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1326. Waiting for God

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... were planted with the coming of Jesus 2,000 years ago are growing and will one day blossom forth with justice and dignity for all people. Do not be deceived. God is at work. Maybe you know about the century plant. The century plant is native to the desert regions. It is so named because it is a notoriously slow grower. For decades, the century plant will show no signs of growth. It will just look like a scrubby, ugly little bush. Then one day, it will suddenly start growing. It may grow half a foot per ...

1327. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a God or at least a superman. If I'm not mistaken, this also gives us the clue to the meaning of all culture. For, after all, culture is the conquest, the management, the cultivation of the world. When fruitful farmland is made out of a desert and when human settlements arise in the primeval forests, this means that the seal of man is stamped upon the world. Every shelter and home and every garden is a victory won by man over the surging elements. "We therefore dare not think that culture always arises ...

1328. Who Are You Waiting For?

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and cry to her that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for her sin. A voice cries, in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up and every mountain and hill made low, the uneven ground shall be made level and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” These ...

1329. Pentecost: The Neglected Factor

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... didn’t do it. 120 followers of Jesus gathered in Jerusalem, they had chosen Christ, had given their lives to him in commitment and discipleship. Many of them had walked with him during those three years, they had lived through the crucifixion deserting, betraying, turning their backs on him. The resurrection had kindled a fire and there came that deep conviction that Christ who was dead was now alive again. Yet they still huddled behind closed doors. Their confidence and certainty were barely above zero ...

1330. The Power Of Purpose

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the purpose. Paul had laid down the flail of the persecutor and took up the torch of the evangel on the Damascus Road. There he began the course of a great adventure, an adventure that sent him trudging through the then-known world – through the deserts and over the mountains, through blinding blizzard and blistering sun, traveling in peril of his own life, shipwrecked, beaten by the Romans, stoned by the Jew. Yet, throwing back his great cloak to show the scars of his beatings there saying, ‘I bear in ...

1331. How May We Come To God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the King of Glory". Now, our day isn't one that makes it easy to think in terms of the Transcendent, Omnipotent, Omniscient God. "At the time when the psalm was written, human beings were small, and nature was great and mysterious. In the sands of the desert, the storms, the times of drought and the periods of flood, nature was not subject to human beings; human beings were at the mercy of nature. As a result, petty humanity saw sinister gods and demons at work in the mighty forces of nature. And yet Israel ...

1332. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1333. East Of Eden And The City Of Beginning

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... metal shared found everywhere in that war-torn land of destruction and gave it to his prisoner. When Father Janco fell seriously ill, his captors decided to release him. They trussed him like turkey for stuffing, blindfolded him and took him to a remote spot along a deserted road, tossed him from the truck into the ditch and then drove off. All he had were the clothes on his back, his Bible and the metal cross which he held in his bound hands. As he lay in the ditch recovering from the whole ordeal, he ...

1334. The Day Is Not For Sleeping

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... becoming less convincing and more embarrassing, increasing worldliness, a critical and censorious spirit toward other Christians, the absence of any apparent desire to become mature in Christ. Perhaps in rare, wakeful moments, these sons of light who have plunged into the darkness of desertion may hear an echo of Cowper's haunting words: "Where is the blessedness I knew when first I saw the Lord. Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? We are all in danger of this spiritual sleep. (John N ...

1335. How To Be Rich And Poor

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... resources to cope with anything -- to feel that they can buy anything they want, and even buy themselves out of any situation which they might wish to escape. James draws a very vivid picture which would have been very familiar to the people in Palestine. In the desert places, if there is a shower of rain, the thin green shoots of grass will sprout. Yet, one day's burning sunshine will make them vanish as if they had never been.James is saying that as the grass and flower wilt, and their beauty comes to ...

1336. Prepare The Way Of The Lord

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... powers. They had lost their way, and though not now wandering in an literal wilderness, they were in the wilderness of despair. So, Isaiah speaks to them. Listen to him: A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together ...

1337. Building A House

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... selling hope." Millions of people are selling all sorts of things, spending millions of dollars to get us to buy what they offer. Where are those who will sell hope? The market is there. Desperation and despair are everywhere. If we can sell water on a dry desert, we can certainly sell hope on the ash heap of destruction which many of our lives have become. The family needs to be the setting where hope is cultivated, transmitted from one to the other. The family ought to be the place where when one person ...

1338. You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... who said that? Stevie Wonder, a man who has faced the challenge of being black and blind and growing up in poverty. His sightlessness may have been caused from problems that developed from a premature birth. He was the third of five children. His father deserted his mother and she struggled to raise them, working at times as a seamstress and sometimes in a fish-packing plant. He has excelled in his musical career and is a superstar in the best sense of that word. His output has been prodigious. 30 albums ...

1339. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Paul mentions him, first in a lineup of other disciples, and he says, "Demas, my fellow worker". The second time he is mentioned is in company with Luke. Paul says, "Luke, my beloved disciple and Demas". And then the third time there is this tragic commentary, "Demas has deserted me because he loved the world too much." His is the story of giving up too soon. One writer concluded, "The most important thing in life is not to run away." Do you feel the impact of that? You do, if you've ever been tempted as I ...

1340. The Problem with Signs

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... a Creator, but they are not. We always clamor for more. Now the people wanted a sign that Jesus was the Messiah. "What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you?" they asked. "What will you do? Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'" Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of ...

1341. The Coronation of Christ

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... know that because Jesus Christ has been born. If ever a life seemed to end in shattered dreams and futility, it was his -- his mission of love and healing and teaching come to naught but the thirst and pain and blood of a cross; denied by his inner circle, deserted by those he had called his friends. But God ruled his life; God was in charge. And so Golgotha gave way to Easter morn and that which had seemed futility turned into God's resurrection victory for us all. A cross which had been a symbol of death ...

1342. The Glory of Christ

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... all nations will be gathered to her light. They will carry Israel's exiled children back to Jerusalem (v. 4) and bring with them abundant gifts to rebuild the temple and to supply its sacrifices (vv. 5-7). There will be camels bearing gifts from the desert tribes of Midian and Ephah; gold and frankincense from the Arabian trading center of Sheba; herds from Kedar and Nabaioth; silver and gold from the sea peoples; fine timber from the North. But all will be brought to pay homage, not to Israel, but to the ...

1343. The Two Ways of Life

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the iron-like earth to mark where they have been. Such is the life of persons who trust only in themselves and other human beings to protect and secure their lives, says Jeremiah. Using the terms of his landscape, he says they are like shrubs in a desolate desert, planted in earth full of salt. There is no growth, no blossoming, no prolongation of their life. Neither in life nor in death do they abide. In contrast, proclaims our prophet, the one who trusts in the Lord is like a tree planted by a stream of ...

1344. Passing From Old to New

Joshua 5:13--6:27

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the Lord also? If so, then Israel will fulfill her God-given task of being the medium of blessing for all the families of the earth, bringing all nations to worship the one true God. Or will Israel turn to other gods and goddesses and go her own willful way, deserting the task for which God has made her his own? That is the same task to which you and I and all Christians are called. We too have been redeemed out of slavery to sin and death and given a new beginning, in the glorious liberty of the children ...

1345. Tasks For The Living God

Acts 16:11-15

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... church in Rome (Romans 16:3). The first witness of the resurrection and therefore the first apostle was a woman, Mary Magdalene, according to John (John 20:11-18). And in Luke, it is the faithful women, who remained at the cross when the other disciples deserted Jesus, and who first discovered that Jesus' tomb was empty (Luke 24:1-12). Women played an important part as supporters and leaders of the church in the spread of the gospel in the first century. And only an age that has never understood the good ...

1346. The Book that Changes Lives

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Smithsonian magazine that speaks to our lesson for today. It was a story on the history of that legendary town of the Old West, Tombstone, Arizona. In the late 1870s, miners discovered silver in the DragoonMountains of Arizona. An area that had once been desert wasteland became the bustling mining town of Tombstone---so named because the first miner to explore the site had been warned that all he would find was his own tombstone. Like any place primarily populated by men, it was a rough community. In the ...

1347. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to abolish every feeling and emotion of the human heart. So, in order to achieve contentment, the stoic abolished all desires and eliminated all emotions. Love was rooted out of life and caring was forbidden. As T.R. Glover said, the stoics made of the heart of desert and called it a peace. So, we see at once the difference between the Stoics and Paul – the Stoics said, I will learn contentment by a deliberate act of my will. Paul said, I can do all things through Christ who infuses me with strength. For ...

1348. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

There was a time when Indians communicated by drums and smoke signals. There may be places in the world where that sort of thing still goes on. Years ago when the atomic bomb was being tested out on the desert flats of Nevada, a cartoon pictured two Indians. They were looking across the barren wastes – the spacious flats – when on the horizon the mushroom smoke cloud of an atomic explosion rose dramatically. As these Indians looked at that in wonder – never having seen such smoke – one Indian said ...

1349. God Outwits Us

Psalm 31:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you. He will surprise you all along the way by giving you far more than you can ask, think, or even imagine. Here is a word from 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 will allow us to die of thirst.” Let me say that again: “Never fear that the Lord who invites us to ...

1350. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Hebrews 11:1-40, Philippians 2:12-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... clarified. Calling made clear. This community has nurtured you, challenged you, and forced you to think and grow. It has been a safe place. It is true that some of you came here to find a haven from the storms of your life. Some came from parched deserts, and have found refreshing, new-birthing water. Others were broken and wounded and came as much to be ministered to as to prepare for ministry. I know. You have shared your prayer requests and I have prayed for you. The most of you came because you were ...

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