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1176. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 14, there is this word: "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and call his name Emmanuel." "The Lord shaves with a borrowed razor" -- He uses what he will and He acts how He will to achieve His purpose. God is sovereign King of the universe -- in control -- his eternal purpose is going to be accomplished, and he uses all sorts of persons and events and circumstances to accomplish his will. What is being said in the text is that God is going to ...

1177. My Stress Is Killing Me! -- Is It?

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... comes from fear -- the stress that comes from feelings of inadequacy -- the stress that comes from biting off more than we can chew -- the stress that comes from feeling that our value is dependent upon what we produce, what we earn, how much we achieve, how well we are known -- the stress that results from what our materialistic consumer society has defined as success. But there's another kind of stress -- a stress that comes from commitment, and that kind of stress can be creative. Norman Neaves, minister ...

1178. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 14, it says that 'Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit of Galilee'. When Jesus went into temptation he went in 'full of the Spirit'. When he came out it was 'in the power of the Spirit'. In the life of Jesus all that temptation could achieve was to turn fullness into power. "Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, in his book The Crises of the Christ, claims that we ought to make a clear distinction between the two words 'fullness' and 'power'. The 'fullness of the Spirit', he argues, 'is what happens when the Spirit ...

1179. Will The Real God Please Stand?

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1180. He Comes As He Came

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... suggestions along this line that were even more radical. Return blessings for curses, he suggested, Invite persecutors over for supper. If an enemy forces you to carry a pack for a long distance, carry it twice as far, and see if you can't achieve some kind of reconciliation along the way. Put your ingenuity to work, says Jesus. Put your prayers to work. Put your consistent witness for truth to work. Put passive resistance to work. Put patience to work. Do not be deceived. The Christian who follows Jesus ...

1181. To Live Is To Grow

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... son Kevin was four years old, he said to his mother one day, "Mommy, I don't want to grow up. I want to always be your little boy." If that were a permanent desire, it would be unhealthy. After the Second World War, Gunther Grass wrote a novel which achieved best seller fame. He called it the Tin Drum and it was about a boy who decided at three years of age that he was never going to grow up. That really is not unusual. Countless people make this decision or act as though they have a decision never to ...

1182. Rejected at Home

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... a little respect, to take one another seriously, to listen and show appreciation. If you are one of these people who don't get much respect, remember Jesus. His own family and his own town could not see who he was. But, of course, that did not keep Him from achieving His purpose in life. He "was amazed at their lack of faith," but it did not slow him down. He knew who he was. He knew why he was here--to serve God--and he gave himself completely to the task at hand. Automobile pioneer Henry Ford once said ...

1183. Holy Living

John 6:51-65

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... women of these past one hundred years was Lady Aberdeen who came from a Highland home in Inverness, Scotland. She lived before all the fuss and feathers of feminism and women's liberation; but, when she died in 1939, the record of her achievements read like a scroll of honor. In 1882 she founded an orphanage for Scottish children which was dedicated by Prime Minister Gladstone. In 1893 she founded the "Onward and Upward Association" to help domestics get education and recreation beyond the drudgery of their ...

1184. Fit for God

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... funny bones of their editorial staff. One shirt had a big, bold message on it: "I FINISHED THE TOUR DE FRANCE." The other shirt read: "I’VE HIKED THE ENTIRE APPALACHIAN TRAIL." Those are impressive claims. Most of us would boast about either one of those achievements. But a closer look at each shirt reveals that the truth is in the fine print. In fine print in between the larger words lies the real message: "I FINISHED reading THE TOUR DE FRANCE bike repair manual." And on the other shirt: "I’VE HIKED ...

1185. The Divine Opportunity

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... it was only a good sales ploy, but I was impressed. That was John's style. "I have something great to offer," he seemed to say, "and you'd better grasp the opportunity now that it has come to you." Sometimes our hunger for repentance fails to achieve its goal. We need to do more than simply say, "I'm sorry." Repentance needs some means of action. I still remember an anonymous note which I found on a bulletin cover one Monday morning. "We all want to have a more victorious life," someone had scribbled ...

1186. God's Sneak Attack

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... , my response has softened. I see a certain beauty now when I look out at that Christmas Eve crowd -- not a beauty found in the limitations of some folks' commitment to the church, to be sure, but rather the beauty of God's gentle achievement each Christmas season. Christmas was -- and continues to be -- God's sneak attack. He sneaks in through songs, through traditions, and through sentiment. He sneaks in through the generosity, the good will, and the festivity of the season. He sneaks in through the ...

1187. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to do… There in the big top a man is hanging by his teeth, twisting, spinning, spotlights playing over him, the drums beginning to roll. He’s going to fall and nothing can be done, no net, but in the moments remaining he may yet achieve something remarkable, some glittering stunt, a movement perhaps of breathtaking beauty… Any turning away to watch the dancing bears is a betrayal of the dangling man…hold fast, stay with him. (Quoted by Mark Trotter, Grace All The Way Home, Nashville: The Upper Room ...

1188. Let Not Thy Will Roar, When Thy Power Can But Whisper

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... down in Perry County, Mississippi. My mother and father didn’t go to high school – they didn’t even finish elementary school. I found myself socially, intellectually, culturally and economically deprived and in reaction to that I developed an almost “sick” determination to achieve, to get out of that situation, to be a success. Even long, long after I had answered the call to preach and was practicing ministry – I was still caught up in that. Spent a great part of my life trying to prove myself ...

1189. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . I grew up in rather severe poverty in Perry County, Mississippi. My mother and father did not go to high school. I felt myself culturally, socially, and intellectually, as well as emotionally, deprived. In reaction to that I developed an almost sick determination to achieve. To get out of that situation, to be a success. So I’ve spent a great part of my life driving myself unmercifully. The game I have played through the years is this: “See here, I am worthy of your love and acceptance.” Throughout ...

1190. People With Shining Faces

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... -conscious. That’s the way we are around really excellent performers. In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins tells about Dave Scott, a six-time winner of the Ironman Triathlon, one of the most challenging athletic events in the world. Scott has achieved this goal, in part, through his astounding level of self-discipline. He pays attention to the smallest details of diet and physical training in order to maintain his world-class athletic skills. One example of Scott’s self-discipline is that he rinses ...

1191. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... along the way, but in the end not trivial but serious- eternally so, and the decisions of this life both reveal and form our character, either toward or away from the God who offers new life in Jesus Christ. The most important question is not net worth or achievements; it is, Do I know the true and living God? And secondly, If arrested for this faith, would there be enough evidence to convict? To make it simple, Do I know this God, and does it show? As soon as you have said the word God you have already ...

1192. True Riches

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... wings; we will be safe in his care. All: Thanks be to God! Collect O Lord, we do not pray for riches, for you supply all our needs. As we run the race of faith, help us to cast off all temptations that weigh us down so that we might achieve the goal of eternal life. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen. Prayer Of Confession God of mercy, we stand in need of your forgiveness. We are bombarded with temptations to seek to enrich ourselves and to acquire many things we don't really need. It ...

1193. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... no matter how much you may want to. I know, some of you try. A new term has crept into our lexicon–“helicopter parents.” Those are parents who hover over their children all the time and try to protect them. Ironically, the main thing helicopter parents achieve is that their children lose their ability to cope with problems by themselves. Even the best helicopter parents, however, can’t protect their children from all of life’s slings and arrows. What we hope for is to give them an inner peace in a ...

1194. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In his book, The Pursuit of Happiness, David Meyers writes that from 1957 to 1990, per capita income in the US more than doubled, but the number of Americans who reported being very happy remained the same. All the advances in medical sciences, all the achievements in technology, all the increase in material wealth and prosperity has not supplied us with an answer to our deepest yearnings or fulfilled our deepest needs. Never have we been so self-reliant, or so lonely. Never have we seemed so free, or our ...

1195. Strategic Planning

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... strength. The problem was she didn’t think. She simply reacted to the situation. This is the difference between reflecting and reacting. Many people live this way. They do not plan their lives. They do not reflect on their purpose and the means they are taking to achieve that purpose. They simply react to events as they unfold. Living on the edge is what they might call it. For some of them, it is the edge of disaster. Failing to plan, the old adage goes, is planning to fail. And it’s true whether we ...

1196. Oskar’s Cruelty

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... can spring from loss and pain -- it only takes a willingness to step away from the apparent loss and grow with the situation -- take the long view of life. Ezekiel has a message of hope for people who have lost all grounds of hope. There is a God who can achieve the impossible. But the human end of it is to continue in the knowledge of that God. Can these bones live? O Lord, thou knowest. We live in faith that we have eternal life. Life is lived here and now, and we have eternal life here and now. That is ...

1197. The Problem with Promises

Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7

Sermon

James L. Killen

... in Indonesia. Meeting their competition was a constant struggle. Abe noticed that, even though the business journals praised his business ethics, few other companies were following his example. That was something he had hoped would happen. His company was surviving but not achieving the kind of success that American business seems to demand. He began to feel that he was being patronized when he was with other business people. And back in family gatherings, it was his brother who had gone into their father's ...

1198. Grace for a Complaining People

Exodus 16:2-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... . It has been published in twenty languages, and the English editions alone have sold over 2.5 million copies. When asked about the success of his book, Dr. Frankl replied, "I do not at all see in the best-seller status of my book so much an achievement and accomplishment on my part, as an expression of the misery of our time; if hundreds of thousands of people reach out for a book whose very title promises to deal with the question of meaning in life, it must burn under their fingernails."5 Like children ...

1199. Rubbish or Worse

Philippians 3:1-11, Psalm 19:1-14

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... as your faithful people, grateful for the course you set for us as well. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Thank you Lord for your perfect sacrifice. Thank you for this opportunity to gain through loss. It is marvelous beyond our comprehension. When we add up all we have achieved in the eyes of the world it comes to nothing. When we measure the cost of our salvation which you freely give to us, it is beyond price. In wonder and awe we praise your name. Amen. Hymns "When I Survey The Wondrous Cross" "Awake, My Soul ...

1200. Look Who Is Standing at the Door

James 4:1-12; 5:1-12

Sermon

James L. Killen

... are telling stories that the culture has taught everyone present to call success stories. There are, however, some who overhear but do not share in the admiration. Two businesswomen at the next table overhear and are honestly jealous. They, too, are trying to achieve a similar kind of success. They share hushed comments about how they intend to crash that "good old boys' club" and make them take notice. The waiter overhears too and, in spite of his impeccable courtesy, he does not admire. He recognizes one ...

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