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1101. Walk In Newness Of Life

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... asks you the questions.""You look forward to a dull evening." "You turn out the lights for economic rather than romantic reasons.""Your knees buckle but your belt won't." "Your back goes out more than you do." "You sink your teeth in a steak and they stay there." Well, this woman in Melbourne, Australia, was 70 years old. She experienced a dramatic and transforming relationship with Christ at that age. She went to her pastor and told him about her call to serve God. Now what should she do? He didn't know ...

1102. The Day Is Not For Sleeping

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... nearly mail-time, So I must say "Good-bye, Dear." Here I stand beside the mailbox, With a face so very red, Instead of mailing you my letter -- I had opened it instead! Well, loss of memory -- being "a little mixed up" is not a bad price to pay for staying alive a long time. But we need to pray, "Deliver us, though, O God, from dying and then growing old." Our text speaks to that possibility. To die and then grow old -- to just go to sleep. So we are talking this morning about "The Day is Not For Sleeping ...

1103. On The Road Again (emmaus)

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and 29th verses. "So they drew near the village to which they were going, Jesus appeared to be going further, but they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." Jesus does not force himself upon us. He awaited their ... it's up to us to recognize Him. When He comes, He helps us make sense out of life. And then this final thing: Whether He stays with us is up to us. He doesn't force Himself upon us. We have to invite Him. Since our image is that of being "on ...

1104. Speak And It Will Be

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... strong. You are remaining bold. You still vibrate with hope -- because you believe that Christ is with you in all of life. Trust like that makes a difference. Some of you are struggling to stay together in a marriage. I wonder, have you struggled together with a mutual commitment to Christ. I believe that most of the marriages that fail would not fail if husband and wife would struggle together with a mutual commitment to Christ, and trust him to work in their relationship. Some ...

1105. Who Loves More?

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ? Is it more than condoning sin? Try to put yourself in Simon’s place. Can we believe that the repentance of a woman of this kind is genuine and she has been transformed? Don’t we usually think quietly in our mind that such people will never be able to stay free of their sin; they will return to their former ways? That’s a real problem for us and the church. We don’t really take sin seriously. So, we see her kissing and anointing the Lord’s feet, her wiping his feet with her hair—we see that as ...

1106. I've Been To The Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

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Maxie Dunnam

... is richly suggestive. Let's read verse 32: "Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with Him." That's the New Revised Standard Version. Barclay ... that we are separated -- separated from Christ by our sin -- it's only when that sense of sin is vividly alive in us, that we can stay awake to God's glorious presence. So, a sense of sin will keep us awake to God's glorious presence. Also, a sense of need will ...

1107. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was a part of the family. Sure, we're to know our sin and to humble ourselves in sincerest penitence before God -- but we don't stay there. We can't wallow in our sin. God is such a lover -- and He loves to love. He will hug us and kiss us ... We can go from that deep experience of having received forgiveness, to live as forgiven persons, constantly appropriating that forgiveness, as we stay sensitive to all the reasons for guilt and shame that are legitimate, and as we bring all those sins and failures humbly ...

1108. The Commitment Question: Will You Lay Down Your Life For Me?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... more accurate to say that He showed us that we live in an upside down world. Jesus slashed at the Pharisees, the very best of the Jewish community. He said, "Blessed are the meek, the hungry, the poor." In Jericho, He turned His back on the leading citizens and stayed with the social outcast, a tax collector. He held as valued by God those whom the world despises. He showed us, that along side the truth of God, the values of the world are inverted. This is what Jesus was telling us as He knelt to wash the ...

1109. The Cross Question: Am I Not To Drink The Cup?

John 18:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... in mind when he said, "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." Armando Valladares wrote the following words in his own blood from the Cuban prison where he was at the point of death: "They have stripped me of everything -- well, almost everything -- because the smile stays with me. And the pride of feeling that I am a free man and in my soul there is a garden of perennial little flowers. They don't want me to write. They strip me of pins and pencils, but I've been left with the ink of my life ...

1110. What If

1 Chronicles 7:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... first began to shape it In my mind. You may think that I'm beginning to challenge the sovereignty and power of God, but stay with me. It's commonplace for us to affirm that God acts through persons. We do that all the time, don't we? ... five or six years, I have hesitated being precise in my praying. Now I don't know whether you have been guilty of that or not. Just stay general, you know....hedging a bit, so that my faith would not be tested if the petition I requested was not granted. Now at the heart of ...

1111. The Danger Of Straying From Home (Father's Day)

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... involved the homosexual lover of an aids victim who was threatened with eviction from the man's rent-controlled apartment on the grounds that the two aren't related. Now I'm not arguing about whether the person being evicted had the right to stay in that apartment -- that's not my point. My point is what this says about marriage and family. In effect, the highest court in the nation's second most populous state said that marriage is nothing more than a "fictitious legal distinction." (Clergy Talk, October ...

1112. From Hurting to Helping

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... came to Jesus. What a beautiful word-picture: "Throwing his cloak aside, Batimaeus jumped to his feet and came to Jesus." He wasn’t going to stay stuck in his pain, not if he could help it. You and I see it all the time--people who remain stuck in their pain. The ... blows of life is serious depression, anger, defeat, fear, or even a kind of comfort in feeling sorry for yourself, you will stay in a lifeless hell unless you force yourself to get unstuck and go on with life." When people asked Ms. Bosco, who ...

1113. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... in my life. I will walk away from my family, from my friends, and from my church. I may try to find ways to walk away from myself, as well. Quite the opposite from walking away, however, Jesus tells his followers to hang in there: to stay in that situation, that relationship, where we have just been hurt or offended or bruised. He not only denies us the seeming pleasure and satisfaction of retaliating, it appears that he wants us to leave ourselves deliberately vulnerable to being hurt again. After all, if ...

1114. The Waster

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... old emotion of feeling somehow slighted or mistreated. He got a tablespoon more Moose Tracks ice cream than I did. No fair! Why does she get to stay up a half-hour later than I do? That's not fair! She got to sit in the front seat last time. It's not fair ... But clearly likes to throw a party. So who is the real prodigal? It's not the one with a shady past. It's the one who stays outside. The one who could not bring himself to forgive. "This brother of yours was dead and has come to life; he was lost and has ...

1115. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... scholar, lecturer, writer, everything. He came in with a cup of tea and some refreshments and stood in front of the group, and there I was, close. “Dr. Schweitzer thanked everybody: ‘You’ve been very warm, hospitable to me. I thank you for it, and I wish I could stay longer among you, but I must go back to Africa. I must go back to Africa because my people are poor and diseased and hungry and dying, and I have to go. We have a medical station at Lambarene. If there’s anyone here in this room who has ...

1116. Get Rid of the Junk

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Now listen to how he describes the blessed: “Blessed are those who trust in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. They shall be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear fruit.” THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CURSED AND THE BLESSED IS INTERNAL; IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES. You can’t judge whether a person is cursed or blessed ...

1117. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Church Shaped by the Great Commission. Consider this image provided by Allen Wheelis, a practicing psychoanalyst in San Francisco. In his book, On Not Knowing How To Live, he talked about developing a philosophy of life, using the “big top” as an analogy. Stay with the main show, do not be drawn off into sideshows, diversions, entertainments. Do only what you are most solemnly charged to do… There in the big top a man is hanging by his teeth, twisting, spinning, spotlights playing over him, the drums ...

1118. My Prayer For You: Barefoot Days of the Soul

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and hell – eternal separation from love. Barefoot days of the soul come when the salvation experience is ours. Listen friends: No person need ever stay where he is or the way he is if where he is and the way he is is separating him from God. If that is a tongue twister, I ... don’t mean it to be. Let me say it again. No person need ever stay where he is or the way he is if where he is and the way he is is separating him from God. This is the way ...

1119. Generic Christianity Is Not Enough

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... see the TV segment about the orphanage in Albania? A young man, Mark Nyberg, is the director. Burning, looting, and wild tirades of killing forced our government to evacuate American citizens from Albania -- but Nyberg would not leave. He moved into the orphanage and is staying with the children. He is there, he says, out of his love for Jesus. Ask him about the way. I’ve been reading a lot about the church in China. The survival of Christians there is miraculous. Some say there are 60 million Christians ...

1120. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... later. She arrived at Asbury with just enough money to make it through the first semester. She got a part-time job, but that was not adequate to pay for tuition and living expenses – but that’s all she could work if she was going to go to stay in school. So she settled into a life of prayer. Hers is a modern day prayer miracle story. Tammy never asked anybody for money. When she would come up against it – when her funds would be depleted during her studies at Asbury – she would pray and miraculously ...

1121. A Church for the 21st Century: Holy, Charismatic, Apostolic - An Enclave of Resistance

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... church of the future, this image has continued to force itself into my awareness. It is a powerful image that is shaping my thought about the church – the now and future church. We must not forget that the church is not our idea, but God’s. The church has stayed, and missed the mark when we have sought to shape her apart from God’s vision. God called Israel to be “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people.” Jesus was clear about ti. His church would be built on the faith ...

1122. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... vice, who in the end wins and who loses. The implied question are always the same, Which group are you in? And, Do you want to stay there? Jesus understood the form and filled it with his own content. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” 12 ... 's go inside and watch television," Charlie Brown says in one. "I'm beginning to feel insignificant." No, Jesus says, stay outside; feel the feeling more deeply than ever. It is the truth, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs ...

1123. Playing to the Right Audience

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

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to single mothers to have a night a week to be spiritually encouraged while they kids are cared for? Who will teach them how to stay away from bad men? Who will show them how to feed a family on Food Stamps? Who will pray with them to heal the wounds ... a young woman who had been horribly abused and was living in foster care. I met her at the Jamison Inn where I was staying at Annual Conference; she was cleaning the rooms and nineteen years’ old. She was sitting in the lobby when I walked in wearing my collar ...

1124. Torn Curtain

Luke 23:44-49, Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... the place called the Holy of Holies from the rest of the temple. According to James Stewart, the great Scottish minister, the curtain was there to fulfill a double function: On the one hand, it was there to keep mortals out--a warning to sinful humanity to stay away, to keep a respectful distance from all of the mystery surrounding God. On the other hand, it was there to shut God in. For behind that curtain there was silence deep as death and darkness black as night even when the Syrian sun was blazing down ...

1125. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... you have health problems or other limitations that have kept you from realizing your dreams. We’re not saying that if you live by the principles of Christ you will succeed in everything you do. What we’re saying is that you don’t have to stay down. Christ himself died on a cross between two thieves. His disciples experienced every kind of setback you can imagine and most of them gave their lives for their testimony. The essential question is, how do you define success? We can read this episode on the ...

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