[While King Duncan is enjoying a well deserved retirement we are going back to his earliest sermons and renewing them. The newly modernized sermon is shown first and below, for reference sake, is the old sermon. We will continue this updating throughout the year bringing fresh takes on King's best sermons.]

Original Title: Casting Out An Evil Spirit
New Title: Good Religion

The idea of casting out an evil spirit sounds too much like superstition to many of us. We prefer to relegate such things to the mindset of a pre-scientific world.

Perhaps it is because we have been exposed to so much human evil in our century. William Barclay tells of a traveler in Soviet Georgia in the days before the Second World War. She was taken to see a very humble old woman in a little cottage. The old peasant woman…