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3901. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sufficient for our healing. Now the story of our Scripture lesson printed above is dramatic enough, and the lessons that are there, I believe are rather clear. So let’s move immediately to announce what those lessons are, and then to explore them for our understanding. One, Jesus’ ministry is a healing one. Two, the stance of faith is to accept any miracle Jesus wants to give. And three, some healing is up to us. I First, let’s simply record the fact that Jesus’ ministry is a healing one. Throughout ...

3902. Keeping Our Souls

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sermon in a homiletics class. When he got through, the professor gave him his critique. “John, I’ll give you an A- on the sermon. It was a good one. But I must give you an F on the title.” “An F?” said John. “I don’t understand. What’s wrong with my title?” “Well,” said the professor, “the title is one of the most important parts of the sermon. It should be so compelling and captivating that if a busload of people pass by your sign on Sunday morning, they would be instantly motivated ...

3903. Awake to Glory

Luke 9:28-36

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... 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 enables us to grasp and understand some things which are otherwise beyond us. The Gospel of Mark has a fascinating contrast in our levels of perception. Mark 5:20 tells us of the miracle Jesus performed for a man who had been violently insane. It says that when people saw and heard what had ...

3904. Let Not Thy Will Roar, When Thy Power Can But Whisper

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Most of your cards and greetings showed that you were aware of the fact that I do appreciate the characters in Peanuts cartoons. One of them had Lucy kneeling beside her bed praying and this is what she said, “Lord, I would pray for greater patience and understanding, but I am afraid I would get it.” Well, my prayer was, “Lord, renew me, body, mind and spirit – and teach me what You will.” God answers our prayers. He not only has a sense of humor; He has a sense of irony. We arrived in Navarre ...

3905. Partners In the Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... couple and this congregation and staff, and this bishop and the Methodist connection -- it involves the whole church, the whole gospel, the whole world. I believe that -- I am not just speaking lofty words -- I believe that because that is the way I understand the church. Centenary is a dynamic outpost of Kentucky Methodism, but more than that, you’re an outpost of the Kingdom. You’re connected with the whole Church, not just the whole Church Militant today around the world, but the Church Triumphant ...

3906. The Proof Is In the Pudding

Luke 7:18-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... to the poor.” The proof is in the pudding—open doors to whom and to what? I Somewhere along the way, I think I got it from one of my heroes, Bishop Gerald Kennedy, I connected a drama critic’s definition of the theater with an understanding of the Church. “The theater,” said the critic, “is the dwelling place of wonder.” Well said—a good definition of the theater—but I believe it’s a better definition of the Church. Think about it: the Church is the dwelling place of wonder—the Church ...

3907. The Work of An Evangelist

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... did you sleep last night?” “In an abandoned truck.” I had heard enough and wanted to get this over quickly. I reached for the money clip in my back pocket. At that moment David put his finger in front of my face and said, “No, you don’t understand – I don’t want your money. I’m going to die out there. I want the Jesus that red-haired girl talked about.” I hesitated, then closed my eyes. God, forgive me, I begged. I felt soiled and cheap. Me, a minister of the Gospel… I had wanted simply ...

3908. We Who Are Many Are One Body

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... s voice, for through our voices comes the Spirit! I know you and I believe we would hear everyone’s voice who in conviction and faith offers an opinion or a plea before this body. I’m not preaching unity at any cost. But at some point we need to understand that unity is God’s will for us. Unity is a precious thing. In fact, unity is the gift that is ours through our salvation and baptism; it is our unity in Christ. That is the miracle that makes us strong. Without it we will have lost each other and ...

3909. The Ascension

Acts 1:1-11

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... he remains with us to give us the power to carry out his mission of taking the gospel to the far corners of the earth. This morning as we remember Jesus' departure, give us a better understanding of the Ascension. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Almighty God, sometimes when we do not fully understand your mighty acts, we tend to doubt and question. Help us, we pray, as we seek answers to our questions to find a deeper faith that enables us to put our whole trust in you. Amen. Offertory ...

3910. The Baptism Of Jesus

Luke 3:1-20

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... the Baptism of Jesus. Collect Lord, we know that when Jesus began his ministry he was baptized with water by John the Baptist, and with the Holy Spirit as you declared he was your Son. This morning as we reflect on this event, help us to understand more fully the meaning and significance of our own baptism. Then may we go forth to carry out our own ministry empowered by the same Holy Spirit. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Forgive us, God, if we ever take lightly our baptism. On that occasion your Spirit came ...

3911. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... make the appeal for daily bread, you are asking for the blessing of God on the whole cycle of production and committing yourself to do what you can to eliminate hunger. And if ever you eat without first bowing your head, you simply do not understand your world and who sustains it. I like what Martin Luther wrote in answer to the question, What is meant by daily bread? “Everything that belongs to the support and wants of the body, such as meat, drink, clothing, shoes, house, homestead, field, cattle, money ...

3912. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to act your way into a new way of feeling than of feeling your way into a new way of acting. Your heart will follow the lead. Jesus said so, and he knows how we work. Put your time and money in the things of the kingdom as best you understand them, then watch as your feelings adjust and find new delights. It is possible, I am told by the advanced in these matters, to get to the point of trusting God for everything when you have absolutely nothing. You and the Lord have developed a deep partnership and a ...

3913. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the less. Critters and plants have value because they too were made by God and are necessary to balance of this world, but we are of more value since we alone bear God’s image and likeness. We are over all else, not to exploit it but to understand and develop it with respect. I believe, with John Wesley I might add, that the new heavens and the new earth will include animals and plants because it is not less than this world but this world utterly restored.10 Lions and lambs will play, and I am secretly ...

3914. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to wherever he is."3 Until we see people through the merciful eyes of God the Father, until the risen Jesus shows us worth and beauty amidst the crud and compromise, until the Holy Spirit corrects our sight with divine revelation, we do not understand one another at any depth. It is our ignorance that makes us arrogant, critical, and judgmental. And Christ forbids it. The passage before us was not conceived as general wisdom for the crowds listening around the edges but as specific counsel for disciples who ...

3915. The Work Of The Holy Spirit

John 16:5-16

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... Worship Jesus promised that when the Holy Spirit came he would reveal the truth about God. Let us open our minds and hearts to the Holy Spirit that we may better understand God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. Collect Loving God, our Father, may your Spirit be with us in this time of worship so that we may come to know you better, understand your will for us, and serve you with complete love and loyalty. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O Lord, we confess that our lives do not always ...

3916. Wisdom and the Trinity

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... and he continues to be our God and to be with us in the Person of the Holy Spirit, who is given to us from the Father and the Son. So how, then, are we to understand this text from the Old Testament about Wisdom? This personified figure of Wisdom in Proverbs 8 will probably become clear for us if we understand Wisdom in the Old Testament (and indeed in the apocryphal book of Wisdom) as the plan of God. Wisdom was there with God when he made the universes, the fifty billion galaxies that our astronomers tell ...

3917. Panic Room

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... exactly where he was located. Dr. Phillip McGraw, popularly known as Dr. Phil on his daily talk show, helps people get their lives together. Our everyday choices, says Dr. Phil, separate the sane and successful from the frustrated and failing. “The important thing to understand,” he concludes, “is that the number one catalyst in the choices we make is fear.” It’s true. The number one problem that causes many of us to make wrong choices is that we are afraid--afraid of what our friends will think ...

3918. A Time of Grief

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... did a cartwheel over the grave. Eda LeShan must have looked surprised because Liz’s mother, smiling broadly, turned to her and said, “Liz hasn’t done any cartwheels since Bob died. He used to love it when she did.” Reflecting upon this, LeShan said: “I tried to understand just what Liz’s message to her father meant. Then I realized that her gift to him was to pick up the threads of her life and to begin to live as fully as she could.” (8) That’s what her father would have wanted. That’s ...

3919. Something to Sing About

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... war as Letters And Notes From Prison. That little book, perhaps a hundred pages, caused a revolution in the way we understand living as Christians in the modern world. Dostoyevsky wrote The House of the Dead from prison. John Bunyan wrote Grace ... I want is just a few of my close friends to gather around my coffin...and do everything they can to bring me back to life." I can understand that. I want to live. I have given my life to Christ. But have I given my death to Christ? Can we say what Paul says, "For to ...

3920. Where's the Fire?

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... think that's the miracle. I mean, how can a bush be enflamed and not burn up? They focus on that. Some try to rationalize it. We live in a scientifically oriented world, so we try to rationalize it. We try to fit it rationally into the world as we understand it. I read some commentator say, "You know, there is a bush out there in the Sinai Desert that in the springtime has red flowers on it. Just at the right time of day, when the sun is setting..." Or, they psychoanalyze it. They say, "It was all in his ...

3921. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you” (John 15:13-15, RSV). In the context of this understanding of a God like Jesus, Who loves us and dies for us, and Who wishes us to be His children who are His friends, we accept the simplest, most straightforward definition of prayer. Prayer is fellowship with God. We are persons in relationship. The uniqueness of being human ...

3922. Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... not put it on again. At the conclusion of the service, the four frustrated people waited for the man at the rear of the church. The senior warden approached him and said, “Sir, about the hat: perhaps you don’t understand, but in our church men do not wear hats at worship.” The man replied, “Oh, but I do understand. I’ve been part of this denomination all my life. As a matter of fact, I’ve been coming to this church regularly for two years, and I’ve never met a soul. But this morning I’ve met ...

What is time? Who can easily and briefly explain this? Who can comprehend this, even in thought, so as to express it in a word? Yet what do we discuss more familiarly and knowingly in conversation than time? Surely, we understand it when we talk about it, and also understand it when we hear others talk about it. What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who asks me, I do not know.

3924. Only One Thing Is Needed

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... re busy in the church, you’re busy in the community. You’re busy in your work. You are a productive person and you are successful. But have you found that one thing that is needed, that one thing that will transform you and give you a peace that surpasses understanding? Take a clue from Martha’s sister Mary. The most important thing you can do is to take a few moments each day and sit at the feet of Jesus. 1. Someone sent us this illustration. The source is unknown. 2. Rev. L. John Gable, http://www ...

3925. The Perfect Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... just had to find out what made the difference, so she asked one of them, “Why are things so different here?” Pointing toward Jim’s bed, he said, “Oh, it’s that guy in the bed over there.” So the nurse went over to Jim’s bed and said, “I understand you’ve made quite a difference in this ward. Can you tell me why?” Jim said, “If I told you, you wouldn’t believe me.” The nurse said, “Try me.” Jim said, “Every day a little after noon, I see a man walking up to my bed. He puts his ...

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