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876. Justification By Grace Through Faith

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . An exhortation is different from preaching, so just to let you know I know it is Mother’s Day before I preach I want to exhort you for a moment. There’s a marvelous verse of scripture in II Timothy, the 1st chapter, the 5th verse. Paul is ... had made an application to spend 6 months in Latin America as a mission volunteer, at her own expense, and I thought that’s what she wanted to talk about. But I was wrong. And when I saw her, I knew it. She was standing straight. She entered my office with a kind ...

877. From Russia With Love

Acts 3:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... 't that descriptive. Our souls were sucked out. That teacher who spoke to us on Thursday, and these newsman who were speaking to this delegation were all saying the same thing. That the soul has been sucked out of the Russian people, and that what they want for their children is that joy and hope which they never had, and which they believe Christians might have to offer. Now there is a great danger that we will make a big mistake in Russia, and in that Union of Independent States. Not just our government ...

878. Generic Christianity Is Not Enough

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... when I noticed a bumper sticker on the car in front of me. The large letters said, “I AM A GENERIC CHRISTIAN.” Well, that got my attention. I never thought about anyone being a generic Christian. I saw that something else was written on the bumper sticker and I wanted to know what it was. I’m afraid I got dangerously close to the rear end of that fellow so that I could read what else was there. It said, “Ask me what I mean.” That intrigued me even more. What was that person trying to say? “I’m ...

879. A Prophet Among Them

Ezekiel 2:1-3:15

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Maxie Dunnam

... – certainly while they are on duty. Serving drinks, fending off persons who have had too many drinks, tending to upset babies, being ready for every emergency – it is really a stressful and tedious job. So, when this young woman left me, I begin to pray for her. Now I want you to know that I don’t always do that. I am not always that intentional. But I sensed something was going on in the life of this young woman, so I begin to pray for her. Well it wasn’t too long before we were landing in Atlanta ...

880. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... here.” Well, why are we here? That is the question. I believe we’re here because we’re called. The Lord has brought us here. We’ve invited you here to share with you the remarkable way that God is working through Asbury Seminary – but more than that, we want to invite you to be a part of our family. Let’s have a good time together. Let’s get to know each other. A lot of stories will be told from this podium. Pay attention to the persons telling the stories – you will get a glimpse of persons ...

881. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v2

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Angeles. She had been a good teacher. But then she went to start her own family and left the profession. She and her husband had three children. They raised them well and not too long ago they sent the last one off to college. This teacher decided she wanted to go back to the teaching profession. She applied and was accepted and she wrote in the Los Angeles Times about her first day back in a seventh-grade class, after nearly twenty years. She wrote about her anxiety. Would she be up to the task? Would she ...

882. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... Christian tunes on your I-Pod; impress me with the depth of your prayers. I’m glad you wear a cross; I only want to ask, “Have your darkest appetites been crucified so that the cross around your neck is an exercise in honest advertising? Are you ... vice, who in the end wins and who loses. The implied question are always the same, Which group are you in? And, Do you want to stay there? Jesus understood the form and filled it with his own content. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the ...

883. Night Moves

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... It happened immediately. The same day as the Creation, they strive to be more than human beings, to transcend the limits that God has placed upon them. They try to be like God. God gives them the rules of the Garden of Eden. He says they can do anything they want, except eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for that property belongs to God alone. So what do they do? Immediately they do what Prometheus did, only it's an apple this time, and not fire. But it is the same thing. They ...

884. What Do You Call Success?

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... there--overwhelmingly there; vitally, really, tremendously there. He was in charge, no rebel could touch me, but God allowed it. “And it was though he said to me, ‘Listen. Twenty years ago, you asked me for the privilege of being a missionary. This is it. Don’t you want it?’ And as I was driven down the short corridor of my home, the Lord said so clearly to me, ‘These aren’t your sufferings, they’re not beating you. These are my sufferings. All I ask of you is the loan of your body.’ It was ...

885. Seeking the Lost

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Richard J. Fairchild

... there are parts of us that are in the light, and parts in the dark. As you are searched for, as you are looked for, as you are valued and as you are found - rejoice! And search for, look for, and find and rejoice over others. Erma Bombeck adds "I wanted to grab this child with the tear-stained face close to me and tell him about my God. The happy God. The smiling God, the God who had to have a sense of humour to have created the likes of us." I'd say Erma had a very fine instinct ...

886. Grace Has Appeared

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... and to build a new and better world. It is important for you to know that God loves you, you as an individual person, and that God wants to do a saving work in your life. It is important for you to know that the birth of that little baby, and the life, work, ... of that culture - all of us. That is part of what we need to be saved from. God's love works within us to make us want a better life, to set us free for a better life, and to enable us to live a better life. Yes, the moral teachings about what ...

887. Sheep that Count

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... slavery or any other oppressive lifestyle, he is telling us that with Jesus as our example, we are to take certain misery and hardship upon our shoulders and represent Jesus in everything that we say and do. It's not always easy, and it's certainly not always what we want to do, but that is the life we have been called to live and the witness we are to bear. There is a legend that recounts the return of Jesus to glory after his time on earth. Even in heaven he bore the marks of his earthly pilgrimage with a ...

888. When Is Being Right Wrong?

Romans 3:19-28

Sermon

Rick Brand

... . Baseball is all law and rules. We have the rules. We keep all these statistics. We know the score and we know the results we want. It is all law. What will you do this time at bat? The batter comes to the plate with the intention of getting a hit. ... , because he had earned it. Roger Clemens must have believed that as well, because he began to tell the Hall of Fame which uniform he wanted to wear when he went into the Hall of Fame. He not only felt entitled, but able to dictate terms. The more we keep the ...

889. They Grow Up Fast

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... must be about my Father's business." My criterion in choosing the best, most accurate translation, is to pick the one that says what you want it to say. Only in this case, they are both the same, really. Whether he is "in my Father's house," or "about my Father ... this scene, the Bar Mitzvah in the Temple in Jerusalem, is that it reveals to her that he's not going to be the way she wanted him to be, not the way she had planned. He has his own plans. More accurately, God has plans for him now, and at twelve, he ...

890. Call Waiting

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... from dying and making a lot of money, and always his response was the same. Finally the son had enough, and, when the same mantra began, he cut off his mother with exasperation, and with great passion he told his mother, "Mama, I don't want to keep people from dying, I want to show them how to live."1 This morning's Gospel Lesson from John is a "call" story, but unlike so many call stories in scripture this one is not crisp, dramatic, or decisive. Today there is no flashing light, no booming voice, no clear ...

891. Experience the Mystery

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a problem to be solved. The mystery is not a set of questions to be answered. The mystery is an experience with a person who wants to live in us and through us. Your life can be so caught up in Christ's life that your story and God's story ... leaving you here." Whatever you do, you are doing it with Jesus. That's why Christians don't have sex with prostitutes, Paul said. Would you want Jesus to have sex with a prostitute? Just as we share Christ's joys and his sufferings (2Cor.15:5), so too Christ shares all ...

892. Make Room for Mystery

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

James McCormick

... ’t it be great if we could recover our lost sense of wonder? Wouldn’t it be great if we could look at life with the eyes of the spirit and see the hand of God at work everywhere? If we could experience life like that we would want to break into poetry or into song…or at the very least to stand in silent reverence before the magnificent and mysterious works of God. Jesus said that before we can do that, we must become like children. Have you ever noticed that for little children nothing is commonplace ...

893. Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

James McCormick

... me with that. There are still some things I prefer more than others. There are some things we do that make me less comfortable than others. I am not tastebud neutral. I do like strawberry. But I think I am at the place in life where I would not want to be a part of a congregation where everything was done exactly as I would like it done, because I would then think about all those other Christians who have other preferences. And by my insisting upon doing it my way, I would be separating myself from those ...

894. Lifelong Disciples

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... account of our lives, He will ask but one question. He will ask, “Well, what did you do with it?” What did you do with it? Did you die before you got around to growing up? Or did you become a committed, mature, growing, adult disciple? I know what I want to be able to say! Prayer: Loving Father, we are grateful that You have created us with such great potential for growth, and that, each day, You call us to come to You, to learn from You, and to stretch out to become the persons You created us to be ...

895. A New Attitude

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... and loved every moment of it. The next year they returned to Space Mountain. As they stood in line, though, she soberly studied the signs that warn about the ride’s speed. “Dad,” she said to her father waiting in line with her, “I don’t think I want to go.” He asked her why she would be nervous when she had enjoyed the ride so much last time. She replied, “This year, I can read.” A certain amount of fear is healthy. Some of us are missing some of the joy of living, however, because unhealthy ...

896. Turning Jesus Down

John 4:5-42

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John N. Brittain

... , or self-sacrifice. In response to such trends, a few years ago one of the larger churches in Evansville discontinued serving communion or baptizing people during regular worship services. They discovered that people didn't want religious rituals that talk about the new birth or the body and blood of Christ; they wanted a fellowship that will basically affirm who they are as good and worthwhile individuals and encourage them to maximize their potential. Maybe it's good for the planners to ask what people ...

897. The Lost and Found Coin

Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... -city. As Seville watched her work and as he got to know her better, his heart began to soften… and through her he realized that he wanted a better life… and that God was his only hope. So, he turned to God… he went into rehab and with the help of God and ... us that God loves and values and cherishes and prizes and treasures each one of us like that… and when we get lost He urgently wants to seek us and find us and when He does find us, there is great joy and relief in His heart and in His Kingdom. Now ...

898. The Lost and Found Coin

Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... any woman would search if she lost her marriage ring." And then, imagine her joy when she finds it. In this parable, Jesus is reminding us that God loves and values and cherishes and prizes and treasures each one of us like that… and when we get lost He urgently wants to seek us and find us and when He does find us, there is great joy and relief in His heart and in His Kingdom. Now, what makes this parable unique and different from the other two (in Luke 15) is that the coin gets lost through no fault of ...

899. When Do You Feel God's Pleasure?

Matthew 3:13-17

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James W. Moore

... , WE FEEL GOD’S PLEASURE WHEN WE INCLUDE OTHERS LIKE CHRIST INCLUDED OTHERS. Go, read the Gospels. You can’t miss it. Christ’s love is inclusive. He was constantly reaching out, to the lowly, the lonely and the outcast and bringing them into the circle. God wants us to be inclusive like that. Fred Craddock tells about how some years ago, he used to go home to West Tennessee for Christmas… Each year the routine was pretty much the same. He would go back to the town where he grew up… and he would ...

900. God Speaks and the Church Is Our Hearing Aid

Mark 4:1-9

Sermon

James W. Moore

... meeting was not scheduled until 6:00 p.m… so I had a two-hour window of time. I thought this would be a good time to return a couple of sport coats to my brother, Bob. Bob and his wife live in Nashville. The Methodist Publishing House crew wanted me to look different in each of these twelve video lessons. So, after each session I would change shirts and ties and jackets. I had borrowed two sport coats from my brother… and I was anxious to return them safely to him before flying back to Houston the next ...

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