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1026. The Joyful Mystery of the Trinity

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

A little boy on the Art Linkletter show years ago answered the ancient question of which came first-the chicken or the egg. "The chicken had to come first," he said, "because God can can't lay eggs." His answer is probably as good as any other. There are many things in life and even in ...

1027. Entering Into The Agony

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... race gradually becomes selfish. Sympathy ceases to exist; the very word is deleted from the dictionary. No poets are born, for poets are the children of pain, who learn by suffering what they teach in song. Music and painting are no longer practiced, and the loss of these arts drives the people to despair. At last in their rage they turn on the man of no sorrows and drive him out, turning once again to the teaching of Jesus that he who suffers most has most to give. (3) St. Paul knew the agony of the cross ...

1028. Marriage In Heaven? No. Heaven In Marriage? Yes.

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... 38 times, and I've worn out 49 pairs of shoes, but we've never had a fight." The great English war hero Field Marshal Montgomery once said to his young troops: "Gentlemen, don't even think about marriage until you have mastered the art of warfare!" I'm not certain whether he was saying that they should discharge their military obligation before marrying or that there are lessons to be learned in warfare that will be helpful in marriage. Whatever the aim, many marriages do resemble warfare more than ...

1029. A Shocking Revelation

Revelation 1:9-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... emperor Napoleon Bonaparte saw Dannecker’s work. He was very impressed. He sent for the sculptor, and he had a commission for him, Make me a statue of the goddess Venus for the Louvre! he said. Quite an honor! to be chosen as the creator of a work of art like that! Who could refuse? But you know what?! Dannecker did! He refused the commission. He gave up that honor. And you know why? This is what he told Napoleon: "A man who has seen Christ can never employ his gifts in carving out a pagan goddess!" Think ...

1030. Preparing For God's Great Gift

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... early in the morning, we would come across the Flying Valentis practicing in their long tights and tank tops." The Flying Valentis were a troupe of circus acrobats who traveled and performed throughout the United States. "Although we were used to their art," Rather recalls, "the Flying Valentis never ceased being the wonder of the neighborhood. Every morning it was like getting invited to a great show without having to buy a ticket. They did triple somersaults above their practice nets and caught each other ...

1031. Beneath The Cross

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... "Mother! O Mother!" When the molten lead and iron were prepared, the little girl was thrown in. At last the bell maker succeeded. The bell, called the Emille Bell, made a sound more beautiful than any other. When it rang, most people praised the art that had produced such a beautiful sound. But whenever the mother whose child had been sacrificed heard it, her heart broke anew. Her neighbors, who knew of her sacrifice and pain, could not hear the beautiful tone without pain either. Only those who understand ...

1032. Crossing The Desert Or Protecting Our Vehicle?

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the church has inspired countless people for hundreds of years. The church is the tallest building in the town and can be seen from a considerable distance. It is truly a monument of faith. Tourists visit this beautiful old cathedral and marvel at its art and treasures. You might think that such a beautiful cathedral would be filled with worshipers each Sunday. You might even think that it would be wonderful to be part of such a magnificent church. The truth is that when the new pastor arrived in that ...

1033. Get Your Third Class Tickets Here!

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... yet ahead. 1. James W. Moore, Yes, Lord, I Have Sinned (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991), pp. 45-46. 2. Ibid., p. 51. 3. Contributed by Bruce Edwards. Source: Confident Living, Feb. ’93, pp. 28-29. 4. E. Ross Helton. The Upper Room. September/October 1992, p. 28. 5. The New Art Of Living (Fawcett Books, 1986). 6. Billy Graham, Hope for the Troubled Heart (Minneapolis: Grason, 1991), p. 107. 7. Charles R. Swindoll, Laugh Again (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1991), pp. 235-236.

1034. For Laughing Out Loud!

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... meeting interesting people. He told about an old man he met in Kansas. "We never caught his name," he wrote. The old man was a pilot. Charles and his crew were doing a story about an artist whose canvases were eighty-acre fields. The best way to view this unusual art work was from a plane. Kuralt and his photographer spotted an old J-2 Piper Cub parked in a barnyard. They asked the old farmer if he would fly them. "Sure, I'll take you up," the farmer replied. "We need to take the door off so I can take ...

1035. The Second Step

Romans 6:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... beggar who made good, but do we forget poor Humphrey? Here's the story: "Humphrey came in to the prince, played by the pauper, and dropped upon one knee. Tom, the pauper prince, sat still and contemplated him soberly for a moment. Then he said, "Rise, lad. Who art thou? What wouldst thou have?" The boy rose and stood at graceful ease, but with an aspect of concern in his face. He said, "Of a surety thou must remember me, my lord. I am thy whipping boy." "My whipping boy?" Tom asked. "The same, your Grace. I ...

1036. The King Of Ifs

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Richard Andersen

... of life and give it to Jesus. He is the King of Ifs, who masters them all with a love that transforms impossible situations into possibilities for joy. Jesus is the King of Ifs. Touchstone, a clown, in Shakespeare's As You Like It, jests about the art of dueling and the book of instructions that deals with it, by commenting that when he and his opponent got so far, instead of lurching at one another with their rapiers, they simply "measured swords and parted." He then proceeded to tell his friend that he ...

1037. Watch What You Eat

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Those Corinthian believers could not see that their enlightened faith was profitless if it did not produce love. Later Paul would call such love-less faith nothing but a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. I am reminded of John Ruskin, the great English art critic of the nineteenth century. Ruskin was a brilliant man with a true love for beauty. His letters reveal his knowledge about and love for the finer things of life. His travels in Italy have provided us with enchanting watercolors of Venice and ...

1038. Why Are You Troubled?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... he finally said. "That's right," replied the patient with a troubled look on his face. "It's been like that all day!" Erma Bombeck tells about another worrier named Estelle. She is a mother from Path, Rhode Island; and as a parent she elevated worrying to an art form. Her child was a cancer patient, so some of her concerns were legitimate, but still, Estelle admits, she carried worrying a bit too far. She says that as a parent it was her duty to worry. And as the parent of an oncology patient, she perfected ...

1039. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... fulfill our reason for existence: we will be ready to bear fruit. A man on a busy street polished his customers' shoes with great enthusiasm. It was evident that he enjoyed his work ” turning a pair of scruffy leather shoes into a shining work of art. He also enjoyed talking with the men whose shoes he polished; he even enjoyed polishing the shoes of men who buried their noses in the morning newspaper. There was one regular customer who was a professor from the old Soviet Union. The professor noticed how ...

1040. God's Job Profile

Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... drive to win." That drive, it turns out in the commercial, is to be on a winning team of stockbrokers. "A man possessed by a single aim in life." (2) Those are the folks who always excel ” whether it is in business or medicine or the arts or sports ” a man or woman possessed by a single aim in life. Amos had that single-minded devotion. His cause was righteousness and justice. And regardless of how the people of Israel resisted his prophecies, Amos was not deterred. "The Lion has roared," Amos declared ...

1041. The Secrets Of His Success

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... no matter how hard you shook Joseph, he kept rising to the top. He was committed to doing right. He was committed to serving God. A recent article in Smithsonian magazine describes the history of some of Russia's magnificent cathedrals and religious art. During the 1930s Joseph Stalin in his fanatical devotion to atheistic communism blew up and demolished some of the most beautiful, ancient houses of worship. Today Russia is seeking to save and repair reminders of that religious culture that Stalin and his ...

1042. Traveling Light

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Caroly R. Gibson

... careful. It can lead to fragmentation rather than unification. If we're not careful it can destroy our soul. Lindberg has been given a gift from the sea. It is the gift of simplicity. The sea and her little beach house have taught her the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much. Clothes for instance. Instead of a closet full, a suitcase full. Shelter ” no rugs, no curtains. She found her anxiety about housework slipping away. No one to impress. Pride and hypocrisy in relationships ...

1043. One Came Back

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... being treated at Children's Hospital. John said, "Thank you, Lord. I'm glad you asked me to do something in my profession." Helping others was John's way of saying "thank you." Soon afterward he started his own foundation and raffled off houses and hosted art auctions and dinners. In 17 years with the help of his family and fellow builders, he raised a total of $700,000 for leukemia research. (2) In all the years since his daughter's illness and treatment, John discovered more blessing than he ever expected ...

1044. Hard Choice

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... Lucy said, "Get plenty of rest. Save your energy. Whenever you can sit, sit. Don't spread yourself thin with social activity." Scott said it was a professional, real-life extension of something she'd first heard as a college girl acting in school plays. Her theater arts director wouldn't even let her go to a football game. Their school was very big on football, but when she mentioned going to the game, the director really chewed her out. He said, "If you're serious about acting, you'd better know it's like ...

1045. While It Was Still Dark

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... finally his devoted wife. The father-child relationship comes up often in the Verdi operas, perhaps because their composer never got over the loss of his own children. He would eventually marry again, but he was never again blessed with children. In his art, Verdi confronted the problem of this final separation from dear ones with prayer. A number of his operas conclude with a prayer for reconciliation and personal reunion beyond the rupture of death. (2) Mary Magdalene went to the tomb while it was still ...

1046. Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... 30 horsepower a prediction Verne offered a quarter century before the advent of the automobile. He also forecast the telephone, fax and computer. He foresaw a world in which classical culture gave way to a bleak society dominated by finance and industrial technology. Art treasures of the Louvre gathered dust while people flocked instead to "electric concerts." Jules Verne was one of the world's great visionaries, but still he knew what it was to be rejected. (5) AND SO DID JESUS. Here, of course, is where ...

1047. Be Careful What You Call Me

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... in every time. For example, when Jesus said, "They love to be called Rabbi,'" we could just as easily say, "They love to be called Dr.,'" or they love to be called "Reverend." PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE. PRIDE IS PRIDE. There was once a scientist who discovered the art of cloning himself so perfectly that it was impossible to tell the reproduction from the original. One day, he learned that the Angel of Death was searching for him, so he produced a dozen copies of himself. The angel was at a loss to know which of ...

1048. Family Resemblance

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... seen and accomplished many things. Yet not long after he returned home, Charles Darwin became an invalid again. His strength failed him, and he suffered from a variety of physical problems. He even lost all taste for the great music, poetry, literature, and art that had once enchanted him. He became depressed. Yet doctors couldn't find the source of his sudden decline. There was seemingly no physical reason for his suffering. And suffer he did! For the next forty years until his death, Charles Darwin was ...

1049. Is It Wrong To Be Ambitious?

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... man physically. But he did prove once again the truth of the maxim that it's not the size of the dog in the fight that makes a difference but the size of the fight in the dog. Would Michelangelo have made such a contribution as he did to the art world if he had not prayed: "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish"? Of course not. Michelangelo was ambitious. So was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln often said to himself as a boy studying by the pine log fire at night: "I will study and get ...

1050. Washing Away The Junk

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... Spirit marked the beginning of Jesus' ministry, revealed his identity to those who witnessed it, and deepened the faith of many of the witnesses. LET'S CONSIDER, FOR A MOMENT CHRIST'S IDENTITY AND WHAT IT MEANS TO US. Ted Engstrom, in his book THE FINE ART OF FRIENDSHIP, tells a story which helps us grasp some of who Jesus is and what he has done for us. A young husband has a crippling, terminal neurological disease. His wife is carrying a baby which this unfortunate young man may never live to see. Thus ...

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