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1226. What In The World Is Happiness?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... his next meal. We don't want to weep or mourn or be persecuted. It's bad enough that sometimes we feel the world is against us. Comedy writer Robert Orben has a great line. He says, “Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral." We all feel that way at times, but that's not how we want to feel. We are more comfortable with J.B. Phillips parody of Jesus' beloved words: Happy are the “pushers": for they get on ...

1227. Being A Sheep Is Not So Bad (compared With Being A Goat)

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the door open and saw a young boy, about five years old, lying in his dad's arms, hooked up to more medical equipment than Jeff had ever seen. Mom was on the other side, along with Grandma, Grandpa and a nurse tending to the equipment. McMullen knew by the feeling in the room that the situation was grave. He asked the little boy his name--it was Billy--and Jeff did a few simple magic tricks for Billy. As he stepped back to say goodbye, Jeff asked Billy if there was anything else he could do for him. "Ronald ...

1228. Held Hostage

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... my own manuscript away on a closet shelf. JOHN BROWN'S BODY gave me such a terrible case of the humbles that it was months before I could find the necessary faith in myself and my book to go on." (5) That's how you and I should feel in the presence of Christ. We should have "a terrible case of the humbles." Certainly Christ is our friend. Most assuredly, Christ is our big brother. But we cannot appreciate the grandeur of saying that Christ is our friend and our brother without first acknowledging that he is ...

1229. What Makes A Person Successful?

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... Or use cheap nails . . ." (1) You don't want to use cheap nails in building a house . . . or building a life. What makes a person successful? That is our question for the day. What would it take for you to look back over your life and say, "I feel good about what I've accomplished. My life has not been in vain." In 1991, Charles J. Givens and a few members of the Charles J. Givens Organization traveled to Papua, New Guinea. There are many remote people groups deep in the heart of Papua, New Guinea, groups ...

1230. Dark Shadows

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... Brits. How sad. You have to wonder if the decline of hope isn't directly proportional to the decline of Christian faith in that disenchanted land where most of the churches stand nearly empty most Sunday mornings. (3) But that is the way the people of Israel were feeling: "Why did you bring us out of Egypt?" they asked Moses. "To kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?" The people were having a crisis of faith. It's not unusual. All of us walk though those dark shadows from time to time in our ...

1231. Two Women Of Faith

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... that you just didn't get it this year? You had no Christmas spirit, and couldn't muster up any. You just didn't feel the hope and joy and peace that seem to swirl around the miracle of Christ's birth. That's a painful feeling. That's how Mary Ann O'Roark was feeling one year. She faced the joy of Christmas with a heart full of disappointment and cynicism. She found a few minutes of peace by stopping to view a nativity scene on the front steps of a local church. But the peace was soon interrupted by a ...

1232. God, The Promise Keeper

Luke 3:16

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... that he wasn't even worthy to be his slave. I think we can learn a very valuable lesson from John. John knew someone greater was coming and the people would stop following him. Now how would you feel if you were a leader and someone came along and all of your people started to follow him? It would be real easy to feel betrayed and let down, wouldn't it? We might even be very jealous of the new leader. John didn't though. He knew this was God's plan and he was happy. He knew Jesus had a different ...

1233. I Can Make It By Myself . . .

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... in a trembling voice, "Uhhh . . . all by myself?" (2) We can see why this poor woman would hesitate. That's an awful lot to expect from one person. St. Paul is writing to the church at Corinth--a church torn with dissension--a church in which some of the believers feel superior to other believers. And he is telling them that all of them are important to the work of God. He compares the body of Christ to body parts. It is a wonderful analogy. Paul writes: If the foot would say, "Because I am not a hand, I do ...

1234. I Am Unworthy

Jeremiah 1:1-19, Jeremiah 6:1-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... tickets for every Cubs and White Sox game. This friend often gives Stowell his tickets to use. He takes great care to mail them out on time, then to call a few days after to make sure that Stowell enjoyed the game. How do you think that friend would feel if Stowell received the tickets but never used them? Wouldn't he consider that a waste? Wouldn't he question Stowell's friendship? If this man was willing to go to all the trouble to give him such a valuable gift, then wouldn't it seem ungrateful to not ...

1235. What Love Looks Like

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... exclaimed. "It's so we can understand God." Her mom gave her a puzzled look, so the young girl explained. "God is love, and love can be a noun, an adjective, an adverb, or a verb." (3) What a powerful concept! Love isn't just a vague feeling. It is an action, an attitude, a spirit, and a character trait. Since Jesus was filled with the Spirit of God, his every attitude, thought, word, and deed was motivated by love. He was motivated completely and without reservation by love. Whatever is most integral to ...

1236. About Work

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... the water cooler said, "Here I am." The boss said, "Good. You can help me look." Maybe you don't get the respect you feel you deserve. Maybe you have grown to resent some of your company's policies. For example, in recent years, people at the top of ... know some of you are in difficult situations, but if you can't change your situation, you are going to have to change how you feel about your situation. And one final thing: Excellence in our work can be a gift we give to God. We said that work is a ...

1237. Something To Brag About

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... by anything we do; we are saved by what Christ has done. People are so funny. We like to brag, don't we? It helps us feel good about ourselves. We love to chant, "We're number one, we're number one!" A popular movie this year was titled "Miracle." It was about ... irresponsible. Do you hear what I'm saying? Christ has set you free. But what kind of person would you be if you didn't feel a sense of obligation, a sense of call, a sense that you should live life on a higher plane because of what has been done ...

1238. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... they still passed him by. These two religious men may have been real stars in the temple or the synagogue, they might have read the Torah with eloquence and conviction, but they were miserable failures with regard to the second commandment. Is anybody here today starting to feel uncomfortable? "Though I speak with the tongue of men and of angels," says St. Paul in I Corinthians 13, "but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal." Love is at the heart of faith. It is particularly at the heart of ...

1239. Sleeping Through A Revolution

Ephesians 2:13-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... street kids. Local vendors donate a ballroom, tuxes, gowns, makeup, hairstyling services, manicurists, flowers, and food. For this one night, homeless kids from all over Portland get a chance to dress up, dance to romantic music, and eat gourmet food. And they feel like somebody special. As one young woman said, "It feels so good to be looked at like human beings. This is the one night they look at us and don't think we're just street kids." (4) What a great idea. Friends, here's the Gospel: You and I are ...

1240. Hope in the Shadows

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... hope because we know there is one who has come, is coming, and will come again; one who is the divine healer who makes us whole; one who calls himself the resurrection and the life. When we are torn and broken by sin, can’t escape our guilt, and feel the sting of shame, when the past dominates us, we have hope because there is one who has come, is coming, and will come again; one who forgives us, redeems us, and offers us salvation; one who rescues us from whatever we need to be rescued. Jesus wants us ...

1241. THE EXHAUSTION OF THE EVERYDAY

Drama

Angela Akers

... okay? Do you want to talk about it?" Woman: "I don''t know. It just sounds so stupid." Phil: "No, no, it''s not." Woman: "I''m not even really sure what''s wrong. Have you ever felt like that before?" Phil: "I don''t know." Woman: "I just feel so alone, like I could disappear and no one would notice. Have you ever felt like that? Like you don''t matter to anyone? Or, like you don''t know why you get up every day and keep doing the same old things. You''ve got lists of stuff ...

1242. To Who Can We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... beasts that chase each other’s tails in the revolving wirecage of our nervous world. They distract us from feeling too much about these things. Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while ... waters; the billows go over my head; all the waves go over me.” Then it is that Hopeful calls back: “Be of good cheer, my brother; I feel the bottom and it is good.” Well, you and I follow One who has gone ahead into the future; One who has faced everything in life ...

1243. So Who Needs A Shepherd?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... years ago someone wrote a poem about this: Call me Brother, if you will— Call me Pastor, better still; Or if you feel that you prefer, You can even say, just “Sir.” Just plain Mister is O.K., Doctor is another way— Preacher, Parson ... he knows all of His sheep by name. What a wonderful word for those of us who live in such an impersonal age. Sometimes we begin to feel as though we are merely numbers on somebody’s gigantic computer. But Jesus says that he knows all of us by name. There is an old story ...

1244. The Shy Member of the Trinity

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... by giving what Prof. Bruner called “Erdman’s Law.” It goes like this: “I have become convinced that those persons are most filled with the Holy Spirit who are least conscious of it; all they know is that they wish to serve Jesus Christ and they feel that they are unprofitable servants.” In other words, if we wish to love and serve Jesus Christ in the world today, and we are discontented with the meager level of our faith and obedience, then, rather than indicating that we are devoid of the Spirit ...

1245. Is Conscience the Best Guide?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... world, then we are in a very sorry spiritual state, indeed. That is why one of the tasks of the Church is to sensitize our consciences. The notorious safe-cracker Jimmy Valentine, it is said, used to sandpaper his fingertips to make them more sensitive to help him feel the tumblers fall into place as he robbed safes. Perhaps the task of the Church is to sandpaper our souls, to make them more sensitive to our own needs and the needs of our world. You may recall the old saying that the preacher's task is to ...

1246. Slippery Rock

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... good news that in spite of all that he or Jesus’ enemies had done, there was victory beyond the grave, and Peter was forgiven. Dr. Laurence J. Peter once wrote that “You can always tell a real friend. When you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel that you’ve done a permanent job!” That certainly was true of Jesus, the best friend that Peter (or any of us) ever had, or ever will have. V. THERE IS ONE LAST SCENE IN THE LIFE OF PETER. WE FIND IT IN JOHN 21. After Jesus’ crucifixion, Peter ...

1247. On Claiming One’s Inheritance

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... out the evil desire itself. Luther was quite right: properly understood, the Commandments can lead us only to despair. We know what is right, but we can’t quite do it. We see the goal, but we can’t quite reach it - not all by ourselves. Then, when we feel most hopeless, God can come and offer us hope. Indeed, that’s what the Commandments are for...to drive us to God, to where we say with the tax collector in Jesus’ parable: “God be merciful to me, a sinner!” (Luke 18:13) And then comes the good ...

1248. Sleeping through a Revolution

Mark 14:32-42

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... George III, but George the First, George Washington, “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” You see, the really interesting thing about Rip Van Winkle was not that he had slept for twenty years. At times all of us feel as though we could do that - especially after a long overseas trip where we suffer from jet-lag. But the really significant thing was that Rip Van Winkle had slept through a revolution. There had been a complete turnover in the world, and he was unaware ...

1249. Depression: When the Spirit Is Faint

Psalm 142:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... and how our faith in God enables us to keep on keeping on the sacred journey. Yes, there are those moments in our sacred journey when we feel as if a ton of bricks has fallen on us. What is the Good News of the Gospel for us, Preacher? So glad you ask! I ... . It has been tough in this sophisticated center of learning in Athens to make any impact with the Gospel message. We perceive a feeling of tiredness when Paul arrives at Corinth. His spirit is low. However, he seeks God''s will and God tells him that He ...

1250. The Wideness in God's Mercy

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... " has become the disease of AIDS. When I see how society seeks to ostracize people with AIDS, I begin to wonder if they feel like that leper felt. I know that they are judged by many groups in society, Christians included. I see their situation as a ... of Jesus. I pray that we will have the trust and courage of that leper to seek out that touch even when we don't feel worthy to receive it. I pray that we would have compassion for those whom others label as unacceptable and seek to accept them as already ...

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