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2076. Equipping the Whole People of God: Penultimate Questions

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1983, p. 88) The reality of this “line” between “laity” and “clergy” does not prevent us from thinking in terms of the ministry of the Church being that of the whole people of God. One of the big meanings of an understanding of the ministry of the Church as being that of the whole people of God is that we move self-consciously from the maintenance of congregations to apostolic ministry. To be sure, we care for one another, and we watch after one another’s souls ...

2077. In the Wrong Place At the Right Time

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a person compelled to bear burdens not their own and not of their choosing. This city is full of such persons. Where we are born and how and where we are forced to grow up is not a choice we make. Think of the implications of that for our understanding and practice of the Christian life. Think what you will about welfare and we all know it needs to be reformed – but, if you claim to be Christian, don’t become so cynical that you would ignore poor people in this city who are bearing a burden they did ...

2078. Let Me Say That Again

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive, It is in forgiving that we are pardoned And it is in ... In a short time the world will no longer see me, but you will see me because I live and you will live. On that day you will understand that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.” (John 14:16-20) The promise and the possibility are clear. Christ has ...

2079. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v2

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a courageous battle against cancer, her two little children and a husband who needed her and loved her and couldn’t understand why that awful blow had struck. Or the couple who lost their beautiful college-age daughter in an auto accident – how ... to go on, confident that God is at work, preveniently, even when we’re not aware of it. That’s a marvelous Wesleyan understanding of grace. We need to internalize that meaning. Brothers and sisters, we cannot be God. It’s tempting to try, isn’t it? ...

2080. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v1

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... shall meet me at every corner.” Redford said that that became a light in the darkness of his life, and he was encouraged to go on, confident that God is at work, preveniently, even when we’re not aware of it. That’s a marvelous Wesleyan understanding of grace. We need to internalize that meaning. Brothers and sisters, we cannot be God. It’s tempting to try, isn’t it? We want to help people. We want to fix things. We feel a compulsion to be there and provide something for every situation. It ...

2081. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is his response: “I’ll be there.” A great witness to their confidence in eternal life and heaven as our home. Last words are important. So here in our scripture lesson are some of Paul’s last words. The words are a charge – a charge to Timothy, and, if you understand scripture as I do, a charge to us. I charge you. It’s like a judge in the courtroom, or like a general giving orders to his troops as they are about to engage in battle. It’s what it is: a dying man – or one who knows that death ...

2082. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... honor among all. Why should God honor you if you won’t honor God? Separated on Monday, dating on Friday. It is no wonder that such persons move from one unstable relationship to another because they are spiritually and morally ignorant. They do not understand the high value God places on marriage in all three of its layers: personal commitment, church blessing, and legal regulation. All are to be honored. We said earlier that Jesus’ world was a man’s world. That was particularly true in the arena of ...

2083. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... in our day, then I invite you to listen with fresh ears to Jesus and his radical wisdom for making a difference, not in some ideal world, but right here, and not in some far-off future, but right now starting with you. Jesus’ counsel, which is as easy-to-understand as it is hard-to-practice, is part of a much larger message about the kingdom of God, which is not a place to which we go so much as a divine power which invades our world and opens up new possibilities wherever it is welcomed. This kingdom is ...

2084. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... God. Up there, out there, and in here (the devil, the world, and the flesh), any one of which can take you out. And if you don’t have a strategy for battle on all three levels, you are simply not prepared to live effectively as a Christian or to understand the forces at work in your world. This is why things are the way they are. Many believers spend time flitting from one church or preacher or book or event to the next, all the while asking, “Can someone make it easier?” and if you get a Yes, guess ...

2085. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the Old Testament. The one who tells this story not only claims to know what the final standards are, he also claims to be the one who pronounces the judgment of God, “And I will declare to them....” Hidden here is a glimmer of Jesus’ self-understanding; he knows who he is.21 Jesus is here using analogy or parable. This, he says (the final judgment), is like that (the builder’s choice). What you choose now matters later. The familiar gives a window into what has not yet happened. “Do you want your ...

2086. Clay In The Potter's Hand

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... asking that you will start over with us. Mold us and make us like Jesus, we pray, that we may be used by you to bring the Water of Life to those who thirst. Amen. Offertory Prayer Loving God, you know your children of every race and nationality. You understand our needs even better than we ourselves. Today we present our gifts and ourselves to be used by you in meeting those needs in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen. Hymns "This Is A Day Of New Beginnings" "Have Thine Own Way" "He Touched ...

2087. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... He had the instruments given to him by God to get to the meat of the nut. There are people who do not know the Word, who try to crack it with their own intellectual strength, but they are unable. Then a little seven-year-old child comes along and understands and believes. It is not of our power, but of God’s work in us. The Sadducees approached God’s Word all wrong. You do not come haughtily. You come humbly. More than that, you come hungering. You come needing the meat of the Word to live, to be saved ...

2088. Love without Limits

John 13:31-38

Sermon

John K. Bergland

... , "I used to believe that way too until God got a hold of me and showed me that his love was not limited to a set of rules or laws." Peter continued with a compelling testimony of how God had stretched his boundaries and threw out his understanding of what was clean and not clean, dissolving his pre-conceived notions about who could be saved. What's more is that God not only revealed this radical truth to Peter through a vision, but God wanted Peter to experience its reality. So God created an opportunity ...

2089. A Fool and His Money

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... The lesson that he will teach in other places is that your life is not going to be judged by what you have, but by what you give. In another place he will say, "To whom much is given, much is required." That is the basis for the whole understanding of Christian stewardship. We have a responsibility to use what God has given to us for God's purposes. He talked about stewardship all the time, even in this chapter he talks about it. The chapter begins with the parable of the rich fool. It ends with the parable ...

2090. Get Up and Go

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... know that what has happened in Jesus Christ is just like that. Once again, light has come into the darkness, and people who have been in darkness, or in bondage, are now free to begin a new life. Arise, shine; for your light has come. You are supposed to understand what happened at Bethlehem by remembering what happened in Babylon. The door is open now for a whole new future for you. You are free now. Get up and go. Why do you sit there so despondently in the shadows of your old world? You are free now. You ...

2091. Warning To The Clueless Enthusiasts

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... made flesh, leads us to realize that all people of the earth are brothers and sisters, children of the same parent God. This Christian way to look at the world determines our core values and influences the way we behave on a daily basis. It is an understanding that helps us feel connected to the very nature of things. It calls us to that strict moral code that values people over things, forgiveness over revenge, and serving others over being served. The faith is a way to look at the world and value justice ...

2092. Experiencing the Reality of God

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... come upon you; and you will be my witnesses" (Acts 1:8). There was expectancy, but they did not know what to expect. On the night before he died, Jesus had told the disciples many things that they would need to know but that they could only come to understand later. At that time, Jesus gave them a promise that God would send another someone to be with them, the Holy Spirit, who would teach them everything they would need to know and who would remind them of all of the things Jesus had taught them (John 14 ...

2093. Discovering that It’s Not about You

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... natural for us to slip into that way of thinking. We all do it to some extent. Put some faces on these characters now. Put your face on the person in the center. Which are your things? Who are your people? What is your story? Can you understand how Abraham must have come to think that everything that happened was about him? But what happens to that picture of things if some bad thing happens that takes everything away from you -- a recession or a business failure, a divorce, a child who refuses to fulfill ...

2094. Surprised by God

Genesis 28:10-19a

Sermon

James L. Killen

... taken advantage of his father so that he had to leave home. He was on a lonely journey into an uncertain future when he camped out that night on the way to Haran. Jacob, the heir to God's covenant, had been living as if there were no God. We understand too well what it means to live as if there is no God, don't we? Most of us have been trained to live lives shaped by the values and expectations of our secular culture. The Apostle Paul called that "living according to the flesh." He contrasted it with ...

2095. Writing the Law on Our Hearts

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... and sincere church people can claim God's support for opposite sides of a debate only highlights that God's true will can be confusing. If we don't know what God wants, God seems even further away. Sometimes God seems far away because somewhere in our past our understanding of God got all twisted up. Some purple-faced preacher snarled at us about a punishing God or told us that some horrible thing was God's will, and our view of God got bent out of shape. The way it often happens is that a young child will ...

2096. Passing and Failing

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... that part of God's purposes in having the people travel through the wilderness was "to humble you and to test you." Great, even with God we can't get away from tests. If we are to take the tests God gives us, we have to be careful how we understand them. Here and elsewhere the authors of the Bible use the language of testing to describe one way we relate to God (see Genesis 22:1). What does it mean that God tests us? We sometimes assume that everything that happens to us is a test from God. We have ...

2097. The Model of Success

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... advice is, give all you can. I've noticed that most Methodists find obeying Wesley harder the farther down you go on that list. Earn all you can. Save all you can. Okay, no problem. Give all you can is much harder to understand. But this is why he says it. It is based on the simple understanding of the New Testament. This stuff doesn't belong to us, not ultimately. We are stewards of what we have. We are here to serve God, and we should be as serious about it, as committed about it, as willing to take risks ...

2098. Different

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Sermon

James L. Killen

... life as one who loves us enough to suffer for us, that is really hard to take in. And if our culture has a hard time understanding what the message of the cross says about God and about all reality, we have an even harder time taking in what it tells us about ... different from the way you may have been and from the way most other people are, different in your basic ways of understanding life and of relating to life and everything in it, different in your ways of putting life together and making it work. Are ...

2099. Remembering Jesus

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... on religious faith all together. When we find ourselves in that kind of a situation, we need to remember Jesus again. The story of Jesus puts us in touch with the most profound aspects of the truth about God and puts them before us in a form that we can understand. It puts the truth about God before us in the form of the story of someone like ourselves, a man, Jesus of Nazareth. We believe that it was God who chose to be made known to us in that way. Another sad thing happened in the early church during the ...

2100. After Good Friday

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... ?" The boy reached into his pocket and pulled out a quarter. The guard said, "That's not enough." The boy replied, "I thought you would say that." So he pulled out nine cents more. The guard looked down at the boy and said, "You need to understand three things. First, 34 cents is not enough. In fact, $34 million is not enough to buy the Washington Monument. Second, the Washington Monument is not for sale. And third, if you are an American citizen, the Washington Monument already belongs to you." We need to ...

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