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76. "Catch-able" But Not "Fetch-able"

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... drawing a picture of God. "But no one knows how God looks," someone says to her. "They will when I've finished," she proclaims. Who's to say she is wrong? Her guess is as good as anyone else's if all we have to go on is human intuition. Truly God is neither catch-able nor fetch-able. Can clay describe its potter? Can fish do justice to the one who changes the water in their aquarium? How can tiny human brains that cannot understand electricity or produce a cure for the common cold ever hope to comprehend ...

77. The Gift Has Arrived

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... he is working and stretching his arms out to relax them. As he does this, he casts on the wall behind him the shadow of a cross. His mother, Mary, is standing nearby, and her face is filled with terror as she perceives that shadow. Hunt imagines her intuitively aware that her son will meet a tragic end. It was an enormous obstacle to first century Jews to believe that the Messiah who was to deliver Israel from her enemies could die like a common criminal on a cross. In I Corinthians 1, St. Paul calls it ...

78. Who Is He?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... question you have guessed that I believe there is something more. JESUS, FIRST OF ALL, IS THE REVELATION OF THE NATURE OF GOD. As John Killinger put it so cogently, "Jesus is God's way of getting rid of a bad reputation." Man had many ideas and intuitions about the nature of God prior to the coming of Jesus. But even the most brilliant theologian was a blind man trying to describe an elephant. How could any mortal capture the essence of the divine Other? It was beyond man's capacity. Even more critically ...

79. Crossing To A Land Of Hills And Valleys

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... eating their food, working with them, and generally living their life. The elderly grandmother of the family spoke no English, yet a very close friendship formed between the grandmother and the doctoral student. They seemed to share the common language of love and they intuitively understood each other. Over the months he learned a few phrases of Navajo, and she picked up words and phrases in English. When it was time for the young man to return to the university and write his thesis, the tribe held a going ...

80. The Benefits Of Trusting Christ

Romans 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... have never felt it before. 1. "Defense lawyer's good news," The Comedy Lab, Thecomedylab.com. 2. THE PASTOR'S STORY FILE, March, 2001. 3.Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2001, p. 59. 4.Michael Yaconelli, Dangerous Wonder (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1998), pp. 21-22. 5.Craig Karges, Ignite Your Intuition (Health Communications, Inc., 1999). 6. William F. Buckley Jr., Cornell Baccalaureate Address, May 28, 2000.

81. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... one another. In that popular film a few years back, THE COLOR PURPLE, Sophie experienced some kindnesses in a dark and troubling time in her life that deeply affected her. Looking back on those kindnesses, she said, "It was then I knew that there was a God." Intuitively she knew that this is the best evidence we have of the existence of God. In an unloving world, there are yet people who really do care about others. Where did such love originate? It came from the very heart of God Himself. We witness to the ...

82. He Came To Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... drawing a picture of God. "But no one knows how God looks," someone says to her. "They will when I've finished," she proclaims. Who's to say she is wrong? Her guess is as good as anyone else's if all we have to go on is human intuition. Truly God is neither catchable nor fetchable. Can clay describe its potter? Can fish do justice to the one who changes the water in their aquarium? How can tiny human brains that cannot understand electricity or produce a cure for the common cold ever hope to comprehend the ...

83. Entrustment

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... developmental tasks, reflective of the child's experience that others in her life have proved themselves trustworthy. Ironically, this reliance on the trustworthiness of others eventually leads to the ability to trust ourselves -- our little inside voices, senses, and intuition. We can swim. We can ride the bike. We can go off to unfamiliar territory, establish ourselves, and be successful. Louise Kaplan has written beautifully about this process: ... we manage to hold together when the world lets us down ...

84. Grace in the Midst of Exasperation

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... s just that our cognitive resolutions to be in better shape stand little chance if we continually hang out at buffets. As millions can attest, this reality is nothing short of exasperating. Nevertheless, as theologian R. C. Sproul argues in Chosen by God, most of us intuitively reject the notion that we are slaves to our strongest urges. We believe ourselves to be captains of our own souls and directors of our own agendas. We protest, "I don't always do what I desire. In fact right now I'd much prefer being ...

85. A Guiding Presence

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... more glorious than the oppressive struggle of seeking to imitate Christ or to follow in his steps, which you have been admonished to do all your lives. Christ in me, means Christ bearing me up from within, giving me power and perspective, permeating my being so completely that intuitively I can sense his will and way. Christ in me means that I can know his guiding presence enough of the time that even when I don’t feel his presence, I can walk on boldly in faith, believing that if I mis-walk and I often ...

86. Such As I Have

Acts 3:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... lost life I never lived.” There are intersections. Intersections upon which we come abruptly. We don’t plan them, we don’t anticipate them, and we have to choose and destiny is in the choice. There are flashes of insight that break in upon us, guide us, intuition, discernment which, if we do not receive, record, and act upon, we lose. Such as we, the gift of our time. But one other quick word about it. The need of most troubled people, the heart cry of the lonely and hurting folk around us, for the ...

87. The Christian Life Defined By Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . A sharpness of perception very much like the art critic who is able to distinguish between the real and the phony, the authentic and the superficial. A second dimension of spiritual knowledge and discernment is a kind of sixth sense, a penetrating intuition that has been practiced and cultivated and disciplined. Both these dimensions are at the same time gift and growth. They’re gifts of the spirit that we all should seek, but they grow and mature in effectiveness as we intentionally and consistently ...

88. Getting It All Together Inside

Psalm 51:1-19, 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... computers, store up these experiences and we’re never without them. We may be without them consciously, but not subconsciously. Now overcoming crippling memories is dependent not upon eradicating the memory, but upon having the memory healed, and there’s a vast difference. This was intuitive with the psalmists – how up-to-date he was as he prayed, create in me a clean heart, oh God, and put a new and right spirit within me. The degree doesn’t have to be as intense as this young lady about whom I ...

89. How May We Come To God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... swear deceitfully. And always -- it never fails -- she stops at that point in her reading, and says to me with earnest conviction, "Son, I've got clean hands and a pure heart." It's one of those rituals of home and parents that adds stoutness to my soul. Intuitively, Mom knows this is a great Psalm, a premier piece of scripture. During the balance of the Summer, I'm going to be preaching on selected Psalms. We begin with this one, Psalm 24, my Momma's favorite. I want you to get the picture for the setting ...

90. God's Hello People

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... another until you have said hello to yourself. Henri Nouwen, one of my favorite writers, says that "hospitality is the virtue which allows us to break through the narrowness of our own fears and to open our houses to the stranger with the intuition that salvation comes to us in the form of a tired traveler. Hospitality makes suspicious owners into generous givers, and makes closed-minded sectarians into interested recipients of new ideas and insights. Hospitality requires first of all that the host feel at ...

91. Let Your Soul Catch Up

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of the workshop involves taking the Myers-Briggs Test. This is really a temperament test. It reveals dimensions of our personality and how we perceive things, process information, and respond to the world. Whether we are extrovert or introvert. Whether intuition or sensing is dominant. Whether we are highly structured and judge or whether we perceive more flexibly. Whether we make decisions dependent primarily on thinking or feeling. It’s amazing what couples discover about each other in taking that test ...

92. The Easter Question: Why Are You Weeping? Whom Do You Seek?

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... taken away. The disciples who were with Mary at the tomb that early morning went back into the city, back to their own homes to nurse their pain and depression, because scripture says, "They did not know that Jesus must rise again from the dead." Was it a woman's intuition or the fact that a woman was willing to show her grief and enter into that grief in a deeper way, perhaps in a more open way than men is that the reason Mary didn't return to her home immediately as did the men? Rather, she stood outside ...

93. Epiphany: The Tragedy of Rejection

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... 't understand too well. We may recall that we are celebrating particularly the revealing of Christ to the Gentile world, via the Wise Men, but not much more. The dictionary, however, adds further dimension to the word, listen: "a sudden, intuitive perception ... into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience." That definition applies in a profound and unique way to our Lord Jesus Christ. We have good reason to write his ...

94. At the Corner of Church and Main

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... in a Sunday school room or on an embroidery in the church parlor. We cherish these familiar teachings. I wonder, though, what the reaction was of Jesus' original audience. I wonder if they resisted these Beatitudes. They are, after all, quite surprising. Even counter-intuitive. Blessed are the poor? Fortunate are the hungry? To be envied are those who weep? That makes little or no sense to us. Happy are you when you are hated? Excluded? Reviled and defamed? These kinds of blessings I think I can do without ...

95. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... .” It was her way of affirming her faith and letting me know that all things were well with her soul. It was one of those rituals of home and parents that added strength to my soul. And that’s the reason I miss it -- and hold it in sacred memory. Intuitively, Mom knew this is a great psalm, a premiere piece of scripture. I want us to look at that psalm -- not to celebrate the memory of my mother, though I do that -- but that the word might come alive to us as it was for her. Get the setting of ...

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

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of church growth. It became one of the success stories of Mississippi Methodism. Back during those days there was no church grown literature. There was no testing of persons to see if they would make good candidates for church planting. We did it intuitively, by the “seat of our pants” as we would say down in Perry County, Mississippi. I worked myself to the bone. I was worn out physically and emotionally. I kept asking myself a lot of questions – “What is the difference between this congregation ...

97. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to save the world through the cross and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. So whether we make the external referent that Jesus fulfilled Scripture or take the alternative route of saying that he was filled full of the Holy Spirit and so guided from within by intuition and revelation, the point is the same. In the details of Jesus’ life we trace the activity of God among us. And that, my friends, is the deepest conviction of the Christian church. Jesus is the human face of God and the second person of the ...

98. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... for any place in the world.’”14 This woman has been to school. Guess who the chief instructor was? Only those who are at peace with God and with themselves have anything worth exporting to a world in conflict. Their very presence calms agitation. People intuitively trust them because they are trust-worthy. The really good ones can state your case and emotional investment even better than you can. There is a name for people who do the demanding work of peacemaking; we call them leaders. Peace-fakers we ...

99. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... , “Which is it, judge or not judge?” the answer is both. The truth is found not in the one or the other but in the right use of each at the right time. And that requires subtle skills like judgment and discernment as well as intuition and an openness to the illumination of the Holy Spirit. We are not to assume God’s throne and issue final pronouncements; but neither does that relieve us from exploring the resistance and receptivity of whoever stands before us. Tolerance is not moral indifference. Not ...

100. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... can completely satisfy that hunger. It is a hunger to experience meaning, to know that life has purpose. It is a restless yearning to probe beneath the surface of our being, to penetrate the depth of ourselves and understand those feelings and notions and intuitions that come from we know not where. It is a baffling astonishment at the spontaneous bursting forth of insight. It is a growing pain that occurs, without warning, when we violate our own or another’s integrity. Prayer is something deep within us ...

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76. "Catch-able" But Not "Fetch-able"

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

77. The Gift Has Arrived

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

78. Who Is He?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

79. Crossing To A Land Of Hills And Valleys

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

Sermon

King Duncan

80. The Benefits Of Trusting Christ

Romans 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

81. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

82. He Came To Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... drawing a picture of God. "But no one knows how God looks," someone says to her. "They will when I've finished," she proclaims. Who's to say she is wrong? Her guess is as good as anyone else's if all we have to go on is human intuition. Truly God is neither catchable nor fetchable. Can clay describe its potter? Can fish do justice to the one who changes the water in their aquarium? How can tiny human brains that cannot understand electricity or produce a cure for the common cold ever hope to comprehend the ...

83. Entrustment

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Robert Noblett

84. Grace in the Midst of Exasperation

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

85. A Guiding Presence

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam