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3551. Let Me Say That Again

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... those that are a not a part of the faith know the power of preaching. It’s an awesome task - to preach. You may have heard of that old story of the preacher who was invited to be a guest preacher in another congregation. He preached what he thought was a good sermon and stood at the door of the church to greet the worshippers as they left. one by one, the people shook his hand, exchanged the usual platitudes, and went their way. one teenage boy came through, shook hands, looked the preacher square in the ...

3552. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... his national television ministry – yet he took the time to call two people whom he had never met and share with them the love of Christ. He was a model preacher. The theme of our retreat is “Our Journey with Jesus” – and as I thought of my introduction to you tonight, I thought of Frank Harrington, and a story that he shared with me when he was with us at Asbury. When he went off to college, he was a candidate for the ministry under the care of the Harmony Presbytery in South Carolina. Once a year ...

3553. Awake to Glory

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... awake." Most of us are too quick to downgrade our faith perceptions. We seem to feel that the things we can touch and handle are the only realities; and we are instinctively skeptical of that which we get by faith. We always say that love is blind; but a thoughtful woman who was very much in love once replied, "No, love isn't blind. Quite the opposite. It has the ability to see some things others cannot see." The same can be said for faith. True faith does not blind us to the realities of life; it simply ...

3554. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Hebrews 11:1-40, Philippians 2:12-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and Elijah – who had conversation with Jesus. Peter was mesmerized. He relished the experience and didn’t want to give it up. He thought the presence of Jesus and the prophets could be bottled and sustained in that time and place. “Master, it is good for us ... me because I’m me or do you just care about me because of who I’m related to?” When I was younger I thought I was being paranoid and overly sensitive, simply an insecure adolescent. But as I got older I realized I had good reason to be ...

3555. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and Elijah – who had conversation with Jesus. Peter was mesmerized. He relished the experience and didn’t want to give it up. He thought the presence of Jesus and the prophets could be bottled and sustained in that time and place. “Master, It is good for us ... me because I’m me or do you just care about me because of who I’m related to?” When I was younger I thought I was being paranoid and overly sensitive, simply an insecure adolescent. But as I got older I realized I had good reason to be ...

3556. The Gospel

Colossians 1:3-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Finished,” and then Monday night – hopefully this will be the climax, because I believe it is the core not only of this message of Paul to the Colossians, along with justification by grace through faith – it is the central message of all that Paul thought and communicated – the theme will be “Alive in Christ.” So, let’s begin – at the beginning -- with the gospel. There is a story which Rosalind Russell, the actress, tells on herself. She was taking a cruise, and was walking on the deck of a ...

3557. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v1

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the movie Amistad? It is a must. It’s based on real events of 1839. A group of Africans -- men, women, and children -- had been kidnapped by slave traders. They staged an insurrection aboard their prison ship. When they gained control of the boat, they thought they were headed home from Cuba, but instead they sailed to the east coast of the United States, ending up in jail in New England, on trial for their lives. During the time they are incarcerated, a small but persistent group of Christians keeps a ...

3558. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the dangerous edges. Perhaps the angels point their fingers and announce, “Because of that wimpy sermon, Pastor Phil, until he repents, is now to be labeled the least in the kingdom of heaven. He is now a danger within the church because of his false teaching.” The thought of that scares me. Better that I walk away and never preach again than that I should deliberately distort God’s word in Scripture by making it easy for me and you. It is not easy. It is a hammer against our hard heads and a sword ...

3559. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to confess mistakes and seek reconciliation. Camp out in these six verses until you have a story to tell about how you obeyed and how God came through with healing. We all want our way; we resent frustration; we feel angry and lash out. What shall we do with these thoughts and feelings and actions? Only one answer has promise: we take them to Christ over and over again; we ask him to deal with us on the inside so that we can be new on the outside. He can do for us what no counselor can, which is give us ...

3560. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... optics is that light comes from outside and strikes the retina where the process of sight begins. But that is not how the ancients understood the eye; for them it was not a light receiver but a light emitter.12 As a man of his age, this is what Jesus thought as well, “The eye is the lamp of the body,” and a lamp is a light giver. What you saw in life and believed about it was a reflection of who you were, what we would call your world view. And so while they were functionally wrong, the ancients were ...

3561. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... in time, there is a link between what you think and believe now and the meaning of your life and how it ends. There is a reason you are where you are, and if we trace the path together, perhaps we can find a new way made up of new thoughts and new actions, leading to a new groove of better habits and deeper character and, in the end, a different destiny. Get off the road of destruction and learn the path that leads of life. Take Jesus Christ as the center of your world. Learn him, because without him there ...

3562. The New Creation

Isaiah 65:17-25

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... pray, as we seek your direction as to how we can best serve you. Bless this service, and let your Spirit strengthen our hope and clarify our vision of the New Jerusalem. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O God, when we continue to live the way we always have, with selfish thoughts and destructive use of power guiding our decisions, we know that we are sinning against you. We come now with penitent hearts, seeking your forgiveness. Cleanse us, we pray, and enable the new life in Christ to take control of our ...

3563. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... He listened, nodded, and was quite considerate before finally saying very gently, “I don’t think that is the problem at all.” He diagnosed the condition, treated it with medication, and within two days, I was well. So much for my medical career. The point is, I thought I knew what was best, but sometimes we have to admit that we do not have all of the answers. We need another to help bring the cure. Mankind without Christ is lost. We cannot diagnose our own sin. Not long ago, we sent out an ingenious ...

3564. Identifying a Christian

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... people cannot hear what we say. Richard Fairchild tells about a man living in the Appalachian area during the Depression who went to Knoxville for the first time to transact some business. While there he saw a refrigerator that made ice. Since it was summertime, he thought it was a miracle of God. When he returned to his hometown in the mountains, his church was in the midst of a revival worship service. He arrived at the service during the time when people were giving testimonies. He told of the miracle of ...

3565. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... most important of all, we help them develop inner peace when we help them develop a sense of God’s presence in their lives. Pastor Walter Wangerin tells how his mother helped him find God. He writes of a childhood crisis of faith. For a long time, he thought he was the only person in his church who couldn’t see Jesus. His mother took him to church every week. He noticed the joy and peace that radiated from the church members’ faces. He wanted to meet this Jesus they talked about. But he had never seen ...

3566. The Blessed Promise

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... What’s the deal? I would love to hear Your take. How’d all these sinners get up here? God must’ve made a mistake. And why’s everyone so quiet, so somber? Give me a clue.”“Hush, child,” said He. “They’re all in shock. No one thought they’d see you.” (4) Here’s an interesting item for you to think about. Investor’s Business Daily reports a new study from Future Lab, a think tank in London. According to this study, more people are requesting they be buried with their cell phone. The ...

3567. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... , it is amazing how life comes together. A lady named Peggy Piland, writing in Guideposts, tells about an interesting event in her life. She had been planning to make brown-sugar pound cake, her specialty, for her Sunday School teacher, Mrs. Howell, who had been in her thoughts. But suddenly the idea to bake her a cheesecake popped into mind--a lemon cheesecake. The recipe called for fresh lemons. Peggy checked her supplies. No lemons, but plenty of brown sugar. A pound cake would be so much easier, she ...

3568. Night Moves

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... take it out of the hymnal, and he insisted that they keep it in. Bishops have that kind of authority, so it was kept in. But probably the reason it is named "Candler" is that it is a Scottish dance tune, named "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon." They thought "Candler" would look better in the hymnal. It is a wonderful hymn, and it is Wesley's words that I want us to look at this morning. He tells in this hymn the story of Jacob's wrestling with the stranger at the River Jabbok. Last week we looked at ...

3569. All Keyed Up

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... around the world. We are proud of that. We got the grand prize. We support mission. But ironically, that is the problem. We thought our mission is to support others in their mission. It didn't occur to us that we have a mission to perform right ... and to bless it. If we don't do that, people get real angry. Because in Christendom, you see, the culture and the Church are thought to be one. For 200 years in this country, that was pretty much the way things were. The churches were part of the establishment. ...

3570. Get Up and Go

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... ." It calls us to remember the promise that God has given to us, and pledge ourselves to live the kind of life that would realize that promise in our own lives. He got the service originally from the Puritans in England and placed it on New Year's Eve. He thought a renewal of the covenant at New Year's Eve, a watch night service, would be the most appropriate place for it. Later it was also used on the first Sunday as an opportunity for us to remember what God has done for us, and to pledge our lives in ...

3571. How Is Your Memory?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... remember when my oldest sister went to the movies on Sunday. She told our parents she was going to a friends house, which she did, but they went on to the movies after that. While they were there, there was one of those infamous Los Angeles earthquakes. She thought it was immediate and final judgment. She ran home and confessed everything. I witnessed this. I tell you, I was impressed. I am liberated now. I even go to a show once in awhile on Sunday. But I always sit next to the exit. Times have changed. I ...

3572. How to Look Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... with friends. They went to church one Sunday morning. Rogers said the sermon was terrible. As the minister was preaching, Rogers was listing all of the things the preacher was doing wrong. When the sermon was over, he turned to his friend to tell her what he thought of the sermon. He saw tears running down her face. She whispered to Rogers, "He said exactly what I needed to hear." That is when Rogers learned what Paul was trying to tell the Corinthians. Love is not arrogant. Love is not rude. Love does not ...

3573. How to See the Future

Matthew 26:17-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... a Presbyterian service in Scotland many years ago. At a certain point in the service the minister announced that during the singing of the hymn, the elders would bring the elements forward. The little boy thought the minister had said, "elephants." All of a sudden he got real interested in the communion. He thought it was going to be like the last act of Aida. Needless to say, he was disappointed. My favorite is a Methodist related story. A little boy attends his first communion in a Methodist Church ...

3574. Something to Sing About

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . He said that he would rather die than come and visit us." I mean, that is the way it sounds. It sounds so out of touch with our priorities. It is almost macabre, really, what he writes. It is certainly inappropriate. The Philippians were just trying to be thoughtful. He taught them to do that. He taught them to be concerned about one another, so they are doing that. They send a messenger, with a gift, a gift of love. It sounds like Paul is saying, "Thanks, but it really wasn't necessary. I am doing fine ...

3575. Fire Falling from Heaven

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... in his ear that night. He and the friend decided to surrender. The judge sentenced Loren to the state prison at Joliet. He had plenty of experience in county jail and the local juvenile detention center. He was tough. He thought he knew how to do hard time. It would not bother him, he thought. Unfortunately, he didn't know Joliet. His years there were experienced as being burned alive at the stake. Loren paid his debt to society and his first job as a free man was as the church custodian. The congregation ...

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3551. Let Me Say That Again

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

3552. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

3553. Awake to Glory

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

3554. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Hebrews 11:1-40, Philippians 2:12-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

3555. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and Elijah – who had conversation with Jesus. Peter was mesmerized. He relished the experience and didn’t want to give it up. He thought the presence of Jesus and the prophets could be bottled and sustained in that time and place. “Master, It is good for us ... me because I’m me or do you just care about me because of who I’m related to?” When I was younger I thought I was being paranoid and overly sensitive, simply an insecure adolescent. But as I got older I realized I had good reason to be ...

3556. The Gospel

Colossians 1:3-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

3557. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v1

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

3558. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill