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1001. One Giant Leap

John 1:1-18, Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... boy comes home. He's so jealous about his good-looking wife that when he glances up from trying to put together a Christmas toy for his son, and he can't find Eunice, he runs outside without a coat, thinking that she might be sitting in the warming house at the skating rink with her brother-in-law Fred. Richard comes home. They called him Foxy in high school. Always out to make a buck. Always swaggering about how he was going to become rich some day. Always flashing a roll of bills to the girls. Well ...

1002. Spin-masters Need Not Apply

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... husband immediately called the doctor back. "What did you mean by all this stuff about St. Tropez, Aspen and mink coats?" "What?" said the doctor, "I just recommended to your wife a regimen of frequent baths, plenty of fresh air, and to be sure to dress in warm clothes." The wife put a little spin on her medical condition. (3) Now, contrast the role of the spin-master with the open sincerity of St. Paul: "When I came to you, brothers and sisters," he writes, "I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to ...

1003. Skating To Where The Puck Is Going To Be

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... , sacrifice! I came across a powerful poem that's an illustration of how we want God on our terms. It goes like this: I would like to buy $5.00 worth of God, please; not enough to explode my soul or distract my sleep, but just enough to equal a warm cup of milk, or a snooze in the sunshine. I don't want enough of (God) to make me love the outcast or pick beets with a migrant, I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth, I want a part of the ...

1004. The Bridge Builder

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... our goodness against Jesus' example? Mark Twain once said, "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." And he's right. This is love in its purest form, love in action. We like to think of love as an emotion--warm and fuzzy and set to some doo-wop tune from the '60s. But for the Christian, love is a decision, not an emotion. Love chooses to humble itself, love chooses to put others' needs first; love chooses good over evil, blessing over cursing, reconciliation over revenge ...

1005. On Having The Right Credentials

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... offered. "Go back to your stateroom and drink lots of orange juice. Take two aspirins. Cover yourself with all the blankets you can find. Sweat the cold out. I know just what I'm talking about. I'm Billie Burke from Hollywood." The man smiled warmly and introduced himself in return. "Thanks," he said, "I'm Dr. Mayo from the Mayo clinic." (3) Credentials protect us from charlatans and incompetents. We want to know that our pilot is licensed, also our doctor, our realtor, even our beautician. We want to know ...

1006. The Gates of Hell

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... , not unlike a lot of thoughtful people. But she begins her book, Beyond Belief, with an unusual anecdote and a very powerful witness. On a bright, cold Sunday morning in New York, she interrupted her daily run by stopping in the vestibule of a church to get warm. Two days earlier, her two-and-a-half-year-old son had been diagnosed with an invariably fatal lung disease. Two-and-a-half years' old. Barely born and already dying. Imagine the pain in her heart, if you can. But here is how she describes that ...

1007. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... command is that we are to love one another as Christ loved us. If you think about it, that is a demanding standard. That means that love is an action. How did Christ love us? He laid down his life. You and I would prefer to define love as a warm and fuzzy emotion. But you can't command an emotion. If I held a gun to your head and said, "Get happy!" the best you could do is fake it. And even then, you probably wouldn't be very convincing. But Jesus is commanding us to love one another as ...

1008. The Present

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... No kids, no pets, no worries. We'll lay on a lonely beach and plan another hundred years together." Then came the challenge. The copy read like this: “Remember the first time you mentioned going away? How many somedays ago was that? Is your warm and wonderful someday ever really going to happen?" The final advertisement in the three-part series featured Venice, Italy, at sunset with romantic gondolas gliding by in the foreground. The message read: “Someday we're going to see the other side of the world ...

1009. Building An Understanding Of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ?" the little fellow asked after mulling this over for a moment in his mind. If the Lord is one, then surely, some day, He will be two. It reminds me of something Mickey Rivers, an outfielder for the Texas Rangers baseball team once said about his warm relationship with Yankee owner George Steinbrenner and manager Billy Martin. Rivers is quoted as saying, "Me and George and Billy are two of a kind." (1) Well, that's quite an accomplishment. The three of them are two of a kind. Each year on this first Sunday ...

1010. Dreaming Of Florida--awaking In Alaska

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

Near the end of 1981 a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Lewenetz, took a flight from Moscow to the United States to visit his father. When they emerged from their airplane at the end of the trip, they expected to find warm, sunny Florida. Instead, they found themselves in frigid Alaska. The couple did not even realize their mistake, however, until they tried to get a cabdriver to take them to the address of Mr. Lewenetz's father. Later a resident of the town who spoke Russian helped straighten out the problem. ...

1011. On "supersizing" Our Vision

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... to give what they had. A woman would not give her stick of wood because there was an African-American person in the circle. A homeless man would not give because there was a rich man there. The rich man would not give because his contribution would warm someone who was obviously shiftless and lazy. Another would not give his stick when he recognized one not of his particular religious faith. The African-American man withheld his piece of wood as a way of getting even with the whites for all they had done to ...

1012. 'Thanking" About Thanksgiving

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... government, Because it means that we have freedom of speech. For the parking spot I find at the far end of the parking lot, Because it means I am capable of walking and that I have been blessed with transportation. For my huge heating bill, Because it means I am warm. For the lady behind me in church who sings off key, Because it means that I can hear. For the pile of laundry and ironing, Because it means I have clothes to wear. For weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day, Because it means I have ...

1013. A Question We All Ask

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... into one. But to everyone's horror, the two sides wouldn't come together. It seemed that all the impressive manpower and machinery had failed. But then the clouds began to drift, and the sun shone down on the bay. And as the bright sunshine warmed cold steel, the sections of bridge slowly yielded to all the pulling and came together. Great cheers accompanied the historic joining of the bridge. (5) All the efforts of the people working on the bridge were not enough to complete the job. But the sun came ...

1014. Insincere Religion

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... like royalty. Now, it's time to go. Mr. Kleinman says, "This was a delightful Sabbath. Thank you so much. What can I do to repay you?" And Mr. Putterman presents Mr. Kleinman a bit of paper on which is written: "Warm bath, six dollars. Two cakes of soap, four dollars. Clean towels, three dollars. Full dinner, twenty dollars. Overnight lodging, forty dollars. Fresh sheets, three dollars. Total: Seventy-six dollars." "You're charging me?" asks the incredulous Mr. Kleinman. "Certainly," replies Putterman ...

1015. On Forgetting To Do A Business Plan

Luke 14:25-35

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... the air temperature, the greater the number of chirps. That sounds unbelievable, but it's true. If you count the number of a cricket's chirps in fifteen seconds and add 40, the result will be the temperature within one degree Fahrenheit. That way you will know how warm it is and dress accordingly. Of course, I guess it would be easier to look at a thermometer than to count chirps, but it is one way to arrive at the temperature. Jesus talked about counting one time. He talked about a man who built a tower ...

1016. The Good Son

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... a minute." Is the point of Jesus' parable simply that actions speak louder than words? If that's it then we might as well sing our closing hymn, pronounce the benediction and go home for our "Old Fashioned Chicken McNuggets Sunday Dinner!" Well, don't start warming up the Buick just yet . . . because we will see that THE POINT OF JESUS' PARABLE IS FOUND IN EXAMINING THOSE TO WHOM JESUS SPOKE. Jesus was talking with the elders and the priests. These men had the respect of their community and were the bearers ...

1017. The Guiding Light for a New Year

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... voice, "Turn on your heart lights." And one by one, people in the audience turn on different kinds of small lights whatever they have with them flashlights, candles, lighters. By the end of the song, the darkness in the auditorium has been dispelled, and light is glowing warmly everywhere. (4) And that is our purpose in the new year. As Jesus said to us, "No one lights a candle and puts in under a bushel, but on a lampstand . . ." (Matthew 5:15) We are to move boldly into this new year, because the light of ...

1018. All My Children

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... seven. Her needs were a drain on the family's meager resources. One evening, though, John's Dad took him to a men's store just outside of Philadelphia. John needed a jacket. There, for only a few dollars was a beautiful white coat that would keep him warm. Just one problem: on the chest just over the heart was an embroidered animal and around it the title, "Portelli's Lambs." Now, John was nearing his teen years and the last thing he wanted his buddies to see was a sheep on his sternum. The clothing dealer ...

1019. A Mother And Her Son (Mother's Day)

Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... What do you get for your $160,140? Naming rights. First, middle and last. Glimpses of God every day. Giggles under the covers every night. More love than your heart can hold. Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs. Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds and warm cookies. A hand to hold, usually covered with jam. A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites, building sandcastles and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring rain. Someone to laugh yourself silly with no matter what the boss said or how your stocks ...

1020. Worried About Her Child

Matthew 15:21-28

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... not budge. They thought to themselves, maybe we can break it up with dynamite. It made a terrible explosion, but it did not break up the mountain of ice. They were horrified. What could they do? Fortunately, they did not have to do anything, A few days later, a warm breeze blew across their area. The mountain of ice began to melt and then to break up on its own. Finally the fishermen were able to get their boats back out to sea. A woman came to Jesus with a mountain of a problem. Her little girl was sick ...

1021. Love Is Not Easy

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of those stricken with unforgiving diseases like Alzheimer's grows, we will see more such tragedies. Somebody has got to do something! Love demands it. You see, love is everything. But by that Paul did not mean that kind of passive love that simply is a warm and fuzzy feeling toward humanity. No, New Testament love, agape love, is love that does not wait until two elderly women living alone seek out help. The love of Christ requires that we be out seeking the lost, the unloved and the alone. There are such ...

1022. Love Is Not Easy

Romans 13:8-14

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... friendship broken. The roaring lion had his victory. One by one he killed them all, and made four good meals. It's important for people who care about one another to stick together. Sometimes we do that by phone. Sometimes we do that by a caring note. Sometimes with a warm greeting. Love is the most important characteristic of a Christian. We need to love one another, look out for one another and always stick together.

1023. It's A Good Thing There Weren't Unions . . .

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... I have a daughter we haven't seen in awhile: She was living another kind of lifestyle, one that we didn't exactly approve of. She left home, and we hadn't seen her . . . "Until we found her the other day. She was in an apartment with no heat, no warm water, no electricity. We also found her with our grandson, three months old. We asked her if she wanted to come home, and she said that, yes, she would. "Many of you in our congregation will not approve of someone like that living in your parsonage. But she's ...

1024. Would You Please Listen To Me?

John 1:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... "make straight the way for the Lord?" Are there unconfessed sins, fears, prejudices, habits that are keeping you from a fruitful, committed Christian lifestyle? Is there apathy or unbelief in your life that needs to be confronted? Advent is not meant to be a warm and fuzzy season in the life of the church. It is a time that demands soul-searching and repentance and change. Author Patsy Clairmont writes that one year, she decided to write "Noel," the French word for Christmas, in bright lights on the roof ...

1025. Light Shines Out Of Darkness

2 Corinthians 4:6

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... of all, they're using lasers in surgery to actually help people get well. So, when we say Jesus is the light of the world, we can see a lot more to that than the people who lived in Bible times could see. We know that not only can light warm and make the world brighter, but light is powerful. Light can heal. Jesus is all those things. Jesus brings warmth, and he makes things bright, but he also is powerful and he is the source of healing. So, I couldn't bring a laser beam with me this morning, but ...

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