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1226. Responding Instead Of Reacting

Jeremiah 28:1-17

Sermon

Dr. B. Bruce Humphrey

... at the baths. When he got back to London, he began writing music for biblical oratorios along with operas. Writer Charles Jennens asked for an appointment with Handel to discuss some new music for a libretto he had written called "Messiah." Handel was so impressed by the compilation of Old Testament prophecies which were fulfilled by Jesus that he sat down and worked for twenty-four straight days. In less than a month he completed the music for the "Messiah." The last 20 years of his life he spent writing ...

1227. Putting A Face On Jesus

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... foul. But not the Angolans. They actually felt flattered that Charles Barkley considered them to be such serious competition. After the game in which the U.S. flattened the Croatian team, the Croatian coach Peter Skansi was all smiles. As he explained, "I was impressed with the way Mr. Jordan and Mr. Daly pronounced our names. They knew about us. That is very important to us. That means we are something in the world of basketball!" (4) Even though they were creamed, these athletes were happy, because the ...

1228. Pax Augusta, Pax Christi

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... is raised by his mother and a stepfather. At the age of 12, he has his first public appearance. He makes a speech at his grandmother's funeral, and people talk about it for years. At 18, he goes off to battle in Spain with Julius Caesar. Caesar is so impressed by the young man that when Caesar is killed on the Ides of March, his Will declares the young Gaius Octavius to be his successor. Caesar was a god to the Roman people. So Gaius Octavius is designated the Son of God! And he's born to be king! The ...

1229. Caught Up In A Dream

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... No "don't call us; we'll call you?" Could we not say that these four fishermen acted rather impulsively? Evidently, they were caught up in Jesus' dream. Doesn't their impulsiveness suggest certain real truths? FIRST OF ALL, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING VERY IMPRESSIVE ABOUT JESUS FOR THEM TO ACT SO RAPIDLY. We don't get swept up that quickly by just any ordinary run-of-the-mill person. There was something special about Jesus ” some indefinable quality that set him apart. It's like a story Dudley Moore ...

1230. Bad News, Good News

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... -feed her neighbor's child while the neighbor gathered food. Today, in America, it's no longer common for a neighbor to borrow a cup of sugar. There is a growing sense that in the midst of our great affluence, in the midst of our impressive military power and technological prowess, at heart we are a sick society. Some commentators are predicting that as we become a more socially isolated society ” as people go into their cocoons and lose human contact except that provided by a TV screen and a computer ...

1231. I Can Have Anything?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... to one against you. We have the majority." Whereupon the rabbi rose to his feet in offended majesty. "So," he said, "you now think because of the vote that you are right and I am wrong. Well, that is not so. I stand here" ” and he raised his arms impressively ” "and call upon the Holy One of Israel to give us a sign that I am right and you are wrong." And as he said this, there came a frightful crack of thunder and a brilliant flash of lightning that struck the mahogany table and cracked it in two ...

1232. Who Is God Anyway?

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Trinity is an adequate way to describe God in all of God's fullness. How can we ever hope to express One who is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent? A French bishop was questioning a young boy about religion, to which the boy gave very good and quick responses. Much impressed, the bishop told the boy, "I will give you an orange if you will tell me where God is." "My Lord," replied the boy, "I will give you two oranges if you will tell me where God is not." The boy was far more astute than the bishop ...

1233. Wayward Children - Father's Day

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... hitting the road and they skid off a winding highway, and they wrap their car around a tree. Even worse, a passenger in the car, their best friend dies. It's not fair! All because of a couple of drinks? It's not right. You light up a cigarette to impress friends. It's the cool thing to do. You don't visualize yourself hacking away your life in a cancer ward. That's absurd. Just because you smoked a few cigarettes? But that is the way the world operates. And so, if you are a parent, you wait and you ...

1234. Pardon Me, But Do You Know God?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... cause of an instrument. When she finished, a ray of hope had been restored in her eyes. She was more open to talking too. She told Corrie of her prestigious career as a concert pianist, and later as a professor who inspired many prominent musicians. Her impressive career, her lovely home, and all she held dear had been lost to the war. She lamented the fact that, in fleeing from the fighting, she has not taken any of her precious possessions with her. But Corrie was quick to correct the woman, pointing out ...

1235. The Truth About Miracles

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... six stone jars standing there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding ten or twenty gallons. Jesus told the servants to fill the jars with water, then he told them to draw some out and take it to the wine steward. The wine steward was impressed. He didn't know where this new wine came from, but it was better than the wine served first. Jesus had performed his first miracle wine to water. Miracles do occur. Tony Campolo tells about an experience that occurred when he was fourteen yearsold. Tony's ...

1236. Peace, Blessed Peace

John 14:15-31

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... it. If you have a quarter in your pocket, you can pull it out and look at it, too. On the front of our quarter is a picture of George Washington. He is very important because he was the first President of the United States of America. That's pretty impressive. And what is that on the back of the quarter? That's right, it's an eagle. Why do you think we have an eagle on the back of our coins? For thousands of years, eagles have been used as symbols of peace and strength. Even back in Jesus' time ...

1237. Who Will Be Crying At Your Funeral

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... as the use of our money. In our lesson for the day Jesus says to us, "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." We often say time is money. That is more true than many of us realize. "A man dreamed that he came to an impressive building somewhat like a bank and yet not a bank, because the brass marker said: ˜Time for Sale.' There he saw a man, breathless and pale, painfully pull himself up the stairs like the victim of some dread disease. ˜The doctor told me I was five years too late ...

1238. Busybodies

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... call "Integrative Medicine." It is a program designed to study and apply alternative forms of medicine. Among the forms of alternative medicine which the college employs is prayer. In scientific studies prayer has been shown to lower blood pressure. Even more impressively, religious folks have been found to live longer than agnostics and atheists. One recent study has shown that heart patients are less likely to die when designated family members pray for them, even when these heart patients do not realize ...

1239. On Being Picked For The "Rework"

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

King Duncan

... , sends us off into the "catch pan" of fallen humanity, and there we are "melted down." That's precisely what happens to us when we come to acknowledge and profess Christ we are melted down. Let me explain. We may go through our lives thinking we are pretty impressive, at least as clay pots go! We observe the other clay jars around us and we are certainly no worse than many of them! We're not so bad. We can come to regard ourselves as very attractive human specimens. However, in God's eyes we are spoiled ...

1240. Justified By What?

Romans 3:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... spiritual clarity, we may reflect not only on our misdeeds, but also on our sins of omissionthose good things, necessary things we have not donelike feeding the hungry and housing the homeless. And certainly the volume of our misdeeds, particularly our sins of omission, is impressive. But we are also sinful by our very nature. To use theologian Paul Tillich's great phrase, we are estranged from God. There is a chasm that separates us from God and keeps us from the kind of peace, love and joy that God means ...

1241. To Be Abased, To Abound, To Be Content

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... is the closest a prisoner comes to freedom, but it's miles from real freedom. Paul wrote from prison that he could find contentment in abounding and abasement. He knew of what he spoke. He'd been at the top, a hot shot seminarian who sought to impress his professors by persecuting Christians, even consenting to the death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, but now he's on the other side. This persecutor of Christians is now a persecuted Christian, and he says it doesn't matter if you're on the top or ...

1242. Wounded, In Pain. Serving Still

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... ever." (4) Low moments will sometimes take us into deep valleys of brokenness. Faith in ourselves, in others, even in God can vanish. Oh sure, we bolt down the sanctuary pews and build our churches to look like ornate fortresses. This puts forth the impression that Christianity is a way to get everything in life tied down, fixed and stable. But we know it's not so. Are we sometimes beneath expectations? Yes, indeed. Unsuitable and unworthy? Yes. Wounded and in pain? Of course. Useless for future service? No ...

1243. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... ashes, weakness for strength, life for death. Take the most hopeless situation, add God to the equation, and suddenly there is hope! Two men were studying a painting depicting Jesus’ healing of the blind men of Jericho. Both of these men surveying the painting were impressed by the beauty and detail of the picture. But one man noticed something more. He pointed to a small cane lying in the street. The two blind men in the painting must have been begging in the street when they heard that Jesus was passing ...

1244. It's A Miracle

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? Let's consider one more reputed miracle, just for fun. Arlene Gardner of Estill Springs, Tennessee, claims to have seen the face of Jesus on her General Electric freezer on the front porch of her mobile home. Not everyone in the town was impressed with the heavenly vision. People magazine reports that Mayor John Gaul, of Estill Springs said, "If Jesus were coming to this town, he would have come somewhere different than on a [blankety-blank] freezer." I have to confess to you, I find myself somewhat ...

1245. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To Make Sense Out Of My Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... magnificent, it's easy to see how a person raised here could readily imagine himself to be a person of destiny. There's something about the environment that makes you feel, ˜I am significant.'" The visit to Churchill's boyhood home place left a deep impression on Hayford, and from it came the inspiration for his song "Majesty." Before Hayford left Oxfordshire, he said, upon reflection, "I thought about all the majesty and dignity we've been endowed with in Christ. If that would dawn on all God's people, if ...

1246. Four Ways To Defeat Stress

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... were amazed because, they said, he spoke with authority. But you say, "Well, that was easy for him. He was God's Son." But friends, are we not God's children? Why do we allow our fears to drive us so? Howard Thurman used to tell about how impressed his grandmother was with the preaching that she, a former slave, had heard from a certain slave minister when she was a girl. The slave preacher was allowed to come to the plantation and preach about four times a year, and on each occasion he had drilled into ...

1247. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To See God

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... where God resides. We are glad to know God speaks our language. And we know that though we have a world full of beguiling pleasures, they are not enough. We yearn to see God. And so did the people who came to see Jesus. Certainly they were impressed with his works of healing. And they were mystified when he multiplied the loaves and the fishes. But still their hearts yearned for something more than bread and circuses. They wanted to find the Messiah. They wanted to know that there is a loving God who rules ...

1248. A Birthday Celebration

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... stop to think about it, that's no more foolish than going through the Christmas season, with all of its festivities, without remembering the One whose birth we are supposed to be honoring. (4) And yet we know it happens. Many people never get it. They're impressed by the trinkets, but they miss the triumph of what happened that first Christmas. It's their loss. Clovis Chappell used to tell the story about one of the shepherds who heard the proclamation of the angels about the birth of Jesus but did not go ...

1249. Who Is Your Hero?

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , fame and power. Among other things, the book contains some paper watch faces that simulate an $11,000 Corum watch. You can cut these watch faces out and paste them on your $11 watch. According to the book, by doing this, your friends will be impressed with both your good taste and your great wealth. That's what the authors mean by "surface chic"! (6) Many celebrities today are no more than surface chic. Invariably, when we get a closer look, they disappoint. One reason to make Christ your hero is that ...

1250. Light For A New Year

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... sounded? Right then and there, the woman sent up a desperate prayer that God would show her who he wanted her to be. A week later, this woman remembered an article she had read about an organization called "The Christophers." Their motto had made a deep impression on her: "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." The woman realized that she had been living in darkness for too long. She began an intensive Bible study focusing on any verse that mentioned light. A new and deepened faith ...

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