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626. Escape from the Island of Spiritual Sloth

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... to it, this is the way it's done." No. Jesus says, "When." "When you fast ... When you pray ... When you give alms." Not "if." Spiritual disciplines are what disciples destined for death do to keep our inner lives in shape. Somehow we have accepted the notion that although it takes hours of sweat and discipline and hard work to maintain a healthy exterior, our interior lives need no such maintenance. We'll gladly pass out on the ThighMaster, we'll spend hours in search of washboard abs, but we squawk loud ...

627. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... will prove to be right in suggesting that the current crises of the mainliners is actually the birth pains of the Fourth Great Awakening” (p.19). Let’s pray that Johnson is right. What would make him right, in large part, swirls around the notion I want to explore with you: A Church Shaped by the Great Commission. Consider this image provided by Allen Wheelis, a practicing psychoanalyst in San Francisco. In his book, On Not Knowing How To Live, he talked about developing a philosophy of life, using ...

628. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... If our reflex action is always accommodation, regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.” Oh, my friends, that’s it. We have heard it daily in this ordeal with the President – accommodation. But the same notion often prevails within the Church – accommodation – so you have the well-orchestrated media event of over 80 pastors participating in a same-sex covenant service in California. Accommodation. Listen again to Schaeffer: “Just as what we may call holiness ...

629. Generic Christianity Is Not Enough

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 23, 1997). This is not a sermon on abortion, but the tragic holocaust of abortion illustrates what happens when we forsake the authority of scripture and therefore have no accepted guide as to what we say yes and no to. We fall into that alluring notion that morality is relative, personal experience must be our normative value, one religion is as good as another, and that we can’t be triumphalist as Christians in claiming that there is the way, the truth, and the life. The students’ response to the ...

630. Fulfill Your Ministry

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... unwilling to affirm anything that might hint at supernatural intervention – or accept any spiritual dynamic that might convict of sin, righteousness and judgment. We . . . spend more time offering comfort, rather than calling for obedience. We . . . water down the notion of eternal punishment, despite the fact that the New Testament is scathingly clear on this. Ear-tickling preachers eliminate the “H” word from their vocabulary. Earlier in the second letter to Timothy (II Timothy 2:17), Paul warns his ...

631. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to those we love. Most of the theology of country music is not Wesleyan; it’s Calvinistic. Presbyterians and other reformed folks may not like me saying that. But punctuating most of the heartbreak stories of lost love and shattered dreams is the notion, “gue sera, sera” -- “whatever will be will be.” For instance one song I heard kept repeating the line, “There ain’t no stopping love when it’s meant to be” – pure predestination and poor theology I would judge. But some of the theology ...

632. Last Words Are Important

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . And we wonder if people are not interpreting the Christian faith as mere mental assent to correct doctrine, accepting forgiveness and professing Christ as an insurance policy – a way to get into heaven when we die and leave this earth. Missing the whole notion of discipleship – growing into he likeness of Christ. If all born-again Christians were disciples, would there not be greater signs of the transforming power of Christ at work in the world? Jesus certainly intended it to be so. “You are the ...

633. Partners In the Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , Harper and Row, 1971, pp. 98-99.) Willing hands to serve and loving hearts to love -- that’s what it means to be partakers of grace -- to enter into solidarity with suffering humanity. But not many of us want to be servants like that do we? We have the notion that Christianity centers in service but I submit to you there is a vast difference between the way most of us serve the willful decision to become a servant after the style of Jesus. Most of us serve by choosing when and where and whom and how we ...

634. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Few experiences could provide more power in our lives than to have the assurance of our salvation. Think what it could do for us: …We would be joyous in our service for God, but not driven in our works, or mistaken in the notion that our works would save us. …We would be delivered from frantic preoccupation with taking our spiritual temperature minute by minute. …We would be free and spontaneous in our witness, exercising patience, and understanding as well as speaking with conviction and challenge ...

635. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... by God in the particular expression of our life work. Paul talks a great deal about this. In chapter 4 of his Epistle to the Ephesians, he contends that each of us is graced according to the measure of Christ’s gifts. This is in the context of his wonderful notion of the church, verses 4, 5 and 6: “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Then ...

636. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v2

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the love of God, loving with the love of God, continuing to love until we give up the last ounce of our being on behalf of the Kingdom. Now that wears us out. We get tired. I don’t want you students to go from this place with a superficial notion about the ministry. As exciting and as glorious as it is – as thrilling and as filled with meaning as it is – even though we know that no other calling is quite in the category of the high calling of God that is ours in Christ Jesus – the calling to be ...

637. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... with whom we would share the good news; 5) Depend on the Holy Spirit to provide the power and the harvest. I close with this. Who is worthy and able for such a calling? Non, absolutely none. You are in trouble when you get the slightest notion that you are worthy or able. I propose the proper attitude and stance of anyone who would do the work of an evangelist. The attitude? “I am hopelessly in love with Jesus – and helplessly dependent upon Him.” Get that – “I am hopelessly in love with Jesus ...

638. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... car. To the Hebrew mind that which was perfect was not flawless but that which fulfilled its purpose and was rightly related to God. So when Jesus said, “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect,” he was aiming at the notion of completeness and maturity, not pristine perfection. We will always be tempted, always on the verge of sin, always lacking in knowledge, never all that we want to be, making many errors, but if we take Jesus’ program seriously, that he has the power ...

639. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... . Admiration is not enough; faith is a beginning; trust is always ongoing, and Jesus asks for serious obedience, which he meets with serious engagement. His word is bread and designed to sustain us as agents of the parallel kingdom. Willard stands against the popular notion that you can decide to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus’ expense and have nothing more to do with him. Getting a ticket to heaven with a quick sinner’s prayer and then going back to your old life is not a viable option. He writes: “This ...

640. Love without Limits

John 13:31-38

Sermon

John K. Bergland

... of me and showed me that his love was not limited to a set of rules or laws." Peter continued with a compelling testimony of how God had stretched his boundaries and threw out his understanding of what was clean and not clean, dissolving his pre-conceived notions about who could be saved. What's more is that God not only revealed this radical truth to Peter through a vision, but God wanted Peter to experience its reality. So God created an opportunity for Peter to experience the boundless love of God. Peter ...

641. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... nothing can completely satisfy that hunger. It is a hunger to experience meaning, to know that life has purpose. It is a restless yearning to probe beneath the surface of our being, to penetrate the depth of ourselves and understand those feelings and notions and intuitions that come from we know not where. It is a baffling astonishment at the spontaneous bursting forth of insight. It is a growing pain that occurs, without warning, when we violate our own or another’s integrity. Prayer is something deep ...

642. Discipline

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... is bad. What is it we sometimes say, “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”? That’s often true, but it’s a hard lesson of life. The writer is not saying that hard times come directly from God. So many people have been damaged by the notion that God plays havoc with our lives, rewarding us when we are good and punishing us when we are naughty. That’s not what the writer is saying. John Jewell tells about a conversation he had with a woman who was a victim of domestic violence. Her husband ...

643. Chimps, Mount Saint Helens, and the Holy Gust

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... has often used "cliff-hanger" endings especially this time of year that leave us wanting to see the next segment. Actually, that's a lot like real life. Things don't end neatly; they just go from one thing to another. Although God is not "entertainment," this notion of a continuing unfolding of activity in our human events is really God's idea (even from the time of the old covenant). Right now all of us at this church are involved in God's continuing story of salvation history for the world. Stay tuned for ...

644. Jesus' Most Perplexing Parable

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... Son. That is the story about the willful child who demanded his share of the family inheritance, then ran off to a distant country, and wasted the money. He goes home and his father welcomes him. Some people in Jesus' audience had inflated notions of the importance of money. Consequently, these folks were aghast at the way the Prodigal Son treated his inheritance. To them, wasting money on fast living is the sacrilegious equivalent of mistreating holy objects. They think of money as a minor deity in ...

645. Still Under Construction

1 Corinthians 3:1-9

Sermon

James L. Killen

... Acceptance takes the threat and the shame out of the process and sets you free to get on with the construction project. It is good to look forward to all that God still has to give to you. But it is best not to be tied to any particular notion of what that is. Our perception of the goal may change as we move along. Early in the process, we may be looking forward to liberation and blessedness, happiness, and maybe goodness. Later, we may find ourselves hoping to love more completely. Then later on, we may be ...

646. Remembering Jesus

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... of the right thing to say, a bright cloud enveloped them and they heard the voice of God saying to them, "This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!" (Matthew 17:1-8). If the disciples still had any notion that Jesus was just another teacher or just another revolutionary leader, like others only better, the vision changed all of that. Because of the vision, the disciples knew that, in Jesus, something entirely new and different was happening - and that it was the doing of God ...

647. Living Hope

1 Peter 1:3-9

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... you've never been without checking it out and carefully selecting just the right house? Would you marry someone without seeing him or her first? Not on your life! And yet we put our living hope in someone we've never seen. We put our complete trust in a notion that says this man Jesus died on a cross for our sins and that God is able to forgive us everything because of him. We believe that because of him, God is able to overlook our shortcomings and promise us eternal life. That because of Jesus, we live ...

648. Because

1 Peter 1:1—2:3

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

649. Sheep that Count

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... you to know about. Why, some of the things I've told you, they have never heard because they refuse to listen. They just want to live in bondage to that stupid human being, walking around eating grass and giving up their coats for him every time he takes a notion. But you, Edgar, you are different. You have a mind of your own. I like that about you." So Edgar went back to the flock, thinking about all the things he learned from Destiny. And like Destiny told him, he spoke not a word of it to his mother. He ...

650. No Shame

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 (29-31)

Sermon

William G. Carter

... in another culture who returned home after being abused by another man. What did her brothers do? Go after the abuser? Press charges against him? No, her brothers put her to death, announcing that her abuse had brought shame to her family. All throughout the Jewish scriptures, the notion of shame is a very powerful force. I did a word search on my computer. The word "shame" shows up 174 times in the Old Testament. You can hear it repeated in passages like Psalm 25: "O my God, in you I trust; do not let me ...

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