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1076. The Divine Balance

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... . And Man clutched his remote control and ate the potato chips swaddled in cholesterol. And Satan saw and said, "It is good." And Man went into cardiac arrest. And God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery. And Satan created HMO's. (1) Balance. It's hard to achieve, isn't it? There is an ancient Spanish folktale about two tribes of people who lived on either side of a mountain. On one side of the mountain, the villagers all dressed in yellow and they played all day "every day was a holiday and every ...

1077. Temptation Island

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... McConkey's football career. McConkey had a stable but unremarkable career in the NFL. But in one Super Bowl game, McConkey made a remarkable catch that won the game for his team, the New York Giants. Instant fame, plus a cover on SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, followed this achievement. Years later, Phil McConkey's name would still be spoken of with reverence because he made one good catch at one crucial time. (3) Hey, life's not fair. Confess it now. How many times have you driven unsafely and nothing has come of it ...

1078. General Hospital

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... to be one of the truly creative minds of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller. Fuller, whose inventiveness seems to have known no bounds, was the one who dreamed up the geodesic dome, along with a whole host of other innovations. So numerous are his achievements that a list of his inventions would fill a good-sized book. Fuller explained that the source of his creativity was a painful misfortune that occurred during his childhood. He described how, as a small child, he lost his sight. He went to bed ...

1079. Inexpressible Joy

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... an alcoholic and prostitute who abandoned him as a toddler. She was murdered in 1964. No one even bothered to investigate her murder. (1) Bernard Kerik has come a long way. How does it happen that someone who started out with so many strikes against him could achieve so much in life? The child of a murdered prostitute. And yet it happens. It happens enough to inspire us and cause us to want to be better people. Angelica Guevara graduated from high school with a 3.9 GPA. For any kid, that's pretty impressive ...

1080. Crossing To A Land Of Hills And Valleys

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... only a successful business person, but he is also a successful writer and speaker. He gave these rules in inverse order--beginning with number ten. Number 3 on his list of ten was PLAY TO WIN AND WIN TO PLAY. We would expect such advice from someone who achieved success during the heady boom years of the 1990s. But listen to what was Number 2 on his list: OBEY THE ABSOLUTES. Here is how he put it: "Playing to win, however, does not mean playing dirty. As you grow older and older, you will find that things ...

1081. You Feed Them!

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... microphone and said, "You already have all the resources necessary to complete this mission project right here within this room. It would be inappropriate to ask for God's blessing, when in fact God has already blessed you with the abundance and the means to achieve this goal. The necessary gifts are in your hands. As soon as we take the offering and underwrite this mission project, we will thank God for freeing us to be the generous, responsible and accountable stewards that we're called to be as Christian ...

1082. Worried About Her Child

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... can get. 3. Try to suffer from the disease for which you are being treated. Remember that your doctor has a professional reputation to uphold. 4. Do not complain if the treatment fails to bring relief. You must believe that your doctor has achieved a deep insight into the true nature of your illness, which transcends any mere permanent disability you may have experienced. (5) That's the way some people approach their doctor. Some people are intimidated by authority figures--so intimidated that they do not ...

1083. It's A Good Thing There Weren't Unions . . .

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... youngest segment of the Girl Scout organization--from ages seven to nine. Like the other members of this organization dedicated to fostering good citizenship and service, as a Brownie you earned "points" when you attained certain levels of achievement or performed various services. You may have accumulated enough points to translate these points into awards. So influential has the Brownie organization been that the concept of "Brownie Points" has been transferred to general usage in our language. Earning ...

1084. Expectant Living

2 Peter 3:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... the purpose of her life was to "grab all the gusto" she could get. And at just twenty-one, she is already tired and hurt and disillusioned. She is not alone. There are many people in this world--especially young adults--who have given up on achieving a fulfilling life. They are afraid of relationships. They live as virtual loners. They've done it all--and have nothing left to show for their experience, except a bad case of disillusionment. These are exactly the people that Peter is talking to in this letter ...

1085. The Difference Between Looking Good And Being Good

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... close with a story about two men who illustrate Jesus' principle very well. Brothers David and John Livingstone had very different goals for their lives. John dreamed of being rich and famous. From a young age, David dreamed of following Christ. Both boys achieved their goals. John Livingstone became rich and famous. David Livingstone became a medical missionary to Africa. He was never rich, although he did become famous as one of the best-known missionaries of the 19th century. In his later years, he was ...

1086. Stop Those Two Dear Women From Fighting

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... in myself, then I have no reason to be jealous of your accomplishments and rewards. Indeed, I can rejoice with you at the recognition that you receive. But if I am unsure about myself, any award you win is but a reminder to me of my own personal lack of achievement. And it grates on me and might even cause me to lash out at you--even though you have done nothing at all to deserve my anger. Do you see that the way to solve the problem of conflict in the church is not for us all to take conflict ...

1087. An Invitation To Know God

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... I hope that you came with an expectation that this could be a life-changing experience for you. That sometimes happens in worship. People who have been blind are made to see. People who are in darkness see a light. And people who have known nothing but defeat suddenly achieve a great victory. By God's grace they finally conquer themselves. It can happen. But there are three things that must be present if we are to come to know God in the same way that Samuel did. FIRST OF ALL, WE MUST HAVE A BELIEVING HEART ...

1088. Light Shines Into The Darkness

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... on its wing. The plane was flying at supersonic speeds, but the cannon shells were subsonic. The fighter actually ran into the shells it had fired seconds before. The jet was traveling too fast. That's happening to a lot of people today--especially among high achievers. They've got places to go, worlds to conquer and toys to accumulate. They never give a thought to Christ and his claims on their life. And some people don't see the light of Christ because of unresolved sin in their lives. Harlan Weschler, a ...

1089. People Jesus Loved

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... limbs by this time, and desperately wanted to return to active duty. In an amazing and unbelievable turn of events, Bader returned to active duty in the R.A.F. He had an incredibly successful record as a pilot. He shot down 26 enemy planes and achieved the rank of wing commander. But then he himself was shot down behind enemy lines. As his plane went down in flames, he managed to parachute to safety, but he left one of his artificial legs behind. On the ground, he was easily captured by the Germans ...

1090. Living In The Kingdom Of God

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked her husband, "Well, why don't you say something, Einstein?" (1) In his own way, the old settler was saying that he had found a satisfactory state of mind. He had learned to live in harmony with his surroundings. That's more than most of us have achieved. Jesus told this scribe that he was not far from the kingdom of God. The scribe had indeed found the key to harmonious living in this world and the next. Love God and your neighbor as you love yourself. Want to live a truly fulfilled life? Some people ...

1091. God Has Come

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... to get people feeling better about their community, and working more closely with the police. "If someone can say, "˜I live in the same neighborhood as the chief' instead of [I live in] "˜the neighborhood where the shooting happened,'" he said, "he will have achieved his goal." (2) In a sense, God moved into our neighborhood. That's the Christmas message. That is the greatest compliment that God could possibly pay us. God entered our "vale of tears." Author J. B. Phillips wrote a story in which a senior ...

1092. A Picture Of A King

Psalm 72:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... , honor, and power than any other king before him. And yet, he writes in the book of Ecclesiastes, "I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure . . . Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, chasing after the wind . . ." (Ecc. 2: 10-11). In the end, Solomon found his power to be meaningless. So it is very interesting to read Psalm 72, Solomon's vision of a future king sent from God. "Give the king your justice, O ...

1093. Finding Peace

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... you. How do we find peace of mind? How do we empty our minds of all the worry, fear, resentment, and pain that living in this world brings? How do we find the peace that Christ promises us? One man said that he had been told that one way to achieve inner peace is to finish the things he's started. He said, "Today I finished two bags of potato chips and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." We have a name for it, don't we? Comfort food. Be honest about it, ladies. Chocolate. And gentlemen, perhaps a ...

1094. What Do You Really Know?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... was God. That shouldn't surprise us, since children are not nearly as cynical and close-minded as adults are. Children have an amazing ability to see life without boundaries. They are bursting with potential, and see no reason why they can't achieve anything they set their minds to. Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey of Carlisle, Iowa, know a lot about children. In 1997, the McCaugheys made national headlines when Bobbi gave birth to septuplets--four boys and three girls. In addition to their older daughter, Mikayla ...

1095. Winners Every One

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... String." Not a single one of the new jerseys was ever stolen. (1) That is not surprising. None of us wants to be fourth string. We want to be winners. We want to be people who have life figured out. And the good news is we can be. Winners. Achievers. Successful in every meaningful area of our lives. That is the clear testimony of St. Paul as he writes to his young protege, Timothy. Was St. Paul a winner? In some respects he may be the second most influential person who ever lived--second only to his Lord. I ...

1096. Something To Brag About

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... right on target. I don't know about you, but I can say without a moment's hesitation that I am thankful to be a free citizen of this wonderful country. I was born here, so America was a gift to me. I can't say it's something I achieved, something I earned, or something I take pride in. It just happened. It was an accident of birth. But I consider myself one lucky person. It's interesting that our text from the Epistles for this day on which we celebrate our freedom should come from Paul's letter to ...

1097. Marks Of A Champion

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Chicago, and the Illinois state representative of the Tenth District. He also works with prison inmates to help them get their lives back on the right road. He is a success by any definition of the word, and he continues to grow. However, none of his achievements would have been possible had he not spent those eighteen months going deep within and throwing himself on the mercy of God. (1) We all need that--even if we have never been an addict. Righteousness--being a good person. Godliness--developing a deep ...

1098. What's Really Important

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... made the greater difference. "Consider also data from an ongoing study of eighty-one valedictorians and salutatorians from the 1981 class in Illinois high schools. All, of course, had the highest grade-point averages in their schools. But while they continued to achieve well in college, getting excellent grades, by their late twenties they had climbed to only average levels of success. Ten years after graduating from high school, only one in four were at the highest level of young people of comparable age ...

1099. The Grief Of God

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the highest order . . . a spiritual and moral leadership. Such is the role as I see it for which this great nation of ours is now cast. In this we follow the Cross. If we meet the challenge we cannot fail. But no end may be achieved without first making a start. We must abolish, not control war. You cannot control war; you can only abolish it. "Those who shrug this off as idealistic are the real enemies of peace . . . the real warmongers. Those who lack the enterprise, vision, and courage to try ...

1100. To Whom Shall We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... than those who live like animals. People around you will help you, and you can often do help yourself. However, this help is not always what it could be, and at times you will feel lost and helpless. Finally, there is the divine level, which humans can achieve if they so desire. The original nature of man is similar to that of God. All the privileges of His sacrifice are yours when you live on the divine level. You will get real assistance for making your way through life, because you don't have to ...

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