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Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the comic, SHOE. Santa is sitting in front of his computer typing the following sentiments: Twas the morning of Christmas, and all through his house . . . . Not a creature was stirring, Except Santa’s mouse. For there at his screen, The old fat man designed The ultimate gift for a tattered mankind. He squirmed and he puzzled as all through the night, He polished the concept to get it just right. The formula worked!! The old guy was wired!! At last, PEACE ON EARTH . . . ! (Then, a message comes on ...

1202. The Greatest Good News Of All

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... said laughing. As she saw her landlady’s mouth widen in disbelief, Pat knew in that flash of a moment she passed the test. You see, Pat Moore was not eighty-five years old at all. Not even close. She was an attractive twenty-six-year-old industrial design specialist, who was concerned about the needs of the aged. At least once each week for the next three years, Pat put on her masquerade of facial latex foam, a heavy fabric that bound her body, and a convincing gray wig. She visited fourteen states as an ...

1203. His Nature Is Light

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... must have felt. He borrowed enough money to fly to Africa, and there he purchased a one-way passenger ticket back to the United States aboard The African Star, a cargo ship that sailed from Monrovia, Liberia, to Jacksonville, Florida. Because he understood the physical design of vessels from his Coast Guard career, he was able to sneak at night into one of the ship's unlocked holds. For two nights, after dinner, he crawled into the cavernous, darkened hold. He stripped to his underwear and lay on his back ...

1204. Surprises

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Timothy Smit

... to be done and planned almost a year in advance. One year they decided to advertise to see if more people would drive past and perhaps even stop. The pastor knew of an older gentleman who was a retired painter from the congregation who could design and paint an advertisement on a billboard near the highway. This was a great idea. Thousands of people would see it. The committee was in total agreement. The gentleman agreed to paint the huge billboard. He always wanted to do something special for the church ...

1205. Congratulations, Joseph, It's A God!

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... a big smile on his face. "Congratulations, Joseph," he says, "It's a God!" These very deep and ponderous words from the prologue to John's Gospel, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God..." are designed to say to us that something very significant occurred when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, something beyond the comprehension of human minds. "Congratulations, Joseph, it's a God!" J.B. Phillips once put it this way: "Christianity begins with a historical fact ...

1206. Written In Our Hearts

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... , jealous, possessive. The ability to walk through life with confidence and conviction because we have this sense of inner security and peace, is the greatest gift that God gives the believer. David Buttrick tells about a pastor whose office desk faces some especially designed wallpaper. The wallpaper repeats, line after line, all over the wall, "Let go. Trust God. Let go. Trust God. Let go. Trust God." There are many folks who are good people, who are inner directed people, who have overcome the curse of ...

1207. What In The World Are We Doing Here?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... is repulsive. We are here today because God so loved the world that he gave His only Son. We are here today because a Man from Galilee cared more about us than he did himself. If our response to that is only to shut ourselves off in our little designer cocoon with our luxury automobiles, expensive high-tech toys, and big screen TVs while the rest of the world goes to hell, we are in deep spiritual trouble. What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with ...

1208. People Who Would Destroy God’s Temple

1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... once asked how he put his novels together. Obviously, there are many ways a novel can be constructed. It may be scribbled from an introductory idea, with episodes added on as the plot begins to unfold in the author’s mind. Or it can be designed by piecing together a sequence of casual events as a loose outline which is filled in from the writer’s imagination. According to Carey, however, wise writers will begin with the sketch of a central episode, working back to a beginning and outworking an ending ...

1209. Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... security checks. It was soon established that each had impeccable credentials and could surely be trusted. None of her staff were trying to poison her. Where was the poisoning coming from? Finally they found the cause. On the ceiling of her bedroom were beautiful designs of roses ornately done in bas relief. They had been painted with a paint that contained arsenic lead. A fine dust fell from these roses. Completely unaware of what was going on Mrs. Luce was being slowly poisoned in her bed by this fine ...

1210. Not Having Seen Him, You Love Him

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... 't you? We love him even though we have never seen him, first of all, because of the difference he has made in our world. WE ALSO LOVE HIM BECAUSE OF THE DIFFERENCE HE HAS MADE IN OUR OWN LIVES. FORTUNE magazine, the magazine designed for business people, recently made some predictions about the coming decade. One of those predictions is for an increase in the influence of religion. Think how many times people have predicted the decline of Christian faith in our society. Instead, its influence keeps growing ...

1211. A Most Successful Sermon

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? I am not sure exactly, but I suspect that could be said of many who fill the pews of Christendom. You are familiar with the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. It leans almost twenty feet out of perpendicular. Somehow, when the architect was planning that tower he designed a tower that reached a height of l79 feet but had only a ten foot foundation. No wonder it leans! To me, the tower of Pisa is like a person who is “not a particularly religious, but in all other respects an ideal churchman.” He or she ...

1212. What On Earth Is The Trinity?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... worship and ritual of every Christian body on earth. Everywhere you go in the world, you will find Christians using the same language about God. "In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit." Just what do these words mean? Are they merely theological mumbojumbo designed to confuse the laity, or do they point to something real and important? For most of us they are a means of dealing with the nature of God. Ninetyeight per cent of the American people, according to most polls, say that they believe in God ...

1213. Ultimate Freedom

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... young man. He felt a sense of destiny about his life. He felt that in the Potter's hand his life could have beauty and purpose. We all need that. We need to know that God does have a plan for us. We are an important part of his eternal design. CHRIST SETS US FREE BY GIVING US A NEW DIGNITY, A NEW DESTINY AND FINALLY, A NEW DIRECTION FOR OUR LIVES. The reason many of us feel burdened and heavy laden is that we spend much of our time swimming against the current. We have our priorities out of whack ...

1214. Vive La Difference

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... gifts that differ according to the grace given to us..." Often people are afraid to get involved in ministry or take responsibility for an area unless they view themselves as superstars. There is a failure to understand what the Bible says about spiritual gifts. God has designed things so all of us have areas where we can contribute, and all of us have areas where we need the contributions of others. The trick is to do those things that we can and not sit idly by because we're incapable of excelling in all ...

1215. Living In Spite House

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... rare tropical fish. A long argument followed. Finally, he grabbed a selection of his wife's diamond jewelry and threw it into the garbage disposal. She responded by flinging all his stereo equipment into the swimming pool. He then doused her $200,000 wardrobe - fur coats, designer gowns and all - with liquid bleach. Then things began to go downhill. She poured a gallon of paint all over his $70,000 Ferrari. So he kicked a hole in a $180,000 Picasso original she loved. She had just opened the sea cocks of ...

1216. In Praise Of Doers

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... she sang her one note, it was like an angel from heaven. That is what happens when we offer our meager gifts to God. Of course there is a greater secret than that. If we bring our lives into line with God's overall purpose and design, we can be more effective than we ever imagined we could be. A recent magazine advertisement for an insurance/financial services firm shows a picture filled with materialistic goodies a new boat, a beautiful house, an expensive car. The caption boldly claims, "If you can dream ...

1217. Possibly Our Best Year! (A Sermon for New Year's)

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... that any glory that came to his people was not their own doing. Their hope was in God and God alone. So it is with us. Somewhere I've read that among some Native American tribes an interesting rite took place in every little boy's life, a rite designed to help the boy learn the courage of manhood. When he was very little, he was taken out into the forest to spend the night alone. Left with nothing but a knife for protection, he was required to remain silent as he awaited whatever horrors the night might ...

1218. Speak, Your Servant Hears

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... is seated on a bunk with a ventriloquist's dummy on his lap. We all get that way at times. How could God possibly be in our job? Suppose, however, there was no one willing to drive our buses, work our fields, type our memos, design our buildings, prescribe our medicine, teach our children, etc? Think how much poorer our world would be. Every worthwhile occupation is potentially a calling from God. SOMETIMES OUR ATTITUDE TOWARD OUR WORK IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE WORK ITSELF. Want a beautiful example of this ...

1219. The Ultimate Success Formula

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... the past several decades. PEOPLE WHO SUCCEED IN LIFE DENY THEMSELVES AND TAKE UP A CROSS. It is true. You don't get to be the best by staying in your comfort zone. You do it by working till you sweat blood. You sit at your typewriter or your designing board or your blueprints or your lesson plan or whatever, long after everybody else has gone home. That's what it means in a secular sense to deny yourself and take up a cross. And it works! The University of Chicago did a five-year study of leading artists ...

1220. God's Plan For His World

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... , New York: Harper and Row, 1969, pp. 32-33,24. From a sermon by Dr. Donald Strobe. 3. Charles W. Koller, EXPOSITORY PREACHING WITHOUT NOTES,(Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1962). 4. Edward L. Friedman, The Speaker's Handy Reference, New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1967.) 5. Ken Abraham, DESIGNER GENES, (Old Tappan: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1986). 6. From a sermon by Eric Ritz .

1221. The Secret Of Winning

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The cup from which Jesus and his disciples drank meant giving everything they had. Are you able to drink from that same cup? There needs to be more folks like the widow who gave fifty thousand dollars to East Texas Baptist University. She was asked how she wanted to designate her gift. She didn't understand at first. It was further explained that she could give her gift in the name of a loved one. Then she caught on. She wrote on the bottom of her check: "In the name and for the sake of the Lord Jesus ...

1222. Soli Deo Gloria

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Mark McGilvey Livonia

... into a billion dollar pile of assets. He wanted more fame, so he went to Hollywood and became a film maker and star. He wanted more sensual pleasures, so he paid handsome sums to indulge his every hedonistic urge. He wanted more thrills, so he designed, built and piloted the fastest aircraft in the world. He wanted more power, so he secretly dealt political favors so skillfully that two U. S. presidents became his pawns. All he ever wanted was more. And yet this man concluded his life emaciated; colorless ...

1223. Why We Give

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... that plagued him throughout his life. Later he left Germany and went to England to study. He sat daily at the British Museum formulating his ideas and composing a book. In that book he introduced a whole new world view and conceived of a movement that was designed to change the world. In the book he described religion as the "opiate for the masses." He committed the people who followed him to life without God. His ideas became the norm for the governments of almost half of the world's people. His name? Karl ...

1224. Blessed Are The Believers

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... and heart. Living in the kind of magnificent world in which we find ourselves, it is easy to agree with the Psalmist: "The fool says in his heart there is no God." (14:1) A British biologist by the name of George Romanes, wrote a book designed to further the cause of atheism. He says, "I took it for granted that the Christian faith was played out." When, however, he saw that Christianity worked; that many eminent persons, some of the most illustrious in the fields of science, had ranged themselves on the ...

1225. The Secret Of His Success

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Paul preaching. St. Paul himself contended that he was not a very gifted speaker. Maybe not. He didn’t need to be. He had so yielded himself that the burden was not on him. The words he spoke were Christ’s words. And it changed the world. 1. Ken Abraham, DESIGNER GENES, (Old Tappan: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1986). 2. Source unknown. 3. Bits and Pieces

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