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1101. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... no. The Lord's Prayer knows that we have the urge to eat -- again like the animals -- that we must have our daily ration of bread, that we are indifferent to the most beautiful of picture galleries when we are coming down with the grippe, and that all sense of devotion trickles away when our feet are cold." "I find it simply wonderful that God does not treat us men as aristocrats of creation who are constantly living beyond their means and having to go to great pious expense in order to measure up to their ...

1102. I Am Christ's

2 Corinthians 5:17

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Maxie Dunnam

... to know more about what the Lord intended than that woman. He intended for us a new style. Now I want to talk about this in two ways. First, from the perspective of what we might call imitation, then from the perspective of immersion. There is a sense in which the Christian walk is an imitation of Christ -- a call to walk as Christ walked. I read recently about a man who dresses up like Abraham Lincoln. His name is Harry Hahn, and he lives in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois. Mt. Pulaski is not far from Springfield ...

1103. Count It All Joy

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... burden of tradition and the church's response to it has given it a place among the "General Epistles" of the New Testament. While Luther called it "an Epistle of straw", others have called it "The Epistle of Rock" or "Epistle of Reality" or "The Epistle of Common Sense." So, I believe it's a book we are well advised to heed. Its purpose is not to proclaim the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, yet here is wisdom and guidance for those who would be followers of the risen Lord. In fact, some have even ...

1104. How To Be Rich And Poor

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... on the human level. It goes against everything the world teaches us about the power and the glory of riches. But James is using Kingdom-talk. His perspective is that of the Kingdom of God.In the Kingdom, when the Kingdom really gets hold of us, we get a new sense of perspective in relation to life and to God. We come to know that life is gift. That we don't earn that which enriches our lives. It is all Grace. It's interesting to note that the Greek word which is translated "humiliation" in verse 10, is the ...

1105. Pack Up Your Troubles

James 4:13-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... a 'good death.' She said that there sure was such a thing, but it had one prerequisite: All important tasks must be completed. He asked her what she meant and she told him a true story about one of her former patients, named Bill Restin: When Bill was admitted I sensed his anger. He was hostile and abrupt. And very restless. I asked him if everything was O.K. He didn't answer. So I asked again. No response. It was then that I knew he had some unfinished business that needed to be completed if he was to die ...

1106. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

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Maxie Dunnam

... He had a divine destiny to fulfill. God's Will was His Will. That's the reason He was able to come to that place in Gethsemane to which He came -- "Not my will but Thine be done." If you know who you are, and if you have a clear sense about mission, you can sustain a long obedience in the same direction. Mark Trotter tells a story about a college professor who taught English to freshman students. "At the beginning of the term, he assigned the class a 500 word paper on why they had come to college. And he ...

1107. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

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Maxie Dunnam

... word, "The Lord has need of it." If we are going to grow as Christians, we are going to have to come to the point where we will follow the instructions of our leader precisely. Now, sometimes the instructions may not seem to make much sense. The Associated Press carried a story of notes teachers received from parents wanting their children to be excused from class. One note read, "Please excuse Fred for being....It was his father's fault. Another read: Please excuse Johnny from class yesterday. He had an ...

1108. Who Needs A Doctor?

Luke 5:27-32

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Maxie Dunnam

... and how the faith is transferred, communicated, one to the other. The Pharisees and their Biblical experts criticized Jesus and His Disciples for attending the dinner. They thought that to identify in this way with sinners was to condone their sins--but also in some sense to discredit Jesus. Now it may have been that had the Pharisees attended such a dinner they might have been condoning the sin. You see, they had no Gospel; they were not in touch with Christ's power of forgiveness, and His power to convert ...

1109. Let Your Soul Catch Up

Luke 10:38-42

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Maxie Dunnam

... first century, you simply did not have someone in your home and fail to provide every courtesy. It was not just a matter of courtesy; it was the law of the society. Martha was busy doing what was expected, not just out of hospitality in the superficial sense; she was doing what was demanded of her by one of the deepest and most profound and most binding customs of her era. With that in mind then, Mary’s frivolous attitude towards the law of hospitality would have to be seen as almost scandalous. (Carl L ...

1110. When Being Good Is Bad For You Or Breaking The Chains Of Co-dependency

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... love which is at the heart of Christian living. Sundar Sing is right -- "To have no burden to carry is life's most difficult task." That is precisely why so many Christians are so co-dependent. If we are not setup by our human nature, there is a sense in which we are set up for it by Christian teaching. Co-dependents are people who have to "take care" of others; but the "taking care" has a sick quality to it. Melody Beattie has written three classic books on this subject: Co-Dependent No More, Beyond Co ...

1111. You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Bishop May said: "But Steve was very persistent and very prepared. It became clear to me that God was guiding him." I suppose there are some who feel that his effort is monumental, and some who would feel that perhaps he is even "out of his right senses." "It's nothing heroic," Steve said: "Our family) saw it as an opportunity to fulfill a yearning for service, to do something for the next generation." When we love God and one another, we get the full enrichment of what the Christian faith has to offer ...

1112. Putting the Puzzle Together

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... end of ten days, she finished proofreading her translation of the Bible. And then she quietly died. (3) Pandita discovered what Simon Peter discovered and what Augustine discovered: That Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. He is the key to making sense out of life. There are many diverse philosophies in the world today, some of them quite bizarre. The September 5, 2005, issue of Newsweek magazine focused on "Spirituality in America." The author of the lead article makes the point that more and more ...

1113. Epiphany: The Tragedy of Rejection

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... next door, but it's hard to see him or her as an authority; however, people in another, farther place might. Jesus sensed their attitude, and threw down the gauntlet. "Doubtless," he said, "you will quote to me this proverb, 'Doctor, cure yourself!' And ... but, for some reason, God chose to use a widow in Sidon to care for Elijah. That stung their national pride and their sense of chosenness. Then Jesus underlined the point by recalling that in the days of Elisha there were many who suffered from leprosy, but ...

1114. The Waster

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... yes. A definite period of visible remorse, yes. But a party? Be honest. There is something primitive and basic afoot here that tweaks our sense of moral outrage. I'll tell you why you probably wouldn't have gone in: it simply wasn't fair. There are many theological ... keep it. God isn't fair. And if we're honest, we won't be tickled pink by that. Why? Because it is precisely a sense of fairness that floats most of our ethical boats. God isn't fair. And not only that: God has an ongoing love affair with sinners ...

1115. Unworthy or Not?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... spite of that, and because of their relationship with God, they chose to serve the least and the lowest. (3) Do you understand what I am saying? God can use people of all kinds of persuasions and personality types, but God can best use a person who has a healthy sense of his or her own self-worth--who understands that he or she is a creation of God, and, therefore, responsible to God for using his or her gifts in service to God and humanity. God did not call us to be doormats. God did not call us to go ...

1116. Being A Man of God

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... by an inspired apostle to describe second-class, untrained, and unequipped Christians.” Stevens suggests that we ought to eliminate it from our vocabulary. I’m not sure about that, but we need to stay aware of the fact that “laity” in its proper New Testament sense of laos – the people of God – is a term of great honor denoting the enormous privilege and mission of the whole people of God. That’s what Peter is talking about. Once we were not a people at all – but now, in Christ, we are a ...

1117. Equipping the Whole People of God: Penultimate Questions

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1118. Oh Taste and See

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... don’t need God? It’s not that God has let us down or that God has made us angry; it’s simply that we don’t sense within ourselves a need for God’s presence and participation in our lives. It’s hard to know God unless you know your need of God. ... reflections on the psalm and how the thought had come, “What would God have done without David McKeithen?” Never having lost his sense of humor, David, who could talk very little, spoke up and said, “Oh, I think he might have made it OK.” Well, ...

1119. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , you’ll hear His call and discover His direction for the new thing He wants to do in your life. You’re going to meet and hear from our world-class faculty. You’ll hear the witness of some of our students and you’ll get the sense of their passionate desire to take the Gospel to the whole world. You’ll get an exciting sweeping glance of the heart of our enterprise: the School of Theology with three campuses: Kentucky, Florida, and the virtual campus. You’ll also be introduced to the E. Stanley ...

1120. Partners In the Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... years ago -- I was the editor of the Upper Room and this young man was a student at Vanderbilt University. His parents were friends of mine but I had known him only in passing. This was one of those encounters that we have now and then that we sense are charged with deep meaning. I remember it as though it were yesterday, praying as that young man left, “Oh God, we need that young man in the ministry of your church.” Connections are important. That young man was David Thomas. Three years ago I came to ...

1121. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... sharpens. Mercy is compassion turned to action, heart joined to hands and help. It is to see the other as not so different from myself and to extend to them what I have received from God. I cannot give what I have not first received. In the negative sense mercy is not giving people what they deserve. But mercy goes beyond justice. It looks beyond the fault to the need. Mercy does not wait for the other to come groveling but reaches out, making it easy for the other to receive the gift. Mercy is as close ...

1122. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... in blaming the meat. That is what happens when the bacteria are allowed to breed unchecked. The question to ask is, ‘Where is the salt?’” He then concludes with this challenge: “If society becomes corrupt like a dark night or stinking fish, there's no sense in blaming society. That's what happens when fallen human society is left to itself and human evil is unrestrained and unchecked. The question to ask is ‘Where is the church?’”8 We are simply not doing our job. Our culture is not yet in a ...

1123. Playing to the Right Audience

Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:1-4

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Phil Thrailkill

... the external effects of the classic spiritual disciplines, the primary effect is the formative influence they have on us. They take us from shallow to deep. They empty us out for new capacities. And when we take them up in response to the call of God, they in a sense take us up as students and work from the inside out. To get a tan, you lay in the sun. To grow fitter, you exercise. To learn to think, you read and listen; to develop style you read good writers. To grow in grace and the spiritual wisdom of ...

1124. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

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Phil Thrailkill

... to be a polite picket fence or a high wall of division, but we are not a Christian nation in any meaningful sense. Our nominal civic religion and public piety consisting of the National Motto and our Pledge of Allegiance and Civic Oaths has value ... to claim our county and make a visit. The best gift God has to give any church is a set of open spiritual eyes and a sense of spiritual emptiness that drives us to prayer. Merely human schemes cannot do what needs to be done. I am not an outside critic; after eight ...

1125. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... to evil, which is why we remain capable of genuine but partial good. Evil has its limits; it can deface but not obliterate the image of God pressed into us all. What Jesus said was not a contradiction. We who are fatally compromised, and even in some sense colonized by evil, are still able, through the goodness of creation and the restraint of God’s grace, to give good gifts to our children and carry out deeds of kindness and self-sacrifice. The issue is that we are all fatally compromised, and none of us ...

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