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2751. If, Because, Regardless

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... without paying for it" kind of struck me. And when we take advantage of the ministries of the church and expect the church to continue to do what they do without our support and involvement, it's the same as "eating bread we didn't pay for." And it' ... leave it and walk off. Atticus' attitude is different. He is able to take these modest payments and support his family while continuing to be an attorney and help the members of the community. Mr. Cunningham probably wouldn't be bringing those meager gifts if ...

2752. John 5:1-9

John 5:1-15

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... the other. The joy of this moment, however, is tinged by a foreboding. John notes in verse 9b, “Now that day was the Sabbath.” Both the authority with which Jesus acted in his healing ministry and his apparent disregard for Sabbath day restrictions will continue to keep him on the “bad list” with certain Jewish authorities. In this instance Jesus has not only healed on the Sabbath. His command to the man to “pick up your mat” was a prescription for another Sabbath violation. In the eyes of the ...

2753. Power for Today

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... hand? There had not been a whisper of wind all day. The second was the realization that, if the young man who had tried to yell had been able to get his words out, it might have backfired. The mother might simply have looked up as she and her daughter continued to walk into the path of the bus. But the wind made the mother turn back to retrieve the card in the one direction that saved her life and that of her daughter. The passing bus did not create the wind, the young men knew. The wind came from the ...

2754. No Instant Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’t want to take the time to follow each necessary step. No fascination is keener than our fascination with short-cuts. We want to be “saints suddenly”. We dream long for instant maturity. And that’s what I want to talk about today as we continue our consideration of Christian growth. Two weeks ago I asked the question, where do we grow from here? Last Sunday we looked at a guide for growth. Today I want to sound a firm disclaimer: There is no instant maturity. I. FASCINATION FOR SHORTCUTS Note first ...

2755. He Breaks the Power of Cancelled Sin

John 8:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have claimed our salvation in Christ. We may have experienced joyful good news of forgiveness. But something holds us back, keeps us down - and we are not the Dynamic Disciples we are called to be and could be. So, I want to talk about that today as we continue our sermon series on Dynamic Discipleship. I want to use an image from Charles Wesley hymn, 0, For A Thousand Tongues To Sing. The image is in the first line of the fourth verse “He breaks the power of cancelled sin.” We will pursue that image in ...

2756. Freedom to Set Free

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of Christ. They accepted this Gospel and their lives were changed. They were delivered from their fears and possessed a joyful liberty which comes with a certainty of God’s love and forgiveness. Paul left a free people in Galatia as he continued his journey - but something happened. Other Christians visited these new converts and confused the issue. They insisted that the converts had not gone far enough. They must now be circumcised, and begin to keep the Sabbath, new moon, and other ceremonies. Confused ...

2757. On the Road with Zacchaeus

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... serve, but not completely. - We accept Christ, but not completely. - We live the Christian life-style but not completely. - We commit our lives to God, but not completely. But then, even when we treat God shabbily, in his infinite patience and amazing grace, he continues to reach out to us,… he continues to love us. Some years ago, a young man showed up at my office one Monday morning. I had never seen him before. He said: “Jim, you don’t know me. I’m not a member of your church, but if you will let ...

2758. Discipline and Means of Grace

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... entire resignation and a daily sacrifice of themselves unto me. For without this, there neither is nor can be a fruitful union with me.” An equally difficult lesson for me to learn was that surrender is never a once-in-a-lifetime activity; it is the continual worship of a growing Christian. This means that I must be willing to part with anything on a regular basis, even those good things that come from God. As part of our discipline of surrender, God will often ask us to let go of something very precious ...

2759. Samaria and Our Spiritual Journey

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... himself, He is in the middle of Samaria. At one time or another, there is a Samaria in each of our lives. You see, Samaria is not a place, it’s an experience. For some it is the fact of illness a malignancy that the doctors say will continue its pernicious onslaught against the body. For another, it is the early death of a spouse, when life is completely shattered and changed because of the separation and loneliness that comes as a result of that death. For others it is a rebellious child or children. Try ...

2760. The Ministry of Unbinding

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... this, “If you can get just a little bit of faith into their hearts, the rest follows easily.” There is not going to be reconciliation and healing in our city – violence is going to continue – the family structure is not going to be restored, the cycle of poverty is not going to be broken, welfare is going to continue or a bane rather than a blessing until folks like us and the people who feel our Christians today say “enough is enough!!” Jesus said, Take away the stone. He uses us as instruments ...

2761. God's Chosen People: Partners

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the story is revealed when the son, from the sheer motive of survival, decides to return home. The father is there, waiting and ready to receive him. When we seriously consider this parable of the Prodigal Son and the message of Scripture, it leaves no room for continued doubt about the attitude of God our Father toward us;: He loves us. So we need to immerse ourselves in Scripture to keep alive the awareness of who we are – friends of Christ. Then, a second help is to hold onto the experience of God’s ...

2762. The Reluctant Prophet

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... even want to debate the kind of bush it was. But that misses the point. As someone has well said: “When God decides to make His appearance to man, any old bush will do.” We are staying with the story of the burning bush again today as we continue our preaching journey through Exodus. In my last sermon I talked about a redeeming God and a redemption that is complete. Today we look at the reluctant prophet. Moses was indecisive to say the least. Somewhere along the way I read of a soldier in the Civil War ...

2763. The Blood Shall Be a Token

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’t like the language, you’ll have to argue with God. It’s the language of the Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments. It is only when we are cleansed from what is repugnant to divine holiness that we can really be with Christ. As long as we continue indulging in known sin, there can be no communion with him, It is only as we “walk in the light as He is in the light” that the blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin, “we have fellowship with one another” (I John 1:7) Cleansed! The last word ...

2764. The Gospel of Marah

Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . They murmured against Moses, saying, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? (17:3) Detours, Dead Ends, and Dry holes. That really captures the wilderness saga of the Israelites: God’s continuous deliverance, but Israel’s lack of faith, their shallow trust. Their basic needs of thirst and hunger brought them often to despair and to long for the flesh-pots of Egypt, rather than depend upon the Lord. That overall picture brings us to our particular ...

2765. Fresh Every Morning - A Test

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted” (verse 21). Jesus was telling us the same thing when he taught us to pray: “Give us this day our daily bread.” So, the gift of the manna was a continual training, and therefore a continual test of faith disciplining us to be habitually dependent upon the Lord. The happiest people I know are not people who don’t have any needs, but people who experience their needs being met by God. Here is one of them. A single parent, left alone ...

2766. Fresh Every Morning - A Token and a Truth

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... had to be gathered fresh every morning teaches us that we need to be habitually dependent upon God. And, two it teaches us that yesterday’s manna cannot be used as food for today. There are some things that we cannot store up for tomorrow. We come today to continue looking at this miracle - and to look at it from the perspective of it being: one, a token; and two a truth. I A TOKEN THE MANNA WAS A TOKEN OF THE LOVING PATIENCE AND THE LONG-SUFFERING GRACE OF GOD. If you want a picture of the Israelites ...

2767. Lessons from the Ordinances

Exodus 21:2-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a friend of mine has said, “If we’re going to walk on the water, we have to get out of the boat.” So we must continue the procession of those who enter into the storms of life. The storms are all around us that call for us to have compassion for the ... the Lord said is true. It’s only the beginning, and the Lord is going to do mighty things among us, as people continue to consecrate themselves and their resources to Him. Fredrick Buechner says, “When you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a ...

2768. The Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 25:10-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... story. Let me just read four verses from the sixth chapter of Genesis to plant the setting of that story in your mind again: “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air ...

2769. When Being Christian Has Worn You Down (Compassion Fatigue)

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us we have to do it - we have to give that cup of cold water in Jesus’ name; and that demands our energy. That drains us of power. And so, we grow weary. We suffer compassion fatigue. How do we deal with it? How do we cope? How do we continue, “when being Christian has worn us down? Let me offer three helps for coping with compassion. First, recognize that there is a limit to what we can offer. There is a limit to what we can offer. Now this is tough for the sincere Christians. God has given so much ...

2770. Opening and Closing Doors

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to that in a moment. As we begin, let’s touch base with the situation. There is a good picture of it in Charles Schultz’s Peanuts. Snoopy is flat on his back on top of his good old doghouse. “Rats,” he cries. Now he sits up and continues, “How can I sleep knowing that any moment a wolf could come by and blow my house down.” Leaning over the roof, he says, “Life has too many worries..., today it’s wolves...” And pulling out his tennis racket, he cries, “Yesterday, it was my backhand!” I ...

2771. Galatians 1:11-24

Galatians 1:11-24

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... is the “son,” the one who is “the gospel.” The only way one as “zealous” for the law could suddenly find himself putting the person of Jesus above all else, above living a Torah-directed life, was because of a direct revelation from God. As Paul continues, he emphasizes again that he “did not confer with any human being” nor did he travel to Jerusalem to sit at the feet of the Twelve to listen and learn from them. Paul’s revelation from God, his conviction that the truth of life was found ...

2772. Proper 4

Lk 7:1-10 · Gal 1:1-10 · 1 Ki 8:22-23, 41-43 · Ps 96

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John R. Brokhoff

... loves all humanity, it is proper that the temple should be open to all nations. Epistle: Galatians 1:1-12 Paul is astonished that the Galatians have turned to a false gospel. This is the first in a series of six Lessons from Galatians given in a semi-continuous order. It offers a preacher an opportunity to preach a book series of sermons. In the first 12 verses of the letter written by Paul in Ephesus, ca A.D. 52, it is immediately obvious that Paul is upset and angry over the Galatian churches' turning to ...

2773. The Shared Life of the People of God, Part 2

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was the beginning of a prayerful life for me.” The new life to live, discovered by this man who identified himself as Frank H. Wheeler, is the way of “the shared life of the people of God.” We began talking about this last Sunday, and we continue today. Last Sunday we focused on verse 2: “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” In that sermon we said three things: One, the Christian walk is a shared journey. Two, because the Christian walk is a shared journey, we must ...

2774. Room When in Distress

Psalm 4:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... thing you must do is face your problem.” In my case, people were actually mocking my faith, claiming that it did no good to trust God in a time of drought. The crops were threatened; the livelihood of the land was in jeopardy. And I insisted that we must continue to pray to God for help. He alone could send the good rain we needed, It was this rain that people were praying for in the short prayer that I quoted in the psalm: ‘There are many who say, O that we might see some good (v. 6). “This good ...

2775. He Leadeth Me

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on the door until someone from within cried, “Who’s there?” The King shouted, “It is Edward. It is your king. Let me in.” The man behind the door shouted back: “Enough of your pranks - be off with you and a man get his sleep!” But Edward continued pounding on the door. The cottager shouted, “I’ll teach you to torment an honest man who is trying to get his sleep.” He rushed downstairs with a stick in his hand ready to throw the intruder off his porch. Then in the dim light of his candle ...

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