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3351. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , or works. It comes like a birth that we have no control over; like water that cleanses us, like wind that refreshes us -- wind that's felt but not seen. It's grace, Jesus is saying, and that's what we all have a problem with. So, let's stay with that phrase, "born again", for a moment. The idea of rebirth, or being born again, runs throughout the New Testament. Listen to Peter -- I Peter 1:3: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again ...

3352. From Russia With Love

Acts 3:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... overnight. People have been cared for seventy years. They've been a part of a giant machine, and plenty of them, plenty of them would prefer the flesh pots of Egypt to the uncertainty of the future that is being promised them. So, we've got to stay with them until that transition is made. Let me give you an example. There was an English speaking church founded in 1962 primarily to serve our American Embassy Staff. It's attended by a lot of English speaking people, Russians as well. It is obviously a dynamic ...

3353. Naming And Being Named

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... allow God to speak to us. The most dramatic example of it in Scripture is the story of Jacob. You remember Jacob? All night long Jacob wrestled with the Lord's emissary. All night long! We don't wait five minutes, much less an hour or all night. But Jacob stayed there, wrestling with the Lord. And you know what happened? As day began to break, Jacob got a new name. That's what happened as a result of all his praying. He got a new name. The Lord said to him, "No longer will you be called Jacob, which means ...

3354. What Do You Want To Be Like When You Are 65?

Proverbs 3:1-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... are, and provide wisdom and practical direction for our daily living. Could we be more practical than asking the question: "What do you want to be like when you are 65?" I know that some of you are already 65 and maybe more -- You may think the question irrelevant. But stay with me. My hunch is there will be something here for you that may serve you well for the rest of your life. Our foundation Scripture is Proverbs 3:5-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.In all ...

3355. The Need To Pay Attention

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the road, at the foot of every hill, His word always is, "Son -- Daughter, come up a little higher! You are not made for cocoon living. The beetlenut boxes of life are not your natural habitat. You will fall short if you content yourself to stay at any caterpillar stage. You are not made for dreary, monotonous, humdrum living. Come up higher. You're made for freedom and flight like the butterfly." In my heart of hearts I knew that my fantasy is close, very close to reality. Rainer M. Rilke cryptically ...

3356. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... gained nearly nine miles in his career!" And the other responded, "Yes, and remember: someone knocked him down every 4.6 yards along the way." Sometimes, that's the way it happens in life. We are knocked down on a very regular basis. But we are given staying power and toughness if we keep our relationship with Christ fresh and alive. When Christ is alive in us we have perseverance because we know the outcome will be O.K. We are held in great care by the One who forever loves us, and will never forsake ...

3357. To Live Is To Grow

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sermon series from now until Thanksgiving: Continue to Grow. Our sermon today insists that to live is to grow. Earlier, I used my son Kevin and the novel, The Tin Drum, to picture the situation of many people who have decided not to grow. They want to stay little to remain children. That's a deadly decision not to grow. But I want to use the image of a child or the nature of children, as a challenge for us. You remember Jesus' experience with His disciples and children. When the crowd brought children to ...

3358. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and all his power? They were amazed. It is in the midst of that success that Jesus calls his disciples and sends them out. In His instruction He warns about failure. Listen to verses 10 and 11 of chapter 6: He said to them, "Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them." Is there not solid instruction here in our Scripture lesson -- and from ...

3359. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

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 ...

3360. When the Doctors Can't Help You

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... of going to a funeral home to pay his respects to the family of an acquaintance. By mistake he ended up in the wrong parlor. It held the body of an elderly man, and his widow was the only mourner present. She seemed so lonely that Campolo decided to stay for the funeral. He even drove with her to the cemetery. At the end of the graveside service, as he and the woman were driving away, Campolo finally confessed that he had not known her husband. "I thought as much," said the widow. "I didn't recognize you ...

3361. Rejected at Home

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... that he hated himself. He writes, "That day, I made a decision to just exist in this life, to get through it, and to spend the rest of my time dreaming about a place where I was happy, popular, and influential." Michael's insecurity and emptiness stayed with him as he entered adulthood. But his whole life changed in a very short period of time when he attended a Billy Graham Conference in Amsterdam. At the conference, Michael gained a new image of God, God as a loving Father, as a Creator who intended ...

3362. The Problem with Signs

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... blood which went into Ashe's veins. Ashe did not realize that he was infected with the dreaded virus until five years later when he first suffered numbness and then growing paralysis in his playing arm. The diagnosis was a brain tumor. This stay in the hospital for surgery revealed that he had contracted AIDS. After being released from the hospital, the seventh-ranked tennis star in all the world had to face rumors about his condition as well as deal with retirement from his beloved sport. Arthur ...

3363. The Dividing Line

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... powers reigned. Pigs sacrificed on the pagan altars were often thrown into the lake at the mouth of this cave. (2) Now imagine the disciples' discomfort as they pass through this area. These men are devout Jews who were warned all their lives to stay away from the uncleanness, the condemnation of the pagan lifestyle. They are surrounded on all sides by evidence that many of their neighbors worship sensuous and craven gods other than Yahweh. And in this setting Jesus asks them a provocative question, "Who do ...

3364. Two Small Coins

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... he felt free to take his time looking for a scroll saw. The petting zoo consisted of a portable fence erected in the mall with about six inches of sawdust and a hundred little furry baby animals of all kinds. Kids pay their money and stay in the enclosure enraptured with the squirmy little critters while their moms and dads shop. A few minutes later, Simmons turned around and saw Helen walking along behind him. He wondered if she preferred the hardware department to the petting zoo. Recognizing that was not ...

3365. Preparing for Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... : O Master, let me walk with thee In lowly paths of service free; Tell me thy secret; help me bear The strain of toil, the fret of care. Help me the slow of heart to move By some clear, winning word of love; Teach me the wayward feet to stay, And guide them in the home-ward way. (3) Washington Gladden had no sudden conversion experience. He found Jesus by seeking to walk daily in Christ’s steps. But in walking in Christ’s steps, his heart was prepared for Christ’s coming. Your experience of Christ may ...

3366. God's Sneak Attack

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... of Joseph's stage. His home was Nazareth, and going to Bethlehem was going out of his way. Next, Joseph and Mary arrive in Bethlehem, only to find that there is no room for them in the inn. "I'm sorry, the motel is full ... but you're welcome to stay in the parking ramp!" This couple and this birth were not even a big fish in the small pond of Bethlehem. They were pushed off to the side of a town that was itself off to the side of a province that was off to the side of the Empire ...

3367. From Empty Nets to Full Lives

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

It's funny what experiences and phrases will stay with you from childhood. I still remember a line from a song which apparently was popular, for at least a short period of time, in my early childhood. It was a half-funny, half-pathetic little lament from someone who felt rejected and unsuccessful. As I recall, each verse ended ...

3368. The Baby Leaped

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... , convinced every word was revelation. She said, ‘They were so poor they had only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to eat. And they went a long way from home without getting lost. The lady rode a donkey, the man walked, and the baby was inside the lady. They had to stay in a stable with an ox and an ass. (hee-hee) But the Three Rich Men found them because a star lited the roof. Shepherds came and you could pet the sheep but not feed them. Then the baby was borned. And do you know who he was?’ Her ...

3369. Costly Extravagance

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... to God, just happy. A bushel of carrots for the pastor was an exuberant way of returning thanks. We ate what we could."1 You might ask, "Well, if Jesus accepted a $30,000 foot massage, would he also drive a Lexus? Would he ski at Aspen? Would he stay at the Hyatt Regency? Would he always choose Ben and Jerry's?" To ask these questions is to miss the point. The record is clear that Jesus was a friend of the poor. The evidence is so overwhelming in the Gospels that we hardly need to mention this friendship ...

3370. Timing

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... we do not know the proper time to do something, our activity can turn out badly. There is, says our text, even a proper time to die. We age as we increase in years, though our youth-oriented culture tries to deny the process of aging. We all try to stay young-looking. So Hollywood stars and figures in public life have face-lifts, or we use hair coloring or makeup to cover gray hair and wrinkles. We all have known persons in their sixties who try vainly to look as if they were still forty. And they do, as ...

3371. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and joy that sprang up as she finished the second grade and participated in two recitals in one day - violin on Saturday morning and a ballet recital that night. The next day, she seemed tired and we attributed it to her hyperactivity. But she stayed tired, and then her ankles swelled. And finally the pediatrician sent us to a specialist at Children’s Hospital, where we heard the word, acute leukemia. “When I first hear the diagnosis,” Claypool said, “I went out alone to cry” – that made me love ...

3372. Being A Man of God

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... Rome at the end of the first century, but was never used by an inspired apostle to describe second-class, untrained, and unequipped Christians.” Stevens suggests that we ought to eliminate it from our vocabulary. I’m not sure about that, but we need to stay aware of the fact that “laity” in its proper New Testament sense of laos – the people of God – is a term of great honor denoting the enormous privilege and mission of the whole people of God. That’s what Peter is talking about. Once we were ...

3373. Imitators of God

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Maxie Dunnam

... Ezekiel “was the first prophet consciously to enter this new sphere of activity, which may be described as ‘cure of souls.’…” (The Message of the Prophets, pg.200) I am intrigued by that and will be preaching to you students about it. But let’s stay with our interest in the church, the people of God. Ezekiel has a profound understanding and a beautiful description of God creating “the new Israel.” Listen again to Ezekiel 36:24-28: “I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all ...

3374. If You Get Too Close to the Cross, You Will End Up Carrying It

Mark 15:21-32

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Maxie Dunnam

... carry it. The lesson: if you get too close to the cross, you will end up carrying it. That’s the way it is, isn’t it? If we get too close to the cross, we will end up carrying it. Christianity is not a spectator sport. We can’t stay on the sidelines. We may start out that way – as spectators – dressing up every week as Christians do to join millions of other Christians who come to church on Sunday to hear all the great exploits of those who are the heroes of the faith – and especially to hear ...

3375. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... whole again. It’s a miracle. Then, there is a fourth miracle – the miracle of the sufficiency of God’s grace. Now mark this down. Not all of us are going to be healed. And sometimes some of us are going to be given a circumstance that will stay with us forever – a painful circumstance, a suffering malady. Paul called it his “thorn in the flesh.” I have an idea we don’t think enough of the seriousness of what Paul was talking about; a thorn is such a little thing. The truth of the matter is ...

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