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1301. Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Dolly Parton is like that. Dolly comes from a poor Sevier County, Tennessee family of 19 children. A fan in her TV audience once asked her why she became so successful when so many from similar circumstances did not. Dolly answered, "I never stopped trying and I never tried stopping." She was asked another time what would have happened if she had not had musical talent. She answered that she simply would have fought her way to the top of some other field. People who know her say she was not exaggerating ...

1302. He Is Risen!

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... until it came to the end of the field where it went up a slight incline into the woods. When it ran into a tree trunk it stopped, the big wheels spinning into the soft dirt. It took him about ten minutes before he could get to his feet and climb back up onto ... he said. The resurrection is an historical event. Christ is alive and at work in the world today. And life goes on. Nothing can stop iteven death and decay. Because life is a gift from God. And it is available to all who are in Christ. It is available ...

1303. In Praise Of Doers

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... 1930s, some of the holein the wall eateries could almost kill a man. Duncan loved to eat, so as he crisscrossed the country he began to take notes on the best places to stop to eat along the way filling up notebooks. He would ask locals for their recommendations, sometimes eat as many as six meals a day and write vigorously about the best stops. Before long he was publishing a book, and many callers each day would ring his home to find out where to eat on an upcoming trip. In a short period of time, Duncan ...

1304. Possibly Our Best Year! (A Sermon for New Year's)

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... motioning backward with his thumb. You can guess what happened. An army convoy approached. The Chinese soldier pointed his index finger down one of the roads at the crossroads. The driver of the first vehicle didn't stop since he thought the soldier was directing traffic. When the convoy failed to stop, the young Chinese soldier moved to another road and with the next convoy pointed down the new road. According to Patton, in one afternoon, this soldier split army units so badly by pointing down one road and ...

1305. Face To Face With The Tempter

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... vulnerable in one area, we usually are in some other. During the early days of the Civil War, body armor became a bit of a fad, especially in the North. Some of this body armor did not work very well. In other words, it failed to stop bullets. Some of it actually saved some lives, however. The danger lay in believing it made one invincible. When the 21st Alabama unit was skirmishing with Union soldiers in Mississippi, one Union soldier was boldly exposing himself to fire from the rebels. He was wearing body ...

1306. A New Way To Escape From Prison

James 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... it in your car it won't protect you from having a wreck. If you carry it close to your heart it won't necessarily stop a stray bullet. There's nothing magical about the Bible. I make that point because there are those who would use the Bible like a ... . I believe it was Woody Allen who said that a friend of his carried a bullet with him. One time it saved his life. It miraculously stopped a Bible that someone threw at him. The Bible is not a book of magic. Neither is it a book to be used to clobber people ...

1307. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... IN THE GRACE OF GOD. That is where the cross gets its saving powerfrom the bedrock of God's love for His own children. A man named Carl Coleman was driving to work when a woman motorist, passing too close, snagged his fender with hers. Both cars stopped. The young woman surveying the damage was in tears. It was her fault, she admitted. But it was a new carless than two days from the showroom. How was she ever going to face her husband? Mr. Coleman was sympathetic but explained they must note each other ...

1308. How Do You See It Now?

Haggai 2:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... up!" How are you approaching this New Year? With fear? I heard about a very somber minister all dressed in black many years ago who was driving in his buggy along a lonely country road when he overtook a young man walking along that same road. The minister stopped and with dark, gloomy tones invited the young man to ride with him. As they were riding along the minister thought to himself that he had not said anything to this young man about his soul. So in a deep, ministerial voice he asked, "Young man, are ...

1309. Staying Close

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... best educational equipment of their time. But thank God for that ignorant, Biblepounding screaming mountain preacher. He saved my life. He did it with four words, ˜Why not try God?' "I slammed the brakes to the floor and, in the twisting slide that ended off the road, I stopped the car, flipped off the radio, bowed my head, and said, ˜Oh, God, I am making a mess of my life without you. Please take it and do with it whatever you will!'"1 "Why not try God?" That was a day of deep discovery in Duke McCall ...

1310. The Waiting Father

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... his parents' bedroom window. He heard the glass shatter and then he heard his mother scream. He ran into the house and up the stairs to her bedroom. She was standing there in front of the broken window and she was bleeding. He started to cry and couldn't stop. All he could say was, "Mum, what have I done, I could have killed you." His mother just hugged him, though, and said through her own tears, "It's all right, I'm all right, everything's going to be all right." His mother knew that punishment was not ...

1311. Blessed Are The Believers

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... these days, which is funny, too, because I've never been healthier. I've had only one serious illness in the past ten years, only one near death experience. I haven't broken a bone, not even a finger, since I stopped playing football sixteen years ago. My weight is not bad, about 240, twenty pounds less than when I stopped playing, and most of the time I feel awfully good. And yet now, more than ever, I sense that I am mortal. "A year ago, I lost my father to cancer, and I don't think I'll ever get over ...

1312. A Mystifying Question

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... a return on his effort. As he was digging them in the fall, Satan was at his elbow saying, "There Billy, isn’t that poor pay for serving your Father the way you have all this year? Just look at those pitiful potatoes." The story goes that Billy Bray stopped his hoeing and replied, "Ah, Satan is at it again, talking against my Father, bless His holy name. Why, when I served you, I didn’t get any potatoes at all. Why are you talking against my Father?" Satan left him. (3) Billy Bray had built his life on ...

1313. Marriage In Heaven? No. Heaven In Marriage? Yes.

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... of your spouse but it is only the beginning. I read somewhere that the Golden Gate Bridge is continually in the process of being repainted. An army of painters never stops painting. They start at one end, and continue until they reach the other end. Then they start over again. This has continued since the bridge's conception. If they would stop their work, the salty ocean air would cause harmful corrosion. In a very short time the bridge would become unsafe as well as unattractive. Allen Loy McGinnis in his ...

1314. Promises Kept!

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... us. We fear we won’t make it at university. We hide ourselves behind walls of trinkets and hope nobody sees what we’re really like inside. Franklin Roosevelt once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!" But even when we know that, we don’t stop being afraid. Last year a fellow sat in my study. He really would like to become a Christian, he said, but he was afraid of how it would change his life. On Wednesday of this past week, I held the hand of a woman in the hospital. Her husband is ...

1315. Have You Changed Your Clock?

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... We don't want it to interfere with our lives. We want God's blessings at church, but make sure, Pastor, it happens by 12:00 a.m. today. My council is for all of us to wait for a revelation from God. God hasn't stopped talking. It is that we have stopped listening, watching and waiting. When we have a revelation of the Truth of God, about our world, ourselves, and about the Gospel message, it changes everything. While we are waiting, simply trust God. Waiting and trusting are not always passive but can be an ...

1316. Eating Cold Grits

John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... that." Tony has helped his family. "Not long after I made the majors," he recalls. "I drove with Mama through the streets of Santiago." As they were driving Tony asked his mother, "what do you think of that house over there? Take a good look, Mama." They stopped in front of the house. "It’s a wonderful house," his mother replied, "why do you ask? Are you thinking of buying it?" He paused ” hardly able to contain himself. He handed her a set of keys, "I already have, Mama. For you." "Oh Tony," she said ...

1317. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 6:23

Sermon

Lowell D. Streiker

... stance for a few moments before repeating the gesture. Then, again, the inexorable raising of the arm, the pointing, and the solemn pronouncing of the one word "GUILTY!"(1) Members of the lunch hour crowd would stare as they passed by at the strange performance. They would stop for a moment, look away, glance at each other, look back at the man, and then hurry on their ways. One man, turning to another, exclaimed: "But how did he know?" Are we all guilty? And, if so, of what? and before whom? and can we ...

1318. A Cross In A Cradle

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... old man. He had waited all his life for this moment. He was holding the Messiah in his unsteady arms. Simeon blessed Mary and Joseph. This would have been one of those warm Christmas memories that Joseph and Mary would have cherished forever if Simeon had stopped there. He did not. He turned to Mary and uttered a heartbreaking prophecy, "A sword will pierce your own soul...." What could he mean? A sword would pierce Mary's soul? Once there was a Christmas play held in the most unlikely of places, a maximum ...

1319. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... way." Prayer is a potent force in the life of the believer. It is so potent that some followers of Christ have devoted their lives to nothing else. In Colorado there is a Benedictine abbey which is home to forty-five monks. One day a reporter stopped to have lunch with the monks and to ask them some questions. He asked them why they lived as they did. Brother William, seventy-years-old explained, "You have to understand, everything we do is a form of prayer." Noticing the puzzled expression on the reporter ...

1320. Face To Face With The Devil

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... daughter!" Other well meaning parents tried to pull him off of what was left of the school saying: "It's too late!" "They're dead!" "You can't help!" "Go home!" Even a police officer and a fire-fighter told him he should go home. To everyone who tried to stop him he said, "Are you going to help me now?" When they did not answer him he continued digging for his son stone by stone. Courageously he proceeded alone because he needed to know for himself: "Is my boy alive or is he dead?" This man dug for eight ...

1321. A Life Above All Others

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... gas, but there's bound to be one or two stations along this shortcut." "The suntan lotion is up in our room; another half hour won't hurt." "Aw, c'mon! A little French place like this couldn't be too expensive!" "We'll get the flat fixed where we stop for the night. I never heard of two tires going bad in one day." Ah, the joys of being a tourist. Some Greeks were visiting Jerusalem. They were tourists there to see the sights of this famous city. It was the time of the Passover festival . The streets were ...

1322. Whoever Would Have Thought?

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

Sermon

King Duncan

... that everyone was shooting at everyone else. He watched as men were hit by bullets, gave horrible cries, and fell to the ground. Henri had never seen anything like this before. He felt that he should do something to help the wounded men. So when the fighting stopped at dusk he went to the nearby town to ask people to go to the battlefield with him. Ordinary citizens: farmers, bakers and tailors responded at once. They spent the night there giving as much aid as they could to the wounded men. It was hard for ...

1323. Wrong About Christ

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... were unsure of what would happen to them and didn't know where they were going. Many of them were questioning whether the price they were paying for trying to help the Philippines was really worth it. The train had to make several stops along the way, and at one of these stops there were some young children playing on the train platform. The doors had been opened on the train, allowing Manny and many of the others to see the children, and it also allowed the children to see the prisoners. Soon the children ...

1324. Flies On The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... experiences to be sure. In the German classic, FAUST, the writer Goethe describes a pact that Dr. Faust makes with the devil. The pact allows Faust to satisfy his every human want and desire except one. Never, never under any circumstances, is he ever to stop and say to the passing moment, "Wait, you are so beautiful!" This world is so beautiful ” so intricate ” so perfect. Scientists tell us that the slant of the earth, for example, tilted at an angle of 23 degrees, produces our seasons. If the earth ...

1325. An Empty Stage Or An Empty Tomb?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... Anna Pavlova. In their hearts they could see her on stage, dressed in white with flashing dark eyes. And when the music stopped at last, they gave the vanished Anna a thunderous ovation that echoed on and on in the night. (1) An empty stage ... London deep in thought when he saw a young street boy. The lad was carrying an old, bent bird cage. Inside was a tiny field sparrow. Spurgeon stopped the boy and asked him what he was going to do with the bird. "Well..." the boy said. "I think I'll play with it for a ...

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