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3301. Servants Without Portfolio

Matthew 20:20-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... of us serve and Jesus’ call to be a servant. There’s a vast difference between the way most of us and Jesus’ call to be a servant. The way most of serve keeps us in control. We chose whom and when and where and how we will serve. We stay in charge. Jesus is calling for something else. He’s calling us to be servants. And when we make this choice, we give up the right to be in charge, and that’s the most difficult thing that you and I can do. But the amazing thing is that when ...

3302. Dynamics Of Prayer

Isaiah 43:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... of the Christian community and the Christian witness, especially my understanding and experience of the meaning of Christian prayer. I believe that this is what God has been doing throughout history, naming. As poetic as those first chapters of Genesis may be, they stay a profound insight. God is about the business of naming. In the process of creation, the natural order alone is not enough. Persons for relationship are essential for God. So he creates beings after his own image, and persons are named, Adam ...

3303. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... than this that a man lay down his life for a friend. And you know that he said, he that hath seen me has seen the Father. And you know that he said, when you pray say, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Begin here, and stay here as long as you can in prayer. Adoration. Praising God who is our Father and who loved us so much that he gave his only begotten Son for us. Now I want to ask you a question. Be honest. In your heart. How long has it been. How long ...

3304. Such As I Have

Acts 3:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... to prayer would be more generous in their gifts. But that day, his regular routine was dramatically interrupted. He asked for one and received something else. Peter and John were going about their regular religious routine and the beggar was going about his stay-alive task of begging money. Both routines were radically interrupted and received a new dimension. The beggar asked for money, but received something else. “Silver and gold have I none,” said Peter, “but such as I have give I unto you, in the ...

3305. Christmas Is On Top Of A Steep Hill

Luke 2:21-40

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Maxie Dunnam

... life giver. Christmas is on the top of a steep hill of acknowledging our need. And when we acknowledge that all of our getting and spending, our humdrum and routine, our accumulation of things, our continuous going and coming to relieve the boredom of staying where we are, the way we excuse our selfishness, our efforts at self justification, the continuous energy we spend to prove ourselves, the way we go about trying to rationalize our uninvolvement with the needs of the world, the way we seek salvation in ...

3306. Such A Babe In Such A Place

Luke 2:1-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... marvelous, universal experience which everyone can recognize. A young couple expecting their first baby. The father is anxious and wants the best for his wife. You can feel his nervousness as he knocks anxiously on the door of the inn seeking a room in which they might stay. Can’t you imagine how caringly he must have prepared the place for Mary in that cattle stall, when there was no room for them in the inn? This was young Mary’s first baby. With what joy did she contemplate the infant son that was to ...

3307. Participants In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... policy and that is all that is needed. The second snare also gets its share of victims. This is the snare of despondency, into which we sink when the tide of our religious experience ebbs low. It happens to all of us - dryness of spirit. We can’t stay on the mountaintop. We become lifeless. There is a blues song which says, “I’ve got so low, I ain’t even thought about coming up.” No fruit to the spirit seems to be growing in us. We’re battered by one failure after another and feel forsaken ...

3308. Gospel Through The Person

Philippians 1:12-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... in his desires. He said I want to go on and be with Christ, what joy that would be. Yet, what about the fruit of my labor with you? I’m hard pressed to decide whether I want to go on and be with Christ, or whether I’m to stay with you. How precious and revealing. And interwoven into that struggle is one of the boldest of Paul’s claims – for to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Isn’t that the highest, clearest point to which our faith can take us. When we arrive at ...

3309. Servants Of The Servant Who Was Lord

Mark 10:35-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... have the notion that Christianity centers in service, need to realize that there’s a vast difference between the way most of us serve and Jesus’ call to be a servant. Most of us serve by choosing when and whom and how and where we will serve. We stay in charge. Jesus is calling for something else. He’s calling us to be servants. And when we make this choice, we give up the right to be in charge. Then, amazingly, we experience great freedom. We become available and vulnerable. We lose our fear of being ...

3310. The Fourth Day Comes

Luke 24:13-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... thing to note is the courtesy of the stranger on the road. It’s captured in that 28th and 29th verses. So they drew near to the village, the scripture says, the village to which they were going. Jesus appeared to be going further, but they constrained him saying – stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent. Jesus does not force himself upon us. He waited for an invitation to come in. And here is focused for us, the greatest gift God has given us, it comes to focus here - the ...

3311. Soul Drain

Psalm 63:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... we grasp this, or better, until we’re grasped by it, we won’t make much progress in overcoming soul drain. You see, I’m really talking about finding a life of prayer. The mystery becoming personal, a life for the spirit. This is prayer. Abiding in Christ, staying in touch with the source of life, not being cut off from the root. Sharing in the life of Christ and allowing him to share in ours, growing in him and living our lives in and for and through him. So Paul affirmed the answer to soul drain ...

3312. Getting It All Together Inside

Psalm 51:1-19, 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... us; we seek reconciliation with another as soon as we’ve become aware that the relationship is broken; we don’t allow lust to grow in us; we confess sin as soon as we’re conscious that we have committed it; we live as transparently we can and we stay open to the loving grace of Christ, who wants to be in us, a cleansing, healing spring bubbling up and flowing to eternal life. I close now. I’m told that in the harbor of Genoa, Italy, they lowered a statue of Christ in the classic form of outstretched ...

3313. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

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Maxie Dunnam

... , hand-made casket. Even though no preacher was among them, the family and friends gathered for a funeral and their minds inevitably turned to God in the mystery of death. And one of them turned to Penny, the one character in the book who stands out and stays clean in the midst of that primitive surroundings of hardship. And that one said, Penny, you’ve had Christian raising, we’d be proud that you’d say something. Penny stood at the open grave and lifting his fact to the sunlight, while the rough men ...

3314. Constantly Abiding

Philippians 2:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... Philippians, don’t stop half way. Don’t be satisfied with a partial salvation. Don’t stop when you’re just inside the door of the Christian life. Don’t accept grace simply as a way of getting into the Christian life, accept grace as a way of staying in the Christian life with freedom and joy. And then in the next sentence, Paul uses another Greek verb for work and do, and that verb is always used for the effective action of God. It’s also the root from which we get our own English word energy ...

3315. Recovering The Essence

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... The premise of the Declaration is that each person’s rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness do not come from men – they come from the creator and are there for unalienable. That’s where we must begin. And that’s where we must stay - the sovereignty of God. The nation, no nation, is above God. God is above all nations. All belongs to Him. Not only the earth, but the fullness thereof, and they that dwell therein. What a principle to celebrate, and what an essence to contemplate – the ...

3316. The Power Of Purpose

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... , are there by necessity. Their job was the only job available. They had to work. They began, they continued, and now they’re permanently situated in a place that they selected only out of necessity. Now there’s nothing wrong with that, and perhaps all of us ought to stay exactly where we are - because I have an idea that, for most of us, relocating is not the key to finding the power of purpose. I know people, and so do you, you may be one of them, who would not toil at their present job another single ...

3317. Living Deliberately

John 10:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... if we can get beneath the wrapping of the paper to the gift that is within the box. God speaks to us in all the events and experiences of life, but we miss about 90% of what he says. We miss it because we don’t reflect. We don’t stay silent and reflective long enough for the message to come clear. That leads to the final word. Deliberate living requires involvement. In my introduction to the sermon I said Jesus was his own man. He had the power to take his life up and he had the power to lay ...

3318. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... , your profession is to be an attorney — your vocation in your job is to see that there is equal justice under the law, individually and corporately. As doctors and nurses, your profession is practicing medicine. But healing is your vocation. For mothers and fathers who stay at home and care for families, homemaking may simply be a job, but nurturing the people in your family is a very significant vocation. Do you see the point I’m making. Daily our prayer should be to discern God’s will — not just ...

3319. A Scream And A Laugh

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... these "you also once walked when you lived in them" (3:7). It does not take much probing to locate the chains from which we have been freed by Christ; and it does not take much perception to be aware that we can become slaves again. So we stay conscious of and celebrate the fact that we are no longer slaves, but free." (Ibid., p. 344) III Now, the third way Paul builds his image: we have been transferred from condemnation to forgiveness. Go back to my introductory story of the yearning of Asher Lev, and the ...

3320. Christ Signs The Letter Of The Church

Colossians 1:15-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... 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 Lewis's. If therefore you would like to name a suitable price we will settle the matter as quickly as possible. Signed, Cadbury." Here is the clincher. The Cadburys are the great chocolate-making, candy-making people in England ...

3321. Put My Tears In Thy Bottle

Psalm 56:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... don't know what we are going to do, we don't know where we are going to get the money to pay the bill, the strength to meet the challenge, the courage to face our difficulty -- we toss and we turn. Wouldn't it be something if we would stay aware of the fact that the Lord keeps count of our tossings -- he knows what's going on with us. That's what precedes this image in the Psalm. "Thou has kept count of my tossings." And the line that follows it is this. "Are not my tears in thy ...

3322. Proclaiming The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... the Gospel. I. First, we can proclaim the Gospel anywhere. Have I told you the story of the man who went to the doctor. He said, "Doc, I got my arm broken in three places -- what should I do?" The doctor responded, "If I were you I would stay out of those places." Paul was in prison but he did not allow this to hinder his missionary work. In fact, his imprisonment had "turned out for the furtherance of the Gospel". That's what he said in verse 12 -- That his imprisonment had turned out for the furtherance ...

3323. Cheers (communion)

John 16:17-33

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Maxie Dunnam

... just moved into a new home in a new city. The father and his young son were visiting a new church for the first time. As it happened, the particular Sunday of their visit was a communion Sunday. At first, the father was hesitant to stay. But finally, he decided they would be seated for worship. This particular church served communion in what I call the "Presbyterian style": the elements were passed through the pews by the Elders of the congregation. Quietly, the father gave some hurried instructions to the ...

3324. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... was happening to him as he let go. He wrote later: "As I stood there, I suddenly felt the love of God wrap me about as though a vision presence enfolded me, and a joy filled me with such as I had never known before." (quoted by Robert C. Brubaker, "Stay in Control or Go With the Flow", December 7, 1986). We've known the same experience -- many of us -- perhaps most of us. I sat with a young woman not long ago to whom life had dealt a tragic blow. An uncaring husband had walked all over her – had trampled ...

3325. The Dayspring From On High

Luke 1:5-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... as to say, "Familiarity breeds contempt." But that's too strong. Familiarity does blind us. We think we have seen it, so our eyes are only half open. Familiarity also makes us dull in our attention. Will you guard against that during this Advent-Christmas season? Let's stay awake – take all the heart and mind pictures we can and not lose our capacity to marvel at this unique breaking in of God into human life. This season I'm going to be preaching from Luke's gospel. This gospel is arranged in two great ...

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