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4001. The Little Madness Of Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us. Let's look at those two facts for a moment. One, God does for us what we are unable to do for ourselves. Go back to John's story of Easter. The disciples had locked themselves up. But Christ entered anyway. I like that. Christ is not stopped by our doors of fear or weakness or guilt or despair. He does for us what we are unable to do for ourselves. The significance of Christ's risen body is that it can pass whatever Christ wills. Christ passed through those doors instead of unlocking them. Think about ...

4002. It's All God's Doing

Ezekiel 17:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and comfort and hope? It was suggested to the students that the best approach would be for them to try to communicate through this drawing...by adding something to the picture. One by one the seminarians came forward to try. One drew a picture of a man holding a stop sign in front of the tank. But this got nowhere. It did nothing to soothe the little boy when it was shown to him. Let me ask you something...What would you have drawn? What would you have added to the picture? That's something to think about ...

4003. Where The Spirit Of Jesus Is

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us in his column.) Let me read the column from that point: "Catch a plane," B.A. said. "The Hyatt bar is open even if nothing else is." I was at the Savannah airport three hours later. We never made it to the Hyatt bar. We stopped instead at a little beer joint just outside the airport. There were a couple of pool tables inside and young men wearing hats with the names of various heavy equipment companies sewn on them were playing. Cigarettes dangled from their mouths. They were silent and expressionless ...

4004. If Only -- In Spite Of

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , when Paul prayed that second time, maybe he heard from the Lord that kind of word and learned that what makes us unhappy can also make us more alive. Pain can bring more life than pleasure. But for this kind of life to sprout and flourish we have to stop denying and defying those thorns. We have to begin to accept them...the Talmud says that the true hero is one who makes the enemy a friend. We can apply that insight to our own internal enemies -- because all of us have a whole community of folk dwelling ...

4005. God Is Like A Mother

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that if I had a different name, I might be a different person. Do you feel that way? Frederick Buechner observes that when we tell somebody our name, we've given them a hold over us that they haven't had before. If they call our names out, we stop, look, and listen, whether we want to or not. Then, Buechner adds this rather humorous, but profound observation, "In the book of Exodus, God tells Moses that his name is Yahweh, and God hasn't had a peaceful moment since." So we are talking about God today. Oh, I ...

4006. Don't Mess With Mr. In-between

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... continued to tell Maud, tears welling in his eyes: "She put one hand to her forehead. With the other hand she reached out as if groping for support. Two men rushed to her side and then with a long, slow sigh, she collapsed in their arms." Harold stopped for a long pause:..."I decided then," he said solemnly, "I enjoyed being dead." Maud said nothing for a moment. Then she spoke quietly. "Yes, I understand. A lot of people enjoying dead, but they are dead really. They are just backing away from life. They ...

4007. Faith Working In Love

James 2:14-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

I want to begin the sermon today by reading the first part of an article that appeared in Reader's Digest sometime ago. The title of the article is "Mama Hale and Her Little Angels". This is the bold introduction to the article: "The baby will not stop screaming. On the third floor of a brownstone in New York City's Harlem, a woman holds the two-week-old infant in her arms. The little body trembles and twitches with pain, but Clara Hale has no medicine to offer against that agony, unless you count love. In ...

4008. How To Be Rich And Poor

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ," he said..."I had 19 operations in 12 years and the Lord pulled me through." And then he said, "I am just grateful to be alive and to be here today!" (Norman Neaves, "Something Beautiful For God!", November 10, 1985). Not that dramatically -- but if we all stopped and thought how much God gives us -- then there would be no question that we can give. But back to the Scripture: It's a tough one -- but faithful preachers do not find it easy when they are preaching through a particular section of Scripture or ...

4009. Draw Nigh To God

James 4:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... second Commandment, "For I the Lord your God am a jealous God." (Exodus 20:5). You can't be friends of the world and friends of God at the same time. An anonymous person has put it graphically: "Never play leap frog with a unicorn". Do I need to stop and let the incisive wisdom of that sink in? "Never play leap frog with a unicorn." Picture the unicorn, the deer-like creature that has that one single sharp horn protruding from the center of his head. It's not difficult to see the dangers of playing leapfrog ...

4010. What Is Your Life?

James 4:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Alfred Adler tells of an intriguing encounter that took place in the main train station of the Inner Austria back in the early 1930's. It seems that a well-dressed business man got off the train and was walking through the lobby, and an alcoholic beggar stopped him and asked for just enough money for one more meal. The business man said he did not usually respond to those requests, but he would on one condition. He said, "Tell me, how intelligent looking a person as you appear to be, has allowed yourself to ...

4011. Baptized...and Baptized

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it was Martin Luther King whose birthday we celebrated last Monday. It was King who also dared to stand up and be counted in the face of insurmountable odds and who stemmed the tide of racial oppression in these United States. But even there the story doesn't stop, does it? No, because then you've got to ask how it was that Martin Luther King was motivated and who inspired him to do what he did. Then you come to an insignificant black lady who was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama back in the early 1950 ...

4012. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Imagine it. You've just bought a brand new BMW. You have had it a week. It only has 200 miles on it. You are coming to church on Sunday morning and you stop by the bank to get a little bit of cash from the automatic teller. While you are there, two men walk up and tell you that their leader has told them to borrow your car because their master is going to ride in it down Poplar Avenue to the center ...

4013. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... teacher in Dubuque, Iowa, told his class that our conscience is like a star embedded in our chest near our heart. When we do wrong, the star rotates. The points dig in, and the pain reminds us to mend our ways. If we mend our ways, the star stops turning and the pain goes away. If we disregard the pain and continue our wrong doing, the star continues to rotate. The points of the star gradually wear away and the pain gets less and less. Finally the points are completely worn off. The star becomes a disc ...

4014. Who Needs A Doctor?

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... hole through the ceiling of that house and lowered the man into Jesus' presence. What remarkable faith and what a creative expression of faith. As much as any story I know this one is a dramatic example of putting our faith into practice. These men would not be stopped--they would go to any lengths to get their friend to Jesus in order that he might be healed. Now, with all this healing happening, it was natural for Jesus to use the image of a doctor in response to the Pharisees' criticism about Him and His ...

4015. When You Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a “Permanent Deacon” served them the wine of Holy Communion. They didn’t know him; he didn’t know them. They later learned he was a captain of one of the fishing boats. When he came to them, kneeling there to receive the Lord’s Presence, he stopped, set the chalice down, laid hands on them and prayed for them. Now, remember these folks did not know each other. And this man did not do this with anyone else. Only with them. And he prayed for their ministry, though not naming it specifically. And he ...

4016. Blessed Are Those Who Are Awake

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... him every cent he had with him. But the preacher kept at it too long. Ten minutes later, Twain decided to keep the bills and only give the change. Another ten minutes more Twain said, “I was darned if I’d give him anything at all. Then, when he finally stopped and the plate came around, I was so exhausted, I decided to steal $2 just for spite.” Now I know you sympathize with Mark Twain. I don’t hear as many preachers as you do — or, I don’t hear preachers on a regular basis the way you do, but ...

4017. The Gospel Of Another Chance (choir Dedication)

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... -- the home of the Crimson Tide -- arch enemies of the Vols. He was on his way to the coast for a vacation. Driving down the main street in Tuscaloosa, he noticed a tailor shop, which reminded him that he had that bolt of cloth in the trunk. He stopped, thinking he would give it a try. He told the tailor he had bought this bolt of cloth and wondered if he could do anything with it. The tailor measured Majors, measured the bolt of cloth, did some computations. Finally he said, "Mr. Majors, I can make you ...

4018. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and I knew I was praying; I studied and I knew I was studying. Here in Kotzk, everything is mixed up, confused; I suffer from it, Rabbi. Terribly. I am lost. Please help me so I can pray and study as before. Please help me to stop suffering.’ “The Rabbi peers at his disciple in tears and asked, ‘Whoever told you that God is interested in your prayers and in your studies? And what if (God) preferred your tears and your suffering?’” (From “Souls on Fire”, Weavings, September/October 1989.) Could ...

4019. Turn in an Account of Your Stewardship

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... too. Wisdom comes from unlikely places. Jesus knew that, so He told the parable of the dishonest steward. It’s a troubling story...not one that we do not get the message on first reading. In fact there’s some confusing signals in that it demand we stop and work through them. Rehearse the story. An imaginary rich man had a steward. Now a steward is simply a manager, someone who manages the resources and wealth of another so the owner can enjoy the wealth without bothering to attend to the details of the ...

4020. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a few hitchhikers whom he befriended. Among the hitchhikers was a Bible-toting self styled evangelist, who passed out religious tracts and confronted everyone he met with questions about their salvation, the final judgment and the second coming of Jesus. The two travelers stopped one morning at a small restaurant in the middle of nowhere to eat breakfast. The evangelist immediately began his pitch to the waitress, who did not pay much attention to him as she went about her work. Finally, the man with rising ...

4021. Sweet Little Jesus Boy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... mild, God and sinners reconciled..."If Christ brought Peace and Love so bright, Why does my boy have a war to fight? Sweet li'l Jesus Boy, they made you be born in a manger. Sweet little holy Child, we didn’t know who you was." The man stopped abruptly. He couldn't parody those words. They gripped him. His weary mind stood at attention as he was clutched of insight. He didn't know either...He didn't know who Christ was. A moment of time was baptized with eternity as this man experienced a new beginning ...

4022. The Easter Question: Why Are You Weeping? Whom Do You Seek?

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Have you ever stopped to think how many important things in scripture take place in a garden? It all began in a garden, really, in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve rebelled and through self-will they alienated themselves from the love of God. It was in the garden of Gethsemane that Jesus ...

4023. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... got. So finally he asked his doctor, who was also a good friend, if he could experiment with some rather unorthodox therapy. The doctor reluctantly agreed. Cousins' request was threefold. First, to leave the hospital and check into a hotel room across the street. Second, to stop all drugs and to take massive doses of vitamin C. Finally, to be allowed to view comedy films. Alan Funt was a good friend of Norman Cousins, and he supplied hours and hours of old video tapes of "Candid Camera" for him to look at ...

4024. The Heart -- Our Mirror

Proverbs 25:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... your image -- if you are preoccupied with the impression you are making on other people -- the chances are you are not certain of your identity. You don't quite know who you are -- and, more seriously, you are not yet the person God created you to be. Now I could stop there, for that's the big message of the sermon. But let's build on that. Let's play with the image, spin out the idea into some practical guidance for our daily living. Lodge that word of Ustinov solidly in your mind: "It is a sad state when ...

4025. To Live Is To Grow

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... remember Jesus' experience with His disciples and children. When the crowd brought children to Him for Him to touch them, the disciples scolded them. But when Jesus saw this He was very indignant and He said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them; for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you, whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it." (Mark 10:13-15 NEV) Jesus is not only affirming children, He is showing us the possibility that is ...

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