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1651. The Dark Didn't Catch Me!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... time I was sixteen I had a teenage body with teenage problems and a twelve-year-old's faith. And the great sadness was that I thought I knew all of God there was to know. This time of the year doctors are busy inoculating people against the flu. And do you know ... Oh, dear God! The intense spiritual warfare, the wounds, the betrayals, the defeats, the casualties. Yes, there have been times I've thought about quitting, times I've wished for death. But in Matthew 10:22 Jesus said, "He who endures to the end ...

1652. Congratulations, You've Made the Team

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... me." I'm quite certain it did. Perhaps this is also what Rudyard Kipling meant when he wrote of the inspiration he found whenever he thought of his mother. If I were hanged on the highest hill, I know whose love would follow me still Mother o'mine, o mother o' ... , our "archegos," the Master of life, can do it, one person at a time. When we keep our eyes on him, what we thought impossible is no longer so. He is the difference! Just as he transformed and sustained the cloud of witnesses before us, he does the ...

1653. What a Resume!

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... that the child was desperately ill. The child's family, who felt that he possessed an evil spirit and was a danger to the rest of the family, had probably abandoned him. The missionary took the boy back to the hospital and began to treat him. At first he thought he was going to lose the child, but finally he began to improve. When the boy was completely well, the doctor told him he was going to return him to his family, but before he did he wanted to tell him about someone very wonderful. He told him of ...

1654. Easy to Say, Hard to Do

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... . Love. "I love you." "I love to play golf." "I just love pistachio lush!" "It's tough to love some people." "Jesus loves me, this I know." Love. What can be said about love that has not already been said? The writer of the first letter of John obviously thought deeply about love and did his best to write about it. Saint Paul had a similar piece on love which he wrote to the church at Corinth. We know it as the Love Chapter, 1 Corinthians 13. Remember? "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels ...

1655. Grace in the Midst of Judgment

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... in the next world. In the mid-1990s when US News & World Report asked a large group of Americans whom they thought was worthy of going to heaven, Mother Teresa of Calcutta topped the list, receiving the support of 84 percent of ... who is loved by God. I am a forgiven person. I am not someone who was forgiven up until two minutes ago when I nurtured that degrading thought and sacrificed the acceptance of God. I don't have to try to figure out how to make things right again. By God's grace, things already are ...

1656. Obedience to God's Plan

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... were stunned. "Is that all there is? We have made this long journey just to say we made it." When The Others thought about their accomplishment, however, they had to agree that this was the reason they were celebrating -- because they had made it; they ... present. "The teams," said the messenger, "as you can see they didn't make it. And that's the heck of it!"1 The teams thought themselves to be rather important. They were bored and tired of doing what they had been asked to do. Thus, just for the heck of ...

1657. Sowing Good Seed - Father's Day

Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... to move even his head, the photos had to be jammed between metal knobs so that they hung within view above him the only thing he could see. The last four months of his life were spent looking at the faces he loved. Philip Yancey writes, "I have often thought of that crumpled photo, for it is one of the few links connecting me to the stranger who was my father. Someone I have no memory of, no sensory knowledge of, spent all day, every day thinking of me, devoting himself to me, loving me . . . The emotions I ...

1658. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... mind? What did He mean us persons to be? Are those pretentious and presumptuous questions to ask? Who knows the mind of God? There is the story that the great naturalist, Agassiz, customarily began his lectures with the words, "Gentlemen, we shall seek to think God's thoughts after Him." We would like that to be the case as we preach, and, our source for answering these questions are in the two stories of creation that we find in Genesis. And I hope, I pray, that as we expose ourselves to this story of our ...

1659. An Affirming Presence

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on the basis of performance, whether it is our children, whether it is our husbands, whether it is our wives, whether its members of the family, or whether it is our friends, to accept persons on the basis of their performance is a superficial, selfish sham. I thought I had won the battle, and to a marked degree I had, but about three years ago, it ravaged my spirit again in a rather subtle but telling way. Douglas Spear, the great Quaker scholar and champion of the inner life, who has written so helpfully ...

1660. A Healing Presence

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God of peace make you Holy through and through. May you be kept in soul and body in spotless integrity until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is utterly faithful and he will finish what he set out to do. Isn’t that a thrilling thought. He who calls you is utterly faithful and he will finish what he set out to do.” Try to get your mind around that promise. Paul is saying that the new creation which has begun in us is going to be finished. That is, it is going to be finished ...

1661. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Dig deep enough into the core of any person she would say and you will come up with that which is divine. For Kim, that’s the starting point for exploring ethics, especially Christian ethics. Now I’m not sure the degree her professor disagreed, Kim thought it was drastic enough, enough to give her a B rather than an A. But his starting point was someplace else. His starting point was that, experientially, you must begin with the fact that persons are not basically good. We are sinners. Now the truth is ...

1662. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , do this. Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father and come. Give no thought to your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours. That’s the word of the Lord for you and me. ... Do this,’ said Pharaoh, ‘take some wagons to Canaan and use them to bring back your wives and your children and your father. Give no thought to your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt will be yours.’ Now the King James version has that 20th verse, ...

1663. Reconciliation: Our Gift And Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... those beautiful homes built in the 1300s. He was even able to get the town hall authorities to have the lion in the town hall tower roar in honor of us, even though that lion usually roars only once a day, that at noontime. You would have thought we were important people. Walter seemed to love every cobblestone of every street. It was his town, and he relished sharing it. Despite its quaint beauty however, Gurlich is a stark depressing witness to the tragedy of war. Before WWII, the city was one. Now it is ...

1664. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... others down. And perhaps the most common of all sins - that peculiar American notion that we can and must do it by ourselves. That we can be self-sufficient, and we must achieve at any price. “Search me, oh God, and know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me”. Confession is necessary because our sin separates us from God. But hear the good news, hear the good news. If we confess our sins, Christ is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us of all ...

1665. A Star, A Stable, and A Song

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is capable of it? The glorious narratives of the nativity cause us to think of wise men, angels, shepherds, heavenly music, a virgin maid, a scared daddy, and a precious little baby. These all become symbols for our understanding. They become pegs upon which we can hang our thoughts, focal points to which we can come and assemble our imaginings. And that’s what I want to do this Christmas Eve. To lift up three common symbols and see if they can make us come alive to the meaning of it all, or see if we can ...

1666. Servants Of The Servant Who Was Lord

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... person, through chances and changes and all circumstances, this being essence remains the same. Paul, I think, would not regard as possible, the surrender by Christ of his divine nature. His own experience of the risen Lord was such a vital factor in the formation of his thought, that he who had come to mean so much to him, surely did not begin to exist when he was born in Bethlehem. So the nature of this one did not change in essence when he became man. He did empty himself though, of the glories of heaven ...

1667. What Really Matters The Price Of The High Calling

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... - and that is to fully accept the total forgiveness of God, believing that by his grace our past is buried in the sea of God’s loving forgetfulness. So, recognize where you are. Leave the past behind. Then third – have a goal. Have a goal. Jesus’ word, take no thought of tomorrow, does not mean that we’re to have no aims in life, no goals toward which we moving. It means that the focus of our life is in the here and now and our energy is expended in living to the fullest, the life that Christ gives ...

1668. Justification By Grace Through Faith

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... made it. I knew she had made an application to spend 6 months in Latin America as a mission volunteer, at her own expense, and I thought that’s what she wanted to talk about. But I was wrong. And when I saw her, I knew it. She was standing straight. She ... giving it to us. Go back to the parable of the prodigal son. It gives us a clear picture of this difficult theological thought. When the prodigal returned home, the father treated him and received him as though he had never been gone. The robe of son ...

1669. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... final judge and triumphal Lord. This Christ offers to live in us by the Holy Spirit. Don't ever think this is not a sideline thought for Paul. It is not a peripheral detour of truth. This is the heart of it: Christ the Lord of Creation may live in us. His ... these new houses of parliament as an expression of love and solidarity with the poor and as a witness against Apartheid. They thought they could get him by appealing to his self-interest. He is not many years away from retirement -- has no property of ...

1670. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God, the image of the invisible God, giving Himself for us – a love so deep, so inclusive, so expansive, so powerful, so complete that thought of the mind could not comprehend nor measure it, or words express it. Paul knew that too. He comes back to it again and ... to want her, but she said that as far back as she could remember, she longed to be adopted and loved by a family. She thought about it day and night, but everything she did seemed to go wrong. She must have tried too hard to please the people who ...

1671. Put My Tears In Thy Bottle

Psalm 56:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the next question. But the ignorant saint gave an incorrect answer. "How old was He when He died?" Again, the answer was incorrect. Other questions were asked with the same result until the atheist said with a sneer, "See -- you do not know as much about Jesus as you thought, do you?" "I know all too little," was the modest answer. "But I know this. Three years ago I was one of the worst drunkards in the East end of London. Three years ago my wife was a broken-hearted woman and my children were as afraid of ...

1672. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... get up from the front row and start toward him. Well he didn't know what was going on. He didn't know where the little boy was going -- but he kept coming straight toward the platform, climbed up the steps, and made his way toward Bev. At first, Bev thought he might be going to the bathroom, but the closer he got to him, the more Bev was convinced that he had some business with him. The little boy came on and it was obvious that Bev had to do something. Bev is a master preacher – and always in control ...

1673. God Does The Unexpected

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have been the first to admit that if taken as history it would be preposterously untrue; but that they cannot be charged with lying since they never attempted to give the impression that they were writing history. According to this theory they must have thought that everyone (except the most stupid) would see that their story was a myth designed to convey a religious truth (and presumably that everyone would see what the truth was); that neither Mary nor Joseph, had they lived to read the story, would have ...

1674. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1675. Walk By Faith Not By Sight

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... paid by May 31. And you know -- we haven't missed a meal. We have not gone lacking for any material thing. Our retirement fund doesn't have $18,000 that it would have had in it. But you know -- the only time Jerry and I have given that a thought is when I began to prepare this sermon and think about what we are going to pledge now to "Climbing the Promise." Because the need is not as great – and because there are so many of you that did not have a chance to share in "Because We Care", and ...

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