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1001. The Secret Of Happy Marriages

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... a doctor." As the cyclist rode on, the passerby noticed a sign on the rear of his bicycle: "I am going to be a Mercedes." (5) We expect so much nowadays. We want it all ” including a fulfilling marriage. Considering the fact that a couple that stays together today will, on average, have forty-eight years of married life, that's asking a lot. The fact that our divorce rate is so high testifies that many people are disappointed in marriage. Some things are better about marriage today. Some things are more ...

1002. Wrong About Christ

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... for me?" The daughter began listing her reasons, and there were a lot of them. She told her mother that she wanted her to get well. She told her that she felt a little guilty for ignoring her when she was younger. She didn't want her to have to stay in a home. She wanted her to be near her family. "Rubbish," said the mother. "What do you mean, rubbish?" asked the daughter. "I mean rubbish," she said again. "You don't have to have all those reasons. We love each other. That's enough." (4) That is enough ...

1003. Angels Announce His Coming

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... to help the traveler he would be left behind by the other wise men. He would not be able to offer his gifts to the newborn king. On the other hand, how could he leave this man who needs his help? Artaban made a quick but necessary decision. He stayed and ministered to the man. Now he was alone. He needed camels and bearers to help him across the desert because he had missed his friends and their caravan. He had to sell his sapphire to get the help he needed. Now he had only the ruby and the magnificent ...

1004. Flies On The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... . "When I left," said his friend, "I left a church." (5) That's the test of every mountaintop experience, is it not? Does it motivate us to reach out to our neighbor? Does it motivate us to reach down to the least and the lowliest? There is no staying on the mountaintop for those who love Jesus. He always calls us to go down to the valley. How about you? How do you feel about these portraits that Luke has given us of Christ's transfiguration? Are you like the art critic who views them with cool detachment ...

1005. Responding Instead Of Reacting

Jeremiah 28:1-17

Sermon

Dr. B. Bruce Humphrey

... Stevenson. Here's the quote: "Extreme busyness, whether at school, work or market, is a symptom of deficient energy." In other words, staying busy is not the sign of a person with a high energy level. It is rather the sign of a lazy person. ... debts. He was living on the edge of debtor's prison day in and day out. Can anybody relate to that ” running day and night just to stay even? Then, when he was 52 years old, Handel suffered a stroke and lost the use of the right side of his body. He could no longer ...

1006. Putting A Face On Jesus

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... TO ELVIS. I understand this book is full of little known facts about the superstar. For example, did you know Elvis was disappointed when he received a guitar on his eleventh birthday? He would have preferred a bicycle. You couldn't have learned that if you had stayed in bed this morning. Did you know that all three of Elvis' Grammy Awards were for religious songs? Do you care? I was interested in one fact: When Elvis died, he was reading a book on the Shroud of Turin, called A SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR THE ...

1007. Do You Have A Forgiving Spirit?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... ." It told of an elderly black man who owned a little farm outside a southern town. Some very precious metal was discovered in that area, and suddenly there was pressure on him from many people to sell his land. But he would not sell. He wanted to stay exactly where he was. However, the people in the area would not take "no" for an answer. They did everything they could to make him move. They burned down his barn, shot through his house one night, and eventually threatened to hang him by sundown the next ...

1008. The Source Of Joy

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... summer vacation Bible School programs when we were youngsters. I believe it went as follows: "I have the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart, down in my heart..." And then the song leader would shout, "Where?" And we would shout, down in my heart to stay!" Have you had those moments in your spiritual journey when for whatever reasons you didn't feel you had an ounce of JOY in your heart? Have you had those moments when joy was lacking in your orientation to life? Have you ever wondered how the Apostle Paul ...

1009. A Most Unlikely Evangelist

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... she tells her friends in the village. "Can this be the Christ?" At her urging the people from the village come out to the well. Perhaps one or another of her five or six husbands is among them. They beg Jesus and his followers (a band of Jews!) to stay with them (a village of Samaritans). A good number of people from the village believed in Jesus "because of his words to her," says John. And the people said to the woman: "It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves ...

1010. The Forgiven

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... to work out for good for you and your family." Sparks answered angrily, "Yes, but at what price?" Sparks said, "For several days I wrestled with the price. I was angry. There's nothing wrong with being angry when something like this strikes you. You just need to stay in contact with God and deal with your anger." In a time of prayer, it seemed to Sparks that God was saying, "Doug, I know how much this is costing you. I know the price you're paying. But I also know the price I paid." Sparks continued, "In ...

1011. Generous Religion

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... % believe TV evangelist Pat Robertson will. (1) "Heaven," Mark Twain once said, "goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out, and your dog would go in." One of the most successful musicals of the past decade has been Andrew Lloyd Webber's ... forgiven. And that is where you and I are today. "Heaven," as Mark Twain said, "goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out, and your dog would go in." A few years ago the small town of Palm Bay, Florida, experienced a deep community trauma. A crazed ...

1012. Internal Medicine

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... physics! Two bodies of matter cannot occupy the same place at the same time! The left front fender is wrapped around the doorjamb on the garage! And what does she do? She jumps out of the car, crying and shouting: I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! I'll stay home! I won't go on vacation! If you do something wrong, you want to make amends. And part of making amends might have to do with giving up something significant to you. And so it is with fasting. Great King David fasted after he did his thing with Bathsheba ...

1013. Offer Them Christ

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... die, do you want to go to heaven to be with Jesus, God, your mommy and daddy and big sister, or do you want to go to the lake of fire to be with the Devil and bank robbers?" David thought a moment, then replied, "I want to stay right here." 1 Debbie might not have presented the gospel with much sophistication, but she is on the right track. She was trying to offer her younger brother Jesus. John Wesley, the 18th century Anglican priest who set off the great Wesleyan revival that swept England and America ...

1014. If You Really Want To Be Helpful

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the minister. Joe laughed, "What in the world could she have done to make you change?" The minister responded, "Do you remember how I would stay out late at night drinking? Then I would try to slip into the house without her knowing when I came in. It never did work. ... did. When she would hear me come into the house, she would always get up and get on her knees by the bed. She would stay on her knees until I got into the bed. She kept praying and praying for me. God used her to open my heart and mind to ...

1015. Are You Available?

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... old woman who lived by herself. She had little money and few friends, and she was dying. She told Shinn that she wanted another woman to come stay with her for such time as she might have left, so Shinn and the old woman's doctor struck out in the darkness to try to dig ... transmitted Scott's compromise proposal: If Tsali and his kin would surrender to be shot, the remainder of the tribe could stay in the beautiful land of their birth. After days of anguish, Tsali, with his sons and brother-in-law walked ...

1016. Finishing In The Top 10%

Luke 17:11-19

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... lepers, and they hated them. No one wanted to get close to a leper. In fact, if you had leprosy, you had to go around shouting, "I am unclean! Unclean!" so people would know to stay away from you. Some people with leprosy had to carry rattles. They would shake the rattles and make a lot of noise, so that other people would know to stay away from them. People with leprosy were so sad and lonely, because no one would come near them or help them. Today we have medicines to treat leprosy, so it's not such a big ...

1017. Never Give Up

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... Costner liked it and made the movie Dances with Wolves from it. Now the book has sold over 2 million copies, and Michael has won the Oscar for the movie adaptation. He now enjoys speaking in schools and to homeless children. "I tell them that if you stay committed, your dreams can come true. I am living proof of it. I left home at seventeen and had nothing but rejection for twentyfive years. I wrote more than twenty screenplays, but I never gave up." (4) People who never give up sometimes win. AND SOMETIMES ...

1018. When The Going Gets Tough

2 Timothy 4:7

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... . And all your life is the race. In a real race, there are only a few winners, and they are the ones who run the fastest. But in the race of life, anyone can win. Do you know why? Because the only rule in the race of life is to stay faithful to God. We don't have to run around in circles like an ostrich. We know where we're supposed to be going. If we love God, if we live the way He has made us to live, then we are ...

1019. We've Been Bragging About You

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... difference between a pencil lead and a diamond? The amount of pressure that the carbon is under. You see, carbon is found in rocks. Soft carbon, like the kind found in pencil lead, comes from rocks that haven't been under much pressure. That's how the carbon stays so soft. But hard carbon, the kind that makes up diamonds, comes from rocks that have been under a whole lot of pressure for a really long time. That's what turns the carbon into a diamond. And which is more valuable? That's right, the diamond is ...

1020. The Patron Saint Of All Who Are The Last To Know

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... to God even in moments of honest doubt. While Thomas was waiting for proof, he didn't go off on his own. Instead he stayed in the circle of disciples until the risen Jesus appeared and erased his doubts. Here we must also pay tribute to the disciples who can ... if doubters are allowed to express their doubts, so that faith can be planted. The key to Thomas' ultimate faith is that he stayed within the circle of the disciples and acted as a person of faith, until faith returned. Anyone can be faithful, when life ...

1021. Where Is Your Heart?

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... he volunteers at a California restaurant for the homeless called Bread and Roses. He has become personally involved in the lives of some of the people he has met there. As he says, "Acting is what I do for a living, but my social justice work is how I stay alive." (8) Now you know where Martin Sheen's heart is. Where is your heart? 1. "Bank robber, 71, 'scared' of freedom . . ." by Laura Ayo, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Aug. 11, 2000, p. A1. 2. (New York: Basic Books, 1991) pp 19, 26. Cited in Mature Years ...

1022. Whatever It Takes

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... least of these. “Whatever." Now, let's change our response from whatever to “Whatever it Takes." O.K., let's try it. Jesus said to love your neighbor. “Whatever it Takes." Jesus said there is more rejoicing over one sinner who is found than the 99 that stayed within the safety of the fold. “Whatever it Takes." Jesus said that when you have done it to the least of these. “Whatever it Takes." Are you and I, like St. Paul, willing to do whatever it takes to win the world to Christ? George G. Hunter ...

1023. When The Fish Won't Bite

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... at in that Simon didn't own his own business. Instead he worked with the sons of Zebedee, James and John, under their daddy's watchful eye! According to Luke's Gospel, things were not going well in the mother-in-law's house. On the day that Jesus stays with them his mother-in-law is seriously ill with a wracking fever. Jesus rebukes the fever and heals her. The result of this? Simon's mother-in-law "immediately got up and began to serve them." (Luke 4:38) As William Barclay has written, "She had been given ...

1024. Passing The Test!

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... an elaborate trestle bridge was built across a large canyon in the West. In order to test the bridge, the builder loaded a train with enough extra cars and equipment to double its normal payload. The train was then driven to the middle of the bridge, where it stayed an entire day. One worker asked, “Are you trying to see if we can break this bridge?" “No," the builder replied, “I'm trying to prove that the bridge won't break." In the same way, the temptations Jesus faced weren't designed to see if he ...

1025. Balancing Act

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... were created for balance. God worked six days and he rested on the seventh. Notice that God created day and night. The day was for working. The night was for resting. But modern humanity is not content with that. Now our stores are not only staying open seven days a week, but some are staying open twenty-four hours a day. But we were not created to go twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Notice that God created us so that we would spend about a third of every day sleeping. We were created for balance ...

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