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Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , worthy of our respect. Or we can ignore him. Just have nothing to do with him. Forgetting that indifference is a still more cruel slur than outright opposition. And, we can reject him, but not many of us would do that – we’re too proper and kind. Most of simply pay him little or no attention. We certainly don’t give him center place in our life. If we were honest, we would admit that our lives betray us, as indifferent and distant to it all. Studdard Kennedy has pierced this indifference with ...

1177. Leave Your Stuff Behind

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... has that rare double gift which enables him to enter deeply into an experience and then share that experience with us in the kind of way that enables us to vicariously experience what he himself has experienced. In one of his poignant vignettes from boyhood, he shared ... stuff I want to leave behind. I don’t know of a heavier burden that most people carry than self-pity. It’s the kind of burden that most of us are unwilling to drop off. Someone hurts our feelings and we carry our hurt with us forever. We ...

1178. Living Deliberately

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is an irritant to those who seek to live unexamined lives. His cartoons are carried in daily newspapers across the country, but are special features of the magazine section of the Los Angeles Times. And in these cartoons he really probes our sensitivities with a kind of sword like wit and subtle humor. Behind the humor there is always that sword that he’s piercing into your mind and into your soul seeking to get you to see yourself as you actually are. In a particular rendering, he exposed our poisonous ...

1179. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . In the cartoon, Moses is on the side of Mt. Sinai. Aaron and other Israelites are there with puzzled questioning looks on their faces waiting for the word from God given to Moses on the mountain. Moses is almost buried in a pile of tablets of stone -- you know the kind that is pictured as the stones on which the Ten Commandments were given. And Moses speaks in exasperation out of the scores of stone tablets: "No this time, I met a lawyer instead." It's not that I want to be wordy, and add law upon law and ...

1180. A Love For All Seasons (i)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... and then we try to describe or explain it. Paul did better than anyone in the 13th Chapter of I Corinthians. He gives a kind of summary statement in verse 7: Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." In this verse we ... willingness. If we wait until we are ready and able we will never love as we are called to. Within ourselves we don't have that kind of strength. I've told you the story of the nurse who was tending the wounds of a soldier. He was left out on the field ...

1181. The Ministry Of Making Many Rich

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Christian’s response should be, a man rose from his desk and walked to the windows of his penthouse-type office with its commanding view of the city. He gazed out of the window for a time, then turned and said to the Methodist preacher: “You know, Barry, I’ve kind of got it figured out that God will ask us two questions when we knock on the gate of Heaven. I really mean this. First, He’s going to ask, “What have you done with all you had. Now, that’s an easy one to answer. We all know what ...

1182. Courage Me!

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... courage of moral conviction. Sometimes in order to live, we have got to make tough and difficult moral decisions. They are not the kind of decisions we enjoy making. Yet, make them we must. It takes courage, young people, to break rank with the herd and ... the common good. So, we need the courage of moral conviction. We also need the courage to change. That's a garden variety kind of courage. To be alive is to be willing to change -- especially as Christians. We must have the courage to change because the ...

1183. The Word And Words

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Christian response to life? If not, what are we doing here? If so, where do we find our direction? What is the source of our authority? Did you see the recent news release from the national gathering of family counselors? It was a kind of back-door confession about their participation in a phenomenon that has reeked havoc on families -- the phenomenon of making divorce too easy, and not recognizing the devastating effects divorce has on children. This group admitted that in their counseling they have put ...

1184. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Elijah -- still others say that you are one of the ancient prophets risen again." He pressed them -- "But you, who do you say that I am?" It was Peter who responded, "You are the anointed one of God." But Jesus told them that they should not repeat that kind of word, because He added, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and must be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and must be killed, and must be raised again on the third day" (Luke 9: 22). If you listened closely to that word, you ...

1185. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the office of the Chief Customs Inspector. But what we need to know is not the names of the disciples -- we need to know the kind of people they were. It's when we look at who these persons Jesus called to be his disciples were that we appreciate what the ... and faithful when we ourselves are shaking in our boots." (Donald Shelby, "God Rides the Lame Horse", Feb. 6, 1983). Despite that kind of awareness, God calls us just the same. The beginning of a life with Christ is the acknowledgement of our sin. The ...

1186. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... . Surely, any of these was more serious than stealing pears. Augustine saw in the "pear incident" his true nature and the nature of all human kind: "foul was the evil, and I loved it." In each of us there is sin. Now whether we talk about this in terms of original ... we do from who we are. We're not only ashamed of what we have done, we are ashamed of who we are. That kind of shame is devastating and we will never be whole until we deal with and overcome it. "Shame is a trademark of dysfunctional families ...

1187. Reflections On A Calling (ten-year Anniversary Sermon)

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... mind -- how could it be that He would put His hand on my shoulder and beckon me in this specific call? Paul voiced that same kind of concern in our Scripture lesson this morning: "It is by God's mercy that we're engaged in this ministry...We have this treasure ... those preachers who manage to move about with a sort of "other worldly air:, as though they were representing some third gender of human kind, or another order of life rather than one I'm a part of with my feet of clay. I remember a story of the preacher ...

1188. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... his own words, which he did in his book, The anatomy of an Illness. This is what happened. In 1964 he was flying home from an overseas meeting and felt a fever coming on. Within a week he was in the hospital, and his situation was diagnosed as a kind of arthritic degenerative disease. The prognosis was for paralysis the rest of his life at best and, at worst, death. His condition didn't improve in the hospital. The longer he was there and the more medication he took the worse he got. So finally he asked his ...

1189. To Live Is To Grow

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a sign of immaturity, it precludes the possibility of growth. Paul said, "I'm a debtor both to the Greeks and the barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise." (Romans 1:14 KJV). When we shut ourselves up in the security of relating to "our own kind", we become provincial and growth is stymied. An old movie which made it to the late spot on television sometime ago provided a parable for this failure. The scene was a tavern where the main character stood at a bar, drinking. His wife came to the door of ...

1190. From Empty Nets to Full Lives

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... no larger than the Sea of Galilee? I am thinking particularly of our capacity for goodness and Christian quality. We think little of Jesus's command that we should be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48). We discount the words as a kind of ancient hyperbole, or we push it aside with self-deprecating laughter: "Perfect? Who, me?" As one of your very imperfect brothers, I understand such feeling. But I don't want us to rule out so easily what God's grand purposes might be. I'm not ...

1191. A Longer Stride and a Larger Embrace

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... as you have helped sharpen it. I don’t know to whom the Holy Spirit first gave the word that we are using as a kind of descriptive slogan, but I’m grateful for someone’s sanctified attention: WHERE HEAD AND HEART GO HAND IN HAND. ATS has long been a ... I always read them with great joy, as well as being challenged. Though at least 35 years younger than me, Tammy is a kind of mentor. I’m learning from her simple bedrock faith and radical abandonment to Jesus. Always in her communication, there is a ...

1192. Equipping the Whole People of God: Penultimate Questions

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a chalk-like white cream. She was a sight for sore eyes. She went running out and shouted to the garbage truck driver, “Am I too late for the garbage?” He took one look at her and said, “No, hop right in!” That’s not the kind of peculiarity the Scripture is talking about. The word “peculiar” comes from the Latin meaning “a slave is private property.” So, as Christians, our relationship to God is unique. As Church, we are God’s own people, God’s possession. How long has it been since ...

1193. A Prophet Among Them

Ezekiel 2:1-3:15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... feet, and I will speak with you.” And the Lord does speak. The message, which Ezekiel is to preach, is given to him in a kind of scroll. So, Ezekiel receives his appointment. It is not a promising situation. Not the planting of a new church that is sure to grow ... . “Yes, it happens almost every time I fly out of here.” I could tell that she was not interested in the sunset or any kind of conversation, so I was gracious and returned to the book I was reading. When we were in the air, she left her seat to ...

1194. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... s what we do best – that’s the core of what we’re about – training effective pastors. But we train military chaplains, evangelists, missionaries. Our graduates are serving in 76 countries – they are serving in 22 of the 24 time zones around the world. That’s the kind of thing that tells the story. I believe that Asbury has been called to the Kingdom for such a time as this. I believe what I’ve been saying for ten years – that as the seminary goes, so goes the pastor; as the pastor goes, so ...

1195. The Proof Is In the Pudding

Luke 7:18-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... seen such joy. I’ve never known such a powerful witness. Tammy communicates with some of us via e-mail and she’s become a kind of mentor to me. Her witness is so full of life, so full of the vividness of Christ’s presence, so transparently open to being ... stuff when I taste the fruits of the trials. Doesn’t it say somewhere in the Bible that trials produce fruit and all kinds of good stuff? Hey, maybe there’s something to that…He has been teaching me (listen to this) He has been teaching me ...

1196. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... go silent in their ugly prejudices because your words will shame them, and ought to. If you maintain high moral standards, some will join you and others will be influenced. If you stay away from illicit entertainments, people will notice how different you are. If you show kindness and the common courtesies of respect, you will stand out. If you refuse to take the low road, some who are around you will find the high road to heaven because you showed them the way. If you are known as a man or woman who prays ...

1197. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1198. Spirit Power

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... moving corpses from one mortician to another, preaching a dynamite gospel and living firecracker lives.” (6) That’s where many of us find ourselves on this Pentecost Sunday. We look at the church and at its birth and we wonder, could we have that kind of joy, that kind of love, that kind of power in the world today? And the simple answer is, yes. Yes we can. How can it happen? It will happen when we open ourselves to the same power that created the church in the first place. God never intended us to be ...

1199. Stick to the Knitting

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... foolishness to the Greeks" to say that God became like us. It was "a scandal to the Jews," because the Jews believed that God was holy, and to be holy means to be pure. To be pure means that you are untainted by sin and corruption of any kind. So God could have nothing to do with human life, because human life was sinful and the earth is corrupted. God, in Jewish thought, was removed from human life as well. Then Jesus came, not aloof or indifferent, but in the beautiful words of that Christmas hymn, "Once ...

1200. Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... and fluids from a bottle. If I ever get to that state, I just want you to pull the plug.” His wife thought about this for a moment, got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all his beer. Some of us know somebody who’s in that kind of vegetative state. We want to talk today about freedom. This week we celebrate our nation’s independence, as well we should. What a precious gift! In the book, My America, news reporter Lucy Yang recalls her family’s immigration to the United States when she was just two ...

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