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1176. How Is It With Your Soul?

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the conductors 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 Miss Price experienced in relation to her art is what integrity is all about. "The feeling that courses through your body when you know the tone is right and your whole being vibrates with it." (Dunnam, Barefoot Days of the Soul, p.61). Integrity. And a lack of integrity is a kind of hypocrisy. Not ...

1177. I've Been To The Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

When I first came to Memphis, I visited downtown -- Mid-America Mall. I wanted to see the sculpture commemorating Martin Luther King -- the sculpture entitled "I've been to the Mountain." I must confess that I've never felt too good about that piece of art. It doesn't excite me. Maybe that's my dullness. Maybe my imaginative and visual senses are not cultivated enough. But Martin Luther King's speech is unforgettable. As was the rule for King, he took images from Scripture. "I've been to the Mountain", he ...

1178. When You Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

“Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name.” It is the prayer of the Christian Church, prayed more often in public worship than any other prayer, and known personally by heart by more individuals than perhaps any other passage of Scripture. So, what will I do with a sermon on such a ...

1179. Turn in an Account of Your Stewardship

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... be shrewd in the fashion that we use the word. Our use of the word carries a lot of extra luggage. In fact a part of the dictionary’s definition of shrewd includes the word sly. But the basic definition of the word is “sharp or wise; sagacious, artful.” In that meaning of the word Jesus is affirming shrewdness. On another occasion He had called us to be “as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves.” Here the point of His parable is made clear in the commentary: “For the children of this age are ...

1180. Overcoming The Destructive Dont's That Have Shaped Our Lives

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the sun...So we have today a rash of what are called "liberation" movements and a spate of looks which summon people to look out for number one, to get our piece of the action while the getting is good. One such book was boldly entitled The Art of Getting Your Own Sweet Way, and the Publisher's blurb promised: "Here's the scientific way for getting what you want...and getting other people to do what you want them to." Churches have jumped on the band wagon and now whole seminars on assertiveness training ...

1181. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the cold, clear water that I drank out of a metal cup I found in a friend's kitchen. And in the fragment of a psalm I had learned as a boy, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." I prayed those words continually as an incantation against the hell raging in me." God rescued Dan Wakefield. He found his way back to sanity, health, and a renewed relationship with God that brought him joy and an exciting new ...

1182. The Cross Question: Am I Not To Drink The Cup?

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... call -- and when he answered it, a voice on the other end said emphatically, "For God's sake, Reverend, can't you do something with that dreadful cross out in front of your church? The caller was a woman who had visited the Dallas Museum of Art across the street, and was bothered by the contrast between the loveliness of the culture in the Museum and the ugliness in front of the church. "For God's sake, Reverend, can't you do something about that dreadful cross? At first, the pastor thought of reminding ...

1183. Fair Weather Friends

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... many circumstances sending us the message that we are jerks. We need someone to say atta boy -- keep it up. Friends who stick closer than a brother give us the "atta boys" we need for affirmation, what psychologists call "positive reinforcement." Many parents never learn this art of positive reinforcement. When they correct their children it's always a put down. Take for example this scene played out at a Waffle House: "You are so stupid; why can't you eat right? Can you do anything right? I wish I hadn't ...

1184. A Rod For The Back Of Fools

Proverbs 25:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... resolved to make clear to the world the true meaning and purpose of his life. And through the final disposition of his fortune, he established the most valued and prestigious prizes given to those who have done most for the cause of world peace, the arts and sciences. (Quoted from Robert Raines' "Creative Brooding" in a Sermon by Donald Shelby, "Final Evaluation", November 25, 1990) "Like a dog that returns to its vomit is a fool who reverts to his folly." We are fools we do not learn from our mistakes ...

1185. Signs of the Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... an understanding that most folks didn't know." [1] Little Tree learned from his Grandpa how to read the signs of nature. Reading signs, not the printed ones we see on our streets and highways, but the signs of nature and life and living is an art that takes time, practice and patience. The reward is what Little Tree called, "...an understanding that most folks don't know." In our gospel reading this morning, Jesus talks about "signs of the times" and particularly the signs of his coming. In effect, he says ...

1186. The Hinge of History

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... things he did. As a matter of fact, the biggest events in Rome at the time were some prayer meetings which were being held secretly in the catacombs. The Medici, he observes, must have seemed the key figures in Renaissance Europe, with their palaces, art galleries, and political power. Yet they are overshadowed by "a little boy playing about on the docks of Genoa," who would eventually open the seaway to the Americans. So it was in John the Baptizer's time. One can easily imagine the pomp and circumstance ...

1187. Baptized with Christ

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... us is a sinner. It is sin that separates us from God. Baptism doesn’t mean that we become perfect, but it does mean that sin is no longer a barrier to our relationship with God. Some of you may have seen the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou. This is a whimsical retelling of Homer’s Odyssey set in 1930s Mississippi. Three hapless escaped convicts--Everett, Pete and Delmar--are hiding out in the woods, running from the law. There they encounter a procession of white-robed people going down to the lake to ...

1188. Servant Song

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the Servant (v. 5). He is tempted in all things as we are, we are told, but he does not sin (Hebrews 4:15). That is, he never loses his trust in his Father in order to follow his own will. His agonized prayer in Gethsemane is, "Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done" (Luke 22:42). So the awful picture of suffering portrayed in our text (v. 6) is played out in the passion of our Lord. His is the back that is scourged with the whips of Pilate ...

1189. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... executive pastor of a thousand-member church in the Midwest. Early in his pastoral career, Ben questioned his role as a full-time pastor. He has many talents, says his brother Tim, including musical, literary and rhetorical skills, as well as a special flair for art. Ben wondered if he could make the best use of these talents in the pastorate. He was frustrated from seeing others using their talents, having fun, and earning a much better living. While wrestling with the decision of whether or not to stay in ...

1190. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... kingdom without a king, and the Kingdom to which we are committed has only one King—King Jesus. The Church must think more in terms of transformation than of confrontation. That means we must overcome what we have mastered altogether too well—the art of talking to ourselves. We need to think more about “a long obedience in the same direction” than about a quick fix that might bring superficial change. Our task, as an enclave of resistance, is to subvert the callused, materialistic, secular, godless ...

1191. Constantly Abiding

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the roaring waves, a flood of words swept over me. “I am come that [you] may have life, and that [you] may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10, KJV) “Because I live, you shall live also” (John 14:19, KJV) “This is life eternal: to know thee who alone art truly God, and Jesus whom thou has sent” (John 17:3, NEB). “God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son has not life” (1 John 5:11-12, RSV) “If any one is ...

1192. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes always perseveres.” (I Corinthians 13:4-7 – NIV) A friend introduced me to a book of essays written by Richard Seller entitled Mortal Lessons: Notes of the Art of Surgery. Seltzer is a surgeon. He teaches surgery at Yale University Medical School. He also teaches creative writing in the English Department. In one of his essays he tells a story of operating on a woman’s cheek to remove a malignant tumor ...

1193. Claim the Promise

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... life into dark clouds of gloom, when I sense I am becoming preoccupied with failure, I try to remember the 8th Psalm. Do you remember it? “When I consider the heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him and the Son of Man thou dost care for Him? Yet thou hast made Him a little less than God (some translations have it a little lower than the angels) you have made Him a little less than God and crowned Him with glory and honor ...

1194. Let Me Say That Again

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to love. We have that on the authority of Scripture. This is the golden thread that runs through the Bible. You remember Psalm 8: “When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars which thou hast ordained - what is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that you pay attention to him - for you’ve made him a little lower than the angels and crowned him with glory and honor.” The birth of stars and galaxies - creation alone was not enough. Creatures for relationship ...

1195. Paul Piper's Funeral

Proverbs 1:8-19

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... thought about that proverb when I was invited to share this brief eulogy for Paul Piper. “The Lord’s blessing is our greatest wealth.” Paul knew that – and he testified to it in the way he lived. Paul was a successful businessman, an amazing, imaginative entrepreneur. The art of the deal was almost a game with him. He made a lot of money, but he would say, “The Lord’s blessing is our greatest wealth.” And that’s the way he would like to be remembered, not for his business genius, not for his ...

1196. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... dotted with boats and men who had spent the night fishing and were now casting circular nets in the shallows or repairing torn nets for the next night’s work. These two set of brothers from the same village were not the only ones there that morning. Christian art that shows them as lonely fisher-folk is not historically accurate. Up and down the lake were other boats pulled up on shore, more like a marina with slips than a single dock. That it twice says that Jesus saw them is an indicator not just that ...

1197. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the two parallel phrases, salt of the earth and light of the world. Who we are as his followers is to have a broad ranging effect, not just on the surface of life but deep into all its structures. Government, education, medicine, business, the arts, in our neighborhoods and around the world. Light and salt are both absorbed through exposure. And if the overall moral and ethical climate of our town and county and state and nation and world is declining downwards rather than inclining upwards, where does the ...

1198. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... that day. James Hood was at her side and needed encouragement. So she slipped him a note; on it was this prayer: "Whatever may be our adversary this day, our Father, help us to face it with courage, for it can be conquered when thou art with us. In faith we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen." Years later, after an assassination attempt and a deep change of heart, Wallace was rolled in his wheelchair into the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, and there asked forgiveness. More particularly, the ...

1199. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... are contested ground. God will not allow you in the long term to think of others as objects, whether you actually use them or not. The Louvre in Paris will not let you walk in with a can of Krylon and spray your initials on priceless works of art, and God promises to destroy those who deface works that bear his image, which is precious men and women. You test drive cars; you don’t test drive people! We practice for heaven by honoring people, not by dishonoring them, and for those who habitually look at ...

1200. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... ’ brother James was blunt about the matter, “You have not,” he said, “because you ask not.”6 God delights in our asking. All six sentences of the Lord’s Prayer are petitions asking for God to do something; Jesus gave us a word track to practice the art of asking. If you don’t ask, you don’t give God a chance to answer and an opportunity to sift your requests because God only gives good things. We have received good for this woman and now ask for more. Rather than backing off because we have ...

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