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2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... God has received payment in full, he doesn't require additional sacrifices on our part to preserve our forgiven status. In 1811 the United States government established the so-called Conscience Fund. American citizens, as they feel led, may send money or payments in kind to atone for mistakes of the past. Every year approximately $50,000 is received, and nearly four million dollars in all has been added to the fund over the years. The letters and objects that have been sent to the government are astonishing ...

4102. Sweet-Smelling Fragrance

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... written to those who live "face-to-face" with one another in a household church. We, too, find such face-to-face relationships fraught with anger, insensitivity, white lies, and gossip. Malice runs rampant in every age. It is not easy to be forgiving and kind in our kind of world. We all need space, and it is becoming harder to find. Our grandparents had lots of room. Agriculture was the primary method by which people earned a living. They could do pretty well as they pleased on their property. They did not ...

4103. Security Concerns

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... forces of evil in the heavenly realms" (Ephesians 6:12). Like the Ephesians, you and I have to fight principalities and powers that have us in sway. Our advertised lusts, which are bolstered by a high standard of living, trap many of us into a kind of dark bondage. To find security we must turn to the available resources from God. The text points to a defense that must watch the forces it is up against. Consider the Christian countermeasures against the dark world: "truth, faith, the gospel of peace, and ...

4104. Morning Has Broken

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... in a sense every day recapitulates the dynamics of Genesis 1:1-5. Each day offers us the opportunity to be awakened to the first dawn, the dawn of Creation. The Bible begins with the simple affirmation that the "creation" sprang from the Word. There are all kinds of questions and issues that can be raised in the twenty-first century regarding the Creation, but the Creation story does not offer answers to the questions that are so often asked. We need to be reminded continually that Genesis 1:1-5 is not a ...

4105. The Gospel According to Johan

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... people should. The story of Jonah ends with a question mark. This "Scrooge" doesn't have a heart for the people. So here's the question for you and me: If Jesus came to save the people of Kabul, New York, London, Tokyo, and all people everywhere, what kind of love should we show others if we claim to experience God's love? God asks Jonah this question; "And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right ...

4106. The Reality of the Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

... resurrection amazes me. We are told by the scriptures that when Jesus walked into the room where the disciples had gathered and said, “Peace be with you” it startled them. They were frightened. It was a ghost. What else could it be? They were not the kind of men who were easily convinced. These were men of common sense, so they doubted. What else could they do? And this is one of the central reasons why the resurrection is a reality. This is a plain story. Simple. To the point. Realistic. Not contrived ...

4107. When the Storms Come

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... them might be disappointed and ask for their money back. Then he had an idea. He took all of the apples with the little blemishes on the outside and wrapped every one of them the same way he did every year. He put them in the same kind of packages. Then he added a note. It read: "Notice these high-quality apples. This year represents the finest crop. You can see the blemishes caused by the hailstorm, which created the extreme cold giving the ultimate flavor and ultimate crispness to these apples." Well, not ...

4108. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... story shifts over, as it were, into another key. In other words, God halts and soliloquizes. He says, "Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness." "One can almost detect something like a hesitation or even a recoil. In any case, it is the kind of bated breath with which we ourselves are familiar when we approach a decisive point in some piece of work on the success of which everything depends. We stop and stand off for awhile. It may be the experience of a roofer who has covered a church steeple ...

4109. The Right Word For Memorial

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Franklin's life than we find in those words. So with Jesus. "Name Jesus anything you like. Remember Him in any way you want. Recall any of the parables He told. Quote word for word any statement He ever said. Put all these things together into some kind of historical record, and still you have nothing if you do not include this one truth" (Boulware, Ibid.): When Jesus becomes the way of being and doing for you; when He becomes the Truth -- how you perceive life, is forever shaped by his Spirit. A young boy ...

4110. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... affirm that it’s a part of you. Now that’s very important. Affirm that it is a part of you. These things that we’re talking about are not evil shoots to be uprooted and cast away, though there’s a great segment of the church that preaches that kind of depressing gospel. These are not wild tears foreign to the harvest of the healthy personality. Jesus is not at war with our human nature. Now that’s good news. Put it down. Jesus is not at war with our human nature. He does not say that our instincts ...

4111. Living With The Nitty Gritty

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the modern western culture teaches us that we’re to always be happy. That we’re always to be high, that we’re never to be bored. And yet boredom is one of the chief maladies of our time. Clifton Fadiman has described our boredom as a special kind. Not unhappiness or fatigue, he says, but that odd stunned look that comes from a circuit of toys and a deficiency of thought. Isn’t that, isn’t that characteristic, and isn’t it descriptive. That odd stunned look that comes from a circuit of toys and a ...

4112. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in its depth, in its pristine, parent like simplicity. His climactic word in trying to recall the experience verbally was - I feel that I’ve had a long desperately needed shower bath, all inside. And I recall the word of a teenager to me, who had the same kind of experience, and she said - I feel as though the sun has risen inside me. That’s it. If we confess our sins, Christ is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse of all unrighteousness. So those are the two acts of prayer that we share ...

4113. Participants In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is not whether we can or can’t lose our salvation. The glorious truth is that we don’t have to lose our salvation. We don’t have to lose it. Let us claim the promise and come again in faith, in commitment, in surrender, in yieldingness. The same kind of faith and commitment and surrender, yieldingness that was ours when we first gave our life to Christ – then we will know that he who began a good work in us will bring it to completion. That’s the promise –and we can stand upon it. And that leads ...

4114. Servants Of The Servant Who Was Lord

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and how soon?” The goal is to look out for #1. And, in fact, there’s a book by that title, Looking out for No. 1. Now this is no new phenomenon. It really began with Adam and Eve in the garden. Though the expression of it is getting a kind of Good Housekeeping seal of approval in our time. Go to our first scripture lesson today. I chose that scripture lesson to illustrate the fact that even in the time of Jesus, this was the case. James and John, the brother disciples of Jesus, were bitten by the bug of ...

4115. Pentecost: The Neglected Factor

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... message. It’s fundamental. I responded to it and it was meaningful for me. But if it stops there, it stops. Unfortunately, that’s where it is with most of us. It stopped there. So our churches are full of people who believe, and affirm some kind of formal faith, but who are empty and unfulfilled, who lack power, and who are still seeking to goeth under their own steam. Obviously, intellectual ascent belief is not enough. So we talk about entering in the Christian life – this is more than belief, it is ...

4116. Constantly Abiding

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I have begun every day with that commitment. I knew that her life was tougher than most, the burdens of rearing a family, working all day to earn bread and serving as both mother and father to her children, because the father had abandon them. Facing the kind of loneliness that sort of life often holds. Yet she knows the source of guidance and power, in Christ, constantly abiding. So we have to develop a healthy dependence upon the Lord. A third principle of “in Christ” living may sound flip, but it is ...

4117. Justification By Grace Through Faith

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... application to spend 6 months in Latin America as a mission volunteer, at her own expense, and I thought that’s what she wanted to talk about. But I was wrong. And when I saw her, I knew it. She was standing straight. She entered my office with a kind of bounce. She looked at me, smilingly. There was a glow on her face, and she began to talk freely. Who is this, I thought to myself. Certainly not the timid, struggling, frustrated, do-gooder I had known three months ago. It was only moments before she was ...

4118. This Is Eternal Life (Easter Message)

John 17:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

4119. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to name our need and to affirm the power that is available to us: Verse 11, “Strengthen with all might, according to his glorious power.” Weymouth translates that, “Strengthen with strength of every kind.” And Moule has it, “According to the might of his glory.” What an extravagant possibility. Strength of every kind. There’s a reservoir inside of us that’s really bottomless and unending — because we are partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light — and we can drink as deeply ...

4120. A Life Hidden With Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... death" brings the "life which is in Christ Jesus". This new life is not different from the "old" life only in degree; it is a new kind, a new quality of life. Paul makes the radical claim that this new life is nothing less than a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17). ... " brings the "life which is in Christ Jesus". This new life is not different from the "old" life only in degree; it is a new kind, a new quality of life. Paul makes the radical claim that this new life is nothing less than a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17). ...

4121. The Game Is For A Team

Colossians 4:7-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Clarence Forsberg tells a story about what it means to be a part of a team. It is a story of Al McGuire and Butch Lee. McGuire was a great basketball coach, who retired from Marquette after winning the NCAA tournament in 1976. Butch Lee was a kind of prima donna player on that team. The story is about McGuire trying to teach Butch Lee about team basketball. This was the coach's word. "Now, Butch, the game is forty minutes long, and if you divide that between the two teams that means there is twenty minutes ...

4122. A Love For All Seasons (ii) (communion Meditation)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... people who attend such gatherings weekly. These are people who are undergoing similar stress and need the support of others, need to have that empathetic ear that will hear them out, need to learn from other people's successes and failures. In that kind of fellowship, they receive the strength and courage to take tough stands which enables them to say, "No," to an erring son, daughter, or spouse. "No, you will not bring our home...our lives...our sanity...our pocketbooks...and our fragile hold on health ...

4123. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ago. And do you remember this little fact it arrived four minutes earlier than it was predicted to arrive. With a kind of tongue in cheek stance, flight controllers said the early arrival was no reflection on Voyager's performance, but rather on ... in the sea and so it was and God knew that it was good. And on and on it went. Plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed day and night, signs and seasons for the days and nights the sun to rule the day and ...

4124. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

4125. Noah: The Bearer Of An Alternative Possibility

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for myself." "Had that trouble myself," said the man with many years of marriage behind him. "It really got to me after awhile. I tried everything. Tried reason. Tried logic. Tried negotiation. Tried speaking up. Tried shutting up. Finally one day I lost my temper. I reached back and kind of hit her one upside the head. Didn't mean to do it. Didn't really mean to hurt her much. But we've never had a problem since. I can't tell you what to do. But you might think about it some." Several months later the two ...

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