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1151. Who Can Ask for Anything More?

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... divine friendship imply? Perhaps the most precious implication is that it provides each of us with a divine identity. In Christ, everybody is somebody. He knows your name! One little fellow aged six, one night said a new prayer he had just learned. "Our Father who art in New Haven, how do you know my name?" Without realizing it, this child asked doubt's most stubborn question. How does our divine Friend know our name? With all of New Haven to look after, that question seems not entirely out of order. Then ...

1152. The Answer Waiting for a Question

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... resurrection and the Life." And he was the One who rose victorious over sin, death, and despair. Nothing less than this "blessed assurance" could cause John Donne to write his defiant challenge: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so: For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor death; nor can'st thou kill me ... One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die!2 Those of you who are familiar with ...

1153. The Source

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... something in the children's moment. No, Jesus was appointed by God. I think I can relate more to someone like that, someone who is being obedient, rather than cocky. Such a one might be able to understand me ... But the writer of Hebrews goes on. He says, "Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek." Wow. Now that tells us a lot, right? Might as well have said it in Chinese, right? Well, actually, in that one sentence he told us a bundle. It's just that the bundle has to be unwrapped a bit ...

1154. Spelling Doesn't Count

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... .3 Those brothers tasted eternal life. Pray that this week you might be led to do some BASE jumping with Jesus, the out of the ordinary, the thing you can only do by God's power, and in the process, find the wings of eternal life. 1. Art Koan, "The Big Picture: Brazil," Life, February 2000, p. 22. 2. Timothy F. Merrill, Learning to Fall: A Guide for the Spiritually Clumsy (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1981), pp. 81-85. 3. Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, A Second Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul ...

1155. The Battle of the Wisdoms

James 3:13-18

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... whose decision ultimately matters. 1. See the examination of pragmatism given in John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 25. 2. Elizabeth Achtemeier, Preaching As Theology and Art (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1984), p. 28. 3. Earl S. Johnson, Jr., James, Peter, John, and Jude: Basic Bible Commentary (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1988), p. 35. At this point a warning is in order for the preacher. As Marion Soards, Thomas Dozeman ...

1156. Joy to the World

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... is usually provided, but the facility with which even the smallest witticisms produce laughter at such times shows that they are not the real cause. What the real cause is we do not know. Something like it is expressed in much of that detestable art which the humans call music, and something like it occurs in Heaven -- a meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience, quite opaque to us. Laughter of this kind does us no good and should always be discouraged. Besides, the phenomenon is of ...

1157. Lord of All

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... the church once again to reflect on God's goodness and his greatness. When the Church really focuses on Epiphany, she can become "God intoxicated" so that the life of the Church is ordered by joy which breaks forth in the doxology, "How great thou art!" God is Lord over all nations and rulers; however, he is also ... Lord Over All Gods There were detractors in Isaiah's day who maintained that God did not see, care, or hear. These detractors proclaimed loudly that God was not interested in each individual ...

1158. Follow the Signs to God and Eternal Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Even red nuns have odd black cans." To the mariner entering harbor from sea these expressions keep ships, their occupants, and cargo "out of harm's way." Remember the expressions and follow the signs and you will navigate safely home. Navigation, the art or science of moving precisely from one location to a second, has been practiced by humans since the dawn of civilization. With increasing sophistication men and women travelers have used various navigational aids, all of which are signs, to arrive at their ...

1159. Building a House (Mother's Day)

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... nun who had an unusual ministry some years ago. I haven't heard of her in a long time. But back in the 60's and 70's, she was known all over the nation. She was an artist who designed and printed serographs – poster-like art that used common goods to grab our attention and communicate the Gospel -- Graphic drawings of loaves of bread, dancing trees, cans of soup combined with powerful words colorfully and dramatically presented witnessed to God's grace. Posters were her way of witnessing to God's grace ...

1160. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it, that they may make a cult of eros or an atomic witch's Sabbath of it, is completely out of place. "Is the plot of history to turn out in such a way," asked Schleiermacher in another connection, "that Christianity will go with Barbarism, but science and art -- with unbelief." I believe that the Church of Jesus Christ has not yet fully grasped just what has been entrusted and the wealth that has been given to us. Often it seems to me that we Christians flounder about between heaven and earth, as if, down ...

1161. The Church: Identity And Function

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Peter, can be seen as the fulfillment of Hosea rendering of God’s promise which we read in our earlier scripture lesson, when Hosea has God saying, I will have mercy upon those who had not obtained mercy and I will say to those who are not my people, thou art my people, and they will say, thou are my God. So to plum the depth and meaning of this great passage, I want to ask three questions this morning. Who are we? What is our function? And, where is the source of our power? I. Who Are We? First, who ...

1162. A Healing Presence

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’s knew more than I did. Now I feel I have recaptured the joy of singing, the feeling that courses through your body when you know the tone is right and your whole being vibrates with it.” What Ms. Price experienced in relation to her art, is what Christian wholeness is all about. The feeling that courses through your body when you know the tone is right and whole being vibrates with it. There are some truths of God so massive, so expansive and encompassing that our minds boggle when we contemplate ...

1163. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the measure of the statue of the fullness of Christ. But how exciting, to know that it can happen and to feel it happening in my life and in your life. I didn’t say in the beginning, but I’ll say now, I really don’t like Picasso’s art, but I like what Picasso said. He’s right. It takes a long time to become young, especially if you’re talking about being always young in Christ. The indwelling Christ is a converting presence. Let us pray.

1164. The Christian Life Defined By Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... evil. This gives meaning and power to Paul’s petition that we may grow in the gift of discernment and spiritual knowledge. At least two dimensions must be noted – one is the quality of judgment. A sharpness of perception very much like the art critic who is able to distinguish between the real and the phony, the authentic and the superficial. A second dimension of spiritual knowledge and discernment is a kind of sixth sense, a penetrating intuition that has been practiced and cultivated and disciplined ...

1165. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in your mind? Stained Glass? A well-lighted painting in a museum, like El Greco’s Saint Jerome which I saw at the Metropolitan in New York a few years ago? Or, maybe your mind is more playful or impish. Did you think of some of that religious art in luminous paint on black velvet? You can buy them on the roadside in some of your vacation travels, especially if you get near Mexico. Or, perhaps less impish, but also less sophisticated, you thought of a Cecil B. DeMille presentation such as he did with Moses ...

1166. Put To Death The Old; Put On The New

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... made without hands, the circumcision of Christ in which we are "buried with Him in baptism." He then becomes our life. Giacomo Manzu, the artist friend of Pope John XXIII, sculpted the newest doors of St. Peter's in Rome. I remember seeing that magnificent piece of art. One door depicts a series of death scenes, "Death by Falling," "Death in War," and others. "Death by water" is there, and that's the reason for the sculptor's theme. We are welcomed into the church by death. This is the way we enter -- the ...

1167. God Does The Unexpected

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was there. He took his portrait of Casals as a little bald-headed man, bent over his cello, frozen in time against the plain stone wall of that Chapel. There is a story that, years later, when that particular portrait was on exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, another old, bald-headed man came day after day to stand for long periods of time in front of the portrait. The Curator of the museum noticed him, and when his curiosity finally got the best of him, went over and tapped the little man on ...

1168. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the light, and create darkness." Isaiah knew because he believed the creation story that all the universe belongs to God no aspect of human experience is without God's presence. The psalmist knew it too, so he could sing "If I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art there...If I say, surely the darkness shall come over me; even the night shall be light about me...the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee." (Psalm 139: 8, 11-12) And it was good and it was very good. Not only has God brought deliverance ...

1169. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1170. East Of Eden

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... area of sexual immorality. But sensitive souls -- those who have not allowed the world around them to completely squeeze them into its mold -- sensitive souls still know that sense of shame issuing from sin. Another result of sin -- an ominous result -- was death. "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" is the death-nail summation of the situation into which Adam and Eve passed when they ate that forbidden fruit. Paul picked up on that fact and put it in a graphic way when he wrote to the Romans ...

1171. Saying Yes To Forgiveness

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... together Our Lord's Prayer. He said there were tense moments as a parent would reach out a hand to a runaway son or daughter and the teenager would not respond. In certain situations, something else would begin to happen as the prayer started, "Our Father who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name." Gradually the teenager's hand would open towards that of his or her parent. "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." Hands would then touch. "Give us this day our daily bread and forgive ...

1172. If Only -- In Spite Of

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... my power is made perfect in weakness.'" William Sloan Coffin reminds us that "Generally, prayer is not an act of self- expression. (It)is an act of empathy; prayer is thinking God's thoughts after him. Prayer is praying 'Our father who art in heaven' when everything within us longs to cry out '_My_ father.' (It) longs to cry out '_My_ father,' (instead of our father) because 'our' includes that horrible divorced husband, that wayward child; it includes muggers, rapists, the Iranian captors, all the people ...

1173. Who Are Christians?

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . My mind was too weary for reading or reflecting, so I walked. I began to look intentionally at the airline travel posters on the walls around each gate area. It's beautiful photography. I paid attention to posters from different cities and countries. Obviously, the art was what whomever designed them wanted you to know about the city or country. It was an invitation -- a come-on -- look at us. This is what we are. The poster for New York City had the mighty, but charming Lady of Liberty imposed over ...

1174. Prepare The Way Of The Lord

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... put it. "To live is to be ready at every moment, for that which is not yet born, and to see and cherish all signs of new life. To live is to be ready at every moment to help the birth of that which is ready to be born" (The Art of Loving). So, that's the first way to prepare for the Coming of the Lord being hopeful. II. Then the second way we prepare the way of the Lord is by being joyful. Our second scripture lesson from the prophet Habakkuk is little-known. I want you to listen ...

1175. Building A House

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

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