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1301. How Much Do You Trust God?

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... in God in a way he never had before. Abraham knew he could depend on God no matter what happened. That's the kind of faith you and I need. With such a faith we can live our lives in confidence. In 1958, America's first commercial jet air service began with the flight of the Boeing 707. A month after that first flight, a traveler on a piston-engine, propeller-driven DC-6 airliner struck up a conversation with a fellow passenger. The passenger happened to be a Boeing engineer. The traveler asked the engineer ...

1302. The Greatest Discovery Of All

Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... a mustard seed. "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the field," says Jesus. From one of the tiniest seeds comes a shrub which grows eight to ten feet tall. The shrub is so large and full that the "birds of the air come and make nests in its branches." Whoever would have thought that such a tiny seed could produce such a large shrub? AND THAT'S OUR FIRST THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ” FROM LITTLE COMES MUCH. Nancy Cornice remembers as a child hearing the tip-tap of a cane on ...

1303. It's Not Nice To Call Someone A Dog

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... to make conversation, he asked, "Do you know what it says here?" "Yes," responded the little girl. "It says, ˜Kills fleas for six months." (1) I can hear Jesus telling such a joke on himself, can’t you? People who are secure in themselves don’t have to "put on airs." He was open and caring. People of all sorts were drawn to him. Our story for the morning is about one woman who was drawn to him. She came to him for help ” not for herself but for her daughter. The truth of the matter is that she made ...

1304. When Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Matthew 21:23-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... willing to attend Bible study?" The result was quite different from the week before. This time only twelve persons indicated that they would be willing to attend. Let's set our parable for the day in it's proper context. Tension was in the air the day Jesus entered the temple. Certain religious officials were plotting against him. They viewed him as a threat. Jesus' teachings ran counter to their tradition. They had to do something to silence him. They decided to try to try to incriminate him. They asked ...

1305. Surprised By Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... After all, that’s where we must begin. What does it mean when we say we “love God?” Perhaps it is easier to say what we do not mean. Loving God is not having a mushy, good feeling--like loving pizza or loving a good movie. The bubbly, air-head beauty contestant giggles and says, “I just adore God--He’s neat!” Well, maybe He is neat, but that’s not the kind of love Jesus was talking about. An old Russian woman lay on a sofa. Multiple sclerosis had twisted her body almost beyond recognition. The ...

1306. Diamonds Falling From Your Lips

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... names. Actually it would be helpful if whatever was in person's heart was revealed in a visible way in their speech. Then when nice sincere people speak flowers and diamonds would fall from their mouths. And when someone insincere speaks toads and snakes would fill the air. If only we had some way to tell the sincere from the insincere, then we wouldn't be fooled. We wouldn't have to be knee-deep in toads before we found some people out. Particularly is this a problem when it comes to religion. There are ...

1307. May Christ Be Born In You

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... cold. Something happened to Rex in that worship service. God broke through into his life. He thought of all that was precious to him: home, his wife, his unseen infant child. In that moment as they tried to sing Christmas carols in the cold air he realized that Christmas does not depend on church architecture or fine clothing, expansive meals or expensive gifts. Instead Rex claimed, "Christmas is best celebrated as a voluntary act in which we replenish our personal faith in the company of others." Far from ...

1308. A Most Disagreeable Man

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... a Bible on his lap. With stiff fingers he forced open the pages. People in the audience could be seen wiping tears of admiration from their faces. Robert could have asked for sympathy or even pity, but he did just the opposite. He held his bent hand up in the air and boasted, "I have everything I need for joy." His shirts were held together by Velcro, but his life was held together by joy. (2) You or I would never have chosen Robert to be a messenger for God. A mistake we often make in the church is to be ...

1309. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... the barn next to his farmhouse. In the barn, on the floor leaning against the walls, were pictures and framed newspaper articles from his prime. There were photos of the champ punching and dancing. There was one picture where his fist was punching the air. There was also a picture of Ali holding his championship belt high in triumph. "The thrilla in Manilla" a framed poster read. As the sportswriter looked at the pictures he couldn't help but notice they were covered with white streaks ” bird droppings ...

1310. The Salvation Army Parade

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... questions. NOTICE, FIRST OF ALL, THE HIGH HOPES OF THOSE WHO ACCOMPANIED JESUS INTO THE CITY. No sooner had the two disciples returned with the colt than a crowd appeared. And the crowd was in the mood for a celebration. There was excitement in the air. Some spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut "leafy branches" placing them on the road. There was singing and shouting. The people were ready for a change. They wanted someone to lead them to a better life. They had high hopes. There is something ...

1311. Passage To New Life

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... his confession, say one last prayer, and then wait for the bullets. He literally had only minutes to live. Fyodor heard the officer telling the soldiers to ready their guns. Then he heard the order to fire. He heard the shots ring out in the air. But he felt nothing. Miraculously, he was still alive. The guns had been loaded with blanks. The czar had brought the young revolutionary to the brink of death only to let him know, through this emotionally devastating experience, that his life had been spared. In ...

1312. Aren't You Glad?

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Anne-Rose Reeves

... put the lamb on it. And then, reaching under his apron one more time, he pulled out a big long butcher knife, lifted it up high above his head to strike the lamb and... There was a collective gasp in the church. Pastor Jones looked up, knife poised in the air and shouted, "Aren't you glad we don't have to do this anymore? Two thousand years ago people like you and me brought lambs like this one to the temple and slaughtered them so that an angry God would be appeased for all the sins we had committed. Aren ...

1313. Battle With The Law

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

King Duncan

... of attempting to burglarize a school, a man fell through a skylight. The company that insured the school was ordered to pay $260,000 in damages and to give the would-be burglar $1,500 a month for life. In Maryland, two men tried to dry their hot-air balloon in a commercial laundry dryer. The dryer exploded, injuring them slightly, and they ended up winning almost $900,000 in damages. In California, a man was injured when a drunk driver rammed into the phone booth in which he was making a call. The state's ...

1314. Whoever Would Have Thought?

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... the smallest seed known in Jesus' day grew a large shrub. The mustard seed is only a tiny, tiny speck of a seed, yet when it grows, Jesus tells us, it is, "the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." It is hard for us to get excited about this, since we live in an age with all sorts of amazing discoveries, but for people living in prescientific days it must have truly baffled their minds ” that something so large could come from ...

1315. Coming For The Right Reasons

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... Police to take a lie detector test. He was not told the room was fitted with a concealed television camera and microphone. While alone waiting for the test to begin, he slid out of his chair, got down on his knees, put his arms in the air, and said, "Oh God, let me get away with it just this once." At his trial, a videotape of his prayer was offered in evidence. The defendant argued that the recording violated a Canadian law prohibiting the interception of private communications. The prosecutor argued that ...

1316. When More Is Never Enough

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a good man who attended the temple, and not only knew the Ten Commandments but also lived by them. But there was still something missing from his life. Maya Angelou tells about her Aunt Tee who worked as a housekeeper for a couple in Bel Air, California. She lived with the couple in their spacious fourteen-room ranch house. They were a very quiet couple. As they had gotten older they had stopped entertaining their friends and even spoke less to each other. "Finally," Maya says, "they sat in a dry silence ...

1317. Preparing For An Unknowable Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... than most people. "What can I do?" he prayed. The answer came: "Write to your friends in the United States and ask them to send you some Long Island ducks." So this is what Christy did. Not long afterwards two dozen duck eggs were shipped air freight from New York. But they didn't reach Afghanistan directly! The shipment was side-tracked and spent many hot days in a warehouse in Calcutta. When the package finally arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, some of the eggs were cracked and smelled rotten. Christy prayed ...

1318. What Is True And Who Can You Trust?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... we choose peacekeeping over truth-telling, we end up in "pseudocommunal" relationships instead. These are marriages, family relationships, or friendships that are strictly surface level. No one says anything "unsafe." They never discuss misunderstandings, reveal hurt feelings, air frustrations, or ask difficult questions. The underlying rule in pseudocommunity is, Don't rock the boat. Don't disturb the peace. But it's a counterfeit peace. Misunderstandings arise, but they're never resolved. Feelings beg to ...

1319. People Who Dread Christmas

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... women. He consoled himself with the thought that surely he could last it out until morning. Then he remembered that the next day was not a working day, it was Christmas! His heart was pounding. He was very much afraid. He wondered if he would have enough air. Trying to calm himself, he remembered that when the new vault was installed they had told him something about a "safety hole." Feeling around in the darkness he located it at the top of the back wall ” too small for burglars, but large enough so that ...

1320. About Miracles

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... loves me, but I wish he would give me an A on my history test so I can be sure." Miracles are also a way of manipulating God. In one incident in the movie PATTON, the general was planning an attack on a German stronghold and he needed air support, which required good weather. He commanded his officer, "Get me the chaplain!" We tease about the minister being in charge of the weather at the church picnic, but we are kidding. In a world of devastating droughts and floods, I hope God has something better to do ...

1321. What Are You Sitting On?

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... permission to drill. Within a week huge oil rigs were beginning the process of drilling for oil. The first day nothing happened. The second day brought only disappointment and dust. But on the third day, right about noon, black bubbly liquid began to squirt up in the air. The oilman had found "black gold," and the farmer and his wife were instantly millionaires. They had been sitting on a reservoir of wealth while they struggled to make a living. (2) A century and a half ago there was a poor man out of work ...

1322. I Am Doing A New Thing

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... has been sick with classic flu-like symptoms, including chills, nausea, shakes and headaches. These are also the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. He would black out and couldn't remember doing such things as visiting a friend. "I'd come to when I got in the fresh air," said Book, "but every day it was getting worse and worse. It was awful." Chances are that if the car had not smashed into his house, by now Lee Roy Book would be dead. The kicker to the story, however, is at the end. Booker once worked ...

1323. Who Will Wipe Away Their Tears?

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... will live longer. You will have more vitality, more energy, more zest for life. During the bombing of London, it was found that people suffering from nervous disorders found unexpected health by forgetting their own troubles and ministering to the terrible needs of victims of the air raids. The reason many of us have no energy, no vitality, no joy, is that we are living only for ourselves. There is an ancient story called "The Servant of the Kingdom." It is about a man who's a servant. One day he meets a ...

1324. Traveling Light

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Caroly R. Gibson

... is required to restore his sheep ” for sheep have a tendency to get "cast down." Phillip Keller, in his book A SHEPHERD LOOKS AT PSALM 23, describes what happens when a sheep is cast down. It finds itself on its back, all four legs straight up in the air, and unable to get back up. The attentive shepherd will set it back on its feet, massaging life back into its limbs. The shepherd restores the sheep. What causes the sheep to become cast down in the first place? Sometimes it's because it wanders off into ...

1325. Lessons From The Locker Room

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Lowell D. Streiker

... in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize...." In other words, the final victory demands more than determination. It requires discipline. Former Michigan State football coach Duffy Daugherty ...

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