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4901. I Am Christ's

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... whom a new principle of life has been implanted. JOKE: Ozark woman -- Fear of flying -- "I'll stay home and watch TV as the Lord intended." We need to know more about what the Lord intended than that woman. He intended for us a new style. Now I want to talk about this in two ways. First, from the perspective of what we might call imitation, then from the perspective of immersion. There is a sense in which the Christian walk is an imitation of Christ -- a call to walk as Christ walked. I read recently about ...

4902. At Home In The Daylight

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I'll try to write it out on these pages. Perhaps it will pass, but it seems too emotionally exciting that I don't really want to lose it. Right after dinner I came upstairs to my room for the purpose of studying some music history for my exam tomorrow, but ... 's move now to a final word. To live at home in the daylight, we test all things by Christ's approval of them. I want to approach this point from the negative and the positive perspective. First, from the negative angle. Dare we put it so simply: To be at ...

4903. My Stress Is Killing Me! -- Is It?

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and meaning. The meaning is clear -- but let's expand the meaning by looking at what the text suggests. I hope that's not being too presumptuous. Bill Gossett told me a story last week. Joke: Highway patrolman - freeway -- accident -- monkey) I don't want to be presumptuous with the text. The meaning is clear -- but let's expand the meaning by looking at what the text suggests beneath the surface. I. It suggests first, that crisis changes us. Crisis always brings change, and crisis changes us. How easy ...

4904. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... hands trembled and his face was unshaven. He told the doctor that he had lost his zip in life and that he didn't feel like he wanted to live anymore. The doctor said to him, "I have the solution for you. You need to go and look up Grimaldi, the playboy. He knows how ... like to live as we please, but we can't. That is, we can't, if we wish to have meaning and deep joy...if we want to please God and inherit the eternal life He promises. James speaks to the issue. At the core of what he says is a message about ...

4905. Will The Real God Please Stand?

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

4906. Pack Up Your Troubles

James 4:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... : the confidence that the uncertain future has a certain hope. Here it is in the testimony of one who learned it late -- but learned it none the less. Michael Schafernocker, a Helicoptor Door Gunner in Vietnam, from Arlington, Texas. Look, God, I have never spoken to you, but now I want to say, "How do you do". You see, God, they told me you didn't exist. And like a fool, I believed all this. Last night from a shell hole, I saw your sky. I figured right then, they had told me a lie. Had I taken time to see ...

4907. God Who Is Mighty Has Done Great Things

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... crazy about him. And there he was, sitting on the stool right next to her, close enough to touch. But she didn't want to act uncool. She wanted to keep her composure and act as if it didn't matter that much. So she simply paid for her ice cream cone ... on his cheek, and say, "Thank you, Lord." (From Love Must Be Tough" , James Dobdon, p. 151). When Mike shared that story, he did something I want to do as a reminder to you. Here is a little box -- It's wrapped. But if you were to open it, you would find that ...

4908. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , still reachable. One of the greatest joys that is mine as a preacher is to have someone say, "I never saw it that way before." But the greatest joy is for someone to say, "I heard what you said, Preacher, and I tried it; I acted on it, and I want you to know it works." To be willing to explore new horizons because of the instructions that we receive from our master teacher, to embrace new truth, to be still learning, is the mark of mature persons. That's all in the art of borrowing a donkey -- you have to ...

4909. He Comes As He Came

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... man's march to Jerusalem on that signal day, and what that story has to say to us who would be on the road of faith. I want us to look at Jesus' "march" to Jerusalem through this lens: He comes as He came. There are three scenes in this Palm Sunday story as ... has laid it on my heart to say some radical things to the church. I may not be a success; I may be persecuted. I don't want to drag you into that. In five or six years, perhaps I will be established, and then I can offer you my hand in marriage." Her ...

4910. When Jesus Comes

Luke 8:22-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... are also calmed. We've already talked about it--the disciples were paralyzed with fear. I can feel with them, as many of you can. They were paralyzed with fear and they cried, "Master, we are perishing". Now we could talk about this in a lot of different ways. I want to focus in a way that gets too little attention--the ruts in which most of us live because we're fearful to break out, to try on the new. To experiment with other ways of doing things, and other ways of relating. Let me give you a good image ...

4911. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . The fact is that since Adam and Eve, sin has been a part of every human life. This is what Paul was struggling with in our Scripture lesson as he gave expression to the anguishing conflict, the constant war raging in his soul. "I want to do good but I can't. I don't want to do evil but I find myself doing it. Oh wretched man that I am -- who will deliver me from this body doomed to death?" Get the perspective now. There is something about our fallen nature that inclines us to commit individual acts of ...

4912. The Life Question: What Are You Looking For?

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ? Let those questions tumble around in your mind for a moment. If you get to where you're going, will you be where you want to be? If you find what you're looking for, what else will you need to make you happy? These are life questions. They force ... s a dogmatic assertion built on the two questions with which I began the sermon. If you get to where you're going will you be where you want to be? If you find what you're looking for, what else will you need to make you happy? Let it grab your mind and heart: If ...

4913. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God would have him do -- it was this man who came to Jesus inquiring about salvation. To no other person could Jesus' word been more shocking: "You must be born again." We'll come back to that phrase in a moment, because it deserves our attention. What I want us to get clearly in our mind now is the fact that Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus raises the grace question: "What is life all about? How can one be saved? What is at the heart of Christianity?" Rodney Wilmouth tells the story about a man who died ...

4914. The Heart -- Our Mirror

Proverbs 25:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was talking about the images actors have to live with. An image is an awful thing, he said. An actor says, "I'm going to do this or that." And someone will say, "What about your image?" Ustinov said, "I don't know what my image is, I don't want to know." And then he continued, "It is a sad state when the man looking at you from a mirror is more important than the man looking into the mirror." If you are overly concerned about your image -- if you are preoccupied with the impression you are making on other ...

4915. Smart Living

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... : "For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing . . . I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my ... lifted his colorful African shirt and showed his scars. Afterward, Billy said to his staff, "I'm not worthy to untie his shoes, and he wanted to meet me?" (5) Because most of us have been brought up in the church, we may not realize that there is more to faith ...

4916. A Strange Kind of King

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... the world. That is why he was born . . . Today is known as Christ the King Sunday in many churches. In 1925 Pope Pius XI wanted people to know that this is Christ’s world, not the emerging dictators of that day. Mussolini had been in power for three years. ... spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity." "Really, I’ve made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the senator. "I’m sorry but we have our rules." And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator ...

4917. The Hinge of History

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... 've come from and how things come to be as they are. When a driver slows his coach to point to some slabs in a field and tells the American tourists that they are looking at the oldest recorded writing on the British Isles, people quickly click their cameras. We want a record, fleeting and blurred though it may be, of our heritage. By the same token, we like to feel that we are helping to make history. "I was one of the founders of the Student Council at that junior high school," a man told me as we drove ...

4918. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... people are like that. Maybe you were. You can approach some young people at 12 or 13 years of age and ask them what they want to be and they will tell you a doctor, or a lawyer, or a police officer or a teacher or whatever, and they never vary from ... and I are to spend our life wandering around the countryside teaching and healing. That could be our calling, but probably not. What we want to do is to look to Christ’s example of selfless service. Christ did not spend his life looking out for number one. That ...

4919. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of over $18,000, was paid for. In a letter to the fellow who had acted faithfully, the young woman wrote, and I quote, “when times have really seemed to be devastating, and almost unbearable, God has always provided for my husband, my son, and for me, so I want one more scripture to be shared with you, because it’s so true of my life,” and then she quoted this most marvelous passage, “I am merciful and kind, says the Lord, I love thee beyond measure, I propose to do the good, and low I will bring ...

4920. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it” and hopefully invite others. Because we are “come-to” churches, one credible observer of Christian evangelism claims evidence suggests that 95% of all Christians in North America will not lead a single person to Christ in their entire lifetime. Even the churches that want to be the kind of churches that people can get to, and would go to, do not meet the criteria of being apostolic. We do have churches that people can get to—with transportation as it is, and ours being a mobile society, people ...

4921. A Longer Stride and a Larger Embrace

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... her studies of the rule (a period that was supposed to last a year but rambled on for nearly three). She spoke with appreciation for this spiritual guide who waited patiently for her to sort out her muddle. Finally she said to him, “I can’t imagine why God would want me, of all people, as an offering. But if God is foolish enough to take me as I am, I guess I had better do it.” The monk smiled broadly and said, “You’re ready.” I guess the question is, “Are we?” Are we ready to take a longer ...

4922. My Prayer For You: Barefoot Days of the Soul

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... or “my inmost self” to designate who he really is. He talks about the civil war that rages within where the “I” who wants to do good ends up doing evil. Do you remember that passage in Romans 7? It is a dramatic statement of Paul’s inner ... 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 way you upheld them in your love and prayers, and how you ministered to them. Cindy’s and ...

4923. All This and Heaven Too

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... could be baptized and that was the occasion in the worship when I baptized her. She was sentenced—and was sent to the prison in Nashville to do her time. She tried desperately to call Jerry before they put her on a bus to send her to Nashville. She wanted to thank Jerry and let her know that she was confident and hopeful, because as she put it, she was a new person in Christ, liberated in spirit if not in body. That’s a dramatic case. But sometimes we need to remind ourselves of the dramatic in order ...

4924. If You Get Too Close to the Cross, You Will End Up Carrying It

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to shut the crowd out of my awareness and spend some time in meaningful reflection. As I have come to Lent, and as I began to think of these two days with you here at Calvary, I have built on the reflection begun there. And that’s what I want to share with you today. Get the picture clearly in mind. It was Friday. Jesus had been given the death penalty, and was carrying his cross to Golgotha, the place of execution. Pilgrims from all over the country had come to be in the holy city to celebrate Passover ...

4925. Claim the Promise

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is that we have certainly been satisfied with far less than He has in mind for us as His followers. So I want to challenge you to claim this fantastic promise of Jesus Himself – “Greater things than I have done will you do, because I ... again. Our problem is that we trust Jesus in some things some of the time when we need to trust Him with all things. So I want to sound two affirmations that give meaning to this promise of Jesus. I The first affirmation is this: You are more than you think you are. ...

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