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4876. Waiting

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Brett Blair

... nerve and asked, "Excuse me, but are you Jesus?" "I am." "Do you work here?" "In a way; I own the store." "Oh, what do you sell here?" "Just about everything," Jesus replied. "Feel free to walk up and down the aisles, make a list, see what it is you want, and then come back and I'll see what I can do for you." Well, she did just that. She walked up and down the aisles, writing furiously. There was peace on earth, no more war, no hunger or poverty. There was peace in families, harmony, no dissension, no more ...

4877. The Adventure of Discipleship

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... for today and for eternity. However, because the gospel does change people, we sometimes are tempted to hide in its words of comfort rather than embrace the new life to which it calls us. I recently came across another pastor's sermon title which I found intriguing. I want to leave its thought with you. "If you were arrested for being a Christian, would you be convicted?" We are today's disciples, and it is not an easy task. Thankfully, our Lord gives us the strength to do the job which he has given us. The ...

4878. A Higher Calling

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... circulated for a while on the Internet. It was about life in the Navy. It was directed at people who think Navy life is glamorous, like the movie Top Gun or the television show Jag. Here are a few of the suggestions the writer makes for people who want to experience Navy life, right in the comfort of their own homes. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for six months. Once a week disassemble your lawn mower and inspect it. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays turn your water temperature up to 200 ...

4879. Will the Real Blind Beggar Please Stand Up?

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... . And for all of us, as for Bartimaeus, our Lord stands still. He listens. He commands us -- or our neighbors -- with a word that begins to heal our unseen, unconfessed blindness: You call him here. With another word he exalts even the poorest and lowliest of us: What do you want me to do for you? And he heals the deepest needs and hurts of our souls, making us fit to follow him on his way of self-giving love: Go; your faith has made you well. Will the real blind beggar please stand up? That's me -- and you ...

4880. Grace in the Midst of the Crush of Time

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... too fast. But God's perspective is that we already have at our disposal exactly the number of hours we need to do what God wants us to do -- and never to feel rushed. The call of God is to slow down, to be present at each moment as it arrives. ... an ordinary moment, but it is the gift of an extraordinary God. This moment counts -- forever. If we were asked the question, "Do you want to do something today that will be eternally significant?" our tendency is to sigh, "You know, my day is so full. I really don ...

4881. A Song, A Dance, A Savior

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... goodness. What a time for dancing a dance of praise. We dance the dance of praise to the God who has power to transform and has promised to do so. Jeremiah led in a song about God's faithfulness, he has called for a dance of praise, but he also wants to ... Remind Us of a Savior's Care Jeremiah uses two metaphors to remind us of God's care. He uses the words, "lead," "brooks of water," and "straight paths," which bring to mind the picture of a good shepherd who seeks those who are lost in order to bring ...

4882. Going, Going, Gone

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... farmer snapped the reins and shouted, "Pull, Jack! Pull, Joe! Pull, Tom! Pull, Dusty!" With relative ease the old mule pulled the car out of the ditch. The car owner was deeply gratified and thanked the farmer over and over again. He finally said to the farmer, "I want to know something. Why did you call Dusty by four different names?" The farmer responded: "Well, it's like this. Dusty's eyesight is about gone, and if he thought for a second that he was the only one pulling, he wouldn't have tried at all ...

4883. Look Inside and Discover Life

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... most severe of the complaint stories that are recorded in the book of Numbers. Again the people are disgusted with the food and want more water, but their protests are of a higher order since now they complain to God as well as Moses. The people ... found ourselves in situations where we are at odds with others and many times hard feelings are the result. Many times we don't want to let go of our anger; we would rather stew and fester, creating a tense situation which only exacerbates itself with time. We need ...

4884. Obedience to God's Plan

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... task, we prefer to find a way that excites us, one that provides relief from the mundane and routine duties of our human existence. We want to do things our way! While there is certainly no crime in being innovative, many times our wishes lead us toward goals and conclusions ... ears to see and hear its manifestations. Sometimes, however, we run away from the light; we hide because we don't want to deal with what God has planned for us. At other times we recognize the light, but choose not to participate; we ...

4885. When the Storms Come

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... joined the man on the balcony, they just laughed at Peralta's order to leave. "This is my land," one of them yelled back. "If you want me off, you'll have to arrest me." Peralta didn't arrest anyone, but he wasn't able to persuade them to leave either. He wrote ... In fact, just the opposite happened. The following year when his orders started coming in he had many requests from people who wanted to make sure they got the apples with the blemishes this year, too! (5) That's the way it works for people ...

4886. Replacing a Fallen Comrade

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... servant of God. I was reading about a missionary in Haiti. He says the worst part of being a missionary is the language. He says it's miserable when you're unable to communicate the most basic aspects of life, from "Where's the bathroom?" to "How much do you want for that mango?" In no time at all, you feel like the stupidest person on the face of the earth, such as the time he told the yard boy, "Remember, I am garbage" instead of "Remember to take out my garbage." Although he didn't do any preaching in ...

4887. The Indwelling Christ And Holy Communion

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... experience. It had been such a marvelous kind of thing going on and then to be denied the elements of Holy Communion, crushed me. I wrote Brother Simon about it and told him how pained I was. By return mail, I received this letter, and I want you to hear it. “My dear brother Maxie, I made contact this week with the very soul of you, early in the week by mental telepathy and by letter. Wednesday and Thursday, my supra conscious started registering “Maxie Maxie Maxie”, by its spiritual Morse dot and ...

4888. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... news, we fail, thus we’re sinners. Like Adam and Eve, we ate the forbidden fruit of selfish desire and self will because we want to control our own life and destiny. Whatever your understanding of original sin, and we could argue about that one all day, whatever ... that there is a war going on within us. Paul said, I don’t understand my own actions. I don’t do what I want to do, but I do what I don’t want to do. I can will to do what is right, but I end up not doing it, wretched man that I am, who will ...

4889. Dynamics Of Prayer

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... this nation of ours that we fail our people when we call them to prayer, exhort them to pray, and never teach them how to pray. People want to pray, people do pray. But the heart cry of most of us is that of the disciples, ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’ Let me say ... about me. My glory and the lifter of my head. Oh Lord, rebuke me not in thy anger. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Why does thou stand afar off oh Lord. In thee oh Lord do I put my trust. Notice the fact that the psalmist names God out ...

4890. Participants In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... into the world. So today I’m beginning a series of sermons on the Book of Philippians. During this Epiphany season and throughout Lent, I want us to live with this book. It’s a sort of manifesto for living and sharing the gospel. It is a call to share and be ... believe in falling from grace? Believe it man, responded the fellow. We not only believe it, we practice it. Now I don’t want to get into a discussion here about eternal security, I’ll do that in another sermon, that’s not the issue. It doesn ...

4891. This Is Eternal Life (Easter Message)

John 17:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is best to hold hands and stick together." Robert Fulghum is right. Most of what we need to know we could learn in kindergarten. I don't diminish that. And so much of what we learn in kindergarten is practical, elementary Christian teaching, though the government does not want us to call it that. But we can't leave it there as Christians if we are going to appropriate the Easter word. Something else is here. In Jesus, we have our way to be and do. And that way is not learned in kindergarten, as important as ...

4892. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... story of Jesus. Twenty-four young men became pastors due to the work of this blind woman, touched by the contagion of the light in her which Christ brings. What does that say about our passion to communicate the mystery, to share the secret which Christ wants to be an open secret? Are you enjoying your share in the mystery, but failing in sharing the mystery. My experience has been, and Christians through the ages witness to this: The more we seek to give Christ away the more vibrantly alive He becomes in ...

4893. The Game Is For A Team

Colossians 4:7-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... each player will have the ball for about four minutes. Now, Butch, I know what you can do with a ball in four minutes. What I want you to show me, is what you can do for the other thirty-six minutes." There is more than one lesson here and it goes beyond ... the church. Will you continually ask yourself this question as you respond to other people -- "If I were to relate to this person as I want to relate to Christ, what would I say and what would I do?" That's the way it must have been with Tychius, and that's ...

4894. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (i)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... life -- now emerged, maybe even against her will. We have a picture of almost the opposite phenomenon in our Psalm today. A people wanting to express their faith, but desperate as to how to do it. Let's get the setting in mind. Babylon was a bad ... personally by name. God so loved the world (and every person in it) that He gave his only son. And that brings me to the last thing I want to say about the Bible. The Bible is to be read as the story of the triumph of God's Grace. If we will remember that, we won ...

4895. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... its beauty and miss the radical and liberating truth of what Paul is saying. So we're going to spend time with it. We don't want to miss the centrality of this core affirmation of the gospel. So in this first sermon, let's center our thinking on the primacy of love. ... heartbeat of God;and Love as the measure of the Kingdom. It's not often that we see it pristinely clear. But when we do, we want to kneel and pray God to give us that kind of love. Dr. A. J. Cronin tells of the young couple who came to him in ...

4896. In A Mirror Dimly

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and brush up against each other, and yet never say a word at all! Can you believe it?" And then the mother said to Dr. Bailey, "My son wants to speak to his father. He's even tried to speak to him. But his father ignores him, and now he's given up." And with that ... of us act childishly from time to time. We allow our self-centeredness and our selfishness, our desire to have things as we want them, to cause us to revert back to childishness and do those things, say those things, and live the way that keeps a ...

4897. Loving The Jesus Way

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... well. And he was just beside himself and was ready to call the police. And then, wonderfully, he saw her turn in the driveway and park the car in the carport. "Where have you been!" he almost shouted at her. And you know what she said? She said, "I just wanted to drive the car around the block to make sure it was safe for you this morning!" He said, "From that day on, I have never asked my wife if she loved me!" (Dr. Norman Neaves, "The Bonds of Belonging!", May 13, 1989). How about you. How is your love ...

4898. The Dayspring From On High

Luke 1:5-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... don't really see. And that's the way it is with us, isn't it? Others, Jesus said, "listen, but they don't really hear." Bishop Gerald Kennedy used to tell about a time he arrived in a city for a preaching engagement. Tired and exhausted, all he really wanted was some peace and quiet before the services began. He had just settled into his hotel room when he heard the screeching of a violin in the room next door. He was about to complain to the violinist when the maid said, "Aren't you lucky! You get to hear ...

4899. God Does The Unexpected

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a single member." (Gooding, pp. 43-44). Do you note that when she says, "All generations shall call me blessed", she does not add, because I am to be the mother of the son of God. Rather, she says, "because the mighty one has done great things for me." I want to lift up two things here, and then we'll close. One, Mary still recognizes that she is someone who needs to be saved just like the rest of humankind. So what God has done – rather than what she has -- is what gives her joy. Then the next thing I ...

4900. A Sovereign God With A Shepherd's Heart

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... instance. The Christians listened to Joshua, told him Jesus' life story -- how he made himself at homes in houses of tax collectors, Pharisees, and harlots, and tried to make others feel at home. The believer's made it plain -- Jesus had come as one unknown, wanting no favors. Had Joshua known him and shown him favoritism, he would have considered it un-Godlike, the Christian said. The innkeeper would have had to displace someone from his or her space, in order to give Jesus a space, and Jesus would not ...

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