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1551. May Christ Be Born In You

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... the river John told the people that he baptized them with water, but one day soon, one would come who would baptize them with the Holy Spirit. The story is told of a man who was searching for answers in his life. He found a very wise old man. He thought maybe this old man could give him the answers he was searching for. Thus he was surprised to hear the old man speak of a great blunder he himself had been guilty of. "What great blunder have you made?" the searcher asked the wise man. The wise old man ...

1552. Trying To Get The Pageant Right!

John 1:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... pick up mittens without thinking. Mittens became his hobby. One day before Christmas he was walking through a church parking lot, and when he found a mitten lodged in a high, hard packed snow bank. Since he found the mitten in the church parking lot he thought someone from church might have lost it. He felt that the mitten ought to go in the lost-and-found box, but all the doors to the church were locked. Around the front of the church was a life-size plastic nativity scene. James Campbell trudged through ...

1553. Surprised On The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... The scene faded away only with the rising of the sun. Both of them were left awed and exhausted. That morning Charles began to wonder if maybe the pilot left him on the mountain on purpose. Maybe the pilot sized them up as a couple of guys who thought they were in a bigger hurry than they really were and would benefit from a night to slow down and look around and think about this place where they were. (1) It would be a night Charles Kuralt would never forget. Such experiences are never really planned; they ...

1554. Passage To New Life

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... there when the lifeless body was taken down and put in a tomb. Mary knew he was dead, and all of her dreams died with him. Maybe this is where we should start this morning: EASTER CONFRONTS US WITH THE REALITY OF DEATH. That's not a very happy thought, is it? We don't like to think about dying. Yet, as Scott Peck says in his book, Further Along the Road Less Traveled, the willingness to confront our own mortality is a sign of emotional and spiritual maturity. It is death that makes us realize how precious ...

1555. Working For Love

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... He cherished getting away for a little rest and spiritual nourishment just like we do. In our lesson for today it is evident that this is what he was looking for: a time for personal retreat, for prayer ” a time away from the crowds in a place where he thought he would not be recognized. "He entered a house," says Mark, "and did not want anyone to know he was there." But Jesus' plans were interrupted almost at once. News of his presence had gotten out, and a woman came to him who needed his help. And this ...

1556. When More Is Never Enough

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... belongings and give the proceeds to the poor. Then Jesus invited him to "come and follow me." It was a call to discipleship. The man came searching for answers that he believed Jesus could give him. Jesus gave him the answer he was looking for. But the very thought of giving up his wealth was unbearable. So he walked away. Jesus told his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!" But this is not the end of the story. The rich man was shocked when Jesus suggested ...

1557. How Do You Get To Heaven?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... the tragic O.J. Simpson case this summer was, "If O.J. is guilty, will they ask for the death penalty?" Could America stand the thought of a man like O.J. Simpson being strapped into an electric chair? It is one thing to think of some faceless thug from the ... thus atoned for? Psychologically, that would be a great option. Kenneth Chafin once said that when he was a young minister he thought his most difficult task was to convict people of sin. Later on, he realized it was more difficult to convince them "that ...

1558. How Do You Act In The Presence Of The Queen?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... were going through painful divorces. A few were even in jail. That's why they don't know how to act in church. They haven't been in church very long.' Then God said, `Don't worry, King, you won't have that difficulty at old First Church.'" And I thought to myself, `God help us, we won't. Everybody at old First church will know how to behave in church.' And I couldn't help thinking that might be the most tragic thing that can be said about any congregation.'" Some people may not know how to behave in the ...

1559. Flies On The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... told no one at that time what they had seen." How shall we deal with these four memorable paintings from the Mount of the Transfiguration? Shall we but peruse them briefly and marvel at the hand of the artist ” then move on to other notable paintings with no thought to what the artist is trying to say? Worse, shall we be like flies on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel who see such works of art as momentary resting places, but have no powers to discern their ultimate worth? Or shall we look for some deeper ...

1560. Resisting The Power Of Temptation

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ; John Bunyan had them typed and filed In 1682. Actually, the Bible is as fresh today about the manifold temptations humans face as it was when its various books were first penned. Paul also lists a couple of temptations we might not have even thought of ” testing the Lord, for example, and grumbling. OBVIOUSLY, THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF TEMPTATION. There was an article in USA TODAY recently about a woman's group that had been formed for the sole purpose of pressuring supermarkets to remove candy from their ...

1561. I Was There

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Gary Whitbeck

... asked us what we wanted him to do with Jesus. Again, we followed the lead of our leaders in continuing what we thought was a good joke on Pilate. We yelled, "Crucify him!" We knew crucifixion was used by the Romans for rebels, slaves, and criminals ... affairs of the world that, without realizing it, you too are yelling, "Crucify him!" by the way you conduct your life. Learn from my example. I thought it was only a game and I allowed a terrible tragedy to occur. I'm glad his prayer for those who put him on the ...

1562. An Empty Stage Or An Empty Tomb?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... . That's the message of Easter. Death has been conquered. AND SO HAS LIFE. Because of what happened that first Easter Sunday, you and I can walk in freedom and dignity and joy. That prince of the pulpit Charles Hadley Spurgeon was walking the streets of 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 ...

1563. Like The Love Of A Mother

John 10:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... see by the expressions on their faces that they wondered: "How does she stand it?" But when she answered her son's next question, she answered theirs too. "Why," he asked, "doesn't God ever get tired and just stop?" "Because," she replied after a moment's thought, "God is love; and love never gets tired." (3) That's true. If you or I were God, we would tire of giving, particularly when we get so little gratitude in return. A pastor was visiting some of his parishioners. He took his young daughter with him ...

1564. Why We Believe In God

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... kept them going was the Temple in Jerusalem. It was the doorway to heaven. It was the gateway between this world and the spiritual realms. It was the place that God promised to meet with them. And now it's gone! And the questions come. Who is this Jesus we thought we knew? What good is religion if it lets you down? Where's God when you need Him most? You ask those questions too, don't you? That's why this letter was written. That's why it's in the Bible. Because there are profound questions at the bottom ...

1565. A Faithful Follower I Would Be

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... wife to take his picture with it. Handing the camera to his wife, he asked her to take his picture while he lifted the cross to his shoulder. To his surprise he could hardly budge the cross from the floor. "I don't understand," he said to Mr. Lang. "I thought it would be hollow. Why do you carry such a heavy cross?" Anton Lang's reply explains why this play draws people from all over the world to that little Bavarian village every decade. "If I did not feel the weight of His cross," he said, "I could not ...

1566. When Heaven Rejoices

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

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... 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 money on purpose? Kevin had no proof. The more Kevin and his wife thought about it the more it seemed like their money was lost forever. On Monday morning Kevin returned to the bank and explained what had happened. To his great surprise the teller had an extra hundred dollars in her drawer. She could not explain where the money came ...

1567. One Came Back

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Babe, had just been diagnosed with leukemia, and as he knelt at her bed, he swore: "You save my kid, I'll dedicate my life." God did indeed save his daughter. Babe is now 26, married and the mother of a one-year-old boy, a child she thought she'd never have, after all the radiation and chemotherapy. John kept his promise. John was a builder by trade. In 1974, the year his daughter became ill, he reached into his own pocket to renovate and furnish a rundown Philadelphia home that became the first Ronald ...

1568. A Message From Above And Beyond

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... along the shore, writes Buscalgia, "I had an uncontrollable urge to stop right there and take him into my arms and hug him. But Papa, always the nurturer, spared me the trouble. He stopped and reached out to me, took me into his arms and spoke the very thoughts I wanted to express. `Don't be sad,' he said. `We've had a nice life together.'" (3) We remember those special persons and give thanks to God for the privilege of walking beside them and for their positive influence in our lives. ON THIS ALL SAINTS ...

1569. A Date With Destiny

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... faithful to my God! That's who I am! There's a respectable lawyer in Albert Camus' novel, THE FALL. He's walking in the streets of Amsterdam one night, and he hears a cry. A woman has fallen into the canal and she's splashing about, yelling for help. Thoughts come rushing to his mind: of course, he must help; but, he's a respected lawyer. Should he get involved in this? After all, who knows what's been going on? Maybe she's a woman of the streets, and people would assume he'd been with her! Maybe she ...

1570. Surprised Sheep And Graceless Goats

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Stan Meade

... one side and the goats on the other. The sheep are to feast forevermore on the pastures of glory. But the goats the poor goats are to experience eternal punishment. I asked myself, why was Jesus so hard on the goats but so gentle with the sheep? At first, I thought that maybe Jesus just didn't like goats. But that couldn't be it. Goats aren't immoral. They may have some bad habits, but they can't help it. They're just goats. Why was Jesus so angry with them? I have gone through the scriptures and looked for ...

1571. The Forgiven

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... might as well be stale bread and water. My teeth chew the food and I swallow it, but the man I hate will not permit me to enjoy it . . . The man I hate may be many miles from my bedroom; but more cruel than any slave driver, he whips my thoughts into such a frenzy that my innerspring mattress becomes a rack of torture. The lowliest of the serfs can sleep, but not I. I really must acknowledge the fact that I am a slave to every man on whom I pour the vials of my wrath." Forgiveness is serious business ...

1572. Dogsleds And Dogged Determination

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... believers was thrown in the arena with a wild animal. Most of the believers were gored to death, but the crowd protested at the sight of Perpetua's body covered in bloody wounds, so she was removed from the arena and beheaded by a soldier. Somehow they thought this was more humane than death at the mercy of an animal. We may think the story of Perpetua had a tragic, senseless ending, but it was examples of a steadfast faith like Perpetua's that inspired generations of believers after her. (7) You and I will ...

1573. If You Really Want To Be Helpful

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... pity. "Once upon a time I was a frog, sitting on my lily pad in a big beautiful pond, filled with life and excitement. But I was too fearful to participate, so I just sat there, hiding beneath my bull frog face. Then one day a princess came by. Everyone thought I was a frog, but she could see the difference. She looked like just an ordinary princess, but not really. She was someone special and she knew it. She was the child of the King. Because she was the princess, we knew that she had power, the power of ...

1574. If We Had Known . . .

Acts 10:23b-48

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... t it. * You know, thousands of years ago, some people killed Jesus and they put Him in a tomb. And they thought that He was dead. They thought that was the end. But Jesus came back to life, and He got out of that tomb, and He appeared again to announce to ... everybody that He was alive again. Wow! Isn't that amazing? Everyone thought Jesus was dead and gone, but He came back to life. And Jesus promises that someday we will all live forever with Him ...

1575. Full Barns--empty Souls

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... what did he do? He decided to tear down his barns and build bigger ones to hold all his produce. Then he would have it made. He could take life easy. He could eat, drink and be merry. And just when he thought he had arrived, just when he thought he had made it to the top, just when he thought that nothing could touch him, God came to him and said . . . Well, what did God say to him? You know the story as well as I. God said, "You fool! This very night your soul is required of you. Then whose will ...

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