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676. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... buy the groceries, while our real vocation — what God has called us to do — may involve us only a few hours a week. I mean by that — our specific response to Christ’s call ñ teaching Sunday School, volunteering at the hospital, visiting the sick, doing evangelistic visitation, working with young people. If your vocation and your profession are not the same, you are in good company. Not only Amos, Paul, who is giving us our word for the day, was among the great hosts of biblical people who had both ...

677. A Christian Style Of Being And Doing

Colossians 3:18-4:1

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Maxie Dunnam

... . Now this has special meaning for those who would share the gospel. Paul is talking about how we relate to outsiders. Phillips translates his word, "Be wise in your behavior toward non-Christians." We need to hear that, Friends. How much of our evangelistic witnessing disregards the feelings and sensitivities of those we seek to win. Just recently I received a letter -- a letter about Perceptions. It's the only negative word I've ever received about this special effort of ours to communicate our care for ...

678. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... of appreciation for others. What person who has it together is going to show himself or herself out of control by being irritable or resentful? It just isn't good manners. Love expresses itself in good manners. Dostoevski, the novelist, tells about a woman evangelist, who with great Christian zeal, traveled through Russia telling about God's love. And yet that same woman could not stand to be in a room with another person. One man slurped his soup, and that revolted her. One woman cackled when she laughed ...

679. The House Of Our Dreams

Luke 2:21-40

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Maxie Dunnam

... 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 old Anna became the first evangelist to proclaim the Messiah's birth. Scripture says she spoke of him to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem. Parenthetically, friends, God can do, with anyone of us, great things if we are open to him -- if we seek to put ourselves in his ...

680. East Of Eden

Genesis 3:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... his story. "Gambling alone did not bring Pete Rose down. His main problem was failure to pay the price that society attaches to sporting stardom. "In terms of standards of conduct and personal behavior, we expect more from heroes. "We expect television evangelists to avoid motels that rent rooms by the hour." "We expect national politicians to forego happy hours at saloons and to avoid shady book deals. "We expect Presidents of the United States to abstain from condoning burglary. "And we expect baseball ...

681. Prepare The Way Of The Lord

Isaiah 40:1-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... Peter Kuzmic speak at the Lausanne Conference in Manila in the summer of 1989. He "is the president of Evangelical Theological College in Osijek, Yugoslavia, an evangelical outpost in a communist country.... Peter spoke of his vision for educating Christian evangelists, pastors and teachers who would be ready to lead the church _if _and when_ the Iron Curtain crumbled in Eastern Europe. The vision seemed worthy but far off because of repressive action by the communist governments. Kuzmic had little idea ...

682. The Church Of Our Dreams

Ephesians 4:1-16

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Maxie Dunnam

... church-- we gather to study, to have fellowship, to be renewed, equipped and spiritually recharged; but we scatter to serve. When Paul described the church in our scripture lesson, he talked about Christ giving gifts and calling people -- some to be apostles, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, and -- he puts a comma at that point. And then he adds, "for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ." There is the purpose of the church, expressed ...

683. Who Needs A Doctor?

Luke 5:27-32

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Maxie Dunnam

... I. Sweet, "Bibelot", 1990, Vol. 5, No. 3 - 6). Amy Grant was making herself available to be the Word of God that comes to us wherever we are. But there is another side to this coin. Not only does the Word of God come to us where we are, the Evangelistic task of the church is to go where the people are -- and the witnessing task of the Christian is wherever the Christian is. That's what Amy Grant was saying. But there's another thing to note here that is easy to miss. In our standing with Jesus in His ...

684. Getting Our Lives Out Of Hock

Psalm 105:1-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... rainbow. Said DeMille, "If God does that for a water beetle, don't you believe He will do it for me?" Well He will if we allow Him and through His power and in relationship with Him we can get our lives out of hock. Ruth Graham, the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, decided what she wanted to have written on her tombstone when she dies. It's not what you would expect at all, a most unusual statement indeed. She saw it one day on a road sign when she and Billy were driving in their car. They had gone ...

685. What If

1 Chronicles 7:1-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, those are the conditions. If we meet those conditions, then says Jesus, you can ask what you will and it will be so. There is also the witness from history. John R. Mott, the great missionary evangelist who really is responsible for launching the modern missionary era of the church testified that for years it was his practice as he traveled among the nations of the world to try to study and ferret out the sources of the spiritual movements which were doing most ...

686. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

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Maxie Dunnam

... believe in God, even when God is silent." (Pulpit Digest). You see we may not control our circumstances, but we do control the response we make to them. Here is a dramatic witness to it. Bryan Green, an Anglican clergyman and international evangelist, tells of an aunt of his. She was very British, educated and cultured, tweedy type -- and violently evangelical. Her ordinary conversation was biblical in content, and in spirit she was incorrigibly cheerful. Once, hurrying to catch a train, she arrived just as ...

687. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... encouraged me and had invited me to attend an E. Stanley Jones Christian Ashram -- that was a Christian renewal movement patterned after the Hindu Ashrams in India, put in Christian context with Christian content and carried all over the world by the renowned missionary/evangelist, E. Stanley Jones. Tom Carruth extended the invitation one more time for me to go with him to an Ashram in Clearwater, Florida. I remember that my friend Jerry Trigg and I drove all Sunday afternoon and all Sunday night to get to ...

688. The Best Advice He Could Give

Luke 3:1-20

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King Duncan

... How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.” (2) In this instance the handmade crucifix was ideal as a symbol of the baby Jesus. These prisoners knew they needed to repent of their sins. They knew they needed to make a new beginning. The great evangelist Gypsy Lee was asked how to have a revival. He said, “Take a piece of chalk. Draw a circle on the ground. Step inside the circle and pray, “Dear Lord, please send revival inside this circle." Repent. That’s John’s first message to us. John’s ...

689. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:16-20). These last words of Jesus to His disciples represent the marching orders that are to be followed until He returns. There is no more powerful motivational text for Christian mission and evangelistic zeal. And yet, this text is not shaping the ministry and mission of mainline churches. Could that be the primary cause for the crises of our mainline churches? (Parenthetically, if you are not of the conviction that mainline Protestantism is in a crisis ...

690. Alive In Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... God. Not only does he justify us by providing full pardon for our sin, he indwells us to give us the power to be and do all those things God requires us to be and do. The message of justification by faith is our evangelistic proclamation which must never be diminished. It is crucial. However, it is not complete. And that’s why we Wesleyans have a great contribution to make to theology and Christian understanding. We talk about becoming Christian in ways like “accepting Christ,” inviting Christ into ...

691. Being A Man of God

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... one year to win 2 persons to Jesus Christ. · And listen to this: 95% of Christians in North America will not lead another person to Christ in their entire lifetime. We have become secure in our congregations – giving all of our attention to ourselves and forsaking the evangelistic call to go into all the world and preach the Gospel. We have become ”come-to” rather than “go-to” churches. And the reason for that may be that we don’t know who we are and we don’t know what our function is. Great ...

692. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... word advisedly – eccentric. He learned to water ski when he was 75 years old. On his 80th birthday, he skied for twenty miles. He was one of those beautiful persons who come into the world like a breath of fresh air. He was a great evangelist, an effective preacher, a marvelous teacher, and the second President of Asbury Seminary. He was a person of prayer who exercised a ministry of healing for over fifty years. I feel honored to be his successor at Asbury. His son, Chilton, wrote his biography which ...

693. God Outwits Us

Psalm 31:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... and participation. I couldn’t understand their lack of understanding. The gospel seemed clear. The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted when I went to a retreat (a Christian ashram) led by the world-famous missionary-evangelist E. Stanley Jones. I will never forget going to the altar to have Brother Stanley “lay on hands” and pray for my healing. He knew my story, and as I knelt, he asked, “Do you want to be whole?” That was one of ...

694. Last Words Are Important

Matthew 28:16-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:16-20). These last words of Jesus to His disciples represent the marching orders that are to be followed until He returns. There is no more powerful motivational text for Christian mission and evangelistic zeal. And yet, this text is not shaping the ministry and mission of most mainline churches. Could that be the primary cause for the crises of our mainline churches? (Parenthetically, if you are not of the conviction that mainline Protestantism is in a ...

695. A Prophet Among Them

Ezekiel 2:1-3:15

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Maxie Dunnam

... gospel seemed clear. The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted and ready to throw in the towel, when I went to a weeklong retreat conference – a Christian Ashram – led by the world-famous missionary evangelist, E. Stanley Jones. It was Tom Carruth, that beloved mentor of many folks who had been to Asbury Theological Seminary, who led me in that direction. I will never forget going to the altar one evening, to have Brother Stanley lay hands ...

696. God's Say-So

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

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Maxie Dunnam

... light.” That’s the reason your going forth from this place is so important. The world desperately needs light. You go forth to be what this seminary has purposed as its mission: “to prepare and send forth a well-trained, sanctified, Spirit-filled, evangelistic ministry” to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world. You will be the evidence of how well we are doing in fulfilling our mission. Have you seen the children’s movie, “Warriors of Virtue?” I saw it because I was writing a book on ...

697. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Hebrews 11:1-40, Philippians 2:12-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... goal; but I press on to make it my own, because…because Christ Jesus has made me His own.” If you will go with that confidence and commitment, then I will sleep better at night, knowing that we have prepared and are sending forth a well-trained, sanctified, Spirit-filled, evangelistic ministry to spread Scriptural holiness across the land.

698. The Authority of Scripture: God's Breathed Word

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... their lack of understanding. The Gospel seemed clear. The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted – ready to throw in the towel. Then I went to a weeklong Christian Ashram led by the world-famous missionary evangelist E. Stanley Jones. It was Tom Carruth, that beloved mentor of many folks who have been to Asbury Theological Seminary and have lived here in Wilmore, who led me in that direction. I will never forget going to the altar one evening ...

699. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... of experience I’m talking about – a signal occasion that sets us on another path or at least sends us in a different direction than we had been going. I went to a week-long retreat/conference, a Christian ashram, led by the world-famous missionary/evangelist E. Stanley Jones. I will never forget going to the altar one evening, to have Brother Stanley lay hands on and pray for me. He knew my story – we had shared together during the week. As I knelt, he asked me the probing question: “Do you want ...

700. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

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Phil Thrailkill

... , so I have the inside word on what has happened. And, as they used to say at the Friday night flicks: soon coming to a theater near you! The flip side of our problem, which I define not as corruption of theological identity but as a neglect of evangelistic opportunity, is found in a story told by Lorne Sanny, founder of the Navigators. And, like the first one from Chris Rock, this one also makes me wince in pain, like salt in a wound, because I too am guilty of sometimes putting my light under a bushel ...

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