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3901. Who Loves More?

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... open than they are now, so a woman was able to simply walk in off the street uninvited. Simon was not upset that an uninvited guest walked in; he was upset because of the kind of guest she was. Can you put yourself in a similar situation? How would you feel if you were throwing a dinner party and three people you didn’t know came in and sat at the table? Or even sat on the floor at the feet of one of your guests? You can imagine that that was a little disconcerting. It became even more disconcerting as ...

3902. When Jesus Comes

Luke 8:22-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... storm of passion, and the storm of sorrow are calmed. The storms of passion and the storms of sorrow are calmed. III. One other word: When Jesus comes the storms of fear are also calmed. We've already talked about it--the disciples were paralyzed with fear. I can feel with them, as many of you can. They were paralyzed with fear and they cried, "Master, we are perishing". Now we could talk about this in a lot of different ways. I want to focus in a way that gets too little attention--the ruts in which most ...

3903. I Saw Satan Fall

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was on top of his bed. Quickly, he would look to the top of his bed closely and see nothing. Again, the idea would hit him that something was under his bed. He would then drop down under his bed looking thoroughly and see nothing. He would feel that something was on top of his bed again. This would go on over and over. Top, underneath, top, underneath, top, underneath. The gentleman told the psychiatrist that this was driving him crazy. He needed some relief in order to carry on his other business. The ...

3904. Let Your Soul Catch Up

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... The world of getting things done is vital — the world of achievements, hard work, of goals reached and tasks completed, of obligations assumed and honored.... But the world of being is also vital — the world of quiet listening and resonating with our inner feelings, the world of coming close to persons, the world of meditation and prayer, the world of watching sunrise and sunset, and seeing things in the world as though for the first time, the world of reflection and encounter, the world of laughter and ...

3905. Pay Attention To The Inside

Luke 11:37-54

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... lesson as a warning, a judgment, a clarion call to pay attention to the inside. Now I hope you lawyers who are here don't feel too badly. You do come in for a pretty heavy beating -- and that's certainly the case in our Scripture lesson. I'm sure you ... was very calm. "I'm not worried,” he said, “You'll never find a lawyer up there to prosecute.” So lawyers, don't feel bad. Though Jesus did mention Pharisees and lawyers specifically, He was talking about all of us. So, this word of Jesus is a word for ...

3906. Gratitude Takes Practice

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... presumed to be people who were being punished for their sins. Their illness was evidence that God was punishing them. Can you feel just a bit of the awfulness of such a condition? If people are both contagious and sinful one would not want to ... mortal coil: Do I really want to never see another sunset?Do I really want to never hear by children laugh ever again?Do I never want to feel the warmth of another creature next to me?Do I really want to hurt people who love me?Do I want to leave a permanent hole in the ...

3907. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , Jesus comes to those who think they have everything, but He also comes to those who think they have nothing. I'm not talking about "nothing" only in terms of material possessions. I'm talking about Jesus coming to give hope to those who think it's over, and feel there is no place to turn. That kind of mood is not hard to come by today. All around us -- and certainly all over the world, there are people who are bereft of home, food, freedom, love, a job and any sense of security -- they think they have no ...

3908. Getting Ourselves Off Our Hands

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... notion -- living one day at a time. The question is, How do we do that? A housekeeper has provided some profound homespun wisdom for us. The woman for whom she worked was sharing with her some of the things that were tearing her apart. She confessed to her housekeeper, "I feel like I'm falling apart. I'm not a woman. I'm a mob. There's so many of me that I'm going off in all different directions. I'm overextended, I have too many commitments, too many things out there waiting for me to do." Finally, at the ...

3909. What Do You Want To Be Like When You Are 65?

Proverbs 3:1-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about his speech, he began to make some notes on the back of the itinerary. He was not pleased with his notes, so he tore off a page and crumbled it up, then started to write on the next page of his three-day schedule. Soon Dr. Schuller began to feel better about his speech, and when he arrived at his destination and was getting out of the cab, he suddenly remembered that the page he had torn out and crumpled up contained his schedule for the next day. He said to the cab driver, who was about to pull away ...

3910. Fair Weather Friends

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... with country music. One of my favorites in Blues is Mose Allison. He's a Mississippian who went to Ole Miss and is now singing all over the nation -- and I understand is becoming very popular abroad. In one of his songs he says, "I fooled around and got to feeling good, messed around and got humanized. You may think I'm ill advised, but I've gotten humanized." In another he says, "Well, I'm nothing but a sentimental fool. I used to think I had to be cool, then I became a capitalist tool, now I'm looking for ...

3911. A Rod For The Back Of Fools

Proverbs 25:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... education. They expected to spend their lives as teachers and they did. But they spent their lives teaching in a way and in a place that they would never have imagined. Shortly after completing undergraduate training, and after their marriage, Dean and Marjorie began to feel the call to become missionaries. In the mid-1950's, on behalf of the United Methodist Church, they went to be missionaries in South Korea. Some of you who were perhaps veterans of the Korean War, or others who may have been in that part ...

3912. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Changes You Hadn't Planned On", November 18, 1990)Don and Candy shared a poem with their pastor that has meant a lot to them. It is entitled "Heaven's Very Special Child". Don't get involved now, rationally, testing the fine points of theology in the poem. Just feel the impact of it. It goes like this. A meeting was held quite far from the earth!It's time again for another birth.Said the angels to the Lord above"This special child will need much love. His progress may be very slow.Accomplishments he may not ...

3913. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... beloved disciple and Demas". And then the third time there is this tragic commentary, "Demas has deserted me because he loved the world too much." His is the story of giving up too soon. One writer concluded, "The most important thing in life is not to run away." Do you feel the impact of that? You do, if you've ever been tempted as I have been -- to run away -- to quit. Have you ever been in that kind of place? I have. When I desperately wanted to throw in the towel, to throw up my hands. I remember a time ...

3914. When the Doctors Can't Help You

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... thought she could hide in the crowd, but it didn’t work. She’s been found out, exposed. Mark tells us, "Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.” We can feel for her, can’t we? Her condition was humiliating, and socially isolating. She’s probably kept it hidden as best she could for many years. But now it’s out there. No more hiding. No more pretending. Now everybody knows. Why couldn’t Jesus just heal her ...

3915. Adopted! (New)

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will--to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves . . ." Does that sound like a man who is sitting around a prison cell feeling sorry for himself? Ephesians is one of Paul's four "prison epistles" along with Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. If you were languishing in a Roman jail, would you be thinking of yourself as "predestined" to be "adopted" as "God's own child"? Paul was the ...

3916. What God Has Joined Together

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... overrides irritability." For example, a husband snaps at his wife after a long day. How does she respond? If she is in positive sentiment override, she overlooks the irritability. Her overall positive feelings about him override the isolated negative action. (6) In other words, do your positive feelings toward your spouse allow you to accept and forgive their mistakes, shortcomings and occasional thoughtless behavior? Or do you respond with negative sentiment override? In other words, do you strike back? A ...

3917. Seeing the Good News

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... for God in the center of your life for this Advent season? Is God's way into the center of your heart a straight and easy path or is the way cluttered and winding? The intent here is not to add more clutter in our lives by way of feeling guilty. (Although, guilt has gotten a bad name and the fact is that there are times when guilt is in order!) However, a proper response to John's message is to intentionally address a question to every aspect of our celebration of Christmas this year. "How does God relate ...

3918. And the Word Is...Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... been through it, too.’ After a few minutes I felt better, stammered out my thanks, and proceeded on with my laundry. "About 15 minutes later, here he came back with his wife. Without saying a word, she walked over and hugged me. Then she said, `I’ve been there, too. Feel free to talk to me. I know what you’re going through.’ Ann, I can’t tell you how much that meant to me. Here was this total stranger, taking her time to give me emotional support and courage to face the future at a time when I was ...

3919. Preparing for Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... prescribed. He tried to surrender himself a thousand times, but nothing seemed to happen. He never seemed to find or feel what others did. Many nights, from his little unplastered room under the rafters of his father’s farmhouse, he looked ... on a bolt instead of a bolt on a bike. The men’s laughter, even though it was not intended to be mean, hurt the boy’s feelings. He didn’t understand, but he knew something he had said must have been wrong. He backed away and left the shop. The men ran outside ...

3920. Epiphany: The Tragedy of Rejection

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... surface down to reality. Even the physical changes said as much: the blind could now see, the deaf hear, the leper feel new flesh. To Zacchaeus he revealed, without saying a word, that his grasping publican values were meaningless; so Zacchaeus gave exuberantly ... we are a bit older and they come to visit in ours. Very few prophets get a good hearing in their own country. We may feel great affection for the person next door, but it's hard to see him or her as an authority; however, people in another, farther ...

3921. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... gift. Most of us are not like that. Most of us wander. Drift. We try this. We dabble in that. We’re like Charlie Brown in an old Peanuts comic strip. Charlie Brown says with bewilderment, “I feel like I was born on the wrong planet!” Charlie’s like many of us, and it is a terrible feeling. In January of the year 1912 Robert Falcon Scott made a tragic journey to the South Pole. Afterward he described one occasion when weather conditions were such that a white haze blended with the whiteness of the ...

3922. Escape from the Island of Spiritual Sloth

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... I discovered titled, "The Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan's Island." I am not making this up. Seven characters on the island. Seven sins. You're welcome to look it up for yourself. The Professor obviously represents the sin of pride. What else are you going to feel after rigging up a ham radio with wire and two coconuts? Mary Ann? Oh, she's an easy one. Envy. Always envying the glamorous Ginger. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to discern that Ginger is the living embodiment of lust on the island. (I ...

3923. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... content was to abolish all desire until a person had come to the state when nothing and no one were essential to him. Then, too, the Stoics proposed to eliminate all emotion, all feeling, until he had come to a stage when he did not care what happened either to himself or to anyone else. His aim was to abolish every feeling and emotion of the human heart. So, in order to achieve contentment, the stoic abolished all desires and eliminated all emotions. Love was rooted out of life and caring was forbidden. As ...

3924. Alive In Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in Jesus Christ to be experienced only on occasion, the indwelling Christ is to become the shaping power of our lives. Let me picture that possibility. I have a friend who is a Benedictine monk. The way we live out our lives is vastly different, but I feel a real kinship, a oneness of spirit with Brother Sam. One of the most meaningful memories, to which I return often in my mind, is an evening he and I spent together alone, sharing our Christian journeys. The vivid highlight of that evening, still alive in ...

3925. If You Get Too Close to the Cross, You Will End Up Carrying It

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Mr. Lang was standing by. The businessman said to him , “I don’t understand it. Why do you carry such a heavy cross? I thought it would be hollow and light and easy to carry.” Mr. Lang looked at him and said with deep, deep conviction: “If I did not feel the weight of His cross, I could not play His part.” Well, that is it. That is Jesus’ call – to bear our cross and in so doing to bear His cross. It is really inevitable: “If you get too close to the cross, you will end up carrying it.” My ...

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