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601. The Christian Life Defined By Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... life? The prayer for light, that is for discernment. Do you live enough with the scriptures to allow his word to be alive and active within you? Do spend time in prayer cultivating an awareness of the indwelling Christ in order that you can be sensitive to his guidance? Do you share with others in spiritual conversation- listen to this. Do you share with others in spiritual conversation in order to have your discerning spirit enhanced by those who are seeking similar growth? It’s a prayer for light, for ...

602. What Really Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... demanding, but essential truth – we do not know Christ completely until we know him in the fellowship of his suffering. Let me illustrate. Go Out Enjoy is the moving the story of Nina Herman, a chaplain at a children’s hospital. She wrestled as any sensitive person exposed to the daily suffering of children would, with intellectual problems, questioning how all this suffering could be balanced out with a God who is good and who is in control. She could keep the question in a quiet corner of her mind as ...

603. In The Kingdom Now

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... has found it difficult to even keep an accurate count of the numbers of refugees. Refugees, aliens, illegal residents – it’s one of the world’s gravest social, political, economic, and social problems. And we Christians must seek to keep the world’s conscience sensitive to these, whom I’m sure Jesus would add to his list as the least of these. But that grave social problem is not what the sermon is about today, it serves really as an introduction to a spiritual dilemma, an ongoing dilemma for ...

604. The Fourth Day Comes

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ministry; the miracles he performed; his mastery, even of nature. He refused to be controlled either by political or religious power blocks. The prophetic witness of his presence with the poor and oppressed which had always been the jubilee affirmation of Israel. That sensitized their longing. He even based his first sermon on that passage from Isaiah which proclaimed a day of jubilee. A day when God would bring relief to the poor, relief to the captives, recovering of sight for the blind, healing for the ...

605. Recovering The Essence

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the Declaration of Independence affirm that all men, generic sense, all men are created equal - that is we’re all equal in the sight of God. And this endows each and everyone with a dignity we dare not disregard. We must become increasingly sensitive to the feelings and concerns of others. Back of the contemporary liberation movements which are causing so much confusion and so much inconvenience, is the determination on the part of some of God’s children to claim the dignity, the rights and the ...

606. The Eternal Question

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was life, but it soon turned sour on him. The gay lights that sparkled and kindled the light in his own adventuresome eyes began to mock him. The wine that had warmed his stomach and heated his head began to sicken him and dull his sensitivities. The bread of surface relationships grew tired when he could no longer pay the bill of all the hangers on who had pretended friendship. Sickened by self-contempt, the young man came to himself – that’s what the scripture says. He came to himself. And when ...

607. A Scream And A Laugh

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that I could get the poems published -- and I did get some of them published in a magazine called Alive Now. Through Charles and his poetry, I can experience vicariously what it means to be in prison -- through an exchange of letters with him, and his unusually sensitive poetry, I got a hint of the experience of being inside those walls. Listen to one of his poems: Serenely now,We name the same clouds in the same blue sky;from different sides. We lie down beneath the same dust reflected night,under the same ...

608. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... he experienced fulfillment. The more he knew Christ, the more he realized his needs and limitations and the more he had to press on to the high calling in Christ Jesus. The more he centered himself in Christ and pursued this high calling, the more he became sensitive to the needs of people around him and the more he realized that Calvary-motivated love had to be the motive dynamic of his life. So it is with us: cross-centered purpose gives us meaning. Viktor Frankl was a psychiatrist who spent two years in ...

609. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ! That's it!" This is Paul's exposition of love expressed poetically, but leaving nothing out. Our souls resonate to it because it is truth we have experienced, or need desperately to experience. With extraordinary understanding and pristine clarity, with unmuddied sensitivity and spiritual depth, Paul has mined the very essence of the Christian Gospel. It is no wonder that whenever Christians gather to worship, wherever the Gospel is proclaimed, I Corinthians 13 is known and loved. We're going to spend the ...

610. The House Of Our Dreams

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... widow -- and now 84 years -- living in the temple really, fasting and praying day and night. She came up at that very hour to give thanks to God -- isn't it amazing how God works in the lives of people -- in your life and mine when we are committed and sensitive to Him. Dear old Anna came up at the very hour when the act of purification was taking place and Mary and Joseph were making their sacrifice -- so she had the opportunity to be a part of the ultimate drama of history. There is a sense in which dear ...

611. God Is Like A Mother

Isaiah 66:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... this image is. How often have I seen a mother hen do exactly what Jesus suggested he wanted to do for Jerusalem. I've seen the old hawk soaring overhead, doing his surveillance, spotting the hen and her little chicks. And I've seen that very sensitive mother hen -- I don't know whether she heard the hawk or saw the hawk -- but she senses danger. She knows what is about to happen. She gives that mother "cluck-cluck-cluck" and the little biddies hover around and she protects them beneath her wings. The ...

612. The Day Is Not For Sleeping

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not cause us pain.*We are not awake spiritually if we are satisfied with things as they have always been and are closed to change and growth.*We are not awake spiritually if the so- called "little sins" of our lives are becoming more numerous, and our sensitivity to sin is dull.*We are not awake spiritually if we do not hurt when some brother or sister falls away from the faith.*We are not awake spiritually if we do not long to become more effective in winning others to Christ.*We're not awake spiritually ...

613. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . It needs to be so with us. How often do we hear it?, "Everybody else does it!"..."You can't fight City Hall"..."What does it matter anyway"...."Nobody will ever know the difference." But they will -- and God will. It's very important that our conscience is sensitively alive, that we retain a sensibility of sin, a pain to feel it near. So never allow your mind and heart to be dulled to the crowing of the rooster. III. And now this final word: A passion to follow Jesus is still our primary need. Despite his ...

614. As Real As It Gets

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... who wanted to first go and bury the dead, Jesus said rather sternly -- "Let the dead bury the dead." And he says to us: Let those who have no sense of duty to the kingdom -- let them do what they will. But you -- you have heard my call. You are sensitive. Come follow me. III. A Victim of Indecisiveness Now let's look at the third person. Read his story, verses 61-62. Another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home." Jesus said to him, "No one who puts a hand ...

615. Sweet Little Jesus Boy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... stance that values things more than persons ...and so our families are threatened and little boys and girls grow up without the comfort and security of their parents being there when they need them. ...in our calloused self-interest that does not register in sensitive consciousness that a few miles away from where we gather tonight people are cold and hungry -- many are homeless. Where is He in our lives when we allow our government to spend more of our tax money on migrant birds than we spend on ...

616. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... desire is that our heart be united with His heart. So, we are to know our sin, but not wallow in it. V We can go from that deep experience of having received forgiveness, to live as forgiven persons, constantly appropriating that forgiveness, as we stay sensitive to all the reasons for guilt and shame that are legitimate, and as we bring all those sins and failures humbly to Him. With that experience, knowing that God loves and accepts us, we build on that foundation. And that leads me to the final thing ...

617. The Wholeness Question: Do You Want To Be Made Well?

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... responded to them, "How is that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" (Luke 3:49) Now that's probably where we would have looked for Jesus at such a feast -- in the Temple. But if we were more spiritual, sensitive, more reflective of what Jesus was about, along with the author of The Interpreter's Bible, we probably would have looked for Jesus right there where He was --at the Pool of Bethesda, by the sheep gate, because there all the sick people, the blind, the lame, the ...

618. Naming And Being Named

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... through that memory allow God to speak. Of course He speaks through His Word. We immerse ourselves in Scripture, and the Lord speaks to us through that. And he speaks through persons. How many times has God's Word been brought to you and me through some friend who was sensitive to the Spirit and was used by God to speak the right word at the right time. So that's a dynamic of prayer, to allow God to speak to us. To allow God to name us. I didn't finish Martin Luther King's testimony a few moments ago ...

619. When the Doctors Can't Help You

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... Presbyterian Church, and a popular speaker and writer once spoke at a large convention. The woman who introduced him began by saying, "We have a very unusual privilege tonight. In our midst is without a doubt the world's finest communicator. He is extremely sensitive, alert, compassionate and wise. He can sense a person's true needs immediately and speak just the right word to heal a hurt." Dr. Ogilvie later confessed that he felt both flattered and frightened. How could he live up to all that? He didn ...

620. What God Has Joined Together

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... their wedding vows on March 10, 2004, in the Boise National Forest. (3) It would probably help many couples to get lost in a forest for a while so that they could really get to know each other. How well do you know your spouse? Are you sensitive to one another’s needs? That’s question one on our test. Here’s question two: Is your marriage marked by positive comments and words of encouragement? Now here things get a little stickier. How easy it is for marriage partners to aim barbs toward one another ...

621. Preparing for Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... to find or feel what others did. Many nights, from his little unplastered room under the rafters of his father’s farmhouse, he looked out at the stars with perplexity of spirit because he had not found Christ. Then one day he met a minister who was sensitive, caring, and clear-headed. This minister told Gladden that if he would do his best to walk in the ways of loving service, he could trust God’s love whether he had any ecstatic experiences about it or not. That was the word he needed. Washington ...

622. Songs of the Season

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... call it to account. Jesus warned that those who have been given much will be held to the most severe reporting. This hazard, of course, is this: power of any sort inevitably breeds a certain kind of arrogance; and it blinds us, or at least dulls our sensitivities, to the pain of others. It is very hard to understand how someone on poverty row feels in a supermarket, if we can fill our own basket without undue worry. A person who is secure in their position can hardly imagine the pain of those who have ...

623. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... without any deliberate malevolence on the part of a spouse, a co-worker, a friend. And when someone has dealt my ego a blow, whether accidentally or quite intentionally, what shall be my response? Egos, by their fallen nature, tend to be quite big and very sensitive. They beg, therefore, to be defended and avenged. And so my instinct when I am struck, in whatever form, is to strike back in kind. It seems that the reasonable ethic for Jesus to teach, then, might be that I should just walk away. Swallow my ...

624. Let Me Say That Again

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Council and gone down to the harbor to share the good news of salvation with those who in that culture may have not yet heard it, because the church has not been able to freely proclaim the message? That experience put me to thinking more deeply and more sensitively about our apostolic task. It is not just people in countries where the church has not been free to publicly proclaim the gospel who are bereft of the gospel truth and power. It is not just people groups in far-flung corners of the world to whom ...

625. To the Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Charles Curley

... on intellectual assent or emotional commitment. And far too little attention paid to action. Moses went up a mountain and there the glory of the Lord was revealed to him. The purpose of that revelation was not to change Moses, to make him more spiritual, more loving, more sensitive. The purpose of that revelation was to transfigure the way of living of the whole people of God. So it is with Jesus. It is no more an accident that we read this story in the midst of Lent than it was that the story was recorded ...

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