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1326. The Peace That Christ Gives

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... is needed. It is the in-dwelling Spirit of the living God. Luis Palau tells about an Air Canada flight that ran into trouble one fateful Monday. Passengers were enjoying a movie on a Boeing 767 when the jumbo jet's massive engines abruptly stopped. Only those without earphones noticed at first. Then came a break in the movie. The pilot announced that Flight 143 would be making an emergency landing. Sixty-nine people were trapped in an agonizingly slow but inescapable descent to earth. For several minutes, a ...

1327. Jesus Prays For Us

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... his old high school team, The Prosser Mustangs. So in early December, when the Mustangs played in Seattle's Kingdome, Flory's cremated remains were in attendance. His son Dwight approached the stadium gate wearing a camera bag that contained his father's urn. He was stopped by a guard who asked what was in the bag. "It's my dad," he replied. The guard looked puzzled but allowed the ashes inside. Family members said anyone who knew Grant Flory wouldn't be surprised by his request. He was a real football fan ...

1328. Empowered

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." It is to encourage us to open ourselves to God's Holy Spirit and let God do miraculous things with our lives. That's the first secret of the church on the Day of Pentecost ” they were empowered by God's Spirit. But they did not stop there. THEY WERE ALSO EMPOWERED BY THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH ONE ANOTHER. They ate together, they prayed together, they sang together, they had all things in common. They built each other up in the faith. That's the way the Christian community was designed to regenerate itself ...

1329. The Repentant Heart

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Timothy Smith

... needed a ride. It was an act of love that she went out of her way to drive by our house that Sunday morning. She didn't stop when she saw us in our Sunday clothes waiting in the front yard. And I certainly did not see her. "Later that morning in Sunday School ... not one doctor could give him any reason why he had not felt well. During one of Joe's stays at the hospital a chaplain stopped to talk with him. Joe told the chaplain about his troubles and how he felt terrible for a long time. The chaplain knew the ...

1330. Why Do We Call Him Good?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... the battlefield. Arriving on Sunday she labored all day and on through the night, aiding the stricken men. Exhaustion could not stop her as she bandaged one man and consoled another. Fear could not deter this nurse from her appointed rounds. As Rebel ... officer yelled, "Then you can risk another hour!" While bullets passed by her, she stayed to bandage yet another man. When the Samaritan stopped along the side of the road to assist a fellow traveler, he was willing to risk yet another hour. He was willing to ...

1331. One Thing Is Needful

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Arthur E. Dean Windhorn

... and the mad dash. This is the age of the bright night with the nerves tight; And the plane hop with a brief stop. This is the age of the lamp tan in a short span. The brain strain and the heart pain; The catnaps till the ... that there were more things to be done. Martha was working feverishly. Mary was working feverishly, too. But when Jesus arrives, all of Mary's activity stops as she visits with and listens to him. Meanwhile, Martha's in the kitchen finishing up the meal. "When is that girl going to get in ...

1332. When Heaven Rejoices

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... effort. She wants to share her good fortune with her friends. It reminds me of a young husband I heard about recently. Kevin stopped at the bank on his way home from work on Friday afternoon. He cashed his paycheck and went home. Like any good newlywed ... had to do was go to the bank on Monday morning and explain that the teller hadn't given him the right amount of money. He stopped to think. Who would believe such a story? He wasn't sure he would believe such a story. Was the teller dishonest? Did she keep his ...

1333. Special Delivery

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... would always go and tell the minister first. And then he would be the Messenger. He would walk the streets. He would go to the homes, and break the news to the families. DE DOMINE HAT VOORBIJ! The minister's just walked by! And everybody's heart would stop. And everybody would listen for the footsteps. Whose house is he going to? Who'll get the news today? When everything happened in normal ways, word spread through the markets and the shops. But when it was a big message, a special message, then it was the ...

1334. It's Hard To Be Number Two

John 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In a section titled, "They're Getting Ahead of You," she tells about a young man who went berserk one day in late 1969 in the research library of the University of California in Berkeley. He ran through the library, shouting hysterically at his fellow students, "Stop! Stop! You're getting ahead of me!" He was arrested. According to Ms. Pettler this young man's only crime was being born in the wrong decade. He lived in the laid-back sixties. It was not until the stress-filled eighties, she says, that we ...

1335. Humility You Can Be Proud Of

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... and seeing things they had never seen. One of the things they wanted to do was to go to Florida to see oranges growing on trees. Finally, they got together with other family members and drove down to Florida. When they approached the first orange grove they stopped the car. The grove owner gave them permission to look at the oranges and to pick a few. Those retired ladies acted like children in that Florida orange grove. They were at long last able to see in person the trees from which came the oranges they ...

1336. While It Was Still Dark

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... , tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away." And then it happened. Jesus spoke her name. "Mary!" Mary Magdalene turned and said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!" (which means, Teacher). And she rushed forward to hold him in her arms. Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren, and say to them, I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene did as she was told. She announced to the disciples, "I have ...

1337. Family Resemblance

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... God don't make no junk!" (5) Imagine the difference it would make in your life if you really believed that. Why, no one could stop you. You would be the energetic, dynamic, attractive person you imagine in your dreams. Read our text for the day. "See how great a love ... that is our story as well. God so loved the world that He sent His Son into the world to tell us that we are loved. So stop that negative self-talk "I'm too fat, I'm too dumb, I come from a poor family, I'm a nobody." Friend, you are a child ...

1338. Getting The Proper Nourishment

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... still here." As he started to move toward the stairwell, Osborne could see that his eyes were red and his beard was stubby. "Such awful things happenin' on [God's] earth," the man said, walking past Osborne. "Felt a little song might cheer Him up." The man stopped and turned back, then raised his hands, palms up. "Everything's as it was," he told Osborne. "I haven't touched a thing." And when he was gone, Osborne began thinking how wondrously wrong the man was. The man's song offered to God in honest praise ...

1339. Offer Them Christ

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... mornings to earn money as a caddy. When I would miss three Sundays in a row, Mrs. Davis would come to our house and would say to me, 'Curtis, tomorrow morning I will be here at 9:30 to pick you up. Be ready.' I was always ready when she stopped by. She was someone special. The only way I can repay her is by encouraging someone else to become part of the Christian family. "I remember my pastor, Dr. Ed Berwanger, who said to me one day in his office, 'Curtis, I cannot tell you whether or not you should ...

1340. I Love You, Man!

John 21:15-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... we can look is the Word of God. When I think about how the Bible assures me that Jesus loves me, I see several pictures. I see Jesus, against the counsel of his disciples, take up little children in his arms and bless them. I see Jesus stopping a parade to respond to the cries of a blind street beggar. I see Jesus going home with Zacchaeus, a hated tax collector, to demonstrate to him that God still loved him. I see Jesus responding to the hunger needs of five thousand people by directing his disciples ...

1341. On Telling Time With Computers And (holy Red) Cows

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... , press S1 twice and S2 till correct. To set the second, press S1 three times and S2 till correct. To set the date, Press S3 twice and S4 till correct. To set the alarm, press S3 twice and S2 till correct. To use the stop watch, press S4 twice, S3 to start, S4 to stop." He said he will never forget the time he pressed S3 three times (instead of twice), followed by S4. His garage door fluttered at ninety miles an hour, the VCR ate the tape, the toaster exploded, the PC shut down, and home burglar alarms ...

1342. Do You Have The Glory?

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... car. Sometimes she would greet him with a big smile and a cheery greeting. If the game had not gone well that week, however, or the Steelers had lost, she greeted him with a sneer. Once Terry was pulling out of a local gas station when two teenagers stopped him and excitedly knocked on his car window. He rolled down the window, thinking that the two wanted his autograph. Without warning, they spit in his face!(4) Is that the kind of glory you're seeking? What the world calls glory is not what Jesus called ...

1343. Becoming One of the Beautiful People

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... you?" The jogger wasn't in a hurry so he nodded and the boy joined in jogging. Within five minutes the boy gave the jogger pretty much his whole life story. His name was Matthew, he was ten years old, precocious and full of life. Abruptly, however, Matthew stopped. "Look at this," he ordered as he showed the jogger an 81/2 by 11 inch piece of paper that had been laminated. In big black letters across the top it said, "Fourth Grade Math Whiz." Underneath was Matthew's name, the school name, the date and the ...

1344. Thanks For All You've Done

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

Sermon

King Duncan

... and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that he is God, and yet he can't do it." And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces. All of the students could do nothing but stop and stare. Most of the students were convinced that God couldn't exist. Certainly, a number of believers had slipped through, but for 20 years, they had been too afraid to stand up. Well, a few years ago, there was a freshman who enrolled in the class. He was a ...

1345. Can A Christian Brag?

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We can sing, "I'm proud to be an American . . ." until we are blue in the face, but the truth of the matter is that ninety-nine per cent of us did not choose the place of our birth. It was a happy accident. But it doesn't even stop there. We now know that the general range of our intelligence and our talents are genetically determined. To a certain extent, our personalities may be as well. Are you a hard worker? Great. But somewhere in your life there was probably a role model or perhaps parents with high ...

1346. Convinced Beyond A Doubt

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Thomas is the one who steps forward and commits himself to going with Jesus back to Judea, even though they all fear it will mean their death. As Thomas says in verse 16, ". . . Let us go also, that we may die with him." If we were to stop here, we would say that Thomas trusted Jesus wholeheartedly, no reservation. He sounds intense. He will follow Jesus even if it means death. Intense would be a good word to describe Thomas the second time we encounter him in the Scriptures. In John 14: 1ff, we read one ...

1347. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To See God

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... certain how Mrs. Rubio knew that this was Jesus, but she convinced a reluctant priest to bless the piece of bread, then she built a shrine around it. Mrs. Rubio quit her job so she could devote all her time to tending the tortilla shrine. Friends, neighbors, even strangers stopped by to look at it, or to pray in front of it. Mrs. Rubio, who also prays nightly in front of the tortilla, has said, "I do not know why this has happened to me, but God has come into my life through this tortilla." (1) Faye Neff ...

1348. Whatever It Takes

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... that appeal to us, the kind of ministries that appeal to us, the kind of fellowship activities that appeal to us. We rarely stop to ask, what are the needs and the preferences of the people Christ has called us to reach? St. Paul changed the world ... needs and the world's preferences and not on his on. And isn't that a formula that the church needs today? Isn't it time we stopped fishing with strawberries? Isn't it time for us to take Christ to people, not on our terms, but on theirs? Isn't it time that ...

1349. He Touched Me

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... cup speak more eloquently to your heart than anything I could ever say. And for one or two of you, perhaps it could even be the sermon that you need. Christ ministers to each of us in our own way. There is a delightful story of two traveling angels who stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion’s guest room. Instead, the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older ...

1350. Making Relationships Work

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... were old and placid," writes Marquez, "they were very careful about bringing it up, for the barely healed wounds could begin to bleed again as if they had been inflicted only yesterday. How can a bar of soap ruin a marriage? Because neither partner would say, 'Stop. This cannot go on. I'm sorry. Forgive me.'" "THE KNOT OF VIPERS by Franqois Mauriac tells a similar story of an old man who spends the last decades--decades!--of his marriage sleeping down the hall from his wife. A rift had opened thirty years ...

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