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101. Mary's Complaint

Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... quiet, please. A young girl as "favored" as Mary might at least have been able to expect a degree of privacy after what she had gone through. After all, she had just given birth in a strange city, in abysmal surroundings, apparently without the help of a sympathetic mother or midwife, just the company of a husband who was probably more nervous than herself, and forced to use a feeding trough as a cradle for her new son. At least she might have counted on her "favored" status to guarantee her a bit of rest ...

102. Merry XMas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... earth in a flood; one who rains fire on Sodom and Gomorrah in anger; one who wages all-out war against enemies. Over and over again, we are confronted with an apparently merciless portrait. To be sure, the picture is incomplete, but the gentle, forgiving, sympathetic aspects of the one we call "Our Father" are much less noticeable. A preacher came into a kindergarten-age Sunday School class to speak with the children. He asked one little girl, "Do you love Jesus?" "Oh yes," she said, "but I hate God." You ...

103. "Weird People" Everywhere

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... over there, gloating at me." "More bad news, I'm afraid," said the Angel. "That's not Mrs. Thatcher. That's God." (1) Susan B. Anthony called on editor Horace Greeley one day in 1860 to ask for his newspaper's support for women's suffrage. Greeley was not sympathetic. He was an opponent of women's rights, mainly because he considered women to be of no military value. "What would you do," he asked, "in the event of a civil war?" "I would do just what you would do," Susan Anthony replied. "I would sit in my ...

104. In Search Of A Reason For Being

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ?' And I can say, ˜I was with Odies.'" (3) Odies helped give Jeff Comment a purpose for life. Jesus may never ask you and me to give away all our wealth. But each of us has our Odies. It may be a teenager in our neighborhood who desperately needs a sympathetic ear. It may be an adult on the other side of town who needs someone to teach them to read. It may be a group of children in a Sunday School Class who need a teacher who will make sure they have an outstanding lesson each week. We all have ...

105. The Pearl Of Great Price

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... right," she said. "Are you going somewhere alone?" He lowered his head and answered, "Yes, I always travel alone. My mommy and daddy are both dead so I live with my Aunt Maggie. But when she gets tired of me, she sends me to Aunt Elizabeth." The lady asked sympathetically, "Are you on your way to Aunt Elizabeth's now?" The child answered, "Yes, but Aunt Elizabeth is hardly ever home. I hope she is home today though. It sure is cold." "You sure are young to be riding the bus alone," said the lady. "It's OK ...

106. Rise Above It

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... experience turned out to be one of the most fortuitous events in their lives. Some of you may know that Julio Iglesias was a professional soccer player in Madrid when a car crash ended his career and left him paralyzed for a year and a half. A sympathetic nurse gave Iglesias a guitar to help pass the time in the hospital. Though he had no prior musical aspirations, Iglesias went on to become a huge success in the pop-music field. Iglesias's accident marked a watershed in his life, a turning point after ...

107. A New Way To Escape From Prison

James 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... held captive for 40 horrible months. He was brutalized, he was deprived, he was terrified in every possible way. However, as the war started turning against the Japanese, the prison camps became somewhat more humane. Some of the guards were more sympathetic. They started giving the prisoners vitamins and medical treatment, better food and books, including the Bible. DeShazer was one of those fortunate enough to have a Bible. As he read and reread and memorized, he experienced a profound change in his life ...

108. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... fender with hers. Both cars stopped. The young woman surveying the damage was in tears. It was her fault, she admitted. But it was a new carless than two days from the showroom. How was she ever going to face her husband? Mr. Coleman was sympathetic but explained they must note each other's license number and automobile registration. The woman reached into the glove compartment of her car to retrieve the documents in an envelope...And on the first paper to tumble out, in a heavy masculine scrawl, were these ...

109. A Tragic Waste

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... to be interpreted. For example, is the gift of healing to include only praying for the sick a la Oral Roberts? Or are there others who have the gift of healing of a different sortthe healing of damaged feelings or healing of fractured families by a quiet, sympathetic ministry of listening? The main point is that everyone of us has a gift that can be used of God for His glorification and for the world's service. That is the first thing we must understand. IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THAT EACH ...

110. Teach Us To Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The church added these words as the prayer became formalized, but it is hard to imagine praying the prayer without them. It is because God is in control of this universe that we have the confidence to pray believing that he hears our prayers and is sympathetic to our concerns. We trust that whatever answer we receive is in our best interest. In one of his books, Bruce Larson tells about a tragic plane crash in his area. A plane flying in fog had crashed into the side of a mountain. A commercial pilot ...

111. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... Yes, Lord." The people who followed her out to meet Jesus also began weeping and wailing. Jesus was deeply moved by what he saw and he openly wept as well. The people saw Jesus weeping and said, "See how he loved him!" The crowd reacted sympathetically to Jesus but had no understanding of who he really was. Jesus’ tears were different from the tears of the people. Jesus’ tears were for the suffering of Lazarus and his family, but they were also for the human situation which leads to faithless behavior ...

112. The Riches Of God

Romans 11:33-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... been diagnosed as suffering from anxiety or depression. Half of the group were counseled twice a week for three or four months by psychotherapists. The other half were treated for the same period by college professors of various subjects who simply listened sympathetically to whatever the student wanted to get off his mind. Surprisingly, both groups of students showed about the same amount of improvement. (2) No wonder prayer is so important in the life of the Christian. We have someone who listens to us ...

113. Working For Love

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... he would donate the first pint of blood. An anxious voice piped up from the rear of the room and asked, "But whose blood?" (1) I hope your work environment is a little better than that. At least I hope your boss is a little more sympathetic. But there is another side to the workplace ” the employer's side. According to a story in USA TODAY a while ago, excuses for being absent or late to work are becoming more creative. Accountemps, a New York temporary help firm, polled executives about the most bizarre ...

114. Thankless Jobs

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... us has a small piece torn out of its ear." Observing all of them, the believer thought about Christ, the Chief Shepherd, who also knows the individual weaknesses and failings of His flock and watches over the members with discerning love and sympathetic understanding. (6) Christ the Good Shepherd. Taking over the thankless job of watching over his sheep, taking the trouble to know them by name. Can you imagine that? There have always been people with a good memory for names: Napoleon ” who knew thousands ...

115. Freedom Song

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... to signal that they were planning to leave. Harriet Tubman's escape that night was successful. She traveled mostly by night and hid in fields and barns during the day. There were designated stops along her multistate trek at the homes of those sympathetic to the cause of freedom. Her destination was the Northern states, or even Canada, where many escaped slaves made their homes. Her life depended on her every step. The fact that this lone woman successfully traveled to freedom is remarkable enough in itself ...

116. We've Been Bragging About You!

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... by talking to him. And Ollie, I'm certain, was grateful to Stan, who thus helped Ollie to maintain his dignity. (5) What a beautiful analogy of what ought to happen in the church. To care enough about one another's needs that we not only are sympathetic but we are empathicwe enter into the hurt of others and minister to them where they are. So, this is Paul's boast about the church at Thessalonica, and this is Christ prayer for our churchthat we will be faithful, that we will be effective in our witness ...

117. Damaged In Transit, But Deliverable

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... the hundreds of years. But it was a salesclerk in a flower shop, a woman making $170 a week, whoby taking the time to care, and by being willing to go with what her heart told her to dogave Douglas hope and the will to carry on." (4) Sometimes a sympathetic friend will do that for usgive us the courage to carry on. It especially helps if that friend has been where we are. It means a lot if a friend has walked in our shoes. Once there was an emptiness in Heaven. God's own Son had left His throne ...

118. What Would Jesus Really Do?

1 Peter 2:13-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... , he found himself trying to second guess why each man had come and then he noticed that the last person in the circle was a handsome young man about twenty years old. Why, he thought, would such a young man be here? The youngster's face looked sympathetic as he nodded at each person's story. When the time came for the young man to speak, he was smiling. "My friends," the young man said almost wistfully, "I have been diagnosed with terminal cancer." The gasp was audible in the room. "My doctors have given ...

119. On Having The Right Credentials

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... from charlatans and incompetents. You may remember the story told on Billie Burke, the famous actress. While she was enjoying a transatlantic ocean trip, she noticed that a gentleman at the next table was suffering from a bad cold. "Are you uncomfortable?" she asked sympathetically. The man nodded. "I'll tell you just what to do for it," she offered. "Go back to your stateroom and drink lots of orange juice. Take two aspirins. Cover yourself with all the blankets you can find. Sweat the cold out. I know ...

120. People Who Inspire Us

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... Things, so I can be a gentle Teacher; . . . You allow me to be void of Feelings, so I learn to walk by Faith; . . . You take away my future Plans, to Teach me to Live one Day at a Time; . . . You allow me to suffer Pain, so I may be Sympathetic to the Hurts of Others; . . . You allow me to see the Futility of Life, so I will see Everything is Loss, Compared to the Excellency of Knowing Your Son, Jesus. (6) Is this a difficult time for you? Hang in there. There is no growth without hardship. Your life can ...

121. Standing Tall

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... from an opposing team protested the decision, so Tucker was kicked off his team. What a guy! You can imagine that this coach would have been one of those trying to keep Bartimaeus in his place. In 1995, journalist Bob Greene wrote a sympathetic story for the Chicago Tribune about Tucker Church's struggle to live a normal, happy life. One reader contacted the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children in Houston, Texas. The doctors there had perfected a new kind of surgery that specifically treated Tucker's ...

122. Loving From The Heart

Psalm 139:10, Mark 1:41

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... opal. Opals are not as valuable as diamonds, but they are still beautiful stones. Do any of you have the opal as a birth stone? This opal is set in a ring, so I cannot demonstrate, as I would like to, something very special about opals. Opals are called sympathetic jewels. That is because if you take an opal and hold it in the palm of your hand and squeeze it real hard, it will appear even more beautiful. There is something about the grip of the human hand that brings out the colors of an opal. People are ...

123. Why Did I Do That?

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Before the waiter could recover from the surprise, the man began weeping. "I'm sorry," he said. "I'm really sorry. I keep doing that to waiters. I can't tell you how embarrassing it is to have a compulsion like this." Far from being angry, the waiter was sympathetic. Before long, he was suggesting that the man see an analyst about his problem. "I happen to have the name of a psychoanalyst," the waiter said. "My brother and my wife have both been treated by him, and they say he's as good as they get." The ...

124. Love Is Not Easy

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... know to be right. It's called character, and it does matter. You don't have to be a prude or a member of the Religious Right to be concerned about the moral drift in our society. It may not be great poetry, but country singer Steve Vaus touched a sympathetic chord with many middle-aged and older people with his song, BLACK AND WHITE. The lyrics go like this: You could hardly see for all the snow,/ Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go/ Pull a chair up to the TV set,/ "Good night David, Good night Chet ...

125. Do You Know This Man?

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... body. Why would God dignify the body by taking up residence in it? And the answer is, of course, to save us. In order to save us from this "body of death," God took on the same limited body. He knows our aches and pains and weaknesses. He is sympathetic to our struggles. In Jesus, we see how much God loves us and how far God would go to communicate that love. And in this way, Jesus changes not only our ideas about God, Jesus changes our relationship WITH God. Up until now, the people of Israel have been ...

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