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1851. Finding Jesus

John 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ while living the Christian life. Because of John’s witness, the two men who were with him wanted to find out more about Jesus. Notice up to this point that Jesus has not said a word. He has not preached a sermon, nor told a parable. These two men begin to follow him simply because of the witness of John the Baptist. Jesus noticed them following him, and asked them what they were seeking. They replied that they wanted to know more about him. Jesus issued the personal invitation, "Come and see ...

1852. To Forgive Is Divine

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus taught that there is no limit on forgiveness. We don't reach a certain number, three or seven or seventy-seven and say, "I can't forgive you anymore ” I've reached my limit." For the follower of Jesus forgiveness is a way of life. Jesus told a parable. A certain king wanted to settle accounts with his servants so he called them in one by one. There was a servant who owed the king ten thousand talents ” a vast sum of money. It would be impossible for the servant to ever pay off his debt. He would ...

1853. A Most Disagreeable Man

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the fish's stomach. Evidently the large fish found Jonah disagreeable too. Jonah's reluctance should remind us of our own. Most of us know what God wants us to do. We know Christ's great commission to go and make disciples. We're also well acquainted with the parable of the Good Samaritan. We know we should be reaching out to others with both our words and our resources. We know these things; we just don't want to act on them. Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh. His time would better spent among his own ...

1854. Surprised On The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Such experiences are never really planned; they just happen, and when they do we are grateful. The disciples needed some time on the mountain. It was quite a shock when Jesus spoke so plainly about what lay ahead. This wasn't a time for cute parables or riddles. He told them he would, "undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again." The disciples were both shocked and confused. This wasn't what they thought would ...

1855. How Do You Know?

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... no one who needs my soul, my heart, my tear of pity, my word of comfort, or my hand to lift them up, there is nothing for me to do." And he refuses to go with the angel. Instead he asks if he could be reassigned. (4) Now obviously this parable is not meant to be a commentary on heaven. But it gives an example of a soul that is determined to serve others. A person who is in Christ will be a better neighbor, a better spouse, a better parent, and a better member of the community. A person in ...

1856. Wrong About Christ

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again." But even though they heard it regularly, the disciples did not fully comprehend what it was that Jesus was trying to tell them. Maybe they thought he was telling them another parable ” one which they still hadn't grasped the meaning of. Maybe they were too frightened to think of the implications of what Jesus was saying. There is a lesson to be learned in this, and that is: WE HAVE TO BE READY TO RECEIVE CHRIST'S MESSAGE ...

1857. A Time To Remember - Memorial Day

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... be nice now that the Cold War is over if we could totally eliminate our defense establishment with the knowledge that no nation would ever commit aggression against its neighbor again. But that's not the way the world is. Winston Churchill used to tell a parable about a zoo in which all the animals decided to disarm. They arranged `peace talks' to work out the details. The rhinoceros asked for a strict ban against the use of teeth in war. The stag and porcupine agreed, but the lion and tiger defended teeth ...

1858. Isn't It Time To Get It Right?

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... ) Are you one of those people who never seems to get it right? Isn't it time you made a new beginning? Get right with God through trust in His promises. Then you will find confidence for the future and life's difficulties will not defeat you. 1. Jamie Buckingham, PARABLES (Lake Mary, Florida: Creation House, 1991. 2. Ibid. 3. John Haggai, WINNING (New York: Inspirational Press, 1991). 4. James Dent in Charleston, W.Va., GAZETTE

1859. One In Christ

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... the church, because he understood that we are all one. Love unites us. The poet Robert Browning wrote, "Take away love and our earth becomes a tomb." But the tomb becomes a day of resurrection with love. Jesus taught this truth to us through his parables and short, pithy sayings. He warned us against being like the ungrateful servant, cautioned us not to be like the older brother, admonished us for having an attitude like the first laborers hired for the vineyard. He taught us not to throw the first stone ...

1860. One Thing Is Needful

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Arthur E. Dean Windhorn

... with lots of buttons and when you were done, found out that the coat was uneven? What went wrong? I'll tell you what went wrong. When you don't get the first button in the right hole, all the rest are out of sequence too, right?! That's a parable about life. Jesus said it this way in the Sermon on the Mount: "Seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well." (Matthew 6:33) If the Lord is not the high priority in your life, then, like the overcoat, so many ...

1861. Facing Up To The Giant Task Of Life

1 Samuel 17:1-58

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the Lord without some effort which propels brave action, which propels them into life's battles to claim victory for the Lord, knowing full well that when the power of darkness knocks us down that Jesus will lift us up, high upon the mountain. In many of the parables that our Lord teaches us, which are found in the last few chapters of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, we find the exhortation to stay busy and be in action for our Lord as we await the second coming. We are never to miss the opportunities ...

1862. Fear Of Flying

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... those wings. We don't ever have to fear flying again! 1. Bob Ward, THE LIGHT STUFF, (Huntsville, Alabama: Jester Books, 1982). 2. Bruce Larson, THE PRESENCE, (HarperCollins Publishers, 1988), pp. 10-11. 3. Elaine M. Ward, ONCE UPON A PARABLE...(Educational Ministries, Inc., 1994), p. 38. 4. Bernard Weinraub in NEW YORK TIMES. "Personal Glimpses," READER'S DIGEST, November 1995, p. 7. 5. John Richters, Jr., ATTACKING THE MYTHS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING (Cincinnati, OH: The National Underwriter Company, 1979), p ...

1863. The Appearance of Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... two great commandments of our faith are to love God and to love our neighbor? 1. David Wendel, United Methodist Church, Esterville, IA. 2. May/June 1996, p. 15. 3. (Ventura, California: Regal Books, 1995). 4. ISRAEL FOR CHRIST newsletter. Cited by Don Maddox, First Presbyterian Church, Bakersfield, California in PARABLES, etc., June 1996, p. 3.

1864. Body Language

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a very simple one and yet it is also vital. FIRST OF ALL, ST. PAUL SAYS, EACH ONE OF US IS INDISPENSABLE. A physical body is in trouble if it loses one of its members. So is the body of Christ. Arnold Prater has turned Paul's teaching into a parable: Once upon a time, he says, almost everybody was an ear. All the ears had a big convention and were having a wonderful time when a nose and a mouth walked in, sat down on the back row, and were very quiet. But soon the sergeantatarms walked over and said ...

1865. On Eating Peas With A Knife

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Doing so would pollute them. When Jesus' host saw what was happening, he thought to himself, "This proves that this man is no prophet, for if God had really sent him, he would know what kind of woman this one is!" Then Jesus answered Simon's thoughts with a parable. He said, "A man loaned money to two people$5,000 to one and $500 to the other. But neither of them could pay him back, so he kindly forgave them both, letting them keep the money! Which do you suppose loved him most after that?" Simon answered ...

1866. Fighting Over Daddy's Will

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... our church we can make sure that our money is being used for a great and worthy cause the sharing of Jesus Christ with our community and our world. A man comes to Jesus and asked him to settle a family dispute about a contested will. Jesus responds with a parable about a rich fool. And in the process he teaches us that money can be a blessing or a curse depending upon whether it is our servant or our master. And we see that the greatest use we can make of our material possessions is to give them to ...

1867. Are You Available?

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and she was dying. She told Shinn that she wanted another woman to come stay with her for such time as she might have left, so Shinn and the old woman's doctor struck out in the darkness to try to dig one up for her. It sounds like a parable the way it is told. They knocked at doors and threw pebbles at second story windows. One woman said she couldn't come because she had children. Another said she simply wouldn't know what to do, what to be, in a crisis like that. Another was suspicious of two ...

1868. Where's George?

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

Sermon

King Duncan

... Isn't that your experience? The busybodies were criticizing Jesus again this time for the kind of people he associated with. Tax collectors and other sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. This irked the religious leaders. So Jesus told the religious leaders a couple of parables. The first was about a shepherd who left ninetynine sheep in the wilderness to find one that had gone astray. The other was about a woman who swept out her house to find a lost coin. His point was that the best way to make God ...

1869. Living With Pizzazz

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... and they said to themselves, "Yeah! Isn't that like Mr. Rich! He's a generous man, all right!" And when the crowds gather at the mansion house, as Jesus concludes his story, the cry of delight celebrates the master's great generosity. So the main point of the parable is not to teach us how to be dishonest, in order to make a buck, or to secure something for ourselves. Instead, the main point is this: DO YOU KNOW THE GREAT GENEROSITY OF GOD, AND ARE YOU MAKING FULL USE OF IT? Have you mined the resources of ...

1870. Finishing In The Top 10%

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... James and John had been playing hooky when Jesus taught, "Blessed are the peacemakers!" It's a sign of Jesus' grace that instead of raining down fire on the Samaritans, he chews out his disciples, and later makes a hated Samaritan the hero of his parable about the Good Samaritan. And now in this story, we'll learn of another Samaritan, who in his gratitude for healing becomes another hero! The New International Version of the Bible gives the best translation of this story because of what it says about these ...

1871. An Unlikely Witness

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... faith in God, when we affirm our faith in Jesus Christ, when we affirm our faith in hope without end. In his book, TEACHING YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT GOD, Rabbi David Wolpe, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, recalls an ancient Jewish parable about twin unborn children lying together in the womb. One believes that there is a world beyond the womb "where people walk upright, where there are mountains and oceans, a sky filled with stars." The other unborn twin can barely contain his contempt ...

1872. Full Barns--empty Souls

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... the cake as hard as he can at the statue. It hits the statue of Jesus right in the face. And Don Wanderhope resumes his life of atheism and despair. And that is how the story ends. It is only fiction, of course. But DeVries meant it to be a parable of the way many people live in this world. In fact, the name he gave his lead character is a play on words. The name Wanderhope is taken from the Dutch word "wahhoop," which means "despair." (3) And that is how some people live. And we can appreciate their ...

1873. Trees

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... trees. But sequoias grow only in groves and their roots grow together and intertwine with one another under the surface of the earth giving them extraordinary strength. So, when the strong winds come, they hold each other up. I wish we were that wise. It's like a parable about a voyaging ship that was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert-like island. The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to ...

1874. What Does It Mean To Be Really Free?

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... : “Content or Discontent: Which Tent Do You Live In?" 2. “Man of Conscience" by Brad Stetson, World May 17/24, 1997, p. 25. 3. Leigh W. Rutledge. Would I Lie to You? (New York: A Plume Book, 1998), pp. 16-17. 3. Jamie Buckingham, Parables (Lake Mary, Florida: Creation House, 1991). 4. “Being Strong and Courageous" by Tom Lehman, as told to Jim Adair, in Decision June 1997, p.11. Cited by Robert J. Morgan, From This Verse (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998). 5. Brian Atwood in Leadership, Fall ...

1875. Nobody Wants To Make Cold Calls

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... that when we minister to the least and the lowest, sometimes we encounter Christ--and that, dear friends, will save our souls. 1. ktodd@vci.net (Keith Todd) 2. Herschel H. Hobbs, My Favorite Illustrations (Nashville: Broadman Press 1990). 3. John Patton, Ministry to Theology. Cited by Billy Strayhorn in parables, etc., Volume 16, Number 7, Sept. 1996. 4. (Knoxville: Seven Worlds Corporation, 2000), pp. 54-55.

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