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3351. Servants Without Portfolio

Matthew 20:20-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... twelve weeks ago. I invite you to affirm for yourself, as I keep affirming for myself. Maxie, the secret is simply this; Christ in you, yes Christ in you, bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come. Will you put your name in that place and claim that promise for yourself. The secret is simply this, Christ in you, yes Christ in you, bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come. Amen and hallelujah. Let us pray.

3352. Dynamics Of Prayer

Isaiah 43:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... call them to prayer, exhort them to pray, and never teach them how to pray. People want to pray, people do pray. But the heart cry of most of us is that of the disciples, ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’ Let me say right off, that I make no claims about proficiency in prayer. I am a pilgrim, and my sharing about prayer will be in the sense of D.T. Niles’ definition of evangelism. He said, evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread. So I share in that fashion. We are beggars together ...

3353. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... John Wesley witnessed to, that Christ has taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death. Two, a joyful assurance of salvation, because Christ’s spirit witnesses to our spirit that we’re sons and daughters of God. A bold claim of the power of the Holy Spirit which means that we’re never alone, and that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for all our needs. And what may be blocking us from this confidence, this assurance, this certainty and joy - our sin. That ...

3354. Such A Babe In Such A Place

Luke 2:1-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... a wonderful family, a great cleavage between him and loving parents, a college dropout after one semester, wandering over the face of the earth, odd jobs to support his habit. Then a dramatic conversion—Christ got through to him directly. Christ confronted and claimed him, the young man responded. His witness is simple. And he didn’t hesitate sharing it. “Christ saved me,” he said. “I’m a new person. No more drugs. I’m rebuilding my life, especially my relationship with my parents.” Ask a ...

3355. Servants Of The Servant Who Was Lord

Mark 10:35-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... unto, but to minister, and to give his life, a ransom for many. I wonder, I wonder if Paul had heard that story about Jesus responding to Peter and James in that fashion. I wonder because in verses 3 and 4 of Philippians II, he laid the claim upon the Christians at Philippi, not to be served, but to serve. You remember how he put it – there must be no room for rivalry and personal vanity among you, but you must humbly reckon others better than yourselves. Look to each other’s interests and not ...

3356. What Really Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... Paul was talking about blood decent. 3 – He was of the tribe of Benjamin – and that was the ultimate for a Jew. To be of the tribe of priests, the tribe of Benjamin. Then Paul crowned all his enumerations of privileges of what to boast of by claiming to be a Hebrew of the Hebrew. But there is even more – he was ardent in his religious practice. He was a trained Pharisee, blameless in keeping the law, zealous in persecuting the Christians. What he was by birth and what he had become by conviction and ...

3357. Pentecost: The Neglected Factor

Acts 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... what end is it available? First, there is the power to enter in – the power to enter into the Christian life. What is it that makes a person Christian? What is it that causes you to say, I’m a Christian.? On what grounds do you make that claim? If we could poll the congregation and get a response to these questions, I predict that by far the majority of you would talk about what you believe. That’s what you’d talk about. Basically, you would talk about believing in Jesus Christ as the foundation for ...

3358. The Power Of Purpose

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... will us power? Or, how do we discover right purpose? Most of our western world especially is running after power and purpose, seeking possessions, status, the limelight, pleasure, security, work, self-aggrandizement, the promises and panaceas, the answers and avenues, which would claim our lives are everywhere. We are bombarded by them almost every minute of every day. But what prices we pay for these inflated offers of purpose and power? Roy Crock founded the McDonald fast food chain, a Cinderella story of ...

3359. The Eternal Question

Matthew 27:11-26

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Maxie Dunnam

... can’t escape him. The mob shouted, crucify him, to that question put by Pilate. And that’s our answer, if we just admire, or ignore, or reject. But it need not be our answer. There’s another alternative – a glorious one. What will you do with Jesus? I will claim him as Savior and crown him as Lord of my life. Will you? What will you do with Jesus?

3360. Living Deliberately

John 10:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... was living deliberately. He was his own man. He would not allow himself to be the pawn of pressures, the victim of vengeance, the capricious cut out of circumstance. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it up again. His claim was confirmed in the terrible story of the crucifixion. We read the horrors, the demeaning circumstances, the mockery, and ridicule, yet we come out knowing that this victim who was spat upon, who was whipped and bruised and jostled about, and finally nailed to a crude ...

3361. This Is Eternal Life (Easter Message)

John 17:1-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... world that love is stronger than hate. Good prevails over evil, and life is triumphant over death. So, how do we appropriate the Easter word? "This is Life Eternal," He said, "to know the Father and to know me whom the Father has sent." Let's use Jesus' claim about himself as our way of allowing the Easter word to become flesh in us. Earlier in his conversation with the disciples there in the upper room, he was trying to tell them about his death and resurrection, about his going away to prepare a place for ...

3362. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... is the final source of all those energies which make life real.” From that hour, Tolstoy walked again in the light. Life never went stale again. He had become reinvigorated, revitalized.” That’s what Paul is saying can happen to us - - if we really claim our inheritance as saints in the light. Paul makes two big petitions: One, discernment in perceiving God’s will, and two, power in performing God’s will. Let’s look at those for a moment. First, discerning God’s will. That is our task ñ and ...

3363. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

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Maxie Dunnam

... it in its essence here in our scripture lesson. Paul was writing to Christians who were being diverted from the main show. The gnostic heresy was rampant in Colossae. The Gnostics gained their name from the Greek word gnosis, meaning knowledge. Claiming a superior and esoteric wisdom, they asserted that God was separated from the world, distantly so, and had not directly created the world. Rather, creation took place as a result of emmanations -- each more distant from God, until those farthest from him ...

3364. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... is not only that we have the chance to serve God; if we don't choose to serve Him, we are likely, by simple inertia, to end up on the side of evil. "We are called therefore to be some small part of this kingdom of God on earth. We claim our moments of victory for Christ, here in the midst of a world which so much of the time seems so far from Him. Hell beats demandingly on every front, and the people of God love, laugh and weep back. We save a soul here, and teach a young person ...

3365. The Game Is For A Team

Colossians 4:7-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... needs. Now we may not always be able to do so -- but we can try. We can reach out and touch. We can extend that word of compassionate concern -- that cup of cold water to a brother or a sister who is seeking to follow the same Lord that we claim as our guide. Let me plant a question in your mind that I hope will be your guide to relationships both within and outside the church. Will you continually ask yourself this question as you respond to other people -- "If I were to relate to this person as I want ...

3366. Put My Tears In Thy Bottle

Psalm 56:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... conviction of the Psalmist – the conviction that God knows and cares -- it's that conviction that enables him to pray this remarkable prayer, "Put my tears in thy bottle." I want to lift some phrases from the prayer, mostly affirmations, as certainties you and I may claim for strength and guidance. I. First, the second part of verse 9: "This I know, that God is for me." What a person knows is very important. There's a classic story that I've heard a number of preachers tell that illustrates this. One day ...

3367. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... gives you sleep, it helps prepare the world to get along without you when you are gone." (Campbell, Ibid.) As is always the case -- I'm preaching to myself -- particularly so with this assertion. If anyone is an activist, I am. I have to discipline myself to be reflective, to claim and use solitude. I work from 70 to 80 hours a week. I need to hear this word -- that I don't have to carry all the world in my mind or on my heart all the time. The truth is, "We do not seize the kingdom of God by ...

3368. Proclaiming The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... . III Now this final principle to which we must hold as people proclaiming the Gospel: The Spirit guarantees the harvest. We can proclaim the Gospel anywhere -- we are to proclaim the Gospel everywhere -- at the same time we are to remember and claim the promise that the Spirit guarantees the harvest. Somewhere I read about the American Red Cross gathering supplies -- medicine, clothing, food, and the like -- for the suffering people of Biafra. Inside one of the boxes that showed up at the collecting depot ...

3369. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... of Acts as the fellow who was hell-bent on destroying this new movement -- these followers of Jesus. He went on a mission to Damascus to seek to stamp out the church -- to put to death all those who, in his mind, were blaspheming God by claiming Christ as the Messiah. That this man, Paul, could probe the essence of divine love and express in such beautiful poetry an profound clarity -- that's one of the miracles of Christ's transforming grace and power. Ever since Paul, others have expressed that grace, and ...

3370. God Does The Unexpected

Luke 1:26-38

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Maxie Dunnam

... world. John Killinger has stated it well: If the mystery is everywhere, then we ought to be falling to our knees everywhere to worship. If the heart of the mystery is here and here and here, then we must be careful not to be arrogant before it or to claim its rights. In short, we've not been given the authority to handle any life casually – not the life of the prisoner who has been found guilty of murder; not the lives of the people in the trajectories of our missiles; and not the life of an unborn fetus ...

3371. East Of Eden

Genesis 3:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... a great mistake that is preached from pulpits across the land -- probably every Sunday -- and certainly at funeral services -- the mistaken notion about the immortality of the soul. Immortality is a pagan concept -- not a Christian one. The Christian makes no claim about immortality -- we talk about resurrection. There is not in any of us inherent immortality. Immortality belongs to God alone. In the Christian view of reality, we are creatures of dust. No matter how we might seek to deceive ourselves, we ...

3372. Look Carefully How You Walk

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Maxie Dunnam

... those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ." So, like Paul, Wesley knew that he'd been laid hold of by Christ, but he would make no claim to have attained the fullness of what he knew was his by gift and promise. And that must be our stance -- that's the Christian stance. To be aware of what is yet lacking in our being perfected and to press on to "lay hold of that for which I ...

3373. I Am Christ's

2 Corinthians 5:17

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Maxie Dunnam

... brother's heart, listened intently -- as good nurses do. Suddenly she announced, "I hear somebody walking around in there." The adults smiled at this, but Ryan, matter-of-factly answered, "Why, that must be Jesus." That's the amazing promise, and one of the central claims of the Christian Gospel -- that Christ may live in us. Indeed that is Paul's definition of a Christian -- a person in Christ. In our scripture lesson today, Paul said, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away ...

3374. The Nuclear Truth Of Christianity

Ephesians 2:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... , Ephesians, Volume 13, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan). By grace -- that's the resounding word of the gospel -- grace. By grace Paul means the active, compassionate, redeeming love of God. It is the unmerited favor of God -- God's agape -- his active love claiming us out of our waywardness to be his children again. "Human beings are not called upon to aspire after a spiritual realm of perfect forms and satisfactions. Men are not asked to lift themselves, by a supreme act of will, out of their ...

3375. The Little Madness Of Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... of Jesus Christ from the dead." That's the way it begins -- with a mighty earthquake. And it moves from there toward a climax, as the little madness of hope works in our life, to move us from one degree of glory to another, until that glad day when we claim the climax of it all -- our life with Christ forevermore. Hallelujah!

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