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2401. Created For Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... captive by sin and death? To have any real freedom, we are going to have to escape the bondage of our own mortality. Do you know who Mike Singletary is? For those who are not football fans, Singletary is the All-Pro middle linebacker of the Chicago Bears. He is known for the intensity of his eyes, which are often captured by TV cameras before big plays. Shortly after winning the 1986 Super Bowl, Singletary became afraid of the dark. This is no joke: He slept with a light on. Fear, in fact, overwhelmed his ...

2402. On Fooling a Mafia Don

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... McDonald's is at what they do, or Coca Cola or Microsoft? What if we were as committed to spreading the good news of the kingdom of God as American business is to winning new customers? This is the point Jesus is trying to make. He wants people who bear his name to not only be nice people but to be people who make a difference in the world. Charles Spurgeon put it both colorfully and clearly years ago. He was commenting in a church meeting after reading a verse from the book of Job that goes something like ...

2403. Jesus Says, 'Just Do It'

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Dr. Chane M. Hutton

... . The bombs were designed to explode on impact. But with the changes that the prisoners made, the bombs were harmless ” no explosion occurred. Puzzled by so many failed attacks, the French government finally conducted an investigation. Upon opening the bombs, they found slips of paper inside bearing these words: We are doing the best we can with what we've got, where we are, every chance we get. (2) That would be a good motto for the church. We can pray until we are blue in the face for God to give us ...

2404. Some Things We Can Do, God Can't

2 Timothy 2:13

Sermon

King Duncan

... turn away anyone who comes confessing their faith in Jesus Christ and repenting of their sins. It is impossible for God to reject such a person. Oh, there may be some people God would like to turn away. Murderers, adulterers, thieves, those who gossip and bear false witness. Some of us WOULD turn such persons away, but not God. "He who comes to me, I will not cast out." (Jn. 6:37) Max Lucado relates a touching, true story about a mother named Maria and her daughter, Christina. Maria and Christina lived ...

2405. Comfort My People

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... can imagine the joy which that family experienced that Christmas. The children had only expected presents, but they found their father instead. Their father gave himself to them for Christmas. (1) And that is the meaning of Advent. God has come to us. God comes to us and bears our pain. God does not stand far off from us when we are in distress. God comes to us and stands beside us. In our times of need, we are blessed by God's presence. When Alexander McClaren was fifteen years old, he was sent to work in ...

2406. A Time For Miracles

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... , had come to her and said, "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you!" Was it a dream? Was she hallucinating? She could not be sure. "Do not be afraid, Mary," the angel continued, "for you have found favor with God. And now you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall ...

2407. Be Careful Which Entree You Choose

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... with their belongings stored in coffins. They were resigned to the fact they would never make it back to the coast. In spite of the difficulties, these men and women were called to reach Kenya, so they kept at it, knowing someday their work would bear fruit. They were right. Thanks to their efforts, today 82 percent of Kenya is at least nominally Christian. (6) Many of the pioneer ministers who brought the Christian faith to this country faced nearly as many obstacles as did those Kenyan pastors. We are ...

2408. The Problem With The Big Ten

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of a Sabbath has almost been lost in pagan American culture. The fifth through the tenth commandments are concerned with moral duties. "Honor your father and mother . . . You shall not kill. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or his maidservant . . . or anything that is your neighbor's." In other words, the first section deals with ...

2409. Connected

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... connected to One who can give us the power, One who can give us the presence, One who can help us live productive lives. Jesus put it this way: "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit . . . If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you . . ." Here it is the great secret of life. Here is the secret of having real "pull" in the things that matter most. It is to be ...

2410. Are You Successful Or Do You Just Have Money?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... with our church kids. He regularly inquires about your homebound parents or sick aunt. He listens to people, prays with people, laughs and even cries with people. He hugs everybody (at that point Brown recalled how Willie had greeted him that morning with a bear hug). Yes sir, that's Willie ” our Mr. Love.'" And suddenly Brown found himself thinking: "If only my life could be that beautiful! If only I were worthy to be called HIS twin." (5) We know nothing about Willie's accomplishments in the workplace ...

2411. Get Off The Orphan Train

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... St. Paul as he writes: "All who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, Abba! Father!' it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God and joint heirs with Christ ” if, in fact we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him." MANY OF US ARE LIVING LIKE ORPHANS WHEN WE ARE IN FACT CHILDREN OF GOD. How do I know ...

2412. Mark Twain's Briefcase And A Great Mental Attitude

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... mine. That is the first secret behind St. Paul's great mental attitude: a light was shining in his heart. But there was a second reason for St. Paul's great attitude. ST. PAUL COMPARED HIS TRIALS TO THE SUFFERING OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS. He writes, "Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus . . ." We don't know exactly what St. Paul meant by these words. Some scholars believe that Paul carried on his hands and feet the marks of the stigmata. We have no direct evidence of that. What we do ...

2413. Paul's Prayer For Us

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... record in the discus throw. Al accomplished all this while suffering from ripped cartilage in his rib cage. A few days before the Olympics opened, Al had injured himself in practice. Doctors warned him not to compete. They told him that the pain would be too much to bear. But he forced himself to compete anyway, and at his highest level. In an interview after his winning throw, Al told reporters, "Don't make me a hero. I wanted to win so I gutted it out." (3) Al Oerter's strength went beyond being able to ...

2414. All Dressed Up

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... who lives a very ordinary life and comes to church for a weekly feel-good spiritual bath, then you don't need any armor. You can go back out dressed in the fashion of the world. But if you believe that there is some importance to bearing the name of Jesus, if you are going from this room determined to make this a better world ” a world of truth and justice, love and kindness, forgiveness and tolerance ” then you need to dress appropriately. A belt of truth, a breastplate of righteousness, shoes of ...

2415. After The Beep

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... take your call right now, please leave a message after the beep!" It is possible to treat God like we would an annoying telemarketer. We have no time for all the things God might be trying to sell that day. Hal Shymkus tells of an answering machine in Florida that bears the message, "No, we do not need a new roof. The siding on our house is okay. We are not in the market for an air conditioner or a refrigerator. We already have health insurance. And we don't want to be in your survey. If, after all that ...

2416. In Search Of A Reason For Being

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... worth more than $5 million). He finds the participants often lonely, burdened and perplexed about their wealth and eager to "talk God talk" about it. After their soul-searchings, at least two participants have given away all their money because they could no longer bear wealth's weight. Haughey reminds them of Saint John Chrysostrom, who argued: "Wealth is by its very nature ad extra ” it is meant to go out from you, like a light that dispels darkness. Once wealth is locked up within the walls of your ...

2417. Light

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Joseph's young family. We know what it is like to be shut out ”to see the sign flashing, "No Room!" There is something very appealing about those unsophisticated shepherds kneeling before his crib and something very regal about the three wise men from the East who bear him gifts. Thus we begin once again the pilgrimage to Bethlehem, for we too have seen his star. He is the light of the world. He is the one who lightens up our lives. A little boy was playing out on the sidewalk one night after supper ...

2418. A Pre-christmas Faith

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... you can love persons whom ordinarily you might not even be able to stand. The cause of Christ has been crippled through the years by those who say they love Christ but cannot love humanity. The world sniffs out hypocrisy in the church quicker than a bear sniffs out a handout in a state park. The penetrating TV news show SIXTY MINUTES recently filmed a story on the church in South Africa. The obvious angle was the glaring hypocrisy of apartheid in the face of clear Christian teaching that in Christ, "There ...

2419. Peace

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... Number Nine put in his claim because if three is important, three times three must be really important. By the time Ten, Eleven and Twelve spoke up, the discussion had gotten so heated that the language used by Numbers Ten, Eleven, and Twelve could not really bear repetition. But they had not got the last word, another character was present, the Spirit of the Tower, and the Spirit of the Tower at last spoke and said: "My Children, stop. Be silent. You’re all talking a great deal of nonsense, because the ...

2420. A Better Than Perfect Christmas

Philippians 4:4

Sermon

King Duncan

... third, of course, is reverently. If this is the anniversary of the appearance of the Lord of the universe in the form of a helpless babe ”it is a very important day. It’s a startling idea, of course, the whole story that a virgin was selected by God to bear his Son as a way of showing his love and concern for man. It’s my guess that, in spite of all the lip service given to it, it is not an idea that has been popular with theologians. "It’s a somewhat illogical idea, and theologians like logic ...

2421. The Other Side Of Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... and Joseph had to get back to the real world, too. They could not linger forever with the shepherds and the angels in the stable at Bethlehem. Unfortunately, it was a stark and cruel world they had to return to. It was a world in which a woman soon to bear a child could be ordered to ride on the back of a donkey for several days to the hometown of her betrothed in order to comply with a taxation decree. It was a world in which a mad tyrant could put to death all the infants in the region on ...

2422. Searching For Jesus

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... he's safe," the boy's dad, Glenn Payne, an electrical engineer for General Dynamics Corp., said a few hours later. "We've all had a scare this evening." Sobs turned to smiles when Tyler saw his family. He showed his brothers and sister the teddy bears, coloring books and candy given him by detectives in Nashville's Metro Youth Guidance Center while he waited for his parents. "I told you your parents would come back," said Mary Brown, who was working at the service station and who comforted Tyler after he ...

2423. What If The Lord Really Did Come Today?

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... the time of Amos the prophet were piously looking forward to the day of the Lord. Amos warns them, "Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord." That day has some surprises. It is as if a man escaped from a lion, Amos writes, only to meet a bear. "The day of the Lord is darkness and not light," he warns. There will be some surprises. What if Christ should return today? For whom would it be good news? Yes, we might be surprised. There is an old and good story about a man who came to the gates ...

2424. Watch!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... Of our five children, four of them didn't break an arm today." A man lived on the border between Wisconsin and Minnesota. He assumed he lived in Minnesota, but a new survey showed that he lived in Wisconsin. "Thank goodness," he exclaimed, "I never could bear those cold Minnesota winters." I like the perspective of one little fellow I heard about. He was most excited that he had pulled a cornstalk out by its roots. When his father congratulated him he beamed. "And just think," he said. "The whole world had ...

2425. Mary's Song

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

King Duncan

... the God of all creation could have chosen her for this high honor. In her words, "He hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden . . . " In Mary's mind only a kind and good God would bypass the wealthy and powerful of this world to have a peasant girl bear His Messiah. There is an ancient story of how the devil appeared, disguised as an angel of light, to a humble monk who was praying in his cell. "I am the angel Gabriel," the devil said, "and I have been sent to you." But the monk escaped the deception ...

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