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1601. About Marriage

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... So Tim and Melissa wrapped up their reception in a grand finale with the building on fire. Of course there was a blizzard on their honeymoon, which trapped them at the resort. But they figured if they survived their wedding, they could survive anything. (1) You thought your wedding was full of glitches! You got off easy. Taken literally, our text for today is about the resurrection of the dead. And that's good. We need to talk about life beyond the grave. But it also gives us an opportunity to say something ...

1602. He Was Afflicted

Isaiah 63:7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... time he visited a very poor man who lived in a cellar. He ate the coarse food the poor man ate. He spoke cheerful, kind words to him. Then he left. Later he visited the poor man again and disclosed his identity by saying, "I am your king!" The king thought the man would surely ask for some gift or favor, but he didn't. Instead he said, "You left your palace and your glory to visit me in this dark, dreary place. You ate the coarse food I ate. You brought gladness to my heart! To others you have given ...

1603. Hungry For God

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... a time when you yearned to know that God was with you? Maybe there was a season of your life when doubt and anxiety crowded your every thought. You had to convince yourself to get out of bed in the morning. You tried to pray, and the words just wouldn't come. Have you ever ... at his paper and is shocked to discover that his answers are illegible. Here's what unnerves him. He thought he was writing clearly. As Hensley says, "Similarly, (spiritually starved people) may not know anything is wrong, but unless ...

1604. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... in her little hand the flowers she had already picked. "Mrs. Terrell," she said, "You used to be like a mother. Would these flowers help you to be like a mother again? I know you are fussed in your mind. Wouldn't you like some flowers?" Mrs. Terrell thought, "Fussed in my mind? You mean it shows? To a five-year-old? Finally Mrs. Terrell spoke: "Rachel, what is a mother like?" "A mother is like you used to be," Rachel said. "A mother likes being with children." "But Rachel," said Mrs. Terrell, "I like being ...

1605. What's Really Important

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... herself up in her apartment . . . then in just one room of that apartment, then in just one chair in that room, and finally, in the bed where one morning a few summers ago, perhaps in her sleep, she died at last." (2) What a sad chronicle of a woman who thought how she looked was the one thing that matters. It's not how we look that really matters. And it's not how smart we are or how much we know. Certainly a good mind, like a nice appearance, can be helpful. Knowledge plays a bigger role in our lives ...

1606. Gathered Around The Throne

Revelation 7:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... she might tell me about that night when the moon spread over the little old farm and how at the fence gate he asked her to be his bride. But that’s not what she told me. I thought she might tell me about that hour in the little house on the corner of the farm where she and Dad stood to speak their wedding vows which they kept for fifty years, until his death. But that’s not what she told me either. “Rather she said, ‘Son, you’ ...

1607. Sympathizing With The One Talent Man

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... there and hopped on down to the pond. A few minutes later, however, Mr. Frog appeared beside her on their favorite lily pad. "I thought you said you couldn't get out," she said. He responded, "A big truck came along and I had to." (1) Fear is a great ... Now some of you here today know about this kind of fear, don't you? Later as an adult, Douglas Lurton said that every time he thought of that story he felt like crying. However, as a writer and as a student of people, he came to the conclusion that there are ...

1608. Please, I'd Rather Do It Myself

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... peace within. A fable is told of a small fish that lived in the waters of the ocean close to the surface. One day he looked down into the cold, dark depths beneath him and became fearful. "What if I were to fall," he thought to himself. And the thought became an obsession. "I must catch my tail," he thought, "and hold it up so I will not fall." Around and around he chased his tail until he heard the ocean say to him, "Relax little fish. I am around you and in you. I will not let you fall." How like the ...

1609. Piercing A Hole In The Darkness

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

King Duncan

... , then--then you are lying! No human being can even begin to comprehend the mind of God. So is God being cruel by challenging Job's knowledge in this way? No. Before we can truly learn something, we must realize that we are ignorant. Job thought he knew God's modus operandi. He thought he had the rules of the universe memorized and quantified and working in his favor. Before God could get through to Job, God had to remind Job of all he did not know. There is a story about a wise man who had attained a ...

1610. I Say, Rejoice!

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... our choir, of course. None of our singers need to repent. But down at [sister church] there are probably a couple who do. St. Paul writes to the church in Philippi: “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” (NIV) Have you ever thought of joy as a command? “Rejoice in the Lord.” What a splendid attitude to bring into worship. Rejoice, you’re in God’s house now. It’s time to lay aside your worries, lay aside your heartaches, be done with your resentments, dry your tears, forget ...

1611. The Total Steward

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... secure suddenly came crashing down around them. It never occurred to them that the field didn''t belong to them. So it is with many of us. We work, play, get married, raise families, all in the belief that this is our world. And we give no thought to the harvest time. This is God''s world. Everything in it belongs to Him. A TOTAL STEWARD ALSO ACKNOWLEDGES HIS ACCOUNTABILITY TO GOD. We see this truth in verses 14 and 15. The other side of God''s ownership is our stewardship. Throughout the Bible in passages ...

1612. Amazing Grace

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... back and forth just like a tiny match stick. The waves rose many, many feet in the air. John Newton, out of fear and awe, began to see something of the greatness of God. He marveled at God’s power revealed in the created world. As he thought about how transient his own life was, John Newton saw how insignificant he was before this omnipotent God. John Newton realized what a vile creature he really was. He began to comprehend the blackness of sin in his heart, and he felt a desperate need for the Grace ...

1613. Tomorrow Doesn't Always Come

James 4:1-12

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... that." Then another one stood and said, "I know what will do it. We''ll tell people that there is a God and he does care, but he doesn't have the power to help them in their troubles or to save them. We''ll just tell them that." They thought about that for a little while and discussed and debated that, but decided that, no, that wouldn't work either because there were too many people who had come to know God personally in Christ, and they knew his power to save them in the midst of their troubles and ...

1614. The Question That Will Not Go Away

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... an old friend, and asked her to loan the ambitious young woman her priceless necklace of perfect, natural pearls. After some thought, the matriarch of society loaned the pearls for the duration of the season. The very first night they were stolen. But ... And when my voice is lost in death Praise shall employ my nobler pow'rs; My days of praise shall ne'er be past While life and thought and being last Or immortality endures." Then he said: "The best of all is, God is with us! The best of all is, God is with us ...

1615. THE DESIRE OF YOUR HEART

Drama

Angela Akers

... it had to be an old lamp." Genie: "No, that''s only in the movies. I suppose you want your wish?" Woman: "Sure, who wouldn''t?" Genie: "That''s what I thought. What''ll it be?" Woman: "Money!" Genie: "Wait! You didn''t even think about it. Slow down." (Pause) "Okay, have you thought about it?" (Woman nods.) "What is your wish?" Woman: "Money!" Genie: "Now let''s just think about this. What would you do if you had more money? You''d probably just buy more ...

1616. Jesus: The Life of the Party

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... He says that the wedding at Cana took place "on the third day." The "third day" was the traditional day for Jewish weddings. They were usually held on Tuesday night, the third day of the week. Like the Quakers of more modern times they would never have thought of using the pagan names for the days of the week: "Sunday" for the sun-god, "Monday" for the moon-god, "Tuesday" for an ancient Teutonic god, the equivalent of Mars, the god of war, etc. No, they would say "First day," "Second day," "Third day," etc ...

1617. Love Is Extravagant

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... need on the earth, I therefore command you, Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.’ “ Certainly no excuse for not giving to the poor there! In Mark’s Gospel, which most scholars believe to be the earliest to have been written down, the thought is completed when Mark has Jesus say, “For you always have the poor with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish; but you will not always have me.” (Mark 14:7) So: we can always find occasions to give to the poor, just ...

1618. Whatever Happened to those Mansions?

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... first place! There is an old story of a man who died and awakened to find himself resting comfortably in a hammock, doing nothing. When he sought to rise up and get a lemonade, a servant told him to sit still, the lemonade would be brought to him. Then he thought that he might get up and do some gardening, a hobby that he had always enjoyed. But again, another servant told him that the gardening was all being done for him. Then he tried to play a game of golf, only to be told that the servants would do it ...

1619. The Shy Member of the Trinity

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... going, because unless I go, the Advocate will not come to you. And when he comes, he will show the world how wrong it was, about sin, about who was in the right, and about judgment.”(Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Co., 1968) Fantastic! The world thought that it had passed its judgment on Jesus. “Crucified, dead, and buried,” it said. But its judgment was wrong. God had the last word: “The third day He rose again from the dead.” Jesus was in the right after all. And judgment is not something which ...

1620. God Doesn’t Take Vacations

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... one night. In the middle of the night, so the story goes, the voice of God came to him: “Quayle, you go to bed and get some rest. I’ll stay up and do the worrying for you.” That’s a message we all need to hear. I have always thought that we could learn from Martin Luther in this regard. One day, as the great Reformer sat in a tavern, he said something like this: “It is comforting to know that as I sit here, sipping a flagon of good Wittenberg beer, the Kingdom of God is getting along perfectly ...

1621. One Bad Apple

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . No less than five men named Judas can be found in the New Testament, including one of Jesus’ own brothers! (See Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3) In Jesus’ day, the name Judas was synonymous with greatness. One can imagine that when he was born his parents thought they were doing him a favor by naming him after a great hero. In the first three Gospels Judas does not appear on the scene at all until the drama of the last days, but in the fourth Gospel he makes two earlier significant appearances. After the ...

1622. The Thirteenth Apostle

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... so, logically, almost two thousand years later, women are still often expected to wear hats in church! Or at least they used to be; customs are changing. But I once served a church where a dear lady in the congregation actually told my wife that she thought the fact that few women wore hats to church anymore was a Communist plot! And as far as his views on the ordination of women, he said nothing about it. He did have problems with women as teachers, stemming from his own paternalistic background. Those who ...

1623. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , and puts them to route. The expression “their name is legion” has passed into our vernacular to refer to any large group or class of which a given individual is representative. Perhaps this man saw the Roman legions marching back and forth across his land...and thought to himself: “I am like them: a mob, rather than a man.” I think most of us, at least some of the time, can say: “My name is Legion.” There are many persons warring within us, clamoring for attention, pulling us this way and that ...

1624. On Talking to Oneself

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the Menace” cartoon, Dennis, a frightened little boy, had just climbed into bed between his mother and father. Dennis says, “I wouldn’t be scared of the thunder if I could keep my mind off my thoughts.” That’s the problem with many of us. We cannot keep our mind off our thoughts. Or we concentrate on bad thoughts, “I know I’m going to fail. I just know I’m coming down with a cold, etc.” But studies show that positive attitudes are more likely to produce health than negative ones. There is ...

1625. Losers Keepers

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... an Egyptian mummy.” (Halford E. Luccock, The Interpreter’s Bible, New York and Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1951,Vol. 7, p. 771) In Shaw’s play “Saint Joan,” the Archbishop of Reims tells Joan that she is in love with religion. Joan says, “I never thought of that! Is there any harm in it?” The archbishop answers perhaps more profoundly than he knows, that there is no harm in it but “there is danger.” There is. There was for Joan. There was for Jesus. If we love God above all else ...

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