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4901. The Shared Life of the People of God, Part 2

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... this… Shall I say that the shared life of the people of God, we need to accept and affirm strength, but we also need to accept and minister to weakness. There are two aspects to this truth - first, the whole matter of affirming strength. Paul doesn’t stop by admonishing us not to deceive ourselves by thinking we’re something when we’re not; he urges us to examine ourselves that we will rejoice in ourselves. Christian character is not to be thought of in terms of weakness, of self-loss, and/or anemic ...

4902. Liberated Women

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... you see this woman? I came into your house. You didn’t give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You didn’t give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. You didn’t put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven for she loved much. But he who has been forgiven little loves little.” Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are ...

4903. When You Want to Run Away

Psalm 11:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... machines when they first appeared everywhere in the 1980’s that it became this nation’s most serious crime problem. Does it make you mad? I’ve seen people livid with anger, pounding a payphone with their fist or kicking a coke machine mercilessly…at a truck stop once, waiting to use the telephone, I saw a man literally pull the receiver from the phone and throw it into the trash, because (when he couldn’t get his number), he didn’t get a coin return. Now I see this as just one expression of ...

4904. The Shepherd Lord

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.” (Isaiah 40:11 RSV). In the marvelous claim of Jesus: “I am the Good Shepherd, the Good Shepherd lays down his life or his sheep.” (Jo njO.:11) But it doesn’t even stop there. A knot in the tie for the golden thread when you get to the kingdom vision of Revelation w en the “Good Shepherd” O become the “Lamb” slain for our sins, inviting us to “take the water of life without price” (Rev. 22: 17b). So it’s there ...

4905. Characteristics of the Church, Part 2

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... are both blind; have been since they were born. My father has had four seeing-eye dogs, the fourth one for ten years. His name was Scooter. “So?” “We lost Scooter yesterday. My father was going down town in Boston on the subway. When they came to the stop, Scooter, so anxious, wanting to help my father, didn’t wait quite long enough for the subway door to open, and his leg got caught and it ripped him from his thigh to his knee. Scooter didn’t even cry or whimper, so my father didn’t even know ...

4906. The Beginning of the Story

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . God knows and loves. He loves so much that He comes Himself - as Jesus of Nazareth - not to bring the good news - to be the Good News. So we should hear this word of Mark as though it came at the rolling of drums rising to a crescendo and then stopping in order that the proclamation might be made: “The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” So, are you sad, wanting joy? Take it from Jesus. “So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one ...

4907. John the Baptist: Parable and Prophet

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 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 to go. It is no honor to win the 440 when a fellow athlete stumbles and falls and you don’t stop to pick him up.” Listen friends, there is nothing wrong with ambition, but if it blinds you to someone who has fallen, or to one who is on the road who is suffering, then there is something wrong with it. John the Baptist is a parable for us – He teaches ...

4908. The World's Best-Known Widow

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

I had finished my hospital calls one day, and I could not help noticing a sharp-looking, late-model sports car which stopped at the traffic light alongside me. Visually, it was a thing of beauty! It sat there in sleek elegance, testifying by its design and engineering to its exclusive price tag - undoubtedly some where in at least the $55,000 to $75,000 range. Its driver’s identity lay hidden behind ...

4909. The Measure You Give Is the Measure You Get

Mark 4:21-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is the core message we want to appropriate today – the little of our sermon. The meaning you give will be the measure you get. There are two big lessons. The first is obvious - we lose what we do not use. Now don’t let the trite sound of this stop your ears to hearing it as a momentous truth. We love what we fail to use. Alec Waugh, the English author, said one time that the most inspiring words ever written for him were penned by his father sixty years before. They composed a line of a prize-winning ...

4910. He Came, He Is Coming

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Here was a man of some status, a man who was concerned about his dignity. He wore a pin-striped suit, carried a black umbrella in one hand and a black boler hat in the other, which he was waving at the ferry boat, and yelling at the boat to stop so that he could get on it. He ran all the way to the end of the peer, furiously jumped and landed safely on the deck of the boat. Very proud of himself, he straightened his tie, and recovered his dignity. It was then that he discovered that the boat ...

4911. A Parable in a Miracle

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... chair in anger. “The rascal! The rascal! Dr. Wilson not a converted man!” The visitor was amazed at the extent of Dr. White response. He continued, “That wasn’t all he said, Dr. White, he said that you were not a converted man either.” Alexander White stopped and sank into his chair. He put his face in his hands, and for a moment did not say a word. Then he looked up to his friend, and said with great earnestness, “Leave me, friend, leave me! I must examine my heart.” (William E. Sangster, The ...

4912. Two for the Price of One

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of Mark pp. 126-127). This is a good point on which to focus as we look at Jairus. The suggestion that he had to go against his friends’ advice is confirmed in the continuation of the scripture lesson — the portion we didn’t read. We stopped our reading at verse 34, with Jesus’ announcement to the woman, “Daughter, your faith has made you well, go in peace and be healed of your disease.” The rest of the scripture says that while Jesus was yet speaking to the woman, persons from Jairus’ house ...

4913. Lord, Is It I?

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . “The rascal!” “The rascal! Dr. Wilson was not a converted man!” The visitor was amazed at the extent of Dr. Whyte’s response. He continued. “That wasn’t all he said, Dr. Whyte — he said that you were not a converted man either.” Alexander Whyte stopped and sank into his chair. He put his face in his hands, and for a moment did not say a word. Then he looked up to his friend, and said with great earnestness, “Leave me, Friend, leave me! I must examine my heart.” (William Sangster, The ...

4914. Sons of God

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

On Mother’s day we listed nine things a mother will never say. Today on this Father’s Day we list “Ten Things Dad Will Never Say.” See how your Dad would do: 10. Well, how about that! I’m lost. Looks like we’ll have to stop and ask for directions. 9. You know, pumpkin. Now that you’re thirteen, you’ll be ready for unchaperoned car dates. Won’t that be fun? 8. I noticed that all your friends have a certain negative attitude. I like that! 7. Here’s a credit card and the keys ...

4915. The World Is Our Parish

John 3:16-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... in the Church. Consumer minded members flocked to entrepreneurial pastors who built independent churches to meet the needs of their customers. That era ended a few weeks ago. When John Wesley took his preaching to the fields, the bishop of Bristol ordered him to stop. "You have no business here," said the bishop. "You are not commissioned to preach in this diocese." In response to that condemnation, John Wesley made that famous statement that you and I know, "The world is my parish." "The world is my parish ...

4916. War and the Prince of Peace

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... that 3,640,000,000 people have died in combat since recorded time? Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University, says that the world needs war so people who pursue their own self-interest will be mobilized at times to die for a good cause. War makes people stop looking at themselves and identify with a whole society. I have a lot of respect for Stanley Hauerwas, but I disagree on that point. Can we find a higher motivation for self-sacrifice? Furthermore, what is this lingering hunger for peace? A hunger that caused ...

4917. Should America Repent?

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... said, “Just go on back to the hotel where you belong." On God's highway, U-turns are not only permissible, they are desirable, important, and absolutely necessary. You cannot get to where you need to be by traveling faster in the wrong direction. Someone here today needs to stop where you are, turn around on your road of life and go in another way. Repentance is a change of mind. It does not necessarily have much to do with emotions. It has to do with a change of mind that leads to a change of life. I ...

4918. Light a Candle

Matthew 5:14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the darkness. And the darkness can never put it out. What a word for our day. All of us seem to date out lives now in light 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 ...

4919. On Being Faithful and Focused

Hebrews 11:1, 32 – 12:2

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , have mercy on me, a sinner." Or, simplified, “Lord, have mercy." This prayer gets me through the day. For years, when I awaken, the first prayer on my lips is, “Help me, Lord. Help me be a faithful servant today." Every time I walk in a hospital room I stop at the door and I pray, “Help me, Lord, to be sensitive to this person at this moment in time." Every time I walk up the tall steps of this pulpit I pray, “Help me, Lord, be your instrument of peace." “Help me, Lord. Help me today. You know ...

4920. Facing Our Fears with Faith

Matthew 10: 27-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... tamed" God so much that we have made God impotent? I seem to read about a different kind of God in the Bible. A God who is both loving and absolutely wild. The Biblical God is a bone-chilling, earth-shattering, gut-wrenching, knee-knocking, heart-stopping, life-altering Lord, at whose coming somebody needs to announce, “Fear Not!" otherwise, you are shaken right out of your shoes by the terror of His power and presence and, indeed, His love, which gets to us in the most frightening sorts of ways. That is ...

4921. Fulfilling the Vision

Acts 2:14-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... power of the living God is beneath us, lifting us, moving us. Some of you are pilots. I know absolutely nothing about flying an airplane, but I know that airplanes are different from any other means of transportation. Cars, trains, and boats can come to a complete stop and back up, but it's not so with an aircraft. If it loses forward momentum, it begins to fall and great is the fall of it. The only safe direction for an airplane in onward and upward. There is a principle in business which says you cannot ...

4922. Making Wise Investments

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to the one with ten. For all of those who have more will be given more and they will have an abundance, but from those who have nothing even what they have will be taken away." The parable gets tough and hard now, does it not? I wish they had stopped earlier but here it is. In reality, you and I know this is true. We have a saying that you and I use a thousand times, “You use it or you lose it." I took twenty-eight hours of Greek in college when I was twenty years of age. I ...

4923. Following the Footsteps of the Faithful

Hebrews 11:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... be focused on you. If I had a thousand arms they would all be hugging you. If I had a thousand lips they would all be kissing you.” Emmy Lou, who was sort of put out by all this rumbling, looked at Homer and said, “Homer, why don’t you stop complaining about what you don’t have and use what you do have?” Faith is the action we take. Faith is the move we make. Faith is the ability to see it, but it is also the courage to act upon it. Faith is the determination to endure. Verse 13 ...

4924. An Invitation to Christian Discipleship

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... he leads will you follow? Will you go with him all the way? It is that personal relationship that Jesus sought with those fishermen that day. Salvation is a free gift, but discipleship is a dynamite decision. The turning point in any life is when we stop inventing the God we want and start following the God who is. To somebody today, the Savior is saying, “Come. Come follow me.” To somebody else this morning he is saying, PUSH OUT INTO THE DEEP. Dive deeper. On the agenda this afternoon at our annual ...

4925. The Difference Disciples Make

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... made it and we were safe. That night I understood the meaning of this text, that a city set on a hill should let its light shine so people like me could find their way home. I love lighthouses. I like to visit them along the ocean. Every time I stop by one, I find myself humming that old song that I learned as a child. Brightly beams our Father’s mercy From His lighthouse evermore; But to us he gives the keeping Of the lights along the shore. Let the lower lights be burning. Send a gleam across the wave ...

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