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1676. Saying Yes To Forgiveness

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... would be difficult for me to love one person to the exclusion of all others, and marriage therefore seemed out of the question even though I felt that was a stronger personal desire than going into the Convent, but I needed to make up for my sins, and so, I thought God must be calling me into the Convent. Two of my sisters had entered the Convent before me, and I was definitely of a mind that I had to do something to make up for my sins. And, having been let into the Convent, I was blessed. I found the ...

1677. If Only -- In Spite Of

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... but He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'" William Sloan Coffin reminds us that "Generally, prayer is not an act of self- expression. (It)is an act of empathy; prayer is thinking God's thoughts after him. Prayer is praying 'Our father who art in heaven' when everything within us longs to cry out '_My_ father.' (It) longs to cry out '_My_ father,' (instead of our father) because 'our' includes that horrible divorced husband, that wayward child; it includes ...

1678. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... life and the life of your family. See the hand of God moving, the voice of God calling, the nudging presence of God moving in your life to guide you. And see how God used unlikely persons and events to accomplish his will in your life. An illness you thought you could not survive became the setting for God doing his most significant work in your life. A job you had to do or a situation in which you were involved was so distasteful and unbearable that you could see nothing good in it. But it was there. You ...

1679. Draw Nigh To God

James 4:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... The woman looked across at her husband, then looked ahead to the young couple, and she asked her husband, "why don't we sit together like that anymore?" Quick as a flash he responded, "I haven't moved". The story stimulates all sorts of suggestive thoughts. Relationships may grow cold over the years. There may be someone you love -- husband, wife, child, parent -- someone with whom your relationship has grown cold. You may be the blame. They may be. In either case, you can do something about it. Then there ...

1680. What Is Your Life?

James 4:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in this congregation who have been giving $100 a month to the church for the past 5 years. Scores of them settle in at other levels. The point is, too many of us settle in. We never consider the blessings God has bestowed upon us. We give no thought to the opportunity of apportioned giving or tithing. We don't think how easy it would be to give an additional $10 a week or $25 a week. We miss the joy of giving and the meaning of Christian stewardship. Geraldine Montgomery sent me a cartoon recently. It ...

1681. Who Are Christians?

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a huge hole in the side of the aircraft. Nine persons perished when pressurized air inside blew them into the thin, rarified air of 24,000 feet altitude." Kerry Lappan, age 31, sitting by the fateful hole, said to reporters, "the whole plane was falling to pieces, and I thought, 'This is it!', but there was a man in front of me. I don't know who he was -- a wonderful, wonderful man. He held my hand and he comforted me. It was so loving and so comforting to have someone's hand to hold." Not only when our ...

1682. God Who Is Mighty Has Done Great Things

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to this day without crying. The next day when gifts were exchanged, the little girl ran behind the tree and retrieved her crude present, handed it to Paul and said, "Daddy, this is for you!" He was embarrassed that he had beaten her so cruelly for something she thought was a present. He slowly opened the box -- and discovered it was totally empty. His temper flared once more and he said, "What have you done? There's nothing in this box. Why did you give me an empty box? When you give someone a present you ...

1683. The Church Of Our Dreams

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for us and Holy is His name." And, it suddenly hit me, overwhelmingly, that Joseph and Mary were a homeless couple. They didn't have a house. The baby Jesus, our Saviour, was born in a borrowed room. When I mentioned that, I choked up, and it was, I thought, minutes -- but it was probably only moments before I could speak. It was a parable, a vision of what the Church must be. Not just at Christmas-time when we give 400 coats to cold children -- Bless you women who did that. Or, when once a year we build ...

1684. Hanging On To Every Word

Luke 19:45-48

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... back to the boy and said, "By the way, son, I'm preaching tonight at the Baptist church. Why don't you come and I'll tell you how to get to Heaven." The boy thought for a moment, and then said, "No, thank you. I don't think so. You don't even know your way to the post office!" You may have some disparaging thoughts like that about my preaching. We're on a preaching journey through Luke. If you've been following, you can't miss the fact that today we jumped from Chapter 4 -- where we were preaching ...

1685. How Is It With Your Soul?

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Days of the Soul, p.61). Integrity. And a lack of integrity is a kind of hypocrisy. Not being true to yourself, not being true to the values you hold high, not being true to your profession as a Christian. How is it with your soul? IV Now a concluding thought: Most of us are hypocrites…or to put it a bit more mildly, most of us are guilty of hypocrisy at times in our life, perhaps more often than we recognize or confess. And this is only one measure of our soul's health. It takes a power beyond ourselves ...

1686. Who Loves More?

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... bastard” as a label for this child. And there was venom in his voice as he talked about the father of the baby being present at the baptism. How could the preacher do it? Baptize this baby born out of wedlock and the father allowed to be present. I thought I was talking to Simon the Pharisee, and I thanked God he was a retired, not an active, preacher. I wondered. Had he missed that throughout his entire ministry? Open door to whom and to what? Christ is on the side of sinners! On the side of AIDS victims ...

1687. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... who find it.” There is a lot here in our scripture lesson, so let’s try to feel with our hearts and garner with our minds the full impact of it. I. Let’s begin with that simple but profound and provocative statement: Life is difficult. That thought is a huge pond into which we can jump at any number of places. For instance, the minister had a terrible day on the golf course. On the last hole, he actually went into a tantrum, cursing and beating the ground with his club. Finally recovering himself, he ...

1688. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to make the hope burn brighter for those who think they have nothing. Someone made this indictment on contemporary Christians: They sing lustily "Standing on the Promises", when actually when all they are doing is standing on the premises of the church, and doing nothing." I thought about that as I was preparing this sermon, because one of the truths on which we need to lay hold, and hold to tenaciously is this: God is on the premises -- on the premises of this world, on the premises of this city, on the ...

1689. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... do that." The girl replied, "The devil may have made me push him down, and the devil may have made me call him names; but I thought of the spittin' all by myself." I like that -- the honesty of it. And we need to be honest. We live as though we deserved ... fall. It was a beautiful sight to behold. "Later that evening, one of the leaders went to the young man and told him how special he thought it was for him to do this, and how much he admired him. And he said, "As the two of you were dancing, I noticed that ...

1690. The Cross Question: Am I Not To Drink The Cup?

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... The revelation of God in Jesus Christ which we see on the Cross tells us that there is more love in God than there is sin in us. II. Now a second way the Cross glorified Christ. It was the throne of his saving power. (I owe these two thoughts of the Cross glorifying Christ to Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture, Vol. 1, pp. 201-204). It's amazing how things that are together don't go together. Once, when I was on Study Leave, I drove by the Panama City campus of Florida State University. On a ...

1691. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... .(2) I'm happy that I can be happy about myself. I'm happy that my happiness does not depend on circumstances. Let's pursue these thoughts. II. I'm happy that I can be unhappy. Do you think it strange that I would begin at that point? I do so because I ... is the healing medicine of laughing at ourselves. There is a story about a man running down the pier, heading for the ferry-boat. He thought he was going to miss it. He was dressed in such a way to convey the fact that he was a man of status, a man ...

1692. The Heart -- Our Mirror

Proverbs 25:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... very well asked him to explain his long devotion to Margie. "I am a Christian," he said, "and we try to keep our promises. Besides, I love her." When Margie died, their son, Dale, asked John how he had done what he had done all those years. "I never thought about doing anything else," John replied. "You just do it, and God helps you." (Dr. Rodney E. Wilmoth's sermon "On Spelling Potato With an E", June 28, 1992 with credit given to Donald Shelby for story). That says it doesn't it? We must think love if we ...

1693. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . His next statement was, "You have got to plant something in its place that is tougher then the kudzu." I said, "Like what?" and he said, "like a good stand of bahiagrass." I followed his instructions and it has worked. Since talking with the old farmer that day I have thought many times of the great lesson in life that he related to me. He told me that "kudzu was tougher than sin to get rid of" but the way to get rid of it is to "plant something in its place that is tougher than the kudzu." How do we ...

1694. Rejected at Home

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... able to eat. When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, 'He is out of his mind.'" (3:20-21) Think your family doesn't appreciate you? Welcome to the club. Jesus wasn't appreciated either. His own family thought he was out of his mind. After his death and resurrection Jesus' mother and brothers were very active in the leadership of the church, but when Jesus first began his ministry, they were not what you would term "supportive." I believe this fact may resonate with a ...

1695. Adopted! (New)

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... door, Mike was high but his apartment was clean. "Stand up!" one officer ordered. "Get on the floor," another barked. Slowed by the drugs, Mike just stared. An officer threw him to the floor. Another hit him in the face with his gun. Mike thought he was going to die. Then the thought crossed his mind--no one would care. Mike was lucky, however. The police left with no drugs and no arrest. Still Mike sat shaking. He decided it was time for a change. He walked downtown to a mission that he knew would receive ...

1696. From Hurting to Helping

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... March 18, 1991, her youngest son Peter, at the age of 27, and having battled chronic depression for 10 long years, walked to a pond about a mile from home, a place where he used to go to meditate, and put a bullet through his own head. At first Antoinette thought she would die too. She never believed she could survive the death of one of her children. She would go to bed at night and her body would take over with what felt like labor pains. She said it was as if from some depth she was trying to give ...

1697. Faith for Troubling Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... baby. It was not just a story. He cried and fussed and messed. He caused his mother anguish. He was one of us, just like us." Then she thinks to herself, "God really cares about us. God really cares about real life." She becomes radiant at the thought. She buttons her coat and steps from the church into the cold streets. She smiles at strangers. Something in her has changed. All that, because suddenly she realized Jesus was real. Jesus is real, my friend. Our redemption is at hand. I don’t know what you ...

1698. The Promised Messiah

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Messiah will have a davidic heritage. But, as we know, he will be a lowly man, born in a cattle stall, raised up in a carpenter shop, and condemned to death as a criminal. Perhaps our evaluations of people in our society have nothing to do with God's thoughts and ways. There is always a mystery surrounding the way God works in this world of ours, and that is certainly true of this messianic promise in Micah. We would like to categorize our Savior, to pin him down to a definite definition, to be able to say ...

1699. The Coronation of Christ

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... experts tell us what to eat, so we won't develop cancer. The psychology experts tell us how to raise our children, or how to avoid stress and burnout. The fashion experts dictate what we wear, the sex experts invade our bedroom lives, and from every television screen our thought is guided and influenced. In the face of all of that can we truly say that our God reigns in his Son Jesus Christ? But he does, you see. Whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we see the evidences of his rule or not, God is at ...

1700. All This and Heaven Too

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... tell you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the Kingdom of God, who will not get back very much more in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.’” That is the reason I thought of Julian Norwich’s word: “We have all this—and Heaven too.” Is that not an echo of our Lord’s Word? One translation of His Word puts it this way, we have “manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.” That’s the ...

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