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1201. When Are You Coming?

Isaiah 63:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... truly decadent society. A society in which husbands and wives could not count on each other's love and faithfulness, where little children could not count on secure homes to nurture them, where people live only for pleasure and never accept responsibility for one another. My guess is that, all jokes aside, none of us would want to live in such a land. There is nothing that will starve joy out of people like a steady diet of moral decay. That is why each of us should think seriously about the kind of society ...

1202. A Better Than Perfect Christmas

Philippians 4:4

Sermon

King Duncan

... the universe in the form of a helpless babe ”it is a very important day. It’s a startling idea, of course, the whole story that a virgin was selected by God to bear his Son as a way of showing his love and concern for man. It’s my guess that, in spite of all the lip service given to it, it is not an idea that has been popular with theologians. "It’s a somewhat illogical idea, and theologians like logic almost as much as they like God. It’s so revolutionary an idea that it probably could only ...

1203. Love

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... 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 we needed more." I am certain that when people hear the Christmas story for the first time, their initial reaction is that what the world needs most is not another baby. How wrong they are! Someone has said that when ...

1204. "Catch-able" But Not "Fetch-able"

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... testimony is true? It's like that time-honored story of the little girl sitting in the corner drawing a picture of God. "But no one knows how God looks," someone says to her. "They will when I've finished," she proclaims. Who's to say she is wrong? Her guess is as good as anyone else's if all we have to go on is human intuition. Truly God is neither catch-able nor fetch-able. Can clay describe its potter? Can fish do justice to the one who changes the water in their aquarium? How can tiny human brains ...

1205. Unwrapping Christmas

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... for one of those yellow slips that means you have a package. All the way to the post office counter you wonder, what it could be? Who is it from? Is it for me or someone else in the family? When you pick up the package, you immediately begin to guess what it could be by it's size and weight. Is it clothes, shoes, a book or a toy? You can't wait to get it home. You open it, and inside that brown postal paper you find the box wrapped in bright colored Christmas paper. You shake it. You ...

1206. Watch!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... or we can look for roses. Either way, we will probably find that for which we are searching. A certain wife always tried to give her husband a cheerful welcome home from a trying day at the office. There was one day when she really had to strain: "Guess what, dear," she said as he entered the door. "Of our five children, four of them didn't break an arm today." A man lived on the border between Wisconsin and Minnesota. He assumed he lived in Minnesota, but a new survey showed that he lived in Wisconsin ...

1207. Three Temptations Of The American People

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... on. The operation lasted for nearly three hours. After cleaning up, the doctor went outside to walk with his pastor. As they walked Evans asked, "How much would you have received for that operation back in the States?" "Oh, $500 to $750 is the going rate, I guess." As they talked, Evans noticed that the surgeon's lips were purple with the strain and his hands were trembling from three hours of tedious work. Then he asked, "How much for this one?" "Oh," the doctor replied. "A few cents, a few cents and the ...

1208. Lesson From A Blind Man

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... You hear them at funerals. How many hearts have been broken because of someone's outrageous interpretation of adversity. Even Charlie Brown, in the Peanuts cartoons, encountered this. One day Charlie Brown says to Linus, "I feel good. I just got back from the grocery store. Guess what? The owner and his wife both complimented me. They said I was a very nice boy." Linus replied, "In the sixth chapter of Luke, it says, `Woe to you when all men speak well of you.'" Charlie Brown leans his head on his hand and ...

1209. The Placebo Effect

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... NOT THE REAL THING, THEY KEEP US FROM ACHIEVING THAT WHICH REALLY WILL MAKE LIFE WORK. Let's consider for a few moments some of these placebos. Twenty years ago there was a Greek tycoon whose name was a household word in this country. You have already guessed--Aristotle Onassis. Onassis once said, "All that really counts these days is money. It's the people with money that are the royalty now." By that maxim, Onassis lived like a king. He had every plaything that you and I can imagine. He personified on a ...

1210. Why Jesus Was Baptized

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Matthew tells us, "John would have prevented him, saying, `I need to be baptized of you, and do you come to me?'" "What's going on here?" John wondered. "I'm not ready for this. I am but a prophet. This is the Christ!" It is easy to guess what went through John's mind. I wonder, though, what Jesus was thinking? Why would he, the sinless Son of God, submit to baptism by John the Baptist? There are some likely possibilities. HE WANTED TO IDENTIFY WITH THE MINISTRY AND MESSAGE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. There is ...

1211. Behold The Lamb

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... shop just yesterday, and the man there wanted to sell me John’s head as well, but his was bigger.” And without missing a beat, the shopkeeper replied, “Ah, yes. But this, this is John the Baptist’s head . . . when he was a boy.” (1) Well, I guess John the Baptist lost his head at least twice. Today we want to look at another aspect of Jesus’ encounter with John the Baptist. We need to understand that John the Baptist had a real impact on the people in the area around Jerusalem. It is estimated ...

1212. Good Reasons For Not Cheating

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... application read, "Have you ever been arrested?" The applicant printed the word "No" in the space. The next question was a followup to the first. It asked, "Why?" Not realizing he did not have to answer this part, one honest applicant wrote, "I guess it's because I never got caught." A Jeff Danziger cartoon shows a company president announcing to his staff, "Gentlemen, this year the trick is honesty." From one side of the conference table, a vice president gasps, "Brilliant." Across the table, another VP ...

1213. Follow that Dream

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... : then she took her handkerchief and rubbed it on the woodwork about the walls, and over the table and benches. When she was unable to find one bit of dirt on the floor, or a particle of dust on any of the furniture, she quietly remarked, `I guess you will do to enter this institution.' "I was one of the happiest souls on earth. The sweeping of that room was my college examination, and never did any youth pass an examination for entrance into Harvard or Yale that gave him more genuine satisfaction. I have ...

1214. Response To The Resurrection: Christian People In A Pluralistic Society

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... story of The Little Prince. Many of you are familiar with that story. In the story there is a man who has made a drawing of a boa constrictor that has swallowed an elephant. He draws it and shares it with everyone he meets. He asks people to guess what the drawing represents, but nobody answers correctly. He is put down for his drawing and chooses a lonely, solitary life as a test pilot. As the story develops the test pilot crashes in the desert one day and finds a little boy. The little lad asks the pilot ...

1215. Who Is He?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . So, who do you say that He is? Who is He? Is He simply a good teacheran excellent moral example a spiritual guru in the same class with Mohammed and Buddha? Or is there something more to this Galilean? I hope by the way I ask the question you have guessed that I believe there is something more. JESUS, FIRST OF ALL, IS THE REVELATION OF THE NATURE OF GOD. As John Killinger put it so cogently, "Jesus is God's way of getting rid of a bad reputation." Man had many ideas and intuitions about the nature of God ...

1216. The Way Life Ought To Be

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... better than the last." No matter how poor their drawings might have been, no one was criticized for his or her drawing. However, neither were they praised or given any encouragement. They were merely told to draw another picture. You can probably guess the results. Some of the children got angry and displayed their resentment openly. One refused to draw any more. Most, however, just looked angry, said nothing, and continued their joyless, unrewarding toil. Each of the drawings, however, got worse and worse ...

1217. Time For Action

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... whose gate sat the beggar Lazarus. This is what St. Paul meant when he said, "If I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing..." (I Cor. 13:2) My guess is that St. Paul knew Christians who were so spiritual and yet so insensitive to the needs of others. There is a story that comes out of the Second World War that will haunt you if you think about it. It is about a little Jewish boy who was living ...

1218. God And The Irs

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... and one for an ice cream cone. Walking along the street one of the coins slipped out of his hand and fell through some grillwork into the drain below. The little boy raised his face toward Heaven and said with genuine sorrow, "Well, God. I guess there goes your quarter." We are increasingly materialistic. In the second place, there is something intrinsically seductive about money. The more we have, the harder it is for us to give. Money can cost us our soul. Jesus said, "You cannot worship God and Mammon ...

1219. Jesus And The Ayatollah

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... tribe are by definition not human beings. It is no coincidence that among many of the head hunting tribes of the Amazon, killing a fellow tribesman is murder, whereas killing someone else is simply "hunting." That is the way primitive people think. I guess "primitive" is not the right word. After all, it was less than a century ago the governor of a Western state in this country could publicly suggest the extermination of Indians. After all they were "savages," according to this way of thinking something ...

1220. Celebrating Christ The King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... answers: "But if we don't ask her, we'll get in trouble!" Calvin replies: "We won't get in trouble!" Hobbes says: "Everytime you say that, we do." Calvin answers: "Mom wouldn't care about these things if she wouldn't keep finding out about them." Well, you can guess what happens. The last frame goes something like this: Mom: "There you are, Come down so I can talk to you." Calvin is in the tree with Hobbes. Calvin: "No, you'll kill us. We're running away." "I'm not going to kill you. I just want to find ...

1221. Possibly Our Best Year! (A Sermon for New Year's)

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... outfit was located. He was stranded at a crossroads where he attempted to hitch a ride with any army vehicle of any unit. The problem was he tried to use his index finger to hitch a ride instead of motioning backward with his thumb. You can guess what happened. An army convoy approached. The Chinese soldier pointed his index finger down one of the roads at the crossroads. The driver of the first vehicle didn't stop since he thought the soldier was directing traffic. When the convoy failed to stop, the young ...

1222. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... mass suicide. Some zoologists argue that the fatal plunge of the lemmings is just an error of judgment. Perhaps the creatures think the ocean is just one more wide river to cross on the way to a larger food supply. All explanations remain only guesses, however. No one really knows what gets into all those suicidal lemmings. Usually the behavior of animals is relatively predictable. Rarely, for example, will a dog bite the hand that feeds it. As Mark Twain noted, that is the principle difference between dogs ...

1223. The Ultimate Success Formula

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... or art or education or sports or whatever career you may choose. After all, what does it mean to deny yourself and take up a cross? We know what it does not mean. It does not mean in times of adversity saying in a whiny voice, "Well, I guess this is just my cross to bear." No, denying ourselves and taking up a cross has to do with discipline and hard work. It has to do with unselfishness and committing ourselves to the finest of which we are capable. It has to do with forgetting ourselves and concentrating ...

1224. How Do We Choose?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Is this a good way to determine the will of God? Should we pray, then flip a coin, roll some dice, draw straws? I did read in the newspapers recently that one state in our country has institutionalized such a procedure. Would you like to guess which state? Nevada, of course. The Nevada state constitution has an interesting provision written into it for deciding who will serve as the chief justice of the state Supreme Court. First, the justices must be elected by the public to their 6year terms. Second, the ...

1225. God's Plan For His World

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... work force. We claim the allegiance of the best people in our community. We serve a Master who for 2,000 years has inspired people's hearts and changed their lives. And yet we are only a shadow of what we might be. What is the problem with us? My guess is that we don't know where we are going. We're not certain what we are supposed to be doing. We've chewed the tag off our crate and we're bogged down in a certain melancholia. Thus we come to St. Paul's words in the first chapter ...

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