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1151. Stealth Christians

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... the opening kick- off, the home team went into a huddle as usual to get the formation from the quarterback and to encourage one another. Then came the unusual. The team did not break out of the huddle to move into action! Soon the red flag was dropped, and the referee stepped off a five-yard penalty for delay of game. What happened (or did not happen) next will be discussed for years! The team still did not leave the huddle! They seemed to be talking among themselves and encouraging one another, but it ...

1152. Motorcycles, Marriage And A Word From God

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... at full throttle, their roar echoed across the valley. As the bride walked slowly and gracefully down this aisle, each bike she passed switched off its engine. As she passed the last pair, and all the engines were stilled, you could hear a pin drop, Parker reports. The bride walked shyly up to Bear. His eyes were overflowing with tears. Then the birds started to sing. All around the host couple were the congregation of their friends, members and families of the Sober Riders, each one a recovering alcoholic ...

1153. A Time For Hope

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... says, "You, Charlie Brown, are a foul ball in the line drive of life! You’re the shadow of your own goal posts! You are a miscue! You are three putts on the eighteenth green! You are a seven-ten split in the tenth frame; a love Set! You have dropped a rod and a reel in the lake of life! You are a missed free throw, a shanked nine iron and a called third strike! Do you understand? Have I made myself clear?" Unfortunately she has made herself clear. When I speak of the incurable optimism that many young ...

1154. Peace

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... even younger children are the unintended victims of the hell called war. In 1955 a thirteen-year old Japanese girl died of "the atom bomb disease" ” radiation-induced leukemia. She was one of the many children to suffer the after-effects of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. During her illness, Sadako buoyed her spirits by folding paper cranes. In Japan, the old myths say that cranes live for a thousand years, and that the person who folds a thousand paper cranes will have a wish granted. With each ...

1155. Some Things To Get Choked Up About

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Tom Finley expresses this truth in such a simple and helpful way in his book, The World Is Not Enough. He tells about a children's hospital for the handicapped near the famous resort town of Palm Springs, California. Celebrities and sports figures drop in from time to time at this hospital to bring cheer and much appreciated gifts. Singer Frank Sinatra made the most spectacular Christmas present to the hospital, at least from the kids' point of view. He contributed a carefully hand-crafted three-foot ...

1156. The Deeper Meaning Of Christmas

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... wrestled with mental and physical exhaustion and he sought to escape from the crowds that were constantly gathering around him. When he reached the pivotal decision of his life and the cross loomed starkly before him, his misery was so great that his sweat came like great drops of blood. Here was a real man. This is not to deny his divinity. This is not to deny his majesty, power and glory. This is to affirm the teaching of the church fathers that Jesus was fully God, yet at the same time he was fully ...

1157. Flight To Egypt

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... up anything again. (1) After Christmas, Lucy mutters, "Rats! Phooey! Everything is hopeless! Who cares?" Charlie Brown asks, "Lucy, what in the world is the matter with you?" Again she shouts, "Rats! Phooey!" The last cartoon shows her walking away only to turn and drop a casual comment to the puzzled Charlie Brown. "Of course you realize," she says, "that I'm just experiencing my regular, post-Christmas letdown." (2) Most of us are sad to see Christmas pass. I hope this was the best Christmas ever at your ...

1158. A New Daddy

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... a father is his love--expressed in a real sense. Not just saying, 'Hey, I love you,' and letting it go at that. The most important thing in our relationship were those talks we had...after I got to know him and we had shed a few tears and had dropped all our defenses and our retention of emotions, and could look eye to eye, man to man, and say, 'I love you.'" (2) Alan Loy McGinnis in THE FRIENDSHIP FACTOR says we should look to Deuteronomy 6 in which we are told to talk to our children "while you walk ...

1159. Something Is Missing

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... feed a live white mouse to his pet four-foot boa constrictor that he kept in a cage in the classroom. When the students gathered around the cage, the shiny, emerald green serpent was lying casually in somewhat beautiful folds in one corner of the cage. The teacher dropped a five-inch mouse into the cage. Totally unafraid, the mouse ran all around the cage, up over the snake, over the folds, and right in front of its face. It seemed to be having a grand old time. Then, slowly but surely, the serpent began to ...

1160. A Woman's Place

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... interrupted in debates in Parliament more frequently than the men who rank below her. Our immediate response is that this is discrimination. It's a sign of chauvinism. But this careful study indicated that Margaret Thatcher, preceding most of the interruptions dropped her eyes as well as her volume and paused momentarily. The conclusion was that it was her style of delivery, not the fact that she was female, that accounted for the interruptions. Experts in communications say a woman must be very conscious ...

1161. Rushing And Realizing

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... with pure hearts and pure motives. God wants a new human creation. An anonymous Mexican prayer expresses the change God would like to make in the human heart: I am only a spark Make me a fire. I am only a string Make me a lyre. I am only a drop Make me a fountain. I am only an anthill Make me a mountain. I am only a feather Make me a wing. I am only a rag Make me a king. (5) Advent is about what God has done--revealed Himself in the babe of Bethlehem. It is about what ...

1162. How God Gets His Kicks

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... with a wooden chair, planning to make a few extra dollars to supplement her income. "A pickup truck pulls up. A man gets out wearing cowboy boots...He wears a cotton flannel shirt, and under his arm is an old shoe box full of cancelled checks and W2 forms. He drops that box on the bare desk and says, `Ma'am, I sure hope you can help me.'" Block concludes, "As long as we can remember that math teacher and that fellow in the flannel shirt, there will be a need for H & R Block." (3) When will we be successful ...

1163. We Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

1 Corinthians 2:9

Sermon

King Duncan

... side up is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.” Or “After discarding something not used for years, you will need it one week later.” Or “After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.” Or “Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner.” Or “Anytime you have a 50‑50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.” And that real clincher, “Murphy was an optimist.” Murphy’s Law is amply ...

1164. Why Do You Believe What You Believe?

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... , you die." Someone asked the blind airplane pilot how he did it. He said, "No big dealjust a little help from my friends and the Good Lord." Then he explained. "A friend comes by my house in the morning. I walk carefully out to his car and get in. He drops me off at a certain gate at the airport. I know exactly how many steps it is to the door of the airplane. I climb the steps into the airplane. I have memorized the way to the cockpit. When I am seated I start the engine. Then I turn the ...

1165. Choose Life!

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... one of the ship’s stewards would find them and the ship would return home. One of the notes said, “I have been sent on a mission to kill all Americanos aboard Legend if we port on American soil.” Someone found the notes and the ship dropped anchor in waters off Oahu. There the ship was boarded by the FBI, 120 members of the Hawaii Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Coast Guard. An intense search ensued for biological, chemical and explosive weapons aboard the ship as well as an interrogation of all ...

1166. Waiting For The Angels

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Ed Edwards fumbled a snap from center. As the Tech linemen charged into his backfield, Edwards yelled to his backs, "Pick it up! Pick it up!" Edward's fullback, seeing the monsters rush in who had battered him all day, yelled back, "Pick it up yourselfyou dropped it." (2) That fullback was tired of being beaten to a pulp, and we sympathize with him. Life does that to us sometimes. Life is difficult. Jesus was led into the wilderness. Sometimes we must enter that wilderness as well. IT IS IN THE WILDERNESS ...

1167. What On Earth Is The Trinity?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a routine. It is more of a burden than a blessing. They carry it, it does not carry them. As Harry Emerson Fosdick once said, "Some people have just enough religion to make themselves miserable." I've seen people like that. They attend church occasionally. They drop a few dollars in the offering plate once in a while. They call on the church for weddings, funerals, and baptisms. But they are living on the edge of the Christian Life. Tragically, this group is very large. A pastor was typing the creed, and ...

1168. Where Are Your Loaves And Fishes?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

A thirteenyearold boy once read about Dr. Albert Schweitzer's work in Africa. He wanted to help. He had enough money to buy one bottle of aspirin. He wrote to the Air Force and asked if they could fly over Dr. Schweitzer's hospital and drop the bottle down to him. A radio station broadcast the story about this young fellow's concern for helping others. Others responded as well. Eventually, he was flown by the government to Schweitzer's hospital along with four and onehalf tons of medical supplies worth $ ...

1169. Vive La Difference

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... building Tony asked Dr. Criswell if he might walk across the street before him and hold the door open for him. Dr. Criswell told him that would be great. Tony went ahead and proudly held the door open as his pastor entered the church auditorium. A few days later Tony dropped dead. Dr. Criswell said that maybe it was just wild fancy, but he believed that when he got to heaven, Tony would be there to open the door for him. He couldn't do much, but he did what he could, and he did it to the glory of God ...

1170. Started Toward A Great Tomorrow

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... returned. The boy was so deeply wounded emotionally that he would forever feel self-conscious in uniform. Later, as a 3star general, he would prefer to wear a simple private's shirt with 3 stars sewn on it. After marrying and attaining the rank of Captain, he dropped out of the military. He tried various ventures in civilian life until the Civil War broke out. He then tried to reenlist as an officer. He found it hard even to get an interview with someone who could appoint him to a position. Only a few good ...

1171. Lesson From Five Maidens

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... warm." He was ready. (3) Dr. John Mitchell relates a story about seeing a friend who was in the last day of his life. When Dr. Mitchell came to his bedside, the man reached out and grasped his hand. "Oh, John," he whispered, "I'm so sick." Then his head dropped back and they thought he was gone. But after a moment he opened his eyes again. "John, is that you?" he asked. Dr. Mitchell replied, "Yes, it's me." The dying man said, "My, my, I'm so disappointed. I was expecting to see the Lord and all I saw ...

1172. Blessing, Testing, Response

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... order for us to help the hungry is apathy. The second attitude which must be overcome is that one which says "Let's just pray for God to feed the hungry. It goes without saying that God alone can feed the hungry. He who created the universe, He who dropped manna from heaven to feed the Hebrews and He who broke bread in the wilderness to feed the multitudes certainly can feed the hungry in the world today. With just one word he could make food appear on all tables. But this world and this life are a testing ...

1173. Speak, Your Servant Hears

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... the land was marshy or reasonably soft with no rocky outcrops. Also they wanted the plane to fly as slowly as possible and no more than one hundred feet high. The British officer pointed out the planes always did fly as slowly as possible when dropping troops. However, he noted, to jump from one hundred feet was impossible, because the parachutes would not open in time from that height. "Oh," said the Gurkhas, "that's all right, then. We'll jump with parachutes anywhere. You didn't mention parachutes before ...

1174. Rise Above It

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... of an old-time vaudeville performer named Al Jolson. Jolson was starring in a musical, Honeymoon Express, early in his career, when he came down with a serious ingrown toenail on his left foot. The pain was so intense that he was on the verge of dropping out of the show. Instead, he managed to relieve the pain that fateful night by getting down on one knee halfway through the performance, and pouring out his sentimental ballads with a great show of emotion. He later worked the technique into his famous "My ...

1175. How Do We Choose?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Dame graduate who determined to seek his fortune. He narrowed his choices of vocations to two. He could go into the real estate business in Houston, Texas or the banking business in Boston. He chose the real estate business in Houston. This was just before the bottom dropped out of the real estate market in Houston. He lost everything. He was a persevering lad, though. He hung in there till things got better. He was such a hard worker that he earned back what he had lost and more. Now he had cash again. He ...

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