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3476. Participants In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... against the claim of some, that the gospel is predestined for a few. Never believe that. The gospel is offered to everyone, but keep the perspective clear. The gift is offered to all, but the privilege belongs to those who by faith belong to the Jesus Christ. ... that we are justified. It is in Christ that we are a new people, living a new life. And we’re always in need of keeping the new status, and the new life God gives us together. This illustration is a simple one, but hopefully it will make the point. A ...

3477. Working Out Our Salvation

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of your faith. My biggest problem, and this is confession time –my biggest problem, not only as it relates to how I express my obedience to Christ, but in my basic approach to life, is an unwillingness to give up control. Can you identify with that? Most of us keep a tight grip on the controls of our lives. In fact, most of our knuckles are white, because we grip those controls so tightly. To abandon myself in faith to Christ, is hard even to talk about, much less to do. When I press myself, I have to ...

3478. What Really Matters The Price Of The High Calling

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... depressing isn’t it? The other slogan reminded us that it takes a big man to admit he’s wrong, and an even bigger one to keep his mouth shut when he’s right. Did you hear of those two women who boarded an airplane – when they got to the top of the ... we want to talk.” It takes a big man, it takes a big man to admit that he’s wrong, and an even bigger one to keep his mouth shut when he’s right. Now get the formula solidly in your mind. In the race of life, we concentrate on the present, and we ...

3479. In The Kingdom Now

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and many of them from their homelands – there are millions. The United Nations has found it difficult to even keep an accurate count of the numbers of refugees. Refugees, aliens, illegal residents – it’s one of the world’s gravest social, political, economic, and social ... problems. And we Christians must seek to keep the world’s conscience sensitive to these, whom I’m sure Jesus would add to his list as the least of these ...

3480. Constantly Abiding

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was facing St. Peter at the pearly gate. He was made as a hornet, and demanded to see the Lord immediately. It was highly irregular, but seeing his anger, St. Peter decided to take him to the Lord. And John didn’t hold back his emotion – Lord, you didn’t keep your word, you promised me that you would take care of me. That’s I didn’t need to panic and lose faith because of that flood, that you would take care of me, and here I am having drowned in the flood. Wait a minute, the Lord interrupted ...

3481. Leave Your Stuff Behind

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us to use this remarkable capacity of imagination which you’ve given us to bring healing and power to our lives. Now keep your eyes closed as I guide your imagination. Picture yourself with a trash bag. Get it. A big trash bag, moving through ... junk wagon to be taken away. Be silent now and enjoy the relief and release of getting rid of that burden. Open your eyes now, but keep the image of the trash man in your mind for a moment, taking all your trash away. Now substitute for the image of the junk man, ...

3482. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... House. One day Dr. Palmer said to her, "All the facts that I can gather and all the feelings I have feel me this work you're trying to do is just impossible. There's no success in it. There's no gratification. The tide keeps rolling over you. Why do you keep doing it?" Looking earnestly at him, the woman answered, "Parker, the thing you don't understand is this: Just because a thing is impossible -- that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it." (Discovery YMCA, July/August 1985, p. 15). The woman was right. God ...

3483. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... always forgetting, aren't we? I think it was Wayne Lamb who told me about a couple who had been married many years, and they reached a point in their life when it became difficult for them to remember certain things. Even the slightest tasks were hard to keep straight. In fact, one evening the wife got a craving for ice cream -- but there was no ice cream in the house. So she said to her husband, "Will you please run down to the corner market and get some ice cream?" The husband agreed -- being the loving ...

3484. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (i)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... me say that again: A static faith is not a faith that will sustain us. You remember how James Russell Lowell put it in the hymn, "Once to Every Man and Nation": New occasions teach new duties Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward Who would keep abreast of truth.(The Methodist Hymnal, p. 142) A static faith is not an adequate faith. Now a surprise! That's as far as we are going to get in talking about that point today. That's where I'm going to begin next Sunday. This was not my ...

3485. In A Mirror Dimly

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... up and said, "But I'm a man of my word. And I vowed that I would never speak to him again. And I'm going to keep my word" That fellow is living in hell because he has failed to put away childish things. He has not become full-grown in his love. Now ... as we want them, to cause us to revert back to childishness and do those things, say those things, and live the way that keeps a wedge driven in relationships that should be relationships of love and sharing and caring and mutually beneficial. That's the kind of ...

3486. A Love For All Seasons (ii) (communion Meditation)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... role, and are responsible, for the self-destructive games that are being played out in their home -- then it represents a positive step for many folks. (Ritter, Ibid.) Most of us know this, but how easy it is to get caught up in another person's sickness. We need to keep on asking ourselves -- "Who is sick and who is well?" "By the time a family has paid out $100,000 to drug dealers through the hands of an addicted son or daughter, who can say any longer who is sick and who is well? "By the time a marriage ...

3487. A Sovereign God With A Shepherd's Heart

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... unknowingly, the prophecy of Micah, and of course, the eternal purpose of God. So, Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and we celebrate the sovereignty of God. What hope that provides -- to know that God's purpose is going to be fulfilled. It's not always to keep that paramount in our perception – the ravaging threat of Aids -- the ominous dark clouds that still hover over the land of Jesus' birth and two great people there war against each other. Drugs -- that may very well be our nation's undoing -- it's not ...

3488. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... story of Abraham and his descendents begins. "From that point on the record has a more concrete sound. It moves more slowly and gives more details. It does not cover a thousand years in a single breath. It slows down to a pace with which we can keep up as it traces the life story of men and a nation. "In contrast, the first eleven chapters of Genesis are epic in their scope. Their sweep is tremendous. Incomprehensible periods of time are covered in a few words. Stupendous events are described with a brevity ...

3489. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... out of the solidarity of the sixth day and behave idealistically and spiritually as if we were only spiritual beings. The utopians who dreamed of advancing into the super human and making the earth a heaven have always ended up by making a hell on earth. Jesus Christ keeps us close to the earth; otherwise he would never have come to this earth, but would have developed a method to lift us to super humanity. But, no, He appeared in a stable and He was not estranged even by the beasts within us. He saves man ...

3490. The Nuclear Truth Of Christianity

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... score tied, and we had only four yards to go for a touchdown." "Well, Coach," the young man stammered, "I probably would slide down to the end of the bench so I could see better." Paul was a lot like Coach Stagg. He always tried to keep his listeners and readers alert, ready to play the game -- equipped for the Christian walk. In this magnificent passage of Paul to the Ephesians, which is our scripture lesson for today, Paul is almost singing the Gospel -- moving along in a musical cadence, when in verse ...

3491. The Little Madness Of Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... anew to a living hope. That's the Easter message. That's what we laugh about and sing about and shout about and dance about. I want to keep Zorba's image for our sermon today -- "The little madness to be free," but I want to change a word in it. I want to change a ... them. Think about the powerful image of that. You and I lock ourselves in. But that doesn't mean we can forever keep Christ out. So you shut off the hint of trouble in your marriage. That's okay. Christ will enter the situation anyway. You ...

3492. The Ministry Of Making Many Rich

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... witness of Jim Elliott — the famous missionary to the Aucca Indians? He put it so clearly and so challengingly in his diary: “He is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep, in order to gain that which he cannot lose.” Let that register vividly in your mind: “He is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep in order to gain that which he cannot lose.” Jesus said, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be, also.” You can lose your treasure — many people have — and if your ...

3493. God's Hello People

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... better at saying goodbye than hello. With hello you are wary and cool...hello? You don't want to get involved. You are suspicious. You open the door just a chink. But when you say goodbye, you are warm and palsy. So long -- see ya, Buddy -- Take care -- Keep the faith -- Goodbye. Robert Raines from whom I got the image and the title of this sermon, "God's Hello People", says much of the time, we are the goodbye people, fending off intruders from our privacy. We don't want people to get too close. We don ...

3494. Count It All Joy

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of James. If I were to give a subtitle to this epistle, I would call it "A Manual of Practical Christianity." All of us should be able to identify with the thought. We are always asking that everything be made practical. Speakers are admonished to use the "kiss principle": "Keep it simple, stupid." There is a sense in which the Epistle of James is a "how to" book, and any bookstore has a large section of such books, from How To Build a Patio to How to Repair Your Motorcycle. We are a sort of "do it yourself ...

3495. Don't Mess With Mr. In-between

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... d give my life to play as beautifully as you do," she said. He replied, "I did." That's the picture. No messing with Mr. In- Between. For the double-minded man, "unstable in all his ways, will receive nothing from the Lord." We must say yes to God, and keep on saying it, until we are able to say no to all that He says no to. ---------Final Greeting: In the days ahead, before you say yes to anything, will you ask is this a yes to God. And when you are confronted with a questionable act, a confusing situation ...

3496. God Who Is Mighty Has Done Great Things

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... this solidly in our mind this Christmas Eve. Because January 1st is coming and a new year -- taxes to be paid -- jobs to return to -- problems in the family -- children who have gone astray -- a marriage that's on the verge of breaking up. The pressure of paying bills and keeping a family together. God comes to us as we do what we have to do and as we go where we have to go. He comes in the midst of those conflicts which arise as we live with each other: in our families where milk is spilled at bedtime, the ...

3497. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

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Maxie Dunnam

... that he fed my mind and heart as I have cultivated my whole understanding of the Indwelling Christ. Dr. Stewart's book interprets Paul's belief about the Indwelling Christ, and in the book, he talks about prayer as "Keeping us in touch with God who at every instant is present." Think about that. Prayer keeps us in touch with God who at every instant is present. Stewart says, "The Eternal lives in every instance -- you must receive it. And I am sure," he adds, "that at any instant in the day, God may be ...

3498. More Tolerable For Sodom And Gomorrah

Luke 10:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... morality where it is moral if it works or makes us feel good? Anger when anger is due is necessary for self-respect and for the respect of this nation by other nations. "What has become of national self-respect, not to mention common decency? Why do we keep turning back to Sodom and Gomorrah?"("When God Settles Accounts" Sermon by the Rev. Donald J. Shelby) Well, why do we? Will we learn before it is too late? Will we turn to God before something worse than Sodom happens to us? In a column in the editorial ...

3499. Blessed Are Those Who Are Awake

Luke 12:32-40

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Maxie Dunnam

... . One of my problems in sermon preparation is how much to cover. When you come to a passage like the one at which we are looking this morning, and in your general sermon planning, you have decided to deal with it, how do you narrow the focus? I have to keep reminding myself that there will be other Sundays for me and for you, and other preachers to deal with this text. Above all, I have to trust you and the text to the Holy Spirit, and pray that the sermon will be the catalyst to arouse your curiosity, stir ...

3500. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of Jesus needs to be seen against the backdrop of Jesus who is on His way to Jerusalem. (He knows what lies ahead — shame, struggle, betrayal, suffering, the Cross. Is it any wonder that He would answer His questioner, “Keep on striving to enter the narrow door.” “When Jesus tells us “to keep on striving” we need to know that we get the English word “agony” from the word striving. In other words, Jesus is telling us that we must strive, or agonize to get through the narrow door. This is the ...

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