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2001. What Are You Tied To?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ? Does his spirit dwell within you? When a child grows up in a home where parents are connected to Christ, there is love and joy and gentleness and hope and a positive spirit. Successful families are connected to Christ. SECONDLY, SUCCESSFUL FAMILIES UNDERSTAND THE PRINCIPLE OF LOVING OBEDIENCE. This will not strike a happy chord with everyone in this room. We are a people dedicated to doing our own thing. Obedience is not generally a word in our vocabulary. But when parents live in loving obedience ...

2002. Through The Storm, Through The Night

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... the importance of splints and casts. These crutches hold our bones in place that God's healing might take place. So it is with prayer. Prayer holds us in place so that God's healing can take place. Prayer is not magic, reward or totally understandable. Those are three things that prayer is not. But Campolo offers four affirmations about what prayer is. The first is that prayer always changes people, even when it doesn't always change things. As Karl Barth has written, "To clasp the hands in prayer is ...

2003. Setting An Example

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... young Agnes grew up to become Mother Teresa, the twentieth century's living example of Christ in the world. (4) Mother Teresa became who she was because of the example of her mother. Examples matter. The best hope that the world has is that God will raise up people who understand that our lives are intertwined--that who I am and what I do affects who you are and what you do. I can look at my life and see that I am who I am because of the example of significant persons in my life. And the same is true ...

2004. When Your Lips Are One Place But Your Heart . . .

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... it wasn't Jesus after all. It was just old Willie. Religion is the perfect place to hide a heart filled with hate, with doubt, with bitterness. EVEN WORSE, RELIGION IS THE PERFECT WEAPON TO USE AGAINST THOSE WE DESPISE, THOSE WE FEAR, THOSE WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND. The December 1998 issue of Life magazine carried a full page picture of a group of about a dozen protestors. These people with twisted and angry faces were not protesting at the White House or in front of a military base. They were protesting at a ...

2005. The Good Son

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... given, "The second." The point is made; what we say isn't as important as what we do. This is a parable which every parent and child understands. Hasn't every parent asked his child to clean his room, mow the lawn, or do her homework and has heard, "Sure I'll do it" ... put Jesus to death. We could say that Jesus died in the cause of integrity. He taught people to live lives of redemption, to understand what it means to be created IMAGO DEI, in the image of God, and for this they put him to death. The book of ...

2006. Come Home To God

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Angela Akers

... identity and purpose. It is not the stern-faced judge crying, "Condemnation!" It is the loving father crying, "Come home!" "Come home! You are still welcome here." "Come home! All will be forgiven." "Come home! You don't have to wander anymore." If we truly understand the nature of God, that He is "gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love," the pain of repentance is meant to cleanse us, not shame us. Actor William Hurt loves his home in New York, and rarely stays away long, even ...

2007. General Hospital

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... When the formerly blind man was asked the source of his healing, he responded with the words Newton used in his hymn, "I once was blind, but now I see." Though John Newton was not physically blind, he was morally and spiritually blind. This is the key to understanding the story for Jesus teaches us that there are many ways that we can be blind. THE FIRST PERSONS BLIND IN THE STORY ARE THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS. As they walk with Jesus through Jerusalem they come upon a blind man, and then proceed to talk about ...

2008. Love Of Life

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. So it was good news indeed to hear that one day graves would be opened, and that the Spirit of God would breathe life into that which was dead. Consider the raising of Lazarus. He was a friend of Jesus. His sisters, Mary and Martha, could not understand why Christ did not come immediately when he heard that Lazarus was near death. After all, they had been raised on the faith of the Old Testament. Death was the enemy. Why in the world would the Lord tarry? Did he not care that their brother was dying ...

2009. Tongue-tied By Three Zeros

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... flippant? Well, perhaps you prefer "The Zips?" Too postal? I've got it, how about "The Pre-teens?" Too sociological? Says Steve Perrault, an editor at Merriam Webster, "There's just no easy way to categorize those ten years by one single word so that everyone understands what we're talking about." (1) No doubt about it, three zeros are confusing. Two were confusing enough. At the turn of the last century a satisfying name for the first decade of the 20th century never caught on. Yale's class of 1900 liked ...

2010. There's Something About A Mystery

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... too incomprehensible. My acts of mercy they saw as cruelty; my attempts at healing they viewed as destruction. "To change their perceptions I began to see would require a form of incarnation. I would have to become a fish and "˜speak' to them in a language they could understand." (3) And that is just what God did. Still it is too big a mystery for our "fishbrains" to comprehend. And that's all right. We can live with a mystery--as long as we know that, in the end, everything works out all right. In 1994 ...

2011. It's Not About Us

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... a vision from God, and he would carry that with him for the rest of his life and beyond. And at last he was truly happy. (6) There are many, many people through the ages who have discovered that this is the secret of happiness. When we know Christ and understand that his death on the cross was on our behalf and his victory over the grave was a promise of everlasting life, we know true peace and happiness that nothing can take away. It's all about him. My friend, do you know this Christ? Christ was more than ...

2012. Something To Brag About

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... in return. You don't even have to be a nice person. You will be a nice person if Christ lives in your heart, but do you understand that you don't have to be? You can be an old grouch. You can be sleazy. You can be totally irresponsible. Do you hear what I' ... there. I need to tell you that there's healing here, if you'll receive it. There's freedom here, there's love and understanding and peace. Permit me to tell you about someone who found that kind of freedom. Her name is Lori Trice. From the outside, Lori' ...

2013. Maturity In Christ

Colossians 1:27-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... School of Foreign Service. Diane Sawyer says, "To know that two children were lifted from the jaws of death because of an 18-second news item I did as a matter of course . . . well, it's the kind of thing we in this business only dream about." (5) When you understand that life is not about us, but about God and God's plan for creation then you can live by Jesus' upside-down vision of life: the first shall be last and the last first; if you would become the master of all, then you must be servant of all ...

2014. The Christ Of Healing

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... know who we are or whose we are. When we talk about God's healing power, there are three important truths that we have to understand. First is that sickness is not God's will. Henry B. Getz has an interesting argument that it must be God's will for us ... healthy, energetic, creative, and dynamic people at every age, full of vitality and health. I believe that we must start here, with the understanding that God's will is for us to enjoy good health. But there is a second truth that is becoming more obvious to ...

2015. Standing Outside Graceland

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... was as if the gates swung open and I entered into paradise." I wonder if, in spite of hundreds of years of teaching by faithful pastors about salvation by faith, there are not many of us who are still standing on the wall looking longingly into Graceland. DO WE REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT SALVATION IS BY FAITH AND FAITH ALONE? You may know the story about the Sunday School teacher who wanted to teach her class about grace. And so one day she asked them, "If I sold my house and my car and gave all my money to the ...

2016. God Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Prince becomes close friends with a fox. On one occasion they are trying to set a time for their next visit. It is very important to the fox to know the time of that meeting. They finally agree to meet at 4:00 o'clock. But the little prince cannot understand why it is so important to the fox to know the exact time. Finally the fox replies, "Oh, if you will come at 4:00 then I will begin to be happy at 3:00." It is time we start "beginning to be happy." We have a friend who sits ...

2017. Mud Below, Stars Above

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... we are going to be citizens of heaven, we must be able to hear that language, which is our native tongue. E. M. Bounds in Power Through Prayer says, "Men are looking for better methods, God is looking for better men." We can be better men and women if we understand where our true citizenship lies. God told Abram to look up at the sky and count the stars. Jesus told his disciples to seek the narrow door. We can do this. We are much more than clay. We need not allow our bodily desires to be our god, because ...

2018. The Sower and the Seed

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Brett Blair

... said, "Behold, in the window there is a glass, and in the mirror there is a glass. But the glass of the mirror is covered with a little silver, and no sooner is the silver added than you cease to see others, and you see only yourself." We all understand how wealth can insulate us from the world around us. But you know what our problem is. We suffer from junk overload. It is not necessarily that we are doing bad things. In fact, most of us are doing good things, family things. The problem is that when these ...

2019. Son of Man; Son of God

Luke 1:26-38

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... , do you sometimes see that they were right when it is all done? This very thing happened to Mary, Jesus’ mother. The angel, Gabriel, came to her and told her she was going to have a baby and he would be Jesus, the savior of the world. She couldn’t understand how this could be. Gabriel told her it was God’s plan. She just had to “trust him.” Do you think this was hard for her? Yes, it was, but she trusted God and the world has never been the same. God has the same message for each of us ...

2020. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hell!

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... you can go in God''s universe. So hell is lovelessness and supreme loneliness and alienation. Hell is also memory and regret. It''s the memory of lost opportunities to do good and to love God and to love others. Menotti, a contemporary composer, wrote these words about his understanding of hell. He says, "Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have done that we did not do. For me, the conception of hell lies in the words too late." Too late. Hell is coming to see that ...

2021. Things That Cannot be Taken Away

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... a battle with evil and darkness and death for us. We can trust him that he knows what is best. One day he will make it clear. "For now we see through a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now we know in part, then we shall understand fully, even as we have been fully understood." The poet says, "Sometimes, when all life''s lessons have been learned, And suns and stars forever have set, The things which our weak judgements here have spurned, The things for which we grieve with lashes wet; Will flash before ...

2022. TREES, TRINKETS, AND TRIFLES

Drama

Angela Akers

... Doesn''t it look like it though? The whole family is gathering around the tree and covering it with lovely, shiny baubles. And they''re all singing songs to the tree. Looks distinctly like tree-worshipping to me." Angel 1: "Maybe we just don''t understand. Now, what is this new thing they''re doing? I hear it''s called shopping. They''re buying presents." Angel 2: "For Jesus?" Angel 1: "Of course! Who else would they buy presents for?" Angel 2: "Then why are they buying things of such ...

2023. ENRAPTURED OR INSANE?

Drama

Angela Akers

... You really should have plead insanity, you know." Leader: "No! No, we shouldn''t have. When we came together in worship of our Holy Father, He sent His Spirit upon us in such a way that we were speaking in languages unknown and hearing with an understanding that was not our own." Man 2: "You see, your Honor, the joy, the sheer revelation of it all filled us to such an extent that we probably appeared to be drunk. It was certainly an intoxication of no earthly origin." Man 1: "Your Honor, we ...

2024. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a divine principle of reason, but it is much more active. Indeed, to Jewish thought, a word was much more than merely a sound uttered by a mouth or written down on a page. It was something which had an independent existence and actually did things. To understand what they meant by “word” we almost have to link it up with the term “deed.” In the Bible, the “Word” of God always does something. God created the world by a Word: “And God said...and it was so,” we keep reading in Genesis. Psalm 33 ...

2025. Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blond

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to a real problem. The problem is that we folks in the church sometimes have our own technical jargon which is simply not understandable to most folks outside of the church and many folks inside of it. A lot of us fit into the situation described in ... even wrote a poem about these words, The rain falls on the just and unjust, But the unjust have the just’s umbrellas! But to understand Jesus’ words that way is to miss the point. In the land of the Bible, rain is blessing and sun is curse. In the Holy Land ...

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