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1401. Participants In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... of Jesus Christ. Blessings from Christ and from God the Father is ours to receive. See it there. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you see what this means? We have not simply taken on a new religion, with a new belief system, we have been given a new status in relation to God, and we’ve been given a new life. And now we’re a part of a new community. Get that firmly in mind and rejoice in the sublime privilege that is ours. A new status in relation to ...

1402. Proclaimers Of The Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... its own sake. Jealous of Paul, they were determined to show that they could be successful and that the church could prosper without him. How human the church then, as now - there was strife and envy. As disappointed in that as Paul was, he was undaunted in his belief that even confused and impure motives do not annul the power of the gospel. Listen again to verses 15-18. Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for ...

1403. Recovering The Essence

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... forefathers risked their lives to realize for themselves and their posterity. What is happening today in Poland, and in the solidarity movement is a tremendous witness to this. What is happening in some of the countries of Latin America is another witness. It is my belief, and just recently I talked with one of the most knowing political figures in our nation who confirms this too, it is my conviction that within a decade, the same kind of thing that’s happening in Poland today will be happening in Russia ...

1404. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... in light.” “The imagery here is powerful and suggestive. The contrast between light and darkness, common with Paul and also with John, was more than figurative. There is here a reference to the Gnostic heresy with which Paul was dealing as well as the common belief that certain angelic beings had fallen or had been expelled from a higher world, and had created this material world in which they were in control. This led to the Gnostic view of the evil of that which is material, thus to the heresy of the ...

1405. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... who are ready to criticize the over-patient and the long-suffering for putting up with more than they should tolerate. Modern psychological theory often places great emphasis on the need to show one's anger and acknowledge one's impatience. My own belief is that there is too little patience in the world today and too much impatience. And I have nothing but admiration for those who, with infinite patience, help, teach, and care for the mentally handicapped, the physically disabled, the socially deprived, and ...

1406. The Dayspring From On High

Luke 1:5-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... Zachariah considered such a miracle to be so extremely unlikely that even if it was an Angel of God who announced it – and Zachariah did not dispute that -- he was not prepared to believe it, not at least unless he was given some stronger grounds for belief than the bare word of an Angel." (Gooding, page 34). I believe Luke includes these details of the story for that very reason. For Elizabeth to conceive, God would have to perform a miracle. God would have to intervene and put "the processes of ageing ...

1407. The Nuclear Truth Of Christianity

Ephesians 2:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... you have been saved is the ringing conviction of Paul's life. And, verses 8 through 10 -- where this thought is stated and amplified -- are really a summary of the first five chapters of Paul's letter to the Romans. It was Paul's bold and radical belief that we can do nothing to receive the favor of God -- we only receive through faith what he has given us. His salvation is grace -- all grace. This expression of "The nuclear truth of the New Testament" is enriched by its setting here in the Ephesian letter ...

1408. Walk In Newness Of Life

Romans 6:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... entitled Something Beautiful for God. In that book he tells about the time when he first met her and visited with her in Calcutta in the late 1930's. This is what he said, "I walked through the streets of the poverty of that city, poverty beyond belief. I kept walking, experiencing that until I became physically ill. I ran away, I went back to my comfortable hotel room and took a stiff shot of whiskey to expiate the wretchedness of my experience." Later he said he met Mother Teresa, and discovered that she ...

1409. Saying Yes To Forgiveness

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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Maxie Dunnam

... by which the love of God melts our hearts. This is the great proof that Jesus Christ loves me and loves you and loves all of us. Friends, if you eliminate that conception, you have eliminated from your Christian faith the proof, the vindication of the belief that Christ loves the world. I have a friend, Mary Levack, a former Roman Catholic nun, now working as a program director for a Methodist Church, whose testimony of this love of Christ for each and for all is powerful. Her father left her mother with ...

1410. Prepare The Way Of The Lord

Isaiah 40:1-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... 've ever received." "Kramer, our beautiful and dear son!" And today the joy that Steve and Terry Largent feel about the life of little Kramer is indeed an incredible joy. So, joy is not dependent upon circumstances - - it is dependent upon our relationship with God, and our belief that God can do for us what we can't do for ourselves, and provide for us that inner sense of well-being that comes only through His Spirit. We prepare the way of the Lord by being joyful. III. And now this third word. We prepare ...

1411. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

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Maxie Dunnam

... and wrote numerous books that have nourished my soul. His landmark book for me was A Man in Christ. You can imagine that he fed my mind and heart as I have cultivated my whole understanding of the Indwelling Christ. Dr. Stewart's book interprets Paul's belief about the Indwelling Christ, and in the book, he talks about prayer as "Keeping us in touch with God who at every instant is present." Think about that. Prayer keeps us in touch with God who at every instant is present. Stewart says, "The Eternal lives ...

1412. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

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Maxie Dunnam

... . She was so devastated by this treatment that she attempted to take her life, twice. Somewhere along the way, she reached deep into her own soul and decided to make use of the energy that is available when there is a collision caused because of beliefs and values. She took the University of Georgia to court, challenging her dismissal. She not only won her job back, but a sizeable sum in punitive damages. "According to the writer of the article, Jan Kemp won something more than that. She won vindication of ...

1413. When Jesus Comes

Luke 8:22-25

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Maxie Dunnam

"Jesus walks in church today, Jesus speaks while people pray Touch and hear one bowed in grief Strengthening a weak belief, Healing habits too long King, Showing judgments reckoning, Granting one a new life's start. His garment's hem just brushed my heart. (Quoted by Leonard H. Budd, Jesus Christ My Healer, Church of the Savior, Cleveland, Ohio). Did that take you by surprise? Plunging right in, quoting a poem, ...

1414. Pay Attention To The Inside

Luke 11:37-54

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Maxie Dunnam

... inside for that's where evil gets its stronghold. Do you know the place Matamores, Mexico? When I rehearse the story you will remember. It was in the newspapers for days. In the name of Satanism, Voodoo, Cult worship, bizarre beliefs, superstitions, drug trafficking, innocent people were brutalized, mutilated and ritually sacrificed at the command of a Cuban godfather in Metamores. He told his demoniac followers that the killings would bring them protection from their enemies. One suspect after confessing ...

1415. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... . The student then told of his spiritual awakening in a chapel service in which faith came alive in him and he came alive in faith. The writer then asked, "What do you think Christianity is?" The student replied, "Being willing to risk your life on the belief that love is what it's all about, that love is what holds our life together." The reporter, taken aback, asked cynically: "But how can you believe that?" The student responded: "Because Jesus lived it out as love, and He is now living it out in ...

1416. The Discipleship Question: Do You Wish To Go Away?

John 6:60-71

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Maxie Dunnam

... in the past, Purdy says, but they are not as useful for today. The metaphor Purdy recommends with much vitality is "Hearers of the Call." His rationale is that this would be the image of one who has heard, and keeps hearing, a persistent summons to belief and action. "Hearers of the Call!" Whether we agree with Purdy or not, that reality is the key to our faithfulness as disciples. The same author goes on to describe how, as a child, he would be outside playing hide and seek with his friends. Inevitably ...

1417. From Russia With Love

Acts 3:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... language. Just as he would reach a climactic point, he would hang up on a word, and he said in a loud voice, "You are our ssssalvation. And then he continued..."You are our hhhhope". He said, We had a lawful country. A society with religious beliefs, but they were all destroyed during this seventy years." And this was the cryptic sentence. "Our souls were ssss, our souls were sucked out." Isn't that descriptive. Our souls were sucked out. That teacher who spoke to us on Thursday, and these newsman who were ...

1418. You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... lacks vision." Listen to another word of his: "It's possible that, if I could see, I wouldn't have spent as much time dealing with the concept of love. I might have been made militant by what I would see. But if I got my sight back today, my belief that love really does hold the key would not change. All evil can be conquered by love. It's there inside you, if you'll only listen." (Stevie Wonder, "Love is the Key", Parade Magazine, June 28, 1992) All of us have handicaps. Some are greater than others, and ...

1419. The Problem with Signs

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... never enough. We always seek more. We find ways to explain away even the most dramatic acts. The rising of the sun each morning, the gentle opening of the flowers in springtime, the birth of a new baby--these ought to be evidence enough for anyone to accept belief in 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 ...

1420. A Strange Kind of King

John 18:28-40

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King Duncan

... bold courage. The Nazis imprisoned him from 1943 until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. An old man in his seventies, imprisonment was hard on his health. He died two years after his release. (4) I don’t know anything about King Christian’s religious beliefs. But I do know the quality of life he lived. Such a life does credit to the name Christian. Our primary allegiance is to Christ. We demonstrate that allegiance by how we live. But here is the most important piece of information that we need on ...

1421. The Hinge of History

Luke 3:1-20

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... a specific Roman official. The New Testament is so precise about this that its writers seem almost to be throwing down a challenge. "We offer you names, dates, and places," they seem to say. "Now, give us some hard facts regarding your gods and your beliefs." Such is the style with which Luke's Gospel introduces us to the person and ministry of John the Baptizer. He identifies the opening of John's ministry by naming seven individuals who were filling government or ecclesiastical posts at the time. Their ...

1422. Epiphany:The Joy of Fulfillment

Luke 4:14-30

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... of those things wherein thou hast been instructed." That first generation of Christians felt a magnificent certainty about the way of life they had chosen. If they hadn't, they wouldn't have put their lives on the line so freely for their beliefs. It is sometimes pointed out that, though the four Gospels and the several epistles are so different in style, and though they clearly come from a wide variety of authors, they have one characteristic in common: the quality of certainty. There is no querulous ...

1423. The Baby Leaped

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Pastor Dahlrimple decided to take matters into his own hands. He walked over, grabbed baby Jesus dangling there in the air and pulled him toward the crib. Naturally, he pulled Elder Fred from the wings as well, fishing pole still in hand. Embarrassed beyond belief, Elder Fred rushed back out of sight, only to yank baby Jesus back toward the heavens with him. (1) I would like to have been present for that nativity pageant. The idea of the baby Jesus flying through the air would be a memorable experience ...

1424. Timing

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Bible, primarily in the books of Job, Proverbs, some Psalms, and Ecclesiastes. But Wisdom sayings also are sprinkled throughout both Old and New Testaments. For example, Jesus uses an illustration from Wisdom teaching in Matthew 7:24-27. The basic theological belief of Wisdom is that when God created the world, he established certain orders in both human life and in the natural world around us, customary ways in which both human beings and nature act. Those customary orders have been discovered by Wisdom ...

1425. Escape from the Island of Spiritual Sloth

Matthew 6:16-18

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Frank G. Honeycutt

... us. Not by magic. And not with a wiggle of his divine nose. Christ needs room to change us. "One of the greatest deceptions in the practice of the Christian religion," writes Dallas Willard, "is the idea that all that really matters is our internal feelings, ideas, beliefs, and intentions."2 Let me tell you something. We have bought into that hook, line, and sinker in the mainline church. "Faith is what I believe in my head," we say. And yet for my money one of the most devastating things Jesus ever said to ...

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