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151. Something Is Missing

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." That's power! A lady wrote in Redbook that her son David received a Superman cape for his third birthday. Ecstatic, he donned the cape and ran as fast as he could around the backyard. Shortly, he returned to the house, clutching the garment in his hand. In disgust, he threw it on the floor and muttered, "This thing doesn't work." Superman capes don't work if you are trying to use them to fill that emptiness. EVERY WISE PERSON WHO HAS EVER LIVED KNOWS WHAT IS MISSING: A SENSE OF MEANING. Why are we here ...

152. Why Jesus Was Baptized

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... entitled, "The Cop and the Anthem." In this story a New York bum named Soapy sets out to get arrested so that he can spend the winter months warm and wellfed in jail. At every misdemeanor Soapy commits, fate steps in and prevents his arrest. Finally, in disgust, Soapy is returning to his park bench when he hears beautiful organ music coming from a church. As he listens to the music, old memories flood in, and he begins to plan and resolve to change his life's direction. At that moment a police officer steps ...

153. Marriage: Agony Or Ecstasy

Matthew 5:31-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... vacation, however, one of the couples divorces. The husband remarries and on the next vacation brings his new wife. This causes all kinds of discomfort. Finally the husband is confronted by a furious Carol Burnett, who plays one of the other wives. She tells him how disgusted she is with him over the divorce and finally says with fury, "Why didn't you just stay in there and fight it out like the rest of us?" Marriage, of course, is intended to be more than simply staying in there and fighting it out ...

154. The One Thing That Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the times, presented in sublime simplicity." In a culture saturated with concern about gas, health, beauty and food, is there any room left for talking about sacrifice of laying down one's life for another? I suspect that most of us were disgusted to read sometime back about the tragedy of Robert McFall, a thirty nine-year old bachelor suffering from acute aplastic anemia--a failure of the bone marrow to produce red blood cells. His prognosis was almost certain death within six months unless he received ...

155. Teach Us To Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , "Is anybody listening?" And suddenly a voice answers and calmly instructs us step by step until all of our needs are met and all of our problems are solved. I wish it was that simple. There was a cartoon sometime back in which a little fellow said with disgust, "Uncle Jim still doesn't have a job, Sis still doesn't have a date for that prom, Grandma is still feeling poor. I'm tired of praying for this family and not getting results." Prayer is sometimes like that. It sometimes seems that there is no one ...

156. Don't Give Up - He Hears!

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... their acts and dodging pools of water. Imagine the time it took the clowns to put on their makeup to perform for an audience of one and then to see that makeup smear in the steady downpour. Even his animals seem to have a look of disgust on their faces, according to Beatty. The elephants loved the mud, but their keeper had to spend hours afterward hosing them down. The whole experience was one miserable mess. Of course, they had to make some unannounced cuts here and there, but finally they got through ...

157. Thankful For The Right Things

Colossians 1:11-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... didn’t make a mistake. You see, we don’t keep any records.” The man was greatly relieved and overjoyed. Then he saw a group of men over in a corner beating their heads against a celestial wall and clinching their fists and stomping their feet in disgust. “What is the matter with them?” the man asked St. Peter. “Oh,” said St. Peter with a smile. “They also thought we kept records.” I am not suggesting that what we do is unimportant. Nevertheless, at the top of our list for which we need to ...

158. Time To Do Something About The Piano

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Seamands remembers talking with a salesman in a used car lot a few years ago. As they looked out of the showroom window, they saw a man who was going around kicking tires on the cars. He was also raising the hoods and banging the fenders. The salesman said disgustedly, "Look at that guy out there. He's a wheelkicker." Apparently this man had visited this used car lot before and had done the same thing. He could never decide if he really wanted to buy a car or not. They continued to watch as this man kicked ...

159. For Laughing Out Loud!

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... with more water so he could locate the leak more easily. The enormous bag of water was impossible to control and began rolling on the hilly terrain. He tried to hold it back, but it headed downhill and landed in a clump of bushes which poked it full of holes. Disgusted, he threw out the water bed frame and moved a standard bed into his room. The next morning, he woke to find a puddle of water in the middle of the new bed. The upstairs bathroom had a leaky drain. (1) What do you do at times like that? Five ...

160. Roll Call

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... ," Dr. Hinson admits, "I would shove him in and hold my hands over the door; but the minute I would move, he would run out, unbelievably frightened." Nothing worked. The little dog would not go into his dog house no matter what they did to entice him. In disgust, Dr. Hinson went inside, and sat down in the den while his daughter, Cathy, stood outside crying over her dad's impatience and the refusal of her puppy to cooperate. After a while, Cathy got down on her hands and knees and crawled into the dog house ...

161. Once In A Lifetime

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... professional golfer was playing in a tournament with President Gerald Ford, Billy Graham, and Jack Nicklaus. After the round was over, one of the other pros on the tour asked, "Hey, what was it like playing with the President and Billy Graham?" The pro said with disgust, "I don't need Billy Graham stuffing religion down my throat!" With that he headed for the practice tee. His friend followed, and after the golfer had pounded out his fury on a bucket of golf balls, he asked, "Was Billy a little rough on you ...

162. Christian Living As It's Meant To Be

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... the whole family dressed up in ridiculous costumes. He'd say, "Stand behind that cactus," and they did. And Steven's mother was quite willing to go along with his outrageous moviemaking schemes. Once when he wanted to make a horror movie with something disgusting oozing out of her kitchen cabinets, she bought thirty cans of cherries, cooked them in a pressure cooker until they exploded all over the room, and then spent years gradually cleaning cherries out of her kitchen. (1) Not many parents would go that ...

163. What Goes Around Comes Around

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... the story of an old man who lived with his son and his son's wife and children. The man was almost deaf and blind and had difficulty eating without spilling his food. Occasionally, he would drop a bowl and break it. His son and his wife thought it was disgusting and made the old man eat in a corner behind the stove. They gave him a wooden bowl which could not be broken. One day the old man's little grandson was working with some pieces of wood. When his father asked what he was doing, he replied, "I'm ...

164. Why Change Is Possible

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the keg and took a sip. He couldn't believe it; he drew another glass. The same awful taste ” water! He returned the keg back to the townspeople. The mayor was angry and he called for a town meeting to see what was wrong. Much to his disgust and the town's embarrassment, it was discovered that every family and person had brought water to pour into the keg thinking it would never be noticed, since everyone else was bringing wine. (3) When our lives are changed and are changing to reflect all the fullness ...

165. Pax Augusta, Pax Christi

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... pick up things along the way! Shepherds were considered to be thieves. They ran the local black market! Nobody loved a shepherd! Shepherds were liars ” you couldn't trust their word in court. Shepherds were thieves ” they'd steal you blind. Shepherds were dirty and disgusting. Shepherds were despised. Shepherds had one foot in hell. And the Willie Nelsons of that day used to sing: "Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be shepherds! And then God . . . Silly God! Doesn't he know what's right and what's ...

166. When God Speaks

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? There is a ridiculous story about a man who purchased a parrot and for years tried in vain to get it to talk. He read books on the subject, bought long-playing records for the bird to listen to, hoping that would encourage it to talk. Nothing helped. He got disgusted with the parrot and decided to take it back to the pet store. As he crossed the street, he failed to see a car coming right at them. The parrot saw the car and yelled, "Look out!" But the man didn't move quickly enough. He was knocked to the ...

167. Yes, But He Started It!

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... move to the area and soon the townspeople called a meeting to choose a name for their town. Many suggestions were made, but they couldn't agree on the name. The discussion soon became heated and quarrelsome. One man in attendance that night became so disgusted by the way things were going that he jumped up, pounded on the table with his fist, and shouted, "Let us have harmony!" Someone present suddenly seized the idea and shouted back, "Yes! Let's have harmony!" And the town got its name: Harmony, Minnesota ...

168. The Messiah Who Cares About Feet

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... to wash. The towel that covers his waist is also the towel that dries their feet." (3) The Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated the nature of glory by washing mud off the feet of common, ordinary, laboring people. He did it in love--not with a sense of disgust and disappointment. "Someone with my education shouldn't have to do that," we would have said. "Someone in my position doesn't do windows or floors. I have been elevated above this type of duty . . ." Jesus washed their feet. He took the position of servant ...

169. On Eating Peas With A Knife

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... our own acceptance. You and I have fallen short of the glory of God, too, but we have received grace upon grace. As Paul Tillich put it so eloquently: "Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness . . . It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us when, year after year, the longed for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign with us as they have ...

170. Freedom Song

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves." (4) Did you hear that? She could have freed thousands more, "IF THEY HAD KNOWN THEY WERE SLAVES." There are people who are slaves and don't even know it slaves to dangerous and disgusting habits, slaves to dehumanizing and degrading lifestyles, slaves to selfdefeating attitudes and lifedenying practices. We live in a society that thinks it can defy the laws of sowing and reaping, but it is an illusion. Want a healthy body, then sow the right seeds ...

171. Finishing In The Top 10%

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... John's disease was no longer contagious, the leaders even agreed to let John take communion from the common cup. It was a tense and anxious moment when Dr. Brand and John arrived at the church one Sunday. After years of being the object of other's disgust, John expected others to reject him, to hate him. He had learned to believe that Jesus was love. If even Jesus' followers rejected him, then who could possibly love him? Dr. Brand noticed John trembling as he made his way down the aisle of the sanctuary ...

172. Building A Faith

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... flight. Meanwhile, in a small wooded grove not a quarter of a mile away, the thieves were checking out the camera. But something was wrong. They took each other's pictures easily enough, but the film that emerged from the camera was black. Disgusted, they tossed the photos and headed for the pawnshop to see what they could get for the malfunctioning camera. Several police units and several bicycle and horse-mounted officers were close behind, forming a perimeter as our foot patrol officer stumbled into the ...

173. Unprepared

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... were left out of the wedding party. "Watch therefore," says Jesus, "for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." MOST OF US KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE CAUGHT UNPREPARED. I say "most of us" because I know there is a disgusting minority of people who always do things on time. They never rush their income tax form to the Post Office at 11:59 on the 15th of April. They've never needed an extension on the deadline for their term paper. They've even got their Christmas shopping done ...

174. On Picking Your Battles

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The director led the song, "Jesus Paid it All." The third week the pastor preached on gossiping and how we should all watch our tongues. The music director led the song, "I Love to Tell the Story." With all this going on, the pastor became very disgusted over the situation and the following Sunday told the congregation that he was considering resigning. The musician led the song, "Oh Why Not Tonight?" As it came to pass, the pastor did indeed resign. The next week he informed the church that it was Jesus ...

175. God Has Come

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... small and insignificant and not overly clean, was the renowned visited planet. "Do you mean that our great and glorious prince . . . went down in person to this fifth-rate little ball? Why should he do a thing like that?". . . The little angel's face wrinkled in disgust. "Do you mean to tell me," he said, "that he stooped so low as to become one of those creeping, crawling creatures on that floating ball?" "I do," said the senior angel, "and I don't think he would like you to call them "˜creeping, crawling ...

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