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326. What Goes on When He Comes in?

Acts 19:1-22

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... you, too" she said, "but tell me a little more about Jerome Green." Beyond all argument, the term "love" is one of the most misused words in our language. Someone has called it "a semantic swamp." Its use ranges all the way from out and out lust to the highest form of unselfish care we are capable of. But real love, New Testament love, the love the Holy Spirit provides, is no soft, sentimental thing. It enlists the total personality. As Jesus expressed it, love involves the whole heart, soul, and mind. And ...

327. Security Concerns

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms" (Ephesians 6:12). Like the Ephesians, you and I have to fight principalities and powers that have us in sway. Our advertised lusts, which are bolstered by a high standard of living, trap many of us into a kind of dark bondage. To find security we must turn to the available resources from God. The text points to a defense that must watch the forces it is up against ...

328. A Forgiving Presence

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... growth, their broken relationships, their ego-centered preoccupation with self. That’s the way it was. And that’s the way it is. The indwelling Christ continues that ministry, keeping us aware of our sin. Our sins of deception, self righteousness, sexual lust, wasted talent, callousness toward the needs of others, idolatry, making a god out of our money, out of our self image, our exaggerated ego that puts others down and puffs self up, our complacency in light of human suffering and moral decay ...

329. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... do we see - get a candid shot of yourself, maybe a time exposure. As I hold the shutter open for a moment, what do you see. Pride - which won’t allow us to bear our souls and open ourselves to God’s healing love. Sexual lust, which makes us feel unfaithful and unclean. Callousness toward the needs of others which pits us against Christ who said, that our judgment would be determined by whether we fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited the prisoner, and proclaimed to all - rich and poor, educated ...

330. Confession And Supplication

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... truth in love? Was I condemning, judgmental? Did I fail to speak when I should have? Did I allow someone to be hurt by idle gossip without raising a question? Did I write the needed letter or make the helpful telephone call or visit? Was I lustful, covetous, jealous, callous? Did I fail to witness for Christ in any given opportunity? Not only personal confession, we need to stay aware that we are involved in a corporate way? Isaiah provides the model – “Woe is me,” he said, “for I’m undone. I’m ...

331. Getting It All Together Inside

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

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in desperate need of inner healing. That means that we don’t let the sun go down on our wrath; we don’t allow hatred to fester within 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 ...

332. A Scream And A Laugh

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... indecisiveness that immobilizes us, prejudice that fences us into a narrow plot of acquaintances and robs us of the richness of friendship; ambition that numbs us to being feelingly human and drives us to trample over the needs of others; sexual lust which, like ambition, is insensitive to the needs of others, allowing us to use persons as playthings and handle the precious gift of sexuality with self-indulgent grasping hands; the passionate drive for immediate gratification and satisfaction that turns the ...

333. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... make a way of escape so that we will be able to bear the temptation. "What a promise! We are brought back to the basic premise of discipleship in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our trust must be in Him. We must be walking in the Spirit, rather than lusting in the flesh. We must keep our eyes and our minds upon Him." (Paul A. Cedar, The Communicator's Commentary, Vol. 11, p. 38) So, rehearse what we have said. One, temptation has a purpose. Two, God does not tempt us -- but God allows temptation, and for a ...

334. Will The Real God Please Stand?

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

335. Hanging On To Every Word

Luke 19:45-48

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... untouched by the suffering of any of God's children; the flippant attitude we take toward the moral collapse of our city and country; the little attention we give to pressing issues, such as pornography, that contaminate life; our unchecked passion and lust which reduces conspicuous consumption and sexual promiscuity simply to "the way things are." These actions and attitudes on our part does not leave Jesus unmoved. Our sin violates the holiness of God, and it breaks Jesus' heart. That's a poignant word ...

336. The Rejected Cornerstone

Luke 20:9-19

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Maxie Dunnam

... have taken his hand, and, in exasperated despair, he would have wiped it out long ago." (Barclay, p. 256). But God is patient.....oh, so patient. Think about it in your own life. How patient was God with you as you played with life in the far country of lust and pleasure, as though life was a game, and you could do with it as you wished. How patient has God been with you in the use of your talent? -- talent that He has given you, natural gifts with which you have been blessed. You have used those talents ...

337. Who Loves More?

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... gets through to us, then we will know that not only is it the sinner who is accepted— we so-called “righteous” are accepted as well. That’s Good News!—That’s Good News for us righteous folks who don’t know what to do with our sexual lust and are often guilty of adultery. We are forgiven. That’s Good News for us righteous folks—us righteous folks who back away from association with a lower class, knowing deep down that to even think in terms of a “lower class” hurts God’s heart. We ...

338. Pay Attention To The Inside

Luke 11:37-54

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... their driving ambition to be bishops. When their goal was not realized, their disappointment was so bitter that it colored their whole life. We could name other forces within that can become Satan's instrument to bring destructive results. Pride. Jealousy, Sexual Lusts. Ambition. Drive for security. Passion for acceptance. So we need to pay attention to the inside because that's where evil gets its stronghold. Joseph Campbell in his book The Power of Myth says that “The ground of being is the ground ...

339. Can a Rich Person Go to Heaven?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Money is a big deal in our lives. Let’s confess it. We like nice things. We like things that are new, things that work. How many men have been lusting after a new flat-screen plasma television? How many women wouldn’t like to replace slightly-worn living room furniture with something much more attractive? We like nice things, and in order to have nice things we’ve got to have money. But Jesus is warning us that money ...

340. Escape from the Island of Spiritual Sloth

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... else are you going to feel after rigging up a ham radio with wire and two coconuts? Mary Ann? Oh, she's an easy one. Envy. Always envying the glamorous Ginger. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to discern that Ginger is the living embodiment of lust on the island. (I still have dreams about Ginger after all these years.) Thurston Howell, III, is an easy candidate for greed. After all, asks the webmaster of this site, "What kind of person takes a trunk-full of money on a three-hour cruise?" The Skipper ...

341. Last Words Are Important

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it for days. But not much was said about the “dirty” dancing and lewd lyrics, including words about getting a woman naked before the song was done. Other singers grabbed their crotches, a la Michael Jackson, and through lyrics and dance displayed sexual lust as they gyrated with female dancing partners. The truth, friends, is that halftime show is not the exception in television fare. In fact, it was rather tame compared to what constantly flows from television and the Internet. “The City of the World ...

342. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... lies the struggle. We have deep desires to live a holy life, but we have given up on the possibility. We have struggled long and diligently with particular sins and moral weaknesses. We may have overcome blatant sins, yet we struggle with anger, pride, jealousy, lust, racism, and unconcern for the poor. If not lazy or slothful, we waste time; if not gluttonous, we eat too much; if not completely idolatrous, we often make a god out of money and material security; if not blatant liars, we slip into deceitful ...

343. The Gospel

Colossians 1:3-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... indecisiveness that immobilizes us; prejudice that fences us into a narrow plot of acquaintances and robs us of the richness of friendships; ambition that numbs us to being feelingly human and drives us to trample over the needs of others; sexual lust which, like ambition, is insensitive to the needs of others, allowing us to use persons as playthings and handle the precious gift of sexuality with self-indulgent grasping hands; the passionate drive for immediate gratification and satisfaction that turns the ...

344. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... raises the bar to the highest notch, way beyond my abilities. I could never jump that high.3 What does he demand? No only no killing but a heart free from the acids of chronic anger and the cold calculation of bitterness. Not only no adultery but no lust that sees people as objects of pleasure only, and no throwing away of spouses. Not only no false swearing with God’s name but no swearing at all because your words are to be simple and true. Not only no revenge, the disciple must respond with creative non ...

345. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... ; we have the nagging presence of the Holy Spirit, and we have annoying examples in saints past and present. All to raise a question: What if the teaching is true? What if it is possible to live in a radical partnership with God? What if greed and the lust for always more is a deadly sin and foretaste of a hell where yearning is forever and forever unsatisfied? What if generosity, especially to those who do not in any way deserve it, is the light of God refracted through the lens of a human soul? What if ...

346. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

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Phil Thrailkill

... . Will the God who gave the greater thing, which is life, not also give the lesser things, in this case what sustains and protects life? We see the importance of this question most clearly in the excess, when life is reduced to bodily appetites of hunger and lust and entertainment and excitement, which are precisely the obsessions of our culture. Is my life a gift from God, and if so, can I trust God to sustain it? There is no more basic question, and our lives each give an answer, don’t they? Once the ...

347. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... We are at war deep within, and were our secret dreams and private thoughts to be revealed, we would all be embarrassed. Pastor Phil is capable of great moral and spiritual evil. Evil crosses my imagination and makes its appeal every day. The seven deadly sins of lust and greed and sloth and envy and pride and gluttony and envy are weeds that grow in my garden, and if I ever quit pulling them up through the grace of repentance, they would take over. Left unattended, human life goes to seed. But, on the other ...

348. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... first the kingdom of God, give up judging, first take the log out of our own eye, lay up treasures in heaven, hunger and thirst for righteousness, become pure in heart and a peacemakers, be the salt and light he intended, seek reconciliation, avoid the lustful look, praying and fasting and giving for God alone, forgiving others as we wish to be forgiven, quit serving wealth or the hope of it, give up fruitless anxiety, trust God for your needs, learn wisdom, avoid false prophets and stay on the narrow way ...

349. Church Worship

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... . People: Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. Collect Almighty God, Ruler of the universe, we lift our prayers this morning for all the people of the world. Especially do we pray for the leaders of the nations that they may rise above self-interest, greed, and lust for power, and come to the realization that only as we learn to live together with a common goal of bringing peace to the world will we be able to meet the needs of the people of the world. Bless all those who are working for peace, and ...

350. When Jesus Comes to Church

Mark 11:27-33

Sermon

Michael Milton

... mass of sin that hides in our hearts. When the brilliant light of Christ penetrates the cabinet to our hearts, it reveals a place in which a million black sins live and are breeding in the darkness. The human heart is often a place of greed, of lust, of hatred. There are true believers who yet harbor in the cabinets of their lives, dark secrets, untold stories of bitterness and refusal to forgive. You would not expect that in a temple. You would not expect that in the church. But there are unbelievers in ...

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