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1251. With a Little Help from My Friends

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... heard this, he found Heather and talked her into going to lunch with him so she wouldn’t find out what her friends had planned. “I know it was a little thing,” says Heather Floyd, “but what he did was so kind and unselfish. He really cared about my feelings. It just showed me what it means to be a real friend.” (5) What we believe can have an impact on our families and our friends. What you and I believe can also have an impact on complete strangers. I have been assuming the four men in this story ...

1252. Stop the Offerings!

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... old rugged cross? This scripture reading from the tenth chapter of Hebrews deals directly with this issue. It's hard for us today to feel or understand the radical nature of what the writer of Hebrews was saying. Remember, up to this time the sacrifice of doves and lambs ... in the gut, the whoosh of adrenaline rush as we realize we did it again, or we know we are about to. For until we do feel at one with God again, we will be like the 400-pound man who has given up on dieting, for the way back seems just too ...

1253. Pentecost: The Neglected Factor

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... efforts that I make will do no good. They will never prevail to tip the hovering scale where justice hangs in the balance. I don’t think I ever really thought they would, but I’m prejudiced beyond debate in favor of my right to choose which side shall feel the stubborn ounces of my weight.” And so it is, when you decide to make your life the argument; and when you depend upon the Holy Spirit for power, you will make a difference. It will begin in the intimate circles where you live every day. And then ...

1254. The Family: A Place For Persons

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in agony all the night. I found out what the trouble was –they had the paper clipped to tight.” So everybody, everybody needs a place. I’m talking about physical stability, yes, but far more than that. I’m talking about a place where persons feel personal belonging, identity, security; a place which becomes a symbol for the ongoing-ness of life; the fact that there is a connection, a relationship; that there is core of people who are tied together in a bond of mutual love and respect. First in your ...

1255. Living Deliberately

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... into the Louve and shouted, “Quick, where’s the Mona Lisa, I’m double parked outside.” We flip through the pages of the Bible, we drop in on Church now and then, we offer a quickie prayer as we fall asleep at night, and feel that we have performed our religious duties. We become so conditioned and calloused by science and technology, we have so given ourselves an affirmation to the reign of law and invariable natural order, that we repudiate even the possibility of some deeper meaning hidden beneath ...

1256. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... vacation travels, especially if you get near Mexico. Or, perhaps less impish, but also less sophisticated, you thought of a Cecil B. DeMille presentation such as he did with Moses. Now if you didn’t think of anything when you read the title, don’t feel bad. If you did, maybe you should keep your thoughts to yourself — at least forget them while I preach, because I want you to receive the image as something beautiful and challenging. In fact, it’s one of Paul’s wonderful phrases — “Saints in ...

1257. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was emaciated. His hands trembled and his face was unshaven. He told the doctor that he had lost his zip in life and that he didn't feel like he wanted to live anymore. The doctor said to him, "I have the solution for you. You need to go and look up Grimaldi, the ... us to expand the wings of the spirit and drives us towards the throne of God in prayer. Do we not pray most when we feel we need most? If there was no temptation, no fierce pressure from the evil one, then perhaps we might not use the wings of ...

1258. Will The Real God Please Stand?

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1259. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the multitude. Yes, in such incidents, and in countless other ways, Jesus served notice on his followers that God needed them and what they had... (That's something we need to hear.) "We're needed! Every last one of us is needed, even those of us who feel no one needs us, those who believe they have nothing to offer that anyone would want. Jesus makes plain, however, that we and God have business with each other. God's self-revelation and gift of love in Jesus Christ inaugurate a mission in which we are ...

1260. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the pain goes away. If we disregard the pain and continue our wrong doing, the star continues to rotate. The points of the star gradually wear away and the pain gets less and less. Finally the points are completely worn off. The star becomes a disc, and we feel no pain regardless of how severe our misdeeds may be. We must never allow our minds and hearts to be dulled to the crowing of the rooster. An article from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, (Feb. 20, 1986), tells the story of one in whom the rooster's crow stayed ...

1261. The Commitment Question: Will You Lay Down Your Life For Me?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... out of his seat in the house, jumped on the stage, pushed one of the actors off of the chair, sat down, and said, "Excuse me please, I want to sit here for awhile. I need to see how it feels." That's a cue for us. We need to seek to put ourselves in the place of other, feel what they feel. Not sympathy, but empathy is the dynamic of loving with the love of Christ. In a footnote in our old hymnal is a phrase which most Protestant churches removed from some of the early versions of the Creed: "He descended ...

1262. Naming And Being Named

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that's not always the same. Look at the Psalms. On one occasion the psalmist will be praying, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" In another instance he will be praying, "Oh God thou art my rock and my salvation". One time he'll be praying "I feel like an owl in the waste places". At another time he will pray "In the shadow of your wings I sing for joy". So we name God as God is in our experience. But not only so. The second dynamic is that we name ourselves as we are before God ...

1263. From Hurting to Helping

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... feet and came to Jesus." He wasn’t going to stay stuck in his pain, not if he could help it. You and I see it all the time--people who remain stuck in their pain. The spurned spouse who will not let go of the rage he or she feels toward his or her ex. The widow or widower who will not let go of the grief following the loss of their beloved husband or wife. Parents who cannot cope with a debilitating or deadly disease of one of their children, who take it out on each other rather than ...

1264. Faith for Troubling Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... woman leaves her pew and takes the baby in her arms. It has little effect. The congregation sings "Silent Night" as the baby with the strongest set of lungs in the county is taken noisily from the sanctuary. The service is over and somehow the weary nurse now feels energized. "It was a real baby," the nurse marvels to herself. "Jesus was a real baby. It was not just a story. He cried and fussed and messed. He caused his mother anguish. He was one of us, just like us." Then she thinks to herself, "God really ...

1265. Songs of the Season

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... is to inspire such creation from another. I wonder how many artists could credit a spouse or friend for the work of genius which came from their brush or pen? I've noticed that often a minister will note, in a preface to a book, that he or she feels indebted to the people of the parish for the help they have given. The ebbing coals of inspiration are often blown into a bright flame by someone's thoughtful word or attentive ear. So it was, it seems, with Elizabeth and Mary. When the angel spoke to Mary, she ...

1266. God Outwits Us

Psalm 31:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ? Lord, you told me that you would be near to those who have a broken and a contrite spirit (Ps. 34:18). Then why do I feel so alone?… Life seems unfair and all I can do is ask, “Why?”… I’ve been told that your ways are not my ways and your ... Teresa of Avila that we need to hide in our hearts and claim on those dry days, when our way seems like a desert, when we feel empty and alone, and are wondering how we are going to make it: “Never fear that the Lord who invites us to drink of the fountain ...

1267. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the story to one another to ease the pain and share the heaviness. We know where Emmaus is don’t we? We have been there in one way or another at sometime in our live. Emmaus is whatever we do, or wherever we go to salvage and sort out our feelings, to summon the desire and courage and desire to keep going on, to try and forget. Emmaus is whatever we do or wherever we go to reclaim our sanity when our world goes to pieces; when our ideals and dreams are violated and distorted. I’ve shared with many of ...

1268. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... or make us unfit to stand in God’s holy place: our actions and our attitudes. “He who has clean hands,” the psalmist says, -- that has to do with our actions (what we do). Those who have a “pure heart” -- that has to do with our attitudes, the way we feel. Put another way, I don’t think it has as much to do with our performance as it has to do with our will and our willingness. The question is not have we kept the Law or have we performed required sacrifices, but do we have clean hands and pure ...

1269. Awake to Glory

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... the greatest reality was not what he discovered in laboratory experiments, but what he found in his communion with God, through Jesus Christ. It was at such a time that he was "fully awake." Most of us are too quick to downgrade our faith perceptions. We seem to feel that the things we can touch and handle are the only realities; and we are instinctively skeptical of that which we get by faith. We always say that love is blind; but a thoughtful woman who was very much in love once replied, "No, love isn't ...

1270. God's Say-So

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is a wonderful echo of Psalm 118, vs. 6: “The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” Do you feel the power of that? Because God has said, “I will never leave you,” you and I can say, “I will not be afraid.” Courage and certainty ... a debtor, Daily I’m constrained to be! Let thy goodness like a fetter Bind my wand’ring heart to thee; Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love; Here’s my heart, O take and seal it, Seal it for thy courts above. God’s ...

1271. Standing In the Gap: The Work of Intercession

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the urgency of it. How many parents have been driven to their knees because of their children—the urgent need of their children? Then there is the lesson of willing love. As already indicated, hospitality was a big issue in the culture of Jesus. So a visitor could feel that he could knock on the door of another person, even at midnight, and know that he would find a place of welcome. Notice that the host did not excuse himself by saying he had no bread—or that it was the middle of the night—rather he ...

1272. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you groan before their eyes!” (Ezekiel 21:11) Are you groaning before the eyes of your people? Do they see that kind of passion and compassion flowing from your life? Who are the people in your congregation, who, though they may be members, don’t feel they really belong? Who are the people in your community who have yet to receive a clear message from you personally, and from the church, that you deeply care for them and that God loves them? What about the poor? Are you committed to the irrefutable ...

1273. A Thousand Years Of Ashes

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... s suffering. For many of them, this is the first time they have even thought about the effects of their choices. Their sense of empathy and remorse motivates many of these hardened criminals to change their behavior. (5) If you have come into this service with a feeling of remorse, that is a good thing. It says something about you and you character. It says something good about you and your search for God. REMORSE IS THE FIRST STEP IN AUTHENTIC REPENTANCE. Now it’s time to take the next step. It is time ...

1274. Dealing With Your Enemies

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Hur, you have become a Massala.” That’s what hatred does to us. It is impossible to have the Spirit of Christ within us and at the same time to have a spirit of hatred for any other human being. And yet, it is so hard not to have ill feelings toward those who have wronged us. Truthfully every one of us will fail this test at some time or another. In fact, that’s the point our Lord is making in our lesson for today. Note his words, “Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without ...

1275. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... so drunks can have a place to hear about the Savior? You worship him and follow him and ask for a piece of the action. It feels good to be near such love. God is utterly committed to the gospel of his Son and to anyone who makes it their first priority. Outside ... not fair, is it? First he takes away everything in which they trusted; then he tells them not to worry about how it feels, which is extremely uncomfortable, on the verge of a panic attack! The Lord is not playing with them; he is exposing what’s ...

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