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Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... The word went out quickly. Did anyone have an egg? The baby's life depended on it. Fortunately, one distant neighbor did! One egg was found, and the neighbor rode over with it. Into the house he came as they rejoiced. The baby was given an eggnog of sorts, and continued her improvement. The crisis was over, and the baby was soon well again. The woman who wrote that account of life on an East Texas farm was Eugene Brice's mother; the baby was his twin sister. Brice says he thinks of this occasionally when he ...

1427. A Fishing Trip To Remember

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of them had seen him with their own eyes. Still, it was a bit too much for them to deal with mentally and emotionally. They wanted to believe, but it was like they were in a dream. It was too much, too soon. The disciples were still trying to sort all of this out when Simon Peter said, "Let's go fishing." And they all agreed. An evening in their boat would help them clear their heads and get focused once again. It sounded like the perfect remedy for their stressed out souls. They grabbed their nets, untied ...

1428. On Being Mistaken For A Mannequin

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

King Duncan

... salvation." (6) Leighton Ford puts it like this: "There are too many churches with impeccable credentials for orthodox theology whose outreach is almost nil. They are sound, but they are sound asleep . . . It is far too easy for the Church to become a sort of religious clique where Christians retreat from the world," says Ford. (7) The church on the Day of Pentecost understood that its primary mission was to reach out to the world. The unity that they experienced and the prayers that they offered were only ...

1429. Let's Play, Stump The Theologian!

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... I wish I could shut up like a telescope . . . ." It was then that she returned to the little table to find a bottle with a large paper label on it saying, "DRINK ME." Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavor of cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast), she very soon finished it off. She wondered if it was having the desired effect. And so it was indeed. She was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at ...

1430. Created For Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another." (v.13) A few verses later St. Paul lists some of the sins of the flesh that follow when freedom is perverted: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, etc. Sort of sounds like our society, doesn~t it? A recent survey indicates that only 13 percent of Americans still believes in all ten of the Biblical commandments. Nine out of ten citizens admit they lie regularly. For ten million dollars, 7 percent ...

1431. When You Are Anxious About Many Things

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... SOME TIME EACH DAY WITH THE MASTER. Learn from Mary's example. Take some time to sit at the feet of Jesus. That can be done in reading daily from his words or in a time of meditation and prayer. Moments spent in his company will help you sort out the rest of your priorities. Particularly when life gets hard, time spent with him is essential. Norman Vincent Peale once told of a visit he made to Belgium after World War II. He went to a place called Breendonk. During the war, Breendonk had been a notorious ...

1432. Was The President's Advisor's Sin Really That Bad?

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... more sexually active than unmarried people, you would never know it from our television screens. Steve Farrar in his book POINT MAN recounts an interview that Phyllis George conducted years ago with Dallas cowboy football superstar Roger Staubach. It was a typical, dull sort of interview until Phyllis blind-sided the quarterback with this question: "Roger, how do you feel when you compare yourself with Joe Namath, who is so sexually active and has a different woman on his arm every time we see him?" "We've ...

1433. Connected

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... with me, if I was ever afraid, I should say my prayers . . . Even at night, if I would wake up from a nightmare and want to get up and go to her room, she would immediately ask, Did you say your prayers?' That's where that came from and it sort of stuck with me." (6) Ruby's mother wanted her to know that no matter the situation she was never alone. She was connected. To be connected is to have power. It is to have an eternal presence in your life. It is to know Someone cares about you. III ...

1434. A Soap Opera For Saints

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... AND BATHSHEBA. If you are looking for a happy ending to a story, then you don't want to read about these two outwardly attractive but inwardly empty individuals. The ending to their story is like the endings to all-too-many stories of this sort whether they occur in the Bible or whether they occur in our own community today. Hearts are broken, reputations are ruined, lives are destroyed. David and Bathsheba were so eager to hide their sin, but things like that rarely stay hidden. Their adultery becomes the ...

1435. Centering On God

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

... known. His name was Isaac Watts. In a few weeks we will be singing one of his most famous hymns, "Joy to the World!" Isaac Watts discovered joy in his life because he knew that God would never desert him. He was able to live his life with all sorts of health problems feeling close to God and Jesus. He had joy deep in his heart. THE FIRST STEP IN REDISCOVERING THE JOY OF CHRISTMAS IS TO CENTER ON GOD, realizing that God is still in control of our world and, just as important, realizing that God loves each ...

1436. Unwrapping Christmas

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... under the tree. The other half is opening those packages. Some you savor and take your time opening; others you just rip your way through. If you're anything like me or my family, all through the Christmas season you watch the mail with great anticipation. Everyday you sort through the pile of cards and letters looking for one of those yellow slips that means you have a package. All the way to the post office counter you wonder, what it could be? Who is it from? Is it for me or someone else in the family ...

1437. What If The Lord Really Did Come Today?

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... account or the polish on our personality. How often we miss that critical fact even in the life of the church. What is it that makes for a great church? Is it the size of the membership roll or the stateliness of its sanctuary? For many people these are the sort of things that make a church great. In Christ's eyes a great church is one in which people care ”about one another, and about the world for which he died. Bishop Hazen Werner tells of being in the home of a woman whose husband had just died. She ...

1438. Flight To Egypt

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... of a nation is crippled. That has been the problem with the Eastern European countries since the Communist revolution. Put a person in a bureaucratic role and pretty soon he will have his wife, his son and two nephews on the payroll. That is the sort of corruption that was being protested by the pro-democracy students in China. The basic thesis of communism ignores the reality of the human condition. There is darkness in a corner of every human heart. That is why, even into the beautiful story of Christmas ...

1439. His Nature Is Light

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... saying is that Uncle Scrooge by his very nature attracts wealth. Even if his circumstances change, he will still end up at the top financially because of who he is and the things he values. (1) In the Gospel of John we are told the same sort of thing about Christ. We are told that Christ is the light that has come into the world. In other words, there is something about Christ's very nature “ something unique that has never existed in a human being before. His very presence dispels darkness. The Christmas ...

1440. Would You Like To Hold The Baby?

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... wanted to, they'd waited their whole lives for this moment. They held him, and their lives were never the same. The world would never be the same. How could it be? But for awhile, not much changed. After everybody "Oohed" and "Aahed" over the newborn child, they all sort of went back their merry way. And they didn't so much forget as they did store away the memory of that night. For the events of that night could never really be forgotten. All it took was the right breath of winter air or one star shining ...

1441. Grace The New Fashioned Way

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... his way into heaven, you would never hear the last of it. Why, if a man happens to get a little ahead of his fellow and scrapes a few thousand dollars together, you will hear him boast of being a self made man. I've heard so much of this sort of talk, that I am sick of the whole business. And I am glad that through all eternity in heaven we will never hear anyone bragging that he worked his way to get there." It is so rare to encounter a genuinely humble person but how refreshing when we do ...

1442. Written In Our Hearts

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's books. As the woman sat on her front porch visiting with the naturalist, she complained, "Why is it Mr. Burroughs that there are so many birds at your place. I have no birds at all in my yard." John Burroughs had been watching, in absorbed fascination, all sorts of birds, flitting amidst the shrubbery and flying among the trees around the lady's house. He replied, "Madam, you will not see birds in your yard until you have birds in your heart." (2) No outward law will suffice. If we do not have that inner ...

1443. See My Hands and Feet

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... for a dozen preachers to go but not you, not with those hands. My people are not such fools as to take notice of your preaching but they will note those calloused, work scarred hands." After his crucifixion, the disciples of Jesus were trying to sort out the meaning of the reports they had been receiving about appearances of the risen Christ. It was most confusing to them. Was it a hoax? They were not completely immune to superstition. Perhaps it was some kind of ghost. Suddenly it happened. Jesus himself ...

1444. The Explosive Power Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... Holy Spirit than that seen in the life of John Jasper. Many who have studied the place of preaching in the life of our land consider Jasper to the greatest genius in the pulpit that America has ever produced. Jasper was a black man and a slave. As he sorted out tobacco with his hands in the warehouse, the Holy Spirit came upon him. By the power of the Spirit he got out from under his circumstances. W.A. Criswell tells about visiting Richmond, Va. where a young man met him to take him to a meeting. Driving ...

1445. The Real Tragedy Of The Tv Evangelists

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Even when they finally merge, the two rivers don't immediately mix, the pure Roan and the filthy Arf still flow side by side for many more miles, until, at last, the putrid Arf consumes it's pure brother and the two become dirty. That is the sort of thing that happens in the real world. The purest most loving heart in the land will not stay so very long working in most offices or factories, attending most schools, living in most communities. We take on the attitudes and the values of the society around ...

1446. Something Is Missing

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... dollars down." "You will win friends and influence people." and finally, "You need never buy another book again for the rest of your life!" It would be nice to find a book like that. Something's missing and in its place we substitute all sorts of things. Affluence. Tom Sine in his book “Why Settle More and Miss the Best?” tells about Mill Valley, California. Mill Valley is nationally touted as one of the most desirable suburban communities in the United States. The prestigious residences are priced at a ...

1447. Jesus' Object Lesson

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... possible choice. As expected, aspirants for the position made themselves known to the committee and well meaning persons attempted to make the committee's task easier by suggesting that they knew just the right person for the job. The committee sorted through these diversions and persisted with its homework. In time one name emerged from all the rest. The committee traveled to the state in which the candidate resided and visited the church where he pastored. Their observation confirmed what they already ...

1448. A Great High Priest

Hebrews 4:12-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... IT ON and thereby revealed that he wasn't as humble as he appeared. We live in a tainted world. None of us escapes. Steven Leacock wrote a brilliant, humorous piece about a young pastor named Melpomenus Jones. This young pastor was honest; honest in a timid sort of way. He couldn't even bring himself to tell the little white lies that are part of our normal etiquette as a society. For example, on his first pastoral call, he got along fine at first. He drank some tea, leafed through a family photograph album ...

1449. We Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

1 Corinthians 2:9

Sermon

King Duncan

... Cavett tells about a boy who was taken by his father on a camping trip to the Adirondacks. They hired a guide, left the beaten trails, and spent a week in the heart of the woods. The boy was greatly impressed by the ability of the guide to see all sorts of things invisible to the ordinary eye. One day, after the guide had been pointing out some of the hidden secrets of nature, the boy asked with an awed voice, “Mister, can you see God?” The old man replied, “My boy, it’s getting so I can hardly see ...

1450. He Is Risen!

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... onto the seat and turn the key. Keillor said, "That man lost his life and got it back again. I think after an experience like that you would have the feeling of absolute liberty and freedom. A greater weight would be removed from you. You would feel the sort of liberty you read about in the epistles, when a person has died and been reborn. He, I think, had discovered the meaning of life." (4) Keillor's half right. That farmer discovered part of the meaning of life when he confronted death. Many of us have ...

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