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526. A Landmark Event!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... we, like the world, could only anticipate a hopeless end. Yet here in Christ, seated about his table, we know an endless hope! Two words: "He comes." A young lady, desperately single, aching with unfulfilled longings, shared with me her pain. "I eat alone. I sleep alone. I vacation alone. I'm sick! Do you hear me? Sick of it! Where is my lover?" I told her of Jesus, the most eligible bachelor in the universe. I explained how we are his bride. And even now Christ is preparing a place for us in heaven. And ...

527. Maximum Marriage

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... . Billy Graham said, "When two people can live together and never disagree, one of them is not necessary!" Soon after you've said, "I do," you'll find out she likes pink and his favorite color is red. What color will you paint the bedroom? She would like to vacation on the beach. You like the mountains! How will you become one? You want that job in Raleigh. She wants to stay here. How will you settle it? So, you see, any couple who marries is setting the stage for conflict. Thus an ability to become one is ...

528. A Passion for Christ (New)

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... have all the things that money can buy. But the father of the family lives in constant fear of losing his possessions. After a few of his things were stolen, the father determined that he would not leave the house again. He doesn’t travel or go on vacation. He doesn’t even visit friends. He stays home and protects his valuable furnishings and paintings. (2) It’s been said before, but it is still true. At first, we own our possessions. But before long, they own us. Perhaps Peter would focus on our self ...

529. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... act. Confession. Ray was telling me yesterday that he spent four days in a dentist office, that is in four different dentists’ offices. Going from place to place. And that reminded me of another story. Did you hear that one about the wife and the husband who interrupted their vacation to go to a dentist. I want the tooth pulled and I don’t want any anesthetic. We don’t have time for that because we’re in a hurry, the wife said to the dentist. So, just take the tooth out as quickly as possible and we ...

530. Why I Believe In Tithing

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a Christian. We wanted to visit Dr. Nanboudrapad. About a week before we were to leave on our trip, we had a letter from Dr. Nanboudrapad expressing his regret that he would not be able to see when we visited Ludiana. He would be away on family business and vacation. We were sorely disappointed. And I confess to you, we had some ugly thoughts. How could he do this to us? We were coming all the way from the United States. It was the trip of a lifetime. He was a key person, and after all, our church was ...

531. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Jerome which I saw at the Metropolitan in New York a few years ago? Or, maybe your mind is more playful or impish. Did you think of some of that religious art in luminous paint on black velvet? You can buy them on the roadside in some of your vacation travels, especially if you get near Mexico. Or, perhaps less impish, but also less sophisticated, you thought of a Cecil B. DeMille presentation such as he did with Moses. Now if you didn’t think of anything when you read the title, don’t feel bad. If you ...

532. Noah: The Bearer Of An Alternative Possibility

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... against anything that thwarts the divine, good purpose... "I suspect that if I had been God, I would have been ready to shut the circus down and start all over. I might have been content to wipe the slate clean, take a few days of vacation, and come back to try it again the next Monday morning. But God's wrath is an expression -- not a contradiction -- of goodness and grace. Its purpose is redemption, not destruction. "Scanning the horizon of humanity, God found this solitary faithful man; one person who ...

533. The Little Madness Of Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Webb, died. They had had a marvelous life together -- did almost everything in life together -- were very close and shared a common faith that continued to grow, even though now they were in their mid and late seventies. They had been to Hawaii on a vacation. While there, Elizabeth became a bit ill. When they returned, she went into the hospital -- and they were not thinking that it was serious, but soon learned it was. There was an series of aneurysms that could not be repaired. The fiber was too thin ...

534. Saying Yes To Forgiveness

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... -- that is, they do not confront the issues with which they are dealing because they are afraid of conflict. Rodney Dangerfield, that zany comedian, commented once, "My wife and I sleep in separate rooms, we never eat dinner together, we take individual vacations, and we are doing all we can to keep our marriage together." Well, some people think that the perfect marriage is one that is unmarred by conflict -- one in which there are no arguments, no expression of differences -- no sign of confrontation ...

535. The Future You Hope For

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Bible reading, or other study. I've simply made a note of them, and put them in a working folder. On my last Study Leave, I selected seven of them with which we will deal this summer. It seems to me that summer is a good time to do this. Vacations, visitors, my being a couple of Sundays. This is a good time to focus our attention each Sunday on a sermon that's not a part of a longer series. So we begin today with one of my favorite texts, Jeremiah 29, verse 11: "For I know the plans I ...

536. What Is Your Life?

James 4:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... difference in the world how we look at life. Let's focus now on Life as Gift and Life as Opportunity. II. First, life is gift. "Gettis McGregor tells about going when he was six years old with his mother to visit her mother, his grandmother on a summer vacation. One afternoon, the two ladies were sitting out on the porch relaxing, and the grandmother said offhandedly, "I'm so glad you all decided to have little Gettis because he's been such a pleasure to all of us. She didn't know that the little fellow was ...

537. When You Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... prayed, persistently and expectantly. It became clear they should go. But here is the clincher. Because of past experience, they expected God to affirm their decision with some sort of confirming sign. A couple of weeks later, they were in Destin, Florida on vacation. On Sunday, they intended going to one church, but ended up going to a 7:30 a.m. service at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. A layman, probably what the Episcopalians call a “Permanent Deacon” served them the wine of Holy Communion. They ...

538. The Gospel Of Another Chance (choir Dedication)

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the bolt of cloth in the trunk of his car, wondering what he was going to do with it. A couple of weeks later he was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama -- the home of the Crimson Tide -- arch enemies of the Vols. He was on his way to the coast for a vacation. Driving down the main street in Tuscaloosa, he noticed a tailor shop, which reminded him that he had that bolt of cloth in the trunk. He stopped, thinking he would give it a try. He told the tailor he had bought this bolt of cloth and wondered if he could ...

539. Reflections On A Calling (ten-year Anniversary Sermon)

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sense of powerlessness. Then, two, there is the pace of it all. The pace is horrendous. I appreciate the fact that many of you express understanding at this point. I'm grateful to the Staff Parish Committee for insisting that I use the time they allow me for vacation and not pack that time with work also. And I'm not asking for sympathy. I don't need that. I need perspective, and as a congregation together we need perspective as it relates to our total ministry. The job is never done. In the ten years that ...

540. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . We need to be able to laugh -- to laugh at ourselves. As I was working on this sermon last Monday morning, I heard hilarious laughter downstairs. I listened, and heard the voice of my daughter, Kerry. I didn't even know she was there. She had just returned from vacation the previous day -- Father's Day, and had come in late that Sunday night to visit with us and to wish me a Happy Father's Day. I was not aware that she had returned sometime that morning because I was hidden away up in my study. But the ...

541. To Live Is To Grow

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Countless people make this decision or act as though they have a decision never to grow up. Growth is not on their primary agenda. Though September is two-thirds through the year, we see it as a kind of new beginning. We've had our summer vacations. Children are returning to school, we are at a transition period of seasons. The Fall air will soon become colder. Football has already begun, and tension over television between husband and wife will become more intense. And, of course, the Fall is a kind of ...

542. At the Corner of Church and Main

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... be essentially our choice, too. Jesus says, "Woe to you who are full now." Perhaps the key word for us is neither "woe" nor "full." The operative word may be "now." Our human instinct is to live for "now." And even the "laters" -- college, marriage, vacation, retirement, and so on -- that the most prudent of us might save and prepare for is still "now" in spiritual terms. Whether we are by nature impulsive or deliberate, whether impetuous or foresighted, for as long as we are preoccupied with this life and ...

543. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... or more -- we pray for God's will to be done "on earth as it is in heaven." If that is what we pray, then surely that should also be how we live: on earth as in heaven. Return with me now to that frigid field in our imaginary vacation contest. I imagine the contest judges climbing up on the platform and surveying the crowd. Hundreds of people are there, eager to be chosen for the all-expenses-paid trip to Florida, the Caribbean, or the like. The judges consult with one another only for a moment, though, and ...

544. Costly Extravagance

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... my students were very poor. I remember a little girl named Natasha in my class who brought me a Christmas present that December just before the winter break. She was plump and very shy and hardly ever spoke. After the bell rang for the bus on the last day before vacation, she came up to my desk and handed me a present. A very nice present I might add, a present that I'm sure cost more than her family could afford. I didn't need the gift and was reasonably sure her mom and dad could use the money. Natasha ...

545. To the Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Charles Curley

... this story in the midst of Lent than it was that the story was recorded in the gospels in the midst of experiences of suffering and prophecies of death. And that is just where the revelation of God’s glory belongs. Jesus did not take a mountaintop vacation to "get away from it all" - to escape, to rest, to be renewed. Jesus was transfigured on the mountain to meet the challenge waiting for him back down in the valley. The transfiguration was not meant to be looked back on nostalgically as a "break" from ...

546. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... life of which you are ashamed and that weakens your credibility. If so, get rid of it, and if you have trouble come to me and together we will put it up by the roots! You speak of Carolina or Clemson, why not Jesus? You speak of boats and vacations and grand children, why not of the Savior? How can you sing Amazing Grace and then go amazingly silent? Not only are people watching our deeds as Christians, they are listening to our words, or in the case of the church elder and his business partner, the lack of ...

547. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... cold twelve pack in the cooler and a little sweet thing on the side, why bother with God? And if you are a rich man with a big boat and the finest whiskey and all the time in the world, why bother with God when your whole life is a vacation? And if you have so lowered your expectations in life that you are happy with a welfare check and resigned to public housing, why bother with God? There is much gospel preaching but not much gospel action in this county so far as I can see. Every time a bit ...

548. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

I had heard of the place for years, but never seen it until Tuesday in Chicago- The Pacific Garden Mission. Lori and I were on the way from a science museum to an art exhibit (I believe vacations are for learning!), and there it was on the left side of the street. I first knew it through the dramatized radio program Unshackled which tells the stories of those whose lives were turned around by faith in Christ and the help of the mission. Down-and-out to up- ...

549. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... are suspect. And if they are popular and have an entourage, you ought to be immediately suspicious. I am. In an old Peanuts comic strip it’s the first day of school. The students are told to write an essay about returning to class. Lucy wrote, "Vacations are nice, but it's good to get back to school. There is nothing more satisfying or challenging than education, and I look forward to a year of expanding knowledge." The teacher was pleased and complimented Lucy’s fine essay. In the final frame, Lucy ...

550. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... in verse 15.9 Not only is the gate narrow and the way hard, the entire path to life is lined with spiritual liars with impressive resumes. If you picture yourself climbing a narrow and steep path with people shouting at every turn to buy vacation tickets to Vegas, you will be close to the truth. Because they know precisely what appeals to wayfaring pilgrims, they lure many away. They know the struggles because they were once on the path themselves. John Bunyan’s allegory of the path to the heavenly ...

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