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2226. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... must fear for the boys who read muscle magazines and take steroids because that's how to become an impact athlete, and that's how to impress a girl. We must fear for overly responsible people -- those who have the good sense to realize that the world is filled with pain, but the misguided sense that it is their job to fix it. When they fail, they feel devastated. Sadly, church can be a place where many people experience the heaviness of shame. Sometimes it's because a congregation doesn't know how to speak ...

2227. Sometimes It Is Okay to Be Absentminded

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... worry about the journey even though they will have to cross the desert, for God will provide water, a veritable river in the desert. Isaiah sees God providing a new exodus, a way out, a new salvation, a homecoming, freedom from the bondage of the Babylonians. In a sense, the whole world was in exile wrapped in the grip of sin, death, and hell. Jesus our Savior came in the fullness of time to set God's captives free. God has done his new thing in Jesus Christ, and it never grows old and is always springing ...

2228. Led by the Spirit of God

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... it have to do with the way we imagine ourselves? If we see ourselves as victims, we will act accordingly. However, if we see ourselves as God's own children, we will also act in accordance with our beliefs. Paul says that we should approach life with a sense of entitlement. He writes, "Now if we are children, then we are heirs heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ . . ." Have you ever been around a person who is from a moneyed family? They expect to live a certain way. We are generalizing, of course, but it ...

2229. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... will put the matter in perspective. She and I spent a rare couple of hours together in one of those precious exchanges that can never be explained. They can only be entered into when the setting is right. When the dynamic of soul open to soul is sensed, and both persons respond in courage, gently probe, and sensitively listen. You never know even in retrospect just how it happened, so you can’t devise a formula to make it happen again. We wish we could. You only know that you had been sensitive enough to ...

2230. What Really Matters The Price Of The High Calling

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... deep need that we have for forgiveness. In the film, Manuela, a displaced circus performer, goes to church to seek some relief from a priest for the guilt she feels over her husband’s suicide. At first the overworked priest puts her off. Just puts her off. Then he senses the depth of her despair and suggests that they kneel and pray together. But instead of praying, he says, and I quote him, “We live far away from God, so far away that no doubt he doesn’t hear us when we pray to him for help. So we ...

2231. The Fourth Day Comes

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about it? You see, the choice is ours. Jesus won’t force himself upon us. We have to invite him in. So, know this – on your road to Emmaus, whatever drives you there, Jesus will come. He may incognito, but he’ll come and he’ll help you make sense out of life. But he won’t force himself upon you. He is the eternal gentleman. He is the eternal gentleman, all courteous and respectful of your uniqueness and freedom. But life will never be the same for you in terms of meaning and purpose and joy and ...

2232. Remember Your Baptism

Romans 6:1-14, Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Never. You assist in baptism. You not only assist, you participate in baptism. We take up our baptism again, remembering who we are, named as God’s people. Dear old Martin Luther, whenever he was depressed and undergoing strong attack from the devil, or sensed his courage and spiritual strength failing, he would lay his hands on his head and say aloud to himself, I am baptized. And so do we, and our identity through baptism becomes a means of grace. I close with this. In the earliest baptismal liturgies ...

2233. Recovering The Essence

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... children. All of them are or none of them is. God loves each and every human being with infinite care. And this is germane to all we hold dear in our democracy – did not those who conceived the Declaration of Independence affirm that all men, generic sense, all men are created equal - that is we’re all equal in the sight of God. And this endows each and everyone with a dignity we dare not disregard. We must become increasingly sensitive to the feelings and concerns of others. Back of the contemporary ...

2234. Justification By Grace Through Faith

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of it. Close your eyes. When the prodigal son returned to the father’s house, the father treated him as though he had never been away. Now let’s look at a part of the story. The prodigal had been in far country, but had come to his senses. The bright lights and beautiful women, the excitement of life as a continuous party, didn’t bring the meaning it promised. A pocketful of money could buy companionship as long as the money lasted, but it couldn’t purchase friends. His money ran out and he had to ...

2235. Leave Your Stuff Behind

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . When my eye fell upon that junk dealer passing by, I thought instantly, save him, immortalize this unseizeable moment, for the junk man is the symbol of all that is going or gone.” Forever after that, Isley said that he could never regard time without having a deep sense of wonder and he sought to receive every moment as a kind of gift that was only his. It’s an image to consider as we begin this year. And to help us appropriate it, let’s look at the scripture. Tucked away in the story of Sojourn of ...

2236. A Scream And A Laugh

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... We are being controlled, and we say of our actions, "I was not myself." "I don't know why I did that." "That is so unlike me." While it may be next to impossible for us who have never been slaves in the literal sense, or actually imprisoned behind bars, to sense the depth of this image of Paul, still when we reflect long enough, we know something about slavery. Charles T. Robinson was an inmate in maximum security at the Colorado State Prison when I met him. I met him through _______________ Wheatley, wife ...

2237. Christ Signs The Letter Of The Church

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... : (1) the church originated with Christ; the church is Christ's doing, not ours; (2) the Church depends on Christ continually as the source of energy and power. He is the head of the church, not merely in the sense of being the most important member or having control; but rather in the sense that all the forces of the body are brought together in the head. The head is the seat of life and will which permeates all the members, uniting them into an organic whole. Christ, as head, energizes the Body, giving ...

2238. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... -- has no property of his own – a very uncertain future. They offered him a retirement home, fully paid for, if he would simply "be quiet." I'm sure it was with one of the most disarming smiles I've ever seen, and a humility that resonates a sense of confidence and power. Abel withstood the temptation. "In my Father's House are many mansions," he said. "I dare not risk losing my house in heaven for anything you might offer me on earth." Where is the source of such power, such clarity of conviction, such ...

2239. East Of Eden

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... with shame. And even the church has played a role in that. Especially so in the area of sexual immorality. But sensitive souls -- those who have not allowed the world around them to completely squeeze them into its mold -- sensitive souls still know that sense of shame issuing from sin. Another result of sin -- an ominous result -- was death. "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" is the death-nail summation of the situation into which Adam and Eve passed when they ate that forbidden fruit. Paul ...

2240. Declaration Of Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... fast, or stand firm is the way most translations have it. Phillips makes the stance more solid: Plant your feet firmly, therefore, within the freedom that Christ has won for us, and do not let yourselves be caught again in the shackles of slavery." Does it make sense to mix the metaphor? The Christian Walk is a stance of freedom. But this stance is not static. Yes, Paul is saying -- Don't be moved out of your freedom -- stand firm -- don't let it be taken away -- plant your feet firmly. But that doesn't ...

2241. Singing In The Rain

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... baptized in lemon juice. Now I know that mere living doesn't always inspire us to employ our heart and soul and senses to express joy. It's not as easy as saying that behind every cloud is a silver lining. In his "Peanuts" ... let us eat and make merry." What rejoicing! To be saved is to be overtaken with joy. Any person who knows the peace that comes from the sense of sins forgiven, and reconciliation with God, is a person of joy. There's a story making the rounds about the man who wondered into a backroom ...

2242. The Ministry Of Making Many Rich

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... arm were also badly bleeding because he had fallen down on the step coming into the church. “She took the poem and tried to read it. She said it did not seem to make much sense. “Like the snow, I am falling, falling, falling. Like the night, I am falling, falling, falling.” Then she said, there were some lines that made no sense at all. Something about his dog. She was trying to think quickly on her feet. She knew she could not go on reading the poem. Yet something told her that she must. “She came ...

2243. Walk In Newness Of Life

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... let goodness take life, I'm talking about goodness being transformed from that weak word that we normally see it as, into something strong -- not being simply good -- but being good for something. IV. Now a third movement: Give compassion a chance. There is a sense in which this is a coming together of all the fruit of the spirit. Compassion is goodness and kindness lived with passion. It was a primary characteristic of Jesus' life. Over and over again in the Gospels, that word is used -- He had compassion ...

2244. Saying Yes To Forgiveness

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . But I also found community life, and it was very threatening, and five years later I ran away because it was too difficult for me in the sense that I was in too much inner turmoil. I was very closed-mouthed. I wasn't really a person who shared what was going on inside of ... . It's very important. Saying yes to forgiveness offers freedom to another, and claims freedom for yourself. There is a sense in which your enmity and estrangement from another hold both of you in bondage. Let me underscore this point by ...

2245. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a dying order. In the deep woods surrounding the monastery there was a little hut that a rabbi from a nearby town occasionally used for a hermitage. Through their many years of prayer and contemplation the old monks had become a bit psychic, so they could always sense when the rabbi was in his hermitage. "The rabbi is in the woods, the rabbi is in the woods again," they would whisper to each other. As he agonized over the imminent death of his order, it occurred to the abbot at one such time to visit the ...

2246. God Is Like A Mother

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... quite sure where he got the name. But you know, I couldn't imagine myself with any other name. Our name is important. There is some sense in which it becomes who we are. When someone forgets my name, I have a twinge of pain, feeling that maybe I, not just my name ... I've seen that very sensitive mother hen -- I don't know whether she heard the hawk or saw the hawk -- but she senses danger. She knows what is about to happen. She gives that mother "cluck-cluck-cluck" and the little biddies hover around and she ...

2247. Don't Mess With Mr. In-between

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . I believe it was more than one sermon. There is too much here. For sure, the letter is not integrated in a structural sense. It is as though the writer is responding out of impulse and emotion, rather than by establishing a logical train of thought. In ... to side on the road, but getting nowhere. Saying yes to God gives us that steady movement we need, that strength to withstand the storms, that sense of what is right and the will to do it. Then we can say no to what is not in keeping with God's will and ...

2248. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . He had taught me the faith. He blushed a bit when I told him what he meant to me, and then pulling himself up tall, he said, "Michael, don't lean on a broken reed," and walked away. He had a far greater sense of his unworthiness than I did of mine. But he also had a far greater sense of his own dignity and grandeur as a human being. He had experienced more of himself than I ever shall unless I can reach that level of humanity...no wonder that every time I went into the Chapel to pray, I found ...

2249. Will The Real God Please Stand?

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

2250. When You Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... when we importune. This is obviously the central lesson of the parable. “Because of his importunity, the friend who went begging at midnight got what he needed. We need to remember that not only in our intercession, but in all of our praying, we may not sense an immediate response. There may be delay - - long delay. Long, long delay! It may even seem that God is saying, “I cannot give you what you ask.” The problem of “no answer” or at least no apparent or immediate answer, is one of the plaguing ...

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