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876. Assurance: The Privilage of All Believers

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... well as words. We would not get overwrought with our Christian friends who insist on future security for we would be assured of our present relationship with Christ. 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, because we could be relaxed in our trust of the Lord. And all of that would help everyone of us, wouldn’t it? It ...

877. The Church: The Dwelling Place of Wonder

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... : “Is thine heart as my heart is with thine heart? If it is, give me thine hand.” That popular statement has been those who would support an uncritical pluralism, an open-ended “anything goes in the Methodist Church” or a naive notion that “beliefs don’t matter.” One of the real confusions in the Methodist Church today is a misunderstanding and a misapplication of Wesley’s concept of the catholic spirit. We interpret that to mean “theological pluralism” and such a pluralism is projected ...

878. One to Take the Place of Jesus

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... by the committees we establish? Two, what are some of the things you talk about in church all the time, assuming that people know what you are talking about — when, at most, their understanding is limited and vague, and at best, they don’t have the faintest notion of what you’re talking about. I didn’t deal with the first question but the sermon today deals in part with the second question. The Holy Spirit is a common term in the church. We use the term as though everyone knew precisely what we were ...

879. Out of the Miry Bog (Dealing with Depression)

Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... before the Lord. One of the problems with Christians is that we think there is something bad wrong with our Christian experience if we admit that we’re not on top. Somehow, and I think the devil has played a trick on us - somehow, the prevailing notion is that a Christian must always be glowing, always be on top, never down, and certainly never in doubt about God’s presence. I think this shows how powerful the devil is - causing masses of Christians to adopt a model that even Jesus didn’t fit ...

880. When You Have Everything You Need, Except What You Need (Managing Money)

Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... investments. Then there was Tim. He became involved in drugs, in fact became the victim of drugs. No on seemed to be able to do anything about him; no one seemed care about him. We took him into our home knowing it was a risk. We didn’t have any notion that we would be able to do much for him. We felt called to him, to love him, and to give him a chance if he wanted it. Well, Tim is off drugs now. He’s living a very creative and fruitful life. He married a few months ago, married ...

881. Opening and Closing Doors

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not of more value than they?” (verse 26) Not only about needs, we worry about our status, our relationships. How am I coming off? Am I really liked? What does John really think about me? How much time and energy do we invest in taking c our distorted notions about status? We worry so much about status. Jesus says, “Consider the lilies of the fields, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you even Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” (verses 28-29) Jesus then ...

882. When God Seems Far Off

Psalm 10:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in this life; but if not, in final judgment when every person will be called to give an account for his deeds. So we need to learn form the psalmist and then the way of the wicked. That way was oppression of the poor – but also it was the mistaken notion that God was not around to bring judgment. III The final truth the psalmist would teach us is this: Be strengthened in your faith, even in the feeling that God is afar off. Listen to verses 16 - 18: The Lord is king for ever and ever; the nations shall ...

883. Luke 7:36-8:3

Luke 7:36-50

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... with honor and respect are revealed to be the very ones who have most failed to extend honor and respect to God’s favored and God’s prophets. With our fast-food, dine-out, delivered-in, eat-on-the-run lifestyles, the whole notion of dining decorum has become almost obsolete. But one of the distinguishing characteristics of any culture is the rituals and behaviors that are associated with breaking bread together. The meal scene depicted in today’s Luke text reflects a Greco-Roman “symposia,” a ...

884. A Goodly Heritage

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on Money.” On the bottom border is “Don’t Let Government Preach Religion.” Now this is no one time thing I think somebody feels pretty strongly about this. They have ad two rubber stamps made to imprint this message on the dollar. So this was no passing notion. Someone is on a mini-crusade maybe a major one like Madeline O’Hair. I don’t want to get into a long discussion about “the separation of church and state.” I believe in that. I do want to make a point that is often forgotten. The ...

885. Casting Out Demons

Mark 1:21-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... contending against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6: 10—12 RSV). Is the language too archaic? Does the whole notion strike you as terribly alien to the enlightened mind of the 20th century? I understand. I’ve wrestled with this for years, because I’m a child of the enlightenment as you are. That’s what we call it – enlightenment. “Two ...

886. Why Doesn’t God Do Away With Evil?

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... one moment I thought God gave me a disease to teach me a lesson. What parent pours boiling water over a child in order to teach them to stay away from the stove? We put parents in jail for that. How dare we put at the feet of God some notion that He brings evil on us in order to teach us a Truth? God help us. Some say evil is a struggle. The force, Luke, the force. Listen for the force. Such is the advice of Obi Wan Kanobi to young Luke Skywalker as he prepares to face Darth Vader ...

887. Climbing the Right Ladder

Genesis 28:10-19a

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... differently than I. If your ladder climbing has left you out on a limb of isolation, I have good news for you. God does not desert his own. Sure, Jacob missed the mark. Sure, he has not understood his calling. Sure, he has not really grasped the notion of the blessing that is his. In reality, God comes to him anyway. Here the Lord builds a ladder all the way to Jacob. The Bible says, “The Lord stood beside him.” The Bible never gets better than this. When the Lord comes, Jacob moves from achieving ...

888. Finding Answers to Family Feuds

Genesis 25: 21-34

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... conflicts in our relational lives? What happens when we teach competition at all cost? What kind of world have we created by a scarcity mentality? If I don’t grab it there won’t be enough for me, so I had better take all I can, as opposed to the notion there is probably enough for all of us, if we could only learn to share it. What happens when culture teaches us, as the bumper sticker I saw on the back of a car says, “The one who dies with the most toys wins”? What happens when culture says bigger ...

889. What Would Jesus Say About Medical Care?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... relationship was taking its toll on her physically. The healing she needed that night was a spiritual healing. She needed something touched in her heart alright, not the pump, but the soul. E.S. Jones once said, “We must give up on the notion that we can harbor fears, resentments, self-centeredness, guilt, and still believe nothing will happen to us physically.” The body cannot bear what the soul will not resolve. I will know we are making progress toward spiritual health when the number of prayer ...

890. What Would Jesus Say About the Marginalized?

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ask the question: are we interested in saving money or are we interested in saving people? Can the Church once again become the conscience of America? The fundamental principle of life is justice for all and built into the Judeau Christian tradition is the notion of generosity on top of justice. Be generous. Before there was social security, before there were food stamps, when there was no public assistance, and no welfare as we know it today, there was a law in Leviticus which said, “when you reap the ...

891. Where Is He?

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... by the name of Jesus and encounter the great I Am who really is. J.B. Phillips, more than fifty years ago, wrote a tiny book entitled Your God is Too Small. In it he said, “A lot of people cannot go deep into their own spiritual lives because their notions of God are too small. They are content to live with a God they can control, get a handle on, figure out. So we box God into our own way of thinking, forgetting the true nature of the great I Am who is among us.” Jesus said “I am the ...

892. The Power to Begin Again

Acts 3:12-19

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ago I was coming home from a fast trip to Lake Junaluska, North Carolina when I ran into a horrific traffic jam at the tunnels on I-40 outside Knoxville. Not known to be a patient driver, I whipped off the interstate at the closest exit under the grandiose notion that I could find my way through the Smokey Mountains without even a map to guide me. Well, you guessed it; I was quickly lost. The two lane blacktop road became a one lane road that evolved into a gravel road that soon became more dirt than gravel ...

893. Encountering Incomparable Riches

Ephesians 2:4-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... can be alive, abundantly alive, fully alive, completely alive, eternally alive. Life is God's precious gift to us. The Choice is Ours. The love of God is such that he will not force himself upon us. That's why I cannot believe in the doctrine of universalism—the notion that the grace of God saves everyone. Grace is not sentimental. It is not cheap. It is resistible. While it is the will of God for all to be saved, our freedom is such that we can choose our own destiny. Which will it be for you? Deal or ...

894. In Prayer’s Way

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , Clapton came to a point where he knew he could not do this by himself. These are his words: At that moment, almost of their own accord, my legs gave way and I fell to my knees. In the privacy of my room I begged for help. I had no notion who I thought I was talking to, I just knew that I had come to the end of my tether. I had nothing left to fight with. Then I remembered what I had heard about surrender, something I thought I could never do, my pride just wouldn’t allow it ...

895. Sexual Ethics for the 21st Century

John 8:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... they do it on the Discovery channel." As an old farm boy, let me tell you, people are not animals. We are not rabbits breeding at random. Humans are not even wired the same way sexually as mammals. Even the libertines promoting the notion of “anything goes" are realizing such animal-like existence in a civilized world is ridiculous. So we now try to settle in society what we should have settled in our souls; sexual harassment, sexual abuse, children having children, rape, molestation and pornography. Are ...

896. Keeping Company with the Weary

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and the home of the brave. Is it not the hunger of every human heart to breathe free? Is that not the desire of all of us? Did you hear the weird story about a young man who joined the military on the spur of the moment without the slightest notion of what he had gotten himself into. Then reality struck that he had enlisted for four years and could possibly be sent to combat; the young recruit started grabbing every piece of paper he could find. He'd take one look at each piece he seized and lament, “This ...

897. By Belonging

1 Peter 2:2-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . We are foolish for trying. Why is it so hard to ask for help? Why is it so difficult to depend on others? I think there are a couple of answers to that question. In the first place, we don't want to bother people. We are built on the notion that we are self-reliant. We are tricked into believing we can handle things ourselves if we just try a little harder. We believe that our problems are not as bad as they may seem and we believe that isolation is safer than community. So we tough it out alone ...

898. What Happens When You Are Not Number One?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... society, or the amount of money we’ve accumulated, or what others think of us…we’re precious because we’re God’s creation. God loves us. We belong to Him. But we don’t remember it. So we must press the issue of James and John’s distorted notion of being #1. II Let’s nail down the fact that there is nothing wrong with ambition; it is blind ambition that ruins our lives. There’s nothing wrong with ambition. In fact, some of us need more of it. But if you are Christian, ambition can blind you ...

899. A Revolution in Seven Verses

Luke 13:10-17

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Mickey Anders

... Scripture records, "They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman?" In speaking to her, Jesus jettisons the male restraints on women's freedom. 2. He calls her to the center of the synagogue. By placing her in the geographic middle, he challenges the notion of a male monopoly on access to knowledge and to God. 3. He touches her, which revokes the holiness code. That is the code which protected men from a woman's uncleanness and from her sinful seductiveness. 4. He calls her "daughter of Abraham," a ...

900. A Strange Way in and a New Way Out

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... condone torture of prisoners? Do our leaders seek to ensure access to health care for all people? Many in the church do not want to hear criticism of our government. A pastor in Minnesota preached a series of sermons in which he challenged the notion that the United States is a Christian nation. Gregory Boyd, pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, refused to endorse candidates for office and to promote political rallies. Reverend Boyd wanted to go on another road. He did not want the church ...

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