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3876. How To Be Rich And Poor

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... prayed for the change to come soon -- "I want to cross over into Campground." Well, it was not just the lowly, persecuted black slaves who received this message that we can glory in the fact that our lowly estate is short- lived. We poor whites in rural Mississippi sang our hope too. As soon as I could talk, almost, I was singing with the rest. Not only "This world is not my home" -- but another just like it: When we all get to Heaven,What a day of rejoicing that will be,When we all see Jesus,We'll sing and ...

3877. The Word And Words

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... behalf of the poor. And you can't read the gospel of Luke without that coming through clearly. God is always on the side of the poor. If Jesus played favorites -- He always favored the poor and the oppressed. So, the message could focus there, and I hope I'm never reticent in proclaiming that message clearly.However, here in this dramatic announcement of his being a servant on mission to the poor, there is no restriction outlined. His mission is to everyone. It's to you and me -- to all of us, because for ...

3878. The Rejected Cornerstone

Luke 20:9-19

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... hands. Did you ever play the game "hot potato"? It's a circle game we used to play, where "It" stands in the middle while we hold our hands behind us to pass the "hot potato" from hand to hand, hoping we don't get caught with it? Well, we try to play "hot potato" with God, don't we? We hope that God doesn't catch us with a "hot potato" in our hands. But, we had better be careful. Eventually, we are going to be caught. We can't escape. The day of reckoning will come. So, we can't ...

3879. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... yet be passionately in love with music." That's sort of the way it was with Peter. Though he did fail terribly -- though he did become the victim of over-confidence, he was still passionately devoted to Jesus. I like the way William Barclay puts it. There is hope for the man, who even when he is sinning, is still haunted by goodness." (Luke, p. 281). Peter was not condemned, because he still had a passion to follow Jesus, and that's our primary need It's the one thing that is necessary. William Booth was ...

3880. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... dropped her head and said sheepishly, "I 'tink he was a wabbit!" We are not that limited in our knowledge of the disciples -- I hope. We know their names. That is, if we aren't under pressure to name them. I think I told you about one of my most ... to this country through Chicago. I think that's the only time in my life I've ever returned from overseas travel through Chicago. And I hope I don't have to do that again -- because I've never had as much trouble with customs. I had a very close connection to get ...

3881. Speak And It Will Be

Luke 7:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... in our lives? Some of you are out of a job -- I know some of you are trusting Christ -- you are not simply waiting for something to happen -- you are doing everything you can, but you are staying strong. You are remaining bold. You still vibrate with hope -- because you believe that Christ is with you in all of life. Trust like that makes a difference. Some of you are struggling to stay together in a marriage. I wonder, have you struggled together with a mutual commitment to Christ. I believe that most of ...

3882. The Gospel Of Another Chance (choir Dedication)

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... how -- how can I turn this into something that will enhance and enrich my life. Through prayer and hard work, through prayer and hope, through prayer and God's power at work in him, he returned to the pitcher's mound and when he returned, he won ... Thank you Miss Dunnam for answering the phone that night I called. God is so good.(He drew musical notes around God is so good). I hope you both have a merry Christmas. He then signed his letter, "A Child of the King": and gave us his full name. We had never known ...

3883. A Pattern For Giving And Living

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... me to live with him in his apartment. He's a very nice fellow and I know you're going to like him very much. I do. And I hope you'll be happy to know that you'll be grandparents in seven months. Now, in closing, I want you to know that I don't want you to ... is a crime in a technologically developed world is destroying people physically, spiritually, mentally and also religiously because it poisons hope and makes a mockery of faith by turning it into helpless apathy. What comes between Christ and the world's ...

3884. Our Father's Love Begotten

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and Christmas. We confess our faith best when we sing it. There are things we can say in music and song that we can't say as well in any other way. That's the reason we have so many love songs. It's certainly true that the faith and hope, the joy and peace, all the feelings and relationships and commitments that are intensified at Christmas are better stated in song than in words without music. So our theme for Advent and Christmas is "Singing It." Today we begin with a hymn we don't sing very often. How ...

3885. Getting Our Lives Out Of Hock

Psalm 105:1-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... man said, "Two pieces." The lady replied, "One piece." The man continued, "Evidently, you don't know who I am. I'm the Governor of this state." The lady responded, "Evidently, you don't know who I am. I'm the lady in charge of the chicken." I hope you don't hear this as conflictual with what I've just said about taking responsibility. We are to take responsibility, but too many of us have been neurotic about responsibility and duty. We become guilty when anything around us goes wrong. Also, we get into a ...

3886. Reflections On A Calling (ten-year Anniversary Sermon)

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... anniversary of my ministry with you -- to reflect on a calling -- my calling and my commitment to being faithful to the cal. My hope and prayer is that it will enable us as a congregation to perceive the meaning of ministry and perhaps even call us to ... I can't go on and on. This is going too long. But I could go on and on. These ten years have been rich and rewarding. I hope that I've grown. I want to continue to grow. I believe we as a congregation in our awareness of who we are, in our discernment of ...

3887. To Live Is To Grow

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation " (I Peter 2:2) "But grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." (I Peter 3:18) We could go on and on with that and I hope you will. Do it as a spiritual exercise sometime during this coming week looking up those words continue and grow and see how the Scripture calls us to continue to grow. In our Scripture lessons today the call is clear continue in the faith and continue in these teachings ...

3888. Adopted! (New)

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... long to detoxify, but it can take several years to break an addiction. But he did break it, as others have done through the power of the risen Christ. That's a true story from a major Midwestern city. At last check, Mike was clean. He hit bottom but dared hope for a new start in Jesus Christ. (5) Paul would have understood that young man's situation. Paul had made a total and complete change in his own life. Once he was a rigid, angry young man, who was so zealous about the way he had been brought up, that ...

3889. We Can't Afford It! Oh, Really?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... the world’s hungry. Not by ourselves, of course, but with the help of other caring people. Remember, there are two billion Christians on this earth. We could heal conflicts between the nations of the world. We could give comfort to the lonely, freedom to the captive, hope to the desperate. We have the resources. All we lack is faith. What is it that Christ said? “…if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be ...

3890. Choices

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... steadfastly refused to see him. The chaplain was asked to intervene, to plead with the boy to see his father, but the young prisoner refused. Despite his refusal, the boy’s father took off work every week, boarded a bus, and traveled across the state in the hope of seeing his son. Every week. It became the young minister’s difficult task each week to ask the son, “Do you want to see your dad?” Then he had to bear word of the refusal to the waiting father. The father would thank the chaplain, gather ...

3891. Your Dreams Are Too Small

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... leading her in that direction. Then one day, Chloe ran into an old friend from high school. In high school, this girl had been talented and ambitious. Now she was prematurely aged, addicted to drugs, living in a decaying neighborhood. She had lost all hope for the future. She convinced Chloe to visit her old neighborhood and to witness the devastation caused by poverty, drugs, violence, and urban decay. As soon as Chloe saw her old neighborhood, she knew that God was calling her back to minister there. She ...

3892. The Baby Leaped

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... floating baby hovered over the manger, lowering precariously and swinging ever so slightly. But a good 4 or 5 feet above the crib, the descent came to a halt and baby Jesus hung suspended for ever so long above the manger. Pastor Dahlrimple repeated the cue, hoping Elder Fred would let out more line, but to no avail. What the good pastor could not know was that Elder Fred had come to the end of his fishing line. So there baby Jesus hung, floating above the manger, his intended destination. Finally realizing ...

3893. God's Battle Against Sin

Zephaniah 1:1-3

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... lives, he sometimes gives us the power to soar up on wings like eagles and to run and not be weary. But always he gives us the ability to walk steadfastly forward, day by day. In his loving action, we find our security, and in his promises we have our hope for the future, knowing that nothing in all creation and not even death can separate us from the love he has for us in Jesus Christ our Lord. Yes, for all of these reasons, we rejoice and exult because God is present in our midst in peace, coming to us ...

3894. The Coronation of Christ

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... result in blessings poured out upon the populace. For example, when Solomon was crowned king over Israel, 1 Kings 1:40 tells us that "all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise." The hope of the people was that the new king would be a righteous king who would make the people righteous in God's sight and thus secure his favor toward them. It is this custom that forms the background of Second Isaiah's hymn of joy in our text ...

3895. Suffering Servant Song

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... good and faithful servant. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you." And such persons are powerful witnesses to the workings of God, aren't they? Like the Suffering Servant drawing all nations to God, faithful souls draw others to him, to find the strength, the hope, the joy that so illumine their faithful lives. There was One, however, who outdid us all in sacrifice and joy as the Suffering Servant. When the disciples and apostles and authors of the New Testament strained to tell who Jesus Christ is, they ...

3896. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... in this room who has the love of Jesus, would you be prompted by that love to go with me and help me?’ “I looked down at my questions,” writes Fred Craddock, “they were so absolutely stupid. And I learned, again, what it means to be Christian and had hopes that I could be that someday.” (4) Fred Craddock was in the presence of a man who knew his purpose in life--to serve Christ by serving others. What is the purpose of your life? I can tell you this: if you are living only for yourself, you’ve ...

3897. Being Christ

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... -20: "I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the all-glorious Father, may give you the spiritual powers of wisdom and vision, by which there comes the knowledge of him. I pray that your inward eyes may be illumined, so that you may know what is the hope to which he calls you, what the wealth and glory of the share he offers you among his people in their heritage, and how vast the resources of his power open to us who trust in him. They are measured by his strength and might which he exerted in Christ ...

3898. All This and Heaven Too

Luke 18:18-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... I baptized her. She was sentenced—and was sent to the prison in Nashville to do her time. She tried desperately to call Jerry before they put her on a bus to send her to Nashville. She wanted to thank Jerry and let her know that she was confident and hopeful, because as she put it, she was a new person in Christ, liberated in spirit if not in body. That’s a dramatic case. But sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the dramatic in order that we might lay hold of what we desperately need. And we need it ...

3899. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... faith of one person working for the healing sake of another. But in this instance, Jesus is saying some healing is up to you. You have to participate; you have to desire it; it has to be an act of your will. Look at that man again. Had he lost hope? Had he settled down into a kind of negative despair? Or consider this possibility; or was he content in his illness because to be healed would mean he would have to take responsibility; in that he would have to begin to make decisions? He might have to begin to ...

3900. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... miles distance from frustration, confusion, grief and despair. Cleopas and his companion wanted to get out of town, to get away from it all in order to try to forget, to sort out their feelings and somehow find a way to start all over again. With chins dragging and hope in the ditch, at a low ebb, they headed west, talking together as if saying it again would somehow make it go away; retelling the story to one another to ease the pain and share the heaviness. We know where Emmaus is don’t we? We have been ...

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