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Sermon
Edward Inabinet
... guilt in hell. Arthur Walker transmitted classified secrets to a spy ring that was operated by his brother. Even stopping his deals after the second time didn''t relieve Arthur Walker of a gnawing guilt in his soul. He said, "I may not have survived many more years carrying that kind of guilt inside me. I didn''t want to. I don''t want to sound naive now, I knew what I was doing was wrong. I knew that. Okay?I don''t know how to put this, maybe except to put it in religious terms. Once you start sinning, you ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... how the upper crust of society has always dealt with those on the bottom--with indifference and disgust. Jesus, on the other hand, lay aside his royalty--his divinity--and became a servant in order to meet the needs of his subjects. Jesus is a different kind of king. So with loving compassion he provides bread for the crowd. In verse 25 we see when the people get to the other side of the lake--after they had been lovingly cared for--Jesus moves the question to a deeper level. Jesus ignores their questions ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... way to teach because they allow each person to see themselves and how they are pictured in the story. The story I am opening with is called "The Person Down the Road." In thirty, forty or fifty years, you''ll meet a person down the road. Whether that someone is kind and gentle or selfish and demanding depends on what you do each day. If you live only in terms of what you can get out of life, this person will be crabby, self-centered and spiteful. But if you open your life to others and live as a giver, this ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... love and presence and peace. He realized what God’s grace is all about. He was able to let go of his past, and to forgive those who turned their backs on him. Through his father’s changed life, and through the love and acceptance of a few kind Christians, Jay writes, “I discovered the shocking secret: God loves me just the way I am.” (5) God does love us just as we are. “When the time of their purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to ...
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King Duncan
... morning service. Dozens of prisoners stood outside the chapel and held up signs announcing, “Come to the Chapel,” and “Jesus Sets the Prisoners Free!” Hundreds of inmates packed the chapel that morning to hear the good news of Jesus Christ. (4) Christ reaches out to all kinds of people. They don’t have to be special people. But he turns them into special people. All they have to do is say, “yes.” Here’s what we need to see: it can happen to us. Christ can turn us into someone special if we ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... that a good 75% of those people wouldn’t show up to worship somewhere this morning. And I couldn’t help but think that it may be the reason they don’t show up for worship this morning is that those of us within the church might have erected the kind of barriers that’s rather difficult for them to overcome. When will we get it clear? The church is not a hotel for saints, but a hospital for sinners. And no church can be pleasing to the living Christ unless she is willing to get her hands grimy, to get ...
732. Soul Drain
Psalm 63:1-11
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Maxie Dunnam
... then to cap it off, he was involved in a motorcycle accident which messed up his face. It was hell, and I say that with depth of feeling. Some people ask, does religion make any difference when the bottom falls out? The answer to that depends on which kind of religion you have. What vision of God do you take with you into the darkness? I believe that people are being victimized by a lot of false promising; and I believe that the church is going to be held responsible for wrecked and cynical lives all along ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... you might at least talk to me while I knit. But he answered, why don’t you just knit for me while I read. I doubt if that house was the place that couple desperately need. So we’re talking about the fact that everybody needs a place, but what kind of place. It must a place for persons. And that defines it some. Not just a place for bodies, not just a place to eat and sleep and swim and watch television and have backyard barbecues. Not just a place to come to as a rest center away from our ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... quietly. If I amto lie low, help me to do it patiently. Andif I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.Make these words more than words, and give methe spirit of Jesus. Amen" (p. 461). Randy could find meaning in this -- and pray this prayer with a kind of joyous confidence because he had cultivated that confidence outside his time of calamity. How many do I run into who don't have that confidence. It is only in calamity that they turn to the Lord. Now, to be sure -- that's a good place to go in all ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... of Christian growth. That's the reason we have so few truly saintly people. And that's the reason we should be slow to judge the faith and commitment of others. So much of our growth, and so much of the way we express our faith, is dependent upon the kind of people we are -- and we are all different. There is a story of two generals in the Civil War. The pressures of battle were intense. The one general noticed that the other man was visibly afraid. "Sir," he said, "If I were as frightened as you are, I'd ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... narrow our focus to hypocrisy. How is it with your soul? Maybe pondering the word hypocrite will help us answer. I One kind of hypocrisy is expecting other persons to have higher standards than those we set for ourselves. Let me focus this with a common ... right and your whole being vibrates with it." (Dunnam, Barefoot Days of the Soul, p.61). Integrity. And a lack of integrity is a kind of hypocrisy. Not being true to yourself, not being true to the values you hold high, not being true to your profession as ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... found himself wondering up and down the streets of Honolulu looking for a place to get something to eat. Up a side street, he found a "greasy spoon" kind of place. The fat guy behind the counter came over and asked him, "What d'ya want?" "Just a cup of coffee and a donut," Tony said. ... her eyes off it, she slowly and softly said, "Look, Harry, is it all right with you if I....I mean is it O.K. if I kind of...what I want to ask you is...is it O.K. if I keep the cake a little while? I mean is it all right if ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... the work of Chris Hena. And we've got to find people like her. Indigenous people with whom we will link and become connecting kind of folks to provide the support they need to make that witness there. Three, our minister of missions, James hasn't heard me say ... church....It's got to be people who believe that the reason they are there, and most of the people we've sent have been that kind of people in the past. It's got to be people who believe that God has placed them there and God has something for them to ...
739. Get Rid of the Junk
Jeremiah 16:1--17:18
Sermon
King Duncan
... of drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear fruit.” THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CURSED AND THE BLESSED IS INTERNAL; IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES. You can’t judge whether a person is cursed or blessed by the kind of house he lives in or the kind of job he has. You can’t tell it by her clothing or the car she drives. This is a common mistake: to judge people by their external circumstances. “Those poor people,” we might say as we pass by a dilapidated dwelling or a ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... grasp the notion that the Church is an enclave of resistance. Any number of passages from the New Testament would give us that kind of sounding -- but listen to this particular one from Romans 12. We usually read the first two verses of that marvelous chapter and ... has been that we need to take over the government -- to put our people in power. The problem with this is that in any kind of governmental system some human being has to be in a place of power. So, we put “our person” on the throne. We soon ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... . It is one of the two books that have impacted my life the most during the past year. The title of it is The Lord of Bellavista. That prison has been a hotbed of drugs, killings, suicides, and homosexual rape – the worst, most oppressive kind of existence. Inmates would have their throats slashed and laid out in the courtyard. Awful, awful unimaginable things were going on. The heads of inmates would be cut off and kicked about in the exercise yard as though these heads were soccer balls. But something ...
Sermon
Phil Thrailkill
... 's or Maslow's or Pavlov's... none of us are happy in the way we were supposed to be. Nobody is...so confident that they feel the way Adam and Eve felt before they knew they were naked. We are in the wreckage of a war, a kind of Hiroshima, a kind of Mount Saint Helens, with souls distorted like the VII—Of Original or Birth Sin: “Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk), but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the ...
Sermon
Phil Thrailkill
... wrong with turtles, but what about human beings? The God who gave us life and installed us all in high office as superintendents surely has the power to sustain us if we trust and obey. We have a permanent place in the order of things. Excessive anxiety, the kind and pulls us apart and afflicts us with sleepless nights and fragmented days, is a lie against God who has given us such dignity in creation and who has come in Christ to restore the dignity we have lost to sin and lies and evil. Corrie Ten Boom ...
744. How to Look Foolish
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... Because if the Son of God ended up on a cross, it doesn't say so much about the Son of God, as it does about what kind of a world this is. There is something terribly, terribly wrong with this world if the Son of God ends up on a cross. So keep ... exalt themselves is to exalt others. That is what love looks like. It's to lift up others. Love is patient with others. Love is kind to others. Love is not jealous of others, or boastful, or arrogant, or rude. Love does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable ...
745. Out of Conflict
Genesis 25:19-34
Sermon
James L. Killen
... going on. too. Many of us watch with aching hearts the conflicts like the ones that have gone on in the land where Jesus lived. We hurt for the people who have been hurt by them. We tremble when we realize how easily we could be drawn into a similar kind of "no win" conflict. As long as things like that are going on in the world, it is hard for us to feel at peace. Perhaps the most painful conflicts are those that arise between us and other people who are important to us, in our families or communities or ...
Sermon
James L. Killen
... things, like healing the sick, so that people could experience the reality of God's love. Jesus taught that we should live trusting God and obeying God and loving God as if God is our king and that, if we do, we will experience a new kind of life and participate in building a new kind of world. Many people were drawn to God by his message. But, for one reason or another, some could not receive it. They hated the one who came to show us God's love. They hated him so much that they killed him. And he loved ...
747. Being More than Civil
1 Corinthians 1:1-9, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... in the past, this country enjoyed a certain cultural homogeneity that is missing in our time. What we are seeing in our time being played out in the Congress is the growing division in our society, where the alienation is so deep that civility is interpreted as a kind of betrayal of the cause. You are not supposed to be civil to the enemy. And you certainly would never compromise if the other side is considered to be the enemy. If that is the case in our society today, then we are indeed a nation in crisis ...
748. Coming Home
Luke 15:1-3,11b-32
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... the person to move into mature, responsible, independent adulthood. And if one does not receive it, then one stays in a kind of emotional dependency, waiting for the blessing, or doing whatever they can to try and earn it, trying to be perfect, trying ... has done, Esau is ready to kill in order to get back the blessing. The story of the Prodigal Son should be interpreted as that kind of a story. But is only rarely interpreted that way, and the reason, I think, it that the title of the parable is misleading. " ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... , Pasadena; he was a saint of a man. Just a few weeks before Bishop Baker visited my father, his own daughter had died of cancer. He was still in that period of sorrow in his life when he came to visit my father. The bishop was a remarkably selfless and kind man. Those who knew him would not be surprised that in the midst of his own sorrow he would try to bring some grace and strength to a friend. I was invited to stay and be a part of their conversation. They talked about a number of things. Then finally ...
750. Now Try Forgiveness
Matthew 18:21-35
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... : Robert Mitchum, then four days later, Jimmy Stewart. Mitchum was a big name in the movies, a superstar, and extraordinarily productive. He must have made over 200 movies. In one year, I think it was 1944, he made eighteen movies. But Jimmy Stewart was a different kind of actor. Jimmy Stewart was in the pantheon that is reserved for those we lift up to be icons, mythical figures who represent what we believe in, and who act out on the screen the way we would like to be. I heard Janet Maislan interviewed ...
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