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2251. Search For Tomorrow

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... at him for a second, then back to the ceiling. That was all for that day. Next day the player came again. For several days he continued to come and to play quietly. One day he said, "Does my playing annoy you?" The patient said, "No, I guess I like it." They talked ... those who love us--or by God. It's not enough, though, to live on as a vaporous memory. We want to know that we will continue to exist as real people when we have shed this body of clay. We want the joy of being reunited with those whom we love ...

2252. Loving From The Heart

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Turkey. It is about a little boy who is about to have open heart surgery. "Tomorrow morning," the surgeon began, "I'll open up your heart . . ." "You'll find Jesus there," the boy interrupted. The surgeon looked up, annoyed. "I'll cut your heart open," he continued, "to see how much damage has been done . . ." "But when you open up my heart," said his young patient, "you'll find Jesus in there." The surgeon looked to the parents, who sat quietly. "When I see how much damage has been done, I'll sew your ...

2253. Crossing To A Land Of Hills And Valleys

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... in your commitment to God through your young adult years. It happens in every generation. Some of you will never come back. And you will never know the joy of a lifetime spent walking with God. And you will never know what you might have been if you had continued to be God's man or God's woman. While doing research for a doctoral thesis, a young man spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. He lived with one family, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with ...

2254. Why Did I Do That?

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... failed to accomplish. "We can't save ourselves from sin," concludes George Knowles, "or free ourselves from the habits of sin that hold us in bondage. But we can choose to invite Jesus into our hearts, and when we do, a miracle takes place--a process of change begins that continues as long as we allow Him to control our lives." (4) "Why did I do that?" we sometimes ask. Maybe we, like Paul, are living under the Law of Sin. If so, we don't simply need more will power; we need a Savior. And we need a Savior ...

2255. Love Is Not Easy

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... : I've always loved you in that robe. (2) Love is not easy--particularly married love. And yet St. Paul tells us that the person who loves his fellow human being has fulfilled the law. He writes, "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law. The commandments, "˜Do not commit adultery,' "˜Do not murder,' "˜Do not steal,' "˜Do not covet,' and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up," says St. Paul ...

2256. Better Ignorant Than Uncaring

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... recent converts to Christianity had been worshiping idols before they came to Christ. And part of their worship involved sacrificing food to the idols. Afterwards they would feast on that food. This was a social event as well as a religious duty. Should they continue to patronize these feast events after giving their hearts to Christ? Certainly, said some. After all, idols are an illusion. There is no reality to them. But the food and the fellowship are still good. What possible harm could it do for them to ...

2257. A Failure To Communicate

Hebrews 1:1-4, Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, so now he is unique." The earth roses were very embarrassed. "You are beautiful, but empty," he continues. "No one would die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But she alone is more important than all of you other roses because I have watered her, and she is the one that ...

2258. Living In The Kingdom Of God

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'" But Jesus didn't stop there. He continued, "The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." Then the scribe said to him, "You are right, teacher; you have truly said that 'he is one, and besides him there is no other'; and 'to love him ...

2259. Above All--god

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The second name he chose was "I Am who I Am." Those are the words God spoke to Moses when Moses asked God to tell him His name. This man justified his bizarre request by saying that he needed to be freed from feelings of anxiety and rage that had continued to plague him since he served in Vietnam. "I was fatally wounded both in mind and in spirit,'' he said. "I didn't suffer any bodily injury. It's just what I saw, what I did. I killed myself.'' In fact this poor man, named Charles Haffey, bought a ...

2260. Begin With The End

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... windows," the voice murmured beneath the roar and thrust of the takeoff. "Your life, too, will contain some happy, beautiful times, but also some dark shadows. Here's a lesson I want to teach you to save you much heartache and allow you to "˜abide in Me' with continual peace and joy. You see, it doesn't matter which window you look through; this plane is still going to Cleveland. So it is in your life. You have a choice. You can dwell on the gloomy picture. Or you can focus on the bright things and leave ...

2261. "yes, And..."

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

King Duncan

... high." When he led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. Then they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And they stayed continually at the temple, praising God. What a startling spectacle that must have been! "While he was blessing them, he left and was taken up into heaven." How did the disciples feel at that moment? Was their sense of loss balanced by a sense of awe? What did ...

2262. Don't Be Ashamed . . .

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

King Duncan

... alone. There is that inner witness that Christ promised to his disciples. Marilyn Anderes tells about a friend of hers named Cheryl Stephens who definitely had the inner witness of the Spirit in her life. She was a young mother struggling with cancer yet determined to continue ministering to others. Cheryl went home to Jesus on November 19, 2003 at age 44. According to Marilyn, Cheryl lived out Philippians 1:21, "For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain." The following is a poem Cheryl wrote in 1984 ...

2263. Winners Every One

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Central High School." Do I need to say to you that this did not lessen the popularity of the jerseys? The thefts continued. But then the coach had a brainstorm. He ordered new practice jerseys printed with the words, "Central High School 4th String." ... . . . to pay the ultimate price of martyrdom--I'll do it. I'm ready, Lord, to go out in a blaze of glory." "We think," Craddock continues, "giving our all to the Lord is like taking $l,000 bill and laying it on the table--"˜Here's my life, Lord. I'm giving it ...

2264. Winners And Losers

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... Eddie's victim calmly responded, "You can have the money, but what you really need is to give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ." Those words imprinted themselves on Eddie's brain. At age seventeen, Eddie was sentenced to ten years in Mississippi's Parchman Penitentiary. He continued his violent ways in prison. But one day as Eddie contemplated murdering two of his fellow inmates, he heard God speaking to him. "Eddie, it's either your way or My way," the voice said. God challenged Eddie that day to either ...

2265. Marks Of A Champion

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... of a champion of faith. Then comes godliness. That's a word we don't hear much anymore--godly. Pious. It means a self-conscious sense of God's presence. It means you take time for prayer, for worship, for communing with God. This is where you draw strength to continue the fight. This is where you examine your life in the light of God's goodness and love. This is where you begin again when you have fallen. Floyd Flake in his book, The Way of The Bootstrapper, tells about a young man named Coy Pugh. Coy spent ...

2266. Twelve Inches From God

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... banquet to hear a famous speaker deliver an address on the subject of "The Show Must Go On!" This old cliche was repeated until Groucho could no longer stand it. He stood up and shouted, "Why?" This flustered the speaker to the extent that he couldn't continue, because he had never really wondered why. A second-hand faith serves only when there is no danger, but sooner or later someone will ask why. Why are you standing guard? Why do you perform a ceremony of cleansing the outside of the man when he is ...

2267. Love And Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... work when two persons enter it with he idea that everything must be done "my way." The biggest question facing our generation may be whether someone who grew up "looking out for number one" can go the extra mile that marriage requires of both partners. Paul continues, "Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it . . . For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. "This is a great mystery ...

2268. A Church Fueled By Prayer

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... doubts. I stepped to the curve of the piano and stood there with my head up and my eyes closed letting the Spirit do its work and waiting for that hissing to die down. Two minutes, three, four, five, on into an interminable ten minutes, the hissing continued. I waited for silence. Would it ever come? Ten minutes passed, and the hissing and stamping of feet stopped abruptly. "I spoke to my accompanist without turning my head from the audience and asked him to take from his music case Schubert's `Thou Art My ...

2269. God Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... as I thought. God Has Gone Up. And isn't that typical? Gone up, up away from New Haven and the angry shouts of the mob and the gunfire of the cops and the revolutionaries." In other words, Willimon was saying to himself, "God has abandoned us." As he continued to listen, however, the idea struck him that the choir did not sing, "Deus Abscondit." The boys were shouting "Deus Ascendit." God has gone up. "God has begun in heaven what is yet to be accomplished on earth. Christ is gone, not to forsake us, but to ...

2270. Don't Forget The Batteries

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... catches an updraft off the waves, and the cycle starts all over again. The albatross not only survives winds of almost any force at sea, but it is not even blown off course. It can ride out the storms by reading the winds and circling. Then when calm returns, it continues on its way. (2) We need to learn from the albatross. If we could ride the winds of God's Spirit, we could accomplish far more than we think possible. That is the first thing we need to learn from Pentecost. The source of our power is God's ...

2271. Mud Below, Stars Above

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... climb possible and took it to the highest altitude that it would go. Although the motor sputtered a bit, and he felt slightly giddy because of the thin air, the chewing vibrations gradually ceased. A few minutes later he descended to his normal altitude and continued to the airport with no further trouble. Checking the tail section after landing, he found not one, but three rats, all dead from the lack of oxygen. The control cord had been nearly severed in two places. (7) The point should be clear. If we ...

2272. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... vehicles behind it. Obviously piqued, the man who was driving the car hurriedly got out and lifted the hood to look for the problem. As he did, the driver of the car behind his began honking her horn. The honking persisted as the driver of the stalled car continued to search unsuccessfully for the trouble. Finally, he went over and spoke to the impatient motorist behind him. "If you will fix my car," he said calmly, "I'll be glad to keep blowing your horn for you." We can identify with that, can't we? Our ...

2273. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... For seventy years the nation of Russia lived under the cloud of atheism, their leaders shaking their fists in the face of God. They rejected the Word of God, Stalin himself obliterated fifteen million of his own people. And on his deathbed, the man who called himself 'Steel' continued to fight against the truth." (4) You and I are not Stalin, but that does not mean that there is not a corner of our life that is in rebellion. Let me ask you, can you say that you live every day according to the best you know ...

2274. Son of Man; Son of God

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... object is to win the hearts and souls of human beings in order to fashion a new creation. How would God accomplish this? God would become one of us. This is not so mysterious as it sounds. Look at it this way. Leaders in today’s companies are continually looking for ways to motivate their employees. They want people to enjoy their work enough that they will stay self-motivated. The problem is, how can they get rid of the image that they are pressuring people to perform? One way is to meet them where they ...

2275. A Ministry of Encouragement

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... one in this room who does not need that from time to time. We need to be affirmed, appreciated, applauded. St. Paul was an encourager. He applauded those who deserved to be applauded. He affirmed those who needed to be affirmed. He was continually expressing his appreciation for the people who kept the churches going in Philippi, Thessalonica, and elsewhere. In today’s lesson we read, “For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging ...

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