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3326. God Does The Unexpected

Luke 1:26-38

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Maxie Dunnam

... after conception, Elizabeth hid herself for five months, and that the angel visited Mary in the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy; that the angel informed Mary that Elizabeth was already six months pregnant, and that after the visitation, Mary visited Elizabeth, stayed with her about three months, and then returned home before Elizabeth's child was born. Then as he begins his second chapter, he dates the birth of Jesus by reference to contemporary secular history. So Luke has not simply related these ...

3327. Noah: The Bearer Of An Alternative Possibility

Genesis 6:1-8:22

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Maxie Dunnam

... , who was "the only good man of his time -- and lived in fellowship with God". (This was Noah, "the bearer of an alternative possibility.") (Jim Harnish, Journeys With the People of Genesis, pp. 25-27) We're going to talk about him in a moment -- but let's stay with God. II. Look again at that shocking suggestion in verse 6 of Chapter 6. "And it repented the Lord that he had made man." Surely this is the most shocking statement in the story of the flood. "It repented the Lord that he had made man." How ...

3328. I Am Christ's

2 Corinthians 5:17

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Maxie Dunnam

... a new status, a new style. Persons in Christ are people in whom a new principle of life has been implanted. Now get that. Persons who are in Christ are people in whom a new principle of life has been implanted. JOKE: Ozark woman -- Fear of flying -- "I'll stay home and watch TV as the Lord intended." We need to know more about what the Lord intended than that woman. He intended for us a new style. Now I want to talk about this in two ways. First, from the perspective of what we might call imitation, then ...

3329. Singing In The Rain

John 15:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... , told about a time some years ago when he was at the breaking point. He was...physically exhausted, emotionally drained, under severe nervous strain, confused, perplexed, stressed out, not knowing which way to turn concerning some highly important decisions he had to make. He was staying at a friend's house prior to speaking at a big meeting. His friend said to him, "Hugh, you look tired...Would you like to escape all this chatter, and rest in a room upstairs?" Mr. Redwood said that he would like that very ...

3330. It's All God's Doing

Ezekiel 17:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... at the word of Paul to the Corinthians: I Corinthians 4, verse 7 . Do you remember the word? "What have you that you did not receive? If then you did not receive it, why do you boast as though it were not a gift?" When we practice gratitude, we stay aware that all of life is really gift, and we keep our values clear. You see, being grateful keeps our values clear. IV. Now, a final word: Not only does being grateful keep our values clear, it is one of the clearest expressions of our dependency on God. This ...

3331. Courage Me!

Ephesians 6:10-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... God. The "evil day" comes in all sorts of ways and many succumb to the tempter. We have seen it happen with national religious leaders. Nothing makes Satan happier than the fall of one of God's well-known public witnesses. So life is a warfare, and we better stay aware of it. Evil forces do seek to invade our inner and interpersonal worlds, to make us sin, even to destroy us. The times of special assault from the evil one are going to come -- and we need to gird ourselves for that battle. But I want to talk ...

3332. If Only -- In Spite Of

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... think have it better than we always results in suspicion and mistrust -- it even becomes paranoia. One of Aesop's fables makes the point. You may remember the one. Four bulls were great friends. They went everywhere together. They ate together, rested together, stayed together constantly -- so that if any danger were near, they could all face it together. Now there was a lion which had been stalking them for some time, but he could never get at them singly, because they were always together. The lion knew ...

3333. How To Be Rich And Poor

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... . She grabbed him by the neck and back in the freezer went the parrot...this time for 15 minutes. Finally she let him out. Now he was really shivering through his beek as he cried, "Just one question for you, woman. What did that turkey in there say?" Stay with me now, for this is a tough word. On the surface, it may seem contradictory -- the rich are to glory, or to boast, in their humiliation. That's a contradiction, isn't it? To boast in humiliation. That's impossible. Yes, on the human level. It goes ...

3334. Pack Up Your Troubles

James 4:13-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... swipe them!" (Tom Wilson, United Press Syndicate, March 10, 1989, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN). Well, that's not the answer. That's not the way to pack up our troubles. But James helps us with an answer. Now you may not think so if you stay too long with the first verses of this fifth chapter. In colorful language, James lashes out at the First Century Jewish Christians who were hording their money and were failing to care for the less fortunate -- the have-nots. The litany is scathing: Misery is ...

3335. Who Are Christians?

James 5:13-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... , maybe we don't need a poster in the airport or anyplace else. You be the poster, and I'll be the poster. A small boy, after being tucked into bed for the night, cried out. "Mommy, I'm afraid to be alone in the dark. I want somebody to stay with me." His mother responded, "Don't be afraid. God is with you." The little boy then said sadly, "I want somebody with skin on his face." Jesus was God with skin on his face. And now, you and I are Christ -- "little Christ's" if you like, with skin ...

3336. Repentance: The No That Is A Yes

Luke 3:1-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... have shattered Mary emotionally and mentally: "And a sword will pierce through your own soul also." It struck again when Jesus was 12 years old. Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the Passover in Jerusalem. When they left to go back home, unknown to them, Jesus stayed behind. At the end of the day, when they missed him, they looked for him among the kinfolks and acquaintances. Then they went back to Jerusalem, searching for this lost son. After three days, they found him in the temple. Lost to his parents, Jesus ...

3337. The Word And Words

Luke 4:14-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... of Galilee, teaching the people in the synagogue. Now he comes to his hometown of Nazareth. The word that I want us to focus on is a simple one, a matter-of-fact action on Jesus' part: "He opened the book." If the community of faith is to stay attentive to God, that must be the everyday practice to which we give ourselves -- and it must be the center around which our life together revolves. He opened the book. John Wesley called himself "a man of one Book." I wish I could legitimately call myself that. I ...

3338. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

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Maxie Dunnam

... guess, or perhaps a member who had invited the person. The ushers found the card and gave it to me. The message was as follows: Entirely too large a crowd!Too many oldsters -- some of them are crippled.Too many children.Wrong for this church.Wish I'd stayed home. Don said he wished he could have met the visitor and thanked him or her for the note. For then he would have pointed out additional marks of the congregation (which I would point out about our congregation). "Some of us are crippled, yes, and some ...

3339. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

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Maxie Dunnam

... dishes, repair the plumbing and empty the garbage. The church would soon close its doors if we depended only on the elite and the influential. Actually, the Church moves forward and is faithful to God's summons through many inconspicuous people who stay faithful to Jesus, through the quiet people who hold their light -- no matter how small -- against the darkness; who live with Easter in their eyes, their hearts, and their hands." (Donald Shelby, "Beginnnings: What If It Had Been Our Donkey", Palm Sunday ...

3340. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

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Maxie Dunnam

... pain regardless of how severe our misdeeds may be. We must never allow our minds and hearts to be dulled to the crowing of the rooster. An article from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, (Feb. 20, 1986), tells the story of one in whom the rooster's crow stayed alive. Her name was Jan Kemp and she was a professor at the University of Georgia. Her conscience collided with the practices of the powerful athletic department of that university. And, that collision was like a Volkswagon bug colliding with a Mack Truck. Jan Kemp ...

3341. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... of what we might yet be by the power of Christ. Did you catch Peter's confession? When he saw the miraculous thing that was happening, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!" But Jesus didn't let him stay on his knees. He said to him and to James and John -- "don't be afraid; from now on, you will be catching people." And the story closes with a dramatic word. "When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him." The beginning of ...

3342. The Whole Load

Luke 6:27-36

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Maxie Dunnam

... boys from Missouri who were visiting New York City. They happened to see in the newspaper that Van Cliburne was playing a piano recital at Carnegie Hall. They knew who he was, and they decided they would go to hear him. They left the hotel where they were staying, and made their way down the street looking for Carnegie Hall. They saw an old rag- picker pushing his cart along the street, and one of them said, "Say, old fellow, could you tell us how to get to Carnegie Hall?" Without even looking up, the rag ...

3343. How Is It With Your Soul?

Luke 6:37-42

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Maxie Dunnam

... as much air as possible, blow themselves up with oxygen and then they take off and soar. Annie Dillard came upon one of these sphinx moths on the deck rail of a ship, frightened him before he was ready to fly, up and down, up and down, then unable to stay airborne plunged to the sea. It's a parable of our life. Because we fail to breath the Spirit's power and cultivate the presence of the indwelling Christ, we are up and down, up and down…in and out of hypocrisy, and living far below our capacity. How is ...

3344. When Jesus Comes

Luke 8:22-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... it in a magazine article, and the article was written by an expert. A young man who dives for exotic fish for aquariums said that one of the most popular aquarium fish is the shark. He explained that if you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium. If you keep them in a small aquarium, sharks can be six inches long yet fully mature. But if you turn them loose in the ocean, they grow to their normal length of eight feet. Now as unbelievable as that sounds, that ...

3345. More Tolerable For Sodom And Gomorrah

Luke 10:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... impossible to read this story as other than a wonderful parable for our times. Just think how often we humans are busy about the work of tending headless queens." Our government does it and we allow it by our votes or failure to vote, by our staying quiet in the presence of evil, by our accepting without protest blatant immorality in our elected officials and persons in responsible public jobs. It is time we did something like the "Shake the Dust Shuffle." Certainly it is time that we gave ourselves to the ...

3346. Let Your Soul Catch Up

Luke 10:38-42

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Maxie Dunnam

... us. But this story in Luke’s Gospel is a bit different. It seems that these two sisters, Mary and Martha, have a household. At one point in Jesus’ public ministry, he and, quite likely, some of his disciples came to Mary and Martha’s household and stayed with them. Martha was busy with all the things that hostesses have to do. She was cleaning, cooking, baking, and attending to the needs of her guests. Mary, on the other hand, lifted not one finger to help. She sat at Jesus’ feet and listened to the ...

3347. When You Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... prayed for them. Now, remember these folks did not know each other. And this man did not do this with anyone else. Only with them. And he prayed for their ministry, though not naming it specifically. And he prayed for their family. After the service, Jo and John stayed to meet this fellow, to thank him, and to tell him how special it was. It was for them a kind of consecration for their mission to China. When the Captain heard this, he was moved and surprised. Smiling broadly, he said, “I have a gift for ...

3348. The Gospel Of Another Chance (choir Dedication)

Luke 13:1-9

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Maxie Dunnam

... hours, and realized what desperate straits he was in. He had deep, deep problems. We convinced him that he should seek professional help, and sure enough, the next morning, he admitted himself to the hospital. We visited him in the hospital, talked to him on the phone, stayed in touch with him, but then lost contact. We didn't know what happened to him, where he had gone, because we couldn't find him. However, a few months ago, we received a letter from him. Let me share that letter with you: Dear Mr. and ...

3349. When Being Good Is Bad For You Or Breaking The Chains Of Co-dependency

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... . All their meaning comes from the outside. Without somebody to help they feel like "nothing." "Co-dependents are relationship addicts who frequently use a relationship in the same way drunks use alcohol: to get a "fix." "Co-dependents will do almost anything to stay in a relationship, regardless of how awful that relationship is, because they have little concept of a self apart from what others see in them and "need" from them. "Co-dependents are the "good Christian martyrs." They suffer and they let you ...

3350. Getting Our Lives Out Of Hock

Psalm 105:1-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... for you every night for 20 years." That's a picture of it the neurotic fears that plague us many of which become a crippling anxiety. Now I don't know your fears, but you do. Fear of failure. Fear that you're not going to be able to stay sober. Fear about the security of your present employment. Fear about your children's future. Fear of old age. Fear of death. Fear of inadequacy. And for addicts, this fear is coupled with humiliation and shame. We could go on. Does fear have your life in hock? II. What ...

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