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151. Leave Your Stuff Behind

Genesis 45:1-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... self is freed from the power of cancelled sin. Now there are two requisites for redemptive confession – one, you must trust the person, the person or the group, to whom you confess; and two, your confession must not be destructive to another person. We dare not disregard the health and wholeness of another in order to seek our own release. The big point is that the burden of cancelled sin is too great for us to carry into the New Year. You can leave that stuff behind, because God forgives. He loves you ...

152. A Christian Style Of Being And Doing

Colossians 3:18-4:1

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Maxie Dunnam

... special meaning for those who would share the gospel. Paul is talking about how we relate to outsiders. Phillips translates his word, "Be wise in your behavior toward non-Christians." We need to hear that, Friends. How much of our evangelistic witnessing disregards the feelings and sensitivities of those we seek to win. Just recently I received a letter -- a letter about Perceptions. It's the only negative word I've ever received about this special effort of ours to communicate our care for this community ...

153. A Confidence for All Seasons

Psalm 27:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... . When anyone succeeds, it is because of a handicap." (Wallace, pp. 51-52). Now we don't want to minimize in the least the tragic elements of life -- we don't want to glamorize the trouble and the heartache and the difficulty -- we don't want to disregard or make light of the heavy load that so many people carry -- still we recognize this fact: more often than not, our troubles and problems and burdens can be a blessing rather than a curse. They can provide power, rather than turn us into powerless victims ...

154. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (i)

Psalm 137:1-9

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Maxie Dunnam

... is the primary and authoritative source for salvation, faith, and doctrine. So I'm on record -- and I hope my preaching provides ample evidence of that. In the Christian life, and in Christian theology, scripture is primary and is our authority. Well then, do we disregard the Old Testament and adhere only to the New? That might help some in resolving conflict, but it would woefully limit God's witness. And it wouldn't solve the problem of authority, and the nature of faith and the primacy of the Word. Even ...

155. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... should. We don't speak kind and loving words to our spouses. We take each other for granted, and to take another for granted is to make them less than human. Words and actions can wound us, but so can no words and no action. Indifference, disregard, neglect -- these are the painful bullets that penetrate our hearts and bring emotional death. These deaths are silent -- we don't usually see them happening though people are dying right before our eyes. We don't see them because we are not looking -- we're not ...

156. The Rest Of The Story

Genesis 3:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... my wages and can get a raise, I do as little real work as possible." (Fetter, p. 50) Evil gets at us by appealing to legitimate drives within us -- sex, profit, risk, knowledge -- to mention just a few. And getting us to use them selfishly and in disregard of the laws of God. Evil, in fact, urges us to become our own gods. "Eat, and you will be like gods," says the serpent. This appealed to pride, power, and prestige is the most dangerous aspect of evil. "Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad" with ...

157. Noah: The Bearer Of An Alternative Possibility

Genesis 6:1-8:22

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Maxie Dunnam

... and freedom. You intended the whole creation to function in wholeness, harmony, beauty, joy, and peace. "But those free-spirited creatures have become mean spirited. Created for good, they have turned toward evil. Gifted with freedom, they have acted with utter disregard for the order and purpose you carved into the creation." (James A. Harnish, Journeys With the People of God, pp. 26 - 29). How would you feel? What would you have done? My friend, Jim Harnish, in thinking about this talked about ...

158. The Word And Words

Luke 4:14-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... on children. This group admitted that in their counseling they have put too much emphasis on the happiness of the adult -- and have not given enough consideration to the well-being of children, to parental responsibility, even sacrifice. The Church, disregarding our primary source of direction, the Bible, has participated in this grace societal mistake. But there is another side of the coin. How do we respond to this major social phenomenon? Almost half the families in America are single- parent families ...

159. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

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Maxie Dunnam

... our conscience is like a star embedded in our chest near our heart. When we do wrong, the star rotates. The points dig in, and the pain reminds us to mend our ways. If we mend our ways, the star stops turning and the pain goes away. If we disregard the pain and continue our wrong doing, the star continues to rotate. The points of the star gradually wear away and the pain gets less and less. Finally the points are completely worn off. The star becomes a disc, and we feel no pain regardless of how severe our ...

160. Turn in an Account of Your Stewardship

Luke 16:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... is that is unlikely for most of us. But He would say something - - one thing you lack. What is the big thing missing in your life that betrays your full devotion to Jesus Christ? Is it a lack of compassion for the poor? Is it a disregard for the growing number of elderly in our nation who are hidden away as names and numbers in giant filing cabinets called nursing homes? Is it a failure to even think about a vast prison population and a criminal justices system that produces and enhances criminal lifestyle ...

161. The Danger Of Straying From Home (Father's Day)

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Maxie Dunnam

... . It was murder by indifference and neglect." What a stinging indictment: murder by indifference and neglect. Have you seen it? I have, and I have been guilty of it. Words and actions can wound us, but so can no words and no action. Indifference, disregard, neglect -- these are the painful bullets that penetrate our hearts and bring emotional death. These deaths are silent -- we don't usually see them happening though people are dying right before our eyes. We don't see them because we are not looking --we ...

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

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Maxie Dunnam

... , more courageous than others -- that he was standing alone in his commitment to the Lord. Don't mistake the problem. I'm not talking about a healthy sense of self-worth, I'm not talking about wanting to be the best you can. I'm talking about disregarding others. I'm talking about a failure to respect another who on the surface may not be as successful or as accomplished as you are. The issue is not whether we're great, but whether we are genuine -- whether we can celebrate our worth, without putting down ...

163. Food That Is Needful

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Maxie Dunnam

... . It would be incomplete and impossible if it stopped there. "Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God." The food that we need is perseverance -- perseverance that comes from looking to Jesus as Phillips puts it "the source and the goal of our faith." And as the New English ...

164. The Hinge of History

Luke 3:1-20

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... act of preferment from his hand. Herod was, indeed, a big man in Galilee in the first century. Today, all his pomp is simply pompous, and all his circumstance only circumstantial. But John the Baptizer! -- a great human being. He headed out into the wilderness, disregarding his safety in a land infected by natural perils. With his talent, he could probably have made a place for himself in the king's court where he could have been "dressed in soft robes" (Luke 7:25). Instead, he covered his body with camel ...

165. Endings

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... . Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them. Psalm 44:9-10, 12 Israel's life as a people was at an end, because God had deserted her, she was sure. "My way is hid from the Lord," she mourned, "and my right is disregarded by my God" (Isaiah 40:27). The end of a loving human relationship is bad enough, but the end of our relationship with God is worst of all. The glad news of our text for the morning is that, for God, there are no sorrowful endings. Rather, there is always ...

166. Equipping the Whole People of God: Penultimate Questions

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... People of God” – we may move too quickly to more practical questions – questions of organization and structure, how to mobilize our members or ministry partners. We give an intellectual nod to the dictum “form follows function,” but immediately disregard it, immersing ourselves in the urgent ministry needs at hand. I almost did that in preparation for this keynote address. The scriptural theme text of the conference is a powerful and challenging one, demanding our attention and response. Listen ...

167. The Authority of Scripture: God's Breathed Word

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... Those two quotes came from professors in seminaries that are training men and women for the Methodist ministry. Is it any wonder that our church is in turmoil? When men and women preparing persons for ministry and mentoring students of our faith, who disregard the very foundational documents and diminish the Bible as God Word. I believe the church will continue to hemorrhage and diminish in membership and influence. We will not be renewed and revival will not come to the world unless and until we recapture ...

168. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... have gauged the depths of their own nothingness can no longer retain any kind of confidence in themselves, nor trust in any way to their works in which they can discover nothing but misery, self-love and corruption. This absolute distrust and complete disregard of self is the source from which alone flow those delightful consolations of souls wholly abandoned to God, and form their unalterable peace, holy joy and immovable confidence in God only. (Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Llewelyn, pg. 249). We need to keep ...

169. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... professors from United Methodist seminaries who were serving on the larger panel of about a dozen. Is it any wonder that our church is in turmoil when men and women preparing for the ministry are being mentored in the faith by persons who disregard its very founding documents and diminish the Bible as God’s word? The second experience came in a conference with two of our students who had just recently met their conference Board of Ministry. They had been interviewed by a subcommittee of that conference ...

170. In the Wilderness With Moses

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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King Duncan

... and spiritually. It has destroyed reputations and destroyed families. Anyone who does not understand that simply has his or her head buried in the sand. And it hurts the heart of God. It hurts God to see men and women debased and distraught because they chose to disregard their faith in this one area of their lives. I realize we have the tendency to blow sexual sins out of proportion in our culture compared to other sins such as avarice and prejudice, but it is a problem that has brought much pain to many ...

171. Baptism Of The Holy Spirit

Acts 8:14-17

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... , so we pray that your Holy Spirit will fill our lives this day as we gather to give you thanks and praise. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, there have been times when we have ignored the voice of your Spirit, and have heeded instead the cries of the world to disregard others and look out only for one's self. Forgive us, we pray, and as we renew the vows made by or for us, fill us again with your Holy Spirit. Amen. Offertory Prayer O God, with grateful hearts we bring these gifts that they may be used to go ...

172. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

Sermon

Michael Milton

... , having all that you need, you will abound in every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8, niv). Legalism says that we are saved by what we do rather than what God does for us in Christ. Licentiousness says that since God has saved us by grace, we may disregard God’s law. And so the saying, I think, is true that Christ is forever crucified between the two thieves of legalism and license. But it must not be so with us. For here is plainly revealed a love obedience of what the psalmist calls God’s “wonderful ...

173. Writing the Law on Our Hearts

Jeremiah 31:31-34

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Charles L. Aaron

... popping veins do nothing to bring us into God's presence. Some of the disputes are genuine differences of opinion, by people who are trying to discern what God wants the church to do. The immaturity of some of the arguments puts us off, but even if we disregard the immaturity, and look at the issues, we realize we don't know exactly what God thinks. Both sides in any theological debate are positive God is on their side, but who knows for sure? The fact that honest and sincere church people can claim God's ...

174. The Incarnation: What and Why?

Hebrews 2:10-18

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James L. Killen

... also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God" (Hebrews 12:1a-2) Now do you understand why Christmas was necessary? Do you understand some of what it means that God is God with us? Can you begin to catch a vision of ...

175. How Does It Work?

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

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James L. Killen

... embodiment of wisdom and to let obedience to the Bible shape their lives. It is better to take the Bible as our guide on a journey in relationship with God. I cannot emphasize enough that this doesn't mean we can forget about the Bible or disregard anything it says. Paul had a problem with people thinking they could forget about the teachings of the Bible since they were living under grace. He kept saying, "No, no, no, we are talking about the fulfillment of the law and the prophets, not about forgetting ...

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