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1026. A Christian Style Of Being And Doing

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... heal -- so remember "speak the word of grace." IV Now the final instruction for a Christian style of being and doing. _Be motivated by prayer_. In our scripture lesson, this is the first instruction Paul offers. In verse 2 of Chapter 4, he says: "Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving." Paul is talking specifically about the place of prayer in our relationships. I don't know why we don't give more attention to this in our personal lives. There's nothing, absolutely nothing ...

1027. Walk By Faith Not By Sight

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of disease and moral infection -- open to every sorrow and grief -- we are vulnerable. In fact, he uses the image of nakedness. He says the reason we groan and long to put on our heavenly dwelling is that by putting it on, we may not be found naked. He continues that image, suggesting that while we live in this tent, that is while we are in life, we sigh with anxiety because we want to be fully clothed, fully protected and we aren't. God is faithful. God is going to take these earthly tents in which we are ...

1028. Growing In Self-esteem

Psalm 81:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Here my friend, is where Christians must center. Though essential, it's not enough to believe that we are created and loved by God and that He doesn't want us to live a mediocre life. Low self-esteem, self-devaluation and self-hate may continue after we believe that --even after we become Christians, even after we become Spirit filled Christians. For many the personality damages have been so great, the forces that have shaped our self-image have done such a destructive job that conversion to Christ is not ...

1029. Getting Our Lives Out Of Hock

Psalm 105:1-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Nine. Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. Ten. Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Eleven. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve ... to the lady who was serving. She put one piece on the plate. The man said, "Two pieces." The lady replied, "One piece." The man continued, "Evidently, you don't know who I am. I'm the Governor of this state." The lady responded, "Evidently, you don't know who I ...

1030. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Shelby, "Rescue", August 12, 1990.) It was all grace. How it happen isn't important. That it happens is the most important thing in the world. to know tht Christ has given us new life...that our salvation is not our doing, but God's grace. II. Let's continue to think about it by coming at it from a little bit different direction. Isn't it true that the most important things are ours because of grace? Life is grace. It is gift. A little girl was angry with her younger brother. She pushed him down, called him ...

1031. The Commitment Question: Will You Lay Down Your Life For Me?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ! I have to know that He has descended into hell with me!" He's been there with us and He know what it means to be human. In the same fashion we need to be there for some others in the hell of their lives, loving them for Christ. He continually asks the question: Will you love as I love? IV. The final lesser question that will help us get to the ultimate commitment question, will you lay down your life for me,(tape skipped) Will you make my power you power. I heard a story recently that speaks to us ...

1032. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God's people to celebrate, to clap their hands and shout for joy. So, hear our proverb today -- an exciting, challenging proverb for daily living. "A cheerful heart is good medicine." Add this twin parable to support that affirmation: "A cheerful heart has a continual feast." So our sermon today is: "The medicine of a cheerful heart." I. Let's begin with an elaboration on the title: Cheerfulness, laughter, is a healing medicine for body and soul. The ancient writer of this proverb knew what it has taken ...

1033. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Fellowship with permission of Douglas V. Steer) You get the point -- there comes a time when we put the anvil down -- because we can keep trying too long. It's not easy -- but we have to find that rhythm -- that balance between not giving up too soon -- but also not continuing too long. There is a time to stop trying. When things do not work and you know it; when people do not respond and you feel it; when the situation goes from bad to worse and you can do nothing about it;...when a broom is not enough to ...

1034. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is to turn this whole matter over to God, in faith, for his healing and ultimate will. This we’ve been directed to do by God after much prayer and spiritual surrender. What the future holds we do not know, but we know God holds it.” Then he continued, “These past few days have rolled over us like an avalanche, leaving in their wake some central certainties which make up my thanksgiving list. Out of the dark night of the soul has come the sunlight of God’s love. I’m thankful for God who is real ...

1035. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... day that Roberta Langella gave her dramatic testimony, as I recounted in chapter 3. A homeless man was standing in the back of the church, listening intently. At the end of the evening meeting I sat down on the edge of the platform, exhausted, as others continued to pray with those who had responded to Christ. The organist was playing quietly. I wanted to relax. I was just starting to unwind when I looked up to see this man, with shabby clothing and matted hair, standing in the center aisle about four rows ...

1036. The Authority of Scripture: God's Breathed Word

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the guide for the way we are to pattern our life – and at the heart of that is the call to holiness. Let me share a portion of my own journey. There are some experiences and encounters that are so solidly lodged in our memory that they continue to invade our consciousness – to haunt us – to hinder our Christian walk, to call and challenge us to be more than we are. John Birkbeck is a person around whom for me a whole cluster of memories is gathered…memories that invade my immediate awareness now and ...

1037. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v1

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . 21). There’s no need to ask for clarification, is there? It can’t get any clearer than that. When you boil it all down, compassion is at the heart of our call to be Christian – loving out of the love of God, loving with the love of God, continuing to love until we give up the last ounce of our being on behalf of the Kingdom. Now that wears us out. We get tired. Being Christian carries with it the possibility of fatigue – compassion fatigue. We grow weary and we know there is no end in sight. There ...

1038. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... himself to the very worst our world could deliver, which in his case was an ugly death for an innocent man, then rising from the dead and leaving behind a body of people who, with his story in books called gospels and his Spirit in their midst, would continue to worship and point to him as the world’s only Savior. In Jesus the soot settles, the fog evaporates, and we get a clear glimpse of the Son who is the spitting image of the Father. In his presence the air is clean and crisp; we breathe freely ...

1039. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... we often stifle are an indicator of truth, that pushy people miss God’s best gifts, and that our greatest friend is that gnawing in our soul that nothing but God can touch. This is not the way the world operates or what it values, and that is why it continues under the curse. Only where the kingdom goes is the blessing bestowed. God will have a people who follow his Son, or he will have none at all. CONCLUSION St. Paddy’s Day was a week ago, a day full of parades and green beer. And if you ask people ...

1040. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... how?"16 In this hour of worship here before the altar of God, who is the Holy Spirit bringing to the inner screen of your mind’s eye? Who have you wronged, and who has wronged you? Will you seek them out as soon as you leave, or will you continue to resist obeying what Jesus said? If letters are written to ex-spouses this afternoon, if phone calls are made to old enemies, if old financial debts are repaid, and if some of you take trips to cemeteries to stand before the graves of those you have long hated ...

1041. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... reality is the doctrine of original sin. It is verified daily on the front page of every newspaper. But bad as it is, things are not as bad as we imagine they might be; God has set a gracious restraint on the powers of chaos. Life continues, but nothing is left unaffected by the blight: not our bodies, not our desires, not our rationality or aesthetics, and none of the institutions we create. All carry within the seeds of their own distortion and destruction. We live behind enemy lines as rebels against God ...

1042. Suffering in Sin

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... for David's sin, and that undoubtedly added to David's remorse. When we repent of sin, our eyes are often opened to see the terrible consequences we have brought on others by our sinful conduct. Nevertheless, David continues on the throne, but that continuance is solely a gift of God's grace. David does not deserve to continue to rule Israel. He is an adulterer and a murderer, and if we read his story in 2 Samuel, we find that he is also a terrible father to his sons. Nevertheless, by the grace of God, his ...

1043. Panic Room

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ’s Holy Spirit they would not make it. And that’s true for us as well. We believe in Christ. Each year, just as we did last week, we have this grand celebration of Christ’s resurrection, and yet still we live such timid, tentative lives. We need continually to pray that Christ’s Spirit will be as real to us as it was to them. AND IT WAS REAL TO THEM. Look what happened to them. They went from being fearful to being some of the most daring people who have ever walked this earth. Ridicule could ...

1044. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

Sermon

Michael Milton

... love your name (Psalm 119:132). Make your face shine upon your servant, and teach me your statutes (Psalm 119:135). We ought to focus on grace because grace is how we are saved. In fact, grace is not only how we are saved, but it is also how we continue to relate to God and to each other. Grace is the power that leads to our adoption as sons, and grace keeps us in that relationship. The reason so many of us are concerned about grace is that for too long in evangelical Christianity it seemed that right moral ...

1045. Love without Limits

John 13:31-38

Sermon

John K. Bergland

... God got a hold of me and showed me that his love was not limited to a set of rules or laws." Peter continued with a compelling testimony of how God had stretched his boundaries and threw out his understanding of what was clean and not clean, ... hospital for two weeks. He is dying of cancer, and no one ever comes to see him." I responded, "No one?" She said, "No one." She continued, "I don't normally do this, but would you mind going in to see him?" I said, "Sure." As I approached Walter's room, the nurse ...

1046. Discipline

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... and her husband. Guthrie writes, “Early on in my journey, I said to God, ‘Okay, if I have to go through this, then give me everything. Teach me everything you want to teach me through this. Don’t let this incredible pain be wasted in my life!’” She continues, “God allows good and bad into our lives and we can trust him with both. Trusting God when the miracle does not come, when the urgent prayer gets no answer, when there is only darkness--this is the kind of faith God values most of all.” (5 ...

1047. A Place of Honor

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... that they are whole persons. In this seemingly whimsical teaching, Jesus helps us see our real need. I suspect, though, that a lesson in psychology is not really what Jesus is after. I believe he’s setting up his listeners for his next words. Because he continues: "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the ...

1048. The Subject Is Salvation

Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19

Sermon

James L. Killen

... didn't go away. They were always hovering there on the edge of all existence as an ever-present possibility, ready to sweep back in and to envelop all things at the first opportunity. God has to keep on working to hold chaos at bay so that all things can continue to exist. Every mother with a house full of children knows that if she doesn't keep on working 24 hours a day to maintain order, chaos will re-emerge. That is why one of our creeds says that God "... has created and is creating." Then why did the ...

1049. Bloody Lintels — Broken Bread

Exodus 12:1-14

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... his face, his hair stringy and wild from the wind, the smell of sheep in his robe. He strides into the royal chamber and shakes his staff at mighty Pharaoh, "Let my people go!" Like two belligerent billy goats on a narrow bridge, stubborn Pharaoh rebuffs Moses who continues to defiantly insist, "Let my people go!" A mouse and a lion are no match when both seek the same cheese. But when the mouse has God on his side, the lion must one day become but a meek little kitty cat. Confronting the powers that be has ...

1050. Called to Freedom

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Luther couldn't finish that sermon. He said, "I am too weak to continue." He went across the street to the count's house. The next day he died, with his three sons at his bedside. They took his body to Wittenberg and buried him in the Castle Church, the church on whose doors he nailed those ninety-five theses. Philip Melancthon preached the ...

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