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76. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to have a passion to follow Jesus. Do you have that passion? We asked the question earlier: When the rooster crowed, and Peter was confronted with his own denial, what did he think of Judas. Judas had not yet hanged himself. I don't know, but my hunch is that Peter might have thought, "I'm just like Judas -- what I have done is as dastardly shameful as what he did, though the consequences may be different." I wonder, though, did Peter look for Judas after the condemnation of Jesus and his death. I hope ...

77. Turn in an Account of Your Stewardship

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... word - - but the first word is the most important one. One thing you lack. If Jesus said that to you - - one thing you lack - - what would you expect Him to follow it up with? He may say go sell all that you have and give to the poor - - though my hunch is that is unlikely for most of us. But He would say something - - one thing you lack. What is the big thing missing in your life that betrays your full devotion to Jesus Christ? Is it a lack of compassion for the poor? Is it a disregard for the growing ...

78. The Discipleship Question: Do You Wish To Go Away?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... just stood behind. There is the temptation to drop out. Let's think about this in a very practical way in terms of our own congregation. Some folks have dropped out of our church because they say it is too large -- they say they can't find a place. My hunch is that that is more an excuse than a reason, but it's a call to us as well. Growing, big churches offer that temptation to people. That's the reason it's so critical, so absolutely critical, that we engage people who join our church in fellowship, in ...

79. The Commitment Question: Will You Lay Down Your Life For Me?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... had returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you?" This is the servant question. You know the setting. Jesus and His disciples came together in the Upper Room to celebrate the Passover. Though they did not know it, my hunch is that some of them must have suspected it -- that this would be their last Passover meal with Jesus. If they didn't know that, or suspect it, they knew that something ominous was in the air -- something heavy was going on in Jesus' mind and heart. And ...

80. What Do You Want To Be Like When You Are 65?

Proverbs 3:1-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and practical direction for our daily living. Could we be more practical than asking the question: "What do you want to be like when you are 65?" I know that some of you are already 65 and maybe more -- You may think the question irrelevant. But stay with me. My hunch is there will be something here for you that may serve you well for the rest of your life. Our foundation Scripture is Proverbs 3:5-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.In all your ways acknowledge him ...

81. Rejected at Home

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... Pacific. The islanders all spoke highly of Johnny Lingo. He was strong, good-looking, and very intelligent. But when it came time for him to find a wife, people shook their heads in disbelief. The woman Johnny chose was plain, skinny, and walked with her shoulders hunched and her head down. She was very hesitant and shy. She was also a bit older than the other married women in the village, which did nothing for her value. But Johnny Lingo loved her. What surprised everyone most was Johnny's offer. In order ...

82. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... meaning and application in our lives. For myself, I don't suppose that I have been struck by anyone since a playground spat in the fifth grade. And I don't live in a setting where I am likely to be struck by anyone. Still, I have a hunch that this instruction has daily meaning for me. It is worth noting that Jesus does not say, "If anyone attacks you with a knife ..." or "If anyone stabs you with a sword...." First-century Palestine certainly had its share of violence, but Jesus chooses a different kind of ...

83. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sports that come on during the day -- and a few of the soaps, that is about all Mutt does. He reads. Cora Bell, my mother -- I called her Co-bell -- didn’t read very much. She said her eyes were not too good -- she was right. But I have a hunch she didn’t like to read, and she got plenty of jabs in at Mutt as he read the daily paper and the weekly Baptist Record and Time magazine from cover to cover. But, like Mutt, Cora Bell read the Bible -- especially the Psalms. It would not be long before ...

84. Passing and Failing

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... to people who are about to have their dreams come true. The time of deprivation is behind them. They will soon enter the land of Canaan, the Promised Land, their destination for all of these years. Their ship is about to come in; their stock hunches are about to pay off; their big promotion has just been approved; they have been elected head cheerleader; they got accepted into the college of their choice. Moses describes their coming success with rich word pictures: "a good land, a land with flowing streams ...

85. If I Were a Rich Man

Mark 10:17-27

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... fortune. The most famous incident in his trading life was in 1992, when he got international recognition by betting that the British pound was overvalued. The British government in reaction to that put a billion pounds into the market, but the market followed Soros' hunch and the pound collapsed, and Sorros got even richer. It just so happened that a few days later he was to speak at Cambridge. His host introduced him this way: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man who cost her majesty's government a ...

86. Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in this sanctuary. Cesar Chavez knew the meaning of relational power. Chavez worked hard to ban the short-handled hoe, the el cortito ("the short one"), a hoe dubbed "the devil's arm" that was only 24 inches long and required the farm workers who used it to hunch and bend over all day long in a position that led to serious, lifelong injuries for many. One young female farm worker told a grower that she had measured his land inch by inch with the short-handled hoe. Chavez knew the devil's arm (el brazo del ...

87. Prison Break

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... wind and the weather, while Henry Allen produced dozens of paper packages of new bulbs and a basket full of old ones, ready for the intricate interment. There was something comical, yet touching in her bedraggled appearance on this awesome occasion. The small, hunched-over figure: her studied absorption in the implausible notion that there would be another spring: oblivious to the ending of her own days, which she knew perfectly well was near at hand: sitting there with her chart under those dark skies in ...

88. The Attack Never Came

Mt 13:1-23

Illustration

King Duncan

... in the church." These bandana-wearing old grandmothers, who had kept the orthodox church alive for years during the Soviet period, had been the butt of jokes by both Russians and Westerners alike. Nothing could have seemed more pathetic and irrelevant than they, hunched over and wrapped in woolen shawls. They were widely regarded as evidence of the eventual death of religion in the Soviet Union. Yet on that critical night of August 20, 1991, when martial law was proclaimed and people were commanded to go to ...

89. The Only One Who Is Number One

Exodus 20:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... No man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end." (Eccl. 3:11) You can't find God by reason; you can only find God by revelation. Thank God, that with God we have more than a guess; we have more than a holy hunch; we have his own declared revelation. I heard about a college student that took a course in ornithology, the study of birds. Well, the night before the final exam, this student stayed up all night studying. He memorized every bird in that book. He thought he was ready for ...

90. The Ministry of the Holy Spirit

John 16:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... since it was kind of a family hotel? The proprietor said, "All right." Well, Dr. Torrey gathered everybody together, and being a great man of God just opened up the Bible and began to teach it. After it was over, Dr. Torrey, just on a spiritual hunch, looked around and said, "Was everyone here?" The owner said, "Well, almost everyone. There's a little maid back in the kitchen." They called her a scullery maid. In other words, she washed the pots and pans. She refused to come in because she was so dirty ...

91. In Defense of the Offense

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... God wants you to be. I remember when I was in high school, I was assigned the task of reading John Bunyan's classic allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. If you have read it, you remember the scene of the hero whose name is Christian. His shoulders are hunched, he is plodding through life straining with every step, and throughout most of the book he is carrying this great burden on his back; it is with him night and day. Never does he know relief from the weight of this burden. In one of the most moving scenes ...

92. Worship and Wonder

John 1:1-14

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather…we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

93. Lost in Wonder, Love and Praise

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

John E. Harnish

94. Gifts: Standing on the Promises

Malachi 4:10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

95. Will The Real Saints Please Stand Up

Esther 4:1-17

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

96. Gathered In, Sent Out

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

97. Growing Up

1 Corinthians 13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather....we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

98. Called to be a Christian Community: Cracked Pots and Clay Jars

2 Corinthians 4: 1-18

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather....we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

99. Grasshopper Religion

Numbers 13:25-33, 14:1-10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

100. Praising God on an Oatmeal Box

2 Samuel 6:12-23

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

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76. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

77. Turn in an Account of Your Stewardship

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

78. The Discipleship Question: Do You Wish To Go Away?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

79. The Commitment Question: Will You Lay Down Your Life For Me?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

80. What Do You Want To Be Like When You Are 65?

Proverbs 3:1-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

81. Rejected at Home

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

82. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

83. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

84. Passing and Failing

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

85. If I Were a Rich Man

Mark 10:17-27

Sermon

Mark Trotter

86. Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

87. Prison Break

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

88. The Attack Never Came

Mt 13:1-23

Illustration

King Duncan

89. The Only One Who Is Number One

Exodus 20:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

90. The Ministry of the Holy Spirit

John 16:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

91. In Defense of the Offense

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

James Merritt

92. Worship and Wonder

John 1:1-14

Sermon

John E. Harnish

93. Lost in Wonder, Love and Praise

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

John E. Harnish

94. Gifts: Standing on the Promises

Malachi 4:10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

95. Will The Real Saints Please Stand Up

Esther 4:1-17

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

96. Gathered In, Sent Out

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

97. Growing Up

1 Corinthians 13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather....we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

98. Called to be a Christian Community: Cracked Pots and Clay Jars

2 Corinthians 4: 1-18

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather....we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

99. Grasshopper Religion

Numbers 13:25-33, 14:1-10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

100. Praising God on an Oatmeal Box

2 Samuel 6:12-23

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... fullness of God's plan for us." [1] The old gospel songwriters and revival singers witnessed to it when they sang: When we all get to heaven What a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus We'll sing and shout the victory. I have a hunch we aren't going to complete the journey solo. It's only in community that we discover what God has in mind for us. So we gather….we welcome, we include, we receive all persons into the inclusive, life-giving, joy-filled Body of Christ. Let me give you another ...

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