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2051. Why I Believe In Tithing

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it. That’s the way we deal with reality isn’t it? Just try to shut it out. You may think I’ve gotten off the story, but not so. When we arrived in Ludiana, we were overwhelmed with surprise. We were met by Dr. Nanboudrapad. We couldn’t understand. He didn’t tell us, but the head of the hospital did. Reconciliation had begun to take place in Dr. Nanboudrapad’s family. For the first time since he had become a Christian, he had been invited back to participate in a family wedding, and to visit with ...

2052. Working Out Our Salvation

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Jesus Christ has done for all of us, can be appropriated by any one of us, only by faith. How crucial it is then, that we understand what faith is all about. Faith is not a head trip. It is not believing with the mind. It has to do with our wills ... an active entrustment of ourselves to that mercy, and into the hands of God. Faith is a personal decision and commitment. Trust is the best understanding of it, because trust is both a verb and a noun. We have trust, we also can trust someone. Faith as a word does ...

2053. The Fourth Day Comes

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... piece of bread and the sharing of a cup of wine, the resurrected Lord was known to those crushed and despairing men at Emmaus. A Scottish poet captured it in a very earthy way. If you don’t know a little bit about country living, you won’t understand some of this. Sometimes when everything goes wrong, when days are short and nights are long, when wash days bring so dull a sky, that not a single thing will dry, and when the kitchen chimney smokes and when there’s naught so queer as folks, when friends ...

2054. Even Marriages Made In Heaven Require Earthly Care

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... lived a life of submission and showed us that that’s the only way to find life. I want you to really hear this, it is a central Christian teaching. And it’s almost impossible for us to understand the radical nature of it, because we’re so far removed from the world of Paul’s day and our understanding of it. In that day, and it persists in some cultures even now, persons were born and bound into a certain station in life, certain position. The Greeks held that that’s the way the Gods created things ...

2055. Getting It All Together Inside

Psalm 51:1-19, 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... away when we get that new car or that new job or that new house which we thought would make us happy. The aching void that perhaps you haven’t confessed to any other person, because everyone thinks you have it made, and you don’t they would understand. Truth in the inward being, wisdom in the secret heart. That’s the place we need to probe. That’s where we need to get it all together. So with that scriptural perspective, let’s face the issue head on. Getting it all together inside is a matter of ...

2056. Living Deliberately

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’s what reflection is all about. This is a kind of contemplation, a sort of prayer. We deliberately, self consciously, purposefully open ourselves to some event of some experience to see what God is saying to us in it. To see if he will speak in some language we can understand, to see if we can get beneath the wrapping of the paper to the gift that is within the box. God speaks to us in all the events and experiences of life, but we miss about 90% of what he says. We miss it because we don’t reflect. We ...

2057. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... them his grace. They had received that grace, and God’s love and forgiveness had made them new persons. Their sainthood was a gift from God. Let’s live with that thought — that image — “Saints in Light” — as a way for us to grow in our understanding and appropriation of the Gospel. I. First of all, let’s sound an overall truth here, then we will move to explore specifically the image of saints in light as a great possibility for us. The overall truth is in the powerful imagery of light and ...

2058. A Love For All Seasons (i)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... seventh verse, "Love is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes." Ooou! We don't like that. That first word: Always ready to excuse. Keep it in context now. There's nothing naive and shallow, nothing pollyann-ish about Paul's understanding of love. Trust is the key here. Phillips puts it, "Love knows no end to its trust." And Barclay translates it, "Love's first instinct is to believe in people." But having said that, we still have a problem, and we are compelled to deal with ...

2059. The Dayspring From On High

Luke 1:5-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , and John is the forerunner of Jesus. But it would have been easy for Luke to tell that story – to record that fact -- without going into such detail about this visit of the Angel and Zachariah's temporary lapse into unbelief. We can understand Zachariah's fear -- we can understand how he would have been overcome by this sudden Divine intervention in his life. Now it would have been one thing for him to be surprised and to respond in humility -- as did Mary when the Angel visited her and told her that ...

2060. Don't Mess With Mr. In-between

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Two men rushed to her side and then with a long, slow sigh, she collapsed in their arms." Harold stopped for a long pause:..."I decided then," he said solemnly, "I enjoyed being dead." Maud said nothing for a moment. Then she spoke quietly. "Yes, I understand. A lot of people enjoying dead, but they are dead really. They are just backing away from life. They are players. They treat life as a practice game, and they will save themselves for later, so they sit on the bench. The only championship they will ...

2061. Faith Working In Love

James 2:14-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... she tells a visitor. "So you know the baby's trying too. You keep loving it -- and you wait." Clara Hale is 79 years old, a tiny, birdlike woman with nut-brown skin and a curling halo of white hair. "The baby craves something he doesn't understand," she explains. The "something" is heroin, and it may take a month before the baby is cleansed of the addiction that began in his mother's womb. A physician, a psychiatrist, a psychologist and a social worker have examined the infant and written a prescription the ...

2062. The Trance Of Non-renewal

Zechariah 9:9-13, Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... always shouted. Their anger showed through in what they said. They made it sound like Jesus was coming to get us. They used language from the Book of Revelation, war-language, with body counts and bloody statistics. It's called apocalyptic language, and it didn't jibe with my understanding of Jesus, who came to us gently and lovingly as a Babe in a Manger. So I closed my ears to all that talk about the Second Coming of Jesus. But the older I get, the more I see that Jesus has to come again. And the more I ...

2063. God Who Is Mighty Has Done Great Things

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was disciplined, poised, and cool. But once outside, she realized that she didn't have her ice cream cone. She went back in to get it. She told the clerk that she had paid for it, but didn't get her cone. The clerk said, "Well, lady, I don't understand. I gave you a cone." The woman said, "Yes, but you can see that I don't have it." Paul Newman spoke up, "Lady, you put it in your purse." On a night like this, we might well be flustered. Something is happening. Something has happened. Something is going to ...

2064. Speak And It Will Be

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... let my servant be healed. For I also am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'do this,' and the slave does it." The Centurion was expressing an understanding of Jesus that is rare, coming from any of those who surrounded Jesus at any time. He knew that Jesus had the power and the authority to do anything he wished to do. "Speak the word," he said, "and my servant will be healed." Now this is not just my ...

2065. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... don't deliver the meaning they promise. BMW's, Lexus', Mercedes, -- complete with telephones and compact-disc stereo systems -- don't deliver us to our destination more surely than a Ford or a Chevrolet or even a Subaru. I've admitted to you my limited understanding of Gary Larson's "Far Side" cartoon humor. I still read him because now and then he comes through with something that is funny and also a powerful commentary on life. This was a recent one in a calendar collection Ed Roberson gave me last ...

2066. Growing In Self-esteem

Psalm 81:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... her his feelings. Finally, he mustered up the courage to say, "Let's get married!" Surprised, she threw up her hands and shouted, "It's wonderful to think about, but who in the world would have us?" It's easy to sink into that kind of not worth much self understanding. When I'm blue and am down on myself, when depression threatens to turn the sky of my life into dark clouds of gloom, when I sense that I'm becoming to occupied with failure, I try to think of the psalmist assessment of me: "a little less than ...

2067. What Do You Want To Be Like When You Are 65?

Proverbs 3:1-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and those who can not yet say they are in recovery, will tell you the destructive power of instant gratification. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Our Proverb says. Our own selfish, distorted understanding tells us to get it now. The beer ad is an expression of our own understanding, "Capture the gusto -- all you can -- now. Dr. Robert Schuller tells a wonderful story on himself. He was in the midst of a hectic and rushed schedule. He was in New York to deliver ...

2068. The Danger Of Straying From Home (Father's Day)

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... their marriages have working definitions of love not far from these. So, we stray from home because of our lack of understanding of covenant. Covenant is the foundation of marriage. When I talk to young people about getting married, and many times in ... its nest is one who strays from home. We stray from home in a lot of ways; to be sure, by adultery, indifference, and a lack of understanding of covenant. A teenage boy walked into a cafe and sat down. "I'm hungry but I don't have any money. If you'll feed me ...

2069. The Problem with Signs

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... farmer always called his hogs to the feeding trough by hitting it with a piece of wood. Tap-tap-tap. That's all it took and they would come running. It was a great system, until, for some odd reason, he noticed them losing weight. He couldn't understand it. Then one day, he discovered the culprit. A woodpecker was pecking on a tree nearby. Every time the woodpecker pecked, tap-tap-tap, the hogs came running. I guess all that extra running kept them trim. The people of Israel were no different from you and ...

2070. Your Dreams Are Too Small

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... take care of the lawn but not affect the roads?” Hey! Who’s in charge here? It should be God giving us orders rather than vice versa. James and John are taking a rather tactless approach to our Lord. “We want you to do for us whatever we ask.” Jesus understands. He knows we’re like that. “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked, probably with a sigh. They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.” In other words they wanted to sit at the ...

2071. Songs of the Season

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... been given much will be held to the most severe reporting. This hazard, of course, is this: power of any sort inevitably breeds a certain kind of arrogance; and it blinds us, or at least dulls our sensitivities, to the pain of others. It is very hard to understand how someone on poverty row feels in a supermarket, if we can fill our own basket without undue worry. A person who is secure in their position can hardly imagine the pain of those who have been without work for months. "I'd make a job for myself ...

2072. Unworthy or Not?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... ultimate evil. And he is right. Pride is our deadliest adversary. In the epistle of James we read these words: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." Humility is such an integral part of what it means to be Christian, that I believe we need a clear understanding of what true humility is--and what it is not. HUMILITY IS NOT LOW SELF-ESTEEM. If you have a poor self image, if you think you can’t lift your voice because you are not as good as other people, if you cannot look others in the eye ...

2073. A Longer Stride and a Larger Embrace

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... t pursue a serious study of Scripture without being consistently and constantly confronted by God who demands, “Be holy as I am holy.” And we can’t study our Wesleyan perspective without concluding that this was one of Wesley’s paramount contributions to an understanding of the Christian faith and way—holiness of heart and life—personal and social holiness. But it’s not just an academic pursuit, the work of the academy. It is abbey also. The end to which we move in our thirst for holiness is ...

2074. All This and Heaven Too

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... called Anfechtung. It is translated “temptation,” but we would recognize it as depression. As therapy, a wise counselor in the monastery assigned him to the new university at Wittenberg to teach Paul’s letter. So Luther, with eyes ready to see and with a mind ready to understand and with a heart ready to believe, turned to the Letter to the Romans. When he read, “I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do,” he knew what Paul was talking about. And when he read, “Since ...

2075. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... did you sleep last night?” “In an abandoned truck.” I had heard enough and wanted to get this over quickly. I reach for the money clip in my back pocket. At that moment David put his finger in front of my face and said, “No, you don’t understand – I don’t want your money. I’m going to die out there. I want the Jesus that red-haired girl talked about.” I hesitated, then closed my eyes. God, forgive me, I begged. I felt soiled and cheap. Me, a minister of the Gospel… I had wanted simply ...

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