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4326. Taking the Shape of Christ

Galatians 4:8-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Person.” I return to this lesson today in order to focus on verse 19 alone. With sharpness and clarity, Paul states the passion of his life and his vision for a new humanity. Phillips’ translation of this verse has an even more poignant feeling about it: “oh, my dear children, I feel, the pangs of childbirth all over again till Christ be formed with you.” Paul’s great definition of a Christian was a person in Christ. He used that picture over and over again. If any one is in Christ, he is a new ...

4327. A Goodly Heritage

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . When go into town, people stare at her and me trying to guess who my father was. And the shame and reproach that was on her feel on me. And it hurt me so bad that I didn’t want to go anywhere with her. At school, I’d eat lunch behind tree ... on Money.” On the bottom border is “Don’t Let Government Preach Religion.” Now this is no one time thing I think somebody feels pretty strongly about this. They have ad two rubber stamps made to imprint this message on the dollar. So this was no passing notion ...

4328. Characteristics of the Church, Part 2

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ? A knot of toads in the mud eating slugs, or soaring and singing with an exultation of larks? (suggested thought by Joe Harding in “Find Enthusiastic Joy”, September 19—20, 1981). There is a lot in life that makes us feel toad-like. There are people who put us down, who make us feel ugly and warty, and depressed. A pool of tadpoles is meant to become a knot of toads. That is not my future or ours, yet giving way to bitterness, resentment, to self-pity, makes us inwardly toad-like. How different that ...

4329. Led by the Spirit, Tempted by the Devil

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Bailey Circus. For a few minutes all was total darkness. They had just started the act with the tigers in the cage with the trainer. When the lights came on the trainer was still alive. He was interviewed by TV and newspaper reporters. They asked him, “How did you feel in that cage with all those big cats in the dark….when they couldn’t see you and you couldn’t see them?” The tiger-trainer’s answer was this: “But they didn’t know I couldn’t see them! So I just cracked my whip and shouted ...

4330. The Unforgivable Sin

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... from that relationship, a pattern of bondage developed in my life. I cried out to God for freedom and nothing I did released me. So to keep from dragging God’s name in the mud, I am giving up.” What a spiritual tragedy! It is one thing to feel cursed and possessed; it is another to give up on God, whose love in Jesus Christ was dragged through the mud and crucified, but is forever alive with resurrection power to set Henry Scott and all us free from demons, curses, guilt and sin, to bring light for our ...

4331. Should America Repent?

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , face the unface-able, and bear the unbearable. As surely as the Spirit of God moved over the chaos of creation in the beginning of time, so it is that the Spirit of the Living God can sweep across your soul bringing creation and order out of the chaos you feel down in the depths of your being. That is the promise. Let the Spirit of the Living God settle on your soul today. That is my prayer. How do we repent? We repent by stepping into the Refiner's fire. Dross must be consumed for the gold to be refined ...

4332. When It's Time to Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , come in, such patience must be rewarded." The rest, as they say, is history. It was Longfellow who said, “All things come round to those who are willing to wait." How are you at waiting? I like to say that patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. That is my definition of patience. When the Lord handed out patience, I was in the other line. I am a very impatient person. When I come to a traffic light that is turning from yellow to red, I am sure I can make it ...

4333. Light a Candle

Matthew 5:14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of that terrible September day when time, itself, stood still. Alan Jackson's hit asks, “Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day? Teaching a class full of innocent children Or driving down some interstate. Did you feel guilty because you were a survivor? In a crowded room did you feel all alone? Did you call up your mother and tell her you loved her? Did you dust off the Bible at home?" Some of us even dared to ask where God might have been when the world seemed so vulnerable ...

4334. Touching Hearts and Transforming Lives

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . In his own writings he tells this story. “For years I would come home cursing and angry about things at work. One day, I came home so mad that I kicked a hole in the living room wall. I can only imagine what my five year old must have been feeling and thinking in those days at home. Then I became a Christian. I knew a real transformation had taken place in my life when five months after my conversion, Allison came to her mother and said, “Mommy, I want God to do for me what He did for Daddy sometime ...

4335. Turning Evil Into Good

Genesis 45:1-8a, 50:19-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of redemptive suffering illustrated more effectively than in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. On that day when the Son of God was stretched upon a cruel cross, moaning and crying out, “My God, why have you forsaken me?" the evil one had to feel victorious. But just as the sinless one absorbs the sins of the world like a sponge, something happens. Evil is suffocated. Death loses its sting. The devil bites the heel of the Divine and is drowned in the blood of the Lamb. For God was in ...

4336. Doing What Disciples Do

John 15:12-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... him one day. Forgiveness is never easy and it is not excusing, but it is absolutely essential if you are to keep from dying a bitter person. Disciples forgive because forgiveness fits faulty people. Jesus forgives us and so we forgive. Forgiveness sets us free. The person feeling free is the one doing the forgiving. C. DISCIPLES SEEK TO SERVE As a single mother, she gets up 5:30 each morning and gets herself ready for work. She dresses her sleepy children, gets them a bite to eat, drops them off at day care ...

4337. The Miracle of Peace

Psalm 85:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... enough, the awful happens. Flick's tongue sticks to the pole. The bell rings. The kids rush to class. Finally the teacher is forced to call the EMS to release Flick. Sensing that Flick has not acted alone the teacher says to the class, “I am sure the guilt you feel in this room is far worse than any punishment you might receive. So that is all I am going to say about that." Ralphie, who put Flick up to it in the first place, leans over to his friend and comments, “Adults love to say stuff like that, but ...

4338. Wrestling Alone at Night

Genesis 32:22-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... minute sermon, and the multiple choice commandments. Everything you have ever wanted in a church and less. Religion like that may make you feel good, but it is not likely to do you any good. It may provide you entertainment, but it is not apt to make ... the family of God. You are a Christian. I know, it seems like too much doesn’t it? Don’t you think Jacob had to feel that way that day? It is something like Bobby trying to become Robert, or Marge trying to become Marjorie, or Dick trying to become Richard ...

4339. Building Boats That Float

Genesis 6:1

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... feet wide, 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark within 18 inches of the top. Put a door on the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.” Isn’t it interesting how detailed this building plan really was? Have you any feel for the ship we have just described? This is 1 1/2 football fields long. When my grandson first walked into this Sanctuary, we walked hand-in-hand down to the front. He took one look at this expansive space and looked up to me and he said, “Poppy, this ...

4340. Hearing the Questions of Children

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... about it? “Ecstatic,” said Tennessean staff writer, Barbara Moore.[1] The Old Testament story we step into today is the life and death test of one man’s faith and obedience. Father Abraham feels directed by God to sacrifice his only son as an act of worship on Mt. Moriah. Suddenly, this boy who has brought laughter to a couple in their elder years, is surrounded by a trail of tears. It is a hard story, a bizarre story, a story for mature audiences ...

4341. Why Do People Suffer?

John 9:1-7

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and when it began to stop at the first, it did not quite make it. You could hear the hydraulics screeching and you could feel the thud when it finally stopped. For the next two hours we became intimately acquainted with people we hope to never meet again. What ... that he gives me the grace to carry on." Embrace the grace of God. There is grace sufficient for the tremendous pain some of you feel. Let the grace of God see you through. What will we do with what happens to us? We can go to work to stop suffering ...

4342. The Holy Spirit and You

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... conscience that shifts with the situation, whatever it might be. Some of you came to church today with an over-sensitive conscience and you just feel guilty about everything. A conscience is not a good guide if it doesn't have the right content. But Jesus said, “When the Holy ... you to know I'm going to be right by your side. I will hold your hand exactly as I am doing now. When you feel my hand, know that I will not leave you. If you need anything, just squeeze my hand. I'm going to be holding it." David ...

4343. Praising God All Day Long

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Stewart plays the role of a prosperous Quaker farmer during the Civil War. He is a widower and hard worker. At supper his feelings show as he offers this prayer: “Bless this food Lord. I plowed the land, planted the seed and irrigated the fields. I harvested the ... there, he would say, “Every time I write something significant, every time I read my words and think they are wonderful and begin to feel proud of myself, I look at that turtle and remember that he didn't get there on his own. He had some help." We ...

4344. The Uniting Peace of Christ

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the alien, denying them justice. I looked for a person to stand in the gap but I found none.” (Ezekiel 22:30) Simon and Garfunkel put it this way in “Bridge Over Troubled Water”: “When you’re weary, feeling small, When tears are in your eyes, I’ll dry them all. I’m on your side, when times get rough And friends just can’t be found. Like a bridge over troubled waters, I will lay me down.” That is the meaning of the cross, a bridge ...

4345. Come to Bethlehem and See

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... your hearts and minds. With eyes wide open, encounter Christ the newborn King. Behold him and follow him. Others surely feel more like the shepherds on this holy and scared night. Shepherds were more acquainted with earth than heaven, more accustomed ... in my lounge chair praying for a chance to live and pondering the meaning of life. There is one word that describes my feelings this Christmas. That word is gratitude. Gratitude for the life I have been privileged to live. Gratitude for the love that has been ...

4346. About Whose Business Was He?

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If he lives with pity, he learns to feel sorry for himself. But if a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love. If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate. ... What are people going to think of us? All of you who have lost children, even for a little while, know the gamut of these feelings Mary and Joseph must have felt on this particular day. There is a lesson in the lostness for us. If you are going to ...

4347. The Bread We Daily Need

Luke 11:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Jimmy Stewart plays a prosperous Quaker farmer during the Civil War. One night at the supper table, this widower and hard worker lets his feelings show as he asks the blessing. “Bless this food, Lord. I plowed the land, I planted the seed, I irrigated the fields. I ... thank you anyway because I promised my wife on her deathbed I would for the children’s sake. Amen.” I suppose most of us feel that way some time or another, do we not? I suggest to you today that we do not pray with clenched fists, we pray ...

4348. Marching Forward by Faith!

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... remind me of those who didn't make it. My grandson said the other day, “If you believe it, you can do it" - a kid after my own heart, but some of you have believed with all your heart and it didn't happen. Loss of faith comes when we feel let down. Not just in the little things that really don't matter, but the big things like a dying child, a sick spouse, a divorce, a lost job, betrayal by a friend. In moments like these it's easy to despair, but what you do with what has happened ...

4349. The Door of Hospitality

John 12:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... One threw his arms around me last Sunday and said, “I’m glad your cancer is gone.” Now that is healing in every way. “Let the children come and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the Kingdom of God.” Hospitality is an atmosphere. It is a feeling that you create in a place. When Thomas Jefferson was President, he and his entourage came to a river on horseback. Standing on the bank was a man who approached Jefferson and asked for a ride. Jefferson gave him a lift onto the horse and they crossed ...

4350. Finding Our Reason For Being

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... worship goes, so goes the Church. The worst nine weeks of my life were the weeks I was separated from worship. The trauma is still so deep I can hardly talk about it. I badgered and begged doctors to let me return. I did not feel relieved from responsibility, I felt alienated from community. Sunday morning television stinks, including religious TV. The weeks had no beginning and no end. The days all ran together. You did not need me. In fact, worship attendance increased during my absence. I needed you. I ...

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