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2101. Gethsemane: Prelude To The Cross

Mark 14:32-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... with God’s call upon his life. So, he wanted some of his friends to share in it. He asked the disciples to watch and pray. In the direst hour of his need, he needed those who were closest to him to be with him. But they slept. Do you feel the sad disappointment in Jesus’ voice: “Could you not watch for just one hour?” The bitter cup that Jesus was going to have to drink was made even more bitter by those whom he loved being unable to share his anguish. Now it’s not hard to understand the disciples ...

2102. Leave Your Stuff Behind

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to know that, for me, self-pity is one bundle of stuff I want to leave behind. I don’t know of a heavier burden that most people carry than self-pity. It’s the kind of burden that most of us are unwilling to drop off. Someone hurts our feelings and we carry our hurt with us forever. We’re treated unfairly and we never forget it. Something happens in our family and it seems to us that we’re being put down. That someone else is receiving special treatment, so we get a kind of stepchild complex. We ...

2103. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to urge his students to "get down deep, gentlemen, deep down." What these men were urging was a renewed realization that Christian preachers are to think of themselves as nothing less than God's (in-voice) and to speak always under that compulsion. I pray you feel that compulsion and that you will never lose it. One of my favorite stories is one that comes out of the World Methodist Conference which met in Oxford in 1951. The high point of that program was the service of commemoration held in St. Mary's ...

2104. How May We Come To God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... make us unfit to stand in God's holy place: our actions and our attitudes. "He who has clean hands..", the Psalmist says -- that has to do with our actions, what we do. And those who have a "pure heart" -- that has to do with our attitudes, how we feel. Put another way, I don't think it has as much to do with our performance as it has to do with our will and with our willingness. The question is not "Have you kept the law?", or, "Have you performed the required sacrifices?" -- but "Do you have clean hands ...

2105. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Control or Go With the Flow", December 7, 1986). We've known the same experience -- many of us -- perhaps most of us. I sat with a young woman not long ago to whom life had dealt a tragic blow. An uncaring husband had walked all over her – had trampled her feelings -- her very heart, in the mud. She had given herself to him and he had used her. It was a despicable kind of harshness on his part. It would have been a normal thing for her to be bitter, angry, calloused and hard. The pain was there and she ...

2106. A Sovereign God With A Shepherd's Heart

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... condemned -- giving us this message: "To those who struggle to do right -- wanting to do more but not being able: Look to Him who wants from you not favors but only faith -- faith that He will come and dwell with you wherever you live. You who feel so common as to be almost vulgar, for whom sameness and not the spectacular reigns, pray this prayer from one of your poets: "Blessed woman Excellent man Redeemed for the dull, the average way, that common ungifted nature's may believe that their normal vision ...

2107. Where The Spirit Of Jesus Is

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... so small, so vulnerable and so helpless before a gigantic force which was about to destroy him. After the service the day of that sermon, a beautiful young woman kept hanging back, waiting to speak to me. When most folks had gone, she introduced herself with these words, "I feel like the boy in that drawing. I'm a patient at St. Jude's. I have Leukemia. The doctors say I have a 50-50 chance!" Tears flowed down her beautiful face. She is 19 years old and I think a student at Rhodes. I embraced her and prayed ...

2108. God's Hello People

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... opening wide, "we know you don't even have a Daddy..." I couldn't see too well then because I was crying. And I always thought the teacher liked me. She always picked me to wash the blackboard on Friday, after school. That was a big thrill, it made me feel important. If I didn't wash it, come Monday the school might not function right. "Where are you going, Richard?" asked the teacher.I walked out of that school that day and for a long time I did not go back very often. There was shame there." (from the ...

2109. God Is Like A Mother

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... won't settle for us being secure. II. Now, look at the second picture of the mother God, from the lesson in Luke's Gospel. You know the setting. Jesus is weeping over Jerusalem because they have not accepted the Messiah who has come to save them. You can feel the anguish and pain in his voice as he says, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem...how often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!" You may have to be from rural Mississippi, or from some farm ...

2110. My Stress Is Killing Me! -- Is It?

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in his chair and asked him about his trip. The man said, "London was just wonderful, an exciting and beautiful city. We had a marvelous time. But Paris was even better. We met the most friendly people in Paris. They went out of their way to make us feel right at home, and yet, Rome was the most outstanding. Rome was the perfect climax to a wonderful trip. The food was marvelous, the accommodations were the best, and the audience for the Pope was just perfect. The crowds weren't large at all. We got right in ...

2111. Don't Mess With Mr. In-between

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... many choices and not able to make up our minds. Now we could preach to the centipede and tell him to do what comes naturally. That's what he had been doing all along until the toad confused him. Try to get into the mind of the centipede. Can you feel his utter confusion. Which of his 50 or 100 or however many legs he has -- which moves first when he begins to run? Confused by it all, he is completely immobilized. He can't run, in fact he can't move because he can't decide which leg to activate ...

2112. Who Needs A Doctor?

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... back then. This is what Sydney Harris wrote: He said, "Now that her world has come unstuck, and she is beginning to reglue it, I feel free to point out that she is a better person than when she was so busy being a 'good person.' Sometimes we have to fall ... and how her tour was going. But then it became very quiet, and out of the silence she confessed to the pain she was feeling because of all the abuse and derision from her sisters and brothers in Christ. She then visibly straightened up and spoke of her resolve ...

2113. The Whole Load

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... with our Scripture lesson today. According to Luke, what I read for our text is only a part of a sermon Jesus preached. If you feel overwhelmed as I do with the text, go home and begin at the 17th verse and read the balance of Chapter Six. Jesus is really ... as they huddled around the backs of those who were kneeling in the circle. We were one vibrant, alive, warm, huddle of humanity -- all feeling the depth of need, as well as the joy of deliverance. As we clasped hands, we sang that song, "Lean On Me". Some ...

2114. How Is It With Your Soul?

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... let alone talked about myself. I even used to assume the conductors knew more than I did. Now, I feel I have recaptured the joy of singing, the feeling that courses through your body when you know the tone is right and your whole being vibrates with it". What Miss Price ... experienced in relation to her art is what integrity is all about. "The feeling that courses through your body when you know the tone is right and your whole being vibrates with it." (Dunnam, Barefoot ...

2115. More Tolerable For Sodom And Gomorrah

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... through which they were trying to pull her was small. And a queen ant is big. "Pop. There went her head. "Now, what do you suppose the ants did when they realized what they had done to their queen? Well, scientists don't know if an ant can feel really dumb, or whether an ant can worry about covering its posterior. But these ants reacted just like a lot of humans do when they realize they've made a terrible mistake: They pretended nothing had happened. "When the keeper looked, the ants were still tending the ...

2116. As Real As It Gets

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... good about it -- that is on the one hand he felt good about it, but not on the other. I asked him what he meant by that. He responded what so many recovering alcoholics say in so many different ways--that you have got to watch out about feeling too good about your sobriety, because you may begin to get cocky and start thinking you can make it on your own and before you know it you have taken that drink that sends you on the skids again. I pressed him a bit--asking him if he had just ...

2117. Don't Worry Be Happy!

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... at once. We're like that. We try to be all things to all persons and so we don't live in the light. We hide some things from some people - - and other things from others. Too often how we act on the outside is not consistent with what we feel on the inside. That's one of the greatest sources of anxiety: Our fear that people will know us as we actually are - - our fear of being found out. Luke gives us good advise as an anecdote for anxiety. Live with integrity, knowing that nothing is hidden that will not ...

2118. Blessed Are Those Who Are Awake

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for spite.” Now I know you sympathize with Mark Twain. I don’t hear as many preachers as you do — or, I don’t hear preachers on a regular basis the way you do, but I understand that sympathy. I have to listen to myself every week. But I also feel for the poor preacher in Twain’s story. One of my problems in sermon preparation is how much to cover. When you come to a passage like the one at which we are looking this morning, and in your general sermon planning, you have decided to deal with it, how ...

2119. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about how one could be born again? Jesus' answer had been totally unsatisfying for his rational mind: "The Spirit blows where it wills -- you feel it, and you hear the sound of it -- but you don't know from where it comes or where it goes. So is everyone who ... it's something God does, and He does it through the Spirit. The wind blows where it wills; you see the sign of it and you feel it, but you don't know from where it comes or where it goes. Will Willimon spoke a challenging word. He said, "We are so ...

2120. The Wholeness Question: Do You Want To Be Made Well?

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... concerned about this and questioned her if her knee was still hurting. "No," she sobbed, "but when I hurt it, you and Mommy didn't feel sorry enough for me, so now I'm crying for myself!" Sort of sounds like the man in our Scriptural story doesn't it? He ... its extreme, self pity becomes destructive causing us to become neurotic and paranoid. We begin to see all things as a plot to destroy. We feel that everyone is out to do us in, to hurt us. If we mire ourselves in the mud of self-pity, we will remain bound ...

2121. The Discipleship Question: Do You Wish To Go Away?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... wrote him a letter at 2:47 in the morning. She couldn't sleep that night, was upset and troubled on the inside, so she poured her feelings out to him. This is what she wrote: "Which stage of grief is this? Or is it grief at all? Just when I experience a little ... comfort back, but not at the expense of my very own soul. So what can I do? Well, I think I will continue to feel my way back through the dark, feeding my faith until someday the lights come on again." That's determination, and that's essential for ...

2122. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... wall three things which were her living witness to the world. In that depressing, dangerous, life-threatening situation, this is what she wrote: "I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining." Then the second thing she wrote was, "I believe in love, even when feeling it not." And the third thing she wrote was, "I believe in God, even when God is silent." (Pulpit Digest). You see we may not control our circumstances, but we do control the response we make to them. Here is a dramatic witness to it. Bryan ...

2123. The Need To Pay Attention

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , the woman responded, "What do you call this?" No communication, no conversation, no contact between living, breathing persons is "life after death." A student in large university put it, "I feel like a B-minus walking around on two legs." A lot of people are walking around not feeling as high as a B-minus -- many of them walking around feeling like total failures. Have you heard about our Shepherd School mission? It's one of the most exciting things that our church will be involved in. If all goes well ...

2124. The Heart -- Our Mirror

Proverbs 25:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in 1990 he was speaking to a group of high school students about drugs. It was right after the death of that basketball star Lynn Bias. Some of you will remember that Lynn died because of drugs. In what seemed like almost ruthless honesty Knight said this: "I don't feel sorry for Lynn Bias, not in the slightest. He had his own mind and his own body to take care of and just wasn't smart enough to do it....He's dead because he wasn't strong enough to take care of himself. Somewhere along the way he wanted ...

2125. Remember Your Baptism

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you believe. It’s not that at all. But there are movements to it, and ingredients which are essential, and they are these. First, there is awareness of sin – an awareness that we, who we are in our separation from God. This brings feelings of guilt on our part. Again, even these feelings of guilt is the work of grace in our life, because an act of grace is also is an act of judgment. Then comes repentance – the act of being truly sorry and turning around. Turning from the old self and turning to God ...

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