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451. Get Rid of the Junk

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

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King Duncan

... can provide, sooner or later you’re going to come across an obstacle in your path that you will not be able to move. And inwardly you will shrivel and die. But, if your trust is in God, you will be able to plant deep roots that will yield a garden in the most extreme circumstance. It’s a matter of orientation. You see, all of us have junk within us. Maybe it was from a difficult childhood situation. Maybe our parents rejected us. Maybe they expected too much from us. Maybe we were abused. Maybe, on ...

452. Alive In Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... in relation to the Father. And then He tells us who we are in relation to Him. “I am the real vine; my Father is the vinedresser. He removes any of my branches which are not bearing fruit and He prunes every branch that does bear fruit to increase its yield. Now, you have already been pruned by my words. You must go on growing in me and I will grow in you. For just as the branch cannot bear any fruit unless it shares the life of the vine, so you can produce nothing unless you go on growing in ...

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

Galatians 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... we cannot contain God’s fullness, we can receive it to the full measure of our capacity, and to the degree of our yieldedness. This is what it means to be Spirit-filled or baptized with or in the Spirit: to have a relationship with God that is so yielded to Him that He comes to us and dwells with us in intimacy and power, so that we can experience in life all the things Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would do for believers. Most of you know the Lipscomb story. I want to affirm this congregation for the ...

454. Constantly Abiding

John 15:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... symbols of our “constantly abiding.” You remember Jesus’ metaphor. Listen again to that familiar word: “I am the vine; my Father is the vinedresser. He removes any of my branches which are not bearing fruit and He prunes every branch that does bear fruit to increase its yield. Now, you have already been pruned by my words. You must go on growing in me and I will grow in you. For just as the branch cannot bear any fruit unless it shares the life of the vine, so you can produce nothing unless you go ...

455. Imitators of God

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Maxie Dunnam

... of modern Christians is that we really don’t believe that we can be completely transformed, that as Christians, we are called to be demonstration plots (examples) of holiness, set down in a less than holy world. Taking our cue from Ezekiel, we need to know that if we yield ourselves up to the divine working of our Lord, He will give us a new heart. He will alter our nature. He will subdue the old nature, and breathe new life into us. I remember a time in my life back in the early 60’s when I was ...

456. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... holiness we are talking about - discipline, not legalism - conviction, not intolerance - sacrifice, not asceticism. We are talking about obedience that gives freedom and joy – discipline that produces holiness and happiness. That’s the new race we need. Only our surrender, our complete yielding to the transforming power of the Holy Spirit will produce this new race. III Let’s move on with expressions of our homesickness for a future. “I didn’t know where I was going, but I knew what I needed. I ...

457. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... journey. His plea was for release from the fear of becoming like them. He knows about seeking an Emmaus. I’ve been praying for a young woman who for five months has had chronic abdominal pains. She has had two exploratory surgeries – none of them yielding a diagnosis. She wants to be healed. Can’t you imagine her temptation to head away from Jerusalem and seek an Emmaus? Listen to this prayer request of another young woman: “I’m frustrated with God. Wondering why I’m still unmarried and turning ...

458. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Are they clean or are they clenched when they should have been opened? Have they fended off when they might have invited? Have they seized and snatched when they should have been open and giving? Have they condemned and struck and taken possession when they should have yielded? Are our hands clean? Who shall ascend to the hill of the Lord? Who shall stand in His holy place? “He who has clean hands and a pure heart.” Let’s look at our hearts. Can our hearts be called pure when they are full of fear ...

459. Let Not Thy Will Roar, When Thy Power Can But Whisper

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... the most beautiful portrait of Him that I have ever seen or heard, when he described Him as the court fool of the King of Paradise. That’s what I want to be. I want to be a court fool for the King of Paradise. It takes a fool to yield, it takes a fool to give up control, and it takes a fool to believe that in our weakness, we are made strong. So let not your will roar, when your power can but whisper and join me—please join me in becoming a court fool for the King of ...

460. Partners In the Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... live together as though it were a privilege to be the recipients of grace, how disciplined you are as a praying people -- coming boldly to the throne of grace and holding tenaciously to the horns of the altar until God has blessed you with His presence, and you have yielded your will to His command. That’s where the secret is. That’s the reason you can rejoice in the promise: He who has begun a good work in you will bring it to completion. We have seen it happen, and we know it will continue. It was ...

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

Romans 3:3-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... promise: “I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws” (Ezk 36:27). God’s saving activity not only forgives and frees us from previous sin, it makes us capable of obedience. When we yield ourselves to the divine working of our Lord, He gives us a new heart. He alters our nature. He subdues the old nature, and breathes new life into us – making obedience possible. Obedience is the key. While God has made provision for our holiness, He has also ...

462. People With Shining Faces

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” (53:2b-5) Why did Christ yield himself to experience such debasement? Why was he disfigured? So that you and I might be people with shining faces. People whose love, peace and joy show from our heart into our eyes. Don’t you want a shining face? 1. Michael E. Hodgin, Humorous ...

463. The Incredibility of the Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... . Would you close your eyes and close out the persons around you – think only of your own situation. Is there something in your life from which you need to be set free? delivered? Even now – by your confession and repentance, by your completely yielding yourself to Christ, you can know freedom and the joy of deliverance. Seek that now, confess and repent now in silence and begin to find that freedom that comes only in Christ. I am praying that our special times of “revival” this week – tonight ...

464. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... hostile powers, and when our hearts are set on God, there is no more need for laws and regulations. What was in the Book will then be written in our hearts. Important as it is, the Bible is a temporary means of grace, and the day will come when it yields to the presence of the one to whom it pointed. But until that happens, it is our sure and only roadmap on the way of salvation because it tells us who God is, what God has done and promises to do, and how God’s people are to live this ...

465. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... , and the best metaphor is parental, “Our Father.” Not my Father, though that is true, but our Father. The one who prays this prayer alone is still bound to the community of the church. Now a close reading of Scripture and of Jewish and Christian teaching yields the insight that God is beyond the distinctions of gender because God is holy and other and not part of creation.11 To call God Father does not mean that God is male. Male gods in the ancient world all had girlfriend gods, and from their unions ...

466. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... Holy Spirit in all the colorful spectrum of spiritual gifts, from the most mundane to the most amazing. I am not ashamed to admit that I have given and received prophecies, that prayer in the Spirit is valuable, that prayer for healing sometimes yields surprising results, that God illumines Scripture through personal revelation, and that the ministry of deliverance is a valuable part of the larger work of loving and wise pastoral care. With the false prophets who were condemned I can say Lord, Lord and trot ...

467. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... . They came with haughtiness, and they received nothing from it. Is there anyone here who is not coming to God in Word and prayer and with a humble spirit? You have the data, you have the intellectual knowledge, but you are missing the power because you have not yielded yourself to Christ. I have hickory trees in my yard. The nuts are so hard that I cannot do anything with them. I have tried to crack them and get the meat out, but this is no papershell pecan. But I have watched a squirrel crack them and ...

468. Spirit Power

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... for Christ. I don’t like conflict. I don’t like to make you uncomfortable. I want our church to be a happy place. But don’t you sense that we as a church are just scratching the surface of what we could be as a congregation if we yielded ourselves to the leading of the Holy Spirit? There are people in our community who need what this church has to offer. I like something that Robert Schuller wrote in the introduction to one of his books. “How much is a sprinkler-head worth?” he asks. “It all ...

469. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... who too often prefer our way to God’s way. Our pride does not allow us to be totally dependent on God. We move in and out of a trustful relationship with God. Even though we experience “rest” and meaning, purpose and joy in times of yielding to God’s will and way for our life, something within us, our bent to sin and self-reliance, keeps pulling us away from that state of “yieldedness” and trustful relationship with God. That is the reason a big part of prayer is dealing with our prideful ...

470. Fire Falling from Heaven

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... God rains down from heaven. Open your heart that God in Christ Jesus will strengthen and purify you. As hymn writer Adelaide Pollard puts it, "Have thine own way, Lord. Thou art the potter. I am the clay. Mold me and make me after thy will, while I am waiting, yielded and still."3 1. Pliny, Letters X, p. 96. 2. Pulpit Resources, Volume 23, No. 3, July-September, 1995, p. 34. 3. "Have Thine Own Way, Lord," Adelaide A. Pollard, 1902.

471. A Deliverer Is Born

Exodus 1:1-22, 2:1-10

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... long. Refrain: Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The storm is passing over, Hallelujah. One refrain of Tindley's hymns was transformed into the greatest of all freedom songs: Original version: I'll overcome some day, I'll overcome some day: If in my heart I do not yield, I'll overcome some day. Transformed version: We shall overcome, we shall overcome We shall overcome some day; Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome some day.2 Songs written by Black Americans that connect and have a universal appeal ...

472. The Glory of God and Our Neighbor’s Good

Romans 15:4-13

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... you, for the glory of God. (Romans 15:7) Collect One: Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. All: Blessed be his glorious name forever; may his glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen. One: May the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness. All: Lord, defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor. One: While the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations, All: Let ...

473. The Light Is Still Shining

Isaiah 60:1-6

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... come to us, to join us in our sanctuary, as we celebrate your light that shines in the darkness, brightening this day and all eternity. Amen. Prayer Of Confession One: Judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. All: May the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills in righteousness. One: Defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor. All: And while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations ...

474. Call on the Name of the Lord

Romans 10:5-15

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... land. Women: Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other. Men: Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky. Younger: The Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase. Older: Righteousness will go before him, and will make a path for his steps. (based on Psalm 85:8-13) Collect Let us pray: Lord, we yearn for steadfast love and faithfulness, your righteousness and peace which you demonstrate daily ...

475. No Prejudice in God’s Family

Matthew 15:(10-20) 21-28

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... ; let all the peoples praise you. All: Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah. One: Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you. All: The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us. One and All: May God continue to bless us; let all the ends of the earth revere him. (based on Psalm 67) Collect The beauty of your world overwhelms us, Lord. The richness of your goodness amazes us. The depth ...

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