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1301. Assurance: The Privilage of All Believers

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God is able to keep us from falling; of course he can. Now this doctrine does not encourage one to obey sin, but to resist it with all our might. (“Sin in the Life of the Believer,” Ibid., pages 671-672). Now here is what separates a Methodist understanding from those who believe in eternal security — whether we yield to sin in our lives to the point that we forfeit our salvation. So get the matter straight. It is not a question of whether God is able to keep us from falling; of course he is able ...

1302. Dying to Live

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... by what he said. His conquest would come, not in terms of over-powering the enemy with might and main, but by sacrifice and death. The messianic dream of conquest was transformed into vision of the cross. Is it any wonder that they didn’t understand Him? Is it any wonder that they did not want to understand Him? And what about us? That gets us to the heart of the message to we focus on what Jesus said. II He said two big things. First, you have to spend your life to find it. Now that’s not the way of ...

1303. Barriers to Grace

Exodus 6:28--7:7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... consider, that whoever is not brought near, is driven away by the influences which God brings to bear in our lives. When I was growing up in rural Mississippi, I used to hear evangelists talk about “gospel-hardened sinners”. I found it very difficult understanding what they were talking about. But now I know. I’ve known a number of people throughout my ministry who seemed to be impervious to the gospel. Their hearts were hardened. I remember a very dramatic example of it in the first church I served ...

1304. The Trinity

John 16:5-16

Sermon

... behavior under the guise of “It seems good to us and to the Holy Spirit.” We will be speaking more of the Holy Spirit as the season of Pentecost progresses. I would simply like to close with this thought on the Trinity. It perhaps might help us to understand this doctrine better if we word it this way: God the Father who is for us, God the Son who is with us, and God the Holy Spirit who is within us. Someone once asked Mrs. Albert Einstein if she understood her husband’s theory of relativity. No, she ...

1305. Exit and Entrance

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... bondage where God was shut up in the Temple. Worship of God had ceased to be spiritual worship and had become scrupulous observance of legal enactments. So, today, we look at the nature of that freedom which is given us by Christ in order to understand, appropriate, and celebrate what it is all about. Those two perspectives are “exit” and “entrance.” II Let’s look first from the perspective of exit. If you’re taking notes, put down two words that capture what we see and experience when we look ...

1306. Sons of God

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... what God looked like, so I just drew a picture of my daddy.” (2) I wish every little girl and every little boy could see God in her or his father. Unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. Sometimes the image of a bad father spills over into one’s understanding of God. That’s really sad. Our lesson for the day puts the emphasis on who we are not in relation to our earthly father but to our Heavenly Father. Paul writes to the church at Galatia, “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus ...

1307. What Would Jesus Say About Marriage?

Matthew 19:3-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ready for an institution yet.” Disciples say, after Jesus’ probing teaching about the sacredness of marriage, “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.” Paul says in I Corinthians Chapter 7, which is a lengthy teaching of his understanding of marriage, “It is good for the unmarried and the widows to stay unmarried as I am.” I point to these scriptures as a reminder that one is a whole number. We don’t have to be attached to somebody else in order to be a ...

1308. The Kingdom for Which We Long

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... there and not yet. And those who have eyes to see can embrace what is yet to be and yet to come. That is our understanding of the kingdom. It was a large impressive waiting room furnished with the finest of chairs and stocked with the latest magazines. On this particular ... that the lost be found. It is the will of God that the least be helped. What part of God’s will don’t you understand? Don’t we have work to do? If we care enough to pray the prayer, then don’t we have a responsibility to embrace the ...

1309. The Church As Family

Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... said years ago, “We all need a place, we need somewhere to be.” Even though it’s technically not true, I understand our tendency to use a personal possessive pronoun to describe Church spaces. This is my church, my Sunday School Class, my pew ... greed give way to good and that there be an equal sharing of the resources of earth. 8. What part of God’s will don’t you understand? Wasn’t Dante right? — In God’s will is our peace. There is a will of God. And Jesus says on this day when his mother ...

1310. What Can Christians Learn from Muslims?

Genesis 21:1-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ., all of Arabia was under his control. By the end of the century, the Muslims had conquered Armenia, Persia, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and parts of North Africa and Spain. Like all religions, Islam is not united. It is impossible to fully understand the situation in Iraq without understanding the thought patterns of the Sunnis and the Shiites, a subject I must reserve for another day. II. THE FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM FAITH A. BELIEF: “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." Allah is the Arabic ...

1311. By Humbly Doing Good

1 Peter 5:6-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... chew them up. Last night the dog got hold of my sermon and chewed up the last several pages." The congregation seemed to understand the plight of the pastor. In fact, one visitor to the church shook the preacher's hand after service and said, “If that ... leave them here. Or as the writer of Proverbs said, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge God and God will direct your paths (Proverbs 3:5). Cast all your cares on Christ. Why? BECAUSE HE ...

1312. Cheering from the Stands

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... course, these witnesses cheering from the stands didn’t simply set records they gave their lives that we might have the faith that is ours today. I would like for us to focus for a few moments on this cloud of witnesses in order that we might better understand why they can serve as such great encouragement for us. I want to continue where we left off last week so that the faith of our ancestors might motivate us to live more deeply the faith that they preserved for us. These heroes of our faith, first of ...

1313. To Say Elohim

Genesis 1:1-2:4a

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... your pastor, I'm not terribly concerned about whether or not you have resolved your questions about the existence of God? But there are two conclusions about God that do concern me. The first is if you say, "I've got God figured out. I know what God wants; I understand him. God is thus and so, and that settles it." I hope you see the problem with that position. If we have God all defined, if he is capable of being grasped in his entirety in the human mind, then he is less than the human mind and cannot be ...

1314. Hidden in Plain Sight

1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16)

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... ?" Well, I was indeed! So we began to be little more mindful of the taping as we planned the services; sometimes the music was altered; there were certain preachers you might want on campus but not on the tube. And on it went. I came to understand firsthand how controlling what starts out as a tool can become. When does using such tools of the world become worldly and a subversion of the gospel? In his 1986 book, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, the late Neil ...

1315. Sometimes, God Says, “No”

Matthew 7:7-12

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

... get good jobs, and with good jobs, they can buy houses and food and warm clothes. God wants us to help people who need homes and food and clothes. If I started a scholarship with some of that money, wouldn’t I be helping those people? So I don’t understand it! I had good plans for that money ... plans that would help other people in ways that I know God wants us to help other people. So why didn’t I get a million dollars? Well, guess what? I don’t know. God does answer our prayers, and sometimes he ...

1316. LENT: The Passion of Christ: "Exalted"

Luke 19:28-40, John 19:14-30

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... gave thanks over the cup. This whole talk about His body being the Bread and His blood being the wine just didn't compute. But now it does. We may not understand it fully but we understand that it represents His sacrifice for us. We understand that His was the last sacrifice. That no more blood sacrifices need to be made. We understand and feel His presence every time we come to His table. And one of the reasons we remember is because Jesus is once again exalted. Today we celebrate two parades. The Parade ...

1317. Disillusioned Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... things to a nine year old? And yet she had asked the question that every one of us who dares to believe will ask sooner or later. If God is great and God is good, why do the innocent suffer? (3) There is much in life we do not understand, and if something terrible happens to us or to someone we love, disillusionment is apt to follow. A few years ago, a fascinating book by Mitch Albom hit the bestseller lists. You may have read it. It was titled, Tuesdays with Morrie. Here’s the story. The author learns ...

1318. Kissing Cousins (Father's Day)

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... (1 Thessalonians 5:26). And Paul wasn’t the only one to talk about people in church kissing. In his first letter, Peter wrote, “Greet one another with a kiss of love” (1 Peter 5:14). Now, before you get too excited about this text, you need to understand that this style of kissing had nothing at all to do with romance. Actually, in the early church, men kissed men and women kissed women. Now, if that makes you a little queasy, let me remind you that there are many cultures today in which it is ...

1319. The Wisdom of The Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... into trouble. They could be telling you that Santa Claus is the Antichrist and you would tend to believe them, not because what they're saying makes sense, but because their words are so impressive. If you can understand the allure of brilliant rhetoric, you have a jump on understanding the second reading for this Sunday. First, here's the context. Paul is concerned about the church in Corinth because of the factions that have been formed. People have divided up into various house churches that have been ...

1320. How Do We Make Sense of This?

Romans 8:35-39, Hebrews 10:1-39

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... of the way God works through the atonement, while also attaching a whole new meaning to it. In the spirit in which Hebrews was written, there is a challenge to God's people in every time and place to make sense of the crucifixion and understand its meaning as well. How do you make sense of it? Through the centuries, the doctrine of the atonement has remained the prevailing interpretation of the cross. That doctrine tells us that because we've sinned, we're going to have to face the ultimate punishment ...

1321. Love That Surpasses Knowledge

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... mouth. When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. (1 Peter 2:22-23) This is not the love of Hollywood cinema. This is a love that surpasses human understanding. Although we are called to follow in his steps, it is only through faith that we are able to do so. Although we may not be humanly capable of performing it, we can become transformed by it. In the book, God's Word in Man's Language, author ...

1322. Don't Mess with the IRS

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... talk about that for a few moments. First of all, of course, we owe God our money. This church would not be here if you did not believe in giving God your money. Whether you give God a tithe, 10 percent, or even a fraction of that, you and I understand that giving is part of our responsibility as followers of Christ. We owe money to our country because we drive on its roads. Somebody has to pay for those roads. Somebody has to pay for our schools, our military and all the benefits of a free and affluent land ...

1323. Christmas Is a God-Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... a valuable vase last week.’ If loving parents don’t have a need to memorize their children’s failures, you can rest assured our loving heavenly Father has no use for such memories either.” (6) Jesus showed us God’s amazing grace. He helped us by understanding that grace is not something you earn, but is a free gift. We could not reach up to God intellectually . . . or morally . . . We could not even reach up to God with our good deeds or good works. Even now, 2100 years after the birth of Christ ...

1324. Scientific Jargon

Humor Illustration

... ANALYSIS OF OBTAINABLE DATA . . . Three pages of notes were obliterated when I knocked over a glass of soda. IT IS CLEAR THAT MUCH ADDITIONAL WORK WILL BE REQUIRED BEFORE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PHENOMENA OCCURS . . . I don't understand it. AFTER ADDITIONAL STUDY BY MY COLLEAGUES . . . They don't understand it either. THANKS ARE DUE TO JOE BLOTZ FOR ASSISTANCE WITH THE EXPERIMENT AND TO ANDREA SCHAEFFER FOR VALUABLE DISCUSSIONS . . . Mr. Boltz did the work and Ms. Shaeffer explained to me what ...

1325. I Am Baptized!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... Son, whom I love . . . .” And so we count baptism as a sacrament of the church. Jesus was baptized and we who follow Christ understand baptism to be central to the Christian life. But there is something else we need to see: baptism is a sign that we belong ... overnight.” I suspect that a lot of us would need to be anchored for a while to get rid of all our sins. We need to understand that baptism isn’t a ritual by which we are washed clean. Neither is it a sign that we are going to try our best to quit ...

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