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1151. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

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Maxie Dunnam

... them out, or to beat them down or to suppress them way down inside. But rather Jesus understood perfectly in the realm of human nature, what Luther Burbank understood in the realm of plant nature, that every weed is a potential flower, and that the very qualities which make a weed could make a flower. Great sinners and great saints are made of the same stuff. That’s right. Great sinners and great saints are made of the same stuff. The indwelling Christ is a converting presence. Every aspect of our being ...

1152. Being Christ

Ephesians 1:15-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... . It is simply to say that the uniqueness of Christianity is at another point. That point is in the experience of being in Christ. Of having our lives hid with Christ in God. Jesus is not only the example we are to follow, he is the enabler of a new quality of life. And that life is really the life of Christ being lived all over again by each one of us in the world. Again, let’s be as specific as possible. Remember Dr. Beatty’s word which I quoted a couple of weeks ago. If his book ever comes ...

1153. Servants Without Portfolio

Matthew 20:20-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... to you and me. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus who took the form of a servant. But not many of us want to be servants, do we? Yet, it is clear as we read the New Testament that this was the most distinctive quality of Jesus’ ministry style, and Jesus leaves little doubt that it is the style to which he calls us. Listen to Jesus. “The disciple is not superior to his teacher, nor the slave to his master. Anyone who wants to be great among you, must be your servant. Just as ...

1154. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... William Blake insists that Jesus was all virtue and acted from impulse, not from rules. He did not ponder. Now that may be a bit too strong a description of Jesus, but the truth is there. Even a casual reading of the New Testament confirms this spontaneous quality of Jesus’ life. Note how he dealt with the Samaritan woman. She came to the well in the middle of the day to escape the accusing stares of the village women. When Jesus sensed her plight, he dealt tenderly with her, forgiving her, sending her on ...

1155. What If God Is Dependent Upon Our Praying?

2 Chronicles 7:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... more bearable because of those weekly visits from someone who first began to pray. I can’t even begin to imagine what would happen to our congregation, I can’t even begin to imagine what would happen to you and me as a fellowship if that quality of praying characterized our lives most of the time. When we left our friends in East Berlin last Sunday afternoon, and walked through checkpoint Charlie, crossing the barrier of that ominous wall, my heart felt like a ton of bricks, my eyes were filled with ...

1156. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... our sins, Christ is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. The image of washing and cleansing is a prominent one in scripture - it’s an earthy and homey image to which we can all relate. We know the refreshing, invigorating quality of a shower after a day’s work or a hard game. We know the soothing, calming, relaxing experience of a hot tub bath. We see the way nature is renewed by gentle showers and how the whole earth seems cleansed by a driving rain. It was no ...

1157. Why I Believe In Tithing

Malachi 3:6-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... was accepted, Cain’s was not. God even became angry. Now the story is really kind of fuzzy in the book of Genesis. In fact, the whole thing seems kind of arbitrary, even unjust. But when you live with the story, you discover that it is the quality of offering that is the issue. Abel gave the choice firstling of his flock, while Cain’s offering seemed to have been an indiscriminate collection of the first fruits of the ground. So here is the key teaching. God demands of us the very best we possess ...

1158. Such A Babe In Such A Place

Luke 2:1-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... his humble home. Veiled in flesh the God head see, hail the incarnate deity. Pleased as men with men to dwell, Jesus our Emanuel. God has come to dwell with persons in the form of a person, and this is what the world had waited so long for – a human quality in God which would bring him near. Flesh of our flesh, body of our body. It seems such a simple thing, so common and so earthy. A little baby born in a cold cave stable, but then people realized, and we seek to grasp the truth more fully, the coming ...

1159. Proclaimers Of The Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... . All of us cannot be involved in the same ministry and witness, but we can encourage and support other persons in their particular calling, and in a sense their ministry can be our ministry. I want you to know this – the tone and the direction and the quality of my ministry is affected by your response, your encouragement and support. That is, not only as I minister to you and this community, it is so when I minister in other places. The integrity and power of my ministry is intimately connected with the ...

1160. The Family: A Place For Persons

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Maxie Dunnam

... I am convinced in you as well. In their book, The Search for America’s Faith, George Gallatt, Jr., and David Poland, closed their report on the poll results concerning family life in America with this word. “The general decline in the quality of family life is signaled by a loss of values, aimless wondering in the world of secular pursuits, and an almost professional consumerism.” And then this dramatic word, “Spiritual values have long since eroded.” Spiritual values have long since eroded. How ...

1161. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... not an aimless drifting in a sea of uncontrollable eventualities. A person in Christ can have implanted in him the mind of the Savior. But discovering the will of the Lord is not a chance insight; it is the result of consistent communion. The unique quality of the new people in Christ is that they can have guidance for all of life’s decisions and challenges. But that spells responsibility. Guidance is not for the collection of ideas, but for the living of a life which reproduces the Savior’s character ...

1162. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

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Maxie Dunnam

... . When I have been intentional in cultivating the awareness of the indwelling Christ, yielded and responsive to that Presence, I have known wholeness of life, a vibrancy of spirit and joy, and my ministry has been marked by an obvious spiritual quality that genuinely blessed others. When I have been slack in that intentional effort at staying alive to His aliveness in me, then my joy diminishes, my confidence deteriorates; what accomplishments I experience seem ponderous and hard-gained, and I discover that ...

1163. A Christian Style Of Being And Doing

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to himself in the presence of Alice, "I'm late! I'm late! No time to say hello, good-bye, I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" We move from one thing to another, scheduling ourselves to the minute, without giving any thought to the quality of involvement, or the value of time. We allow what we consider urgent to rob us from doing the important, or enjoying the meaningful. Just as sinful and destructive is the other extreme -- the persons who make no commitments, who have no meaningful involvements, so they waste ...

1164. In A Mirror Dimly

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is the great magic trick of human existence." Well, he was right -- but he was wrong. It's not a magic trick. It's a commitment of faith to a life of love. That's what Paul is saying -- "In this life we have three great lasting qualities -- faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love" (Phillips). I close with this: A post office sorter was dealing with mail -- dead letter -- because of insufficient address, wrong address, or mutilated address. He had lost his little four year old son, Eddie, in ...

1165. East Of Eden And The City Of Beginning

Genesis 4:1-26

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Maxie Dunnam

... ; he died, but through his faith he is still speaking." Could that have been it? Abel offered a humble token of gratitude -- the very best out of his flock of sheep. But Cain offered a gift in the proud spirit of who he was -- proving his skills, his superiority, the quality of his works. We need to learn from this. What sort of gift is acceptable to God? In the way of money, it's not the _amount_, but the spirit in which you give. And it also has something to do with _proportion_. How much of what you earn ...

1166. Singing In The Rain

John 15:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... our lives. Living life is not as easy as affirming that every cloud has a silver lining. It seems as though, more often than not, the clouds of our life -- are defective clouds. But, for the Christian, the source of joy is beyond mere living. It's a quality of life not dependent upon circumstances. Some of you are old enough to remember the movie by the title -- "Singing in the Rain". Was it Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire who sang and danced it in that movie? "Singing in the Rain --Just singing in the RainWhat ...

1167. The Future You Hope For

Jeremiah 29:1-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... letter, a portion of which said: "Dorothy and I are on a new pilgrimage together. We are more attentive to each other than before, more committed to the pursuit of caring, and more supportive of the need for private personal time ...our time together is much better quality time than ever before!" And then he added, "It amazes me what we mortals must go through to get our carburetors cleaned out so that we can be more fully human. It is high stakes poker, where all the chips are stacked on the table, and it ...

1168. A Pattern For Giving And Living

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... may win!" "The psychiatrist wrote a response to this offer which was a gem of rhetoric. "In your letter, you offer to make me the richest man in Princeton. I want you to know that I am the richest man in Princeton. In addition to this, I enjoy a quality of life so exciting, it makes LIFE magazine read like an Old Mother Goose story. For all these good reasons, I am asking you to remove my name from that silly contest -- a contest which cannot possibly do me any good because all it offers if money. Who needs ...

1169. When Being Good Is Bad For You Or Breaking The Chains Of Co-dependency

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 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-Dependency and Getting Better All The Time, and Co-dependents Guide to the Twelve Steps. She defines co-dependency as "being affected by someone else's behavior and ...

1170. The Life Question: What Are You Looking For?

John 1:35-42

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Maxie Dunnam

... whose drive is for security -- and that drive turns them into miserly people, people who rob themselves of joy today because of their fear of tomorrow. Think about it. If success is the primary goal of your life, you're likely to cheat your family of quality relationships and precious time. If happiness is all you're looking for, you're in danger of missing the meaning that comes from self-giving and self-sacrifice. What you are looking for tells the story of who you are. Many of you knew Dorris Smith ...

1171. The Wholeness Question: Do You Want To Be Made Well?

John 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... that Jesus was more likely to find someone needing His healing touch. And what more needy one could He choose for healing than this man who had been flattened for thirty eight years -- an invalid, always too late to reach the water when it stirred and its healing quality was present and active. In this story is one of the grandest messages of the Christian faith -- one of the most relevant. Not only is there power in Jesus to cleanse us from sin, there is power to heal us, to free us from the chains that ...

1172. What If

1 Chronicles 7:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... made more bearable because of those weekly visits from someone who first began to pray. I can't even begin to imagine what would happen to our congregation. I can't even begin to imagine what would happen to you and me as a fellowship if that quality of praying characterized our lives most of the time. When we left our friends in East Berlin last Sunday afternoon and walked through check-point Charlie, crossing the barrier of that ominous wall, my heart felt like a ton of bricks. My eyes were filled with ...

1173. Holy Living

John 6:51-65

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... to stand in a certain place where I can look up at the mountains and say, 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.' " This is the same power that not only makes you and me do great things, but, basically, to be what we are; it gives quality to all we say and do. St. Paul said, "By the grace of God I am what I am." Jesus said, "The words that I have spoken to you, they are spirit and they are life." That same spirit of power is available today to all who will accept it ...

1174. Can a Rich Person Go to Heaven?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... problem. It can place an unnecessary burden on our marriage, on our family life, even on our heart and emotions. Take control of your finances. Two. Take control of your desires. This one is a little more challenging. Ask yourself, what would really improve your quality of life? Often the things that will improve our lives are available without a great outlay of money. A couple of years back, a book came out titled Trading Up. This book traced the roots of some of our misconceptions about wealth. The 1950s ...

1175. Faith for Troubling Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... friend of Laura’s, died on impact. Laura would later say that this tragedy shaped her perspective on life at a young age. She gained compassion and wisdom from it. Friends and family alike marvel at her "serenity and strength. " You also have grown to respect her qualities as an adult. For Laura Welch went on to become Laura Bush, wife of the President of the United States. (2) This can be a very cruel world. And no one’s exempt. Wealth can’t exempt us. Position can’t exempt us. Even a loving family ...

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