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2626. First Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... King of Isaiah would be the Messiah, the Christ. Isaiah expresses the grace of the salvation to come in different ways. The people receive this grace with joy. Why? The burden of oppression by the Assyrians will be lifted. Israel no longer will be like an ox bearing the yoke of oppression. How will this come to be? This liberation will be the Lord's doing. At this Christmastime the Lord is still the great liberator who wants to lift the yoke of all that encumbers people and keeps them from knowing the true ...

2627. Sometimes It Is Okay to Be Absentminded

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... minutes later, she inquired as to the aspirin and water. According to the story, the professor took the aspirin and drank the water. Story after story has been told about my friend's absentmindedness. All of us at some time or another find ourselves bearing the burden of absentmindedness. Isaiah, in our lesson for today, gives us a picture of God which at first glance is not flattering. God is asking his people to be absentminded. This memory lapse was to take place in the midst of international uncertainty ...

2628. The Paradox of Death

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... might rightly ask why the world suffers. Why do pain, problems, and suffering exist in such abundance? We all believe that God is all good, all love, full of compassion, and all powerful. This is how we define God; we know this is true. Thus, the question bears repeating: Why does our world suffer? Why do wars exist and people die in innocence? Why do people in positions of public trust commit acts that cause others not only to lose faith in the individual, but in the system as well? Why do people fight one ...

2629. Death Leads to Life

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... power of God." The cross and its guarantee of pain are the greatest of all paradoxes. Jesus expresses this clearly in the Gospels. "Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24). Again Jesus tells us, "For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, will save it" (Luke 9:24). The cross is not an option for those who wish to be disciples. The Lord ...

2630. A Passion for Christ (New)

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ’s power in your life? This is an important question. We will never experience Christ’s power in our lives until Christ is the priority in our lives. Dr. J. Vernon McGee once used this analogy. Suppose a woman’s husband died. She couldn’t bear the thought of being away from him, so she embalmed him and kept him at home, in a prominent place where she could always see him. Even though her husband was dead, the woman carried on her normal schedule around him. Some time later, the woman ...

2631. Building a House (Mother's Day)

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a House." What could be a better theme for Mother's Day? It is the concluding parable of three parables that Jesus told in the last part of Chapter Six. The first was about the blind leading the blind, and the other is about bad trees being unable to bear good fruit. It's the third of those parables at which we look today -- the parable about building a house. Jesus tells us that there is only one way to build a house that will be secure against the storms that will always threaten. You have to dig deep ...

2632. A Healing Presence

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that the world is redeemed, and there is no redemption except by the cross. No poem is written, no picture painted, no music made, no sinner forgiven, no child born, no person loved, no truth known, no stone shaped, no peace attained, except grace, take a risk, bear a burden, absorb an evil, and suffer pain. The answer to Paul’s prayer in our life, that we may be wholly through and through. That we may be kept in soul and body in spotless integrity until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The answer ...

2633. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... simply be talking about self help and not the more that is essential for Christians. We need to find flexibility, but this does not mean a life of constant flirtation with fads. We do need to try on new ideas for size, to get new bearing, and be able to confront problems and situations with fresh perception and openness. But this does not mean an irresponsible movement from one stance to another, so we need to discipline ourselves for spontaneity. Let me tell you what I’m talking about. I remember the ...

2634. Reconciliation: Our Gift And Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the underlying tension, fear, and despairing hopelessness of the people oppressed by the Kremlin to sense the need for reconciliation. Television screams the word, and lets us see the need written in blood, a 1,000 helpless refugees slaughtered by madmen who bear in the political party name, the word Christian. These innocent victims being made refugees in the first place by Israel, a people claiming to reestablish a nation called into being by God himself. The God who said through his prophet, that just ...

2635. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... come into focus. It’s a candid shot, not a posed one. And what do we see - get a candid shot of yourself, maybe a time exposure. As I hold the shutter open for a moment, what do you see. Pride - which won’t allow us to bear our souls and open ourselves to God’s healing love. Sexual lust, which makes us feel unfaithful and unclean. Callousness toward the needs of others which pits us against Christ who said, that our judgment would be determined by whether we fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited ...

2636. Confession And Supplication

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... of a people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts.” So we need to confess not only our personal, but our corporate sins. That of the church, that of our community, that of our nation. As participants in these bodies, we bear some responsibility in their actions or in their failures to act. My heart was gauged to pain the other day, when I was told that doctors in a clinic in Chicago are so overworked that they can’t take time between abortions to fill out the forms for ...

2637. The Christian Life Defined By Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... persons and our salvation. And the way that agape looks in our lives is etched immortally in Paul’s hymn of love. Love is patient and kind, not jealous or boastful or arrogant or rude, does not insist on its own way, is not irritable or resentful, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. That’s what it means to be a Christian. To be persons whose love is abounding more and more. Is it so with us modern Christians? Answer these questions to answer that one. How could ...

2638. Gospel Through The Person

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... honor, and it was Carl Joseph Day - and coaches, professional football players, prominent visitors showed up from all over the country. Mean Joe Green sent him a jersey. Pete Rosselle sent him 4 tickets to the Super Bowl. Harry Gilmer brought an autographed football from the Cardinal. Bear Bryant was sick, but he sent word that he would come later, and he did, and took Carl Joseph with him to New York City. There in New York City was a dinner in a downtown hotel in Carl’s honor. Carl is a quiet boy, and ...

2639. Even Marriages Made In Heaven Require Earthly Care

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... own lips to accommodate the twisted ones of his wife, to show her that their kiss still works.” That’s it. Decision and commitment in one act. The earthly care, even marriages made in heaven require. According to the Apostle Paul, love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. In fact, Paul declares, love outlasts everything else. Love is promises made and promises kept. It is problems faced and settled. It is darkness waited through until the light comes again. Love ...

2640. Constantly Abiding

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the now and hang loose. Remember that word of Paul in our scripture God is at work in you, both to will and to do his good pleasure. Keeping that in mind, we know that the burdens of yesterday’s failures is too great for us to bear. The anxiety over tomorrow’s probabilities is too debilitating for us to harbor today. So, the living Christ releases us from yesterday by his limitless forgiveness, and he frees us from the fears of tomorrow, by his constant companionship. He goes with us, and is the hope ...

2641. The Power Of Purpose

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... – through the deserts and over the mountains, through blinding blizzard and blistering sun, traveling in peril of his own life, shipwrecked, beaten by the Romans, stoned by the Jew. Yet, throwing back his great cloak to show the scars of his beatings there saying, ‘I bear in my body the marks of Jesus Christ.’ It matters. It matters that it’s a man like Paul who says this, ‘I have fought the good fight. I have kept the faith, I have finished the course.’ The truth is obvious. There is power ...

2642. Gethsemane: Prelude To The Cross

Mark 14:32-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... s what “Abba” means: “Daddy.” When you wrestle with God, if you know that you can call God Father, can endure the anguish of feeling separated, and the mystery of not knowing. You can stand the frustration of seeing no meaning in it. You can even bear the devastating pain of everything seeming so unfair. A picture will help us, I think, and with this I close. “The delightful book, A Day No Pigs Would Die, chronicles the growth from boyhood into manhood of a young Shaker lad in Vermont. The family ...

2643. Called To Finish What Is Finished

Colossians 1:24--2:5, Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... up in turn". Paul is saying to us that it's now our turn to do the work of reconciliation, to suffer if need be, to love those who are not yet reached by Christ's love, to share the cross of Christ with everyone, even if it means bearing a cross. Does the phrase "what is lacking" in Christ's affliction shock or surprise you? Can anything be lacking in what Christ has done. It sounds irreverent to even ask the question, doesn't it? The Greek for that phrase, "what is lacking" (ta husteremata) means "that ...

2644. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the community life of people. The Psalm was probably written after the second exodus of Israel from Babylonian captivity. They got around to rebuilding their city and the temple in about 520 B.C. That's the date we get from the book of Haggai. Yet, this Psalm bears the heading "Of Solomon". Solomon flourished in the middle of 900 B.C. What we need to know is that the word "of" in this instance, "of Solomon", can also mean "Allah" in the French sense of "in the style of". So, the probability is that that's ...

2645. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God -- and it means that, as we live a life of grace, we are living in a way that blesses and uplifts and transforms and renews others. "Grace reaches down into the very heart of the human struggle, and brings graceful influence to bear on the battle waged in the human soul..."gracelessness" is then the characteristic of everything that pulls down rather than builds up, degrades rather than refines, brings deterioration rather than spiritual improvement. Love can never do "the graceless thing." For all it ...

2646. In A Mirror Dimly

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... story. "A young man experienced the tragic death of his wife. And among other things, he was left with their small son to raise. Well the night after they got home from the cemetery, they went to bed early because there was nothing else this young man could bear to do. And as he lay there in the darkness, grief-stricken and heartbroken and almost numb with sorrow, his little boy broke the silence from his little bed. "Daddy," he said, "where's Mommy?" Well the father tried to get the little fellow to go to ...

2647. A Sovereign God With A Shepherd's Heart

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Interestingly, the seventh chapter of Isaiah is the chapter that presents the prophecy that Christians see Jesus as the fulfillment of. In Isaiah 7: 14, there is this word: "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel." The Lord shaves with a borrowed razor – He uses what he will, and He acts how he will to achieve his purpose. When Augustus sent out that decree, that all the world should be taxed, and that ...

2648. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... were called seas. And God saw that it was good. Then He called for vegetation upon the Earth, and life in the sea and so it was and God knew that it was good. And on and on it went. Plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed day and night, signs and seasons for the days and nights the sun to rule the day and the moon to rule the night and the stars. Living creatures in the sea and birds flying above the earth, and then to cap off his ...

2649. East Of Eden

Genesis 3:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east of the Garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life." From a garden Paradise to Eve having her pain and child-bearing multiplied -- and Adam toiling and sweating in the soil all the days of his life, eating the plants of the field, with the thorns and the thistles growing along with the fruit -- all of that -- East of Eden -- with an angel with a flaming sword denying them entrance ...

2650. I Am Christ's

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... series of sermons I preached in this church 8 years ago was on the theme "Alive in Christ." Hundreds of books have been written on the theme. Dare I be so presumptuous as to seek to lay a foundation in one sermon? Yes, that's the foolishness of preaching. So bear with me, pray for me, and listen with your heart as well as your ears. What does it mean to be in Christ? It means one, a new status; two, a new style, and three, a new strength. I. First, a new status. To be in Christ is to become ...

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