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4176. God Outwits Us

Psalm 31:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... in my books can be at most that from afar they point to what these six words say. And when my books are long since outdated and forgotten, and every book in the world with them, these words will still shine with everlasting fullness: “My grace is ... I’m angry, I know deep within me that one day my trust in God the Father will return greater than it was nine months ago. I long for that day when my faith under fire will be the strongest it has ever been. But until then, I am unable to carry myself. I need ...

4177. In the Wrong Place At the Right Time

Mark 15:21-32

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Maxie Dunnam

... it is not just big things like that. Sometimes, apparently insignificant things have a strange way of suddenly developing unexpected consequences, and turning out to be not small things at all – but great and decisive events in our life. II We could ponder this for a long time – but let me simply register two truths. The first one is this: the circumstances of life often compel us to go in a direction we never intended to go. Have you seen the move, “Patch Adams”? Please see it. It is a marvelous ...

4178. Let Me Say That Again

John 14:15-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... country, and probably did not even know the name of the capital city - Tallinn. But on September 28 and 29, television around the world carried the story: the worst non-military sea tragedy since the Titanic, claiming over 900 lives. On Monday afternoon, I had taken a long walk with a friend down to the harbor. There were small boats and large sea-going vessels. Among them was a ferry with its name prominently painted on the bow: Estonia. It was a huge thing and we marveled at the size of it and the number ...

4179. To the Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

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Charles Curley

... in the bleak inevitability impelling Jesus to Jerusalem and the cross? In spite of all we believe, here stands the transfiguration in the midst of Lent, like a feast in the middle of a long dry fast. What happened that day on the mountain, in this story of light and spirit and heroes long since dead? Who knows? I certainly can’t say I understand the transfiguration, even though I have read many scholarly accounts which try to rationalize the transfiguration into something understandable: ... it was a ...

4180. Awake to Glory

Luke 9:28-36

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... forth special effort to find food which will nourish the deepest hungers of our lives. Part of the secret is frequent attendance at the house of worship. This is no commercial; it is simply a statement of the facts of life. We are bombarded all week long by voices that dull our sensitivity to God and to the eternal; so we need desperately to take advantage of that special time each week when we can concentrate on hearing another voice. But Sunday worship is not enough. We must also establish some patterns ...

4181. God's Say-So

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

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Maxie Dunnam

... of the crowd. As she held him there so that he could see, she was overheard saying to him, “Take a long look, honey. That man died for you.” The New Testament and the Christian Gospel have the singular concern to lift us above the things that could crowd it ... from our view and point us to the cross, saying, “Take a long look. He died for you.” So, “though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow -- though they be red like ...

4182. Don't Fade Out On the Amen and the Hallelujah

Revelation 19:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... place where they can hear the saving word of Jesus Christ. What worship that must have been – that John was privileged to sample just a bit of in his dream. What worship it must be – ongoing worship as saints gather around the throne. Do you ever long for – deeply long for that kind of worship? I do! Maybe it’s my age. But maybe – it is the fact that I miss those who have gone before me – loved ones: Cobell and Mutt, my mother and father. My friends – David McKeithen, my father in the ministry ...

4183. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... one of the stories of healing. Here’s a man who has been sick for thirty-eight years – thirty-eight years! That’s a long time. Day in and day out, he comes to the pool at Bethesda, thinking that somehow getting into the waters of the pool would ... in preparation for this sermon that this word slapped me in the face. Does that haunt you as it does me? I don’t know how long he had been coming to the pool – but he’d been sick for thirty-eight years. How he got to the pool is not noted. Perhaps he ...

4184. The Work of An Evangelist

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... have been around many street people, but this was the strongest stench I have ever encountered. I instinctively had to turn my head sideways to inhale, then look back in this direction while breathing out. I asked his name. “David,” he said softly. “How long have you been homeless, David?” “Six years.” “Where did you sleep last night?” “In an abandoned truck.” I had heard enough and wanted to get this over quickly. I reached for the money clip in my back pocket. At that moment David put ...

4185. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v2

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... in one basket and that basket seemed to have a hole in it. Or the couple who had gone their selfish way for so long that they had almost destroyed their marriage. Now when the shock of what they had done to each other and the awareness of ... denuding it of its power. Following Jesus is important. That’s what we’re called to do. But the point is, we cannot follow Jesus for long unless we’re in Christ, unless we’re abiding in Him. So we renew our strength by waiting on the Lord, by spending time in His ...

4186. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v1

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... appropriate. The danger is that we carry it too far. We reduce Christianity to a religion of morals and ethics, thus denuding it of its power. Following Jesus is important. That’s what we’re called to do. But the point is, we cannot follow Jesus for long unless we are in Christ, unless we’re abiding in Him. So we renew our strength by waiting on the Lord, by spending time in prayer, with His Word, with His people, cultivating His presence within in order that we act in the world out of his indwelling ...

4187. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... – to encourage and inspire. Let Paul’s charge reverberate through the chambers of your mind, let them settle as guiding wisdom in all the places of your heart. “Preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and teaching.” Let’s move on in the text. Listen to verse 3: “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but live according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves ...

4188. A Thousand Years Of Ashes

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Chris into the pond finally confessed his transgression. However, by then it was too late for healing. Each of the boys suffered long term emotional and psychological damage from the secret they had been carrying. (4) Many people carry around a heavy burden of guilt ... thirty-five years had been a heavy drinker. This was not helped by the fact that he had the temperament of a top sergeant long after he had become a Colonel. One day this Colonel was invited to speak to a group of doctors. He described to these ...

4189. Dealing With Your Enemies

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... you were laughing. What were you laughing about.” The man replied, “I was not laughing, I was thinking. “ ”What were you thinking about?” asked Hitler. “I was thinking about my people, the Jews, and that you are not the first man who didn’t like us. A long time ago there was another man who didn’t like us. His name was Pharaoh and he put heavy burdens on us down there in Egypt. But for years we Jews have had a feast called Passover and at that feast we have a little three-cornered cake and ...

4190. In the Wilderness With Moses

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... children of Israel are in the wilderness where, amazingly, they will wander for forty years. Surely in these forty years there were times when Moses thought he might hear a voice from the heavens: OOPS! He did not, of course. But forty years is a long time to make a journey that should have taken 11 days. In I Corinthians Paul tells Moses’ story and gives his own interpretation of that story. And the interpretation boils down to this: GOD WAS FAITHFUL TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BUT THEY WERE UNFAITHFUL ...

4191. Tell The Good News Of What The Lord Has Done

Isaiah 60:1-22

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H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship Leader: When Jesus was born he was recognized as King of kings and Lord of all. People: He came to rule with righteousness and justice. Leader: Our King judges the poor fairly, and he helps the needy. People: We will worship him as long as the sun shines, as long as the moon gives light. All: Praise be to God! Amen. Collect O God, we give you thanks for the light that brightens our lives because your only Son, Jesus, came to earth to rule over us. We pray for that day, foretold by the ...

4192. What Are You Doing Here?

1 Kings 19:1-8, 1 Kings 19:9-18

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H. Burnham Kirkland

Call To Worship Leader: As a deer longs for a stream of cool water, so I long for you, O God. People: I thirst for you, the living God. Leader: Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? People: Once again I will put my hope in God, and I will praise him, my Savior and my God. Collect Lord, when the forces of evil ...

4193. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

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Phil Thrailkill

... automatically suspect, and we Methodists do it all the time. How easy to be a crowd pleaser rather than a God pleaser. And I remind you that the light I shine on you on Sunday morning is a light that I have been sitting and sweating under all week long. It’s why I give you Scripture sheets and spend serious time in study and writing. I am accountable, and I will be held accountable in ways you will not. James 3:1 reads, “ Let not many of you become teachers, brethren, knowing that we shall receive the ...

4194. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

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Phil Thrailkill

... to come, they sent an urgent delegation. “Since you insist,” he said, “I will come in half an hour.” When he arrived, the Teacher entered the room carrying a leaking water jug on his back. Members of the council asked, “Teacher, what is this?” “All day long,” he replied, “my sins run out behind me and I am unaware of them. Yet despite my blindness to my own sin, today I am asked to judge the error of another.” When they saw what he was saying, they forgave the brother and said no more ...

4195. Resurrection

Acts 10:34-43

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King Duncan

... to be a harmless hoax. A man named Christian Spurling confessed his role in the fake photography just before he died in November 1994. The “monster” had been fabricated from a 14-inch toy submarine upon which Marmaduke Wetherell, Spurling’s stepfather, attached a long neck and a small head fashioned from plastic wood. The two floated the model out into the shallows and made the photograph. Wilson became the front man for the deception. (2) To this day there are people who travel to Loch Ness to try ...

4196. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... dark, and 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 to be the ... were beatific expressions that I never saw much of in the faces around me. "Young as I was, though, I had known for a long time a that the catalog lied. I knew that under those fancy clothes there had to be scars, there had to be blemishes and ...

4197. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

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King Duncan

... in 10 minutes. No one was hurt and the six fishermen were rescued by another trawler. It was not clear whether the fish escaped the net or not. (2) When I read that story I thought of today’s lesson from John’s Gospel. It was not long after Easter. Some of Jesus’ disciples had gone back to their trade--fishing on the Sea of Tiberias. This particular night they had absolutely no luck. Their nets were empty. Early the next morning, they saw a figure standing on the shore looking their way. The stranger ...

4198. The One Who Came Still Comes; The One Who Spoke Still Speaks

Mark 11:1-11

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Michael Milton

... so we plea Jesus come when I grow old When I see that my story’s been told Come Shepherd lead me through death’s door And find You there, forevermore. Jesus come, in all of Your power Though we know not the Day or the hour We long to see the world set free So Jesus come. Jesus come. Jesus come. Jesus come. [1] Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones (Nashville: Word Publishers, 1999). as cited in the email devotional for November 14, 2005, http://www.oakhillschurchsa.org/. [2] Michael Anthony Milton, 2005.

4199. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

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Michael Milton

... bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong” (Mark 12:18-27). The Futility of Self-diagnosis Not too long ago I had a physical ailment. Like any red-blooded American male, I knew what was best. I self-diagnosed and went on about my life. Of course, I did not get better. My wife, being gifted with practical wisdom sometimes called horse sense, saw through my male affliction ...

4200. Message from a Cloud

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... alone. Christ has ascended to the Father. And he has sent us his Holy Spirit to comfort us and to empower us. No assignment is impossible if God is with us. 1. Reader’s Digest, January 2005, pg. 54. 2. Just as Long as I’m Riding up Front (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1995), pp. 81-82. 3. Larry A. Tachte, “Welcome Home,” Augsburg Sermons 2 (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1982), p. 143. 4. Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, http://www.gracechurchamherst.org/sermons/sermon_1Epiphany06.htm. 5. William ...

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