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1976. It's Not Nice To Call Someone A Dog

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... game was announced, she risked harsh disciplinary action by taking her two little girls and sitting in the bleachers to watch. Much to her amazement she was not chastised for her action. That one step led to bolder steps. She wanted to help the prisoners. She knew love could make a difference in anyone’s life. One day she met a murderer named Jack. He was one of the toughest of the tough. He was big and black and blind, a victim of harsh and cruel racial injustices. Catherine felt drawn to this hardened ...

1977. A Mountain Too High To Climb

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... my name on it. I knew what it was." Advent gives us a foretaste of the Kingdom of God. A time of universal peace and universal love under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. God has invaded our world. God has experienced what it is to be a human being. God has initiated the ... to place under the world and if it were long enough, he could sit on the end of it and lift the world. God has loved us enough that God has lifted the world; but instead of a lever, He sent a Lover! (7) 1. Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, ...

1978. A Colt Is Not A Horse

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... hosannas, ˜Jesus is King.'" Well, it's a great hymn, but though the hymn ends there, the story of Jesus in Holy Week doesn't end with the Palms. It ends with the Passion, with the death of the innocent Jesus. That's not a story of Jesus we love to hear . . . it's too painful. The irony of the Palm Sunday story is how it ends with a fizzle instead of a sparkle. It begins with elaborate preparations to secure a colt. Jesus then parades into Jerusalem as the crowds hail him. He enters the Temple in triumph ...

1979. Dogsleds And Dogged Determination

Luke 9:51-62

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... for others burns out very quickly, just like the sticks lose their fire quickly. But a coal Christian would be someone who loves other people, even if those other people are mean to them or hurt their feelings. A coal Christian loves people, even if those people don't love them back. That's a long-lasting kind of love. That is the kind of love that God has for us. And so that's the kind of love God wants us to have for other people. Will you be a stick Christian or a coal Christian? Let's pray that God will ...

1980. Letters Straight From The Heart

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Sermon

King Duncan

... we take this God-business seriously. We are communicating daily a positive or negative view of the universe. When the Holy Spirit lives in our hearts, we are living letters from God. According to Pastor Robert R. Kopp, there are three ways we communicate our love for God: by our CONFESSION (what we say), by our CONDUCT (what we do), and by our COUNTENANCE (how we appear). (1) Let's begin with our CONFESSION: WHAT WE SAY. When early printers, using hand-set type, received an order to print a collection ...

1981. The Scariest Drug on the Market

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... just given to the poor missionaries. As he thought of this he became so small he easily crawled out from under the car. (2) The love of money is addictive. THE SECOND DANGER OF THIS DRUG IS THAT IT IS DEADENING. Just as novocaine dulls the nerves in the mouth ... hearts of most of the world''s people and we are only giving Him back the core. That will rob you of your soul. The love of money is the scariest drug on the market, by Jesus'' standards. It is addictive. It is deadening. It causes us to lose our ...

1982. Son of Thunder, Son of God

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... nature.” To which someone in the back row shouted out, “Thank God that’s a lie!” The fact of the matter is that of all things on this earth, human nature is the one thing which can most easily be changed...provided that it is overwhelmed by the love of God in Jesus Christ. So a “Son of thunder,” I believe, became a “Son of God.” St. Jerome, who lived and wrote in a cave in Bethlehem under the Church of the Nativity at the end of the Fourth Century, hands down to us a fragment of tradition ...

1983. One Bad Apple

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... pious nonsense. All of us wouldn’t be comfortable in the same place. Some folks wouldn’t be comfortable in heaven. They would be like a fish out of water. They would be like a stranger in a strange land, unable to understand the customs or speak the language. For love is the language of heaven, and earth is the school wherein we learn to speak it. And death is the great graduation day. Each goes to his/her own place. Jesus said to His friends, “I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, you may ...

1984. On Claiming One’s Inheritance

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of the other members of the family were at the opening of the bazaar, a feeling of peace and contentment suddenly came over her, and she realized that God had accepted her just as she was. She didn’t have to do anything...except be open to God’s unconditional love for her at that moment. In gratitude, she wrote her famous hymn. Later on, her brother said, “In the course of a long ministry, I hope I have been permitted to see some fruit of my labor, but I feel far more has been done by a single hymn of ...

1985. Placard Faith, Complex World

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... he said, "when the news (of Clurman's death) reached me just after midnight, that I have always subconsciously looked out for the total Christian, and when I found him he turned out to be a nonpracticing Jew."2 Ultimately the Bible is the story of God's love affair with the world God created. It involves countless men and women, who lived over hundreds of years, and culminates with the story of Jesus. But first and foremost it is God's story, and Jesus' story only inasmuch as Jesus brings God to us. That's ...

1986. Who Can Ask for Anything More?

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... another? May the One who is both Friend and Brother of us all provide both inspiration and strength for us to demonstrate to all who observe us the same kind of compassion and brotherly affection that once prompted a pagan leader to say of the early Christians, "Behold how they love one another!" Ralph Harlow expressed it beautifully when he wrote: Who is so low that I am not his brother? Who is so high that I have no path to him? Who is so poor I may not feel his hunger? Who is so rich I may not pity him ...

1987. To Live Is To Dance

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Now that never was true, that never was true. God sets the agenda for the church. But listen. The world is our agenda. It is our agenda. It doesn’t set our agenda, but it is our agenda. Unlike many religious leaders, Jesus lived in the world and he loved the world. He loved it so much that he died for it. I hope a lot of you heard Billy Graham on that special news program the other night, this past week. I was thrilled to hear Billy Graham talking about not only a need for a freeze in the building up ...

1988. What If God Is Dependent Upon Our Praying?

2 Chronicles 7:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.” That’s the word of the Lord for you and me. Let us pray. Come Holy Spirit, heavenly dove, with all your quickening powers. Come shed abroad a Savior’s love, and that will quicken ours. Amen. I don’t know when the question became so central in my thinking. It didn’t emerge full blown. At first, it was at the edge of my consciousness, but now it’s at the very center pressing for attention. It became even ...

1989. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we have started at the right place. And that the rest of our praying will be shot through with the prevailing grace of the loving God with whom we seek fellowship. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. What name. The name Father. The word Holy ... , hallowed be thy name. Begin here, and stay here as long as you can in prayer. Adoration. Praising God who is our Father and who loved us so much that he gave his only begotten Son for us. Now I want to ask you a question. Be honest. In your heart. ...

1990. The Family: A Place For Persons

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... special time -- not in a French restaurant with exotically prepared foods with names you can't pronounce -- and lights so dim you can't read the menu -- but with a delicious shrimp dinner. But did you note the last line of the ad? "But hurry! You can fall in love for a limited time only." Now I know Red Lobster was underscoring the limit on their offer -- only on Valentine's Day could we take advantage of such a deal. And I know they were tying that last line into the title of what they were offering – a ...

1991. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have the power to shape, make, spend, use every single hour still on the books. And I have the power to shape, make and build love. These are the only things I really own, the only ME there is. Slowly, like a left-handed kid learns to write -- I learned by ... have the power to shape, make, spend, use every single hour still on the books. And I have the power to shape, make and build love. These are the only things I really own, the only ME there is. Slowly, like a left-handed kid learns to write -- I learned by ...

1992. Growing In Self-esteem

Psalm 81:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it -- way down in the depths of our being that God does not want us to live a mediocre life. We are God's creation, God loves us and so we can be far more than we think we are. IV. Now my final point. There is something we can be, but will ... is Jesus. Therefore, our self-concept may and can be established by what He thinks of us. Listen again to our text from John. See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not ...

1993. Fair Weather Friends

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... good word to introduce our sermon today. We're talking about friendship. Listen again to verse 24 of Proverbs 18: "Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin." And listen to verse 17 of Chapter 17: "A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity." The New Kings James Version translates that first Proverb in this fashion, "A man who has friends, must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. The New English ...

1994. Two Small Coins

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... brown eyes and said sadly, "Well, Daddy, it cost fifty cents. So, I gave Brandon my quarter." Then she said the most beautiful thing Simmons says he ever heard. She repeated their family motto. The family motto is "Love is Action!" She had given Brandon her quarter as a form of "Love is Action." No one loves cuddly, furry creatures more than Helen, says Dave Simmons, but she had seen her Mom and Dad seek to live according to the family motto and now she was incorporating it as her own. What do you think ...

1995. Alive In Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... t it true that the dynamic of that forgiveness, especially for those who are being introduced to Christ and to the Kingdom community -- isn’t it true that they can begin to know what that forgiveness is all about if they experience it with some other person. So, in love, in forgiveness, in acceptance, we make real the presence of Christ to others. You remember that old poem: Christ has no hands but our hands to do His work today; He has no feet but our feet to lead men in His way; He has no lips but our ...

1996. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ways that the world often fails to see. The person God sees is never mundane, never unacceptable. The person God sees is unique and loved from the start, arrayed in dazzling clothing and named as a child, a beloved child. As we look within ourselves in order to answer ... look at who God believes us and desires us to be: someone with unique gifts, some discovered, some as yet unknown; someone loved and cared for – not because of what they do, or because of what they are – but simply because they are. Kim ...

1997. People With Shining Faces

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... And it is because he was so focused on doing God’s will that he made it possible for you and me to have faces that shine as well. Dr. Maxwell Maltz, a plastic surgeon and best-selling author, tells a remarkable story that speaks to me of the love that caused Christ to exchange his throne in glory for the cross of Calvary. A man had been injured in a fire while attempting to save his parents from a burning house. He couldn’t get to them. They perished. His face was burned and dis- figured. He mistakenly ...

1998. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... who we are. We learn that our world, and we ourselves in it, are worse than we thought, and that God is more fierce and loving than we ever imagined. I believe that before he offers a change in behavior, Jesus offers sight and insight. He opens our eyes to who ... left and right arms are a pair of mirror images to lift in worship and to offer in work and to touch others in love. What have your hands been doing this last week? What stories could they tell? Have they pointed the ugly finger of gossip? Have they ...

1999. To Live Is to Dance

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

2000. Identifying a Christian

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... is. There are so many people who bear the name Christian who have never met Christ because they have never seen him in their neighbor. How can you identify a Christian? Only one way. “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” 1. http://grace-lutheran-church.com/sermons/2006/03/1. 2. Barna Research Online, Dec. 3, 2002. Cited by Dr. Peter Barnes, http://www.fpcboulder.org/Transcripts/10-5-03.html. 3. http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/sermons//c-ea07sn.php. 4"The Least of ...

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