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Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... --people who care about others and who want to see miracles occur in this world. And when people participate in God's work in the world, they discover meaning and purpose and, yes, even joy. Are you in that number? Where are your chickens? 1. Karen O'Connor in More God Allows U-Turns by Allison Gappa Bottke, with Cheryll Hutchings and Ellen Regan (Uhrichsville, OH: Promise Press, 2001), pp. 79-81. 2. The Power of Personal Storytelling (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1998), pp. 112-113. 3. Rodney J ...

2. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... do that to my church. You feed them the milk and meat of my Word, not empty substitutes.” I winced and prayed, “Save me, O Lord, from being a vending machine and killing your people spiritually by giving them what they want.” The church is in danger from bad ... is no joy outside of knowing Jesus and serving him. I love you and my church family. In his care, Salaam, Karen.”2 Karen fulfilled what Fred Smith said we should seek, “It is important,” he counseled, “as we go along in life, to create ...

3. Mentor, Mediator, Master

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... a pious lie. If we wish to walk with God, we abandon the lie and admit our need. If we prefer to pretend that everything is o.k., then our hunger for God will always go unsatisfied. Thus we come to our text for the morning: "This is good, and it is ... our hope is in Him. Our Mentor, our Mediator, our Master, our Savior, our Lord, our Friend. 1. Allen, Mel. "The Cost of Karen Morse's Education," Yankee (January, 1988), pp. 66-69, 149. 2. Adrian P. Rogers, GOD'S WAY TO HEALTH WEALTH AND WISDOM, (Nashville, ...

4. The Total Gift

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... taught us. It’s easier to simply view Jesus as a cute little baby who makes no demands on our lives. Karen recalls the year her parents retired and moved to Florida. Her parents decided to stop exchanging Christmas gifts and instead give ... she wanted to move back home with him for a few months until she could get back on her feet. Two hours from Kansas City, at four o’clock in the morning, the bus lurched to a stop jolting everyone awake. The bus had broken down. By the time they got to the station they ...

5. A Question We All Ask

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... his favorite breakfast of toasted English muffins. De Vinck's young daughter, Karen, came in and asked him to toast her one. As he was preparing breakfast, he was stopped cold by Karen's horrible scream. He turned to find her writhing in pain on the floor. It ... . Christopher De Vinck, ONLY THE HEART KNOWS HOW TO FIND THEM (New York: Penguin, 1991), 109-111. 3. Lawrence O. Richards, THE 365-DAY DEVOTIONAL COMMENTARY (Colorado Springs: ChariotVictor, 1990), pp. 700-702. 4. THE APPLAUSE OF HEAVEN. Found ...

6. The Forgiveness Factor

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Needless to say, young Branden's parents were extremely proud of their little man. As the reporter interviewed them about the incident, Karen sat on the couch hugging her boy and saying, "He was calm as could be." Then there was this from Branden to ... our country. Remember too that the father did not sign his posters, or his classified ad, with anything except "Your father." By twelve o'clock the next day, as the story goes, Paco is waiting outside the newspaper building; he and his father have a joyful ...

7. Changed Lives: Adam and Eve

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... own ways of dealing with it. Some of us flee from it. Others, less wise, embrace it. Karen Hickey embraced it. Karen, of St. Louis, MO had often wondered how it felt to be handcuffed. She found out the hard ... , and we wonder why our lives are not more fulfilling. Yes, there is something in the human heart that is not quite right. Writer P. J. O’Rourke puts it this way, “There is this horrible idea, beginning with Jean‑Jacques Rousseau and still going strong in college classrooms, that natural man is ...

8. A Parable in a Miracle

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... when all them little red feathers started growing out from under that purple it was one hell of a sight. All of a sudden Karen couldn’t stand that chicken any more”.. .“Well, we took that half-purple and half-red thing out to her Grandma’s house ... body doomed to death?” (Maclaren, page 41) The leper knew his condition, but do we? We need to constantly pray with the Psalmist: “Search me, O God, and know my heart. “Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in ...

9. Under the Rainbow

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... ...but we are under the rainbow. o The abuse has worn us out...but we are under the rainbow. God's message of grace to Noah is the ark in which we can take refuge. No matter what, REMEMBER, you and I are UNDER THE RAINBOW. Amen! 1. "Noah," Holman Bible Dictionary, electronic edition, (Hiawath, IO: Parsons Technology, 1994) 2. Genesis 5:29 3. Genesis 6:6 4. Quoted by Bill Moyers, videotape, Genesis, a Living Conversation, "Apocalypse," (Newbridge Communications, 1996) 5. Karen Armstrong, ibid. 6. Loyal Jones ...

10. Giving Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... them in department stores, on buses and airplanes. And it seems to work. A psychologist at the University of Buffalo, Karen Allen, did a study on people who were giving speeches. Some subjects performed their speech for Dr. Allen alone, others ... , she couldn’t get that simple prayer out of her mind. Finally, she knelt by her bed, and in an act of deep surrender she prayed, “O Lord, make my heart a manger where the Christ child can be born.” In that moment, in the depth of the night, when she cried out ...

11. Time to Pull the Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... and foolishness. Pearl Waite, another man in Brian Waite's family line, invented "crystallized gelatin," or Jell-O. Unfortunately, Pearl Waite sold the patent to his invention for just $25.00. The man who bought the patent turned Jell-O into a product worth many millions of dollars. Pearl Waite died broke. But in 1981, Brian Waite ... 2004, p. 62. 8. Brian Waite, The Day I Met God, compiled and edited by Jim & Karen Covell and Victorya Michaels Rogers (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2001), pp. 115-120.

12. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... never be used in the same sentence. Super Glue is forever. No matter how much Jell-O you put in the pool, you still can't walk on water. Pool filters do not like Jell-O. Always look in the oven before you turn it on. The spin cycle on the washing ... love. So they don't know how to give love. Want an example of that? In her undergraduate thesis at Harvard University, Karen Greve found that the less time parents spent with their children, the more they bought them gifts--discretionary items such as toys, ...

13. Back in the Swing

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... urge people not to make any major changes for a while after a death. Getting back into the swing of the old routine can do wonders. As the late psychotherapist Karen Homey said: Life itself remains a very effective therapy. And Rabbi Abraham Heschel: Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Buechner knows the value and holiness ... a smiling face. LBW 483, Stanzas 1 and 2 By William Cowper (1731-1800) Prayer: O God, make us willing now, so that things of eternal significance may begin to happen here.

14. The Dynamic Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... cloak upon man’s search for maturity. The "egocentric axis" must be broken if the true self is to emerge. Karen Homey saw in preoccupation with self the distinctive trait of the neurotic personality of our time. Even the love-life ... is the congregation, where there is no question as to who is meant when the preacher says, ‘Thou art the man.’ " The apostolic church prayed, "O Lord, enable thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness" (Acts 4:29). The Word has lost none of the power it had when ...

15. Danny Devito In A Tree

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Because now it is Danny Devito's turn--I mean Zacchaeus' turn--to reach out to someone else. That is what salvation is all about. 1. "Oprah Talks to Madonna," O magazine, January 2004, p. 122. 2. "10 Keys to True Happiness" by Bob Holmes, et. al. from New Scientist, reprinted in Reader's Digest, March 2004, p. 99. 3. Bernard Asbell with Karen Wynn, What They Know About You (New York: Random House, 1991). 4. Leonard C. Lee, Signs of The Times, Copyright (c) June 26, 1956, Pacific Press, http://www.signstimes ...

16. A Word of Hope for a Hard World

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat. O, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on. Glory, hallelujah! Glory, hallelujah! Glory, ... a stark reminder of that truth. This is a scary world in many ways. But evil does not have the last word. Dr. Karen Westerfeld Tucker reminds us of that truth. She tells about an especially meaningful Christmas pageant that took place at her church. It began ...

17. Will 2012 Be the End of the World?

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked him if he’d like to be in the movie, too, he thought about it a minute, then nodded and said: “I’ll be Bach.” O.K., I said it was a bad joke. Jesus said he would be back someday. Jesus is our friend. Jesus is our redeemer. His return can ... says it as well as it can be said: On a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia, to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, Roy and Karen Pike slammed into a truck parked along the shoulder of the highway. They were killed instantly. They left three sons aged 10, 17 ...

18. What Super Power Would You Choose?

Luke 10:1-11, 7-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... is a useless superpower. Here are some other responses: “Whenever I pick up a sock, the sock next to it would become the matching one.” O. K. One guy responded: “The power to be able to slam a revolving door.” Another said, “When I catch a cold, the ability to know ... Mark Barger Elliott in his paper on John 10:1-11 for the 2005 Moveable Feast. Cited by Rev. Karen Chakoian, http://www.granpres.org/Sermons/2007-02-04.htm. 7. Carolyn Arends, “Satan’s a Goner: A lesson from a Headless ...

19. How a Baby Changed the World

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

On Christmas Day 1988, a beautiful story by Karen Zautyk appeared in the New York Daily News titled “Remember, It is Love That Makes Us Rich.” The story tells about ... was not reported, but she did hang a poster on her garage that said, “THANK YOU, GOD.” Mark DeHaan shares this woman’s story in the devotional book Bless the Lord, O My Soul. He writes, “Putting up that sign didn’t mean the woman actually thought the car had fallen out of the sky without touching human hands. But notice that her ...

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