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1626. How Did You Do On The Test?

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... deftly used his one move to win the match. He was amazed by his success and was now in the finals. This time, however, his opponent was bigger, stronger, and more experienced. For a while, it appeared that the boy was seriously overmatched. The referee was concerned that the boy might get hurt, so he called a time-out. He was just about to stop the match when the judo master intervened. "No," his teacher insisted, "Let him continue." Soon after the match resumed, the boy's opponent made a critical mistake ...

1627. Swords Into Plowshares

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... they have had a painful situation in their lives when they felt let down by either people of faith or by God Himself. But most of us are by nature religious. And we long to reach out to God. Much in our lives is beyond our control. We are concerned about friends or family members who are facing difficult times. Or perhaps there is a crisis in our own lives. At such trying times we long to connect with God. The Associated Press tells about a post office in Israel that is covered up with mail from people ...

1628. The Not-So-Secret Service

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... much. (1) Who would have thought? James Bond was too tall, as well as too flamboyant to be a real spy. I doubt that Jesus chose his disciples on the basis of their height, do you? As he sent them out into the world, he certainly didn't seem concerned that they would stand out too much. In fact, he warned them that they would stand out--and that their mission could be dangerous. Listen to these words in our lesson: "After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every ...

1629. Who Are You?

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... get stubbed. "And that's all there is of you except what's inside, and I never saw it." But it's what is on the inside that concerns us today. St. Paul tells us that there is a lot more to life than merely flesh. He writes: "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the ... the punk rage about 10 years ago, a psychiatrist was being interviewed on one of our major networks concerning the bizarre phenomenon that was sweeping through American high schools. Most of you probably remember the outrageous, bizarre ...

1630. To Whom Shall We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Are we to be less careful about our faith than we are about a house? Are you the kind of person who would be concerned about a house for your physical body, but neglect a shelter for your soul? Remember that it is infinitely easier to ask questions than ... the way, and with him we will never be lost. Are you among those who are pulled in two directions this morning? Are you concerned that Christ may want too much from you? Then I beg you to consider our question for this morning very seriously. To whom will ...

1631. Don't Forget The Batteries

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... have the joy of God's Spirit but not try to bring joy to the world. Have we forgotten the batteries? The source of the church's power is God's Spirit. Where the Spirit is, there is unity. And where the Spirit is, there is a concern for reaching out to others. 1. William R. Lampkin, MINUTE DEVOTIONS (Lima, OH: Fairway Press, 1990). 2. "Living In The Spirit," by Ken Bible, HERALD OF HOLINESS, May 1995, p. 32. 3. Isaac Asimov, ASIMOV LAUGHS AGAIN (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993), p. 250. 4. Jamie ...

1632. The Divine Family

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... constantly portray bad marriages. Sadly, she commented, it is often people with unhappy homes who write the plays, produce the movies and write the books that instill this picture of the contemporary American family. These people with an ax to grind concerning the institution of marriage and family life in general seek catharsis by venting their negative feelings on the public. (2) Since theater and literature both thrive on tension, an unfair picture of marriage and family life is likely to emerge. Yet ...

1633. A Man Of Character And Generosity

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... opera, Potiphar's wife, a wealthy lady with too much time on her hands, sought to lure Joseph to her bed. Joseph's response to her attempted seduction is indicative of the kind of person he was. "With me in charge," he told her, "my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care . . . My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?" (NIV) Joseph was a person ...

1634. When The Economy Goes South

1 Kings 17:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... . "Don't forget, a baby is in water for nine months before it is born. Also, babies are still very trusting and will allow you to do more with them." (3) That's true. Somewhere along the way we lose that child-like ability to trust--to rest our concerns on God. The first widow had quit trusting God. Elijah came to her and gave her hope. He told her to trust God. There is a third principle we need to remember: Someone is always watching. Jesus was watching as our second widow dropped in her two small coins ...

1635. Great Reasons for Great Giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... are, though, the spiritual needs are greater. Some 2.8 billion or more of the world''s peoples are living and dying with no hope because they do not know Christ. We cannot see the death of a person''s spirit. For that reason we usually don''t get very concerned or upset, but the evidence of violence and crime and lust and greed and hatred in our world are legacies of spirits dying without Christ. On the day of judgment I believe we will give an account of whether we did all we could, not only to feed the ...

1636. The Total Steward

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... suggested that wives meet their husband at the door when he comes home from work, dressed only in saran wrap. That book was followed by one called, "The Total Man." I don''t know if the author had a comparable suggestion for husbands or not. Our concern for the day is not about the total man or the total woman, but about "the total steward." So often Christians reflect the values of society. If materialism is in--driving the finest car, living in the swankiest house, sending your children to the priciest ...

1637. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... he does not succeed in breaking these, he only breaks himself against them." And then Dr. Knight offers some examples of patients whose lives exemplify that truth that we do not break moral laws, but we succeed in breaking ourselves against them. The first concerns a patient who had come to his doctor for stomach trouble. After testing the patient and treating him for a while, the doctor called the patient''s pastor and said something like this: "I have been treating this patient for a stomach condition and ...

1638. Who Is Jesus Christ?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... writing. The 43rd sonnet in Mrs. Brownings series begins with the well-known line, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. . .” But the line I would like to have us remember today is another one from the same set of love-poems written for her husband. Concerning her new-found love, she wrote: THE FACE OF ALL THE WORLD IS CHANGED, I THINK, SINCE FIRST I HEARD THE FOOTSTEPS OF THY SOUL. I think it is that way with us and Jesus Christ. The face of all the world has been changed, since first we heard ...

1639. Making Sense of the Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... has domination over our lives is ultimately in Christ’s hands. IN CHRIST’S HANDS! This is the most political of all doctrines, for it says that Christ is really Lord over all of the earth, and therefore nothing is outside the scope of His concern. You still hear people say that religion ought not to interfere with politics or business. Interfere! As though Christ had no rights over them. As though Christ were Lord only over the Church, but not over all the earth! But the Ascension, you see, proclaims ...

1640. Why the Church?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... world. When we leave the Church it means far more than dropping out of the country club or resigning our lodge membership. We are leaving the Body of Christ. It is Christ who is hurt, Christ’s work in the world which is hindered, by our absence. And that should concern all of us. Once in awhile I hear people say: I can be just as good a Christian without the Church. But Jesus never said that. He said that the branch cannot live by itself, cut off from the vine. To say that one can be just as good a ...

1641. Jesus: The Life of the Party

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Calvin suggested that Mary wanted Jesus to make a speech and thereby relieve the situation. How effective that would have been, one can only speculate. Scholars have also puzzled over what seems to be a rather rude reply on Jesus part to His mother's request: "Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come." (John 2:4b) All one can say is that the words appear harsher in English than they do in the Greek. Jesus used the same expression which we translate "woman" when he spoke to Mary ...

1642. To Who Can We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... s later than it’s ever been!” Who of us hasn’t had that sinking feeling as we watch the daily news with its stories of murder, violence, war, and terrorism? Some years back the Ladies’ Home Journal magazine reported the results of a survey concerning “The Most Trusted Man in America.” The results were interesting. The first three answers were these: 1.) Walter Cronkite 2.) Pope John Paul II 3.) God God was in third place! But even more significant was the fact that most votes were cast for “No ...

1643. How Free Are We?

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight. But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.” (Luke 12:6,7) No, Jesus was not unconcerned about physical slavery. But He had a deeper concern: the spiritual slavery out of which all human ills arise. He called it “sin,” and said, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.” (John 8:34) Now, right here we have a problem. When most people hear the word “sin,” it ...

1644. It’s Hard to Eat While Lying

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... real issue, are they? The real issue is our personal loyalty to Jesus Christ who is Lord of the Church. Jesus was on Judas’ chest that night. May I say it reverently, you and I have Jesus on our hands. We must make a decision concerning not the minister, or the choir, or the church, but concerning Him. Is He Lord of our lives, or is He not? As someone once said, “Jesus is Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.” There is a story of a famous artist who was once commissioned to paint a picture of the ...

1645. If Christ Had Not Come

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is to be doubted whether we would have even done this much were it not for the fact that Christ came, and put an infinite price on the head of every human being. Throughout the whole world the Red Cross is a symbol of our concern for others. Where did we get that concern? The same place we got the cross: from Christ, who said that God cares infinitely for the least, the last, and the lost. Before Christ came, people speculated about the nature of God. Many believed that if, indeed, God did exist, He must be ...

1646. The Thirteenth Apostle

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of St. John the Divine in New York City there is a gallery surrounded by a series of panels. Each panel represents a Christian century and bears the name of a person who most profoundly influenced the Christian life and thought of his or her time. Concerning some of the figures there has been a sharp difference of opinion, but when it came to the choice of the name for the first panel there was instant agreement among those who were consulted. They chose Paul. Who can deny that the most influential ...

1647. When Tradition Gets in the Way

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... THAN RULES. The welfare of human beings was, for Him, the summum bonum, the highest good. That is why I believe that Jesus was the greatest Humanist of all time! The word has been misused in our day, but we must never forget what it means: a concern for human beings, considering persons as being of supreme importance. For Jesus nothing was of more importance than persons: no rule, no book, no day, no place. Although I often do so, I am really not comfortable in calling the place I re-visit from time to ...

1648. Men Like Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Union, a town very much like his own, filled with people very much like his own family. And that worries him. In fact, he becomes so concerned about the danger of nuclear war that he gives up the one thing in life that he loves the most: baseball, until the world is ... to see others only as objects in a landscape, with no more emotional impact on us than trees might have. Our first concern is with ourselves - and modern best-sellers extol the virtue(?) of selfishness. But I doubt that we need much tutoring in ...

1649. Holy Tuesday

Mark 11:27-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... directions for living were given two thousand years ago, and we ignore them to our own peril. It was said of Jesus, when He finished His teaching that “He spoke with authority...” (Matthew 7:29) According to Mark’s Gospel, the next question concerned one of the hottest issues of Jesus’ day. (Mark 12:13-17) This question was put to Jesus by the Pharisees and the Herodians. The Pharisees were official religious teachers, the Herodians were an obscure party, perhaps part of the Sadducees, who supported ...

1650. Living Large for God (Part 3)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... turn around and run back to the sidewalk below. Then they would repeat this exercise several times. They would never come inside the church. They simply used its steps. They were so caught up in everyday life, they never realized the importance of the eternal message--so concerned for the physical needs of the body they forgot they had a soul to care for as well. So close to the truth, but yet so far away. Jabez wanted more out of life than he was experiencing. Can anyone here relate to that? Many of us ...

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