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601. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the clarion certainty of the Christian faith – that while death is real and is the end of life, as we know it, the grave has been defeated and death is swallowed up in victory. Now hear this clearly. The Christian view of reality is not the Greek notion about immortality. Yet that is the way most of us talk about it. We do it in response to that basis discontent, this contorting drive within us for something more. The Greek philosophers were the ones who talked most about the immortality of the soul, and ...

602. A Scream And A Laugh

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us wander aimlessly. He moved us into the Kingdom of his light and made us victors over Satan's Kingdom of darkness. So, we have been transferred from darkness to light. I remember when the imagery of "saints in light" about which we talked last Sunday, and this notion of being transferred into the Kingdom of God's beloved Son, firsts became real to me. I was World Editor of The Upper Room. I had two engagements -- one in London, and the other in Zurich -- they were separated by ten days, and I did not want ...

603. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you captive through philosophy and empty deceit." The secret is an open one, Paul said. But it is open only to those of faith. In all his dealing with humanity, God has been working on a plan for the redemption of human kind. In response to the Gnostic notion of the secrets of the universe being revealed in their special knowledge, Paul said, no....no....that isn't it. The secret is not in a philosophy, but in a person -- the person of Jesus Christ. And the secret of secrets is that Christ can dwell in you ...

604. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... community life of people and especially in the family are underscored in this Psalm. But I want to come at it from another perspective -- God's gift of sleep. I.Think first about that -- God's gift of sleep, and it is a gift. My notion is that sleep is an important subject that deserves more attention than it gets. "Even as a physiological phenomenon, sleep is an intriguing business. It involves us all. As Shelley put it, "Whatever moves, or toils, or grieves, half its appointed sleep." "We spend sizeable ...

605. The House Of Our Dreams

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , to their own city, Nazareth." William H. Willimon, Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, preached a sermon once with a marvelous title, "The Great Resumption After the Grand Intrusion." And this was his theme – Mary and Joseph's return to Nazareth. Isn't that a suggestive notion -- and isn't that the way it always has to happen. That's the reason we began our sermon with the story of the old man who returned home to find the house of his dreams. "The holy family's going back to business as usual with ...

606. I Am Christ's

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... factor in our Christian walk. But we can be in the church the way we normally perceive that without being in Christ. In fact, there are thousands, perhaps millions of people who are members of the church, who see themselves as believers , but don't have the faintest notion about what it means to be in Christ. The truth is they are not really in the Church --they are members, but they are not in the Church. To be in Christ implies spiritual renewal, a new creation, as Paul put it. He used all sorts of ...

607. The Nuclear Truth Of Christianity

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... new perception -- and the new perception is, and we read it there in our text, verse 10: "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." So we are back to where we started -- with the whole notion of the Christian Walk.

608. Declaration Of Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 't let it be taken away -- plant your feet firmly. But that doesn't mean non- movement, nothing status-quo about it. Nothing is more dynamic than freedom. We must stand in the freedom Christ has won for us in order to walk in freedom. So let's pursue the notion of thinking about the nature of this freedom in which we are to stand in order to walk as Christians. I. First, it is a freedom from our past. It is a freedom of release. Some of you remember Jimmy Hendricks, the late Rock star, a victim of the drug ...

609. The Little Madness Of Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... no absence of a little madness in the Easter story. But glory! This little madness became "the little madness of hope." Let's focus on that as the spiritual food for our souls this Easter morning. II. Register this thought as we feed on this notion. There is always a little madness in hope. Elmer Homrighausen, one-time teacher and dean at Princeton Theological Seminary, calls hope the "oxygen of the soul." We human beings are creatures of hope. The message of Easter is that the Risen Christ gives substance ...

610. Singing In The Rain

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the country, "Why, you must be a Christian. You have a long face like Grandpa." All of that is to introduce the fact that the Christian walk, which we are talking about in this series of sermons, is a joyful walk. Let's forever be done with the notion of a mule-faced, pinch-faced, dark-clouded, droop-shouldered Christianity, whose adherents look as though they had been baptized in lemon juice. Now I know that mere living doesn't always inspire us to employ our heart and soul and senses to express joy. It's ...

611. God's Hello People

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... what I want to talk about today -- God's Hello People. I'm talking about hospitality, which is one of the marks of the Christian walk...relating to strangers who may be angels unawares, walking in fellowship. As Christians we are God's Hello People. So, let's pursue the notion. I. Let's begin by saying that the sign of God's people is always a welcome. The sign of God's people is always a welcome. The portion of our scripture lesson from I John speaks a telling word. Chapter One, verses 6 - 7: "If we say we ...

612. God Is Like A Mother

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . There is some sense in which it becomes who we are. When someone forgets my name, I have a twinge of pain, feeling that maybe I, not just my name, but I, who I am, has been forgotten. My name is important. Your name is important. I have this strange notion that if I had a different name, I might be a different person. Do you feel that way? Frederick Buechner observes that when we tell somebody our name, we've given them a hold over us that they haven't had before. If they call our names out, we stop ...

613. The Day Is Not For Sleeping

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a decayed moral environment. We have become morally ill because we have become accustomed to saying one thing and thinking another. We have learned not to believe in anything, not to care about one another, and only to look after ourselves. Notions such as love, friendship, compassion, humility, and forgiveness have lost their depth and dimension; and for many of us they represent merely some kind of psychological idiosyncrasy, or appear as some kind of stray relic from past times, something rather comical ...

614. Prepare The Way Of The Lord

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 1988). Perhaps you have had an experience like that an experience when, unexpectedly, you became aware of the presence of God in your life. We call that an Epiphany the appearance of Christ, an unexpected revelation. But, reflecting on such experiences, I have a notion that all of us would conclude that we were prepared for them. Artists talk about what happens in the creative moment. I know that D. H. Lawrence is not one to call upon for anything spiritual yet he used specific Biblical language to describe ...

615. Who Needs A Doctor?

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of the word -- Pauline is known by the company she keeps. Some of you may know that Pauline was named as one of the Points of Light in our community and was written up in the newspaper. Back during the days when President Bush first introduced that notion -- that there should be people who are points of light in every community -- I nominated Pauline to The Commercial Appeal to be such a person. When the President was coming to town about a year and a half ago, he selected a few people from that Points ...

616. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to everyone because God is gracious and invites all into his Kingdom. But that’s the beginning of our Salvation — not the end. “Narrow is the door,” said Jesus, “and hard is the way that leads to life.” Where did we get these funny notions about what it means to be a Christian — that a Christian life ought to be peaceful and tranquil. “When a student had enrolled in a university, he was assigned to a faculty advisor who asked, “Where do you attend church?” The student responded, “I do ...

617. Getting Ourselves Off Our Hands

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... need to get ourselves off our own hands. How do we do that? I. First, we've got to learn to live one day at a time. Now I know that's easier said than done. We talk about it, and many New Year's resolutions will swirl around this notion -- living one day at a time. The question is, How do we do that? A housekeeper has provided some profound homespun wisdom for us. The woman for whom she worked was sharing with her some of the things that were tearing her apart. She confessed to her housekeeper, "I feel ...

618. Growing In Self-esteem

Psalm 81:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we become Christians, even after we become Spirit filled Christians. For many the personality damages have been so great, the forces that have shaped our self-image have done such a destructive job that conversion to Christ is not enough to overcome the grip these notions of worthlessness have on us. The grip is sometimes so great that we feel that God also, disapproves of us and thinks we are nothing. "The first step in our healing is to realize that God understands where the feelings are coming from and ...

619. Overcoming The Destructive Dont's That Have Shaped Our Lives

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander." "A man is known by the company his mind keeps." When we reflect a bit on our life, we realize how true it is. Our minds are full of ideas and notions that shape our lives. Some of these are healthy, some unhealthy. That’s the reason for the sermon today: Overcoming the destructive don'ts that have shaped our lives. Through the years, from our parents and other people we have valued, from life itself these ...

620. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... are no ultimate values or any ultimate judgment. When we feel guilty or shameful, it's not our actions or relationships that are wrong. We're just old fashioned and we need to slough off these values and these Victorian strictures. I'm telling you, friends, those notions smell like the smoke of hell, because that's their origin. We must know our sin, but not wallow in it. That remarkable Christian Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) said, "We can only God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God ...

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

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 17, 1990) Now I don't mean there have not been times when I felt the people were hopelessly prejudiced and closed minded. There have been plenty of what the Scripture calls "stiff necked people." there have been people who have had their feet firmly planted in some notion of how it had to be because of how it had been. But, for the most part I've been extravagantly blessed in serving in situations where people were open to leadership, to following God's guidance, and to moving into the future boldly. So I'm ...

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

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... " -- I Cor. 3: 1, 2. One of his most signal words was recorded in II Corinthians 5: 17: "If any person is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has passed away; behold, the new is come." So, all through the New Testament, the notion of rebirth, being born again, re-creation occurs. But Nicodemus couldn't understand that. How can it be? Jesus asked him, "Are you a teacher and don't understand?" The question is, do we understand? "Dan Wakefield, the writer, understands. He went through a "season in hell ...

623. The Danger Of Straying From Home (Father's Day)

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... home. We can't beat around the bush on this one. We can't talk about straying from home without talking about adultery. I doubt if anything represents a more dramatic, more damaging "straying from home" than adultery. When did it happen? When did our culture buy into the notion that sex outside of marriage is OK, nothing to get uptight about if you are careful and don't take too many risks? I don't know when it happened, but it did. So we have some of the statistics I quoted a moment ago. In the next twenty ...

624. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

625. Putting the Puzzle Together

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... key to life! If you want to know the purpose of life, look to Jesus. In today's lesson, John is writing about a time in Jesus' ministry when the crowds are starting to fade away. Jesus' teachings were too hard. They challenged too many preconceived notions about faith and meaning. His ministry, which had once seemed so promising, was in trouble. Jesus understood what was happening. He turned to the twelve who had been with him from the beginning. "You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked them. And ...

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