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2426. A Society Out Of Control

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... God, in vain... Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." The remaining six commandments deal with our relationship with others. "Honor your father and mother... You shall not kill... You shall not commit adultery... You shall not steal... You shall not bear false witness... You shall not covet..." The Ten Commandments. Ten rules of human conduct. Often ridiculed. "Blessed are the pure in heart," said one cynic, "for they shall inhibit the earth." Often ignored. It is said that although Napoleon III could ...

2427. Crying On Palm Sunday

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... are willing to suffer if need be to help others in His name. Passionate and compassionate. "Suffering and suffering with." Suffering for its own sake is not of value; suffering on behalf of others is. Too many of us are more willing to cause suffering than to bear it. Even cynical old Mark Twain experienced a sense of compassion. He said once: "When I think of the suffering which I see around me, and how it wrings my heart; and then remember what a drop in the ocean this is, compared with the measureless ...

2428. From Tears To Triumph

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... realize in their hearts the message of the Gospel. In their book, THE PILL BOOK, Harold Silverman and Gilbert Simon say that fifty-ne million Americans take prescription tranquilizers; twenty-eght million take sedatives; seventeen million take stimulants. What is it that we cannot bear? Look what has happened to many of our churches. Elie Wiesel tells a story of a rabbi who throughout his life maintained a weekly ritual. Every week he would go to a special place in the forest, light a fire and say a prayer ...

2429. See My Hands and Feet

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... faithful wife. In trying to deal with the meaning of the cross on which Christ died, the early church came to understand that those nailprints in the hands and feet of the Master should have been ours. But God so loved the world that he sent his own Son to bear the burden brought about by the iniquity of us all. Can you deal with that? Can you believe that God really cares about us that much? II. It Is Difficult to Believe Life Goes on Beyond the Tomb. In the second place, there are others of us who have ...

2430. Love In Action

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... that their investigation would be best served by heading further north, so they charted the stars and made a treacherous journey northward. Marching across ice flows, they crept along for hours and hours, and finally, nearly totally fatigued, they stopped. Hastily they took another bearing on the starsonly to find out that they were further south! How could it be? It didn't take long to find out. They had been walking on an ice flow that was travelling south faster than they were walking north.(3) There is ...

2431. Three Temptations Of The American People

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... Gospel song, "that I may live for Thee." This brings us to our final temptation. The privilege of citizenship without the price of civic responsibility, the bounty of capitalism without the bother of compassion. But one more. WE WANT CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT CONVERSION. Please bear with me. I'm not talking about a particular kind of emotional experience. I'm talking about a level of intense commitment to Jesus Christ. We have a lot of people who believe in God, who believe in the divinity of Jesus, who believe ...

2432. He Has Done All Things Well

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... had the gladiatorial games. On the day Telemachus arrived, a great Roman general came into the city in a grand parade and was brought to the coliseum where he could watch the games and the populous could celebrate the general's victories. Telemachus could not bear to watch the savagery of persons for whom Christ died killing one another for entertainment's sake. He lept into the arena even though he was elderly and frail and was still dressed in his hermit's ragged clothing. He came between the gladiators ...

2433. A Woman's Place

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... In primitive societies this was a practical means of dealing with the needs of the family. The man was the hunter. He was generally bigger, stronger, aggressive; the woman more vulnerable not only because of her size and physical strength but also because of the bearing of children. Until the industrial revolution it continued to be a most practical arrangement for men to work outside the home and mom to look after the household. Most work in a rural society was heavy work for which a man was by nature more ...

2434. A Great High Priest

Hebrews 4:12-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... world, a sininfected world. Never has there been a human being who has escaped a struggle with his or her lower nature. No matter how disciplined and wellintentioned we may be sin is part and parcel of the human condition, and sooner or later we bear its weight. It is part of that broken relationship between us and the Father. I heard about a pastor who was being honored by his congregation for his humility. They presented him with a medal. Unfortunately after a while they had to take it back because ...

2435. The Most Beautiful Story Ever Told

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... Mary. It was too much to ask him to believe that this child had somehow been mysteriously conceived. But then something quite disturbing happened to Joseph. He had a dream. An angel appeared to him and confirmed Mary's storythat the child which she would bear had been conceived by the Holy Spirit. And that is all Joseph neededa dream. My guess is that Joseph loved Mary very muchand trusted her. Joseph also loved God and trusted God. How else do you explain the readiness with which he accepts Mary's story ...

2436. He Brings Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... , `Let us not mind the meteors, but let us keep our eyes on the stars.'" There are some lights that shine as a fixed reminder of a permanent reality. I do not believe I am being presumptuous when I say that our own Statue of Liberty bears such a light. Watching those students in Tiananmen Square last summer build their goddess of liberty was a thrilling sight. Whatever our faults, and they are many, America was conceived with an eternal purposethat all persons should be free. That is a light for the world ...

2437. We Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

1 Corinthians 2:9

Sermon

King Duncan

... he was working on before it was finished. He feared that someone might come into his studio in his absence and sneak a look, so whenever he was out of the room, he covered the easel with a veil. Across the veil he threw a streamer bearing this inscription: “Wait and see.” That is St. Paul’s word for us, “Wait and see.” The magnificence of that which surrounds us gives us only a foretaste of that which awaits us. That is why followers of Christ anticipate the future with such eagerness. Whether ...

2438. Waiting For The Angels

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... mouth of God.'" Then the devil took him to the holy city, set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, `He will give his angels charge of you,' and `On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'" Again Jesus proved he was the Son of God by resisting the devil, saying, "Again it is written, `You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'" Finally, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all ...

2439. A Man Who Walked the Talk

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

King Duncan

... it because I feared you. I returned it because I believe in God.” The emperor was impressed by the rabbi’s witness to his faith and he exclaimed, “Blessed be the God of these Jews.” (1) It is impressive when someone who believes in God bears witness to his faith--particularly if such a witness could cost him his life. Our lesson for the day from the book of Acts tells about one of the most beautiful and important acts of witness in Christian history. The Apostle Stephen had been so effective ...

2440. Belonging To The Right Family

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... just add water, and you get milk. Then I saw powdered orange juiceyou just add water, and you get orange juice. And then I saw baby powderI thought to myself, `What a country!'" Sorry, Yakov, it's not that easy. It's not that easy to bear children and it is not that easy to raise them. When actor Robert Young was starring in the television series FATHER KNOWS BEST, his teenage daughter asked him, "Dad, how come each week on television you solve the most difficult family problems imaginable, and yet at ...

2441. Christ Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... brother who looked more accessible than the rest and said to him, “I’m sorry to say this, but this isn’t a very warm church. What is it that you folks believe in?” The man replied grimly, “Oh, we believe in simply doing our duty and bearing our crosses until Christ returns.” The salesman looked at the man’s sour face and said, “Buddy, let me tell you one thing, if he’s ever visited this church, he ain’t ever coming back!” That salesman was a little unkind. Nevertheless, there ought to ...

2442. Lightning Struck

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... Israelthe new bearers of the ancient flame. That is who we are today. We are not alone. God is with us. He has not left us comfortless, or powerless or without purpose. A mighty wind has roared. Tongues of fire have been kindled on the altar of God. We bear that flame in our hearts. Lightning struck the early church. Let's take off the lightning rod and pray that it will happen again so that we too can move forward with power, with vision and with assurance that God goes with us. *W.W. Harking, Meditations

2443. The Love of a Father (Father's Day)

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... in which unfortunate tragedies do occur. But listen, here is the good news. The little sparrow never falls beyond the watchful eye of the father. The child of God who knows that he or she is under the watchful eye of the Father can, by His grace, bear any burden, triumph over any tragedy, get on top of any circumstance because he knows that he is not alone. Remember St. Paul's litany of his misfortunes? "Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I have been beaten ...

2444. Are We Offering the Right Cup?

Matthew 9:35-10:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Chicago. Soon they were lonely. They were also irritable and unhappy with each other. While seeking help from the Bible, they saw these words of Jesus: “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide.” (John 15:16) Somehow that passage became like a light penetrating their darkness. They realized that much of their unhappiness was caused by self-centeredness. They wondered if Jesus was choosing them for some kind of unknown ...

2445. Why Won't They Listen?

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... at our church this morning." Talmadge thought for a moment and answered, "Poor preaching is God's curse on a prayerless congregation." When you came into this house of worship this morning, was the soil of your heart prepared to receive seed so that you might go forth to bear fruit? If my sermon or any pastor's sermon fails to turn you on, is the fault completely mine, or could it be that your heart was not ready to receive God's Word? Do you see Jesus' emphasis in this parable? It is not upon the sower or ...

2446. What About the Weeds?

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... lives? How do we deal with those weeds--those pesky personality defects, those murky moral letdowns, those tawdry times of ethical failure that keep us from being all that God intends us to be? For, you see, God has created us to be like a beautiful garden--bearing fruit whose taste is sweet and pleasing to the taste buds and bursting forth in blossoms whose beauty is pleasing to the eye. How do we get rid of the weeds from our own hearts and become the beautiful garden Christ intends us to be? The first ...

2447. Walking On The Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... a whimsical story as that of Jesus walking on the water should even appear in the Scriptures in the first place. The story has certainly provided humorists with plenty of material. You know the kind of story I have in mind. "The wife of football coaching legend Bear Bryant once held a telephone receiver in her hand as she gazed out the window of a lakeside cottage, "Oh, no," she says, "It will be no trouble to get him. He is simply having his morning stroll across the lake." The story also provided one of ...

2448. Celebrating Christ The King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... relate to the analogy. The people depended upon sheep for their livelihood and the sheep depended upon the shepherd for protection. In his book, A SHEPHERD LOOKS AT PSALM 23, Philip Keller recounts his own experience raising sheep. He tells how ewes, ready to bear offspring, when chased by dogs or other predators will lose their unborn lambs. A shepherd's loss from such forays can be appalling. One morning he found nine of his choicest ewes, all soon to lamb, lying dead where a cougar had harried the ...

2449. You're A Good Kid!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... our lives as families. Separate the action from the person. One last word. Some of us are not parents. There is no one for whom we are responsible to bolster their self-esteem. No, we are not all parents, but we are all children. Some of us bear scars from our own upbringing. Arturo Toscanini, as a child, never knew whether or not his mother loved him. When he grew up and received the acclaim of vast audiences everywhere, he still felt this gnawing emptiness, this chasm in his soul. He could never be sure ...

2450. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... as a student of personal, national and international affairs, I will tell you the outstanding thing I have learned. It is this: Life will only work out one way, and that is God's way. He made it like that. Every other way has across it a barricade bearing a notice which says, `No thoroughfare this way.' If you surmount the barrier, there is a precipice. Men will not learn the truth of half a dozen words: `OUTSIDE GOD THERE IS ONLY DEATH.' After all, Jesus did say, `I am the Way.' Perhaps He meant it ...

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