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2076. The Apostles' Creed: "Suffered, Dead, and Buried..."

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... is a basic flaw in the argument. Simply because an injured party has restitution paid on behalf of the one who caused the injury in the first place in no way restores the original relationship. There is no reconciliation there, not in any meaningful sense. One more. The SATISFACTION theory. This is similar to the one we just discussed. It recognizes the substitutionary character of Christ's death - he did it on our behalf; it recognizes the human offense against God, but insists that the offense is not just ...

2077. What's in a Name?

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... make a name for yourself," you acquire a certain prestige. Your NAME, good or bad, means something; it is your REPUTATION. As you can see, a name, even in our society, MEANS a great deal more than a way of distinguishing one person from another. In a very real sense, we look to the name to tell us WHO a person is: character, ability, reputation. What's in a name? A lot! In baptism, you are named - in some traditions, for the very first time. Baptism also sets each of us apart as a particular kind of person ...

2078. Doing Battle with Demons

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... what your church has been doing this past week in Charlotte is a contemporary follow-up to that lesson. The 210th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) gathered, not simply to set policy for our denomination, but in a wider sense to join Jesus in doing battle with the demons - the evil which confronts us at every turn. By way of background, let me share a bit of what leads up to an annual Assembly. Representatives are chosen from each of our 170 Presbyteries, the numbers determined on the basis ...

2079. Is God Like Daddy? - Father's Day

Luke 15:11-32

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David E. Leininger

... is one other thing that I do not know, but that I like to assume anyway. I think the Prodigal Son would have turned out to be a pretty fine fellow. Over and over again through history we hear stories of wayward sons coming to their senses because of the influence of their fathers during their early life. There are others who were never particularly wayward, but still say they became what they did because of their fathers. Reinhold Niebuhr was the son of a minister. One afternoon, while walking home with his ...

2080. Would a Loving God Really Let Anyone Go to Hell?

Luke 16:19-31

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David E. Leininger

... kind of Hell our tradition has always described. Then what would God do? Obviously, I cannot say for certain but I am rather drawn to the idea of punishment with a purpose, a concept of Hell that would allow for final restoration. That would seem to make sense, not to mention justice. A friend of mine describes it as a "period of adjustment." Some will require more than others, and for a few, it will be a HELL of an adjustment. Would a loving God allow something like that? It surely sounds more reasonable ...

2081. Pentecostal Power

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... 13, commemorated the 25th anniversary of the famous space flight. Starring Tom Hanks, the movie captured the imagination of Americans as it played in sold-out theaters across the country. More than simply a retelling of history, the movie inspired viewers with its sense of the exhilaration and pride that comes from working together toward a goal worth achieving. The flight of Apollo 13 was beset by obstacles. An explosion on board forced a change of plans to land on the moon and shifted the mission into ...

2082. Building a World

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... loving people. Why doesn’t he do that anymore?" Matthew tried his best to answer her question. He talked about the Incarnation, and salvation, and everything else he could remember from his seminary training. But he knew it didn’t make sense to the kids. It didn’t even make sense to him. These three poor, abused, neglected children needed to know the real story. So he stopped in mid-sentence, and, fighting back tears, said, "Deanna, Kristy, Mikey, let me start over. Do you have any idea how much Jesus ...

2083. The Birdies

Luke 18:15-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... learned to see things from their perspective instead of just my own. That is what Jesus was trying to convey when he said, "Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it." Children have a sense of wonder. Tennyson tells of going early one morning into the bedroom of his little grandson and of seeing the child "worshiping the sunbeam playing on the bedpost."(1) Children are imaginative. A boy came home from Sunday School where they had just had a lesson ...

2084. Mary's Song

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... To a great extent, life is a matter of interpretation, isn't it? All kinds of events happen to people. But some people sense God's hand in their lives. When something good and wonderful happens to them, the first thing they do is thank God. ... about trusting a loving God who watches out for all of His creatures, no matter how small. Lisa came away from the banquet with a new sense of peace. She knew that God was still in her life, and that she could trust God's timing in all things. Occasionally, Lisa still ...

2085. The God Of The Living

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... literally end their life they settle for a bleak, desolate existence. They lose hope of any joy in their lives, any satisfaction, any sense of purpose or fulfillment. Thus the importance of this phrase. God is the God of the living! GOD DOES NOT WANT US TO ... move on with our lives. There is now a warm, living presence of the Risen Christ in our lives. He has given us a wonderful sense of God's peace. Along with his peace has come a new power and the realization that God will never forsake us. Keep on praying ...

2086. Thankful Day By Day

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... he makes from product endorsements. Though he is clearly successful, Player is careful never to forget the real source of his success: "Golf is the talent God loaned me," he says. "You have no idea how often I get down on my knees in gratitude." Our sense of gratitude comes not from our outer circumstance but from our connectedness to God. If we live close to God, we will be thankful. If we drift from God, we tend to become discontent. St. Paul writes, "Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by ...

2087. Paul's Prayer For Us

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... got another letter from that boy. It said, "Thanks, but we lost." (2) One of the grand things you can do for another human being is to pray for them. St. Paul prayed for people. In our lesson for today he prayed for the church at Ephesus. But, in a sense, he was also praying for you and me. Listen to his words: "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with might ...

2088. After The Beep

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... various ways. But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son!" God, in His grace, didn't give up trying to reach His people. Here is the Good News of the Gospel. God has sent to the world His ultimate message, His own Son. In a sense, we might say that God tired of leaving messages on our machine that we ignored. He finally decided to come right to where we are and confront us person to person. God Himself descended into the grit and the grim and the grease of our human condition. God "became flesh ...

2089. Getting Ready

Mark 1:1-8

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... to change our selfish, worldly ways. This Advent we should find more time for prayer, more time for worship, more time for reading our Bibles, more time for doing the things we should be doing. If we are able to make these changes we will discover a new sense of joy in our lives. This joy is so special that it will never leave us. No matter what situations we might find ourselves in we can still experience the joy that comes from knowing Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. But you better hurry, the Messiah is ...

2090. How Shall We Prepare Ourselves For Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... couldn't be all that bad. After all, he pointed out, "We were blowing in each other's face, and we couldn't sense a garlic smell." (2) That is precisely the same approach the world takes toward sin! Knowing what is wrong, they laugh and flaunt ... an evil person," said Chapman. "Like everybody, there ™s a small part within me that's evil, and that's what took over in my case." In a sense Chapman is right. There is a little bad in the best of us. There is also a little good in the worst of us. None of us is ...

2091. The Things In Mary's Heart

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... know fragments of truth-a mother cuddling a new-born child, a man laying down his life for his friends, a group of people struggling to tell the world that there is a better way. As the odor of the barnyard and the crudeness of the manger bed filled her senses, Mary must have pondered the meaning of it all. The King of Kings born in a stable. How often God works that way, “when we least expect it “in ways we would never have dreamed of. Mary must have kept within her heart the absurdity of it all. But ...

2092. Excited By Our Faith

John 1:35-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... little woman until she almost exploded with excitement. Finally, she stood up and said, "Blanket or no blanket, AMEN!!" (1) You and I are not likely to get that excited in our worship service. But sometimes don't you wish we did? Oh, not in an emotional, showy sense. Most of us are turned off by mere emotionalism. There is a story that is very popular right now about a fellow in the South who wasn't very deep in his commitment to Christ but who loved to go to Revival meetings. Particularly if a visiting ...

2093. A Society Out Of Control

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of greatness is the ground work of morals." What is it that gives us greatness? Is it not that we were created in the image of the divine? That he breathed into us his own breath, his own spirit? We have lost that sense of the transcendent. We worship the creature rather than the creator. WITH OUR LOSS OF TRANSCENDENCE HAS COME HAS COME A BLURRING OF WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG, ACCEPTABLE AND UNACCEPTABLE, APPROPRIATE AND INAPPROPRIATE. Thus many people wander in a moral and spiritual fog. The sad and ironic ...

2094. Grace The New Fashioned Way

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... wouldn't interrupt the ceremony to answer the call. They had to ask another company to respond to it. When we understand that we are the recipients of the grace of God, it leads us to humility and compassion, but more than anything else it leads us to a sense of mission. In the last act of John Van Druten's play, I Remember Mama, there is a scene about a man named Uncle Chris. Uncle Chris has just died and the relative have gathered to read the will. While most of them have considered Uncle Chris a good ...

2095. Crying On Palm Sunday

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... 12:15). Is it too much to ask: if Christ is weeping, why are we not? What will it take to bring a tear of two to our jaded eyes? I have a hunch that, just as Jesus wept over Jerusalem, God weeps over our world. There is a sense in which Jesus is just about the most popular personage in the world. Everybody wants to get onto His bandwagon. Sometimes it seems as though the Pharisees' murmuring about Jesus is still true; "Look, the world has gone after him!" Everybody has good word to say about Jesus. Few ...

2096. A New Daddy

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... Stamps was on the faculty at Oral Roberts University. Bob is a delightful man with a good sense of humor. He is also bald. One night he and his wife decided to go out to dinner ... my father cared more about us than anything in the world, but he cared from afar...I believe the most important thing about a father is his love--expressed in a real sense. Not just saying, 'Hey, I love you,' and letting it go at that. The most important thing in our relationship were those talks we had...after I got to know him and ...

2097. Three Temptations Of The American People

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... knew there was hope. You were brought up with the American dream in your heart. That is not true of many of America's children today. We have some serious problems in our land today that do not bode well for the future. Can you not sense it in the violence of street gangs, the proliferation of hard drugs, the disenchantment of the so-called "working poor?" We simply cannot have capitalism without compassion! As George Bernard Shaw once wrote: "The worst sin to our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but ...

2098. Walk In Love

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We are talking about the man who blows a relatively small matter out of proportion and stalks out of a meeting or physically attacks his opponent or makes others miserable for days on end because of a minor slight. Such anger is the product of a deep sense of low self esteem. Such persons make the headlines on a regular basis. One of those whose name lives in infamy was raised by a very dominant mother, who showed him no affection, love, or discipline. His friends at school had little to do with him, and ...

2099. The Path To Real Success

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... that? We are the ME generation; we want what we want and we want it now. How strange these words of Jesus seem in this context. "If you would follow me you must deny yourself." Deny yourself. How out of place such words may seem. OF COURSE THERE IS A SENSE IN WHICH MANY OF US HAVE LEARNED TO DENY OURSELVES. WE HAVE SEEN THAT OFTENTIMES SELF DENIAL IS IN OUR BEST INTEREST. The self-help books all tell us that. Self-denial is the path to success. If you delay gratification, if you work hard, if you put your ...

2100. Belonging To The Right Family

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... on the move. In an average year, some 40 million Americans move. Put another way, every ten years, between 40 and 60 percent of an average America town's population leaves. We have lost much of the connectedness of our rural past. In a sense we have to carry our sense of identity with us. We are closer to the nomadic existence of Abraham than we are to rural America of the early 20th century. Abraham's people always knew who they were in spite of their existence as wanderersnot simply because Abraham was ...

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