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3976. Calming the Boat

Mark 4:35-41

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... pick up the blanket slightly and shake it around.) The disciples were scared to death! They woke Jesus up and said, "How can you sleep when we are about to drown?" Jesus woke up and said to the wind and waves. "Quiet down!" and the sea became calm. (Stop shaking the "boat.") Then Jesus said to the disciples, "Why were you afraid? Didn't you know I was here?" The disciples were amazed that even the wind and waves obeyed Jesus. When we have hard times in our lives–maybe not wind and waves, but troubles–we ...

3977. Martyrs, Monsters, and Miracles

Acts 9:19b-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the sinking of the Titanic. His name was Masabumi Hosono. Mr. Hosono was the lone Japanese passenger on the Titanic. The 42-year-old bureaucrat was one of the few men who survived the sinking of the ship. As the ship began to sink many men were stopped at gunpoint so women and children could have the first opportunity to board the lifeboats. Hosono, however, made it into a lifeboat. Even though he survived, he was branded a coward in Japan and fired from his job. Now with the recent discovery of a letter ...

3978. Waiting for God

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... yellow blossoms last for weeks at a time. It is a spectacular sight for anyone who has the patience to watch for it. (5) The Kingdom of God is like that, Jesus taught us. We may not even be aware of the Kingdom in our lives, but God never stops working through the lives of those God has called to be His people. And one day the risen Christ will return to reign over all. 1. Ron Mehl, What God Whispers in the Night, 2000. 2. Steven Mosley, Secrets of the Mustard Seed (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2002), pp ...

3979. The Church: Identity And Function

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’t expect a person to answer us when we ask them how they are. Thank God for the spirit making us alert that day. The fella mumbled something about not being well, not many words and half joking, but miraculously we picked up on it and we stopped to visit. Ah how the spirit works when we are responsive. Within minutes, strangers were sharing deeply and intimately. He told us the story of his wife, ravaged with cancer, in their retirement home only a block away, dying but not knowing it because he didn’t ...

3980. A Healing Presence

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and be very patient with all persons. Be sure that no one repays a bad turn for a bad turn, good should not be just an objection, but a goal and a objective among yourselves and in the world at large. Be happy in your faith at all times. Never stop praying. Be thankful, whatever the circumstances may be. If you follow this advice, you will working out the will of God expressed to you in Jesus Christ. Now listen. Never damp the fire of the spirit, and never despise what is spoken in the name of the Lord. By ...

3981. A Guiding Presence

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that one which you read responsively early, “God,” this is the psalmist speaking, “God, don’t keep silent. Don’t be still. God, don’t be quiet. Will the Lord always reject me?” Still the psalmist. “Will he never ever be pleased with me? Has he stopped loving me? Is his promise no longer good? Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he taken the place of his anger and put it in the place of his compassion?” Now listen to the psalmist as he climaxes that dirge. “What hurts me most is this ...

3982. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... beginner to the latest of this master who was then considered the greatest artist of the world, and who was then 85 years old. The old man himself roamed about enjoying the show more than anyone. One newspaper report told of a woman who stopped Picasso in the hall and said, “I don’t understand, over there, the beginning pictures, so mature, so serious, so solemn. Then the later ones, so different, so youthful, so irrepressible. It almost seems as though the dates should be reversed. How do you ...

3983. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... like that, breathing but not breathless about life. The problem is that most of us don’t live. We are lived. That is we’re driven. We passively surrender to the forces of our environment and allow them to determine our lives. We close our eyes, stop our ears, and muddle through our 70 years of time. No wonder Paul said, don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its mold. Do you remember the book, Zorba the Greek. They turned it into an extremely fine movie and exciting Broadway musical. Life ...

3984. Dynamics Of Prayer

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... cover that entire wall - 13676 tiles. So the wall had become a kind of collage of names. And I began to read them with excitement. John, Jane, Joan, Jose, Fuchita, Lorraine, Eric, Sonya, Billy, Abby, Hubert, Ozzie, and on and on. Amazingly, crowds of people would stop in front of that wall, as I did, reading the names. I scrutinized the wall excitedly, looking for my own name, Maxie. But Maxie wasn’t there. That was okay, because my spirit had been lifted. At the end of the wall there was an explanation ...

3985. Curiosity Or Consecration

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... whether we’re curious or consecrated as Christians. I heard a marvelously funny story the other day that may prick our consciousness. Three men - an American, a Frenchman and a Scotsman - now you Scotsman forgive this story. In fact, if you want to you can stop your ears right at this point. An American, a Frenchman, and a Scotsman were having lunch one day in an outdoor café, a sidewalk café. Almost simultaneously, a big fly landed in each of their bowls of soup - the American took his spoon and dipped ...

3986. Gospel Through The Person

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not only desecrating human life, but poisoning the bloodstream of our Judeo Christian understanding of morality and life. Laws are being deliberating flaunted as Godless calloused men are trafficking in human flesh and perverted passions. The obvious tragedy is that we could stop it if we would. There are enough laws, we’re told, already on our federal books, which if prosecuted would break the back of this filthy industry that is loosing a cesspool of immorality upon our senses, and upon the senses even ...

3987. What Really Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... dead to sin, and alive to God. I must allow the Spirit to renew my inner nature, and transform me from stage to stage, into the likeness of Christ. And that leads to the final meaning of knowing Christ – resurrection from the dead. Paul doesn’t stop with what matters, what really matters in this life. Knowing Christ means that life goes on, beyond death. Now this is different from living now in the power of the resurrection – it is the hope giving, life inspiring confidence that the gift of God in ...

3988. Living Deliberately

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... again. As they loaded him on the litter, he turned to Lieutenant Nardella, from whose missal he had read the services, and put the little book in the lieutenant’s hand and said, ‘You know the prayers Ralph, keep holding the services, don’t let them make you stop.’ Then he turned to me, ‘Don’t take it so hard, Mike,’ he said, ‘I’m going where I’ve always wanted to go, and when I get there I’ll say a prayer for ya.’” Well there it is. In a person, everything that this sermon is ...

3989. A Scream And A Laugh

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ablaze with a thousand candles, and people singing in their own language "alleluias" and some of the classic liturgies of the Church. I left Tassia by train to get to my meeting in Zurich, but about a hundred miles outside of Tassia -- in France -- the trains stopped and I discovered that I was in the midst of a railroad strike. There was no transportation available except taxies, and to get a taxi would have cost far more than I could afford. Finally, I hooked up with a Greek Orthodox priest, and a lovely ...

3990. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the middle of the front hall was my battered old suitcase with my little coat thrown across it. As I stood there and looked at my suitcase, it slowly dawned on me what it meant. I did not belong here anymore." Miller reports that when the woman stopped speaking there was hardly a dry eye in the group. But then the woman cleared her throat and said almost matter-of-factly, "This happened to me seven times before I was 13 years old, but wait, don't cry. It was experiences like these that ultimately brought ...

3991. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . But on this particular night, he was determined to let his wife know that he was still very much in love with her. He showered and shaved before he left work. He dressed in some clean and sporty clothes. He was determined to do what a lover would do -- he stopped at a florist and bought flowers -- he went to the front door, rang the doorbell and waited for his wife to answer. When she opened the door, he held out the flowers and said, "Honey, I love you." She took one look at the flowers, and then at him ...

3992. In A Mirror Dimly

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to Santa Claus. To his surprise, the return address was from his own seven year old daughter, Ann. So he opened the letter and read it. After telling Santa that Christmas was not going to be very happy around her home, she asked him to help them out. "Could you stop by and pick up Eddie's little wagon and take it to him in Heaven. He loves it so, you know. And then about Daddy. Santa, I heard him say the other day that nothing but eternity could ever make him feel better. Santa, I don't know what eternity ...

3993. The Dayspring From On High

Luke 1:5-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was speaking to him, and he was startled. It is no less true with us. Flannery O'Connor, the South Georgia novelist, was a semi-invalid. She was confined to her home and she raised peacocks. One day a repairman came to her farm and she invited him to stop his work to watch his peacocks in the barnyard. She was enthralled with their beauty and she wanted to share it. She described how "the bird turned slightly to the right and the little planets above him hung in bronze, then he turned to the left and they ...

3994. God Does The Unexpected

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... he had been aborted? Johannes Brahms' mother was 41 when he was born. Suppose she had had an abortion. John Wesley was the 15th of 19 children born to Suzanna Wesley. Suppose she had wanted to use abortion as a method of birth control and had stopped after the fourth or fifth child. Franz Liszt was so sickly that his father ordered a coffin to be made for him. Lord Byron was born with a club foot, and Charles Dickins was small and sickly from birth. Suppose their parents had known what obstetrical science ...

3995. The Rest Of The Story

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , "The woman you gave me -- she made me do it." It is part of the strategy of evil to make us believe that we have no personal responsibility for our actions. "So long as you have 15 million people who want to gamble, says a politician, you can't stop bookmaking." He implies that the bookmakers are not responsible. On the other hand, the man on the street says, "So long as races are allowed to be run, and betting is at least condoned by the law, you can't blame me for betting" -- implying that others are ...

3996. East Of Eden

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... new creation by the Creator himself can give us that everlasting life we long for. John put it clearly in his gospel: "This is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3). III. So, we don't stop with death -- in the Christian view of reality, in the proclamation of the Gospel, there must always be the promise of life. And there's a hint of it in this East of Eden story -- not a big hint -- but enough to cause us to take note. You may have ...

3997. Noah: The Bearer Of An Alternative Possibility

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... crashed to the ground, killing thousands of fugitives. Dresden, Thielicke's city, perished in horror and mortal terror. And sure as death, always there came this one question: "How can God permit such a thing?" Then Thielicke went on to ask, "Have we ever stopped to think that all these witchy Sabbaths were and are -- and will be again the atomic disasters that may come -- nothing but consequences of man's playing god with his gift of freedom; that they are all misuses of a God-given power of attorney ...

3998. Look Carefully How You Walk

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... : "I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. (7:18) There's no question about it -- Wesley was a Christian, yet he was not a Christian. Hold on Preacher, I can hear you say. Stop the double talk. How can you say Wesley was a Christian and he was not a Christian. What sort of talk is that? Have you heard the story of the young man who began his work in a grocery store? About the second day that he was there, a rather ...

3999. I Am Christ's

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Iron Man Triathlon in Hawaii. Now none of that may appear too unusual. It's unusual when you know that Bob Wieland is a double amputee. He doesn't have legs; a land mine blew his legs away, but it didn't ruin his outlook on life, or stop him from completing marathons and triathlons. For marathons and walks, he propels himself in a sitting position, using his arms like crutches to swing his body forward. His hands are padded and he sits in a protective, saddle-like pad. To bike, he uses hand-operated pedals ...

4000. Declaration Of Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it is a freedom from our past. It is a freedom of release. Some of you remember Jimmy Hendricks, the late Rock star, a victim of the drug culture? He said, "People look at my life and think that I'm free. I'm not free. I just can't stop running." The first verse of Chapter Five of Galatians is not an introduction of something new, rather it is the conclusion of what Paul has been talking about in the first four chapters of this letter. Throughout this Epistle to the Galatians, Paul has been making his case ...

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