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4101. Grace in the Midst of the Crush of Time

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... and doubts that Stanley realized he had to make a choice -- either to keep going forward into the unknown, or to head back toward security. That night he approached his friend and helper Frank Pocock. "Now, Frank, my son, sit down. I am about to have a long and serious chat with you. Life and death -- yours and mine -- hang on the decision I make tonight." What should they do? Pocock and Stanley decided to flip a coin -- an Indian rupee. Heads they would go forward; tails they would go home. The coin came ...

4102. The Highest Bidder

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Peck makes a case that within all of us there is a God-implanted desire to experience authentic relationships. Deep inside we long for true community: for relationships in which we can express our real feelings, be accepted for who we are, and give and ... who drive to Key West soon discover that the only way they can get their car to the southernmost tip of Florida is to cross the long series of one-lane bridges that link key to key. It doesn't matter whether or not one happens to be fond of bridges: if you ...

4103. The Battle of the Wisdoms

James 3:13-18

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... its code of ethics. Here, then, is the value of the passage for you and me. Attrition is our danger as well. Not long ago a pastor took his teenage son to visit some universities that were out of their resident state. One of those institutions was ... general or "catholic" epistle for us all. Eugene Peterson has written a book for us that James would enjoy. It is called A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. The book speaks honestly about the Christian journey. Millions of people all over the world begin it. ...

4104. Who Needs a Doctor?

Mark 2:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... crusader against gay rights a few years ago. Then she went through a divorce, and acquired a drug habit, and was hospitalized for a long time. And today, she's not the same person she was back then. This is what Sydney Harris wrote: He said, "Now that her ... there give off my light. I know there is danger in the dark, but God's Word has told me that I'm all right so long as I don't lose sight of the light." (Leonard I. Sweet, "Bibelot", 1990, Vol. 5, No. 3 - 6). Amy Grant was making herself available ...

4105. Resting at the Mediocre Inn

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.” This is to say that a commitment to excellence begins with a commitment to Christ. Have you ever made a resolution at New Year’s? How long did it last? You don’t have to raise you hand, but has anyone in this room ever begun a diet? One man says he is on the Pasta diet. He walks “pasta” desserts, pasta breads, pasta pastas, etc. We all know how important it is to set goals for ...

4106. The Lions Are Shackled

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the rest of Brazil. How is that possible? Colson saw the answer when his inmate-guide escorted him to the notorious cell once used for solitary punishment. The guide explained that now it houses only one inmate. As they reached the end of the long concrete corridor and he put the key into the lock, the inmate paused and asked, “Are you sure you want to go in?” “Of course,” Colson replied impatiently. “I’ve been in isolation cells all over the world.” Slowly his inmate-guide swung open the ...

4107. Obedience to God's Plan

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... the beginning that we would learn our reward when we finished. We have completed the 25 laps of the field, what will be get?" "Your reward," said the messenger, "is that you made it." The Others were stunned. "Is that all there is? We have made this long journey just to say we made it." When The Others thought about their accomplishment, however, they had to agree that this was the reason they were celebrating -- because they had made it; they had done what they were asked to do. "But what about the teams ...

4108. Sowing Good Seed - Father's Day

Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... in June, and the minister did. And the tradition of Father's Day caught on, though rather slowly. Mother's Day became an official holiday in 1914; Father's Day, not until 1972. Mother's Day is still the busiest day of the year for florists, restaurants and long distance phone companies. Father's Day is the day on which the most collect phone calls are made. "It was Strindberg who said, ‘That is the thankless position of the father in the family the provider for all and the enemy of all.' Oscar Wilde said ...

4109. Replacing a Fallen Comrade

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... , that's advertising, but we expect more out of a spokesperson for Christ, don't we? Author Mark Twain was a man who was a life-long critic of the Christian faith. Though he married a woman of deep faith, Twain himself was a cynic. Here's what happened to Twain to cause ... confinement in a hole in the ground. His entire world was squeezed down to a space six feet wide by nine feet long. On the stone wall of that hole, an earlier prisoner had scratched a message. The message read like this: "I believe in ...

4110. A Guiding Presence

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his spirit, which dwells in you.” Let us pray. Be among us in a vivid way, now, Living Lord. Convince us of your presence and cause your word to come alive in us. Amen. Not long ago, I received a power-packed letter from a friend of mine in South Carolina. She was somewhat ecstatic in the joy of the supportive fellowship she was finding with some friends, and the direction she was finding in her life of prayer. It was not an all is ...

4111. Reconciliation: Our Gift And Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , can look across the river and some of them can actually see their houses on the other side. Houses they built with their own hands, paid for with their own money, from which they were driven when the city was divided. They can only look at them with longing, tear-filled eyes. They know that these houses will never be their homes again. They can see, but a river, not a big one, but one that is more uncross-able than the Rio Grande and the bottom of the Grand Canyon, keeps them forever removed from their ...

4112. Miracles In Contrast

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the street. She is four or five years old I would think. The street which makes up her home is bordered by dilapidated houses, abandoned cars, stray dogs, and children. Ruby is nearly always dirty and ragged. Today she is clad only in underpants. I don’t know how long it has been since Ruby has a had a bath or had her hair washed and combed. I sometimes think never. I don’t know when she has ever had a good meal or a complete outfit of clothing. Today she sits in the middle of the street, I sometimes ...

4113. Such A Babe In Such A Place

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... him come, finding here his humble home. Veiled in flesh the God head see, hail the incarnate deity. Pleased as men with men to dwell, Jesus our Emanuel. God has come to dwell with persons in the form of a person, and this is what the world had waited so long for – a human quality in God which would bring him near. Flesh of our flesh, body of our body. It seems such a simple thing, so common and so earthy. A little baby born in a cold cave stable, but then people realized, and we seek to grasp the truth ...

4114. The Christian Life Defined By Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I would swim the widest ocean just to gaze into your eyes. I’ll be over Saturday night if it doesn’t rain. We have trivialized the word love abominably. We love everything from cashew nuts to Jesus Christ. The problem has been with us a long time. We use the word love to translate the Greek words for immoral passion, sexual feeling, and fraternal and family affection. But there’s a fourth Greek word which the New Testament has really lifted up to immortality – the word Agape. Peter and John and Paul ...

4115. In The Kingdom Now

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our problem until today. Let me tell you of one person who dramatically witnesses to the case. I met her when I was the editor of the Upper Room. In fact, we published a little book of her poems, and I had a telephone conversation with her not long ago. She’s a young musician, and three years ago she had a dramatic conversion. It really was a Damascus road experience. Rarely have I seen the power of Christ demonstrated in the life of a person, in such a radical transforming way. She was brought out of ...

4116. Soul Drain

Psalm 63:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that every week. Blinding them to the things that are occurring that could have deep meaning, and often doubt and despair result, cynicism and the loss of faith. I thank God even now, as our family spent long days in pain and puzzlement, as we anguished in our relationship with our nephew and prayed long and hard about our responsibility, our Christian responsibility to him and the whole community in which he was involved. We didn’t have any exaggerated notion as to what God might do. And in the midst of ...

4117. Getting It All Together Inside

Psalm 51:1-19, 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... my personality. I’m not able to get at the stirrings there, they’re too hot to handle, too complex to contemplate. Just when I think I have it all together, that I know myself and have given all to you, some unnamed power surges from my depths, some long-forgotten passion contorts to life and sets my whole being on fire. I know, or I say I know, I know that you’re the God of the mornings and evenings and mountain peaks and the sea. But God, my soul has further horizons than the early morning, deeper ...

4118. The Family: A Place For Persons

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . “The general decline in the quality of family life is signaled by a loss of values, aimless wondering in the world of secular pursuits, and an almost professional consumerism.” And then this dramatic word, “Spiritual values have long since eroded.” Spiritual values have long since eroded. How desperately we need to recover the family as the place where the Christian faith is lived and translated and transmitted from generation to generation. Did you know that 40% of the Christians in China today ...

4119. The Family: A Place For Persons

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a limited time only -- it's here today -- grab it now -- if it feels good, do it -- tomorrow it will be different – no long term commitments -- live for the moment -- that's the way many people see life and love. Over 40 percent of all marriages ... head but it didn't even help him in the room -- much less what was going to happen outside. He went into the bathroom and rolled long sheets of toilet paper and made a nest in the cap so that it would help protect his head against the icy wind. He went outside ...

4120. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . She was not pretty at all and no one seemed to want her, but she said that as far back as she could remember, she longed to be adopted and loved by a family. She thought about it day and night, but everything she did seemed to go wrong. She must ... so much trouble finding a sense of belonging from other human beings, I was driven to God, and there I found what I had always longed for -- a place." Perhaps not that dramatically, but I have an idea that all of us have come to that place when we felt that ...

4121. A Life Hidden With Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the magnificent discovery that the power which raised Jesus from the dead is available to us who share in His death and resurrection. COLOSSIANS SERIES #10: "A LIFE HIDDEN WITH CHRIST"Scripture: Colossians 2: 20 - 3:4 I've told you this story before, but it's been a long time. And even if it had not been, it's the most appropriate story I know to introduce our theme for today. It's the story of one of my most meaningful experiences. I have a friend who is a Benedictine monk. The way we live out our lives ...

4122. Put To Death The Old; Put On The New

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and "put on" the "new man." Popular talk illumines the image. When a person has been seriously ill and recovers, we say, "She is a new person." A person is depressed, down in the dumps, in despair, moping in self-pity. Then something happens -- he falls in love. A long-absent friend comes to see him and exclaims: "I don't believe it. You're a new person." A person has a career change, he experiences some success -- and we say, "That made him a new man." At a much, much deeper level, we become new persons as ...

4123. Put My Tears In Thy Bottle

Psalm 56:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a question, "Does it take calamity to turn us to God?" We don't know precisely what the Psalmist was talking about, but it must have been pretty bad. Listen to some phrases from the first verses of the psalm: "...foemen oppress me"; "enemies trample upon me all day long,"; "they lurk and watch my steps,"; "their thoughts are against me for evil." So it was a calamitous time for the Psalmist. Yet, I think it's easy to assume that, unlike too many of us, the psalmist did not turn to the Lord only in time of ...

4124. A Confidence for All Seasons

Psalm 27:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a better life if he accepted Christ. When the breakfast was prepared, they said grace together around the table and Louise prayed for that young man. They ate breakfast together and then an amazing thing happened -- the young escapee telephoned authorities and before long he was on his way back to the Tennessee prison. Note the different focus of power and security. The young man thought his power, his security, was in that gun. With that gun, he thought he was in control. But Louise trusted an Ultimate ...

4125. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to our brethren who have already had their sleep and to God our keeper who slumbers not nor sleeps." (This long quote is from Dr. Earnest T. Campbell, who suggested the idea for this sermon, in his sermon "The Gift of Sleep ... trust God to give us sleep -- that is, we are to rest in God. Some years ago, General Omar Bradley boarded a commercial plane for a long trip. He was wearing a business suit, rather than his usual military attire. He found his assigned seat and began working on some important papers. ...

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