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1226. Sister Act

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to and from work. Then only a phone call now and then. Then only holidays and birthdays. Soon, he joined a country club and golf became his passion after work. On his mother's 65th birthday, he went to a fashionable dress shop and purchased an expensive dress. He dropped it off and said, "Mother, happy birthday." She opened the package and looked at the dress. "Oh, Son, thank you. I appreciate so much what you've done." He said, "Mother, you don't like it." She said, "Oh, yes, I do. It's my color. Thank you ...

1227. Who Will Be Crying At Your Funeral

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... exchanged and soon they were in a race. Competition became vicious as the two boats roared through the Deep South. One boat was falling behind due to lack of fuel. There had been plenty of coal for the trip, but not enough for a race. As the boat dropped back, an enterprising young sailor took some of the ship's cargo and tossed it into the ovens. The supplies burned as well as the coal, so the sailors fueled their boat with the material they had been assigned to transport. They ended up winning the race ...

1228. Damaged In Transit, But Deliverable

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... tears and continued her chores. During the next several monthswith the help of family, friends and prayer, things did get easier for Jill. But nothing meant more to her than Elizabeth's words. Months later she took out Elizabeth's card again. She wanted to drop her a line. When she opened the card she couldn't believe her eyes. There was no handwritten message. No personal writing at all except for her signature. Was it an hallucinationa figment of a grieving imagination? Jill is convinced it was God using ...

1229. Embedded In Bedrock Or Destroyed By A Typhoon

John 18:25-27

Sermon

Dale Dickerson

... of giving his life--an Apostle who was a leader among the Apostles. Similar to the tall buildings of Manhattan which are embedded in bedrock, the church of Jesus Christ is embedded in Peter the rock. St. John tells us a story about Peter as a back drop to the trial of Jesus. Unlike the other Gospels, St. John does not give us the details of the trial. As Martin Franzmann has pointed out, "John has already portrayed the [so-called] ˜trial' of Jesus before His own people; the record of John chapters 7-12 ...

1230. Full Barns--empty Souls

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... things be?" Isn't that the way life works out? Just when you think you have it made, just when you think you will be rewarded for all your hard work, just when you've moved into that new home, life goes awry. Your health breaks down. The stock market drops and with it all that you've put away in your 401K. You lose your spouse to a fatal disease. Just when you think that you finally have life figured out, SURPRISE!!! Friends, THIS IS LIFE! Maybe we need to look at this familiar story with fresh eyes. Maybe ...

1231. Four Ways To Defeat Stress

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... has on people when they sit down? Sometimes the best advice we can give to people is, "Be still." Sometimes that is the best advice we can give to ourselves. "Be still." "Be still and know that I am God." A man was seated beside a pond when he accidentally dropped a coin into the water. He poked around with a stick in an attempt to separate the coin from the stones. But this stirred up so much mud he could see nothing. Not knowing what else to do, he sat quietly for a while. Then, glancing down, he saw ...

1232. Where Is Your Heart?

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... do feel passionate about their work. Don Dwyer, in his book, Target Success, says that the first quality he looks for when he selects an employee is passion. Once upon a time, when he needed to hire someone for his newspaper distribution business, he would drop by the local playground and ask a group of kids if they were interested in earning extra money. Everybody was, of course! Until they found out what was involved especially getting up early in the morning, in all weather conditions! Then he'd lose ...

1233. A Birthday Celebration

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... their table to greet them. "What's the special occasion?" she asked. One of the women said, "We're having a birthday party for the baby in our family. He's 2 years old today." "But, where is the baby?" the friend asked. The child's mother answered, "Oh, I dropped him off at my mother's house. She's taking care of him until the party's over. It wouldn't have been any fun with him along." How ridiculous--a birthday celebration for a child who wasn't welcome at his own party! Yet, when you stop to think ...

1234. Trees

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... over Oakland, California exploded into flames as residential fires in that city spread. Because of their high resin and oil content, the trees served as living torches, igniting the houses and vegetation around them. Such trees as pine and juniper which regularly drop their leaves will also provide fuel for an oncoming fire. But that doesn't mean you should give up on landscaping altogether. Fire-prevention experts suggest that you provide a fire break for your home by planting only succulent plants that ...

1235. The Bridge Builder

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... the carpenter get the materials ready and then he was off for the day. The carpenter worked hard all that day measuring, sawing, nailing. About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished his job. The farmer's eyes opened wide, his jaw dropped. There was no fence there at all. It was a bridge, a bridge stretching from one side of the creek to the other. A fine piece of work--handrails and all--and the neighbor, his younger brother, was coming across, his hand outstretched. "You are ...

1236. Hey, You Can Only Be Young Twice!

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It wasn't until 1582, nearly 800 years after the establishment of the Julian calendar, that Pope Gregory the 13th designed a new calendar that better matched the true length of a year. The only problem with using the new Gregorian calendar was that it dropped ten days off the Julian calendar. For this reason, many countries refused to follow it, even though it was more accurate. England and her colonies didn't agree to use the new calendar until 1752, and even then many people protested the loss of time ...

1237. The Secret Of A Great New Year

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: An Etch-a-Sketch pad or a blackboard Boys and girls, Just a few nights ago, people all over the world celebrated the coming of a new year, the year 2001. Some people went to parties, some people stayed up and watched the giant ball drop on television at midnight, some set off fireworks, and others celebrated in other ways, but New Year's Eve is one of the biggest celebration nights of the year. What's so special about a New Year? (Give them an opportunity to answer). A new year is an opportunity to ...

1238. Smart As A Goat

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... from 1996-1997 shows that players are making fewer and fewer assists statistically than they did ten years ago. In practical terms, this means that they aren't passing the ball much. They aren't playing like a team. And this failure to pass is leading to a drop in scoring. According to Mike Wise in the New York Times (2/8/98), “After making nearly 48 % of their shots from the field ten years ago, teams are now making less than 45 %. What's more, fewer players are passing the ball. Ten years ago teams ...

1239. Who Are Your Gentiles?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Landon Winstead

... between Arabs and Jews were running high. All the customers in the diner froze when Harry announced his national origin. The next morning, as the pastor was getting ready, he heard a radio report that the U.S. had begun bombing Baghdad, Iraq. The pastor dropped what he was doing and ran to the subway, hoping to reach the diner before Harry opened that morning. He wanted to reassure the man of his friendship and love. As the pastor rounded the corner, he saw the whole regular morning crowd also lining ...

1240. On Having The Right Credentials

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... fellowships lied about their research credentials. Moreover, 30 percent said they had published articles in journals that didn't exist." Would you want any of those people carving you up? "But doctors aren't the only culprits. Recently, the Reader's Digest dropped 120 wallets, each containing fifty dollars in cash, on the streets of twelve large and small cities across the country. Its purpose was to test honesty in America. About 67 percent of the 'lost' wallets were returned, indicating that, according to ...

1241. Time to Pull the Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... drunkenness, vandalism and other small crimes were noted and swiftly dealt with. When the police attended to the "little things," they sent a message that the community cared about setting higher standards for itself. Major crimes like theft, assault, and drug dealing dropped dramatically once the minor crimes were under control. (2) Neglect. Broken Windows. Weeds growing in the garden. Jesus told a parable about a man who sowed good seed in his field. But, in the night while he was sleeping, someone with a ...

1242. Tevye's Question

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... love me?" Golde answers in this way: "Do I love you? For twenty-five years I've washed your clothes, cooked your meals, cleaned your house, given you children, milked the cow. After twenty-five years, why talk about love right now?" But Tevye will not let the matter drop. He reminds her that the day they met was their wedding day. And he was scared, but that his father and mother said they would learn to love each other. And now he was asking, "Golde, Do you love me?" Golde says, "I'm your wife." Tevye: "I ...

1243. A Devastating Storm, An Incredible Promise

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... system would be “a very major disaster,” and the forecasts drew fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest ever to strike the United States. In the aftermath, Harvey is being called a disaster of biblical proportions and it could eventually drop as much as an astounding 25 trillion gallons of water in Texas. The city of Houston and its surrounding suburbs received the brunt of the damage, and many expect it to be the most expensive natural disaster in US history (1). Many lost ...

1244. When the Best People Were Left Out

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... . However, the constant badgering, pressure, and demeaning style of the coach slowly destroys any fun the kid ever felt in the game. Once the desire to play begins to crumble, he begins to sabotage his own success. He becomes more vulnerable to injuries, his grades drop, and he acts up socially with drugs and sex. His cry for help goes unheard. Meanwhile, the kid with less talent gets less help and less pressure. He is left to struggle in worse schools combating pressure from gangs. He has to want to play ...

1245. Worriers Or Warriors?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a man riding slowly through the crowd on a bicycle, precariously balancing a basket of oranges on the handle bars. He was bumped accidentally by a porter who was so bent over, carrying a heavy burden, that he had not seen him. The burden dropped, the oranges were scattered, and a bitter altercation broke out between the cyclist and the porter. Angry words, threats, hostilities were shouted. A crowd gathered to watch what was certain to become a bloody fight. The enraged cyclist moved toward the porter with ...

1246. Like A Mighty Army

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... talk about the love, the caring that mother received. That's how Jesus wants us to be. Someone has said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded. What a horrible indictment of us as a people. Often, when people fail for one reason or another, they drop out of church. They don't want anyone to know. Heaven help us if that should occur in this church. We are a family. We are the body of Christ. Jesus prayed that we would be unified so that the world might believe in the reality of God. That ...

1247. Dreaming Of Florida--awaking In Alaska

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... an airport official in Moscow had left the “St." off “St. Petersburg, Florida," in filling out the tickets, thereby sending the couple to Petersburg, Alaska, a fishing town 100 miles from Juneau. One writer suggests that in atheistic Russia a government clerk would drop any reference to a saint. The Lewenetzs arrived finally in Florida on Christmas Eve. (1) This is All Saints Day. Like that government clerk we don't talk about saints much anymore. Sometimes we use the word saint in a pejorative sense ...

1248. People Who Inspire Us

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... , his father immediately wanted to know what happened. “So, how did you do, son?" he asked. “You'll never believe it!" the young fellow replied. “I was responsible for the winning run!" “Really?" asked his father. “How'd you do that?" Said the little boy, “I dropped the ball." One day in 1990, actress Michelle Pfeiffer was in the parking lot of her movie studio unable to open a car door with her key. So, in frustration, she began beating on the window with her shoe. But she stopped when a studio ...

1249. On Picking Your Battles

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Faced with meeting the payroll for two staffs, Colonial sued the union for "fraud and negligence" and asked for $3 million in punitive damages in addition to actual damages. The union countersued. Eventually, both sides settled their dispute at the bargaining table and dropped their lawsuits. Workplace stupidity. Why can't we sit down with people with whom we have a grievance and work things out before things get out of hand? Notice in Jesus' teaching, it is the person who is sinned against who takes the ...

1250. How Many Times?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice--somewhat contrived, I admit--to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk. That drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumpled-up spite and discarded personalities. Besides, it seemed to be effective, and helped me avoid harboring useless black feelings." Resentment and hatred are ...

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