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2251. Caught Up In A Dream

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... for hard cash. (2) Sometimes it is a good thing to catch someone else's dream. The story of the New Testament is the story of men and women who got close enough to Jesus to catch his dream. Doesn't it amaze you how quickly the disciples left their fishing nets to follow Jesus? Matthew tells us that Jesus was in Capernaum. John the Baptist was now in prison. It seems more than coincidental that upon hearing of John's incarceration Jesus began his own ministry of preaching ” taking up, as it were, where ...

2252. Are You Available?

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... for his people, Christ was available for you and me. He asks us to do no more than he has already done. Are you available to walk in his footsteps? ARE YOU AVAILABLE TO SUFFER THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF DISCIPLESHIP? Jesus said, "And no one can be my disciple who does not carry his own cross and follow me." We are not a people generally who are willing to make sacrifices. I know there are exceptions, but as a whole we have become a people in love with comfort. We drive comfortable automobiles and we live ...

2253. Trouble Brewing In The Kitchen

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Graham M. Bingham

... Howie struggling in vain to get back up on his feet. Finally, one boy shouts, "Reverend, if you want to stand up and skate, you have to get on your knees first." That is not only good advice for ice-skating. It is also an important lesson for the Christian disciple to learn. Before you stand up and serve others, "you have to get on your knees first." Why? Because it is at the feet of Jesus that you learn "to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and ...

2254. Where Are Your Chickens?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... some ultimate purpose? Where are your chickens? Our lesson today is from Matthew's Gospel. A large crowd had come out to the countryside to hear Jesus teach. Matthew tells us the Master had compassion on the multitude and healed their sick. As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food." Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to ...

2255. Worriers Or Warriors?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... was won on the ice only after it was won in his own heart and mind. (3) That's where most contests are won--not only in sports, but in life. They are won first in our hearts and minds. Jesus wasn't worried about the obstacles his disciples would face, but the inner strength and discipline with which they would face them. Would they be worriers or would they be warriors? And so he promised them that even though he must leave them physically, he would not leave them spiritually. HE PROMISED THEM THE GIFT OF ...

2256. Who's Your Daddy?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... "being from the right family." "Who's your Daddy?" was obviously an important question in Jesus' day. Notice in our lesson today from Matthew's Gospel, that in two instances in the listing of the disciples, the writer of the Gospel thought it important to let us know about the disciples' daddies. The more famous instance concerns the father of the very important disciples, James and John. We know who their father was. Somebody tell me who their father was? They were the sons of Zebedee. Lesser known is the ...

2257. A Tale Of Two Brothers

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... lunch to feed a multitude. And finally he is directing a group of seeking Greeks to Jesus." The parishioner walked away thoughtfully, for he had received a new glimpse of the importance of that unpraised apostle. (7) We need more Andrews in the church. We need more disciples who are directing their friends and their family to Jesus. Christ has called us to make an impact on this community. "Yes, Father, I will go." We are those who have said we would go. The question is, Have we gone? Is Christ Lord of our ...

2258. Faith-based Living

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... followers. He wanted to know whether they were fact-based thinkers or faith-based thinkers. There's a powerful concept for you. That would be a good focus for a seminar. Are you a faith-based thinker or a fact-based thinker? Jesus wanted to test his disciples. How would they react to the challenge of feeding these thousands of people? Could they see beyond human limits and focus on God's infinite power? Inventor Henry Ford once said, "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know ...

2259. Boldly Going . . . Nowhere

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Jesus. And I must go "˜til He comes, give "˜til I drop, and preach "˜til all know. And when Jesus comes to get His own, He'll have no problem recognizing me. My colors will be clear because I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ." (4) What about you? Are you still chasing "preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, popularity?" Are you striving after the perks in life? Or are you striving after its purpose? In 1960, Adolph Coors III, the powerful head of the Adolph Coors Company, was kidnaped ...

2260. Finding Peace

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... our joy. In order to have true peace of mind, some of us will have to come to grips with our past. How do we let go of the past? Christ has taken away our past with his death upon the cross. It's gone. Forever. Jesus said to his disciples, "Peace be with you." Notice what he does next. Says our Gospel, "After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side." In the ancient Greek language, two words were commonly used for canceling a contract. One of these words [Chiazein] meant "to cross out." That's ...

2261. He Calms The Storms

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, and rides the storm." William Cowper had finally met the Christ who stills life's storms while reading the book of Romans. Do you remember how the disciples reacted when the storm came up around their little boat? You and I have been there with those fearful disciples, haven't we? We have seen the storm clouds rise, and we have felt the winds howl and the waves begin to beat into the ship. The boat is rocking hard, and slowly filling with water. It ...

2262. A Date With Destiny

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the Lord!" (Matthew 11) They do not know that the one they are welcoming into their city will soon be dead--crucified like a common criminal. But he knows. All of his life had been directed toward this one place--this one time. He had tried to warn his disciples but they could not understand. "If I be lifted up," he said on one occasion, "I will draw all men unto me." (John 12:32) On another occasion he declared, "No sign will be given to you but the sign of Jonah." (Matthew 12:39) He knew what lay ahead ...

2263. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... not grow with ease: the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." We learn, we grow, we mature as we deal with life's many hardships. There are two sources of suffering--sin and the natural order. There is but one source of healing--God. Jesus said to his disciples, "It was not this man who sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God may be made manifest in him." All healing comes from God. God is a God of health and wholeness. Healing is God's will for our lives--whether our need is physical or ...

2264. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... you. Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will live also. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you." Jesus was saying to his disciples that the only way he could be truly with them was if he went away from them. Henry Drummond stated it superbly. "Suppose," says Drummond, "suppose He had not gone away; suppose He were here now. Suppose He were still in the Holy Land, at Jerusalem. Every ship that started ...

2265. Through the Eyes of an Eagle (Introduction)

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... power of a living Lord. Indeed, he tips his hand as a writer and in the twentieth chapter of the Gospel he tells us plainly the reason why he put the book together in the first place. He says: “Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.” (John 20:30-31) May it be so. Amen. (*Unless otherwise ...

2266. To Who Can We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... would have a share in His sufferings. A Messiah who would make their enemies suffer was O.K., the notion of a Messiah who would suffer on behalf of His enemies was something else! And so the crowds thinned out. “ Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.” (John 6:66) This has been the experience of the church again and again down through the ages. Whenever the church has promised peace and prosperity to believers, it has prospered; whenever it has spoken about ...

2267. Love Is Extravagant

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the wildest desert. I love you. P.S. I’ll be over to see you on Saturday if it doesn’t rain!” Jesus must have been looking at the spirit of this woman’s deed even more than the deed itself. That is why he said to Judas and the disciples, “Why do you hassle her? She has done a beautiful thing for me...” She was not a rich friend dispensing charity to a poor Carpenter from Galilee. If her motive had been charity she would have sold the perfume and given Jesus the money. Perhaps she should have, I ...

2268. It’s Hard to Eat While Lying

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... I know what you are planning to do. I know you want to betray me. But you don’t have to do it. And even if you do it, I will still love you.” I think something like that is what was happening at that sacred last meal with the disciples. But Judas would have none of it. And, note this: If we follow the seating arrangement at the Last Supper carefully, we come to the conclusion that Judas had Jesus’ head resting on his chest all during the meal. Can you imagine how Judas must have felt? What conflicting ...

2269. A Terrorist among the Twelve

Luke 6:12-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, he chose to enter not on a great stallion with shining armor, but riding on a humble donkey. Again and again people tried to make Him an earthly king, but He refused, saying, “My kingdom is not of this world...else would my disciples fight....” (John 18:36) And Simon came to realize that he either had to give up his sword or give up his Savior. Something like this, I think, happens to all of us who start down the road with Jesus. We may begin with acceptance of Jesus as ...

2270. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ?) He goes on: “I like Jesus and all, but I don’t care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance....They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a ... crowds pressing in on every side. They meet a storm at sea, and Jesus calms the storm and the hearts of the frightened disciples. But no sooner do they arrive on the other side, when they are confronted with a raving lunatic, a madman who lived in ...

2271. On Getting the Gospel Out

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . But, as the hymn and poem by James Russell Lowell says: “New occasions teach new duties.” And there aren’t that many church-oriented coffee houses left around. I can’t even think of one. In the 70’s and 80’s the strategy for winning new disciples has changed once again. The trick now is to get them into the church - “our turf” - by offering people that which meets their needs. And then inviting them to come. By now most of us are familiar with the statistics which tell us that most people ...

2272. Childish or Child-like?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . 27) It is so unlike our Lord to embarrass anyone in this fashion - much less a child. For Jesus to have done such a thing there must have been a very good reason. And there was. I. Mark says: “AND THEY WERE BRINGING CHILDREN TO HIM...AND THE DISCIPLES REBUKED THEM.” (Mark 10:13) Through the centuries there have been far too many Christians who have felt that their primary calling in life was that of rebuking somebody. There have been too many who have felt that God wanted them to look around to see if ...

2273. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . One of them is here, in the courtyard of the high priest, where Peter was warming himself the night that Jesus went on trial, and a servant girl spotted him. The other place is in the 21st chapter of John. After Good Friday, Peter announced to the other disciples, “I am going fishing.” That didn’t mean he was taking a vacation-merely that he was going back to his previous occupation - a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee, which was what he did before he went off on the wild-goose chase to follow the ...

2274. The Unfinished Story

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , the Vatican of the Armenian Church, an Armenian manuscript of the Gospels written in A.D. 986, in which the last twelve verses are said to have been written by the hand of the Presbyter Aristion (no doubt the Aristion mentioned by Papias as one of the disciples of the Lord.). (Major, Manson, and Wright, THE AND MISSION AND MESSAGE OF JESUS, New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc., 1938, p. 206) I have a hunch that whoever wrote these verses knew of Paul’s experience in Acts with a “serpent” and read it ...

2275. Bread for Everyone (I am the bread of life)

John 6:1-15, John 6:25-59

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... on what is not bread," he wrote, "and your labor on what does not satisfy?" Pretty good question. Then he added: "Listen, listen to me and eat what is good." At the Last Supper Jesus took a loaf of bread and blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body." (Mat 26:26) This is the first of seven messages on the great "I am" statements from the gospel of John, plus one more on Christ as the source of living water. Our text today is the bold claim that Christ made ...

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