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1251. The Unexpected Jesus

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... to many who know him best. Remember a few years ago when they polled people about various elements of the Bill of Rights? They discovered that a majority of Americans would not support many of our most basic rights if they were put to a vote. My guess is that the same thing would happen if we put many of Jesus' teachings to a vote among Christians. "Love your enemies. Turn the other cheek. Blessed are the poor." Would you vote for such sentiments? Many of us don't in our everyday lives. There was ...

1252. Standing On Your Head For God

2 Samuel 6:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... the city. After the war there wasn't much of Vienna left. Thousands of homes were destroyed. There was barely enough food to keep the people fed. The economy was in a shambles. There wasn't much for the people to find comfort in, but guess what they did first? They began rebuilding their beloved cathedral. And that kept them going. They worked hard to remove the rubble from the cathedral, even though they were hungry. Funds were raised to restore and rebuild the cathedral, even though the country was almost ...

1253. Advice For Soldiers At The Front

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... me; please give me another chance to prove myself." The officer felt compassion for the young man and agreed, "All right, private, but take a closer look; I am not a captain. I'm a colonel." The young soldier looked at the officer and apologized, "I'm sorry, Colonel, I guess I didn't realize how far from the front line I had come." Have you ever been on the front line? Thankfully, most of us have never had to fight in an actual war. Every day of our lives, though, we are engaged in a war. It is a war ...

1254. Working For Love

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... would you think of me if I didn't take that prescription to every single person that I could possibly reach who needed it ” every single person who has some great heartache or sin that needs healing?" After a long, thoughtful silence the doctor answered: "I guess I would have to say that you were a fool." Very shortly afterwards the doctor accepted Jesus Christ as Savior. Then the two friends teamed up and helped heal many souls in this world. (3) Pain is universal. There is a world of need all around ...

1255. A Family Celebration

Hebrews 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... as Sandra Day O'Connor ” the first woman Supreme Court justice in the United States. (2) You can't judge a person by their beginnings. When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, it was not to affluent parents. He received no special education, though my guess is that Mary and Joseph were the most conscientious of parents. And yet He grew up to change the entire relationship between God and humanity. As the writers of the New Testament looked back on the effect Jesus had on everyone who met him, as they ...

1256. How Do You Get To Heaven?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... . and began to address the group in response to the question of the hour. "That's easy," said Matthew. "The way you get to heaven is to go to the North Pole, put it in neutral and go straight up." (1) Well, that's one way to get there I guess. Just so there's no misunderstanding, though, let me rephrase the question: How are you going to get into heaven once you get to the pearly gates? Calvin of the popular cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbes, is lying beneath a tree. He says to Hobbes: "What if there is no ...

1257. How Shall We Prepare?

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... down, robbed until I am ruined! I can tell you honestly, had not the unexpected happened I could not enclose this check. The wolf that comes to so many doors now-a-days, just had pups in the kitchen, I sold them, and here's the money. (2) I guess we all feel that way at times ” demands for money from every side ” particularly during this season of the year. And yet the gift of Christmas is a gift that must be passed on to be enjoyed. Christ comes into our lives bringing unmerited love. Only the coldest ...

1258. A Great And Wonderful New Year

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... the answer. Criminologists say that many crimes, especially sensational ones, are performed by people who never had satisfied their craving for being noticed. The criminal goes out and does something spectacular which will make front-page headlines and says to himself, "Now, I guess the world will sit up and take notice of me." (4) Every now and then someone takes a poll of husbands and wives to see what are the most common complaints that spouses have against each other. Invariably, "not being noticed," in ...

1259. Jesus And The Lake Wobegon Effect

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... that our strength is sufficient. At such times we are like General Custer at Little Bighorn. One of Custer's scouts warned him they were in for a fight. He estimated there were enough Sioux to keep them busy for 2 or 3 days. General Custer replied rather smugly, "I guess we'll get through with them in one day." He even declined help from the 7th Calvary or the aid of Gatling guns. Well, Custer was right about one thing. One day was all it took. So it is with us when we think that our resources can carry us ...

1260. What Are You Sitting On?

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... went on with a list of things that would take him a lifetime to supply. So, consulting his own children, he took the firewood, for he had no money to buy lumber, and whittled. Soon those strong, unpainted Hingham toys became known all over the world. (3) I guess we could say this man had been sitting on his hands, for his hands were where his fortune lay. What is it you are sitting on? In this grand world of opportunity, do you have possibilities and potentials which are lying unused? Let's begin here. GOD ...

1261. Father, Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Philip Ware

... interview, Shirer said to Moyers: "As you know, President Reagan put out this idea of history that only Hitler, one man, was responsible for the evil, and that the poor German people, including the soldiers, were innocent victims. History gets distorted all the time. I guess we all do it, and that will go on. It's too bad." (pp. 246, 249) Like history, theology also gets distorted; that we have seen over and over again. The Jews forgot the purpose for which God had called them out under Abraham and Moses ...

1262. A Time To Remember - Memorial Day

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... go to the refrigerator and forget what I need by the time I get there." The second woman said, "When I go upstairs, I can't remember whether I'm going up for something or I'm on my way back down." The third woman said, "I'm lucky, I guess (knocking on wood), I don't have that problem. Oh, there's someone at the door." One of our older comedians says he can always find his car in a parking lot ” it's the one with the lights on. Memory is a tricky thing. There are some things, however ...

1263. Jesus Prays For Us

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... who attend church are less likely to be ill over time than those who do not attend church. I don't know what that says to you. Possibly, it says something about a life of discipline. Perhaps it says something about avoiding self-destructive habits. My guess is, though, that it says the most about our need for one another. Revealing studies have been done on depressed people. Depressed people want to be alone. Should we let them be? Not if we want them to improve. There is something about being with others ...

1264. Empowered

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... are fascinating. He found that when tired children are given a word of praise or commendation, the ergograph shows an immediate upward surge of new energy. When the children are criticized and discouraged, the ergograph shows their physical energy take a sudden nosedive. (2) My guess is that those results could be duplicated in adults. When we are praised our energy levels go up. When we are criticized our energy levels go down. What, then, is one of the most helpful roles that we can play in one another's ...

1265. Freedom's Year

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... a minute. She wrinkled her brow as she thought. And then she was ready. She said, "Love and honor, yes! Obey, no!" The groom looked at his little bride, and his eyes shot wide open. He looked at the minister. And then he just shrugged. He said, "Oh, well, I guess two out of three isn't bad!" So they got married! And he gave her all the freedom she wanted! And they lived happily ever after! We're like her, aren't we? We all want our freedom. And we don't want anyone to take it from us! But ...

1266. Why Do We Call Him Good?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... ON SOMEONE IN DISTRESS. Isn't that our first reaction? We see someone who is hurting and we look away. That's what the priest and the Levite did. They were the religious leaders in the community. But they ignored the forsaken traveler. We can only guess why. Perhaps they did not want to be made ceremonially unclean by touching one they suspected was dead. Possibly they were just in a hurry and did not want to be inconvenienced. Whatever the reason, they both turned their back. The Samaritan was good because ...

1267. On Knowing What's Best For Your Kids

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... developing a sense of responsibility because it is easier to go ahead and perform a task for them than it is to get them to do it themselves. It is easier to give in than it is to set firm guidelines. I don't want to seem judgmental, but my guess is that in today's world there are more problem parents than problem kids. Did you see in St. Louis this year where they had to cancel the annual city-wide Easter egg hunt, because parents were getting out of hand? If you don't believe that can happen, visit ...

1268. Want To Sit At The Head Table?

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of 3,000 adults. By 1980 the work was compiled and almost ready for publication. One small detail remained. Albert D. Klassen and Colin Williams, the authors of the survey, still needed to agree on whose name would appear first on the publication. Guess what? A decade later, the research was still waiting for publication. Other researchers interested in the results of the study had to intervene to help resolve the squabble. Apparently some of the academic community felt that 10 years was long enough for the ...

1269. Pray Constantly

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked him, "Say, Coach, I hear you keep a chaplain on the bench to pray for your team during games. Would you mind introducing me to him?" "Glad to," said the coach. "Did you want to meet the offensive chaplain or the defensive chaplain?" My guess is that even non-believers find themselves uttering desperate prayers in times of great distress. But for the believer ” for the follower of Christ ” the issue is not prayer in crisis but prayer as an ongoing part of life. Jesus told his disciples a parable ...

1270. The Gift Of Inadequacy

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... to take an early retirement. "The professor also resigned from the vestry, yet continued each Sunday to attend church and take communion. He looked and behaved the same as ever. If you were a stranger at St. Cuthbert's, you would never guess this blase bald gentleman with his gray-and-white striped beard and rumpled seersuckers, dreamily plodding to the altar rail in his squishy-sounding yellow Wallabees, or thoughtfully munching his donut at coffee hour, oblivious to the steady snowfall of powdered sugar ...

1271. A Perfect World

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... be ended. When that time will come no one knows but it is coming. "The wolf will live with the lamb . . . ." But there is something else we need to note: THERE IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PREPARING FOR THIS PERFECT WORLD. You want to guess who those people are? Yes, the church of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist came preaching the Kingdom of Heaven. He told all who would listen to him to repent and to "prepare the way of the Lord and to make his paths straight." In the days of the ...

1272. A Journey To A New Life

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... as sugar and eggs, the church needed ingredients to make up the congregation. Holding a cookie aloft, he asked, "If I took the chocolate chips out of this cookie, what would I have?" A shy six-year-old raised his hand. "Six less grams of fat," he replied. (3) My guess is that someone in that young man's family is on a diet. We make these sometimes futile resolutions, but don't many of us really hope for more? Don't we long for a more radical change? A change that will turn our inner darkness into light? A ...

1273. Caught Up In A Dream

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... him. But Leiber's mind was on more pressing matters than his friend's lucky escape from the clutches of the deep. Leiber's first words to Stoller were, "Elvis Presley's recorded Hound Dog'! Elvis Presley's recorded Hound Dog'!" (3) I guess different people get excited about different things. Those four fishermen ” Simon, Andrew, James and John ” got excited when they met Jesus. They left their families, they left their jobs, they left everything important to them for an uncertain future as his disciples ...

1274. Hard Choice

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Sermon

King Duncan

I guess the greatest temptation any speaker has is to overstate his or her case. I heard recently about a temperance speaker who was lecturing on the evils of liquor. "Who has the most money to spend?" he bellowed. "The saloon keeper! Who has the biggest house? The saloon keeper! Who has ...

1275. Wayward Children - Father's Day

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... her? Would you still love her?" "Of course I would!" cried the woman, "I would do anything for her! Why do you ask such a question?" "Because I want you to know," said the priest, "that God has a picture of you on His dresser." Do you believe that? I guess it depends on what kind of God you have. I read of a man who frequently dreamed that God ran after him with a paper in his hand. All his life he ran from God, for he believed that paper contained a warrant for his arrest. After accepting the Christian ...

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