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3851. Come On Down

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... , have to rip open heaven so that he can become involved in the affairs of earth. This petition of the prophet is a reminder that Advent is the cry for God to reveal himself. Elie Wiesel tells of an ancient story that has meaning for our time and helps us understand the prophet's cry. A man is on a boat. He is not alone, but acts as if he were. One night -- without warning -- he suddenly begins to cut a hole under his seat. The other people on the boat shout and shriek at him: "What on earth are you ...

3852. Going, Going, Gone

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... hassle, bustle, and bother to see a home run at Wrigley and hear the joyous expression, "It's going; it's going; it's gone!" Elisha, the successor to Elijah the Prophet had no knowledge or understanding of modern day baseball, nor the parlance that surrounds baseball. He could, however, understand "Going, going, gone," for he would watch the man who had been his spiritual mentor for ten years suddenly taken from him by supernatural means. Elisha, the prophet, understudy to Elijah, could shout, "He's going ...

3853. The Challenge of God Brings Hope

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... too needs to be tested and challenged. Our faith is tested on many occasions in varied ways. We periodically come across other members of the faith community who disagree with our opinion or theological understanding. Decisions are sometimes made with which we have difficulty, disagree, or simply do not understand. These challenges to our faith are ones we must engage, although it is not easy to navigate safely around such troubled waters. Other tests of our faith come when things happen, especially when ...

3854. Follow the Signs to God and Eternal Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... must be a counter sign to this prevailing attitude. The contemporary world badly needs the direction which the church as a sign can provide. Another popular church model uses the Pauline image (1 Corinthians 12:12-31) of "the people of God," necessitating our understanding of the significant responsibility we have of being signs to others of the presence, love, and power of God in our world. Whether we know, want, or accept it, people are not neutral on us. People are either drawn closer to us or pushed ...

3855. Death Leads to Life

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... of what they wanted; they had dreams for their futures. But what they wanted and how it came about did not happen in the way they expected. They did not realize that being cut down was the price for entry into God's glory. They did not understand it, but they needed to be molded and transformed, a process which took a sense of dying to their own wants and desires. On Good Friday we commemorate Jesus' death, his complete sacrifice. Saint Paul summarizes Jesus' action well: "And being found in human form he ...

3856. No Other Name

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... , is God worth our time? If God is not loving, if God is not forgiving, if God is not accepting, humanity is in big trouble. If you are in a discussion with people of a different faith, ask them to describe God. Then you paint for them your understanding of Jesus. If there is any superiority of Christianity to other religions, it is only at this point: We direct people to Jesus. Jesus gives us a picture of God. There is no other god worthy of human worship. What we are seeking, then, is to introduce people ...

3857. The Indwelling Christ And Holy Communion

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that day was far more important than the 10 days of general conference. We talked all that day, we talked all that day about the indwelling Christ and the presence of Christ in Holy communion, because you see, the Methodists’ understanding of Holy Communion and the Catholic understanding of Holy Communion is the same, except the role that the priest plays in the process. Because the MethodistChurch, and if you don’t know this yet I want you to know it, the MethodistChurch believes that Christ is really ...

3858. Servants Without Portfolio

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we suffer, the more we will pray, and prayer is one of God’s great instruments of redemption and reconciliation. Our suffering and the suffering of others is embraced by the compassionate Christ and in a way that we may never fully understand until we get to Heaven, our intercession through identity and suffering becomes a channel of Christ’s liberating power. Can we work on these together as a congregation? Direct action, stewardship, prayer. I must close now. I titled this sermon ‘Servants without ...

3859. Reconciliation: Our Gift And Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... faces. They were like hungry people who had not tasted bread for days. They’re rough hands too the bread tenderly, and it was as though they caressed the cup, as they took and received their sip of life giving juice. When you know their story, you could understand why it was so. Their story is personified in one man, Alexander Coombs. He is the fellow that the Upper Room gave the citation to this year, and that was one of the primary reasons for our being there. Because he would not submit to the Soviet ...

3860. Curiosity Or Consecration

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we work out our salvation with fear and trembling. That we grow up to maturity into the statue of the fullness of Christ. How intentional are we about the call to maturity. Are you any - listen, listen now. Are you any further along in your understanding of and commitment to the Christian faith than you were when you first joined the church? Do you look any more like Jesus Christ today than you did last year? Are you really seeking, earnestly, to appropriate his spirit, his lifestyle? Your response to these ...

3861. Christmas Is On Top Of A Steep Hill

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’ name. Amen. There is no more exciting world than the world of children. That’s the reason I’m happy that in every worship service of this church we have so many children with us in worship. And I hope that these children, though they may not understand everything that goes on, will feel that they are as much a part of our congregation as anyone else who worships. Last night we had a wedding here, we have weddings here rather often. Rebecca Triplet and David Grants were getting married, and it was a ...

3862. What Really Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and the wind. Go when you don’t want to go. And when you least expect it, you may glimpse through an open door, a revelation. Now I’m sure that all of us, certainly this is true with me, all of us have a long way to go in understanding and experiencing what Paul is talking about - the fellowship of Christ’s suffering. I think we can all know this though – the deeper we love, the more we will suffer. The more we suffer, the more we will pray. The more we will pray, the more we will be aware ...

3863. Soul Drain

Psalm 63:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... answer – not only to soul drain, but to all the problems that plague human life. And I want to be presumptuous this morning, and bold in offering a prescription. Did you hear the story of that preacher out in Texas? Texas preachers are a special breed I understand. He was holding forth one Sunday morning in a large sanctuary like this, and it was the tradition in that church for the young people to sit in the balcony, as it’s the tradition for young people to sit in our balcony here. And that particular ...

3864. Constantly Abiding

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... this country and give him an education so that he can serve effectively in the Soviet Union. You say you’ve never taught Sunday School – obey the call and you will be supplied. You say that you’ve never worked with people in the inner city, you don’t understand – obey the call and the Lord will equip you. You say you’re already over committed financially, there’s no way that you can give 10% of your income to the church – obey the call and begin to do it and you will be given the wisdom to ...

3865. Christ Signs The Letter Of The Church

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ; that matter has always existed, and that out of evil matter the world was created, thus the world and all its material expression is evil. A distant emanation of God, not God Himself, created the world, because God could not touch evil. This general understanding issued in some specific expressions. (1) The creating god is not the true God, but a distant emanation ignorant of and even hostile to the true God. (2) Jesus was not unique, but merely an emanation, one of the many intermediaries between God and ...

3866. The Family: A Place For Persons

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... men: "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her." Paul founded his teaching on the fact that the person in Christ has a new center of reference, a new Lord of life, and thus operates out of a totally new understanding of reality. People are brothers and sisters, all recipients of grace, and in the eyes of the Lord there is no distinction in worth between male and female. That's the kind of community the Holy Spirit creates -- in our homes, and in the church -- a family ...

3867. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... material world. This theory preserved a rationalization that matter was evil and spirit was good. Since God was spirit and therefore good, the evil material world could have no contact with him. One can immediately see what a challenge this was to basic Christian understanding as Christ as the Incarnation of God. The Christian teaching that God came in the flesh of Jesus Christ, loved, forgave, and reconciled the world, could not be, argued the Gnostics. If Jesus was the Son of God, he could not dwell in ...

3868. Put To Death The Old; Put On The New

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... by death. This is the way we enter -- the only way. Baptism, our acted out entrance into the church, is by water. So, death by water is a challenging and authentic understanding of baptism. The early church often built its baptismal fonts in the shape of tombs to make the meaning sensually graphic. With that image clearly in mind we can begin to understand what Paul is taking about when he uses terms like "put off" and "put on" which is what we are exploring today. Look at verses 9 and 10 beginning in the ...

3869. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... resonate to it because it is truth we have experienced, or need desperately to experience. With extraordinary understanding and pristine clarity, with unmuddied sensitivity and spiritual depth, Paul has mined the very essence of the ... , my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging symbol. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains -- but if I have not love I am nothing. I may give away everything I ...

3870. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... shall be light about me...the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee." (Psalm 139: 8, 11-12) And it was good and it was very good. Not only has God brought deliverance from darkness, but sometimes God reveals himself most vividly in the darkness. We may not understand it, or explain it, but we can know full well that God is in the midst of everything. God is light therefore one day we will see. God is love therefore one day we will be satisfied. Now it may not come immediately in fact it may be a ...

3871. East Of Eden And The City Of Beginning

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... what Alex Haley said about the turtle who found himself atop a six-foot fence post in a bean field. "He didn't get where he was all by himself." We know that about our situations. We didn't get there by ourselves, so we blame God. Cain, unable to understand why his gift is not accepted, stands before the altar of God with a godless heart. God is not acting according to his program. God's response is not what he anticipated. And so Cain reflects our egotism -- and our lack of trust. When things don't go our ...

3872. Declaration Of Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . It's the last week of Jesus' life. He has ridden into Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey -- the crowd has been excited and have cried their hosannas to him. But, that was too much for the religious and political leaders. They couldn't understand -- and what they did understand they didn't like. Here was one who was challenging their power -- their religious and their political power. So, Jesus knows what's going to happen -- it's too obvious to Him. He gathered his disciples in the upper room and taught them ...

3873. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... away -- come and settle where the Lord wants them to settle. The prophet could just as well have said, "The Lord snaps his fingers, and it's done." The Lord shaves with a borrowed razor. It's a picture of the Sovereignty of God. Let's try to understand and appropriate the full meaning of this unusual expression by looking at three affirmations. One, God uses what God pleases to accomplish God's will. Two, it pleases God to use the unlikely, and three, any one of us may be God's borrowed razor. I. First, God ...

3874. Count It All Joy

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... other person's struggles. We sometimes think we do. But more often than not, what we perceive is far from reality. I've never been a drinking man, so I can't begin to understand the struggle of an alcoholic. Yet I would say to you that if you are not involved with people as I am, day in and day out, then you can't understand my struggle with pretension, or self- righteousness. People who say one thing and mean and do another. So we need to be careful about judging others. We never know what may be going on ...

3875. Swift To Hear -- Slow To Speak

James 1:19-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... listening is more important than speaking? I don't know, really. But I do know that most of us talk more than we listen. Bruce Larsen once quipped, "It makes me angry to hear the words, 'Next time we get together, I want to hear all about you!'" I can understand that. I share Bruce's anger. I have two clergy friends. I see them only once or twice a year. It happened that I saw them both in the course of a couple of weeks recently. They live on either side of the Continent, and we meet, really, only as ...

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