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2901. The Fourth Day Comes

Luke 24:13-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... known. We know where Emmaus is, don’t we? Don’t we? We’ve all been there in one way or another, at some time in our lives. Emmaus is whatever we do or wherever we go to salvage and sort out our feelings, to summon the courage and the desire to keep going on or to try and forget. Emmaus is whatever we do and wherever we go to reclaim our sanity when our world goes to pieces. When our ideals and dreams are violated and distorted, when we discover that the world seems to hold nothing sacred. When love ...

2902. The Family: A Place For Persons

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Maxie Dunnam

... there is a husband and wife and three children in the house does not make the house the place which persons desperately need. Some of us have had that illusion. We felt that if we provided the physical setting, the education, the material necessities and desires that would do it. This past year, parents of children in the finest private school s of our city were made painfully aware of the fact that their children, even late elementary and early junior high children, are not immune to alcohol and other drug ...

2903. Justification By Grace Through Faith

Galatians 2:11-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... the fact for yourself, that you are justified by grace through faith. That is you can’t save yourself. God does that and he does it through your faith commitment to Jesus Christ. The process is simple. First you repent. Be genuinely sorry for your sin and desire to turn from your sin and your own efforts to save yourself. Two - admit your need for Christ and accept his forgiveness. Three - invite Jesus to come into your life and make a willful decision that you will allow him to be your savior and Lord. A ...

2904. Christ Signs The Letter Of The Church

Colossians 1:15-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... might expand our store. We will pay you any price you care to name. If you'll name a price we will settle the matter as quickly as possible. Yours sincerely." "They got a letter back by reply which said, "Dear Sirs: We in the Friends' meeting house note the desire of Lewis's to extend. We observe that our building is right in your way. We would point out, however, that we have been on our site somewhat longer than you have been on yours, and we are determined to stay where we are that we will happily buy ...

2905. Called To Finish What Is Finished

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

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Maxie Dunnam

... love of the Cross. -- our addiction to sex. --or our distorted feelings about sex which is crippling our marriage. --our warped need for approval by others which is turning us into chameleons -- being and doing what we think will please others. --our insatiable desire for happiness, for things, for status which makes us driven people that can't recognize happiness when it could be ours. --our fear: our fear of failure which keeps us under stress in our work; our fear for our children which keeps us on ...

2906. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

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Maxie Dunnam

... in Mississippi in the early 1960s shattered our surface fellowship and set friend against friend. I was in the throes of despair, completely exhausted, bereft of power other than my own driving commitment for social justice, which power was also activated by my desire for "professional success." At that point I received an invitation to which I responded, and which changed my life. A dear friend, Tom Carruth, invited me to a Christian Ashram led by E. Stanley Jones. In my desperate search for deeper meaning ...

2907. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... are called. No wonder Paul could sing, "I rejoice in my sufferings" (v. 24). Because of the love he had received from the cross, his purpose was to love, even if that called for suffering. The cross was the driving force of his life.His burning desire was for all persons to experience the love of Jesus Christ which he had experienced. The cross gave him meaning for it gave him the cause for which to live and die. Dr. Parker Palmer, one of the creative leaders in spiritual formation and Christian community ...

2908. Put To Death The Old; Put On The New

Colossians 3:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... glance, discount Paul's specific sins that we are to put off, as echoes of a Puritanism that we have long since outgrown, as Victorian as crinoline. But look again. Phillips translates the list: sexual immorality, dirty-mindedness, uncontrolled passion, evil desire, and the lust for other peoples' goods. Those sins are as modern as MTV and robots riding hackney ponies. Sexual immorality is rampant, destroying persons and shattering homes. In the name of self-expression and self-fulfillment we have created a ...

2909. The Game Is For A Team

Colossians 4:7-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... sanctuary in churches, especially in the western part of our country. So, obviously, Onesimus had accepted Christ as Savior and had joined the Lord's people. When you read this little New Testament letter to Philemon, you will understand Paul's desire to have Onesimus forgiven and received not as a slave, but as an equal brother in Christ. Paul knew that neither Onesimus nor Philemon could grow in Christ without reconciliation. Of course, Onesimus would have to make restitution, but above all, Philemon ...

2910. In A Mirror Dimly

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... failed to put away childish things. He has not become full-grown in his love. Now, what is separating you from others may not be that dramatic. But all of us act childishly from time to time. We allow our self-centeredness and our selfishness, our desire to have things as we want them, to cause us to revert back to childishness and do those things, say those things, and live the way that keeps a wedge driven in relationships that should be relationships of love and sharing and caring and mutually beneficial ...

2911. Walk By Faith Not By Sight

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... personal. But how else can I make the witness and sound the call. Back during the Because We Care Program, we called people not to equal gifts but to equal sacrifice. Jerry and I prayed about our response- what we might do that would witness to our desire to be faithful. We were tithing our income to this congregation -- and we would continue to do that. Our pledge to the Building Program would have to come from somewhere else. We decided that by changing our life-style just a bit, we could find $200 extra ...

2912. Singing In The Rain

John 15:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... is on the surface. A professor at the Stanford School of Business predicted recently that "in the next few years, we will see the biggest wave of mid-career crises this nation has ever seen." What that means is that many of us have gotten what we desire and what we have struggled for, and then have found we do not want it. Many of you in this congregation know the bankruptcy of worldly goals -- you know the emptiness of seeking money alone, or prestige, or possessions. We've talked about it, a number of ...

2913. Saying Yes To Forgiveness

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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Maxie Dunnam

... time when it came time to do something with my life, I was of the opinion that it would be difficult for me to love one person to the exclusion of all others, and marriage therefore seemed out of the question even though I felt that was a stronger personal desire than going into the Convent, but I needed to make up for my sins, and so, I thought God must be calling me into the Convent. Two of my sisters had entered the Convent before me, and I was definitely of a mind that I had to do something to ...

2914. The Day Is Not For Sleeping

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

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Maxie Dunnam

... gradually fallen asleep. The symptoms are all too familiar to any pastor: Spasmodic attendance at worship, apologies for absence becoming less convincing and more embarrassing, increasing worldliness, a critical and censorious spirit toward other Christians, the absence of any apparent desire to become mature in Christ. Perhaps in rare, wakeful moments, these sons of light who have plunged into the darkness of desertion may hear an echo of Cowper's haunting words: "Where is the blessedness I knew when first ...

2915. Don't Mess With Mr. In-between

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... of life. For example, a person shows wisdom when he or she does not touch a hot stove. Most of us have gained that little bit of wisdom through the painful experience of touching a hot stove at some time in our lives and gaining the desire never to do it again. That is the process of gaining earthly wisdom. Of course, the longer we live, the more "hot stove" experiences we encounter; older people are usually wiser people. James is inviting us, however, to employ a quality of wisdom that far exceeds ...

2916. How To Be Rich And Poor

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... so "will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits." This is the same message that Jesus sounded. In his parable of the Sower, he describes the seed that fell among the thorns, "And the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in, choked the word, and it becomes unfruitful" (Mark 4: 19). I read recently of a woman who went down to the coffee shop -- "She went over to the table and sat down, not disturbing the gentleman. She opened up her purse and ...

2917. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

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Maxie Dunnam

... lot of what went on is not told. But enough is told for us to get the impact of what happened. When Jesus' disciples told the man, "The Lord has need of it," the man obviously gave in. Had he heard about Jesus before? Had he met Jesus? Were the desires and longings of the nation so intense -- the longings for a Messiah -- and was this fellow one of those who lived in great expectations for the coming of the Messiah, and maybe felt this was it -- this was the Man. We don't know. We only know that the ...

2918. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

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Maxie Dunnam

... wrote a great hymn that speaks to this issue. We will sing it in a moment. Listen to the first verse: I want a principle within of watchful, godly fear,a sensibility of sin,a pain to feel it nearI want the first approach to feel of pride or wrong desire,to catch the wandering of my will, and quench the kindling fire. (The United Methodist Hymnal) It's not always easy to keep alive a sensibility to sin. It's easy to have our minds dulled to the crowing of the rooster. We see it happening all the time. A ...

2919. He Comes As He Came

Luke 19:28-44

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Maxie Dunnam

... committee in Washington. This is what he said: "By the year 2000, we'll be able to wear small consoles on our chest with perhaps 10 levers on them which we can activate ourselves, or which other persons can operate, providing any pleasure sensation we desire. The levers, through wires to the brain, would trigger various enjoyable responses at a mere touch." (quoted by Donald J. Shelby, "Relate in Love and Courage", Santa Monica, April 12, 1981). We haven't seen that Mr. Kahn is right -- but he still may be ...

2920. On The Road Again (emmaus)

Luke 24:13-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... ease the pain and share the haviness. "We know where Emmaus is, (don't we?). We have been there in one way or another at sometime in our lives...Emmaus is whatever we do or wherever we go to salvage and sort out our feelings, to summon the courage and desire to keep going on, or to try and forget. Emmaus is whatever we do or wherever we go to reclaim our sanity when our world goes to pieces; when our ideals and dreams are violated and distorted; when we discover the world holds nothing sacred; when love and ...

2921. When Jesus Comes

Luke 8:22-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... with your lust, but He's going to help you control your lust. He's not going to do away with that within you which makes you jealous, but He's going to help you control your jealousy. He's not going to do away with your competitive spirit, your desire to get ahead, but He's going to help you keep that in perspective. And on and on we could go. What I'm saying is that He calms the storms of our passions. He enables us to control and direct our passions creatively. With Jesus as a dominant presence ...

2922. As Real As It Gets

Luke 9:57-62

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Maxie Dunnam

... of sinning, stop in here! And if not, call 445-7751!" As funny as that is, it makes a point. It is not easy to make the clean break with the past that we need to make. It is not easy to cease following our own whims and our own desires and follow Jesus. But that is the call. I know I talk a lot about recovering alcoholics, but they have so much to teach us. You would be amazed to know how many recovering alcoholics there are in this congregation. You probably would be even more amazed if you knew ...

2923. Let Your Soul Catch Up

Luke 10:38-42

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Maxie Dunnam

... personal space in order to determine what effects the cramped, confining conditions aboard a spaceship might have on our astronauts. His studies show that strangers don’t like to get any closer than 14 to 17 inches from each other and for most people the desired distance is much greater.” (Donald J. Shelby, “His Journey and Ours: Space and Silence”) I cite this to make the point that not only do we need margins of space around our bodies, we need inner space and silence around our souls. We need a ...

2924. Pay Attention To The Inside

Luke 11:37-54

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Maxie Dunnam

... and of its true purpose.Thirdly, our Lord exposed the false motivation which invalidated much of the Pharisee's religious activity even when it was good in itself. They were not motivated by their love and service of God. They were motivated by their desire to have the chief seats in the synagogues, and to receive the salutations of the market place. The point is this: It is impossible for you to do something for selfish purposes, for self aggrandizement, and simultaneously do it for the glory of God ...

2925. The Gospel Of Another Chance (choir Dedication)

Luke 13:1-9

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Maxie Dunnam

... is a gracious God who offers to each one of us one more chance. That's what our Scripture lesson illustrates. The gardener pleaded with the owner of the garden to give the fig tree one more chance. I believe that gardener's plea for the fig tree is Jesus' desire for us. Jesus confronts the life that is messed up, that has come apart, that has hit a dead end, that is broken, and he says: "Let's give it one more chance. That's what grace is all about. Grace allows us to begin again, no matter what. I ...

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