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3451. The Battle of the Wisdoms

James 3:13-18

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... mind and often we are tempted to boo, hiss, and throw whatever is within our grasp at someone who would dare try to squeeze us with a "do-and-don't" list. Elizabeth Achtemeier has noted, "Above all else these days we Christians want to be loving. We want to forgive. We want to accept people as they are."2 Indeed, she posits, we have come to the point in our society where we will forgive almost any wrong and accept almost any lifestyle in the name of Christian love. Forgetting Christ's purposes, we, in ...

3452. Who Needs a Doctor?

Mark 2:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... introduce to Jesus to celebrate with him. He had a desire for them to experience what he had experienced. Now out of that fact, I ask you two questions: One, have you ever had any sort of religious experience that was worth celebrating?...that caused you to want to throw a party? Maybe you can deal with it better if I ask you, "How do you celebrate your religious experiences?", or, "Is celebration a part of your spiritual expression?" It's worth thinking about isn't it? Have you ever noted how much of the ...

3453. Come On Down

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... cry for God to come and do something before we sink. Isaiah in his petition reminds God of how he came and helped in the past. He wants God to intrude once again in the life of the people. Is not the purpose of Advent to take us back to the beginning in the ... reign of love? When we look at the pain and suffering of our dark world, the prophet's cry becomes our cry, for we want God to "come down" and right wrong and reveal his glory and majesty by his presence. The prophet petitions God to "come down," but ...

3454. I'll Be Somewhere Listening

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... and our dreams for a higher good. Doing God's will often means the giving up or the laying down of something we wanted to grasp or control. A pastor friend of mine tells the story of his church organist who was very accomplished. An organist moved to ... too much. I yam what I yam, and that's all." Ancient Israel could say before Samuel, "I yam what I yam." God did not want Israel to remain as she was. Thus, through Samuel, God called Israel to a new resolve, a new beginning. This new beginning was to be ...

3455. Gospel Through The Person

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... would also like to know Coach Jackie Sherrill. He knows something that all of us need to learn – that there is power in the person. He wanted Carl Joseph on his squad, not to play, but just to be there because of who he was. I wish I had time to talk to ... and you need to live with the whole passage. Yet there are three signal verses around which this entire section can be gathered and I want to begin at the end of the passage and work backward. Look first at verses 29 and 30. For it has been granted to you ...

3456. Recovering The Essence

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... history, it is that we now live in a global village. Now I know you hear that all the time. We need a planetary view of our existence. We’re not only citizens of the United States, but we’re citizens of the world. If we don’t want to look at it theologically, we certainly might be challenged to see the simple economic expediency of it, not to mention the Christian ethics. Senator Mark Hatfield has reminded us that 13, listen to this, 13 of the basic raw materials that are necessary for the economy of ...

3457. The Eternal Question

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . We are free to decide our destiny. An old Scots divine put it, the elect man is whosoever will; the damned man is whosoever won’t. Some of us would like to evade this fact. Despite how much we talk about it, I’m not sure we really want to be free. Some of you remember Edwin Markham’s poem in which he talked about God creating persons as free, withdrawing from them leaving a clue – a footprint in the road, a crevice for the glory to glimmer through – but leaving man to decide. And Markham closed ...

3458. Living Deliberately

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to lie here. Got to rouse myself. Got to get up. Got to get involved. Now, right now. Or am I rationalizing. Perhaps I don’t want to really get up. Perhaps I feel that at last I found my role. Or perhaps lying here attracts me, and getting up also attracts me ... victor and even in death he was living deliberately. So in our third sermon on the general theme, Self Help and More, I want to talk about living deliberately. Normally I would not call your attention to a mistake in the bulletin, but I can’t resist ...

3459. Proclaiming The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was trying to get to his brother in Indiana, a professor in the University there, who was dying of cancer. Can you imagine the trauma, the frustration, the helpless anger...In a strange land, getting off in a strange place where he knew no one -- and stuck. Wanting desperately to get to his dying brother -- but no plane for another six hours. The other person in the terminal was a mammoth man who looked like he was out of place, but would have looked that way wherever he was. It's amazing how sympathy grows ...

3460. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and thank you. I gave it to her. She was not from North Carolina, but was from another state – 500 miles away. She had heard about the Conference and that I was one of the speakers. She had used a number of my workbooks in groups in her church. She wanted this opportunity to meet and hear me. I was moved by her affirmation and the fact that she would drive that distance. She must have been about seventy years old. I was so moved that I hugged her. I gave her a great big bear hug. You would have thought ...

3461. Walk By Faith Not By Sight

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... naked. He continues that image, suggesting that while we live in this tent, that is while we are in life, we sigh with anxiety because we want to be fully clothed, fully protected and we aren't. God is faithful. God is going to take these earthly tents in which we are, ... we came to the figure -- but we decided to add $7,000 more as a bold act of faithfulness -- so we pledged $32,000. I want you to know we have paid $ on that pledge -- and the balance will be paid by May 31. And you know -- we haven't missed ...

3462. The Little Madness Of Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to minister to her in her physical suffering, but she locks herself in a bathroom. John calls to her through the bathroom door, asking if there was anything he could get for her. "Thank you," she whispers. "Just go out and get me yesterday and most of today. I want them back." Well, John couldn't do that for Frannie. But Jesus can. Oh, he can't give us back our yesterday. He can do better than that. He can forgive the sins of yesterday. He can heal the pain of yesterday. He can restore the energy wasted in ...

3463. God Is Like A Mother

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... name, I might be a different person. Do you feel that way? Frederick Buechner observes that when we tell somebody our name, we've given them a hold over us that they haven't had before. If they call our names out, we stop, look, and listen, whether we want to or not. Then, Buechner adds this rather humorous, but profound observation, "In the book of Exodus, God tells Moses that his name is Yahweh, and God hasn't had a peaceful moment since." So we are talking about God today. Oh, I know we talk about God ...

3464. Prepare The Way Of The Lord

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ready for the visitation. We don't know when that visitation is going to come but we have to prepare for it. I want to register three ways of preparation, or three moods of expectancy, or you might call them three postures of waiting for the ... the second way we prepare the way of the Lord is by being joyful. Our second scripture lesson from the prophet Habakkuk is little-known. I want you to listen to it again. "Though the fig tree do not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and ...

3465. The Church Of Our Dreams

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... probably wouldn't have this huge entertainment center." And with that, poor Herman had had enough. He turned to Mary and said, "I don't want to hurt your feelings, Honey, but you know if it weren't for your money, I probably wouldn't be here either!" What is it that ... inspired, reasonably equipped, and hopefully, committed disciples. With building, staff expansion and problems, we sort of got away from that. I want to pull it out, dust it off, update it and let it guide our ministry in growing a church that ...

3466. On The Road Again (emmaus)

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is a village west of Jerusalem on the main road to the seacoast. But I've been to other Emmauses, too, for Emmaus is every person's town. It could have been any place, just as long as it was seven miles distance from frustration, confusion, grief and despair. They wanted to get out of town, to get away from it all in order to try to forget, to sort out their feelings and somehow find a way to start all over again. With chins dragging and hope at a low ebb, they head west talking together as if saying it ...

3467. Who Needs A Doctor?

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

3468. As Real As It Gets

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to medical missions. You get my point? For everything there is a crucial moment. Jesus calls, and the more we resist that call, the less likely we are to hear him the next time around. We run the risk of missing his presence and glory. To that reluctant man who wanted to first go and bury the dead, Jesus said rather sternly -- "Let the dead bury the dead." And he says to us: Let those who have no sense of duty to the kingdom -- let them do what they will. But you -- you have heard my call. You are sensitive ...

3469. The Cross Question: Am I Not To Drink The Cup?

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... me. And the pride of feeling that I am a free man and in my soul there is a garden of perennial little flowers. They don't want me to write. They strip me of pins and pencils, but I've been left with the ink of my life: my own blood with which I ... their sixties to come forward. He said to them, "Now we are going to baptize this baby and bring it into the family of God. What I want you to do is to raise this baby, and while you are doing it, help raise the Momma with him, because the Momma right now needs you ...

3470. You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the book of Proverbs: "Sometimes there is a way that seems to be right, but in the end it is the way to death." I want to connect the first part of the Proverb, "sometimes there is a way that seems to be right" with the more modern proverb which is the title ... the end of 40 days and 40 nights he ended up at a cave and that's when the Lord appeared to him. The Lord wanted to know what he was doing there. In his self-pity, which was flavored by self-righteousness, Elijah answered the Lord with these words: "I ...

3471. The Need To Pay Attention

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . We need to pay attention to God, but we also need to know that God is paying attention to us. Once there was a little girl who was afraid of the dark. One night her mother was tucking her in bed, and she started crying. She didn't want her mother to leave her; she didn't want to be alone. Mother tried to quiet her down by saying, "Don't be afraid. Just remember -- God is everywhere." But that didn't do any good. The little girl kept on crying, and said, "I don't like God to be everywhere. I ...

3472. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a farm you have got to have a few cows. Lessie told me to cut some cows out of plywood and paint them the color I want, then place them around the pasture. Now that I have had cows for two years, I admit that she was probably right again. At the stockyard ... quite far away.In many ways he won't adaptAnd he'll be known as handicapped. So let's be careful where he's sent.We want his life to be content.Please Lord find the parents who,Will do a special job for You. They will not realize right awayThe leading role ...

3473. Through God's Breathed Word

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... many things to say to you, but you can't bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth..." So, that's a ministry of the Holy Spirit in our life. The ministry of opening our minds to the teaching of Scripture. I want to underscore two truths that relate to growth, through the study of God's Word as the Holy Spirit illumines that word for each of us. II. First, when our minds are open to understand the Scripture, our hearts are open to receive God's grace. Let me say that ...

3474. Clean Hands

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... would have come into contact with Gentiles, non-Jews. This contact with non-Jews made them ritually unclean. Before they could be acceptable in God's sight again, they had to wash away the "taint" of the Gentiles. Gentiles? Yes, that's us. They didn't want to be tainted by contact with slimy, creepy, crawly creatures like you and me. You see, we were once on the outside looking in. If we could see ourselves as those who were once discriminated against because of our ethnic origins, we might be slower to ...

3475. Two Small Coins

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... a price. Love always costs something. Love is expensive. When you love, benefits accrue to another’s account. Love is for you, not for me. Love gives; it doesn’t grab. Helen gave her quarter to Brandon and wanted to follow through with her lesson. She knew she had to taste the sacrifice. She wanted to experience that total family motto. Love is sacrificial action." (3) It’s a simple story, but a powerful one. The widow gave all she had. Hers was sacrificial action. A leading charity used to say, "Give ...

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