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1026. Declaration Of Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , oh God, let this cup pass from me -- his anguished soul so soul-centered that He sweat drops of blood. Then the crowd came -- the wild crowd -- and took him away. He was jostled back and forth between pilot and the chief priests and Herod -- none of them knew quite what to do with him -- they had never seen a person like this. On the surface Jesus was the victim. But as you read the story, you know that that isn't true.Jesus was never the victim. He was never controlled by his circumstances. It can be so ...

1027. At Home In The Daylight

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to write it out on these pages. Perhaps it will pass, but it seems too emotionally exciting that I don't really want to lose it. Right after dinner I came upstairs to my room for the purpose of studying some music history for my exam tomorrow, but I never quite made it. That girl from down the hall, Nancy, passed my door, and I was determined to finally find out what it is that seems like a light around her. The journal entry goes on to describe how she approached Nancy and asked her the secret of her inner ...

1028. Don't Mess With Mr. In-between

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and to verbalize how he got to this point. His mother, as far as he was concerned, never had time for him. He felt quite literally that she had no regard, much less affection, for him. Then one day something happened. He tells Maud about it in these words. " ... Lord" (vss. 6b - 8). As I was preparing for this sermon, I came across a poem about the centipede. The centipede was happy quite, Until the toad in funSaid, "Pray, which leg comes first after which,when you begin to run?"This racked his mind to such ...

1029. Repentance: The No That Is A Yes

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... To repent of our sins is the ultimate call, to repent of hiding from our sins is pen-ultimate. We never repent of our sins until we quit hiding from them. Do you identify with that at all? Is there even a hint of truth as it relates to your own experience? What are ... it. Do you get the point? We need to repent from hiding from our sins, because we never repent of our sins until we quit hiding from them. And that brings us to the final point, the big point. III. Repentance is the decision that I am going to ...

1030. I've Been To The Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... just out of reach. That's the most tantalizing part. And then at long last...the real Spring-tide comes and floats even one's tired-out starfish of a body out into the full-flood of life again. Only those who know the deadly weariness of the beach can quite understand the living joy of the ocean when we get back to it once more!" (Elizabeth Vining, FRIENDS OF LIFE, p. 153). That will always do it -- our sense of need will keep us open to God's glorious presence and power. Look back over your own life. When ...

1031. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to my lips But never were set free For every face showed stunned surprise. Not one expected me. “There’ll be surprises. “Everybody talkin’ about heaven ain’t goin’ there.” (Trotter, Ibid.) So the parable is not a parable of exclusion — not at all. In fact, quite the opposite. Over and over again, Jesus makes the point, the door, though a narrow one, is open. It’s open right now. And that’s the point He wants to make and it astonished his listeners. It’s not by right doctrine, or by ...

1032. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... strange. Did you say, 'Praise the Lord!?'' "Yes, I expect I did," said the Aunt. "I do praise him. I'm sure it's quite alright to miss that train. God has some purpose." To her surprise the man said, "Would you mind missing another? I want to speak ... the circumstances. But just to be admonished to be happy, just to be told that a cheerful heart is a good medicine -- that's not quite enough. We need more than a proverb; we need the Gospel. And we have the Gospel. It's a Gospel of great deliverance -- we've ...

1033. You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . I believe that many of the people who are with - holding their assessment of Ross Perot and his candidacy for President are paying attention to this proverbial admonition, "You can't tell a book by its cover." I want to go beyond that in understanding today, and focus quite differently. Our Proverb for daily living in this sermon is one of the most familiar in the book of Proverbs: "Sometimes there is a way that seems to be right, but in the end it is the way to death." I want to connect the first part of ...

1034. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... now, rationally, testing the fine points of theology in the poem. Just feel the impact of it. It goes like this. A meeting was held quite far from the earth!It's time again for another birth.Said the angels to the Lord above"This special child will need much love ... not show.And he'll require extra careFrom the folks he meets down there. He may not run or laugh or play;His thoughts may seem quite far away.In many ways he won't adaptAnd he'll be known as handicapped. So let's be careful where he's sent.We want ...

1035. What God Has Joined Together

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s magazine recently. After sixteen years of marriage, Suzanne and Jim Shemwell of Boise, Idaho, were ready to call it quits. They argued constantly. Divorce seemed like their only option. But then, on March 5, 2003, while on a snowmobile trip ... see you, son. I missed you so much!" "Me, too, Dad!" said the son. The oldest son (maybe nine or ten) was next. "You’re already quite the young man. I love you very much, Zach!" Then he turned to their little girl (perhaps one or one-and-a-half). He kissed her ...

1036. Seeing the Good News

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... ." One friend described his feelings about the Christmas season this way, "It is as though we take leave of the real world for a time and wait for that wonderful something that will come to us all and bring peace and joy to the world -- but it never quite arrives and we wait for another year to dream again." If somehow you were given the gift of writing a headline for the morning newspaper that would come true as you wrote it -- what would that headline be? Would it be the kinds of headlines that fill our ...

1037. From Hurting to Helping

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Elisabeta’s situation looked grim. Today, with the help of God and lots of people, she can see. (3) That’s not quite as dramatic as Bartimaeus’ story, but it happened just a short time back, and it happened in our own land. Such success ... nearly to your wits’ end. My prayer for you is that this will be a passing thing. That healing will come to you or to those you love quite quickly. Or if this is a fatal thing, that there will come a time when you will be able to let go of your pain and you will ...

1038. From Empty Nets to Full Lives

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... of how much attention Simon and his partners, James and John, paid to Jesus' teaching. We only know that when Jesus had finished teaching he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch" (v. 4). It was really quite audacious for Jesus, a landsman, to tell three professional fishermen how to do their business. Perhaps he sensed they were so defeated that they were ready for any kind of counsel, from anyone. Or perhaps he was counting on the fact that they had confidence in ...

1039. On Defeating the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... good. In the Bible and in life, the devil is rarely obvious. That would be too easy. Avoid everything that looks patently evil and we're home free. But the devil doesn't work that way in this story. The devil offers Jesus things that look quite appealing, not things that look obviously bad. As someone once put it, the devil often dresses in drag. But Jesus prevails. He renounces the devil and his three empty promises. And so let's return to that question of a moment ago. How? How does Jesus renounce the ...

1040. Headlines and Holiness

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... to make the gospel easy but to make it clear ... evangelism should call for (and expect) a radical change in behavior and lifestyle.2 It is easy for Christianity to exist in a vacuum, shouting condemnations of what we are "against" in the world. It is quite easy to talk back to the evening news and rail about the world's problems. Exponentially more difficult is being honest about the sin in ourselves. Jesus knows something that we often forget. It isn't the headlines that define the world's problems. It's ...

1041. God's Say-So

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

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Maxie Dunnam

... that you will rejoice in the fact that we are partners with God - that He has made us light. . . . to open the eyes of the blind, . . . to bring out prisoners from the dungeon, . . . to bring light to “those who sit in darkness.” Quite a partnership -- and quite a mission. Don’t forget, it is a partnership. What you accomplish and what you do alone will be laboring in settings where little or nothing seems to be happening for the Kingdom. You will know loneliness and isolation in rural settings where ...

1042. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... .11 You cannot repent whenever you want to, but only when God wants to. And if you do turn, it is a sign that God has already come near enough to enable your turning. President Theodore Roosevelt of roughrider fame was a larger-than-life figure who made quite an impression on people. One journalist, William Allen White, wrote of his first meeting with Roosevelt in 1897: “He sounded in my heart the first trumpet call of the new time that was to be. I had never known such a man as he, and never shall again ...

1043. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... Stop. Thief." And when the thief opened the suit case..... Surprise! The preacher who put me on to this story added the following comment, “A lot of us are like New York thieves. We grab what we think will give happiness; but when we get it, it doesn't quite deliver.”1 And sometimes there are nasty consequences. I often have people share a story with me and then either whine or gush, both of which are equally annoying, “But Pastor Phil, I just want to be happy. Is that too much to ask?” The drama is ...

1044. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Living inside such a myth and working to recover a past that never was is an interesting place to live. We Southerners are addicted to nostalgia. Choosing to lose my naivete about this matter has been painful, and I am not quite sure where it leaves me politically, perhaps in a sort of nowhere land with few friends and fellow travelers. Like you I love our freedoms and relish our national prosperity. I will work to be a good and loyal citizen. I will salute the flag and ...

1045. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... know!” Bull. Jesus said the timing and details of the end was none of our business, “It is not for you to know the times and seasons that Father has fixed by his own authority,” Acts 1:7. Most speculation is simply distraction. I have been through quite enough rounds of this silly cycle, and want nothing to do with them. On these matters it is wisdom to say I don’t know, and until Jesus shows up there is work to be done. True prophets encourage fear of the Lord, not fear of historical circumstances ...

1046. Panic Room

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... . And friends, the meaning of Christ showing his disciples his hands and his side is that it doesn’t have to be that way. As someone has said, “The presence of fear is a sure sign that we’re trusting in our own strength.” When will we quit hoarding life and start trusting life to our loving heavenly Father? Christ said a second time, “Peace be with you!” Then he added these important words, “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive ...

1047. When Jesus Comes to Church

Mark 11:27-33

Sermon

Michael Milton

... tug on my heart about Jesus tomorrow,” but we have no idea what tomorrow holds. A man or a woman may do this throughout their lives until God hardens their hearts for this repeated offense. It was hard to say no to God at first, but you find it quite easy now. What a dangerous place to be in. Christ, in all of His gracious love, calls us to see the deceitfulness of sin. Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort ...

1048. The Blessed Promise

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... hands through the air, startled not to hit the solid, comforting wall of my body. After living only in warm darkness, he experiences light, coolness, and the touch of other skin on his own. Nothing can prepare him for this new life which must be, quite simply, unimaginable. “Had there been a companion watching my child’s journey from the womb side, he would certainly have seen that process as death, not life. Only when viewed from this side do we recognize and name it as birth. “The transformation my ...

1049. How Is Your Memory?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... remembrance [of how much he is loved]. Then Dr. Sacks asked, "Why can't Mr. Thompson do that?" His answer is the best reason I know for remembering the Sabbath, and keeping it holy. He said: What Mr. Thompson needs to do is stop and be quiet. He needs to quit trying to do it all by himself. If only he could be quiet, then something ...

1050. Only One Thing Is Needed

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... is needed. That is what Jesus said to Martha. Only one thing. There is a time-honored story about a young man fresh out of seminary who was called to his first pastorate in a small, farming community. Having to preach every Sunday was quite a challenge for this young man who was accustomed to the world of academia, not the world of the small, country church. Each Sunday he preached sermons that were little more than lengthy quotations taken directly from his seminary classroom notes--dry, academic stuff ...

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