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1901. Maximum Marriage

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... a quarrel and the bride of three months called her parents long distance saying, "Mama, I hate him. We've had a fight. Papa, I want to come home." The father very discreetly said, "I'm sorry, daughter, you have no home here. For better or worse you've left for ... her birthday or Christmas. Say, "Honey, I saw this in the store window. It was lovely, it made me think of you, and so I wanted you to have it." Get a couple of rocking chairs, sit down together, watch the sun go down and talk. In short, treat your ...

1902. To Live Is To Dance

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... door. So every time she was tempted to have a snack, that woman reminded her of what she might become if she disciplined herself. And it worked, it worked. The first month, she lost 8 pounds. Her husband gained 15. There are different ways to look at things. I want us to look at these options to see if we fit any of them and see if we’re falling into these snares. Some of us run. We use all of our energy seeking to evade reality. Now there’s the obvious ways people run, through alcohol and drugs ...

1903. Being Christ

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ?” He said, “I was when that dog hit me, but that tin can that was tied to his tail liked to have gotten me.” I want you to know that this is not Maxie Dunham’s idea, this is the New Testament picture of life in Christ. Paul’s powerful prayer in ... On this 4th of July, when we’re thinking about our nation, our nation’s role in the world, and our own role as citizens, I want to simply plant a pattern of thought in your mind for you to cultivate and to work on in your own life in the days ahead ...

1904. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the Sabbath. God is not to be seen as a law giver and a judge alone. Human destiny in God is higher than law. I want you to hear me carefully. Human destiny under God is higher than law. Institutions are to be tested, and that includes the church. Institutions are ... could at least do a happy hop.” Do you get it? It’s a picture of living lightly. Life may not be everything you want it to be. You may have mired yourself in some rigid habit, and got stuck in routine ruts. Your life juices may have been ...

1905. The Fourth Day Comes

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... road to the seacoast. But I’ve been to a lot of other Emmauses. For Emmaus is every person’s town. It could have been any place for Cleopas and his companion, just as long as it was 7 miles distance from frustration and confusion and grief and despair. They wanted to get out of town, to get away from it all in order to try to forget. To sort out their feelings and somehow find a way to start again, with chins dragging and hope at low ebb, they head west together, talking again as if somehow it would go ...

1906. Leave Your Stuff Behind

Genesis 45:1-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... . Now this word of Pharaoh to Joseph’s brothers is a good word for me. Regard not your stuff, leave your stuff behind. So I want to share with you this morning, along that line, what is some of the stuff we need to leave behind as we begin the old ... confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. I need to close now. So I want you to help me finish the sermon. Will you bow your heads and close eyes? Now I’m a trusting person because the last time ...

1907. A Scream And A Laugh

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... these words concerning art. I thought about them because Paul could never get far in any of his writing without expressing in some jewel of a sentence what is "screaming inside him, what he is laughing with joy about. This truth of the gospel and inner experience of Paul is wanting to get out in a special way, and the way it gets out in this one sentence is no less a work of art and a statement of passion than that of a painter who would put it on canvas. Hold your breath as you listen again to verses 13 ...

1908. God's Hello People

1 John 1:5--2:14

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Maxie Dunnam

... one of them, "You are so much better at saying goodbye than hello. With hello you are wary and cool...hello? You don't want to get involved. You are suspicious. You open the door just a chink. But when you say goodbye, you are warm and palsy. So ... but I've loved it." And four years later, again: "Dear Miss Williams, as of today, I am Grover Junior Johnson, M.D. How about that? I wanted you to be the first to know. I am getting married next month, the 27th to be exact, and I was wondering if you would come ...

1909. How To Be Rich And Poor

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... the corner table, and we wouldn't have this warm, comfortable bed." With that, poor old Herman turned to Clara and said, "I don't want to hurt your feelings, Honey, but you know, if it weren't for your money, just like the car, the house, the piano, the dresser, ... church. They were new members of the congregation. "They said they had just sold one of their businesses and that they didn't want to profit from it without sharing a good portion of it with the Lord. So they handed (him a) check, the second such ...

1910. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... wood. And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then, took the other, just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them, really, about the same, And both that morning equally layin leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever ...

1911. Reflections On A Calling (ten-year Anniversary Sermon)

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... say and who I am will be so much one that there will be no question about the integrity of it. There's a phrase that I've heard now and then -- describing some person that excites me. "That person really has a heart for God." That 's what I want people to be able to say of me. I remember a story out of the life of Mother Theresa. A Brother in a religious order came to Mother Theresa complaining about a superior who's rules, he felt, were interfering with his ministry. "My vocation is the work for lepers ...

1912. Watering The Garden Of Our Life (communion Meditation)

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to her Baptist church to worship on Sunday morning. She knew that they had worship in the little Methodist church only twice a month and so she wanted her friend to go with her on an off Sunday, so this friend decided she would do it that day. She was not too enthusiastic about ... It just happened. I grabbed his arm and I looked him in the eye and I said John, if this is your supper, then I don't want any, but if this is the Lord's Supper then I'm going to eat it and she took the bread and the wine." This is ...

1913. Epiphany:The Joy of Fulfillment

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... life of Jesus. We don't know how many such books or tracts were available in the first century. With the kind of impact the gospel was making on so many lives, it was natural that anyone who knew anything about Jesus either first- or secondhand -- would want to tell others their version of the story. The best and most significant of these accounts survived, perhaps simply because God meant it to be so. But from the human side we can see a reason, too: no doubt the most beloved books were copied and recopied ...

1914. Commandments of Conduct

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... abundant life. Walk in it, and so choose life." God points the way to abundant life by means of his commandments, because he loves us and wants only good for us. Both Old Testament and New tell us that. In Deuteronomy 4:29, God yearns for his people's good: "Oh that they ... adds, "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full" (v. 11). The Lord wants us to have joy! And so he instructs us in the way to abide in fellowship with him and to have a joyful life. That is ...

1915. A Church for the 21st Century: Holy, Charismatic, Apostolic - An Enclave of Resistance

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Angeles. She had been a good teacher. But then she went to start her own family and left the profession. She and her husband had three children. They raised them well and not too long ago they sent the last one off to college. This teacher decided she wanted to go back to the teaching profession. She applied and was accepted and she wrote in the Los Angeles Times about her first day back in a seventh-grade class, after nearly twenty years. She spoke about her anxiety. Would she be up to the task? Would she ...

1916. Standing In the Gap: The Work of Intercession

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... he described evangelism as “one beggar telling another beggar where to get bread.” None of us are experts in prayer—the more we pray, the more we realize that we are limited—and that we’re not tapping all the resources of power that prayer has for us. I want to be quick to say that I’m not satisfied with my own prayer life. I hope you’re not bothered too much by my confession of weakness and limitation in sharing a Peanuts cartoon with you. Some of you who have known me a while would know that ...

1917. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... is from the Orthodox tradition and is known as The Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.” Some want to label it an empty repetition, a sort of mindless mantra, but it is anything but. It is the way things are and a need that ... When I wake in the night I heard this prayer bubbling out of my heart. My heart’s desire is to be full of mercy. I want to give away what I most need. And when I stand high on principle or am tempted to read someone the riot act, a question ...

1918. Playing to the Right Audience

Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... . A life lived for the glory of God is its own reward.”16 And if you do not believe that, you have much to learn about the secret joys of knowing God. I’m at a place in my life that if God does not send it, I do not want it. It would only be a distraction from the real stuff, the kingdom stuff, the chance to move deeper into God’s work in the world. CONCLUSION In one area of Africa where Christianity began to spread, converts were zealous about daily devotions. They would find a spot in the ...

1919. To Live Is to Dance

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1920. In the Cross of Christ We Glory

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Michael Milton

... can go from soaring with the eagles in one minute to wallowing with the hogs the next. I have the capacity to confess a Christ I want and miss the Christ who is. I also have the capacity to confess Christ on Sunday and be led to becoming a spokesman for the ... the godly in the presence of a holy God and as Christ puts it “the holy angels.” But how shall we identify with Him? Some want to, are trying to, but it is so hard. You are like Peter. You have a good confession, but Christ comes to show you that ...

1921. Simeon's Song

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... going to be easy. Eventually God will win. Eventually the Kingdom will come. But not all of a sudden. That's the easy way. Many people expect that. They look for the second coming of Jesus to be a sudden coming, and all of a sudden everything is changed. They want to make sure they get on the right side, have a safe place to observe all the fireworks. A lot of people think that is the way it is going to happen, with a lot of fireworks. Simeon says, look at this helpless baby. He is so fragile, so vulnerable ...

1922. Letting Go

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... of a life of medicine and pursue a career as a writer. He says in his 1988 autobiography, Travels, he relates that he was following his passion. That's admirable. There are enough people trapped in jobs and occupations they don't like. Find what you like, what you want to do, and find some way to make that your life's work. Crichton says at that time society gave doctors a lot of respect, and writers didn't get much respect at all. It is a hard-scrabble way to make a living, for the beginner. Most writers ...

1923. Preaching to a Stone

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... They know that the Lord has given them their identity. They choose to serve the Lord. Joshua is only getting warmed up, though. He challenges the people's response to his altar call, "You cannot serve the Lord, for he is a holy God." Joshua must have wanted more than a quick and easy commitment. Joshua pushes the people to think about the covenant they are making. Joshua even stretches the point. Perhaps in an effort to get the people's attention, Joshua blurts out, "He is a jealous God; he will not forgive ...

1924. Someone Is Trying to Get Through

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

James L. Killen

... at the ways in which the people you know are living their lives and try to guess what kinds of answers they must have come up with to the question about the meaning of life. Then, when you have gotten good at it, ask those same questions about yourself. God wants to give us the answer to our big question. But the answer we need is not something that can be just stated in words and explained and believed, though that may be a part of the process. The answer that we need is something that has to be shown to ...

1925. Still Under Construction

1 Corinthians 3:1-9

Sermon

James L. Killen

... the samples of the new life in Christ that we have already experienced. But, most of us know that we are not yet what God wants us to be. At our best, we are Christians under construction. And, that is all right. That is a good way to be. The changes ... on ourselves just spontaneously to do the right thing in all of the different situations of our lives, to do what is right because we want to, because it comes naturally to us. But most of us are not there yet. It will often be difficult for us to know what ...

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