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Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... screen door to face the perils of this world, wouldn't you prefer "God the ravening lion" at your child's side rather than Jesus "the mother hen"? "How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings." What kind of chance is this hen going to have against the likes of a fox such as Herod? Some friendly Pharisees warn Jesus this morning that Herod wants to kill him. No surprise there. Herod has already chopped off the head of John the Baptist at a wild party ...

4152. God Shows No Partiality

Acts 10:23b-48

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... tried to turn the Christian faith into an exclusive club, of course. "If you don't believe exactly what I believe," they say, "you don't belong. If you do those things of which I disapprove, you're not among the righteous. If you associate with that kind of people, you can't associate with us." Someone took a poll once in a particular denomination and found that three-fourths of the members of that church thought they would go to heaven. But they were sure that only one-fourth of their neighbors would. Such ...

4153. Unworthy or Not?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... God, they chose to serve the least and the lowest. (3) Do you understand what I am saying? God can use people of all kinds of persuasions and personality types, but God can best use a person who has a healthy sense of his or her own self-worth-- ... now on you will be catching people." Simon Peter left everything and followed Jesus. What shall we say to all of this? If you are the kind of person who devalues your own worth as a human being, you need to get help with that. Jesus does not want disciples who do ...

4154. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... be devastating, and almost unbearable, God has always provided for my husband, my son, and for me, so I want one more scripture to be shared with you, because it’s so true of my life,” and then she quoted this most marvelous passage, “I am merciful and kind, says the Lord, I love thee beyond measure, I propose to do the good, and low I will bring unto thee those who can truly help, if you leave all in my hands.” It is always so. There is support in the Christian fellowship, in that fellowship, God ...

4155. My Prayer For You: Barefoot Days of the Soul

Galatians 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... you simply don’t want to be involved to the point that it will hurt. When we give in to those temptations and then awaken to what has happened, we feel guilt and shame, sometimes to the point of Paul: “Oh wretched man that I am.” You have had that kind of experience, haven’t you? I have. But you have also known the joy of overcoming. There is nothing quite like being able to look Satan and temptation in the face and say “No, no, I will not give in to you.” “Greater is He that is within me than ...

4156. All This and Heaven Too

Luke 18:18-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... and separation it caused have not yet been confessed and dealt with. the pornographic bondage in which you were ensnared, but now have freedom from. the cheating in college studies that now and then haunts you. I could go on and on. We don’t need to carry that kind of burden of guilt. There is pardon for our past. Scripture is clear about that, I John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, He who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” And Romans 8:1: “There is ...

4157. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... , I become less than human. If I have not love, I die and putting those two things together, we conclude: Nothing matters if we don’t have love. That’s the warning, the judgment, but the Gospel never stops there. Listen to Paul: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs, Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts ...

4158. Generic Christianity Is Not Enough

Romans 12:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... he meant with that intriguing message on the bumper of his Mercedes. The fellow told me he was a member of a local congregation, but he was so tired of denomination emphases and sectarian politics in the church that he wanted to proclaim a different kind of message. He wanted the world to know that he was a Christian, not any label -- hence a generic Christian. Well, the fellow had a point. But I wonder. I wonder if we don’t have too many generic Christians and not enough distinctive Christians, those ...

4159. The Nature of the Church and Christian Discipleship

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our power? Peter answers that question also. In fact, in our scripture lesson, he answers that question first. Listen to him: “Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation; for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. Come to Christ, the living stone, and be yourselves built into a spiritual house, be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices.” There’s the source of power – Jesus Christ – the Living Stone. He builds us into a spiritual house ...

4160. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... from battle. But more than that -- celebrating God’s presence with them. When the Ark arrived at Zion, there was a kind of liturgy -- a ceremonial game of question and answer between those who had returned from battle and the people who were ... in a nursing home, in a wheel chair. Her face was a quilt of wrinkles, but her eyes still sparkled and shone with that same compassion and kindness that he had known as a boy. Tom said, “I did what you told me to do, Sister. I followed your advice. I had faith in ...

4161. Samaria and Our Spiritual Journey

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Maxie Dunnam

... in all of our lives. Two, there is a ministry in Samaria. And three, Samaria is to pass through, not to stay in. Now that kind of “lateral thinking” about the text was profitable to me. Let’s see whether it will be so for you. I First, there is a Samaria ... ? 3. When did you first experience the love of God? I’m telling this to my brother. Mother was sitting quietly, kind of old and small-looking. Suddenly she jumped into the conversation. “I first experienced the love of God,” she said, “in ...

4162. Partners In the Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... book of Acts, the work of the Holy Spirit guiding the missionary endeavor of Paul and his companions is boldly stated. The Holy Spirit had prevented them from going to Bethesda so they went to Troas where Paul had a vision. Do you remember? In a kind of dream-sleep, Paul heard a man from Macedonia pleading, “Come over and help us.” As the pattern of Paul’s life had been established by his obedience to the heavenly vision he had had on the Damascus Road, he remained obedient, responded to this vision ...

4163. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Hebrews 11:1-40, Philippians 2:12-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... energy for living this now day of resurrection comes from the confidence that God has a purpose for our lives, so Paul says, “I reach forward…I press toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” It is that kind of goal – that awareness of divine purpose and divine call that keeps us alive. I don’t think anyone understood this better than Mother Teresa, the contemporary saint who gave her life for the poorest of the poor. On one occasion she observed, “We all long ...

4164. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... fruitless discipline and devotion left him deeply discontented. In 1725 he made a lifelong dedication to God, which was never repudiated or outgrown. But it was not life-giving. In 1727, he had another definite religious experience, which led to a kind of asceticism within the world. He became avidly devoted to the development of his interior life and rigorously disciplined in religious practice. That, too, left him lifeless, empty, uncertain, and joyless. Then came his most famous experience on May 24,1728 ...

4165. Standing In the Gap: The Work of Intercession

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... this year here in Orlando. I’m particularly excited about your theme: Standing in the Gap—and the fact that Steve is basing all of his sermons on the Lord’s Prayer. I want to fit into that pattern—but confess to you that I do so out of the kind of sense that D. T. Niles expressed when he described evangelism as “one beggar telling another beggar where to get bread.” None of us are experts in prayer—the more we pray, the more we realize that we are limited—and that we’re not tapping all the ...

4166. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about it as you minister to people. You may meet some people who don’t want to get well – you’ll have to deal with that part of the issue. I know people who deliberately withhold forgiveness and harbor resentment, who keep an injury alive as a kind of tranquilize against the demands of responsible living. I’ve known people who get an odd satisfaction in feeling victimized by life. I’ve known people who seem to have a need to suffer. Their suffering gave them the ammunition they needed to fight the ...

4167. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

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Maxie Dunnam

... ”. A part of the energy for living this now day of resurrection comes from the divine purpose in our life, so Paul says, “I reach forward…I press toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” It is that kind of goal – that awareness of divine purpose and divine call that keeps us alive. I don’t think anyone understood this better than Mother Teresa, the contemporary saint who gave her life for the poorest of the poor. On one occasion she observed, “we all long for ...

4168. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... fulfill them.” What an incredible claim not only about his mission but indirectly about his very person. Jesus is saying that all that God has thus far revealed and has been written down and accepted by the Jews, for which the phrase the law and the prophets is a kind of shorthand, is to be brought to completion in him. He is the one to whom Scripture points. “I have come to fulfill God’s will outlined in our Jewish book,” not just as another prophet but as the one who speaks for God on who will and ...

4169. Sorrow For Those Who Do Not Obey God

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship Leader: O God, my defender, answer me when I pray! People: When I was in trouble, you helped me. Be kind to me now and hear my prayer. Leader: There are many who pray: "Give us more blessings, O Lord. Look on us with kindness!" People: But the joy that you have given me is more than they will ever have. Leader: When I lie down, I go to sleep in peace. People: You alone, O Lord, keep me perfectly safe. Collect Understanding and merciful God, our hearts are filled with sorrow, and we find ...

4170. The New Life In Christ

Colossians 3:1-17

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... . Forgive our self-centeredness, we pray, and by your Holy Spirit enable us truly to let your love shine through us in all that we do. Amen. Offertory Prayer Lord, we know that there are limits to what we personally can do to show others your love, compassion, and kindness. We bring these gifts that they may be used to reach out to places near and far where we cannot go, and let them show forth your love for all humanity. Amen. Hymns "The First Noel" "There's A Song In The Air" "All Beautiful The March Of ...

4171. Ascension of Our Lord

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... life and to give you eternal life. Now he has the love to send his Spirit into your hearts and to transform you and to make you a new person from the inside out. Now he can give you the fruits of his Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness and faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23), so that you have true life and have it abundantly. The main point of our text, therefore, is that we are witnesses of all these things. We have not been called into the Christian faith as ...

4172. An Extraterrestrial Celebration

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... reads, ‘Jesus washed all the disciples’ feet except the feet of Judas,’ but I couldn’t find one. “What a passionate moment when Jesus silently lifts the feet of his betrayer and washes them in the basin! Within hours the feet of Judas, cleansed by the kindness of the one he will betray, will stand in Caiaphas’s court. “Behold the gift Jesus gives his followers! By morning they will bury their heads in shame and look down at their feet in disgust. And when they do, he wants them to remember how ...

4173. A Broken Vessel for Jesus

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Michael Milton

... into question in Mark 14:3-9. The scene is Bethany. Bethany was a small place about two miles southeast of Jerusalem. The name means “House of Figs” and was not by any means a very glitzy place. A person went through Bethany, not to Bethany—you know the kind of place. But once a year Bethany had visitors. Perhaps up to 300,000 people had come to celebrate Passover in Jerusalem. On this night a dinner party was being held in honor of Jesus. It was held at the home of Simon—Simon the Leper! He used to ...

4174. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... that’s she’s overweight. 5. Don’t buy jewelry. The jewelry your wife wants, you can’t afford. And the jewelry you can afford, she doesn’t want. 6. And, guys, do not fall into the traditional trap of buying her frilly underwear. Your idea of the kind your wife should wear and what she actually wears is light years apart. 7. Finally, don’t spend too much. “How do you think we’re going to afford that?” she’ll ask. But don’t spend too little. She won’t say anything, but she’ll think ...

4175. Night Moves

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... they gave $100,000,000 to Emory University. That is why all good Methodists drink Coca Cola. The tune is named "Candler" because the bishop loved the hymn. They were going to take it out of the hymnal, and he insisted that they keep it in. Bishops have that kind of authority, so it was kept in. But probably the reason it is named "Candler" is that it is a Scottish dance tune, named "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon." They thought "Candler" would look better in the hymnal. It is a wonderful hymn, and it is ...

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