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1576. About Miracles

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to manipulate God. And we miss the real significance of miracles. Miracles are rare acts of God for His glorification and our edification. Because they are rare and because we do not know all the laws of nature or the mind of God, we must be very careful about labeling anything that happens as a miracle. People have built their lives on events that they believed were miraculous. Example? A man prays that if God wants him to quit his job and move to a new town, God will provide him with an unmistakable sign ...

1577. Flies On The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... !" his friend replied. "Lived? How did you live?" Adams asked. "When I saw a forsaken baby crying," his friend answered, "I comforted it. When I saw a man with a broken leg, I mended it. When I saw people in distress, I took them in and pitied them. I took care of them. I lived that way. And those people began to come to me and say, `What does this mean? What are you doing this for?' Then I had my chance and I preached the Gospel." "Did you succeed?" Adams asked. "When I left," said his friend, "I left a ...

1578. I Was There

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Gary Whitbeck

... say such things to the men we put our trust in, who performed our marriages and the bar mitzvahs of our children, who gave their life in service to God. Now, I'll admit there were a few who seemed to have gotten the big head. One must be very careful in saying he or she has been called of God, you know. And there were some we knew who had betrayed their calling by things they did. Seems like there are those in every generation. But all in all it made sense to many of us when the scribes and ...

1579. Our Damascus Road Experience

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

King Duncan

... listeners. They make others feel comfortable. Finally, there are the detail people. They like to do things right. They take care of the little things and are highly conscientious. Some people call them perfectionists. Some of them are. But most of ... experiences. GOD WILL GIVE SIGNS, HOWEVER, TO THOSE WILLING TO SEE. He will speak to those willing to listen. Why? That's His nature. He cares about each of us. He wants only the best for us. It breaks His heart to see us continually fouling up our lives. Thus He ...

1580. Traveling Light

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Caroly R. Gibson

... turn more somersaults, and roll in the grass, and go barefoot all over. If I had my life to live over. I'd spend more time at fun places. I'd try to be more in touch with God and those I love. I'd pray aloud more and not care what people think or expect of me. I'd give more to me, and take more of you. I'd just be me more and more.... Yes, I'd pick more daisies next time. Churches can have the same problems as individuals. Churches too are called to be in mission ...

1581. A New Vantage Point

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... the refuse was gathered together. They piled it high in the center of the village. Then the chief set the heap on fire, and while they were watching it burn, they took off their old clothes, and threw them into the flames. They tended the fire carefully, and made sure every last piece of garbage was burned. They even waited for three days to make sure everything had been destroyed, and no coals were still glowing. And on the fourth morning, washed and bathed, and dressed in their new clothes, they gathered ...

1582. When Heaven Rejoices

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

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... searching for her lost coin. It was no easy task to find a lost coin in a house with a dirt floor and one window. William Barclay comments that finding a lost coin in such a house was like trying to find a lost needle in a haystack. After a careful search and diligent cleaning, the woman finds her lost coin. She is so happy. Again a huge celebration is planned for her friends and neighbors. "Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost," she says. It took some effort on her part but the joy ...

1583. What Goes Around Comes Around

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... be homeless. He also makes some friends among the homeless and discovers that they are not bad people ” just people down on their luck. On a rainy night one of his new friends, Sailor, dies on the street and the next morning is found on the sidewalk. No one cares. No one even stops to see if he is dead or alive. At the end of the thirty days Goddard Bolt is a changed man. No longer is making money his only goal in life. Now he wants to build new homeless shelters where he once planned luxury condominiums ...

1584. Pray Constantly

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... that same city was a widow. She went to this judge looking for justice. It was the judge's duty to be sure widows were taken care of, that they had a place to live and enough food to eat. This judge was not doing his job. The widow, though, would not give ... to a Heavenly Father who knows and understands." (5) Jesus portrayed God as a loving Parent. Through Jesus' parables we see a God who cares about each one of us and knows each one of us by name. That is how we can pray with persistence and patience ” it ...

1585. Why Do You Stand Looking Into The Sky?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... they tell of how they met, their marriage, their family, and their ministry together over more than thirty years of marriage. When the Briscoes were first married and living in England, they looked for ways to minister to those around them. Stuart, however, very carefully overlooked the youth hangout across the street from their house called the Cat's Whisker. Stuart was a staid young banker in a very proper British bank, and he just didn't feel that he could mingle comfortably with the rough looking crowd ...

1586. Who Is God Anyway?

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ways are beyond our knowing and understanding. If they were not, God would not be God. Still, we can rest in this great truth: God is big enough to meet our every need. In Philip Yancey's book I WAS JUST WONDERING, he tells about his efforts to care for his collection of exotic fish. He must spend a great deal of time cleaning the tank, feeding the fish, keeping the elements in their water balanced, and checking to make sure none of the fish have any illnesses or infections. If it weren't for his attention ...

1587. A Prize Is Waiting For You!

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... has to wonder if they have confused a particular kind of emotional experience with the surrender of one's life to God. Where God is, there is light. Where God is, there is love. Where God is, there is joy. Now here again, we must be careful. There are people today, celebrities in many fields, who are heralding a Kingdom without the King. A religion without God. A spirituality without the Holy Spirit. I am talking about so-called New Age religion. Pastor James H. Coffman of First Christian Church in Savannah ...

1588. The Most Difficult Commandment

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... quite difficult. Here, in our own nation a nation fashioned on Christian principles as we like to remind ourselves we are a nation divided. We are divided by race, by religion, by economic position. What is the solution? How can we have the kind of caring neighborhood that Jesus envisioned? It has been fashionable over the past two decades to put the emphasis on the last part of Jesus' statement and to declare solemnly, "THE KEY TO LOVING OTHERS IS, FIRST OF ALL, TO YOU LOVE YOURSELF." You have heard that ...

1589. Help For Hurting Dads

Ephesians 6:1-4

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... games. They teach us how to tie our shoes, and they read to us. What are some things your father does to show you he loves you? (Wait for 2 or 3 answers). I read something interesting this week about daddy penguins. Daddy penguins have a neat way of taking care of their families. When the mama penguin lays an egg, the daddy penguin guards that egg and keeps it warm until it hatches. If he didn't guard the egg and keep it warm, it would never hatch and the baby penguin would die. But daddy penguins hold onto ...

1590. Dogsleds And Dogged Determination

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... to feed the dogs. I lift the dogs (seventy or eighty pounds) and I weigh only one hundred pounds. You have to be able to take care of the dogs and provide for them year round, it's a commitment of many years. I'm in my eighth generation of breeding my ... dogs. Sometimes we run into an icy trail or fresh snow and sometimes it's about forty degrees below zero out there and I still have to take care of the dogs. There are times when I feel like I don't know if I can continue but I have to trust the Lord to help ...

1591. Freedom Song

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... are bound to each other by unhealthy dependencies, but it is their mother Clothilde who epitomizes the family. She spends most of her life lounging on couches and asking, "Why doesn't anyone take care of me, darling? I get tired of doing everything for everybody. I have to take care of everyone else all the time. It would be nice if someone would take care of me for a change." The problem is that everyone in the family says the same thing, each in his or her own way. (3) The Brills have one thing many of us ...

1592. The Parable Of The Kindly Innkeeper

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... the innkeeper. Innkeepers obviously played a different role in Jesus' day than they do in ours. Can you imagine someone bringing a beaten up man to the local Holiday Inn and saying to the manager, "This poor fellow is going to need some looking after. You take care of it and I'll reimburse you when I return"? In fact, maybe we should call this parable "the parable of the kindly innkeeper" rather than the parable of the Good Samaritan. I read of a woman named Marjorie who resents jokes about the priest and ...

1593. Becoming One of the Beautiful People

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's death came at the same time as the death of one of the world's most famous beautiful people, Princess Diana. Princess Diana was a young woman of many frailties, but she was fondly remembered, first of all, for her many acts of compassion. She cared for children. She cared for people with AIDS. Want to become truly a beautiful person? Look around for someone in need and make a sincere attempt to help. A person in need is not necessarily one who is poor. They may be a shutin who is lonely, a teenager who ...

1594. An Unlikely Witness

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... continued to squeeze his hand even harder. She again asked the question and once again he said, "I don't know." She said, "The telephone number of the Garden of Eden is ˜ADAM ATE ONE, TOO.'" (Adam-8-1-2) (1) My guess is that this pastor was careful what he said about women from that day forward. It is interesting that the first person Jesus appeared to on that first Easter was a woman, Mary Magdalene. In those days, a woman's testimony was considered inferior to a man's. So why, asks one commentator, was ...

1595. It's A Miracle

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... him you will have life." That is the sole purpose of property miracles. Jesus did not give Mary and Martha back their brother Lazarus out of compassion for them. He did have compassion for them. He wept when he saw their grief, but Jesus cares about everybody's grief. He cares about your grief and mine, but he does not raise our loved ones from the dead in this physical world. John tells us plainly that he gave Mary and Martha back their brother so that people would know that Jesus is the resurrection and ...

1596. Singing The Song Of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... minute. But complications arise during delivery. Hours of labor. Would a C-section be required? Finally, Michael's little sister is born. But she is in serious condition. With siren howling in the night, the ambulance rushes the infant to the neonatal intensive care unit of a hospital in nearby Knoxville. The days inch by. The little girl gets worse. The pediatric specialist tells the parents, "There is very little hope. Be prepared for the worst." Karen and her husband contact a local cemetery about a ...

1597. A Birthday Celebration

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked. One of the women said, "We're having a birthday party for the baby in our family. He's 2 years old today." "But, where is the baby?" the friend asked. The child's mother answered, "Oh, I dropped him off at my mother's house. She's taking care of him until the party's over. It wouldn't have been any fun with him along." How ridiculous--a birthday celebration for a child who wasn't welcome at his own party! Yet, when you stop to think about it, that's no more foolish than going through the ...

1598. Surprise!

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." Wherever Jesus went, he brought hope. It was his calling-card. He brought hope to the leper, exiled from his home and his community. He brought hope to the paralyzed man who was unable to care for his family. To people who felt worthless, or lost, or broken, or rejected, or beyond saving, Jesus brought the message that God loved them--that they had a purpose in life. Even in Jesus' last moments, when he was dying in agony on the cross ...

1599. I Didn't Expect This In Church!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... to ignore his claim on our lives? Shall we live as if he had never entered our world? Shall we continue to substitute cultural tradition for conscious discipleship? Or shall we recognize what even the demons acknowledge--that Jesus Christ is Lord of all life? Be careful how you answer, for once you see Jesus as he really is you will never be the same. In the book, FINDING HOPE AGAIN, Roy Fairchild tells about coming to Vienna, Austria after a two-week illness in a small Austrian village. He had spent most ...

1600. Like Everest Without Oxygen And Wimbledon Without A Racquet

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... . He then takes him to an inn and pays for the man's continuing recuperation. We begin to see the story from the perspective of the man in the ditch. He didn't care if the man who cared for him was a Samaritan, a Galilean, a Judean, a Pentecostal, a Roman Catholic, a Lutheran or a Methodist! He only knew that the one who provided care and concern was neighbor to him. Jesus got his point across. Jesus asked the lawyer, "Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands ...

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