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4876. On the Road with Some Would-Be Diciples

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

James W. Moore

... No hesitation No strings attached. The Question (then and now) is this: Are you totally committed to God, to His church, to His cause and to His kingdom. In the novel entitled Barabbas… a young Christian named Sahak is told that if he doesn’t stop following Christ, he will lose his life. Sahak responds: “Yes,… but I cannot lose my God!” Let me ask you something… are you that committed to Christ? Will you follow Him… and will you come this morning to His table to receive His love, His ...

4877. On the Road with Zacchaeus

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... . He dialed the number and when his dad answered, that young man cried out: “O Dad, I’m in Houston and I want you to know that I’m so sorry… I’m so sorry… I don’t know how you could ever forgive me for all…” Then he stopped talking suddenly and he sat there silently for a moment just listening with big tears streaming down his face… and then he hung up the phone. “What did your dad say?” I asked him. “It’s unbelievable,” he said. “What?” I asked. “Dad said that he and mom ...

4878. The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James W. Moore

Have you heard the story about the elderly woman who lived in a small town in East Texas... who had car trouble on the way to the supermarket one morning? Her car stalled at a stop sign... she tried everything to get her car started again, but no luck. Suddenly, a man in a pick-up truck came up behind her and with obvious agitation he started honking his horn at her impatiently. She doubled her efforts to get her car going. She pumped the gas, ...

4879. Holiness of Heart and Life

Romans 2:21-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it herself while she kept her eye on five patients in wheelchairs along with a dozen others milling in a hallway, each trying to get her attention. Three times in twenty minutes she had to rush by a patient curled in a corner before she had a moment to stop and gently urge him to his feet. “Doesn’t this ever depress you?” a visitor asked. “Not really,” she replied, with a smile. “If I ever begin to feel depressed, I remember that I may be the only person who cares what happens to these men. And ...

4880. One to Take the Place of Jesus

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... deal with the first question but the sermon today deals in part with the second question. The Holy Spirit is a common term in the church. We use the term as though everyone knew precisely what we were talking about. Now and then we need to stop and take a sounding — affirm some basic tenets of beliefs and see if we are all together. More than that, on an issue like the Holy Spirit, we need to go beyond questions and theological affirmations, to an invitation — an invitation to Christians to claim their ...

4881. Jesus' First Miracle

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... t argue the point about Jesus changing water to wine,” he said, “But I can tell you this: He has changed wine and whiskey and a debauch life into bread and clothing for my children, and a life of joy and peace for me.” That stopped the argument. His friends knew he was the town drunk until he was converted the year before. The miracle in Cana was the signal for Jesus’ primary ministry transformation. 1. Facing death – anxiety – peace. 2. Lost husband – pain of loss into comfort and confidence ...

4882. Who Will Cast the First Stone?

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... by the rising tide of crime that rips and tears at the fabric of our society, we react in fear and anger. We scream for a hard-line. We try to restore the death penalty and make more severe the punishments for all the crimes. We need to at least stop as Jesus did and try to put the whole matter in perspective. There are some questions we can ask even in relation to our justice-system and the terrible failure of prisons. Questions like these: 1. Are we more interested in judgment than mercy? 2. Are we more ...

4883. That The World May Believe

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a big question “the apparent feeling on the part of so many that the issue might have been in doubt and that honesty might have bowed to temptation!” Since even children will be dishonest if it serves their purpose. Have we in our age stopped taking honesty for granted even from our children, and especially from ourselves? It was a spelling bee, and eleven and twelve year olds were the actors, but it’s a forceful parable. The world will believe when our performance is in harmony with our profession ...

4884. There Is a Price for Everything, Part 2

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... .” David trembled in his soul, his countenance fell; only David knew the scorching fire that burned within and the suffering guilt that tour him to pieces following that confrontation. An installment on his sin had come due. But then it didn’t stop. Another installment came due. “This time Absalom, David’s favorite son, had Ammon, his half-brother, killed. With a breaking heart, David let Absalom stay in exile, and for three years, grieved for him. What a price to pay; but then another installment ...

4885. When Are We Most Like God?

Exodus 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us squarely on the question which is the theme of our sermon today: When are we most like God? Now the obvious answer to that is when we act as God acts. Doesn’t that make sense? We are most like God when we act as God acts. I could stop there. But it would make for a very short sermon. Even you who might hope I’d cut my sermons a bit shorter wouldn’t be pleased week in and week out with 5-minute introductory thoughts. I did hear a story the other day that tempted me in this ...

4886. Redemption: A Wide Angle Picture

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... pray for me, Dr. Dunnam.” That’s the complete salvation we are talking about, out of bondage to alcohol, into the worship and service of the Living God. It’s the salvation God offers you. Do you feel burdened down by guilt? Have you stopped to realize that the guilt may result from unconfessed sin? Do you feel pain in your heart, heaviness because there is a severed relationship that needs reconciliation? Do you feel helpless because you are held in the tenacious grip of a debilitating habit as my ...

4887. Barriers to Grace

Exodus 6:28--7:7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the cause. Noel Cowart once sent a picture postcard of the Venus de Milo Do you remember that statue – a beautiful woman with arms off at the shoulder to a little girl and wrote across the bottom, “This is what will happen to you if you do not stop biting your finger nails.” Now that may seem a cruel thing to say to a little girl, because who knows the problems behind the little girl’s biting her fingernails. But at a superficial level, it’s humorous, and it makes a big point. Moral reform is like ...

4888. Let God Be God - As if It Could Be Otherwise

Exodus 7:14-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day. (Amos 8:9, 10) (CONCLUSION) We must not stop, however, though more often than not we kneed to hear the judgment, though more often than not we need to hear the word of judgment before we can respond to the word of grace. We must go back to where we began even to the title of the message: “LET ...

4889. John 16:12-15

John 16:5-16

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... will come about as the Spirit declares to the disciples the fullness of Jesus’ mission and message. As Jesus continues to explain, it becomes clear that when the Holy Spirit offers “what is mine” to his disciples, the content of that revelation does not stop with Jesus. Jesus asserts “all that belongs to the Father is mine.” As the Holy Spirit makes known Jesus the Son, the Spirit also makes known God the Father. There is no possibility of the Son being glorified over and above the Father because ...

4890. Exodus and Easter

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . It happens all the time, though. I see it in people reaching the prime of their career, or just reaching retirement, filled with anticipations of dreams yet to be. Then, malignancy, that quiet and lethal cell appears in the body, and everything stops dead in its tracks. It happens dramatically, as well as in a low-key manner. A family is torn apart by divorce. A person’s vocation is terminated because of circumstances beyond their control – skills, talents, and wisdom that only experience can create ...

4891. Fresh Every Morning - A Test

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... murmured against Moses, because their thirst was overwhelming. But again, God intervened. He gave Moses a tree to throw into the water, and the water became sweet. (Here is another type – the cross – listen season) It’s interesting to note that the next stop in the wandering of the Israelites was at Elim. At Elim, there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. It was a welcome resting place after three days journey through the wilderness. Someone has suggested that God does not multiply ...

4892. Fresh Every Morning - A Token and a Truth

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... :30; 14:9). There’s no room for further argument: One either believes Jesus or does not believe. They argued about freedom. He met them with a declaration “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” (John 8:36). At this point, the argument stops and the decision is forced as to whether one will accept freedom at the hands of he Son or refuse Him. They argued about the meaning of life: Jesus met them with a declaration, “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John 6 ...

4893. Whatever Happened to Respect?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and I know they love me, but they’ve ruined my life…I could never tell my parents anything, it was always “ too busy…too tired…that’s not important. . .that’s stupid. . .oh, your friends are wrong…they’re stupid...” As a result, I stopped telling my parents everything. All communications ceased. We never had that very important thing - fun. Oh, we had love, or what we thought was love. Prompted on my side by an ever-present fear of my mother and pity for my father, and prompted on their ...

4894. Lessons from Rephidim - Being the Lord's Intercessor

Exodus 17:8-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... scripture. – The Hebrew people crossing safely through the Red Sea, Daniel thrown into the lions den, spending the night there, as the king who put him there spent a sleepless night to discover the next morning that as Daniel said, “An angel had come to stop the lion’s mouth.” The Hebrew children thrown into the fiery furnace but another presence being recognized in the furnace with them, and they were unseared. And we could go on and on. But that’s really not the purpose of my telling the story ...

4895. A Glimpse of God

Exodus 33:19-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... .” The senator’s point is well taken. A man is just a plain dunce who tried to beat the law of God. “The Lord, the Lord God…will by no means clear the guilty.” (John Redhead, Getting to Know God, pp. 25-26). But you can’t stop there. In this glimpse of God, we see something else. Alongside the holiness of God is the love of God. Listen again to this marvelous word that God speaks to Moses: “The Lord, the Lord God is merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth ...

4896. Come Forward to God's Throne Where There Is Grace (Relief for Guilt)

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

I met him in a restaurant. We were both leaving, so we both stopped on the sidewalk outside for a visit. What began as a casual exchange flowed into the sharing of deep feeling. A question about his family triggered a brief convulsion of distress and pain. He was estranged from his son. He’s done everything he could, so he thought, to bring ...

4897. When Being Christian Has Worn You Down (Compassion Fatigue)

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the more aware we become of the need for love. The closer we walk with he Lord, the more our eyes are opened, and the more we see the loneliness and pain, the quiet desperation of people around us, reaching out - hoping that someone will see, and hear, and stop, and listen, and touch. The closer we walk with the Lord, the more tender our hearts become, and we cry within when need goes unmet. So, it’s tough – so very though for the sincere Christian to recognize that there is a limit to what we can offer ...

4898. In the Lions' Den (Dealing with Stress)

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the trap; and, much to the grief and almost despair of King Darius, he was thrown into the lions’ den; and you know the story. All night long the king fasted and prayed. When he went to the den the next morning, the lions mouths had been stopped, and not the least bit of harm had been done to Daniel. That’s the picture living in the lions’ den. I deliberately chose this 16th Psalm as our Scripture lesson because the images of stress are implicit there. Look at verses 9 and 10: “Therefore my heart ...

4899. A Curse for Our Redemption

Galatians 3:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Mexican bank robber by the name of Jorge Rodriguez, who operated along the Texas border around the turn of the century. He was so successful in his forays into Texas, that the Texas rangers put a whole extra posse along the Rio Grande to try and stop him. Late one afternoon, one of those special rangers saw Jorge slipping across the river, and trailed him as he returned to his home village. He watched as Jorge mingled with the people in the square around the town well, and then went into his favorite ...

4900. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not a groveling “I’ll be your door mat” stance. We have thought of humility only as a recognition and affirmation of weakness and limitation. Not so. The truly humble know who they are—— they know their strength as well as their weakness. So Paul does not stop by admonishing us not to deceive ourselves by thinking we are something which we are not. He goes on to urge us to examine ourselves so that we will rejoice in ourselves. We need to learn to affirm strength. Christian character is not to be ...

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