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1276. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have to patient while we grow. We're going to have to be patient while we learn. Jesus referred to stages of growth. In Mark 4, verse 28, He said, "The earth produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head". ... this way "I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to perfection." (Philippians 1:6). God has promised. God is faithful. And God will complete His work in you and in others. But you'll have to be patient: patient ...

1277. Getting Our Lives Out Of Hock

Psalm 105:1-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the step it is related to is designated in the margin. For instance, our Scripture lesson for today is shaded, and designated "Step 6". That step is " We're entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character." Now let me remind you what ... 4: "Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god." Interestingly, in the Serenity Bible, this verse is shaded and marked Step One: We admitted we were powerless.... You see there are forces that control our life and these forces are presently ...

1278. The Discipleship Question: Do You Wish To Go Away?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... difficult; who can accept it?" So we need to go back a bit in our Scripture lesson, go back in this chapter 6 of John's Gospel, to get the context in which Jesus is asking this discipleship question. Jesus had been teaching His followers ... to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life." Others have defected, but Peter is determined. So that is one essential mark of discipleship -- determination. A friend of mine, Norman Neaves, is the pastor of The Church of the Servant in Oklahoma City. He tells ...

1279. A Rod For The Back Of Fools

Proverbs 25:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... be confronted with our foolishness. I. One, It's foolish if you don't speak your heart and mind. Let's read verses 4,5, and 6 again. Do not answer fools according to their folly, or you will be a fool yourself.Answer fools according to their folly, or they will be ... herself honestly and said, "No, I'm not a leader. I'm a follower. I don't feel comfortable in leading." She marked no to that question, "are you a leader," and dejectedly returned the application to the college. Several weeks later she was ...

1280. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I can't explain. I developed a personal relationship with God. I now think belief in God is healing!" (Story told by Mark Trotter, repeated by Bryan K. Bauknight, "Run the Great Race", November 4, 1990) Not only is belief in God healing, relationship ... , "Just think! Peyton gained nearly nine miles in his career!" And the other responded, "Yes, and remember: someone knocked him down every 4.6 yards along the way." Sometimes, that's the way it happens in life. We are knocked down on a very regular basis. But ...

1281. Evaluating Our Names

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... frequent in the scriptures. Already in earlier prophetic writings, Israel was spoken of as the bride of God (Jeremiah 2:2; Ezekiel 16:8; Hosea chs. 2-3). And our Lord took up that language in his teachings to refer to himself as the bridegroom (Mark 2:19-20 and parallels; Matthew 25:1, 5, 6, 10; cf. John 3:29; Ephesians 5:32). Thus, the Apostle Paul's hope for the church is that it will be presented as a pure bride to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:2), and the future vision of Revelation is that in the Kingdom of ...

1282. Return to the Father

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... to realize that God has poured out his grace on us through all our years, and yet we have done nothing with it (2 Corinthians 6:1). It is that "end" that the prophet Joel is preaching about in our Old Testament lesson, the end of our lives, and in fact, ... of "darkness and gloom" (v. 2). Some Ash Wednesday liturgies of the church remind us of those facts by the ritual of marking our foreheads with ashes, while the minister says the words, "Remember that you are mortal." "Remember that you are mortal," that is ...

1283. Living by a Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... in the promise. "Abraham believed the Lord," reads our text, "and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness" (v. 6). This is the first account of righteousness by faith that we find in the scriptures. The Christian Church has always ... age" (Matthew 28:20). "Whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it" (Mark 8:35). "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom" (Luke 12:32). "I will not leave you ...

1284. Get Rid of the Junk

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... porn. On the surface people who are glistening with possibilities, but underneath, is junk. In a sense, this is the human condition. Mark Twain once said, “No man, deep down in the privacy of his own heart, has any considerable respect for himself!” Martin Luther ... your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.” The caller was reciting the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4), so prized by our Jewish friends. The radio host did not know how to handle it. He was looking for junk and ...

1285. All This and Heaven Too

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... commentary Luke makes at that point of the story, verse 23, “When he heard this, he became sad; for he was very rich.” Mark puts it more dramatically, chapter 10, verse 22: “When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving for he had many ... a powerful Gospel hymn that later Ethel Waters immortalized. (James W. Moore, “Celebrating the Present…or Believing the Future End”, January 6, 1991) All this—pardon for our past, power for the present—all this and Heaven too. III. And that’s our ...

1286. A Chosen People

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... the team’s play. He accepted it proudly. Then, as the applause subsided, the coach walked to a trash can which was marked with the year of their outstanding season, took an admiring glance at his placard, then dumped it into the trash can. In ... of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles . . .” (42:6) Israel wasn’t chosen because God loved Israel more than the other peoples of the world. Israel was chosen for a purpose--to declare God’s ...

1287. Wisdom and the Trinity

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... . It is idolatry, because you and I worship the one God who has commanded us, "You shall have no other gods besides me" (Exodus 20:3; cf. Mark 10:17-20). He has revealed himself to us in his incarnation in Jesus Christ, and he continues to be our God and to be with us ... and redemption" (1 Corinthians 1:30). Christ is the wisdom of God, and in him is found the truth of God (John 14:6). Moreover, the eternal plan of God is to unite all things in Christ (Ephesians 1:10). So through Christ, God has made all ...

1288. The Perfect Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s Prayer. Most of us know it by heart. Our lesson from Luke for the day contains one version of the prayer. Matthew 6 contains another, almost identical. The version we are accustomed to praying in church has been honed and polished over the years, but it is ... ’s why we should not spend an inordinate time with this part of our prayer. This is again where many people miss the mark in their prayer life. The prayer is all about them, their wants, their needs. But a satisfying prayer life begins with God and ...

1289. Ten Friends Drive Us to the Promise

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... right ... fathers, mothers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord" (Ephesians 6:1, 3). This Fourth Commandment and all the other commands do not make new people out of us. Their purpose is to protect ... people could only keep them or break them -- they cannot bend them. A pompous gentleman once announced to a group which included Mark Twain: "Before I die I will go to the Holy Land, climb Mount Sinai, and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the ...

1290. Things to Come!

Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... Old Testament and 17 times in the New Testament. And in every place it symbolizes evil! For instance, in Luke 12:1, Jesus said, "Beware the leaven of the Pharisees" which is legalism. In Matthew 16:6 and 12 he bids us watch out for the leaven of the Sadducees, which is liberalism and rationalism. Then in Mark 8:14-15 we are warned of the leaven of the Herodians, that is materialism. So the church, meant to be unleavened bread, actually has the person in charge of the household introduce leaven directly into ...

1291. Church Discipline: A Cure for What Ails the Body

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... a student cuts class, is late with papers, and turns in inferior work, a college professor disciplines him with failing marks. When an employee is lazy and is caught pilfering company goods, his boss disciplines him by firing him. At the businessman ... ruinous adultery and lust, it is a dalliance, a mere trifling affair. Yes, it is to us in our slackness. But read Psalm 5:4-6. "For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not sojourn with thee. The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou ...

1292. Influence!

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... Jesus is talking to temple leaders, church staff as it were. You might say Christ is an equal opportunity troubler of professions. In Mark 5:26, he spoke of a sick woman who had suffered much ill health and spent a considerable fortune on hospitals, doctors, and ... We make our phylacteries broad and their fringes long (v. 5). We sit in the place of honor at church affairs (v. 6). But is there any reality behind all this showmanship, this pageantry? "And your name?" I'd asked of a distinguished gentleman, lithe ...

1293. Yellow Lights

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... big, while starving inside for the only food that satisfies. Only the Living Bread, only the Living Water can quench our hunger and thirst (John 6:35). Let me offer you this morning a little tip on how you can resist the seductions and deceit of the lawless one in your ... to love, a love which for Paul is the fulfilling of the law (Romans 13:10)? "You shall love the Lord your God" (Mark 12:30), Jesus said, and you should "love one another." There's no other commandment than these. Let us love God and love one ...

1294. Dolphin Drops

Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the dolphin drops that fall into our life and remind us of our true identity as disciples who live lives of mishpat and tzedekah, lives of justice and righteousness? In today's Isaiah text one of the marks of a faithful, righteous foreigner is that they keep the Sabbath, and do not profane it (verse 6). The Sabbath is one of those beautiful shimmering dolphin drops that plops right down in our lap each and every week. Keeping the Sabbath does not have to mean abiding by all the behavior strictures that have ...

1295. Get a Peace of the Rock

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... monsters from the memory, and to revisit the ideological intemperance of the 20th century-and its untold devastations like the 6 million killed in the holocaust, a million of them children. In the First World War, civilians accounted for 5 percent ... that everybody would behave nicely in the future." (Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You...170). How can we escape this mark of Cain, this geyser of blood and violence, destruction and depravity that erupts like Old Faithful throughout human history? Jesus sent ...

1296. Straw Polls and Soul Quakes

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of God's work. The Holy Spirit descended upon every one of the 120 who were there. It descended upon the young, as John Mark was probably a teenager. The Spirit descended upon the elderly, as Mary the mother of Jesus was in her late forties or early fifties, ... . There's only one Lord. There's only one God, and "it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone" (verse 6). This endless diversity of spiritual gifts is available to each and every believer only as they are to be used "for the common good ...

1297. Greeting and Meeting Jesus

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... act, anointing Jesus' feet with the aromatic oil, brought sweetness both to the household it perfumed and to the moment it marked. The sense of smell is the most memory-evoking of all human sense. As the pungency of the perfume permeated the ... character to obtain it. 5. God won't ask what your job title was, but God will ask if you performed your job to the best of your ability. 6. God won't ask how many friends you had, but God will ask how many people to whom you were a friend. 7. God won't ask in ...

1298. Wherever You Are, You Are Always at Home

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... or some other decade-deleting date. Its as if occasionally my mind simply cannot fathom the incredibly swift passage of time that marks the span of our lifetimes. But there's something even more difficult than having to wrap our minds around yet another New ... together his friends and neighbors, saying to them 'Rejoice, with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.'" (Luke 15:3-6) Jesus' human parents taught him how hard love will search for the lost. As an adult, Jesus took the knowledge of this intimate ...

1299. In Life Nothing Works but the Impossible

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... angel of the Lord” (a well-known Old testament figure--see Genesis 16-17; Exodus 3:2; Numbers 22:22; Judges 6:11-24) reveals to Joseph the miraculous means by which Mary has conceived: “from the Holy Spirit” and not from ... him in a dream. There was no could of smoke or pillar of fire, no parted waters, no burning bush, no observable sign or signal marking this impossible message anywhere. It would have been easy for Joseph to turn and run away from this impossible message of salvation—-to drown the ...

1300. The Counter Intelligence of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... power of Paul’s initial preaching to them, the “testimony of Christ,” is now “strengthened among you” (v.6). The “giftedness” and the “strengthened” presence of the gospel message within the Corinthian church will have even more grace ... . “There is an African story of a tortoise about to meet a leopard in battle. Beforehand he went to the battleground and made marks all over the place, suggestive of a hard struggle. When he was asked what he was doing, he replied: ‘Because even after I am ...

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