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4801. Who Will Cast the First Stone?

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... be. One summer the vet went to county fair to demonstrate his new invention. They couldn’t find anyone who would permit his horse to be a part of the experiment, but they did find a mule, and soon a crowd had gathered to watch. Undaunted, the veterinarian inserted a long glass tube into the mouth of the mule, inserted a capsule in the other end, took a deep breath and put his mouth to the free end of the tube. But the mule blew first! Now that story reminds us that when we tell others what is good for ...

4802. Christ's Chosen People: Privilege

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... corner, and I believe honestly, he lost his way. But that’s not the point I want to share. I was visiting with his wife. They had a thirty-year marriage and they had given their lives to Christ and His Gospel. My friend and I, the wife, were talking long-distance. You could feel a kind of alternating sort of way, tears in her voice, as well as feel the joy of her spirit. They’d had a thirty-year marriage, and something like that doesn’t end without taking its toll on the life of a person and without ...

4803. There Is a Price for Everything

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , “Heel-Grabbers and Hip-Huggers”, 17 August 1, 1993). Robert Bly, who is most famous for his book Iron John wrote another book that is not so well-known entitled A Little Book on the Human Shadow Bly said the human shadow is that long bag we drag behind into which we have stuffed the things we didn’t deal with, things like sexuality, or hostility, or grief, or independence from our parents. We drag the bag along beside us everywhere we go. The bag contains: Unwelcome emotions Unacceptable impulses ...

4804. What to Do When You Are in a Fix

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is given only as we need the light. God doesn’t shine the light a mile down the road. He shines it far enough ahead for us to take the next step. The story of the Red Sea is not recorded simply to tell us what happened to the Hebrews long ago. Suppose that Moses had not believed the Divine Intervention would happen? God had commanded him to stretch forth his hand over the sea, and a path would be made for them. Just as He promised, it happened — a strong East wind arose and drove back the water of the ...

4805. The Gospel of Marah

Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in his life. He attended an Emmaus Weekend and had a life-changing experience - life-changing in the sense that it gave him a whole new direction, but more - a whole new approach to life, and resources to deal with it. This was proven dramatically not long ago. His young son came “out of the closet” and shared the fact that he was a homosexual. I can only imagine how this fellow would have dealt with this shattering experience, this Marah, back there when he and I first met. Now, having something new ...

4806. Whatever Happened to Respect?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... D to two A’s, a C, and a B. He also told his father that he had really been reading the Bible. The Daddy looked at him and said, “But you haven’t cut your hair.” The fellow said, “Well, in reading the Bible, I discovered that Jesus had long hair, so I didn’t see why I should cut mine.” The father responded if you read on in the Bible, you’ll discover that Jesus walked everywhere he went.” To respect means to listen. I’m concerned about the extreme to which we have gone with the cult of ...

4807. The Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 25:10-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... she waited for God to act. That ark of Moses was a saving ark - keeping the infant child safe until he was rescued by the daughter of Pharaoh. What a miraculous intervention and working out of God’s plan. That was the Ark of Moses - a saving ark. A long time before Moses’ ark, there was another ark, and you remember that story. Let me just read four verses from the sixth chapter of Genesis to plant the setting of that story in your mind again: “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the ...

4808. Just When We Think We're Safest, There's a Sunset Touch

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Sermon on the Mount, “Do not be anxious about tomorrow.” I have been a very ambitious man, and I have abhorred the mediocre. Always within me has been the desire to excel. In living this way I have been impatient and anxious, inattentive and often unkind. My goals have been long distance and compulsive. In consequence I have given less than my best to the person in front of me, because I was thinking way ahead to the goals and plans beyond. Now all is different. My anxieties are gone. I have no idea how ...

4809. Out of the Miry Bog (Dealing with Depression)

Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... psychiatrist. On the appointed day, they went to the psychiatrist’s office, sat down with him and began to talk. It wasn’t long before the wise doctor realized what the problem was. So, without saying a word, he simply stood, walked over in front of the woman’s ... chair, signaled her to stand, took her by the hands, looked at her in the eyes for a long time, then gathered into his arms and gave her a big, warm hug. You could see the change come over the woman. Her face softened ...

4810. When Nature Says No

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... caught by an enemy to slay us, while we read the dear name on the blade which bites at us! That’s bitter and convincing: after that we seldom doubt that something in the large smooth order of creation…has gone wrong. Most of us don’t live very long before nature says “No” to some “Yes” in us, and “walks over you in gorgeous sweeps of scorn.” That’s a big part of what it means to be human. It comes to us as young people, when we become painfully aware that our gifts and talents are not ...

4811. When Being Christian Has Worn You Down (Compassion Fatigue)

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... following Jesus as the heart of Christianity, thus we tend to 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 are abiding in Him. So, we renew our strength by waiting on the Lord, by spending time in his presence in prayer, his word, with his people, cultivating the presence of Christ within us in order that we act in ...

4812. Three Wise Women

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... this lesson from Mary? So the days of our lives are dark. Your loved one is desperately ill and you feel alone and hopeless. You’ve just lost your job — the economic rug pulled out from under you without warning. The little savings you have won’t last long. You’re 45 years old and people don’t want to employ you at the salary level you’ve attained, or they tell you you’re over-qualified for what they have to offer. You’re getting and your family members have clouds of worry on their faces ...

4813. Not a Servant, but a Son

Galatians 4:6-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... until the age stipulated in the trust — for instance, 18 or 21 years. Until that time comes, there’s no way the child can spend what is already his. In a similar ancient setting, Paul is saying that even though a son is designated his father’s heir, so long as he is “under age”, he must be treated as fully dependent. In fact, in relation to the in heritance, he is in no better position than a servant. Do you get the picture? It’s a graphic one. Paul is emphatic. Even though God has established a ...

4814. Exit and Entrance

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... he broke down with uncontrolled sobbing: “Oh, my God, can you ever forgive me?” he cried. “Please forgive me. I would give anything to change places with you. Oh, can you forgive me?” The woman extended her hand to touch his arm, and said, “I forgave you long ago, and one day my husband will find it in his heart to forgive you. Please don’t torture your soul. God has forgiven you. He promised us that in Jesus Christ. He will help you as He has helped me. Let’s pray together.” Describing what ...

4815. Are You Paying Too Much For Your Whistle?

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... refrain, no? Grace, grace, God's grace, grace that will pardon and cleanse within; grace, grace, God's grace, grace that is greater than all our sin! My favorite verse is verse 4: Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace, freely bestowed on all who believe! You that are longing to see his face, will you this moment his grace receive? Are you paying too much for your whistle? Is it time, like Paul, to chuck that shiny whistle you’ve been blowing and paid for so heavily that you’re out of breath, gasping for ...

4816. The Harvest of the Spirit, Part 1

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... what we are to do and how we are to be, and yet are helpless to respond? “There’s nothing more demeaning for most people than being apprehended from the pulpit and charged with the crime of not loving enough, not being gentle or kind enough, not suffering long enough, without having our rights read to us God only requires from us what he is wiling to do through us. “Every time we say, ‘I believe in the Holy Spirit, J.B. Phillips said, “we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and ...

4817. You Are Accepted

Lk 7:36-50

Illustration

King Duncan

... a life which we loved, or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and courage. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness and it is as though a voice ...

4818. Characteristics of the Church

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... disciples who had not been privileged to go to the mountain, and had pled with them to heal his little boy. But they couldn’t. Jesus rebuked the disciples and all those who stood by, with that almost mournful word: “O faithful generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? (Mark 9: 19) Then He told the man to bring the son to him. In the presence of Jesus, the little fellow had another seizure. He was convulsing, fell to the ground, again foaming at the mouth. Jesus questioned ...

4819. John the Baptist: Parable and Prophet

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... brother in it, and you ask yourself, “Who is retarded?” And he told of a boy who ran on crutches and a girl who long-jumped on an artificial leg, and a blind boy who followed the voice of his coach around the track, and a basketball game in ... article with these words. “Matched on that yardstick, the athletes in the real Olympics will be an inferior lot. It is no trick to win the long jump when you’ve got two legs and neither one is metal. It’s no achievement to win a mile when you can see which way ...

4820. Led by the Spirit, Tempted by the Devil

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we negate, hurt, sometimes even destroy the people around us and we think it’s all for righteous causes. I like one of the many tributes that was paid to President Eisenhower following his death. It was spoken by one of his golf partners out in Palm Desert. This long-time friend was asked if Ike ever cheated in a golf match. The friend said, “No, he didn’t sometimes Ike would hit the ball in sand traps, in bushes and into the trees; but he never moved the ball to get a better shot. He played the ball ...

4821. The World's Best-Known Widow

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a kind of testimonial to the skill and ingenuity that could produce it and to the spirit that had both taste and financial wherewithal to enjoy it. I suppose it would not be at all inaccurate to admit I looked on it happily - perhaps even longingly - until my eyes left the smooth and beautiful lines of the car itself and focused on a (bumper) sticker that had been affixed to it. The words jolted me suddenly out of my appreciation for beauty and engineering achievement to an awesome wonderment whether they ...

4822. Fish or Cut Bait

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’t share what has been given us. In his call, Jesus says we don’t have any alternative. “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men. It’s not an option, but an imperative. How do we do it? We do it by loving people selflessly enough long enough to earn the right to speak to them. We do it by cultivating our relationship with Christ intentionally enough that the key is to know Jesus personally in our hearts and love him fully with all our being. To respond to Him when he says, “Whoever comes to ...

4823. Two for the Price of One

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our response to Jesus. I First, the woman. Try to sense the drama of it all? A great crowd was pressing in upon Jesus. In the crowd, there was an unnoticed woman. Did anyone around her even see the desperate look on her face? Did they see that longing glaze that glistened in her eyes? Were they aware of the shame and torment through which she was going? She had suffered from a hemorrhaging condition for twelve years. Many physicians had sought to help her, but to no avail. Where was she when she heard about ...

4824. Peter, Our Folk Hero

Mark 14:27-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , who had gotten to his feet, was prepared to tackle him, so Riegels reversed his field, evidently got disoriented, and began to run the wrong way, toward his own goal line. Georgia Tech didn’t know what was going on but they were content to let him run as long as he was running in the wrong direction. California was stunned and con all except Bennie Lom who chased after Roy Riegels and finally caught him on the one-yard line by the wrist and threw him back to about the 5- yard line. Cal now had the ball ...

4825. Judas, A Person Like Us

Mark 14:43-52

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... The fact that the whole drama of the Crucifixion was known to God from all eternity does not spell determinism. It means that He knew what men would do with their free will.” (Ibid p. 27) Four, the Cross for our redemption was in the heart of God, long before Jesus was slung on that cross on Golgotha’s hill. Calvary speaks to us, not through those who plotted and schemed to bring it about, but through him who hung upon it, through what he accomplished there, and because he who won that victory was the ...

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