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2251. Pay Attention To The Inside

Luke 11:37-54

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... .” His was a "Yes” face.”(The Vital Balance, New York: Viking Press, 1963, Page 22 - - quoted by Charles Swindoll in The Grace Awakening, pages 6 & 7) That's what grace does for us -- it gives us a yes face. We resist being legalists. We keep a sense of proportion between one duty and another. Jesus was telling those Pharisees that to tithe mint and rue, and at the same time to practice injustice toward the stranger, the fatherless and the widow and to show no love for God, made a complete mockery of ...

2252. Blessed Are Those Who Are Awake

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... lamp was like a cotton-wick floating in a sauce-boat of oil. Always the wick had to be kept trimmed, and the lamp replenished or the light would go out.” (William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke, p. 167) So, in a narrow sense, Jesus is referring to the Second Coming of Christ — but in the wider sense, He is referring to the time when God’s summons enters a person’s life. So the text speaks to the whole of life, and that’s the way I want to look at it this morning. The need to stay awake — to stay ...

2253. Growing In Self-esteem

Psalm 81:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... do something for your self-esteem wouldn't it? I. Let's begin at that point, recognizing that our self image, and sense of self worth is shaped by forces we have little to do with, certainly forces which we do not control. Charles H. ... . 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 God, and crowned with ...

2254. The Discipleship Question: Do You Wish To Go Away?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... than determination to be disciples. Our determination must be fed by discipline. Harry Stack Sullivan, in talking about the security operations of people, gives us a signal for discipline. He uses the designation,"selectively inattentive." He says this is the way people protect themselves from anything that threatens their sense of security. They simply give it no attention. Now this may be a bad practice if it becomes a habitual pattern that prohibits us from trying new or risky things. Yet, there is a ...

2255. Remember Your Baptism

Luke 3:1-20

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 ...

2256. When the Doctors Can't Help You

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... We are in for a tremendous experience tonight because this supreme lover of people is in our midst. Who is He? He is Jesus Christ. And now here is a man named Lloyd Ogilvie who will tell us about Him." (1) Jesus is the supreme lover of people. "He can sense a person's true needs immediately and speak just the right word to heal a hurt." He knows your situation. But there is a second thing to be said: It is very difficult to carry a heavy burden alone. Is there a trusted friend or counselor with whom you can ...

2257. Your Dreams Are Too Small

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... I just have one question to ask you,” the coach continued, “why did you run to third base instead of to first?” The little boy replied, “Well, ‘cause that’s where I wanted to go and I could get there a lot faster that way.” Well, it does make sense to run to third first, if you don’t want to conform to the silly rules of baseball. James and John wanted a short cut based not on what they knew or what they earned, but who they knew. I’m sure they felt they deserved this promotion. They just ...

2258. Seeing the Good News

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... God's divine purposes -- namely: "All flesh shall see the salvation of God!" Do you see? Advent and Christmas is all about a world that finally comes under the sovereign rule of God. This is the good news that can not be rescinded or denied. In the deepest sense, Advent and Christmas is the celebration of victory in a war against everything that is wrong. Yet, the battles have yet to be completed and the time of fulfillment lies ahead. The victory is secured in our faith and is being worked out in our lives ...

2259. The Hinge of History

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... this Hinge of History, in this John the Baptizer: I. I Find Humor in this Hinge of History. It sometimes seems that God shows his sense of humor with history. Halford Luccock once noted that Nero was sure that the most important happenings in Rome were the words he said, ... to have been my accomplishment, without even a nod of the head in my direction. I'd like to say that it's just my sense of fairness which is offended, but I fear it's also my ego. It's pleasant to be recognized for what we have done, and ...

2260. Epiphany: A Faith to Work Miracles

John 2:1-11

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... that "each part and tag" of his own person was a miracle, and that "a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels." He reminded us that we are surrounded by the glorious and the miraculous and do not know it. Science ought to have increased our sense of awe, as it has unfolded the marvels of the heavens above and mysteries of our bodies within; but we take the attitude that if we know how far it is to a given planet, we have, therefore, encompassed all its significance. We need to know that ...

2261. From Empty Nets to Full Lives

Luke 5:1-11

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... when Jesus had finished teaching he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch" (v. 4). It was really quite audacious for Jesus, a landsman, to tell three professional fishermen how to do their business. Perhaps he sensed they were so defeated that they were ready for any kind of counsel, from anyone. Or perhaps he was counting on the fact that they had confidence in him from their earlier experiences with him. Simon refused at first. "Master, we toiled all night and took ...

2262. At the Corner of Church and Main

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... though, what the reaction was of Jesus' original audience. I wonder if they resisted these Beatitudes. They are, after all, quite surprising. Even counter-intuitive. Blessed are the poor? Fortunate are the hungry? To be envied are those who weep? That makes little or no sense to us. Happy are you when you are hated? Excluded? Reviled and defamed? These kinds of blessings I think I can do without. We Christians say that we love the teachings of Jesus. In fact, I have found in my years of parish ministry that ...

2263. Whether You'll Weather the Weather

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... going on. Now here was this woman in my office, suddenly hit by one of life's potentially devastating storms, and she was looking for help. As we talked, it became painfully apparent that she had no real foundation of faith. She was foundering, and had no sense at all of the God to whom she belonged. She had been in church her whole life, and yet still there was no solid foundation in place when the storm came. II. The Second Similarity Is Opportunity. That brings us to the second great similarity between ...

2264. The Best Advice He Could Give

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... important words. Someone has said that a sign of insanity is to keep doing as you’ve always done and expect different results. If you want to improve your life, then you will have to change your ways! In other words, repent! That’s common sense! In his Nobel Prize-winning book, The Glass Bead Game, writer/poet/philosopher Hermann Hesse had a poem titled “Stages.” The first line reads, “There is magic in new beginnings.” And there is. There is magic in new beginnings. The sad thing is that many ...

2265. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Church has never been consistently able to understand what it means to be “in the world but not of the world.” We’ve known in every period of our history that the very nature of the Church provokes some form of resistance. There’s always a sense in which Kingdom ideals are in conflict with the world in which the Kingdom is set. This expresses itself in different ways. We have to be careful about the nature and focus of our resistance—of how we live as “aliens.” We must not deceive ourselves ...

2266. A Longer Stride and a Larger Embrace

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of monasticism as a living tradition, was less an obstacle to my becoming an oblate than the many doubts about the Christian religion that had been with me since my teens. Still, although I had little sense of where I had been, I knew that standing before the altar in a monastery chapel was a remarkable place for me to be, and making an oblation was remarkable, if not an incomprehensible, thing for me to be doing. (Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk, pages xvii-xviii). Norris then ...

2267. Compassion Fatigue

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on it. If it has not happened yet, it will. You will grow weary and there will be occasions when there is no end in sight. There will always be someone standing by to be loved. There will always be a stranger entering your life and causing you to sense that somehow in that stranger maybe Jesus Himself. There will be the call in the middle of the night – the request to go the second, even the third mile, to give not only your coat, but your cloak as well. There will be that deep, unquestioning surging up ...

2268. Let Not Thy Will Roar, When Thy Power Can But Whisper

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Lord, I would pray for greater patience and understanding, but I am afraid I would get it.” Well, my prayer was, “Lord, renew me, body, mind and spirit – and teach me what You will.” God answers our prayers. He not only has a sense of humor; He has a sense of irony. We arrived in Navarre Beach, on the panhandle coast of Florida, to begin our renewal leave. That is one of my favorite places in all the world. We arrived there on Monday evening, September 21. Hurricane Georges was doing his thing way ...

2269. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it.” This, this is the day. Leave the past behind. Don’t get buried in the hell of a predictable situation, rather than risk the joy of an unpredictable one. (III) Now this final lesson from the text: I put it in a word that will make sense in a moment: remember your proper subject. I put it that way purposefully hoping it will grab your attention more firmly, rather than simply saying, “Have a goal”. A part of the energy for living this now day of resurrection comes from the divine purpose in our ...

2270. The Gospel

Colossians 1:3-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... which is in the power of someone else. The word that the Africans use for redemption is translated into English “God took our heads out.” It is next to impossible for us who have never been slaves in the literal sense, or actually imprisoned behind bars, to sense the depths of this image. Charles T. Robinson, an inmate in maximum security at Colorado State Prison, is helping me probe the depth of this experience. I know that only with a quickened capacity for vicarious experience can I even penetrate ...

2271. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v1

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is no end in sight. There’s not even a half-time or 7th inning stretch. This is an all of life vocation we are called to. There will always be someone standing by to be loved. There will always be a stranger entering your life and causing you to sense that somehow in that stranger may be Jesus Himself. There will be the call in the middle of the night – the request to go the second, even the third, mile. There will be that deep, unquestioned surging up within you that tells you you have to do it – you ...

2272. Healing On The Sabbath

Luke 13:10-17

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... or ritual keep us from seeing the needs of others and responding to the best of our ability. Keep us ever alert to seeing that when we minister to others we are indeed ministering to you. Amen. Offertory Prayer O God, we do not present these offerings out of a sense that we are doing so to keep the laws of sacrifice, as did our forefathers in the faith. We bring them, Lord, out of our love for you and as an indication of our loyalty to your Church and its kingdom-building task. Amen. Hymns "O Day Of Rest ...

2273. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... God there is no far or near but only here. But that does not mean that God is equally available, since God must choose to unveil his presence; it is not automatic. Omnipresence is a correct idea about God which can be affirmed whether or not God is sensed to be near. It can be affirmed even in the place where God is experienced as absent. You may be bored in church one Sunday and the person next to you be in the midst of some spiritual rapture which defies expression. You might both intellectually affirm ...

2274. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... tasted differently after the story was told. No longer a fungus but a sacrament of God’s amazing grace and wicked sense of humor. While they prayed, the mushrooms grew! Never hesitate to tell someone else what the Lord has done for you, ... me to come within earshot of the message of Jesus, close enough to make a serious response? What does it mean that I have this nagging sense of mission which will not go away and that grabs me by the throat at birthdays with a zero after them and whenever I run across ...

2275. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... poor. Beware of those who trade in miracles. Beware of those who say that the age of miracles is past. Beware of those who blame Satan for everything. Beware of those who do not acknowledge the Evil One at all. Beware of those in whom you sense a need to control others rather than release them into mature freedom. Beware of all media religion which lessens your loyalty to your local church. Beware of those who are more concerned with institutional loyalty than with the needs of a lost world. Beware of those ...

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