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4126. More Than We Are

1 John 2:28--3:10

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Maxie Dunnam

... shall Thee reveal All glorious as thou art.” (Quoted by Barclay, The Letters of John and Jude, page 90) So, John is climaxing the Christian hope with that vision of the Second Coming of Christ. What a joyous hope! That one day Christ will return and claim us for his own. Whether soon or late, we need to keep that vision alive in our hearts while we must continue to labor – to fight our daily ballets with evil – the victory has already been won! There is something else here. When we talk about faith ...

4127. Let Everything That Breathes Praise the Lord

Psalm 150:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a giant screen. It was awesome. I thought of the Psalm, “Praise God in His mighty firmament.” So to be sure we can worship and praise God outside corporate worship. But I ask you, how do we learn who God is? And where do we hear the moral claim of God upon our life? I submit to you, it’s in the corporate body of the people of God that we appropriate the ongoing powerful meaning of worship. I’m sure that there are some who can succeed in maintaining private devotions, and thus remain devout in mind ...

4128. He Pitched His Tent Among Us

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of God” which Jesus himself stressed so forcefully? Is it the gracious movement of the Holy Spirit making real the living Christ as Comforter, Power-Giver, Guide? Or, is it the cross? The outpouring of sacrificial love, the living out to the ultimate of Jesus’ own claim: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for a friend.” For the Christian Church in the West, this has been the central fact - the cross. Calvary is our Holy of Holies. Around the cross is where we feel ...

4129. Jesus' First Miracle

John 2:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... s what we are coming to this morning. Very early in the church’s life, this Communion meal, this sacrament of Holy Communion, was seen as a Messianic banquet, a joyful occasion when we celebrate the presence of Christ here and now, but also claim the promise of His ultimate triumph. So we say, “Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again — Hallelujah!” So, come to the Table this morning “The marriage of the Lamb is Come” the wedding festivities at Cana extended for many days, but ...

4130. Samaria and Our Spiritual Journey

John 4:1-26

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Maxie Dunnam

... of Jerusalem in neither place, nor in any other special place but God is Spirit. He is here and there, and there and here and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth.” Then there is still another huge lesson. Jesus makes the radical claim that He is the source of meaning in life. “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, the water that I shall give him shall become in him a spring of water welling ...

4131. Who Will Cast the First Stone?

John 7:45--8:11

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Maxie Dunnam

... punishment, he would be breaking the law of Rome and the punishment of Rome would be upon him. Now the second possibility was that he would not uphold the condemnation and would disagree with the law of Moses. If he did that, how could he sustain his claim to truth? So he was on the double-horns of a dilemma. If he acquitted the woman, they would accuse him of violating the Law of Moses. If he condemned her, they would accuse him of political usurpation — for the power to condemn to death was invested ...

4132. A Gallery of Mirrors

John 12:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... there’s a second thing to note about Judas. It’s a common pit into which we all are apt to fall. Duty can make us dull to live and distort our perspective. I don’t want to debate the question of Judas’ sincerity when he protested Mary’s act — claiming the ointment could have been sold and the proceeds given to the poor. He was right. But John said he didn’t care for the poor that he was a thief and wanted the money for himself. But give Judas the benefit of the doubt. Jesus’ word is not to ...

4133. Christ's Chosen People: Privilege

John 15:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... ’ name; that is, we are to pray as “partners with Christ,” read y to witness and serve and bear fruit as we are called. Let me illustrate. A few months ago a woman in this congregation lost a gold bracelet at a football game. She filed an insurance claim for the bracelet and forgot about it. A while latter a need came to her attention – the need of Billy Joe Jackson’s family for a washing machine. The Jackson’s had moved into a new place, they had a new baby, and they didn’t have a washing ...

4134. There Is a Price for Everything, Part 2

Matthew 13:44-46

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Maxie Dunnam

... the story - his giving in to temptation, stealing the wife of one of his most trusted friends, Uriah then sending Uriah off to the front lines to be killed in battle. David couldn’t get away from that. He couldn’t get away from that even though he claimed God’s forgiveness. The first installment for that sin came due when Nathan stood before him and told him the story of the rich man taking the ewe lamb that belonged to a poor man. David was deeply stirred, and he thundered at Nathan: “Show me that ...

4135. When Are We Most Like God?

Exodus 2:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... shorter wouldn’t be pleased week in and week out with 5-minute introductory thoughts. I did hear a story the other day that tempted me in this direction – a story about Will Campbell. Will is sort of a renegade Baptist preacher – not too many Baptist would claim him. He is severely iconoclastic. He’s at once the champion of prison reform and civil rights, and yet, at the same time, is the only clergy I know who has deliberately sought to minister to the Ku Klux Klan. He lives on a forty acre farm ...

4136. Let God Be God - As if It Could Be Otherwise

Exodus 7:14-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... out over everyone’s bodies, then a deluge of hail, then came the locusts, literally covering the face of the land, eating all the vegetation that had survived the hail. Then there was darkness that covered the earth. The final plague was the death angel, coming to claim the firstborn of all the land. It’s a horrible picture, a picture of judgment. What are the big lessons here? First, God is God. Redundant though it sounds, it’s the only way to state it. God is God. Our problem is that we give ...

4137. John 16:12-15

John 16:5-16

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... is heard” from the unified Godhead. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have but one message, one truth, one revelation: Jesus. Scholars disagree over the force and focus of the “things that are to come” that this Spirit will “declare.” Some feel this claim had a fully eschatological focus and that the Spirit will reveal future events as the final fulfillment of God’s kingdom unfolds (e.g. information such as that found in the Book of Revelation). But Jesus’ words to his disciples in this final ...

4138. What Is Man?

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... a thought in our parents’ minds, and that one or more of our atoms will become a part of a leaf or a tree a few years after we die. (5) It is a miracle beyond comprehension. We are so tiny, so seemingly insignificant. The only reason we have any claim at all to uniqueness or importance is our relationship to the Creator. “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for ...

4139. Ministering Angels

Exodus 23:20-33

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Maxie Dunnam

... between tears and laughter. Someone has said that the soul would have no rainbows had the eyes no tears. Did you get that? It’s the great gift of the angel of God, Who enables us to sing with Paul and Silas at midnight in prison; and to claim with Paul amongst his prison chains, “Nothing, absolutely nothing, can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.” So, the guiding ministry of God’s angels is the ministry of keeping us faithful, giving us a new way of seeing things which enables us to ...

4140. Lessons from Rephidim - Being the Lord's Intercessor

Exodus 17:8-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in prayer. When some human being comes to my study with a burden too heavy to bear, there are instances where no advice matters and no change of facts can be affected. But I can push hell back for a time. I can stand beside God and claim His will for an oppressed human soul. This is prayer as wrestling. It is our ultimate weapon in our struggle with all that is wrong with our Universe.” (L. Ellsworth Kaias, “Prayer: Sometimes I Wrestle”, Church of the Saviour, Cleveland Ohio, May 5, 1985.) You see, my ...

4141. Lessons from the Ordinances

Exodus 21:2-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... of that book has the very interesting title: “The Bluebird on the Dung Heap.” That’s a chapter on hope. Dr. Menninger proclaims the hope of America is in individual responsibility and he says: “The reader must surely know that I would not claim his attention for these many pages of commiseration on our common discomforts and misfortune, only to propose the amendment of our vocabulary by the one word, sin. What then is the message? The message is simple. It is that concern is the touchstone - caring ...

4142. Taught by a Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... - how we get it and how we use it - to edge God out of the His place in our lives. And then there is security, our neurotic drive for security which shows our lack of faith in God. Do we believe He cares for1IT own or not? Do we constantly claim His promise (Matthew 6:26) “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor / gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them; are ye not of more value than they?” Some subtle ones may serve to make love in marriage distorted to the point ...

4143. In the Lions' Den (Dealing with Stress)

Psalm 16:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... began to cool my skin. It as though I was getting an internal massage that took he tension out of my inner being, very much like a massage takes the tension out of our physical bodies. It was then that I internalized and made my own, what I had intellectually claimed before, and that is this; EVERY NEED IS NOT A CALL. Now listen to that: EVERY NEED IS NOT A CALL. There’s no possible way that we can serve every need. And every need that confronts us is not a call of God upon our life. So, to deal ...

4144. Galatians 1:11-24

Galatians 1:11-24

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... a creeping Hellenization, were the hallmarks of “zealous” “Judaism.” Paul declares himself to be the poster boy for terrorizing Christians. Until. That is, until Paul describes his life-altering experience with language that suggests the “call” of an Old Testament prophet. Paul claims he was “set apart before I was born,” an image that evokes both Isaiah 49:1 and Jeremiah 1:5. What Paul’s pre-existent “call” had been was to have God’s Son revealed to him, so that he might “proclaim ...

4145. Why Jesus Didn't Perform Funerals

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... to overflowing life! 1. Royce Hendry, http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermon.asp?SermonID=34943. 2. Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2003), pp. 55-56. 3. Dr. Muriel James and Dr. Dorothy Jongeward, Born to Win (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc. 1971). 4. Jesus’ Claims Our Promises (Nashville, Tennessee: The Upper Room, 1985). 5. Norman Vincent Peale, Treasury of Joy and Enthusiasm (NY: Ballantine Books, 1981).

4146. Joy Comes in the Morning

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... others must wait to receive their ultimate healing in heaven. But I take comfort in some words which I quote from Chuck Swindoll. “God is too kind to ever to be cruel, too wise to ever make a mistake, too deep to ever explain Himself. Then she added, “I still claim Psalm 34:4 often, as I face the various fears and doubts that Satan throws my way. But I would like to share with you another precious verse that I will use to praise Jesus for the rest of my life: Psalm 30:2: “O Lord my God; I called ...

4147. Room When in Distress

Psalm 4:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to come through the difficulty with your faith and devotion unscathed. How did you do it? What advice can you give me?” “Well,” the psalmist might reply, “the first thing you must do is face your problem.” In my case, people were actually mocking my faith, claiming that it did no good to trust God in a time of drought. The crops were threatened; the livelihood of the land was in jeopardy. And I insisted that we must continue to pray to God for help. He alone could send the good rain we needed, It ...

4148. In the House of the Lord

Psalm 23:1-6

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Maxie Dunnam

... forces that would lead us astray and take us far from his righteous path. “Greater is he that is within you than he that is in the world.” More and more I’m convinced that Satan and the powers of evil are after God’s people every day. We must claim the protection of God – believe and act on the past that he will prepare a table for us in the presence of our enemies. Call on him as we begin to sense the tempters approach – Immerse ourselves in his word and in daily prayer that we may be alive in ...

4149. Miracles in Contrast

John 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... we read that John’s aim in writing the gospel was that men might “believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life through His name” (John 20:31) The word life is continually on the lips of Jesus. It is Jesus’ claim that He came that men might have life and that they might have it more abundantly (10:10) In this gospel of John the word life occurs more than 35 times, and the verb to live or to have life more than 15 times. In Him was life and the ...

4150. My Name Is Legion

Mark 5:1-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... you can buy and trade and sell and own. Trapped. Bound, and without the certainty that Christ can do great things for you — can come to you in your cemetery of deadness and break the chains that Isn’t that one of our big problems We’re not claiming Christ’s power in our lives. A few weeks ago, on a Sunday afternoon, I flew up to Lexington, Kentucky for a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Asbury Seminary. I was just there overnight and until noon the next day. A seminarian took me ...

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