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Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... 1990), pp. 152-153. 2. Jim Lilliefors, HIGHWAY 50: AIN'T THAT AMERICA. (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1993), pp. 169-173. 3. Nell W. Mohney, DON'T PUT A PERIOD WHERE GOD PUT A COMMA, (Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1993), pp. 21-22. [ORIGINAL SERMON] Muhammed Ali was the unprecedented three-time world heavyweight boxing champion. His picture appeared on the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED more times than any other athlete. At the height of his popularity he was "floating like a butterfly and stinging like ...

1727. Getting Your Attention

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... 1979, p. 73. Contributed by Wayne Rouse. 3. USA TODAY, May 1993, p. 4. 4. A LIFE THAT BECOMES THE GOSPEL. Thomas R. Hawkins. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1992, pp. 24-25. 5. HOPE FOR THE TROUBLED HEART. Billy Graham. Minneapolis: Grason, 1991, pp. 10-11. [ORIGINAL SERMON] CBS News anchor Dan Rather tells about attending a revival as a boy in his home town of Bloomington, Texas. It was a spectacular extravaganza the whole town attended. The tent was open, the floor was sawdust. The build-up of the preacher's ...

1728. Catching The Thanksgiving Spirit

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... had meant for us to fast on Thanksgiving, he would never have created 30-pound turkeys." I believe it was Erma Bombeck who said that the most remarkable thing about her mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Some of us will feel that way after Thanksgiving. Robert Orben reports on the practice of raising your own holiday turkey. He says some people are squeamish about this, but not him. "One January we bought a turkey who became ...

1729. About Miracles

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... !" Jesus and his mother were attending a wedding feast in Cana when the wine ran out. Mary turned to her son. "They have no wine," she said. There was something in her voice that told Jesus she expected him to do something. Jesus' response in the original Aramaic is not nearly as abrupt or disrespectful as it may sound. It is evident, though, that he had something else on his mind. "Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Jesus replied. "My time has not yet come." Still, Jesus' heart went out to his hosts ...

1730. A New Vantage Point

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in know-ledge in the image of its Creator." What does that mean, in practical terms? Well, the idea originally came from an ancient Greek philosopher named Pyrrho. He honestly believed that the sensory world didn't exist. He thought all he saw around him was just a projection of his mind. He told everybody that they shouldn't worry about things. Nothing actually existed anyway ...

1731. What It Takes

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... is being rewarded for being dishonest. He is not. Remember, Jesus was a great story teller. Sometimes he used humor to get his point across. I have taken a little liberty with the retelling of this story, because I believe it helps us understand the way Jesus originally told it. In this delightful little story, he is showing us a man who is clever and resourceful. He is a creative problem solver. The late British Bible scholar, T. W. Manson once said about the shrewd manager, "This is a fraud; but it is a ...

1732. Found Of God

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... 've found me. Now let me go." After all, tradition tells us that Thomas was martyred for his faith. The early saints payed a terrible price for their faithfulness. But we're getting ahead of our story. We don't know a lot about Thomas. He was one of the original twelve. We know that. We also know that he had a second name. According to John's Gospel he was also known as Didymus. We know one thing more about him. We know he was not a coward. That little tidbit of information comes earlier in John's Gospel in ...

1733. Fear Of Flying

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... you ever hear the name Joe Ancis? The reason you haven't is due to fear. In the late forties, Buddy Hackett, Rodney Dangerfield, Lenny Bruce and other young hopeful comics in New York all hung out at Hansons, a luncheonette on Broadway. Joe Ancis, the original sick comic, cracked everybody up at the time. Some people claim that Lenny Bruce learned what he knew from Ancis. He was dubbed "The Funniest Man In The World" by the other comedians. But Ancis was terrified of audiences. He could rap with the pros at ...

1734. A Cup Of Cold Water

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... Thus, we look around for others who are helpless and perhaps even undeserving so that we may pass on the love we have received. Did you know, by the way, that the word "chapel" comes from the Latin word CAPELLA, which means "cloak." According to tradition, the word originated with the story of St. Martin, a Roman soldier who gave his cloak to a beggar dying of cold. St. Martin's cloak became a relic and was kept in a building that soon took on the cloak's name ” CAPELLA. In France the word became CHAPELLE ...

1735. Focusing On The Possibilities

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... an influence on Christians of middle America?" I looked at him, amazed. "After the sermon," he went on, "the minister came over and asked me if I knew a George Dantzig at Stanford, because that was the name of the person his sermon was about." The origin of that minister's sermon can be traced to another Lutheran minister, the Reverend Schuler [sic] of the Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles. He told me his ideas about thinking positively, and I told him my story about the homework problems and my thesis. A ...

1736. Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... her down. (2) I wish life always offered happy endings, don't you? Unfortunately, it doesn't. Rejection comes into our lives, and it hurts. You might be interested to know that the phrase "To turn him down" meaning to refuse a proposal of marriage originated in America in Colonial days. When a bashful suitor wanted to find out, without asking, if the woman he was courting would marry him, he would place a "courting mirror," face upward, on a table in front of his sweetheart, after first looking into it ...

1737. Be Careful What You Call Me

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... as easily say, "They love to be called Dr.,'" or they love to be called "Reverend." PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE. PRIDE IS PRIDE. There was once a scientist who discovered the art of cloning himself so perfectly that it was impossible to tell the reproduction from the original. One day, he learned that the Angel of Death was searching for him, so he produced a dozen copies of himself. The angel was at a loss to know which of the thirteen specimens before him was the scientist, so he left them all alone and returned ...

1738. The Most Difficult Commandment

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... received and pass it to someone else. Mal Fletcher in his book, Youth: The Endangered Species, tells of two friends of his who lived out what it means to love your neighbor. Rohan Dissaneyeke was a pastor in Sri Lanka. Rohan and his wife, originally natives of New Zealand, had traveled to Sri Lanka during a time of serious social upheaval. The Tamil people, who were of Indian descent, were trying to establish a separate and independent state within Sri Lanka. The Sinhalese people, who made up a majority ...

1739. Come Home For New Year's

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... hand of rescue comes. The people of Israel had been hostages in a foreign land for many generations. And they longed for home. Don't we all long for home at times? There seems to be within every living creature an instinct for the place of our origin. There was an article in the newspapers recently about homing pigeons. Tom Murphy, a trainer in Pittsburgh, PA. suffered a broken shoulder that left him unable to care for his 30 pigeons. So he sold them. Two of the birds were transported to Texas. Both of them ...

1740. Peace, Blessed Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... of emptiness. The echoes of a hollow life pervade our culture. (4) Many people want what they cannot have, they long for that which is beyond their reach, they lust for that which is not permitted. Now some of this restlessness is of divine origin, I am convinced. This restlessness causes us to do more and be more than we would under normal circumstances. The people who have accomplished great things in this world have been driven by a passion that goes beyond the ordinary. But such restlessness exacts ...

1741. You Might Be A Redneck If . . .

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... a drunken frenzy, had broken into the high school and torn apart whole classrooms. Now the judge wanted to hold them up as an example to others with similar mayhem in their blood. Tracy was sentenced to a fiveyear term in the juvenile offenders' facility. Originally conceived as a lesser form of penitentiary, this facility now held hardened criminals, even murderers and rapists. It would not be a slap on the wrist. In prison, Tracey was determined not to bend an inch. He would be tough. He would never admit ...

1742. Who Will Be Crying At Your Funeral

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... are what a typical college undergraduate spends working on a bachelor's degree. In 10,000 hours you could have learned enough to become an astronomer or engineer. You could have learned several languages fluently. If it appealed to you, you could be reading Homer in the original Greek or Dostoevski in Russian. If it didn't, you could have walked around the world and written a book about it." (3) Are we good stewards of our time? Let's put it to Patrick Morley's test: "Why not prioritize everything we do on ...

1743. On Being Picked For The "Rework"

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

King Duncan

... understand their argument, can't you? Paul is not reluctant to face their objection. "Who are you who replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, why have you made me this way? Has not the potter power over the clay that all originates from the same lump, to make one a vessel of honor, and the other a vessel of dishonor?" Paul then uses Pharaoh to illustrate God's actions. Pharaoh "hardened his heart" against God's words, and it is also said that "God hardened his (Pharaoh's) heart ...

1744. What's Wrong With Laughing?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... directed at those for whom wealth had become an obsession. Recently I read about a young man who has a healthy understanding of the place of material wealth. For thirteen-year-old Joey Russell, his most prized possession used to be a 1912 postcard of the original Titanic, signed by an actual survivor of the ship's sinking. Four years ago, Joey had saved up all his chore money to buy the postcard at an auction. The mania surrounding the release of the Titanic movie assured Joey an excellent deal if he ever ...

1745. To Be Abased, To Abound, To Be Content

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... National Holiday, but giving thanks is often the last thing we do on Thanksgiving, especially if we're in that group which will wrap up leftovers and clean up the mess while the others watch football and nap! (Oftentimes simultaneously!) Thanksgiving was not originally established to gorge ourselves, to watch football, to get ready to mallhop, or to put up Christmas lights. The first Thanksgiving's purpose was not even the feast. It was a gathering much like this one, to thank and worship God. Thanksgiving ...

1746. Fishing Stories

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... , "there ain't." "Then what's the object of fishing here?" the visitor said. "The object," replied the old man, "is to show my wife I have no time to peel potatoes." What was the object of going out fishing that night? Well, most of the disciples were originally fishermen. That was their occupation when Jesus called them to follow him. Let's look back at a similar story in the book of Luke, chapter five. Jesus is preaching and teaching by a lake when he joins a group of fishermen in their boats. After a ...

1747. Singing The Song Of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Missouri School Music Newsletter. Cited in Lowell D. Streiker, AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMOR (Peabody MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1998). 3. From a sermon by Wayne Brouwer. 4. Joanna Powell, "The TV Show That Works Miracles" (GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, April 1997), p. 108. 5. We have tried without success to find the original source of this story. 6. Maxie D. Dunnam, CONGREGATIONAL EVANGELISM (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1992), p. 49.

1748. Two Promises For A New Year

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... sold him into slavery. Then, Joseph spent years in prison under false charges. Only after all this heartache did Joseph see his dream come true, when he rose to power as the Egyptian pharaoh's right-hand man. “Abraham waited twenty-five years after God's original promise before God blessed him with his son, Isaac. “At the age of forty, Moses killed an Egyptian man and fled his home and family in Egypt. He presumably wandered through life, a man without a home or country, until the age of eighty, when ...

1749. When The Fish Won't Bite

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... King Henry. John tells his mother Eleanor that his brother Richard has a knife. Listen as she captures the base instinct of humanity and then offers a better way: "Of course (your brother) has a knife. We all have knives--we are barbarians--we are the origins of war--we breed war. For the love of God," she continues, "can't we love one another--just a little? That's how peace begins. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world." (6) After fishing all night and failing, Jesus came ...

1750. Trees

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... trunk has never grown more than three feet in height. Instead they produce two huge leaves up to twenty feet in length which never fall and continue growing throughout the plant's life. The banyan tree of India has more than one trunk. When the original trunk of the tree attains a certain size, it sends down additional rope-like trunks. So the tree can spread outwards almost indefinitely. A 200-year-old specimen in the Calcutta Botanic Gardens has over 1,700 trunks. It is said that during Alexander the ...

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