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3926. Claim the Promise

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... day he mustered up the courage to say, “Let’s get married!” Surprised, she threw up her hands and shouted, “It is a wonderful idea – but who in the world would have us?” It is easy to sink into that kind of self-understanding. When I am feeling blue and down on myself, when depression threatens to turn the sky of my life into dark clouds of gloom, when I sense I am becoming preoccupied with failure, I try to remember the 8th Psalm. Do you remember it? “When I consider the heavens, the work of ...

3927. Equipping the Whole People of God: Penultimate Questions

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... wonderful deeds of Him who calls us out of darkness into His marvelous light.” Who we are and what we do are inseparable. That reminds me of one of Bishop Pereira’s practices in the Cuban church. When a young person comes to him and tells him he feels that God is calling him to ministry – and many young people are experiencing this call – the bishop tells him to go out and win ten persons to Christ. When he’s done that, he can come back and talk about ministry. Again, wouldn’t it be something if ...

3928. In the Wrong Place At the Right Time

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you live on edge and are never quite sure if what you are doing is right. And let’s be honest – is anything more chafing and more tormenting than to be compelled to carry a heavy load that is not ours, a load we haven’t chosen – a load we feel we don’t deserve? At the same time, is there anything more beautiful than the person who bears willingly the burden that was not his or her choice? I have come to believe that this is one of the things that makes the greatest difference in life. We say it ...

3929. A Prophet Among Them

Ezekiel 2:1-3:15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you groan before their eyes!” (Ezekiel 21:11) Are you groaning before the eyes of your people? Do they see that kind of passion and compassion flowing from your life? Who are the people in your congregation, who, though they may be members, don’t feel they really belong? Who are the people in your community who have yet to receive a clear message from you personally, and from the church, that you deeply care for them and that God loves them? What about the poor? Are you committed to the irrefutable ...

3930. Let Not Thy Will Roar, When Thy Power Can But Whisper

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Kalas. Just a little bit. That jealousy is not enough to cause me to lose my salvation -- because there are not many people around like Ellsworth Kalas, so I can’t be too jealous. Anyway, it all had to do with my preaching. Also my deep inferiority feelings, my inadequacy and my own drivenness to perform, to prove myself worthy. So, in the dream I would always have to be somewhere to preach and all sorts of things, bizarre things would keep me from getting there. Sometimes I would be at home, about ten ...

3931. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... tell about Jesus before they die, and it’s too late.” Amazed at this wife’s courage in the midst of evil, Carlos was strengthened to continue in the battle. . . “We desire to be found faithful with whatever He entrusts to us,” he says. Don’t you feel it? Carlos is clear about his calling. He is crazily in love with Jesus, and so he keeps his calling clear. But not only must we keep our calling clear, we must be certain of the good news. Someone has said that Jesus came preaching the gospel in ...

3932. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to do good with the opportunity that stands before me at any moment. We know the name of the star-thrower, and he invites us to join his work. “Follow me,” he said one day by the sea, “and I will make you star-throwers.” Do you ever feel like nothing you do makes a difference? That your feeble efforts don’t matter, so why bother? Just go with the flow and make yourself as comfortable as you can along the way. Are you tempted to the philosophy of cynicism and the habit of passivity it brings as ...

3933. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... world is not our good works but our constant prayer and worship. Our first response is not to act but to pray. You and I live in a psychologically self-obsessed and narcissistic culture where everything is about us and our needs and our self-esteem and how we feel about things and what we want and how we think things should be done, and the church of Jesus Christ is a grand protest against such indulgence in the cult of the sovereign self. We are not the center of the universe; God is! God first: God’s ...

3934. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... buy-out of their new home from a white community association that didn't want blacks in the neighborhood. Beneatha tells her mother Lena, "He's no brother of mine. That individual in that room from this day on is no brother of mine!" Lena corrects her daughter, "You're feeling that you're better than he is today? Yes? What did you tell him a minute ago, that he wasn't a man? Yes? ... You've wrote his epitaph, too—like the rest of the world? Well, who gave you the privilege?" "Momma, will you be on my side ...

3935. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... for a fresh cause ever since, and they have found one: a new, supposedly oppressed group that needs their advocacy and liberation from the outmoded moral oppression of the church. It calls up the nostalgia of the old, nobler crusade and makes them feel like real Christians again, taking a prophetic stand against evil at the cutting edge of progressive faith. One of us is wrong, dead wrong, and whether or not our United Methodist Church remains in deep continuity with the apostolic tradition depends on our ...

3936. Resurrection

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... found a branch of a thorn tree twisted around so that it resembled a crown of thorns. Thinking it a symbol of the crucifixion, he placed it on the altar in his chapel on Good Friday. Early on Easter morning he remembered what he had done. Feeling it was not appropriate for Easter Sunday, he hurried into the church to clear it away before the congregation came. But when he went into the church, he found the thorn branches blossoming with beautiful roses. Welcome to this celebration of Easter Day. The thorns ...

3937. The Seven Delightful Blessings of the Word of God in the Believer's Life

Psalm 119:169-176

Sermon

Michael Milton

... not holding on to Jesus, He’s holding on to me.”[1] Maybe you are that lost lamb. Maybe grief has made you loosen you grip. Maybe confusion about God or His will in your life has made you stop holding on. Maybe there is a child who feels like an outsider, who feels different, lonely, and you are losing your grip. My beloved, if you have trusted in Him by faith, you are His and He will never lose his grip on you and He will seek you. One time I heard Aunt Eva calling. I had done something wrong and ...

3938. The One Who Came Still Comes; The One Who Spoke Still Speaks

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Michael Milton

... with each generation, but which comes on a donkey, on the little things that bring all the more glory to Jesus. Where is the donkey in your life? Maybe the illness you dread is the donkey. Maybe the sorrow you feel is the donkey. Maybe the depression you battle is your salvation. Maybe the guilt you feel is the donkey Jesus rides to show you His mercy. This week Jesus came riding into my life on a donkey as I sat with Judge Steve Bevil and his wife, Margie. The donkey carrying the Savior was cancer. Cancer ...

3939. Spirit Power

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... days, $125,000. (1) Charles Millar caused much mischief with his will. This was his final legacy to humanity. Let’s talk about legacies for a moment. This Memorial Day weekend we remember those who died in our nation’s service. Regardless of how we might feel about war in general, or any war in particular, it is only right that we should pay homage to those who lay down their lives for our country. This is the legacy that they bequeathed to us--a free and prosperous land. When Jesus of Nazareth left ...

3940. Thank God for Dads

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the living room using a whistle, then making them stand at attention and salute. As they leave, talk into a walkie-talkie, “Subject is wearing khakis and a blue polo shirt, driving a green Ford.” (2) Follow these principles and I feel certain your daughter’s date will feel intimidated. We laugh to keep from crying. I want to focus our attention on the 20th verse of the second chapter of Paul’s letter to the Galatians. Paul writes, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but ...

3941. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... knows what stress means. Which is why I was delighted to discover this scene in the Book of Numbers, our Old Testament lesson for this morning, which reveals that Moses suffered stress on his job. It is a great story. It is surprising that Moses, of all people, would feel stressed out. But that is what is so great about the Bible. It has real people in it. The Bible does not hide the fact that the heros and heroines of our faith are real human beings, like you and me. A part of Moses' problem, I would guess ...

3942. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , not a duty. Earlier this week we thought about how discipline seems to take the spontaneity out of prayer. Many of us see prayer as a discipline, as a duty, something we must do. We’ve been taught that we ought to pray, and when we don’t, we feel guilty. We will take a giant step forward in our adventure when we cease seeing prayer as a duty and begin to look upon it as a privilege. As a privilege, the discipline of praying becomes a creative freedom, not a bondage of duty. Consider this testimony of ...

3943. Only One Thing Is Needed

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... two sisters, Mary and Martha. You know the story well. Martha hurried about doing all the household preparations necessary to make her guest feel at home. At the same time, Mary sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he had to say. Martha finally got ... are responsible, hardworking, law-abiding people. And I am thankful for you. But do you still have an emptiness within? Do you sometimes feel that you’ve lived your life in vain? Do you hunger for something more? Maybe it has something to do with your ...

3944. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... dead, the men spoke loudly to all of Kigezi District and beyond, so that there was an upsurge of life in Christ, which challenges death and defeats it “The next Sunday, I was preaching to a huge crowd in the hometown of one of the executed men. Again, the feel of death was over the congregation. But when I gave them the testimony of their man, and how he died, there erupted a great song of praise to Jesus! Many turned to the Lord there.” (5) Friends, this is how our faith came to us. It was not handed ...

3945. Strategic Planning

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... on wild animals? If you stand perfectly still and look the lion in the eye, he will turn and run.” “Sure,” replied his companion. “You’ve read the book, and I’ve read the book. But has the lion read the book?” That’s how some of us feel about long-term planning. Why make plans that you probably will not be able to see through to fruition? And it’s true that life does have a way of knocking us off course. That is why part of our planning and preparation should take into consideration life ...

3946. Warning To The Clueless Enthusiasts

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... to look at the world and value justice, mercy, kindness, and love over all else. This Christian view of a created order in the hands of God moves us to find comfort, meaning, and joy at the awesome mystery of life itself. It makes it possible for us to feel the rush of God's grace-filled hope in the resurrection at the moment of grief when a loved one dies. It empowers us to hope in that most mysterious promise of eternal life as we journey toward our own death. Growing into this Christian worldview is no ...

3947. Blinders

Acts 17:22-31

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... the test. C. S. Lewis confesses in Surprised By Joy that, as a young man, he came to church seeking "manifestations," powerful spiritual experiences signified by a tingle in the spine -- or (we could say) by a feeling of fullness. When the young Lewis didn't receive those feelings every time, he felt cheated, and was inclined to doubt the whole of Christianity. Mature Christianity recognizes that spiritual experience is not God, but is rather a sign, something which points beyond itself to an utterly free ...

3948. The Subject Is Salvation

Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19

Sermon

James L. Killen

... said that way of thinking turns God into a "God of the gaps," a God on whom we call only when we no longer feel that we can manage things. He said that it reminded him of the mechanical gods that the writers of ancient Grecian dramas frequently had ... our sense of who we are and who we hope to be, those are the things about which we are most anxious. That is what we feel is most threatened by the chaos and the non-being that presents itself in so many forms in our personal experiences. That is what we are ...

3949. Some Things Ought Not to Happen

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... just that way. Both boys graduated from excellent universities and did well in their careers -- and they stayed friends all of their lives. That story could have turned out very differently if the parents had not been wise enough to give each son his unique place. Can we imagine God feeling that way about all of God's children? What would it mean for all people to believe that it is the will of God for all people to have a place? What would it mean for us to live as if that is what is really right and to ...

3950. A Peek at the Resurrection

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... us by death. This is an emotional day in the life of the church. Our loved ones may have died recently so that the grief we feel may be fresh. Perhaps we have some distance and the pain is not as sharp, but still the grief hurts. We are grateful for the comfort ... . Life is full of heartaches. The emotion we all share today is grief. Grief can be a devastating experience. Some of us feel the sting of the death of a loved one decades later, the pain hardly diminished by the passing of time. Sometimes anger ...

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