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2176. Being the Lord's Instrument

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... she. Most families had eight or ten children, she had only four. Her neighbors were old, she was only 49; they were sick, she was healthy; they were tired, she was full of energy; they had problems like alcoholism, and she was steady emotionally and so was her husband. Mrs. Salvino appointed herself an unofficial, untrained social worker and assigned herself to Erie Street. She visited the sick she collected money from the comparatively poor and gave it to the desperately poor. She did the housework for ...

2177. Out of the Miry Bog (Dealing with Depression)

Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... back, the doctor said to the husband, “See, that’s all she needs.” With that, the man said, “Okay, I’ll bring her in Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week, but I have to play golf on the other afternoons.” Depression is the most common emotional problem in America today. Hospitals are full of persons who are severely depressed. But those who are hospitalized, along with those are under the care of a doctor for this malady, represent only a tiny portion of our population who are weighed down by ...

2178. When Nature Says No

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... by Paul’s affirmation of faith. Self-pity is inviting, but resists it and visualizes a new possibility. It’s so easy when nature says “No” to some “Yes” in our life to give way to self-pity, one of the most debilitating of all emotions. Christians are saved from self-pity by the remembrance that Christ never allowed his soul to be cornered in despair. Paul followed in Jesus’ steps. “Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day.” Though self-pity is ...

2179. In the Lions' Den (Dealing with Stress)

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... hours or conditions – changes in residence or changes in schools. All of these things play a significant role in bringing about the kind of stress upon us that weakens our resistance and sets the stage for us to become a victim of some major physical or emotional illness. Then there is the pressure that comes from having our wants denied. Really that’s the cause of anger; when we want something or expect something and don’t get it, we become angry and anger is one of the greatest sources, or maybe I ...

2180. When a Person Is Called

Galatians 1:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... “Born of Conviction” statement about the issues facing us. Twenty-four other ministers joined us in signing and issuing that statement publicly. My congregation knew what my convictions were. I’d preached those convictions for years for some strange reason, they could not emotionally tolerate such a public stance on my part in the heat of all that was going on in the community. I can vividly remember the anxiety and pain of the occasion when the officials of the church called a meeting to confront me ...

2181. The Gospel Through the Person

Galatians 4:8-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I tell you the truth?” But despite that tough confrontation, Paul pulls back the curtain of his own inner soul, revealing his anguish and pain, his personal limitations, his feelings of failure, his overwhelming sense of appreciation. Can’t you just feel the deep emotion and tenderness in verse 14? “And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.” Short through this passage is Paul’s overarching commitment to those he ...

2182. Exit and Entrance

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

It was in the newspaper back in the late 1950’s, at the height of the civil rights movement - an unforgettable picture which captured not only the emotion of one man, but the deep sense of freedom and joy and release and affirmation of a whole people. A black man, who must have been over 100 years old, was being carried on the shoulders of a group of young men. They were taking him up the steps of ...

2183. He Presented Himself Alive

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... “He presented Himself alive.” Not long ago, I walked into the hospital room of one our members, Libby Burch. She fought valiantly in a raging battle with cancer. I’d seen her gritted teeth stubbornness, had watched her refuse to be emotionally beaten down by this energy-sucking attack on her body, had witnessed a beautiful woman refusing to be humiliated by this force that ravaged even her physical appearance. Today there was something different about her, subtle but distinctly different. “How are ...

2184. The Shared Life of the People of God, Part 2

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is in the Spirit of Christ. He is gentle and calls us to gentleness. We handle each person with the kind of gentle care with which we would handle a piece of precious fragile crystal. We seek to be sensitive to the brittleness of persons, to their emotional pain threshold. We are firm, seeking never to fall in the ditch ourselves in order to help the sinner, but we are gentle, recognizing that the stakes are high - in fact, eternal. We don’t burst down doors to make our case. We respect privacy and ...

2185. The Harvest of the Spirit, Part 1

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... splendor of his secret plan. And the secret is simply this: Christ in you! Yes, Christ in you, bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come.” (Col. 1: 26- 27 Phillips). And what does that mean? It means that our minds, our emotions, our wills, are meant to be the post-resurrection home of the intimate, indwelling Christ! Is that the case with you? Are you alive in Christ? A number of years ago, a judge in Yugoslavia had a shocking experience literally! He was standing in the bathtub and ...

2186. When God Seems Far Off

Psalm 10:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’s and children’s love. I’m afraid.” To be able to express to others those feelings of fear, or any other deep or tumultuous feeling that are about to explode within us unburdens our spirit. It is dangerous to our physical, as well as our emotional and spiritual health, to keep those feelings bottled up inside. Sooner or later, they will break out - maybe as ulcers or stress that brings on a heart attack, or anxiety that brings a nervous collapse, or as rage that does harm to someone we love – or ...

2187. Room When in Distress

Psalm 4:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... County, “I’m damned if I do, and damned if I don’t.” When you add to the feeling of being trapped a feeling of being abandoned, the problem is intensified, becomes even more devastating, bringing us to the brink of despair. It’s the combined emotional and spiritual onslaught of fear and abandonment that this psalm is all about. So we couldn’t title the sermon, “When You Feel Trapped.” We are talking about more than that, so the first verse says it well: “Thou hast given me room when I was ...

2188. Luke 7:36-8:3

Luke 7:36-50

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... of an inability to pay, was as socially stunning to Simon and his banquet guests as it would be today to a twenty-first century gathering of banking CEO’s. Into this formerly financial relationship between lender and debtor Jesus introduces an emotional connection when he asks Simon, “Now which one of them will love him more?” There is more to relationships than a “quid-pro-quo” equanimity. There is compassion, forgiveness, and love. Jesus next focuses his attention on the woman, even as he ...

2189. A Goodly Heritage

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... easily fall into it. Our “down- in-the mouth” word is “What can one person do?” I was sitting in a restaurant recently — not eavesdropping, but I couldn’t help overhearing the conversation of a group of ladies at the next table. One said, rather emotionally, “It’s a disgraceful state of affairs. But what can one person do?” I resisted involving myself with those ladies, but I wanted to share the word of an unknown poet: There is at least one useful and highly important task in this world ...

2190. Led by the Spirit, Tempted by the Devil

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... know about that, don’t we? Evelyn Underhill put her diagnostic finger on our basic problem. She said, “We mostly spend (our) lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have and to do. Craving, clutching, and fussing, on the material, political, social, emotional, and intellectual – even on the religious plane - we are kept in perpetual unrest. We forget that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and include in the fundamental verb, to be. Being ...

2191. Emmanuel - God with Us

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... read every word of the “begets”. The boys did, and they noticed that the old man began crying as they ran through the long list of genealogies. He continued to cry until they were through. Finally, one of the boys said, “Pardon me, Sir, but what’s so emotional about a list of names?” I like what the old blind man said. “Well, boys, God knowed everyone of those fellers, and knowed them by name. And it makes me feel real good that maybe God knows me too, and that maybe he knows me by name!” The ...

2192. My Name Is Legion

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of depression? You feel victimized by the circumstance not in control of our life is so tied up with someone else that someone doesn’t care and suffer. Maybe that someone is a spouse from whom you’re divorced, but children and financial need, and past deep emotional ties bind you to that person, and you feet dependent and trapped. You want to believe that there’s a way out, that the sun will from the twilight zone of fear and depression. You’ve heard that Jesus could do this. You’ve even counseled ...

2193. Peter, Our Folk Hero

Mark 14:27-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ; and the fear which scattered them was far better founded and more powerful than anything which the easy-going Christians today have to resist. I hope as we look at the flight of the disciples that we will learn to place little reliance on our emotions, however genuine and deep. I hope we will learn for security in our continual adherence to Christ – not our fluctuating feelings, but in His steadfast love. We keep close to Him, not because fingers grasp which nothing can loosen. If we trust in our own ...

2194. Sons of God

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... a1996 movie titled Shine. It’s the story of Australian concert pianist David Helfgott, who was a child prodigy. David grew up in a severely dysfunctional family. His father, Peter, was a Jew who lost almost his entire family to the Nazis. As a result he was emotionally damaged. He became paranoid about losing his family now, just as he had lost his parents to the Nazis. So he tried to bind his current family his wife and children to him by ruling them with an iron fist. Their yard was even enclosed by ...

2195. On Being Faithful and Focused

Hebrews 11:1, 32 – 12:2

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and teacher, Harvey Pinick. Ben flew to Austin where he served as a pallbearer at Harvey's funeral. After the funeral, he flew back to Augusta and played, perhaps, one of the best games in his professional career, winning the Masters for the second time. In an emotional moment on the 18th green, when he simply broke down and wept from the tension of the last few days, a reporter asked, “Ben, what were you thinking?" The great professional golfer said, “I had a 15th club in my bag today. It was Harvey. I ...

2196. When It's Time For Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... shoulder and it lodged in her spine. Missy will never walk again. About a year or so after that she was in Louisville. At a press conference, here is what Missy said. “Michael took so much from me that day, but I believe hating him is a wasted emotion. Besides, hating Michael won’t make me walk, nor bring my classmates back to life. The media especially wants to know how I could forgive? It’s what God teaches us to do.” People find the grace to forgive others. When I think about the times I have ...

2197. The Darkness Before the Dawn

John 13:18-30, John 13:31-38

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... there. St. John of the Cross of Spain called it the dark night of the soul. Have you been there? Do you understand? Jean Bloomquist, in an article in Weavings, describes her most recent dark night. “The darkness engulfed me personally, professionally, emotionally, and spiritually. I was depressed, deeply depressed... I felt like I had lost everything. I had no sense of direction or meaning; faith eluded me. It became increasingly difficult to talk about God, or even listen to others talk about God." Ella ...

2198. The Uniting Peace of Christ

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... them versus us, truth versus lies, good guys versus bad guys? My experience in life has been there are at least three sides to every story: there is your side, my side and the truth, which is somewhere else to be discovered. Demonizing powerfully stirs the emotions of a partisan crowd but does it bring any healing to a hurting world? It gets sponsors for talk shows, but does it build a world where we will live together in civility? What is this notion of demonizing the person different from me? Paul says ...

2199. It Doesn't Have to Be That Way - Sermon Opener

Luke 8:26-39

Illustration

James W. Moore

... eat. He worries and broods and agonizes about everything, his business, his investments, his decisions, his family, his health, even, his dogs. Then, on this day in this Canadian hotel, he craters. He hits bottom. Filled with anxiety, completely immobilized, paralyzed by his emotional despair, unable to leave his room, lying on his bed, he moans out loud: "Life isn't worth living this way, I wish I were dead!" And then, he wonders, what God would think if he heard him talking this way. Speaking aloud again ...

2200. The Power to Resist Temptation

I Corinthians 10:13-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... a corpse." I have Good News for you! God, through Jesus Christ, came to give you new life. Betty Hutton was a famous movie star and huge box office attraction back in the 1940's and 50's. But Betty Hutton lost her way. She had family problems, emotional problems, illness, bankruptcy, depression and alcoholism stole her life away. In her trouble she cried to the Lord for help and the Lord heard her cry. The Lord delivered her from the forces of wickedness, restored her soul, and gave her a new life. By God's ...

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