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1426. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . The pope was pictured sitting on the deck of the ship, his hands clasped in prayer, his eyes closed, his palace guards surrounding him. In the port holes of the ship, you can see the faces of the faithful peering out. They are inside the church, safe and warm, and dry, and comfortable, being lofted by angels to the Port of Heaven. Adrian looked at this monstrosity of a painting, and stood up. ‘No, no,” he cried. “This is not my ship. The church is not high above the seas of storm and misery of this ...

1427. On the Road with the Rich Young Ruler

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

James W. Moore

... make the leap of faith. I like the way Norman Vincent Peale put it several years ago in a funeral sermon for a friend. He said: “Now, a baby not yet born, still tucked under his mother’s heart, might say to himself: ‘This is a wonderful place. It’s warm. I’m fed. I’m taken care of. I’m secure. This is a great world where I am now. I like it here.’ And then someone might say to him: ‘But you’re not going to stay here. You have to move on. You’re going to die out ...

1428. On the Road with Zacchaeus

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Son… a story Jesus told long ago to show us how loving and gracious and forgiving God is! When we turn to Him in penitence… When we say to Him, “I’m sorry,”… He is there for us. He runs to greet us… anxious to wrap the warm arms of forgiveness around us. Let me ask you something: - How is it with you right now? - Have you drifted away from God” - Have you skipped town? - Have you been playing around with the keyboard of faith, but not really completing the full scale? - Have you been ...

1429. Assurance: The Privilage of All Believers

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... meeting that involved some of the Moravians — on May 24, 1738. There in that prayer meeting, some lay person read Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans and Wesley witnessed later as to what happened in his own life. “I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for my salvation; an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.” (Note: My friend, Mark Trotter, has imaginatively suggested that when ...

1430. Discipline and Means of Grace

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... had no discipline at all. They had no shadow of discipline; nothing of the kind. They were formed into no societies. They had no Christian connection with each other, nor were they ever taught to watch over each other’s souls. So that if they fell into luke-warmness, or even into sin, he had none to lift him up. He might fall lower and lower, yea into hell, if he would; for who regarded it? (Sermon, ‘The Works of God in North America” Jackson, Works, 7:411). There are few more insightful quotations of ...

1431. That The World May Believe

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... walked from the stage. The entire audience stood and applauded, including fifty newspaper reporters, one of whom was heard to remark that Judge Lloyd had put quite a burden on an eleven-year-old. Rosalie rated a hand, and it must have been a heart-warming and proud moment for her parents. (quoted by Don Shelby, “ WHOSE IN CHARGE HERE?” September 16, 1984). But there was in that incident feelings that raised a big question “the apparent feeling on the part of so many that the issue might have been in ...

1432. The Burning Bush

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God, but we don’t want God on his terms. This is what Wilbur Rees put in a sarcastic way: “I would like to bury three dollars' worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or to disturb my sleep, But just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of Him to make me love a black man, or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not the new birth. I want a pound of eternal in ...

1433. Illustrations on the Trinity

John 16:12-15; Mt 28:19

Illustration

Brett Blair

... Holy Spirit. Or look at the light. The light comes from the sun, the source of light, but we see the light most clearly when it pierces through the clouds as a sunbeam. When we are sitting in a room and the light shines in and touches us, we are warmed and can feel the light. So, the sun is like the Father, the beam like the Son and the warmth like the Holy Spirit. What each of these illustrations has in common is that they are all analogies, God isn't the tree or the stream or the light but ...

1434. Lessons from Rephidim - Being the Lord's Intercessor

Exodus 17:8-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the air, hoping that the old man would see it. At last dawn began to break, and the winds began to die, down. They put out their boats and were able to get close enough so they could bring him safely back to shore. When the old man had been warmed by the fire and had been given something to eat, they asked what it was like out there. “Well,” he said, “It was the longest night of my life. I made out pretty well at first, but then a big wave came along and flattened me out and I felt ...

1435. It's Tough to Be God

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of God. God repented of the evil, and I dickered with the idea of calling this sermon be another title - instead of calling it, “It’s Tough To Be God,” I almost titled it “The Home of Persons is the Heart of God.” – Relish that thought. Let it warm your heart and stir longings with you – the home of sermons in the heart of God. Paul J. Byarmaster has given a beautiful word-picture of an occasion in heaven, “When all the wind-chimes in heaven begin to ring at once and that only happens when ...

1436. Lean Thine Arm on the Windowsill of Heaven (Growing Old Gracefully)

Psalm 90:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... an obsession with influence and power - a contentment that cuts us loose from an obsession with affluence and the false power that it brings – but also there is a contentment that may destroy. That sort of contentment playwright Eugene O’Neill once defined as a warm site for eaters and sleepers. Once a person arrives at a stage of contentment with what he is, he’s stalled, gone stale, stagnated. As someone had well said, when a person is through changing, he’s through. If we’re content to be what ...

1437. A Curse for Our Redemption

Galatians 3:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the mysterious work of the cross. That’s what he is doing in our scripture lesson — presenting the logic of the cross, so he uses the images of curse and redemption. But he also reached way down in the very depths of his soul to communicate in a vibrantly warm, personal way the mystery and miracle of the cross in his own life. His response at that level was a part of our text last Sunday, Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and the ...

1438. Not a Servant, but a Son

Galatians 4:6-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have to snivel in self—contempt as beggars who have no right to be there, as wayward derelicts who have to come to the back door for a handout. We come as children of the King, knowing that we are welcome. In his nostalgic, heart-warming, disarmingly funny best-selling book, Growing Up, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Russell Baker tells of those long summer evenings after supper in Morrisonville when men and women would gather on Ida-Rebecca’s porch to watch the night arrive, and talk into the darkness, It was ...

1439. The Wrong Number but the Right Time

Luke 7:36-8:3

Illustration

Larry Powell

... the lady was, she began to talk to her. Reaching to make conversation, as children often do, the girl remembered that there would be preaching at her church that evening so she passed along that bit of information and invited the lady to attend. The little girl, warming to her story as she told it, said, "The lady said she hadn't been inside a church in 20 years." Then, with excitement in her voice, the child said, "She was at church tonight. I talked to her. And when you asked for people to accept Jesus ...

1440. Emmanuel - God with Us

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... men are at home. - G. K. Chesterton Emmanuel - God with us. At Christmas instead of keeping his distance, God came very close in Jesus Christ. Instead of coming to judge and condemn he came to forgive and save. The door to the house of Christmas is ajar tonight – open – a warm fire of love is burning within – the glow of candle-light is your invitation to enter your soul’s true home.

1441. Peter, Our Folk Hero

Mark 14:27-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... own self-criticism. To get started today, let’s look at some brief snapshots of Peter. Do up remember when he first met Jesus? He and his friends were toiling with their nets along the Sea of Galilee and came along. Without any kind of introduction or warming up His subject Jesus said, “Follow me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.” The scripture doesn’t say so, but I would stake my life on this - that it was Peter - impulsive Peter, who looked and Jesus and responded without hesitation ...

1442. Simon

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to himself. That is what we do when we pray. And such praying will lead to direction action. The Epistle of James says it clearly: “If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? You see that a man is j and not by faith alone. For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead” (James 2:15). Direct action may ...

1443. Unusual Joy

Psalm 126:1-6

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... call Jim. Jim had taken a vow of silence so he uttered ne'er a mumblin' word in his overnight stay at our place. His friends said his mouth had gotten Jim in a lot of trouble, so he vowed to keep quiet. As Jim was leaving on Wednesday morning, warm, washed and well fed, he handed two dollars to one of our volunteers and wrote in a note that he wanted it given to the church in appreciation for our hospitality. Down and out, Jim still knew the joy of gratitude. Do you? Joy comes to those who are grateful ...

1444. The Fellowship of Kindred Minds

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to stick together no matter what. We decided to live or die as a group.” Fifty-five degree water threatened to kill them slowly by hypothermia. But these men developed a plan. When one got cold, the other eight would huddle around him until he got warm again. They shared what little food and light they had until they were pulled to safety. When you are in the pit, stick together. That is the story they came forth to share with the world. There is an old Native American proverb which goes “one stick ...

1445. Come to Bethlehem and See

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... keep my mouth moist. Then one day my entourage of caretakers announced that I could go home if I could eat and drink enough to ward off dehydration. I asked my dietician for a piece of toast from the hospital cafeteria. It was delivered, a piece of white, dry, luke-warm toast. I broke it into pieces sacramentally as I break bread at communion. I said this prayer: “Lord, this is a lifeline for me. Help me eat this bread that I may be set free." Piece by piece I was able to keep it down. Lying in a feeding ...

1446. Does Christmas Make Any Difference?

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... faith. At a little luncheon given in his honor, he said to his closest friends, “I thank God for today; I felt it deep in my heart.” I know there are people who slip into this place and in the mystery of the moment find their hearts strangely warmed and their lives radically transformed. I know because they tell me so. What the Christ of Christmas has done for others, he wants to do for you. Christmas will make a difference if you invite the Christ of Christmas to dwell in your heart. III. CHRIST MAKES ...

1447. The Down Side of Christmas

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and find the Holy Family on the run trying to escape Herod's massacre of the innocents. Before we can leave Bethlehem our noses are rubbed in politics and pain, blood and sorrow, jealousy and murder. Two nights ago all was calm; all was bright, in the warm, soft, glow of candlelight. Today we hear the cry of the children and the wail of Rachel, the ancient mother of Israel who refuses to be comforted even from her grave. Are there any lessons to be learned from this sobering story, this angry outburst of ...

1448. Finding Our Reason For Being

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... television stinks, including religious TV. The weeks had no beginning and no end. The days all ran together. You did not need me. In fact, worship attendance increased during my absence. I needed you. I needed to hear the music, say the prayers, have my heart strangely warmed. I needed to worship God. A.W. Tozer said, “I would rather worship God than do any other thing I know of in this world.” Worship is not about me, it’s not about you. Worship is about God. It’s about praising God and enjoying ...

1449. One Task

Luke 9:51-62

Illustration

Ernest Munachi Ezeogu

A guard in charge of a lighthouse along a dangerous coast was given enough oil for one month and told to keep the light burning every night. One day a woman asked for oil so that her children could stay warm. Then a farmer came. His son needed oil for a lamp so he could read. Another needed some for an engine. The guard saw each as a worthy request and gave some oil to satisfy all. By the end of the month, the tank in the lighthouse was dry. That ...

1450. From Pride to Humility

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... I committing a deadly sin or embracing a worthy virtue? My father lived by the motto “Never tell him he's good, it might go to his head." Did my father save me from pride or damage my self-esteem? We do not encourage pride by expressing warm-hearted admiration. Conditional love does not create humility. It sows the seed of humiliation. A child that gets a pat on the back for doing a lesson well is receiving worthy praise. Families are smart to be mutual admiration societies. Of all the places in the world ...

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