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1176. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we think we can't. And it doesn't help us to pretend. Don't lie about it. Be honest. Find someone, or a few persons, with whom you can share. Let them know the emptiness you feel, your pain, your sense of being betrayed. There is someone who will understand and will listen and will stick with you and accept your raging, or your withdrawal, or your questioning silence. So, don't lie about it. Don't try to sing when your singing is going to mock your feelings. At the same time, don't give in to the despair ...

1177. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of this line. He translates it, "Love never does the graceless thing. Unseemly behavior is action that is void of grace." Isn't that beautiful. Love does the graceless thing. Grace is an almost indefinable word as far as the New Testament is concerned. In our ordinary understanding it has elements of charm and refinement and elegance about it. But in the New Testament sense, it has to do with good will and favor and undeserved benefit at the hands of a loving God -- and it means that, as we live a life of ...

1178. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have faced more misery and despair in myself and around me than I ever did before. They have been painful years -- but they have also been beautiful years, and in the midst of all that was hurtful I have also found beauties I never knew existed. Now I think I understand something that Dean Taylor said to me when he was leaving the Seminary for another ministry. I told him how much he had meant to me over the two and one-half years that I had known him. And that was true. This beautiful man had led me into ...

1179. Will The Real God Please Stand?

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1180. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and learning how to give all we had. As life went on and years went by. I saw the light in Daddy's eye. And felt the love in Momma's hand. They kept us warm and kept us fed. Taught us how to look ahead. Now looking back I understand. We were walking in High Cotton,old times there are not forgotten. Those fertile fields are never far away.We were walking in High Cotton.Old times there are not forgotten.Leaving home was the hardest thing we ever faced. If you are from rural Mississippi or rural anywhere, that ...

1181. What If

1 Chronicles 7:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Kay and with God. And because of her praying, she could no longer either be separated from Kay or separated from God. And I never will forget the morning when Jerry, her face wet with tears, came from her time of prayer with this word: "I don't understand it; I will never understand it. I don't know what God is doing or what He can do, but I do know that He must be doing at least what I am doing today -- hurting and crying for little Kay. What a breakthrough! What an experience of God in prayer. To know ...

1182. Remember Your Baptism

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... casually that event in a person’s life which is so crucial. Being buried with Christ in baptism – having the sign and the seal of our salvation placed upon us with water and the laying on of hands. Now I move to a very crucial point in our understanding. Baptism is not only a means of grace for the one baptized. It is a means of grace for the whole church. Whether it is the baptism of an infant or the baptism of an adult – the entire congregation celebrating that baptism goes back to the memory and ...

1183. Smart Living

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... from us. Is there any age in life, any circumstance in life, when Paul's words would be inappropriate? "Be very careful . . . how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. INSTEAD, BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT." Notice those last five words: "Be filled with the Spirit." He's told us to use our heads, NOW HE'S TELLING US TO OPEN OUR ...

1184. Christmas and the New Family

John 1:1-18

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God." A new family is about to come into existence -- a family born of God. We need some background to appreciate and understand what is happening. The Old Testament scriptures tell us that God gave our human race an utterly beautiful start by setting us in a garden of perfect delight. But we human beings rebelled against God, and chose to listen to the voice of the intruder -- sin. As a ...

1185. Compassion Fatigue

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , shall meet me at every corner.” Redford said that that became a light in the darkness of his life, and he was encouraged to go on, confident that God is at work, preveniently, even when we’re not aware of it. That’s a marvelous Wesleyan understanding of grace. We need to internalize that meaning. Brothers and sisters, we cannot be God. It’s tempting to try, isn’t it? We want to help people. We want to fix things. We feel a compulsion to be there and provide something for every situation – it ...

1186. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... mouth always be like this?” she asked me. “Yes, it will. It is because I have cut the nerve…” She nods and is silent. But the young man smiled. “I like it,” he says. “It is sort of cute, like you.” All at once I know who he is. I understand and I lower my gaze. One is not bold in such an encounter. Unmindful of me he bends to kiss her crooked mouth and I am so close. I can see how he twists his own lips to accommodate hers, to show her that their kiss still works.” (Harcourt Brace ...

1187. The Nature of the Church and Christian Discipleship

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... --- that he was laughing at something, such as his failure in two marriages – to keep from crying. He came off in most of his columns as crusty and tough, but now and then he would write of some of the hard issues of life and communicate a depth of understanding and winsome tenderness that drove his point home. In one of his columns he wrote about the church. Listen to him. On a cold day last week I stood outside the church in my hometown of Moreland, Georgia, that is so dear to my childhood and tried to ...

1188. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our works, or mistaken in the notion that our works would save us. …We would be delivered from frantic preoccupation with taking our spiritual temperature minute by minute. …We would be free and spontaneous in our witness, exercising patience, and understanding as well as speaking with conviction and challenge. …We would not get overwrought with our friends about future security, for we would be assured of our present relationship with Christ – who loves us with an immeasurable love. POWER FOR DAILY ...

1189. Standing In the Gap: The Work of Intercession

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... get our minds and hearts around this fact—God chose to order creation and all of life in such a way to include us in accomplishing His will. You see, prayer is not my idea—it’s God’s idea. It’s crucial to nail that down in our understanding of prayer. Though it sounds so simple, it’s a profound issue. Think about it. Prayer raises some very tough questions. For instance, what about the sovereignty of God? Isn’t God going to do whatever God wants to do whether we pray or not? Why should we pray ...

1190. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v1

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... those who are a part of the Kingdom community -- must be an enclave of resistance, then my perception is seriously blurred. So, let’s think about it. I Let’s begin by thinking about the nature of resistance. The Church has never been able consistently to understand what it means to be “in the world but not of the world.” We’ve known at every period of our history that the very nature of the Church provoked some form of resistance. There is always the sense in which Kingdom ideals are in conflict ...

1191. Abraham and God's Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... denied. Hey, fellow wilderness wanderers, have you ever made that same mistake? You’ve offered up a prayer to God, but seemingly no answer came, and so you assumed that God wasn’t listening, or didn’t care, or at least had said, “No.” Do you understand that God doesn’t measure time like we measure time? I don’t want to wax philosophical on you, but the creator God stands outside the constraints of time and space. The writer of 2 Peter cites the words of the Psalmist and declares, “But do ...

1192. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... getting it right and surprising even ourselves! Jesus welcomes us into a parallel reality called the kingdom of God. We are invited to plug in! It is a new world in the midst of the old. But living in two worlds at the same time is confusing, and we can understand how slow the first followers were to learn. What was natural for Jesus was unnatural for them. He made it look easy, and for him it was. He was not weakened by sin, and evil had no place to attach to him; he was free to obey the Father and ...

1193. The Holy Spirit Came Upon Them

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... they can speak in the language of Mesopotamia and Palestine, Asia Minor and Egypt, Rome and Crete and Arabia. And it prompts the disciples to tell of "the mighty works of God," in all of those languages (v. 11), so that travelers from all those lands can understand what is being said. Several major themes thrust out at us from this text. First of all, it is clear that God keeps his promises. His Christ had promised the disciples at the Last Supper that he would not leave them desolate, but that he would ...

1194. Set Apart For God's Purposes

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... and king (cf. Exodus 22:28), because two witnesses of a crime were necessary according to the law (Deuteronomy 17:6; 19:15) and cursing God was a capital offense, bringing death by stoning (Leviticus 24:16). That which covenant people know, but which Jezebel does not understand, is that there is a higher Power than that of state or king or society. Covenant people are sworn to obey that Power, but they also know that all people are responsible to him, for they know that the final King over this earth is God ...

1195. To Live Is to Dance

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ? How do you catch a flower and pin it down. Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her, many a thing she ought to understand. But how do you make her stay and listen to what you say? How do you keep a wave upon the sand. Oh how do you solve ... his shoulder, but couldn’t budge it from the floor. The cross was made of heavy, iron oak beams. Puffing with amazement, I don’t understand it, I thought it would be hollow. Why do you carry such a heavy cross? Mr. Lange replied softly, sir, if I didn’t feel ...

1196. In the Cross of Christ We Glory

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Michael Milton

... —his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness—so will he sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand (Isaiah 52:13-15, NIV). Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him ...

1197. Set-Apart People

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

1198. Let's Get Serious

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... is in the next verse, "First, they gave themselves to the Lord." Paul is not a fund-raiser, he is a recruiter. You see, Paul believes there is a war going on. You won't understand what Paul says in this letter unless you understand that. In fact, you won't understand what Paul says in any of his letters unless you understand Paul believes there is a war going on, so this is serious business. The Church has a mission to perform in this world. The Church is not just another religious club, of which there were ...

1199. Dealing with Criticism

1 Corinthians 4:1-5

Sermon

James L. Killen

... of the Christian gospel and of the purpose of God. You can access that through a daily study of the Christian scriptures and traditions and regular practice of worship and devotional life. We can't just arrogantly assume that we already know all that God knows. Understanding the purpose of God is something that must be sought humbly and diligently. The other place from which the answer will come is a sensitivity to what is going on in your own life and in the lives of others and in the world around you ...

1200. At War with Myself

Romans 7:15-25a

Sermon

William G. Carter

... 'll never do it again." The accuser slips away, still wounded. The woman watches her go. Then she pulls out the cell phone, dials the number, and says, "Can you believe the nerve of her?" Why does she do it? Doesn't she know better? Paul says, "I don't understand my own actions." We can take him at his word. All of us do stupid things, destructive things, things that don't make any sense. I remember when I was ten years old, I threw a snowball at the windshield of a moving police car, and hit it. What was ...

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