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2051. Do You Have The Glory?

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... would you give to be famous like Rudolph Valentino? Evidently some people would trade everything they have to reach that kind of notoriety. Many people sell their souls to gain fame and glory. It's somewhat understandable. As some wit has said ... said things like, "I believe in the God that sent his only Son to die on the cross . . . He loves all people even me . . . Kind, just, merciful, stern . . . Fun has a sense of humor . . . He wants me to obey him. (5) Those Junior High young people have a pretty good ...

2052. Dogsleds And Dogged Determination

Luke 9:51-62

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... 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 teach us how to love others the way that He loves them.

2053. Where's George?

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

Sermon

King Duncan

... a tendency to be ruled by their emotions rather than good sense. That is one reason they are lost. In short, they are not our kind of people. And that is why we avoid them. That's right, we avoid them. We would rather focus on winning people who are like ... too. Isn't it possible to be upandout as well as downandout? We can think of plenty of reasons to focus on our own kind of people. Meanwhile, the one hundredth sheep wanders farther and farther from the fold. And the lost coin lies under the cabinet, slowly ...

2054. Getting Rid Of Fear

2 Timonty 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... is he a psychiatrist?" asked his friend. "No," said the man, "he's a carpenter. He sawed the legs off my bed." (3) Well, there are all kinds of solutions to fear, but St. Paul gives us the most helpful one. He writes to Timothy, "For this reason I remind you to fan into ... , rundown neighborhoods. At first, the local gangs took a vote as to whether Bill should be killed, but once they saw the kind of work he was doing, they decided instead to protect him. So every day finds Bill Tomes out on the streets of ...

2055. Never Give Up

Luke 18:1-8

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... camera, one that didn't need all that extra stuff. Many times, George messed up and made mistakes with his new camera. But he never gave up. He kept on trying. He had faith that he would succeed. And he did. George invented a brandnew kind of camera, one that was much easier to use than other types of cameras. And George started his own camera company, which he called EastmanKodak. Because George never gave up, he made it easier for all of us to take pictures. Our Bible passage today is about never giving ...

2056. What's Wrong With Laughing?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... needed a bone marrow transplant, Joey offered to sell his card to raise money for the procedure. She would need at least $60,000 in order to get the transplant, and without it she might die. When talk show host Rosie O'Donnell heard about Joey's act of kindness, she invited him on her show. There, she introduced him to the cast of the musical Titanic. But that wasn't the only reason she had invited him on that day. O'Donnell, along with the Titanic's producers, had arranged to buy Joey's postcard for $60 ...

2057. It's A Miracle

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... known through Jesus Christ. A miracle is never a miracle for its own sake. As used by the writer of John's Gospel, the miracle is always a sign that points beyond the event to a greater truth." (4) I said there seem to be two kinds of miracles: property miracles and personal miracles. MANY OF US HAVE EXPERIENCED PERSONAL MIRACLES. These are miracles that occur within people. A healing takes place. Perhaps that healing is physical; perhaps it is emotional; often it is spiritual. And we say, I have seen a ...

2058. A Birthday Celebration

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... mahogany player piano with digitized music-automation roll and sitka spruce sound board ($12,000) from Hammacher Schlemmer? Or maybe life-like, large-scale sculptures of an African elephant, rhino or reticulated giraffe ($350 to $575) from The Nature Co? There are all kinds of odd gifts out there. Back in 1891, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of such classics as DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE and KIDNAPPED, gave a rather odd gift to the daughter of a friend of his. This friend, Henry Ide, once joked that ...

2059. He Touched Me

Mark 1:40-45

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... is plugged in) Good morning, boys and girls. Isn't this a nice lamp I brought with me? This is a very special kind of lamp. It doesn't have any buttons to push or click. If you want to turn it on, you just touch it ... touch the lamp, it won't turn on. But if you just touch it with your hand, it comes on right away. Our Bible story today is about a very special kind of touch. There was a man who was very sick with a disease called leprosy. No one would get near him or touch him. But he came to Jesus and asked ...

2060. Hey, You Can Only Be Young Twice!

John 3:1-21

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... things for you. They bought new bottles and new rattles and new diapers and new toys and new clothes . . . all just for you. You were a new baby, and everyone wanted to buy you all kinds of new things to use. That's just part of being born. You get all kinds of new stuff. Our Bible story today is about a new kind of being born. An old man named Nicodemus came to Jesus and asked about His teachings. Jesus told Nicodemus that people must be born again, born a second time, in order to be saved. Nicodemus didn ...

2061. Who Are Your Gentiles?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Landon Winstead

... show favoritism, but accepts [people] from every nation who fear God and do what is right.'" This statement was penned some two thousand years ago by Luke in 70 AD. Yet it was not until 1918 that women had the right to vote, and it was 1964 before any kind of Civil Rights Legislation was passed. How is this? Evidently, we are slow to learn. Recently, on the news there was the story about an African-American man who had served in World War II who has just now been awarded a Medal of Honor. How sad that it ...

2062. The Heart Of The Matter

Matthew 5:1-12

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... Ivory soap (preferably still in the wrapper) Good morning, boys and girls. I brought a special kind of soap with me to church today. It's called Ivory soap. Ivory isn't like all ... today is about having a pure heart. In this story, Jesus goes up on a mountain and preaches to large crowds of people. And Jesus talks about what kind of people are the happiest people, what kind of people make God happy. And those are the people with a pure heart. When you have a pure heart, it means you keep your heart focused on ...

2063. Like Everest Without Oxygen And Wimbledon Without A Racquet

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... a small business card asking each person to help someone else in need. It has become his mission in life to pass on the kindness that was once done for him. (5) You and I are not the robber. Neither are we the priest and the Levite. And, no, ... man lying in the ditch. And Christ has come to us and rescued us. And now we are charged with passing that act of grace and kindness on to others. When we understand that, then we will be ready to become the Good Samaritan. Then we will be ready to adopt the "what ...

2064. Like Everest Without Oxygen

Luke 10:25-37

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... important muscles are those that make up our heart. These keep our hearts beating thousands of times a day. And for some people, they do that for more than 100 years. But there are also muscles to our spiritual heart. Our spiritual heart is where love dwells, and courage and kindness and hope. And just like we need to exercise our physical muscles to keep them in good shape, we need to exercise our spiritual muscles to keep them in good working order. If we exercise love and courage and ...

2065. Birdbaths and Flagpoles

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... friends, that good soil is you and me. We are those who have received the message of the kingdom and have said yes to it. Now, what kind of crop are we producing? Because we are co-laborers with God, it is now our turn to sow seed. What seed are we sowing? Here ... to go through life on the cheap. We want to get by on minimal effort. And it simply will not work. So, I ask you what kind of seed are you sowing in the lives of those you love? In the community? In the world for which Christ died? Will this be a ...

2066. Clean Hands and Dirty Hearts

Matthew 15:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... her to join a secret sorority. The letter challenged Phyllis to do two things: memorize the sorority's "memory verse" and befriend ten freshman students before the week was out. The memory verse read: "I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." Over the next few weeks, Phyllis received more letters from the secret sorority. Each ...

2067. It Could Happen To You

Luke 24:36-49

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... . After Jesus' death, they were so sad and scared. They loved Jesus, and had given up everything to follow Him. Now He was dead, and they didn't know what to do. Their hearts were filled with sadness and fear, and all kinds of yucky feelings, just like this dirty plate had all kinds of yucky stuff on it. But all of a sudden, Jesus appeared in the room. He had come back to life! He was alive again. And suddenly, the disciples were happy again. Just like this Joy dishwashing liquid washed all the yucky ...

2068. Heroes

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... and his family could potentially contract polio. But the vaccine proved to be a success, and it was used to immunize thousands of children throughout the U.S. (5) You don't make that kind of risk because you draw a paycheck. You don't pay that kind of potential price to move up in the organization. You take that kind of risk because you care. Heroes are people who care. HEROES ARE ALSO PEOPLE WHO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS. The Italian fisherman John Napolii chose to put the lives of his fellow human beings over ...

2069. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... still wouldn't start. At length he would sigh and say to me, "˜Honey, the car just won't start until you give me a kiss.' So I did, and it did--and off we went. For a long time," says Joan Benny, "I believed there was some kind of scientific connection between kissing and car-starting." (5) No wonder Joan Benny loved her father so much. Jack Benny was not afraid to show his affection. A judge in Philadelphia, speaking of his experiences dealing with juveniles in trouble with the law, said that most of the ...

2070. Building An Understanding Of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... accident. A benefit race was set up to help the young man's family pay for his medical bills. Rick wanted badly to participate in the five-mile race, so he convinced his father to run in the race and push Rick along in his wheelchair. Dick was an active kind of guy anyway, so he agreed to try it. The race left Dick feeling like he'd been run over by a truck, but it was exhilarating to Rick. He typed this message for his father a few days after the race: "Dad, when I'm running, it feels like ...

2071. People Who Inspire Us

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... of people God yearned for them to be. That's interesting. Notice that Paul does not pray that the church at Thessalonica would be delivered from its troubles. His prayer was that these troubling experiences would mold the members of this church into the kind of people God meant for them to be. That's significant. We admire people who have overcome hardship. Hardship serves as a reminder of our need for God. Many years ago, on a flight to Tokyo, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale got a chance to talk with his plane ...

2072. Setting An Example

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... don't see many around at this time of year, because butterflies don't like to live in cold weather. They move to warmer places during the winter. I learned some interesting facts about butterflies this week. Did you know that butterflies can give off scents, kind of like perfumes? That's right, the butterfly's body has two different scents, like perfumes, that it can release into the air around it. One scent is very pretty and it makes other butterflies want to be near this butterfly. But the other scent is ...

2073. Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... A WAY OUT, AND THEN HE PUT HIS PLAN INTO ACTION. That's it. It's not a big deal, but Jesus says that most Christian people never figure it out. Jesus said it this way: "For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light." It is so easy to get hung up on the way the unscrupulous manager went about remedying his situation that we miss the point that Jesus would have us see. It's like a famous story about Christian sociologist and Baptist preacher Tony ...

2074. The Young And The Restless

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked, "Did you finally see the Light, my son?" The former troublemaker answered, "No, Father, I felt the heat." (3) The only time some people change is when they feel the heat. And that's sad. There are two kinds of change--the kind that is thrust on us--losing a job, having a health crisis, etc.--and the kind we choose. We cannot avoid the changes that are thrust on us. They happen. They will always happen. The best way to prepare for them is to learn to be adaptable. The way we learn to be adaptable is ...

2075. The Guiding Light for a New Year

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... . On March 29, 1945, this man suddenly became ill. On March 31, 1945 the day after his dream told him they would be liberated the man died. (2) We can only speculate that what killed him was loss of hope. How we approach this new year will determine what kind of year it will be. Do we approach it boldly, confidently, expectantly? Or do we approach it with fear and apprehension? It's like the husband who said to his wife one day, "I've noticed that you always carry my photo in your handbag to the office. Why ...

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