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3726. Living While You Wait

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... world’s standards would be first in his kingdom, how servants would become masters and how the Cross was the way to the Crown of life. But it’s so difficult for us to think that way. So we miss Jesus’ big message and meaning if we aren’t careful how we think. I close with this. A young girl, upon walking into the church and seeing for the first time the cross on the altar, asked her father-preacher , Joseph Gotten, “Daddy, what’s that plus sign doing up here?” I submit to you that the cross ...

3727. Where In the World Is God?

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... from the hurting edges of our day is this poignant plea: “Where in the world is God? What on earth is he doing?” Others plead: “If there is a God, where is he when we need him the most? Why doesn’t he do something if he loves and cares for people?” One writer, on seeing the misery of starving children, declared: “If God would only get up in the night to watch over his own, these children would not be so pale, stunted and wretched.” (From a sermon by Don Shelby, preached July 12, 1981) Today is ...

3728. Dealing with Stress Creatively

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

James W. Moore

... brings us to a second approach. Some say “escape the stress”… that’s number one. II. SECOND, OTHERS SAY “ENDURE THE STRESS.” Recently, I was driving on an old dirt road way out in the country when I came to a sign which said: “Be real careful which ruts you get into. You’ll be in them for the next 20 miles!” Some people get in the rut of seeing life as nothing more than just coping, just enduring, just surviving, just sticking it out. In a recent Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown expressed ...

3729. Bearing the Marks of Christ

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the way you speak, by the way you live, and by the way you relate to others… that you are the servant of Christ? Can people look at you and tell by the way you respond to the church, by the way you treat your mate, by the way you care for your children, by the way you act at home with your family… that you have the Spirit of Christ in you? In recent years, we have experienced an upsurge in religious, button-wearing and religious bumper-stickers. I don’t know about you, but I have never much wanted ...

3730. On the Road with Zacchaeus

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... any love-commitment. Saying “I’m Sorry” means “I love you” and I treasure our relationship. Saying “I’m Sorry” means “I care about you” and I want so much for things to be right with us. Saying “I’m Sorry” means “I cherish you, ... had happened and then asked me what I would do if I were him. I knew this was highly emotional to him so I measured my words carefully. “I don’t like to give advice,” I said to him, “but you asked me what I would do if I were in your place, so I ...

3731. Samaria and Our Spiritual Journey

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... difficulty and came to the second wall. It was about the same height as the first one. I climbed that, jumped to the other side only to find myself outside again.” He had climbed in and out across a corner of the wall. He tried again, this time with more careful attention to where that second wall was. He noticed that there was a gate in the wall, and as the gate was lower than the rest of the wall, and provided footholds, he decided to climb over the gate. He did, and as he was sitting astride the top of ...

3732. When Are We Most Like God?

Exodus 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . (Exodus 2:23-25). Could more be packed into three verses? Is there a more descriptive word about the character of God in the whole of the Bible? Look at it. In four action words, we have a clear picture of God who loves and cares and intervenes in the lives of hi is people. God hears - “God heard their groaning”. God remembers - “God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.” God sees - “God saw the people of Israel.” And God knows - “God knew their condition.” Now ...

3733. A Sunday Kind of Love

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... at first sight, I want a Sunday kind of love. I want a love that's on the square, Can't seem to find somebody to care, I'm on a lonely road that leads me nowhere, I need a Sunday kind of love. What makes a “Sunday love” so special, so desirable, ... dangling participles. When the English teacher finally went to see her student, she was horrified. She found him still in the critical care unit. He was totally mummified in white gauze. He could only move his mouth, and that only barely. She couldn’t believe ...

3734. The Trinity

John 16:5-16

Sermon

... that the God of the universe so completely poured himself into the person of Jesus Christ that when Jesus died on the cross God himself died. These views are foreign to the Christian way of thinking. We affirm that the same God who molded the universe also cares about what happens in our life. Indeed, he is actively and mysteriously involved in helping to shape the events of your life. The fact that we refer to the first person of the Trinity as Father says something about what God is like. In fact, Jesus ...

3735. We Are Small

John 16:5-16

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Larry Bethune

... the magnitude of this eternal mystery we call "God." You catch your breath. You feel in the pit of your stomach what the psalmist felt when he looked at the starry sky and wrote, "What is man, that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?" Amazing! We are small. We are infinitesimal. Our minds are too primitive to comprehend the majesty of God. Our hearts are too small to contain the love of God. Our lives are too short to search out the works of God. Yet! God ...

3736. Fresh Every Morning - A Token and a Truth

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ”, Easter Sunday, April 22, 1984) Even into the life of a supposed atheist, as into the life of whimpering unbelievers who had been chosen by God to be in covenant with him, God works with loving patience and long suffering grace to reveal himself as the one who cares for each on of us, who is conceived about our coming out and going in, who numbers the hairs on our heads, and notes the fall or the sparrow. See that in this miracle of the manna: a token of God’s loving patience and long suffering grace ...

3737. Taught by a Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... money into a golden calf - to allow money - how we get it and how we use it - to edge God out of the His place in our lives. And then there is security, our neurotic drive for security which shows our lack of faith in God. Do we believe He cares for1IT own or not? Do we constantly claim His promise (Matthew 6:26) “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor / gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them; are ye not of more value than they?” Some subtle ones may serve to ...

3738. When Being Christian Has Worn You Down (Compassion Fatigue)

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... picture of Jesus in Matthew 25. The basis on which we will be judged is made scathingly clear. The basis? Compassion Love and care for others. “Come, oh blessed of my father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was ... over again. I confess that this is a big problem in my life. Hardly a week passes that I’m not so burdened by the cares and concerns of my congregation that I will awaken two or three mornings during the week, at 2 or 3 o’clock, and begin to ...

3739. In the Lions' Den (Dealing with Stress)

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... into a brick wall and her back was broken in the lower lumbar vertebra. She had no feeling below her waist. Although she can’t remember anything now, Kirby never lost consciousness at the scene of the accident or even during the seven days in intensive care. She does have wide-eyed singing memories of 105 days in the hospital and several long surgeries, followed by painful therapy. Kirby is working hard at learning how to walk again, and her doctors tell her that she may be able to do that, with the ...

3740. Why Jesus Didn't Perform Funerals

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... in it.” Repeated incidents of being ignored so discounted the boy that he became psychotic. (3) In a sense, Earl’s desperate story is the story of every person who tries to live without God. Is there no one there to notice me? No one there to care about me? No one there to help me cope with my life? For many people today the answer is “no one.” Without Christ life is ultimately hopeless. He is the source of life abundant life life with possibilities untold. Indeed, he is the only real hope of new ...

3741. When You Want to Run Away

Psalm 11:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... will rain coals of fire and brimstone; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. I have an idea that the psalmist is remembering the Sodom and Gomorrah he had heard of in the temple. The rescue of Lot was an illustration of God’s care for his own. The burning, searing devastation of Sodom and Gomorrah was an illustration of the terrors of judgment. So, the psalmist could resist the temptation of his friends, “Flee like a bird to the mountains.” He counted on the power of God. Not he, but hi ...

3742. Two for the Price of One

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it before. Parents are as happy as their most hurting child. That’s a generality, of course, and not an unquestioned truth, but the truth is there — and parents know it, I think, more than anyone else. It costs to love. It costs to be in a ministry of caring. We can minister to others without something going out from us. We can’t stay aloof. Our hands are going to get dirty and our heads are going to hurt. II Let’s move now to Jairus. He is desperate, too. His little daughter was ill to the point ...

3743. Should America Repent?

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... say, someone comes to mind in every one of our hearts on each of these three questions. People who make a difference in our lives are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. Those who make a difference are the people who care; the people who have been there with us no matter the circumstances. Maybe it is time to change our concept of heroes from actors and athletes to firemen and friends, those who go in when the rest of the world is going out. Maybe it is time to repent ...

3744. Living on Full Alert

Matthew 24: 36-44

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Parousia, as our Christian theology calls it. I. CHRIST IS COMING—BE TRUSTING. The musical group, Chicago, recorded a song several years ago asking, “Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?" When it comes to predicting the end of the world, Jesus says, nobody knows what time it is but God, so why should the rest of us care at all. Verse 36 But about the day and the hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, or the Son, but only the Father. I know it is a blow to the ...

3745. The Christ Connection

Colossians 1:9-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and the emptiness of the universe without Him. When you come to Christ, the fullness comes together for you. Does God care? Look at Christ. Can God forgive? Look at Christ. Why do people suffer? Look at Christ. Who holds the future? Look ... series in Christian books today. In the meantime, Jesus was explicit and critical of those who wanted to calculate the end of time. Be careful how you interpret time in light of eternity. That is not the question. The question is not, what's the world coming to? The ...

3746. Doing What Disciples Do

John 15:12-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... person feeling free is the one doing the forgiving. C. DISCIPLES SEEK TO SERVE As a single mother, she gets up 5:30 each morning and gets herself ready for work. She dresses her sleepy children, gets them a bite to eat, drops them off at day care and school, fights the morning traffic, hunts for a parking space, grabs a cup of coffee, slides behind her desk. For the day, she endures the petty office gossip and deals with fragile male egos in order to make enough money for her struggling family. She finds ...

3747. How To Triumph Over Terrorism

Ephesians 6:10-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... in my life. I needed a place to pray. That day I started to rebuild my faith in God. After many hours of thought, prayer, memories and resolutions, I have come to the awareness that we have a role in this world that goes far beyond us simply taking care of ourselves. I thank God for leading me to a new church home. Thank you and thank this congregation for opening their arms and giving me a home for my new faith.” Put on the armor of faith. III. PUT ON HOPE. An elderly parent disturbed by many problems ...

3748. We Believe in Life Everlasting

John 11:17-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . It is not that having money is evil. It is that self-sufficiency is stupid. However rich we are, independent we feel, people who need people are the luckiest people in all the world. We are created for community and we belong together supporting, nurturing, and caring for one another. When we worry that our lives are passing in a parade of trivialities, it is good to find someone in need and help them. Teens who help others are 50% less likely to join gangs, use drugs, or become pregnant. Their grades are ...

3749. About Whose Business Was He?

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... him to Jerusalem for the annual Passover feast, according to Jewish tradition. What Luke gives us is a touching story about parents who care, a church that listens, and a boy that is growing in his faith. While I am not suggesting we are holy families ... as a church. Come let us look a little closer at this boyhood story of Jesus. I. It is a Story about Parents Who Care According to Jewish law all Jewish males had to attend a Jerusalem Passover at least once in their lifetime. Women were not required to ...

3750. What Would Jesus Say About the Marginalized?

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... hungry and there are many other agencies of similar kind trying to extend the hand of generosity to those around the world. I believe Christians want to hear the cry of the needy and do something about the plight of the poor. I believe Christians care that 8.5 million people in America experienced hunger last year including 3 million children. I'm not talking about the world, I'm talking about yours and my fellow citizens of the United States of America. I know believers are more generous to all charities ...

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