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1076. God Sometimes Changes His Mind

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Trench once said that prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of his willingness. He is the God who knows our needs and whose will is ever directed to His children's good. We cannot help but pray when things need changing. That is the most human response to danger or to heartache in the world. But we need to understand that even while we are praying a loving God is already at working all things working to the good for those who love him. This is to say that what we need to pray for is not ...

1077. Casting Out An Evil Spirit

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... . If that were true none of us would ever die. That is ridiculous. It is to say,however, that we are a unitary being. We cannot separate our lifestyle from your general well-being. The best possible lifestyle is one in which we trust God and live responsibly in the light of His love. Good religion heals the body. GOOD RELIGION ALSO HEALS THE EMOTIONS. All of us sometimes reach the breaking point emotionally. There is a story about a monastery in Europe perched high on a cliff several hundred feet in the air ...

1078. What About the Weeds?

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s help. A beautiful garden also requires a plan. A great Quaker leader named Rufus Jones was a prolific writer. He wrote and published one book a year for over fifty years. He did this while making speeches, editing a magazine and attending to countless additional responsibilities. Someone once asked him how he found the time to write so many books. He answered, “I wrote my books on Tuesdays.” It was a simple but effective plan: he set aside Tuesdays as his one day of the week on which he accepted no ...

1079. Time For Action

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... recognized him as one of the Jewish boys marked for death by the Nazis. So she screamed at him to go away and slammed the door. Dirty, bloddy, and shivering, this little boy limped from one house to the next begging for help. But he always got the same response. People were afraid to help. Fianlly in desperation, he knocked on a door, and just before the lady of the house could tell him to leave, he cried out, "Don't you recognize me? I am the Jesus you say you love?" The lady froze in her tracks for ...

1080. True Love

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... first been loved. There is no higher truth than that. God so loved the world that He gave His only Son THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. Faith is our response to God's love. Faith is not a response to the fear of God. Faith is not a response to an intellectual acknowledgement of God. Faith is a response to God's love. That is why the cross is such an important part of Christian faith. It is on the cross of Calvary that we see the love of God most clearly. Could it be ...

1081. Finding Our Way Back Home

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... failing to restrain their children's illegal activities. If the parents simply cannot control their children, they can sign papers to that effect, and the city will have the juvenile courts rule on what to do with those children. The parents will no longer be held responsible for the actions of their kids, but the parents must pay $100 to the city or do 20 hours of community service. Further, the parents must display a sign in their window and a bumper sticker on their car saying, "My children are not my ...

1082. A Time For Silence

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... have no answers. Such times demand a measure of silence. We can but wait on the Lord and trust that though we see through a glass darkly, one day we will see face to face. That is one occasion that demands silence. Here is another. SILENCE IS THE BEST RESPONSE, IN THE SECOND PLACE, WHEN WE ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMETHING OR SOMEONE GREATER THAN OURSELVES. We need that kind of inspiration from time to time to ponder a masterpiece or to sit at the feet of a legend. At times like that we do not chatter on ...

1083. Why We Give

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... winter night? Do you know that Jesus Christ died for your sins? We have much to be thankful for. We give, first of all in response to all that God has done for us. IN THE SECOND PLACE, WE GIVE AS A REMEDY TO THE ENSLAVING POWER OF WEALTH. This is ... sake, give something." He has learned that giving is happiness. Are you experiencing that happiness in your life right now? We give. Why? In response to all that God has given us. To remedy the enslaving power of our wealth. As a reminder of Who is number one in ...

1084. A Christmas To Remember

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... was sleeping that an angel from God spoke to him. "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife," the angel told Joseph, "for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit." The angel told Joseph that he had the responsibility of naming the child Jesus, "for he will save his people from their sins." An angel of God spoke to Joseph through a dream. Scientists who have studied brain patterns of people sleeping report an "internal storm" of activity when a person is having a dream ...

1085. Get Your Third Class Tickets Here!

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... -class ticket holders were not allowed to stay on board. When the stagecoach was unstuck you would get back on and take your seat. If you had a third-class ticket, you would definitely have to get off if there was a problem Why? Because it was your responsibility to help solve the problem. You had to get out and push or help lift to fix a broken wheel or whatever was needed because you only had a third-class ticket. (1) Fortunately the stagecoach is no longer a major means of transportation. One of the ...

1086. Waking To A World Upside Down

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... if tardy form of birth control. Somewhere there has got to be a better way. And there are many fine Christians all over this country who are single parents. These folks are struggling to make ends meet as well as juggle all the demands of being almost solely responsible for their children. They are to be saluted. By the grace of God they’re doing the very best they can. But none of them would hold their situation up as ideal. We are not saying the world is divided into good folks and bad folks and we ...

1087. Getting Your Attention

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... to time. Sometimes the worse thing to do is to deny that anger and hold it in. We need to go to the person who is making us angry and get the matter resolved, if possible. Of course, it is not always a person who is responsible for our anger. Sometimes it is a situation. Like Jesus' anger with the moneychangers in the temple. SOMETIMES ANGER CAN BE CREATIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE. Some of the most repulsive social ills that have plagued humanity have been eliminated because somebody got angry. One person with a ...

1088. Responding Instead Of Reacting

Jeremiah 28:1-17

Sermon

Dr. B. Bruce Humphrey

... own detriment. The prophet Jeremiah, on the other hand, was not quick at all. He did not react like Will Rodgers or Gen. Custer. He was the kind of person who had to go home and think about it for a while and then come back later to give his response. In today's scripture, we read about the false prophet Hananiah who announced to the people that they didn't need to listen to Jeremiah any more. Jeremiah had spent many weeks wearing a wooden yoke around his neck. It was the same kind of yoke that an ox would ...

1089. Power Praying

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... 't the first time Speight had heard this. It was, however, the first time he was willing to listen. The club was designed to hit the ball, the other man told him. Richard was trying to move the ball with brute force. "I had been feeling totally responsible and totally inadequate at the same time," Speight admitted. He took the man's advice and let the club do the work and what a difference it made. The ball rose, sailed smoothly down the fairway, and fell in the middle of the green. Unfortunately, Richard ...

1090. A Niche For Every Itch

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Such a challenge will only appeal to a few. It will not appeal to those whose heart is a hardened path, or rocky soil, or thorn-infested. People respond to the Gospel in different ways, but we can control our response. What kind of soil are you? 1. Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose DeWolf, (HarperCollins Publishers, 1992). 2. "For a More Friendly Feline," January 15, 1996. 3. March/April 1996, p. 19. 4. DAILY BLESSING, Jan-June 1996, p. 116, "Perfect Love Casts Out Fear," Congressman Stephen Largent ...

1091. Who Will Be Crying At Your Funeral

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... they were to have the house ready when he did. Now put yourself in the place of these servants. They had a choice to make, didn't they? They could have said, "While the cat's away, we will play." Or they could have carried on with their responsibilities. You and I can't relate to servants. But we can imagine being teenagers whose parents have gone away for a holiday. These teenagers could party, party, party, and hope they can get the house put back in order before their parents get back, or they could act ...

1092. Being A Sheep Is Not So Bad (compared With Being A Goat)

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... going to lose your job!" This second time that Billy asked, Jeff had to ponder why he could not grant the simple request of a little boy who probably would not be going home. "Hold me." It was such a simple request, and yet Jeff searched for any reasonable response that would allow him to leave. He could not find one--except that if he lost his job he would also lose his car, then his home. Still, he finally decided, he could not pass up the opportunity to bring a little happiness to a dying boy. He sent ...

1093. The Divine Balance

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... -moving equipment will dig even deeper holes. Well, Anne continued, when the tide comes in, doesn't the water cover everything? In the same way, she said, God's grace is sufficient to cover over any sin, no matter how large that sin may be.(7) Our faith is a response to Christ's saving action on the cross. We did not deserve for Christ to die for us. It was purely and wholly an act of God. The only requirement that God puts on us is that we believe that Christ has saved us. The only requirement is that we ...

1094. You Feed Them!

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... 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 disciples." And they did. (3) Wow! Leave it to Tony Campolo to hit the nail right on the thumb! Jesus says, "You feed them!" And we can! This is a rich world and we are rich people ...

1095. Who Did He Praise?

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and if God wants me to work, God will provide a job." Have you ever known anyone with that kind of attitude toward life? It sounds like such a nice, religious idea--waiting for God to provide our need. But friends, it can also be an evasion of responsibility. And as such, it can be deadly--deadly personally, professionally and spiritually. It's very much like saying, "If God wants me to lose weight, God will keep me from desiring ice cream." Or, better yet, "If God doesn't want me to stop at [Krispy-Kreme ...

1096. On Living Before You Die

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... another can write beautiful music for the piano or organ, another can build a building and still another can build a road up to the church. We don''t all have the same talents. We''re not equal in that respect. However, we are equal in responsibility! The one-talent person is just as responsible to God for the way he or she uses his/her talents as the five- or ten-talent person. We may have differing abilities, but we are equal in our accountability to God for how we use them. God depends on us. In Paul''s ...

1097. The Total Steward

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... steward will not view this showdown with God with dread but with joy and peace as he thinks on the reward. We are accountable not just for physical and financial resources; we are accountable for life itself and the experiences that come with it. We are responsible to God for what we let sorrow and suffering, happiness and joy, do to us and through us. Daniel Webster, Secretary of State under President Fillmore, was moody and withdrawn when he had a dinner gathering at the Hotel Astor in New York City. One ...

1098. The Lord's Prayer: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... war and conflict in the world today. It is a conflict that is as old as the Garden of Eden itself. It is a conflict between the kingdom of God and earthly desire of humankind to do its own thing. It is as old as Adam "passing the buck" of responsibility to Eve for eating the fruit in the garden. When Jesus teaches the disciples to pray, "Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will Be Done, on Earth as it is in Heaven," he knew that he was sharing the most difficult thing for any person to do, including himself. Let us never ...

1099. Worry Wart or Winning Warrior

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... a-loose." The problem with worrying is that it is easy to do but so hard to let loose. It is a power that controls our lives. I like the story told of a small lad who mistakenly killed his grandfather''s favorite bird with a slingshot. Fearing their response, he tried to find the most unthinkable hiding place. He thought he had found the perfect place; however, his sneaky little sister saw his every move. She now had power over him. He was forced to do all of her chores so that she would not tell what he ...

1100. Waiting and Witnessing

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... in peace, according to your word. For my eyes have seen your salvation which you have for all people. A light to give light to the Gentiles and the glory of your people, Israel." Anna models for us what to do after the dream or promise is fulfilled. Her response was one of enthusiastic witness. "At that moment she came, and began to praise God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem." To put it in the words of one of our Christmas carols: "Go tell it on the ...

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