Engstrom, THE FINE ART OF FRIENDSHIP (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1985). 4. J. Sidlow Baxter in Richard Allen Bodey, INSIDE THE SERMON (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1990).

1005. Some Things To Get Choked Up About

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... from the kids' point of view. He contributed a carefully hand-crafted three-foot-tall statue of Santa, made completely out of solid milk chocolate. This chocolate Santa weighed nearly 75 pounds ”enough for a year's supply of cavities ”and was a work of art besides. The statue was proudly displayed for all to see on a table in the cafeteria. You can imagine how the children's mouths watered in anticipation. Alas, they had to wait. First there were the photographers. Then Santa had to be shown to special ...

1006. The Other Side Of Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... he spoke these words. What could he mean? "A sword will pierce through your own soul also." We know, don't we? Holman Hunt had a beautiful picture in the Guggenheim Museum in New York City called 'The Shadow of Death.' It is the only known work of classical art of Jesus laboring as an adult in the carpenter's shop. His father is absent so we presume he had died. In this painting, a day of work has ended and Jesus had just risen from his bench and stretches in relaxation. The shadow of his body and upraised ...

1007. He Has Done All Things Well

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... asks, "Did you do your best?" how will you answer? He can help. He will help if that is your desire. 1 (New York: Harper and Row, 1985), p. 131. 2 Richard B. Wilkie, THE LORD'S PRAYER TODAY (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1978), pp 4041. 3 Cecil G. Osborne, THE ART OF GETTING ALONG WITH PEOPLE (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), pp. 17677. 4 Norm Lawson 5 Elton Trueblood, WHILE IT IS DAY (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), p. 27.

1008. A Woman's Place

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... a girl the musicians went silently and regretfully away. There was a saying, "The birth of a male child causes universal joy but the birth of a girl child causes universal sorrow." (2) Then there was that famous prayer that the Jewish man would pray daily, "Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, who has not made me a Gentile, a slave, or a woman." In such a cultural context it is not surprising that there are some writings, particularly in Paul's letters, from which you can make a case for women's subordination ...

1009. The Placebo Effect

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... like a king. He had every plaything that you and I can imagine. He personified on a grand scale the excesses of the so-called "jet set." He had residences in half a dozen cities, a tropical island of his own, and an elegant art collection. He boasted the world's most lavish yacht, the CHRISTINA, a 325foot rebuilt Canadian frigate complete with sumptuous bathrooms lined in Siena marble and fitted with goldplated faucets. He enjoyed the company of beautiful women and startled the entire world on October 20 ...

1010. People Who Would Destroy God’s Temple

1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... Peter Drucker in one of his books notes that Thomas Newcomen in 1712 built the first steam engine which actually performed useful work. It pumped water out of an English coal mine. Watt’s steam engine was simply more refined--it was “state of the art” we would say today. The true inventor of the combustion engine, however, and with it what we call modern technology, was neither Watt nor Newcomen. It was the great Anglo-Irish chemist Robert Boyle, who did so in a “flash of genius.” Only, Boyle’s ...

1011. Response To The Resurrection: Christian People In A Pluralistic Society

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... sheep. But the man sketches out instead his original drawing. The little prince says, "I didn't ask you to draw and elephant in boa constrictor." The man's eyes light up with a hopeful radiance as if to say, "This little boy understands me. He believes in my art." The ending of the story is sad but happy. The little boy dies, and the man who has pledged that he would never care much about anybody tearfully holds the little prince in his arms and cries at the loss of this one who understood him and believed ...

1012. The Battle For Control

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... are children of the King. He will be with us. St. Paul asks, "Who will deliver me from the shackles of this body of death." Then he writes, "O thank God! He will! through Jesus Christ, the Anointed One, our Lord!" 1. PREACHING TODAY 2. Cited in Robert Shoenberg, THE ART OF BEING A BOSS (New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1978). pp 3132.

1013. The Pearl Of Great Price

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... advisors constantly advised him that the money could better be spent on fortifications and armswhat good was music? What good, indeed! Prince Paul has long been forgotten. Germany has had many wars. But the music of Joseph Haydn lives forever. Of course even works of art have a relative value. Bernard Tristain once won a newspaper competition by providing the best answer to the question: "If a fire broke out in the Louvre and you could save only one painting, which one would it be?" His reply was, "The one ...

1014. It Makes No Difference Where You Belong

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... there under the sky in the fields he was before God just as he was, stripped of everything, nothing more to fall back on. And his lips began to whisper, "Yea though I walk in the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me." (2) At that moment that was all that mattered. Someone has said that when the floodwaters rise, all the fences are submerged. In times of great need the differences that separate people become irrelevant. All that matters is our relationship with God. All that matters ...

1015. The Way Life Ought To Be

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... sing to you, then," he said, and began his song. Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, which I gaze on so fondly today, Were to change by tomorrow and flee from my arms, like fairy gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art. Let thy loveliness fade as it will, and round the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still. As he finished the song there was a brief pause, and then Moore heard his wife get out of bed. Slowly she crossed the room to ...

1016. Designer Religion

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... rate compared, not with them, but with Jesus? Do we have the heart of a servant? In Jesus’ Kingdom the greater the man or woman, the easier it is to forget one’s self and to center one’s life in others. 1. Contributed. Source unknown. 2. Lagos Egri, The Art of Dramatic Writing (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960). 3. Fable attributed to Doug Patterson, Clergy Journal, March 1986, page 10.

1017. You're A Good Kid!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... said rather immodestly, "When I was a child, my mother said to me, `If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." Whether you appreciate Picasso's art or not you will have to admit he had a wise mother. We become what people tell us we will become. If people prophesy success for us then success is probably what we will attain. There was once a very lonely and sad young man named Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 ...

1018. The Ultimate Success Formula

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... is found in a portion of his words in Mark 8:34, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me." In a secular sense that text alone would guarantee any person's success in the wonderful world of business or art or education or sports or whatever career you may choose. After all, what does it mean to deny yourself and take up a cross? We know what it does not mean. It does not mean in times of adversity saying in a whiny voice, "Well, I guess this is just ...

1019. Connections In High Place

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... to drown my sorrows, but they've learned to swim." There are some people who will seek what they need in their neighborhood bar. Some will seek it sitting in front of a television set hour after hour after hour. Others will look for it in art, in philosophy, some in bizarre personal indulgences. All other streets except that marked Christ, however, are dead end. All of us are alarmed at the rising rate of crime, particularly crimes of violence. It shocks us to read that in a certain year, eighteen thousand ...

1020. From Coping To Conquering

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... of eighty, she could no longer handle a large needle to embroider, so she decided to try painting. She found she could handle the paintbrush more easily and began painting pictures--mostly farm and country scenes. One day a New York City art collector passing through her small town saw her pictures in a drugstore. The rest is history. Beginning after eighty years of age, Grandma Moses painted over fifteen hundred popular paintings. Twenty-five percent of her paintings were painted after she was one hundred ...

1021. From The Rubble Of Life

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... the 1700's there occurred a rather remarkable change in the life of an Austrian Count named Nikolaus Zinzendorf. Born into nobility, Zinzendorf had recently completed his training in law, and was sent off to complete his education by touring European cities. In an art gallery in Dusseldorf he came upon a masterly painting of Jesus. The eyes of the Master seemed to penetrate the Count's heart. Beneath the painting were these words: "This I did for you; what are you doing for me?" Count Zinzendorf was never ...

1022. The Majesty And The Misery

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... as a personal affront. We isolate and insulate ourselves emotionally from others. We dare not let anyone penetrate the facade that we have constructed. They might discover that we are, in fact, human. Tom Hopkins in his book, HOW TO MASTER THE ART OF SELLING, uses the analogy of a torpedo on a submarine. Use you imagination for a moment. We are on a nucleur submarine. Aboard that submarine are torpedoes. Those torpedoes are very sophisticated weapons. Inside each one are sensors and computers that allow ...

1023. A Time For Silence

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... that we do not chatter on. We sit quietly, expectantly, reverently with a longing to soak up as much of the greatness as we are able. In the early 1900s a young stage actress spent two years in Europe. Much of this time was spent in concert halls and art museums. Later in life when people asked why she had given so much time to things that were not directly related to her successful career, she answered, "I wanted to expose myself to the best, so I would always know what was better." That is not a bad idea ...

1024. Idle Tale Or Eternal Truth?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... his cello, frozen in time against the plain stone wall of that chapel. Karsh said that he took it that way to capture the loneliness of the truly great artists and the loneliness of exile. Years later, when the portrait was on exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, another old, bald-headed man came day after day and stood for long moments at a time in front of the portrait. The curator of the museum noticed him and, when his curiosity got the best of him, went over, tapped the man on the shoulder ...

1025. Harmony Within The Family

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... is much more important." Men are notoriously poor communicators in the home. Perhaps that is why most of us value our mothers so much. Mothers are usually better listeners and listening is, after all, the crucial area in successful communication. Listening is an art, a ministry and sometimes a chore as any mother of small children will tell you. Bill Vamos tells about a cartoon that he saw of a mother driving home with her four small children, the family dog, and several bags of groceries. On her ...

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