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1276. Bread From Heaven

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever. During Operation Desert Storm, Al and Barbara Davis, a retired Virginia couple, read that soldiers in the field weren't getting enough potassium and protein. One problem was that bananas, an excellent source of potassium, spoiled before they could get to the soldiers. So Al and Barbara had an idea: why not make ...

1277. That Believing Ye Might Have Life

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... great problem solver who is right there with us! Nothing is beyond Him, and yet we tend to focus on the problem at hand. We focus on the giants infesting the land, and allow our fears to take over. We forget this great God who has led us through the desert; this God who stands with us as a pillar of fire; this God who tells us we can do anything. He will give us the victory! (4) Sir Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize for medicine when he discovered penicillin. But his discovery was an accident. He was a ...

1278. He Came To Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ Legends. One of the most beautiful of these is called "The Wise Men's Well." In this legend the three Wise Men are drawn together by their common vision of a beautiful star that bids them seek a newborn King. They follow this star across desert and plain until it stands over a grotto in Bethlehem. But when they look into the grotto they see only a young peasant woman and her husband with a newborn child. They turn away in disappointment. After they have gone some distance, however, they discover they ...

1279. When The Going Gets Tough

Romans 8:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... Bible's wait-ers. Noah waited 120 years before it rained. Job waited perhaps a lifetime, 60-70 years. Abraham waited 100 years to find a city, and never did. Joseph served 14 years of imprisonment because of false accusations. Moses waited 40 years in the desert. (1) Can you imagine waiting forty years or more for a particular event to happen? And these are just a few of the Bible's many wait-ers. Patience is probably the hardest virtue for most modern Christians to acquire. We are taught that faith will ...

1280. At The Edge Of Broken-ness

Job 1:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... is walking around stunned, numbed, and in a state of total shock." (8) Reader: While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four cornersof the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" (Job 1: 18-19) Female 1: "I'm crying in my heart. My heart will never, ever be the same. This ...

1281. Piercing A Hole In The Darkness

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

King Duncan

... to all of life--through good times and bad. Do we trust God? If we trust God, all of the rest of life will fall in place. We may walk through the valley, as did Job. But we know we do not walk alone. 1. Sheila Walsh. The Desert Experience (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2001), pp. 182-183. 2. Dr. William P. Barker, Tarbell's (Elgin, Illinois: David C. Cook Church Ministries, 1994). 3. Paul Smith. God's Plan For Our Good (Chicago: Moody Press, 2000). 4. Patsy Clairmont. Normal Is Just a Setting on Your ...

1282. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... in one of those ships. The port, when you arrive after the long voyage, is blocked with vessels of every flag. With much difficulty you land, and join one of the long trains starting for Jerusalem. Far as the eye can reach, the caravans move over the desert in an endless stream. As you approach the Holy City you see a dark, seething mass stretching for leagues and leagues between you and its glittering spires. You have come to see Jesus; but you will never see Him." Why? Because you are crowded out. Jesus ...

1283. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... follows about second birth, water, Spirit, and the wind, a conversation meant to reveal, and lead Nicodemus to salvation. Nicodemus struggles with the images Jesus speaks, and asks, “How can this be?” Jesus offers in response, “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” Jesus speaks to the Samaritan woman, saying, “Will you give me a drink?” She is flabbergasted. “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a ...

1284. Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blond

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the just and unjust, But the unjust have the just’s umbrellas! But to understand Jesus’ words that way is to miss the point. In the land of the Bible, rain is blessing and sun is curse. In the Holy Land, located as it is on the edge of a desert, rain is needed in order to make crops grow. In the Bible, rain, rivers of water, and water in general, all symbolize God’s grace. Just as no one can do anything to “deserve” rain showers, so we cannot deserve God’s grace. And what Jesus is saying is not ...

1285. Doors Are for Entering

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... .” He mused upon that phrase and wrote, “This is only true of Christmas. We do not try desperately to rush home for the Fourth of July. Only Christmas has this live power of family attraction. This is as it should be, for the original event on a cold desert night of conspicuous stars was a family affair. (An Old-Fashioned Christmas, New York: The Dial Press, 1964, p.51) In the prologue to the Fourth gospel, there is a verse which says, “No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to ...

1286. Lazarus Laughed

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... him, because it could not hold his risen Lord. When Martin Luther was hailed before kings and bishops and told to renounce his new-found faith at the beginning of the Reformation, he was asked, “Where will you be, Brother Martin, when all your friends desert you? When your enemies finally kill you? Where will you be then, Brother Martin?” And Luther confidently replied, “Then, as now, safe in the arms of Almighty God!” So also Lazarus could say. There is a play written by Eugene O’Neill in 1927 ...

1287. Love Is Extravagant

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... our professions of faith and discipleship? Most of the time most of us sound very much like the fainthearted suitor who sent the following love note to his girl friend: “Dear Anne, for you I would climb the highest mountain, swim the deepest river, trudge across the wildest desert. I love you. P.S. I’ll be over to see you on Saturday if it doesn’t rain!” Jesus must have been looking at the spirit of this woman’s deed even more than the deed itself. That is why he said to Judas and the disciples ...

1288. No Longer Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... return has, as I said, created problems for the Church down through the centuries. Around 200 AD a Syrian bishop announced that Christ was about to return to begin His reign upon the earth. So the bishop led all of his people out into the desert to await Christ's return. They would have perished except that the authorities went out and got them and forced them to return. John Wycliffe, the great Bible translator of the fourteenth century, had a group of peasants following him who believed so strongly that ...

1289. The Huddle Is Not the Game

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the instruments through which he heals, human voices to bring comfort to the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable, human eyes to look with compassion upon the lonely, a human presence to stand beside the outcast and oppressed, human brain power to make deserts fertile and to feed the hungry, human political skills dedicated to creating a more just and humane society. Truly, as John F. Kennedy once said, “In this world, God’s work is our own.” So the Incarnation spills over into our daily life ...

1290. Believing Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . To go there seemed suicidal and reckless. What made it worse is that word had come that Lazarus was not only ill, he was dead. So now the journey was not only reckless, but pointless. When Jesus said that He was going anyway, the disciples came close to deserting Him. Then there came the voice of one who was normally silent: Thomas, who said, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.” (John 11:16) Thomas was a born pessimist. He could see nothing ahead but disaster. But he was willing to go anyway. I ...

1291. When Tradition Gets in the Way

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is not necessarily a bad thing. It links us to our past. Lawrence of Arabia brought a group of Arab chieftains to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and they were very impressed by all of the then-modern conveniences of France. Those men of the desert were amazed at the marvel of modern technology, but nothing astonished them as much as the running water in their hotel bathrooms. Water for them in their arid countries meant life and power and wealth. They knew its scarcity and its value, yet here it could ...

1292. Are We Able?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... James and John as Horrible Examples Numbers 1 and 2 of how NOT to be a follower of Jesus. III. BUT WAIT A MINUTE: THEIR CRASS REQUEST REFLECTED A DEEP FAITH, DIDN’T IT? I am indebted to David H.C. Read for this insight. Yes, James and John did desert Jesus just a few days after they made their brash promise. Peter did the same thing: “Lord, even though they all fall away, I will not!” (Mark 14:29) We know how that came out, don’t we, as we remember Peter warming himself before the fires of Jesus ...

1293. God’s Greatest Gamble

Mark 12:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , God’s good earth. That is why sometimes we feel abandoned. God has gone away for awhile. Not far away. He can still hear our prayers, but He is not so close that we will be smothered by His love. As Presbyterian David Redding says, “God has not deserted, but carried out a strategic retreat to provide man(kind) an opportunity to prove his stewardship.” (THE PARABLES HE TOLD, Westwood, N.J., 1962, p.21) And, in a very apt analogy, he says: “We are under the eye but not the thumb of God; we are not ...

1294. Only the Abba Knows

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... .” (II Thess. 3:11) He also said: “If anyone will not work, let him not eat.” (II Thess. 3:10) Around 200 A.D a Syrian bishop announced that Christ was about to come to begin His reign. So the bishop led all his people out into the desert to meet Christ at His return. They would have died there if the authorities had not gone out and forced them to return. The Bible translator John Wycliffe in the 14th century had a group of peasants following him who believed so strongly that Christ’s return was ...

1295. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... died when he was seven. He quit school at age 10 and went to sea with his father at age 11. At 18 he was “impressed,” compelled by force to enlist on a British man-of-war. He was en route to becoming an officer when he deserted, was caught, was whipped publicly, and put in irons. Before long, he found himself on a slave ship, almost a slave himself. Eventually he became captain of a slave ship. But then he came under the influence of English evangelist George Whitefield, and finally became a clergyman ...

1296. Holy Thursday

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... denied me. But I forgive you. Come, eat with me.” Judas wasn’t present, but if he had been, our Lord would have said to him, “You betrayed me. But I forgive you. Come eat with me.” To the others He is saying, “You all ran away and deserted me. But I forgive you. Come, eat with me.” “And go tell the soldier who pierced my side with a spear that there is a closer way to my heart than that!” Through eating and drinking, Jesus sought to heal broken relationships. John Wesley had a radical twist ...

1297. On the Threshold: From Law to Gospel

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

David Busic

... proselytite to become Jewish, along with circumcision and temple sacrifices. And yet who is John calling to be baptized? Who? Jews! This is a radical method, which would have highly offended the Jewish leaders. This explains their unusual visit to the desert. John the Baptist calls Jews to repentance, not just the common folk–those we all know to be sinful–the tax collectors, the sinners, the prostitutes. But he cries repent! To the Jewish leaders themselves. Repent from your sin. Repent from your ...

1298. The Road to Somewhere (I am the way, truth, and life)

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Room. Jesus demonstrated the nature of true servanthood and Christian discipleship with a towel and a basin. This demonstration challenged them to the very core of their being. Then, to make matters worse, Judas Iscariot, a trusted and talented disciple had deserted them and betrayed Jesus. They knew now that Jesus must die. There was no turning back. They wanted Jesus to turn back--but Jesus confidently and obediently set his face to Jerusalem--trusting solely in the Father''s will. Jesus was demonstrating ...

1299. The Lord's Prayer: Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... wrote in his journal, "Resolved that all men should live to the Glory of God. Resolved secondly, that whether or not anyone else does--I will." That is the secret. This is the key. Remember that Jesus was able to withstand all the offers of Satan in the desert because he was obedient to the insights given in the word of God. SECONDLY, WE CANNOT RESIST THE SEDUCTIVE POWERS OF TEMPTATION IF WE ARE LOOKING AND LABORING IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES. A great story is told about a man who went ice fishing. He cut a ...

1300. The Lord's Prayer: Deliver us from Evil

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... he had known longer than most and called it a "mixed world." "Side by side with the beautiful is the weird, the grotesque, even the ugly," he wrote. "There are fertile plains to be cultivated and mines to be discovered, but there are also swamps and deserts. There are mountains of refuge and life-giving breezes, but also hurricanes, floods, and drought, volcanoes and earthquakes which rend and devastate. There are birds of song and birds of prey." You see, the trouble with weeds is that they do not seem to ...

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