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1151. Preparing For A Royal Visit

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... he scored two field goals, one 59 yards and the second 60 yards, an NFL record. No one has kicked two like that in a single game before. (note as of 12-12-23 he is 30 of 30, no misses. Check for updates on this stat.) Aubrey’s impressive performance earned him the NFC Special Teams Player of the Month award. Aubrey’s story is a testament to being ready when your chance comes and recognizing it might come from a surprising place. Despite being a newcomer to the sport, he was able to make a significant ...

1152. Making It Last

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... gathered out in the desert to listen and experience firsthand this wilderness prophet--John. Today it is very important to present a positive image to visitors who come and worship in our church. Books about church growth all stress this vital point. First impressions are so important. If a visitor leaves feeling unwelcome they probably will not return. It is very important to welcome visitors and make them feel welcome in our church. We welcome visitors to let them know how glad we truly are that they ...

1153. Good News For You

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... of her awkward pregnancy. It goes almost without saying that the rest of the world had difficulty accepting the significance of this holiest of nights as well. Truly, a casual spectator at the birth place of the King of Kings would not have been impressed: a lowly stable “a crude manger where cattle fed “a humble couple who could find no place in an inn “some gaping shepherds and, much later, three astrologers from the East. In a land where might and splendor, pomp and circumstance separated nobility ...

1154. Love

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

When one little fellow was told about his new baby sister, he was not impressed. At school the following day, his teacher remarked, "I hear you have a new member of your family." "Oh, yeah," he replied. "What's the matter?" his teacher asked. "Aren't you happy to have a new sister?" He answered, "Yes, I guess. But there were a lot of things ...

1155. Are You Going Down?

Luke 2:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... at this time of the year. I especially like to think back to Christmas times when I was your age. My mind fills with memories of decorating the tree . . . singing carols . . . baking cookies . . . It's a big part of the holidays for me. I'm impressed that someone your age would recognize that nostalgia is such a strong emotion at Christmas time." Sally goes back to the tree, looks at the huge pile of wrapped gifts and thinks to herself: "Nostalgia? I was talking about GREED." Poets and writers have always ...

1156. Excited By Our Faith

John 1:35-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... and a willingness to serve that some people who have been around the church for a long time have somehow misplaced. That is one good reason for a church to keep reaching out. New people bring excitement into a church. Even more impressive, however, is the excitement of one who has just come to know Christ for the first time. Sometimes more mature Christians even feel they have to somewhat restrain the new believer's unbridled enthusiasm. The popular sociologist and prominent Baptist minister, Harvey ...

1157. Walk With Confidence

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... this world. I wish every person in this room could leave here walking in the confidence that there is an unseen strength and power that goes with us. FOR YOU SEE, CONFIDENCE MAKES SUCH A DIFFERENCE IN LIFE. Television entertainer Ed McMahon says his father impressed him at an early age with a favorite saying: "Always walk in a place like you belongand most people will believe you do!" Hard as it is to believe as you watch McMahon's apparent selfassurance on the "Tonight Show" and other network programs, he ...

1158. Why Jesus Was Baptized

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... last time I checked, 100% of the people who have lived since Adam have been born of women. Jesus is paying John an enormous compliment. The respect Jesus had for John's ministry is unquestioned. The respect Jesus had for John's message is equally impressive. John came preaching, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Mt. 3:2) Interesting. According to Matthew 4:17, Jesus' first sermon was "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." The same message. This is important. There are those who would ...

1159. Fans or Followers

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... men were. They had no formal education that we know of. Neither did they possess any particular personal attractiveness or extraordinary talent of which we are aware. They were just ordinary fishermen. We often make the mistake of assuming that God calls only the most impressive, the most gifted, the most talented people. Indeed, that seems to be the exact opposite of what God does. God comes to Moses with the summons to go tell Pharaoh to “Let my people go.” Moses responds, “Who am I that I should go ...

1160. How God Gets His Kicks

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... accidents. People with high self-esteem are much less likely to engage in self-destructive behavior. They don't feel the need to turn to chemical substances like drugs or alcohol for stimulation, and they don't have to take stupid risks to impress people. People with high self-esteem tend to get better paying jobs, and are more successful once they get a job. Why? Studies show it is because they expect to be successful. Martin Seligman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, surveyed ...

1161. We Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

1 Corinthians 2:9

Sermon

King Duncan

... creation in which God has placed us. Walter D. Cavett tells about a boy who was taken by his father on a camping trip to the Adirondacks. They hired a guide, left the beaten trails, and spent a week in the heart of the woods. The boy was greatly impressed by the ability of the guide to see all sorts of things invisible to the ordinary eye. One day, after the guide had been pointing out some of the hidden secrets of nature, the boy asked with an awed voice, “Mister, can you see God?” The old man replied ...

1162. Choose Life!

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... not death. This brings us to the final thing to be said. There is one choice that surpasses all others in importance. That, of course, is the decision to choose Christ. When Moses instructed the children of Israel to choose life, he was impressing upon them that they should obey the commandments of God. To obey the commandments was life in Moses’ teachings. Of course, you and I have discovered something even more vital than the commandments. We have discovered Christ himself. “I am the Way, the Truth ...

1163. Good Reasons For Not Cheating

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... shut off from the Mexican market because they refused to give payoffs to Mexican government officials. Something remarkable happened, however. The company's ethical behavior in refusing the payoffs increased its stature in the eyes of some Mexican business people. Impressed by an American business that was bold enough to go against the system, a group of influential Mexicans lobbied the Mexican government to allow the company to open two Mexican dealerships. They are doing a booming business. One reason is ...

1164. Marriage: Agony Or Ecstasy

Matthew 5:31-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... the desirability of the marriage relationship and the harsh reality that the merger of two lives is not an easy one. We do it by acknowledging the three big "Cs" of marriagecommitment, communication and cooperation. Every person who reads the New Testament has to be impressed with the compassion and the generosity of Jesus. In stories of his encounters with persons such as the woman caught in the act of adultery, the woman at the well who had been married to five men and was now living with a sixth man ...

1165. Response To The Resurrection: Christian People In A Pluralistic Society

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... struck that tree. He replied, "I learned that when God wants to play through you had better let him." A frivolous example, perhaps, but most of the world's people are religious people. Some thinkers like Immanuel Kant and C. S. Lewis are more impressed by a universal moral consciousness than the evidences of creation. But still it's very difficult in this amazing and magnificent world to deny the existence of a divine Creator. We share that universal Godconsciousness with most of the people of the world ...

1166. How Have We Made It This Far?

Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... are happy, as though he were a real brother. They don’t consider themselves brothers in the usual sense, but brothers instead through the Spirit, in God.” It was that quality of caring, so unique in that pagan empire, that most impressed those who encountered early Christians. That quality is still the church’s greatest earthly asset. Of course, that doesn’t mean that every Christian contributes a caring spirit. Radio pastor Chuck Swindoll tells about a disconcerting experience he had years ago at ...

1167. Are We Offering the Right Cup?

Matthew 9:35-10:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... field.” That’s who we are called to be--workers in the harvest field. Can you see that the only motivation for what we call evangelism is Christ’s compassion for the world? We are not a business enterprise. Our motive is not a more impressive bottom line. Our goal is not to enhance institutional pride. Our aim is not to be the biggest and the best. There are people outside the walls of this church who are confused, angry, hurting, dying. There are families that are disintegrating, young minds being ...

1168. Where Are Your Loaves And Fishes?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... young people, the young volunteers, he had found there who were giving their time and energy and who were making sacrifices to help the impoverished and suffering Africans. The young people were living in mean and difficult conditions, and the official was terribly impressed with them. He wrote in his letter to the newspaper: "As we passed the day together, I took a moment to ask each of them `why'why had they volunteered? Charles Petre, who had just finished a master of business administration program in ...

1169. Time To Walk On The Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... extol the glories of flight, remarking how thrilling it was to soar out in the wild blue yonder. "Why, this barn down here looks like it's only an inch high," he said, "and you are all but specks seen from such a distance." And the domestic fowl were quite impressed by his little speech. Some time later they asked him again to describe the glories of flight. And it got to be quite a weekly occasion, while the goose's wing was healing, for him to get up in front of the others and talk. They even provided a ...

1170. Who Is He?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... typical political promise, does it not? But Jane Byrne did one thing more. The following week she announced her plans to actually vacate her luxury apartment and temporarily move to Cabrini Green to see first-hand the problems of that crime ridden neighborhood. We are impressed by Jane Byrne's courage. Shall we not also be moved then by the compassion of God who saw our plight and became incarnate, walked in our shoes, that He might know our need and we might know His love. One of my favorite stories about ...

1171. Vive La Difference

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... to be your weaker points. One of Aesop's fables tells the story of a deer, a handsome buck, that came to a spring to drink. He caught a glimpse of his reflection in the water, and admired his strong and beautifully shaped antlers. He was not as impressed with the appearance of his legs. They looked so thin and weak. While he was engrossed in admiring himself in the spring, a lion appeared and charged toward him. The buck fled and easily outdistanced the lion, for his true strength was in his legs. In the ...

1172. Do We Know What We've Got?

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the eighteenth century spiritual giant John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement, was so concerned with building accountability that he devised a series of questions for his followers to ask each other every week. These were questions like: Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite? Am I honest in all my acts and words or do I exaggerate? Do I confidentially pass on to another what was told to me in confidence? Can I be ...

1173. Salvation By Faith Alone

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... V. Steere tells about a long visit he had about fifty years ago with theologian Karl Barth in his home in Bonn. During the conversation Steere spoke of the role of private prayer as a means of putting us into the stream of grace. He spoke of how impressed he had been by the daily devotional life of the Benedictine monks as a means of expressing that grace. Steere obviously expected this great theologian to be as moved by these vital signs of piety as he had been. Barth would have none of it, however. Barth ...

1174. Celebrating Christ The King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's Kingdom all the walls that separate people will finally be vanquished. We will live in one kingdomhis kingdom. Walter Marshall Horton wrote of a man who had been a delegate to the International Missionary Council at Madras in 1938. The meeting made a deep impression on the delegate. When he returned home, he tried to persuade his friends to buy small globes. He wanted his friends to hold these globes in their hands once each day, as they slowly and reverently prayed, "Thy will be done on earth." What a ...

1175. The Mighty Tide Of God Rolled In

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... believe is an exciting analogy. It is from Jack London's masterpiece, THE CALL OF THE WILD. It is the story of a magnificent dog named Buck. Buck was half St. Bernard, half Shepherd. He was 150 lbs. of pure muscle. Because he was such an impressive animal, he was stolen, kidnapped, off the streets of San Francisco and transported to Alaska where there was a tremendous need for powerful dogs to pull sleds through the wilderness snow. So cruelly was Buck treated by his kidnappers and then by his first owners ...

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