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1126. Servants Of The Servant Who Was Lord

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . We become available and vulnerable. We lose our fear of being stepped on or manipulated or taken advantage of, and aren’t these our fears? But what joy comes – what energizing of life – when we act out of the desire to be a servant, rather than the pride-producing choice to serve now and then, when we please. Now I must close. Let’s return to where we began – to Jesus. It is the paradox of the Christian gospel that the last become first, the humble are exalted, the servant becomes Lord, the poor ...

1127. What Really Matters The Price Of The High Calling

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Christ Jesus. So we make no claim to perfection. But we have an unshakeable confidence that Christ Jesus has made us his own. We walk a tight rope – a tight rope of naming and claiming our gifts. And at the same time, struggling against the tight grip pride has on our hearts, and the tendency to fall into self-justification. So every step along the way to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, we must acknowledge who and where we are. Then secondly, we must leave the past behind. A couple ...

1128. In The Kingdom Now

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... aliens of earth. Get the setting of our scripture lesson clearly in mind. Philippi was a Roman colony, a miniature Rome in distant Macedonia. Many of the inhabitants of Philippi were Roman citizens, probably the aristocracy of that city. There was an intense pride in being citizens of Rome. We have no way of knowing how many, but certainly there must have been many of these proud Roman citizens who had become Christian. Now they were probably being accused by their compatriots of belonging to a fellowship ...

1129. Called To Finish What Is Finished

Colossians 1:24--2:5, Colossians 1:15-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... ," "confession," "estrangement," "fractured" are necessary words and concepts to fully describe human reality. I know that to be preoccupied with sin is unhealthy spiritually and otherwise. Yet, to forget who we are and who we have been is the doorway to spiritual pride. To change the metaphor, it is the roadblock to spiritual growth. We must remember who we are -- forgiven sinners -- persons who still have the capacity for every kind of sin -- but who are the recipients of God's grace. II. But not ...

1130. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... getting ahead of us. Maybe we have even felt our church was leaving us behind -- or, our family was leaving us out. That's when the Cross speaks its most dramatic word to us. The ground around the cross is level. We all stand there stripped of pride, knowing that we are impotent to save ourselves, and we are drawn into an experience of love which is the dynamic for community. When we experience belonging to Christ, when lifted up from the earth on the cross He draws us to Himself, we discover that we belong ...

1131. Put My Tears In Thy Bottle

Psalm 56:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... part-time with us now in World Evangelism of the World Methodist Council. Ellsworth shares the fact that when he was a senior in high school he began to preach. People made a lot of it. He became rather cocky about it -- he seemed to be the pride of a lot of people -- and affirmations were coming from everywhere. One day a good man sat down and had an honest visit with Ellsworth -- sharing the kind of kindness that is hard to come by -- but was really expressing truth, though in a gentle way. "Ellsworth ...

1132. A Confidence for All Seasons

Psalm 27:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 't talk glibly about protection. When we talk about divine protection, we're talking about something ultimate -- and when we talk about it, we ought to do so in a low voice of reticence and humility -- not in the certainty that smacks of arrogance and suggests spiritual pride, that takes no note of people as faithful as we are who have not been protected in the way we use the word. Divine protection doesn't keep us from being crucified. It didn't keep Jesus from the Cross. Look at the movement of the Psalm ...

1133. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... particularly, that area has been associated more than any other part of life with sin. Jesus, on the other hand, consistently drew attention to the much wider, and, perhaps really, more serious forms of immoral behavior -- those associated with spiritual pride, envy, intolerance, arrogance, self-righteousness, selfishness, and so on. So, whatever "unseemly" behavior is, it is much more than statutory immoral behavior. It has something to say about a person's whole attitude to life and to people." (Dennis ...

1134. Loving The Jesus Way

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the main street, an elderly gentleman accosted him. "Ned?, Ned?, is that you?", he asked. Ned allowed that it was, and the old man proceeded to say that he had been seeing the governor a lot on TV and in the newspapers later. The Governor confessed with some pride that that was true. Then the old man responded, "Well, I guess you've done pretty well for yourself, but just remember one thing: no matter how rich or successful you become, the number of people at your funeral will still depend a hell of a lot ...

1135. A Sovereign God With A Shepherd's Heart

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... nation's undoing -- it's not easy to keep the perspective that God's eternal purpose is going to be accomplished. Rather it's easy to concentrate on the temporary and lose sight of the eternal -- easy to give in to petty powers which strut with peacock pride on the stage of history -- but strut only briefly. What happened in Bethlehem continues to witness to us that God is in control. That his eternal purposes are going to be accomplished. II. We build on that notion by bringing it to a narrow focus. Let's ...

1136. East Of Eden

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Last Sunday we talked about The Fall in Eden in terms of Paul Harvey's phrase: "The Rest of the Story". The story is simply told -- "Evil entered paradise. Satan tempted Eve and Adam by appealing to their pride and vanity to "be like God." After their sin and expulsion from the garden, death made its first relentless assault on the race. There was "brother trouble" when Cain killed his brother Abel. In Genesis 4: 7, we have this stark warning: "Sin is crouching at the door; its desire ...

1137. The Little Madness Of Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... back our yesterday. He can do better than that. He can forgive the sins of yesterday. He can heal the pain of yesterday. He can restore the energy wasted in the selfish pursuits of yesterday. He can restore the relationships that you, in your sin and selfishness and pride, severed yesterday. You see, Christ does for us not only what we can't do for ourselves, but also what others can't do for us. So the resurrection of Christ gives substance to our hope, and we don't apologize for the little madness of hope ...

1138. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Charles Wesley wrote a great hymn that speaks to this issue. We will sing it in a moment. Listen to the first verse: I want a principle within of watchful, godly fear,a sensibility of sin,a pain to feel it nearI want the first approach to feel of pride or wrong desire,to catch the wandering of my will, and quench the kindling fire. (The United Methodist Hymnal) It's not always easy to keep alive a sensibility to sin. It's easy to have our minds dulled to the crowing of the rooster. We see it happening ...

1139. Who Needs A Doctor?

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... -pity. The Lord, we are told, works in mysterious ways, and I believe it. Sometimes being dragged into the depths is the only way we glimpse a vision of the heights, being desperate and disconsolate and defeated is the only way we redeem ourselves from pride and self-satisfaction. In pain, Miss Bryant is starting to be a Christian now, which she only thought she was before." And then these words: "The visible church may have lost a militant member, but the invisible church has gained a new soul. The moral ...

1140. Getting Ourselves Off Our Hands

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Most of us who carry that burden are "heavy-laden"; we are dragged down and depressed and discouraged and exhausted by it all our lives. "Jesus says, "Let me give you rest. Learn of me. I am meek!" "Meekness is the opposite of ego with its pretense, pride, competition. "I will give you rest," He says. "Accept the blessed relief of being only what you are. Then I can do it all." "Quit pretending. Quit striving. My dear child, quit trying to be some cocky little god competing with me -- maybe, worst of all ...

1141. Overcoming The Destructive Dont's That Have Shaped Our Lives

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ." One of my favorite stories is about a man who was married to a woman who loved cats. That would have been alright, except he hated them. They got fur on his wool pants, they made him sneeze and itch. She had one Persian cat that was her pride and joy. All the neighbors knew if she had to choose between her husband and the cat it would be like Jack Benny choosing between his money and his wife. One day the cat disappeared. The woman was broken hearted. As an act of love and compassion, her husband ...

1142. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of Israel, and yet do not understand these things?" The question still remains. Despite the witness of scripture and our experience, we continue to question grace. Maybe it has something to do with our original sin. It certainly has a lot to do with our pride and perverted self-sufficiency. So, let's think about it. I. Focus first on that phrase that shocked Nicodemus. "You must be born again." I was talking to a person recently, and he referred to a mutual acquaintance in a kind of derogatory way. This ...

1143. The Cross Question: Am I Not To Drink The Cup?

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , "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: my own blood with ...

1144. The Hinge of History

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... be, of our heritage. By the same token, we like to feel that we are helping to make history. "I was one of the founders of the Student Council at that junior high school," a man told me as we drove through his town. It seemed a limited reason for pride in a grown man, but I understood it. All of us want to feel that we are making some mark on history, however small it may be. I dare to venture that this is some of the motivation in the youngster who etches his initials in fresh concrete. He might ...

1145. The Light Has Come

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... to think about it, there seems to be no point to it all. Then the future seems very dark, a tunnel with no light at the end. Or darkness surrounds us when the anguish of a broken relationship crowds in on us, when hurts and fears and wounded pride all get bound up in a bundle of misery. Darkness comes when our own wrongdoing gnaws away at our innards, and regret hangs heavy in our thoughts. Darkness dims every dawn when illness wastes us, and it hurts to get out of bed. Darkness can be our daily companion ...

1146. Thorns and Thistles

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... that they are in the wrong. Christians in our day meet opposition, too. It is not easy to be good in our society, in which goodness is out of fashion. Divorce is rampant in our day, as are adultery and abortion, cheating and lying, selfishness and pride. Anyone who lives by God's word these days meets snickers and scorn and sometimes persecution. They are "nerds," "squares," and worst of all, "irrelevant." But Jeremiah is given the promise of God that is given also to us. "Be not afraid of them," says the ...

1147. Return to the Father

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... , in the midst of our sinful ways, when we have been so busy with our own affairs that we have repeatedly neglected others; even now when we have forgotten to rely on God and have counted on our own self-sufficiency; even now when we have burdened our souls with pride and anger and guilt; even now when we think we do not have a prayer with which to stand before the Lord our God -- even now, in your situation and mine, God spreads wide his arms of mercy on a cross and bids us return to him. Surely that cross ...

1148. The Conversion of Saul

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... to Jerusalem and to a cross. So it is too with us. God has not transformed our lives by his active Spirit and made us his disciples just so we can enjoy his fellowship all by ourselves. And surely he has not made us Christians so we, in our pride, can claim some sort of spiritual superiority to those around us. Heaven help us if we exchange our discipleship for self-glorification, For then we do not belong to Christ, and he is not our Lord. No, we are called to accomplish tasks for our Lord. Each one of ...

1149. Escape from the Island of Spiritual Sloth

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... most intriguing theological website was one I discovered titled, "The Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan's Island." I am not making this up. Seven characters on the island. Seven sins. You're welcome to look it up for yourself. The Professor obviously represents the sin of pride. What else are you going to feel after rigging up a ham radio with wire and two coconuts? Mary Ann? Oh, she's an easy one. Envy. Always envying the glamorous Ginger. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to discern that Ginger is the ...

1150. Being A Man of God

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Christian. Ask me what I mean.” My interest was further whetted by the fact that the sticker was on an $80,000 Mercedes. I wondered how anyone driving such a car could be a generic anything. A couple of blocks on down the street, the driver pulled into Mr. Pride Carwash and I couldn’t resist. I didn’t need a car wash but I turned in behind him because I wanted to speak to the driver and find out what he meant with that intriguing message on the bumper of his Mercedes. The fellow told me he was a ...

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