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2351. When You Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... ! 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 problems of prayer. It’s not easy, against all appearance of failure, to continue to pray - - to hold fast, believing that God will hear and answer. We need to importune with the assurance that God will respond. One key lesson of the parable is to be found precisely in learning what lies behind the importunity. That is our need for ...

2352. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... the mother in the Sudan who can feed her child only once a day and chooses to do so at night so as to silence the child's continual crying during the long hours of darkness? Is not hope a luxury to a young teenager in a ghetto where drugs and crime are a way of life ... happened to me in the past. And I'm alive. And I can do my work. And by the grace of God, I will continue." She is still there today, doing her work, keeping her vigil, trusting God and growing in love because Jesus has her heart. Because He has ...

2353. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... called your son; make me like one of your hired servants". You know what happened. His father saw him coming down the path while he was a long way off. He ran to him, threw his arms around, hugged him, kissed him. The Greek verb that is used here is continuous, meaning he kept on kissing him and kissing him! There was no eating the servants food -- a feast was prepared. There was no being like a hired person on the farm. The best clothes were ordered and a ring to confirm the fact that he was a part of the ...

2354. The Cross Question: Am I Not To Drink The Cup?

John 18:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... of the cross is, I know, nonsense to those who are involved in this dying world, but to us who are being saved from that death it is nothing less than the power of God." So, today, on this Palm Sunday, as we enter Holy Week, and as we continue our series of questions Jesus asked, our is The Cross question. There are few scenes, if any, in the New Testament, which show us so clearly the qualities of Jesus as the scene in our scripture lesson -- his arrest in the Garden. Let's get that picture clearly in ...

2355. The Easter Question: Why Are You Weeping? Whom Do You Seek?

John 20:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... to take my own life... Do you see it? She was focusing on the tomb. She was looking in the wrong direction. Listen as she continues: ...but God had other plans for me. Both times I failed (in my suicide efforts) so with no one around, I got down on my ... me, Philip?" That's the question do we not yet know Jesus? The point is this: what Jesus has been and done on earth, he will continue to do as our Resurrected Lord through the power of the Holy Spirit. But the added point is that He is preparing for us an ...

2356. Naming And Being Named

John 15:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... 't face it alone", listen to what he said then. "At that moment the presence of the Divine was upon me as never before. The quiet assurance of an inner voice said, 'stand up for righteousness, stand up for truth and I will be at your side forever', and he continues "almost at once my fears began to go. My uncertainty disappeared and I was ready to face anything". That's prayer. We name God as God is in our experience. We name ourselves as we are before God, and we wait in the presence of the Lord to allow ...

2357. Fair Weather Friends

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a modern proverb: "To have a friend, you must be a friend." Let's outline briefly at least the core of what this means. One, you can't friends without being a friend. Someone put it this way: Friendship is like a bank account you can't continue to draw on without making deposits. What others need of us is something that is real. We're fed so much superficiality. The T.V. diet of advertising is based on a false world of superficial fun, shallow romance, sex outside of marriage, and offers of satisfaction ...

2358. The Need To Pay Attention

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... at every point that begged your attention? I invite you to spend time this summer with this book of practical wisdom as we continue our series of sermons on Proverbs for daily living. We could stop at verse 1: "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler ... sermon time today. And I'm not quite sure what caused me to stop at verse 12. Let's pray that it is the Spirit's continuing guidance as I seek to be responsible as your pastor in speaking the word of God from Sunday to Sunday. Listen to it because it ...

2359. The Heart -- Our Mirror

Proverbs 25:1-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... have to live with. An image is an awful thing, he said. An actor says, "I'm going to do this or that." And someone will say, "What about your image?" Ustinov said, "I don't know what my image is, I don't want to know." And then he continued, "It is a sad state when the man looking at you from a mirror is more important than the man looking into the mirror." If you are overly concerned about your image -- if you are preoccupied with the impression you are making on other people -- the chances are you are ...

2360. Rejected at Home

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And, Mark tells us, "they took offense at him." Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor." He could not do any miracles there, Mark continues, "except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their lack of faith." Who was it who said, "You can't go home again"? I believe it was Thomas Wolfe. Wolfe, by the way, grew up in a large, sprawling house ...

2361. God's Anxiety Reduction Plan

Philippians 4:2-9

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John P. Jewell

... in our house for Christmas dinner?" Then there is the young man who said to his pastor, "I am going to give my girlfriend an engagement ring for Christmas." "What a wonderful gift," the pastor replied. Then the young man with anxiety written all over his face continues, "I don't know what I will do if she says no!" This year when I read the lectionary epistle reading for this Sunday the words jumped right off the page: "Do not worry about anything..." There you have it people. Advice right from the pages of ...

2362. From Hurting to Helping

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... one of her children. She would go to bed at night and her body would take over with what felt like labor pains. She said it was as if from some depth she was trying to give birth to Peter again. Yet, from somewhere, she found strength to continue. Then, two years after Peter’s self-inflicted death, there came another blow that almost crushed the life and faith out of her. She received the horrifying news that her son John, a cabinetmaker who loved to play the violin, and his wife Nancy, a woman who came ...

2363. Songs of the Season

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... without undue worry. A person who is secure in their position can hardly imagine the pain of those who have been without work for months. "I'd make a job for myself," the self-confident answer; but they have not experienced the numbing pain of continued and humiliating defeat. 2. Mary's statement reminds us that the people who bear Jesus' name must always have a special heart for the poor. During the Decian persecution, the church was caring for a great number of the poor -- windows, orphans, the physically ...

2364. Peter's Vision

Acts 11:1-18

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... dispute that was widespread in the New Testament church, the dispute over conditions to be laid upon Gentile converts to the faith. The apostles and disciples of Jesus, who were the earliest Christians, were originally Jews, and some of them, at least, continued to obey some of the stipulations of Jewish law. For example, Peter, in our text, had not before eaten any animals that were listed in the Torah as unclean (cf. Leviticus ch. 11). In addition, these early Jewish Christians were circumcised, according ...

2365. Tasks For The Living God

Acts 16:11-15

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Fourth Gospel, which tell of the Last Supper, Jesus promises his disciples that he will never leave them desolate, that he will come to them in the Spirit, and teach them, and defend them. In fact, it is through the work of the Holy Spirit that Jesus will continue his work on earth (John 16:8-11). In writing Acts, Luke is very conscious of that gift. It is the Holy Spirit that guides Paul on his journeys, that brings conversions, and that opens the heart of Lydia to receive Paul's words and to be baptized ...

2366. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... Christians who witness by following their Master in modeling justice, righteousness, and peace. (Ingle and Dyrness, p.66). “When the Great Commission is properly conceived as making disciples, it should then become apparent that disciple-making is a process that will continue until Christ returns. In other words, the Great Commission can never be fulfilled, and we are doing a great disservice when we declare any part of the world to have been reached.” (Ingle and Dyrness, p. 66-67). Apostolic in Passion ...

2367. Compassion Fatigue

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... . 21). There’s no need to ask for clarification, is there? It can’t get any clearer than that. When you boil it all down, compassion is at the heart of our call to be Christian – loving out of the love of God, loving with the love of God, continuing to love until we give up the last ounce of our being on behalf of the Kingdom. I believe this is what Hope Foundation is all about – putting flesh on this style of love and compassion. Making ministries of love and compassion possible. But we all know it ...

2368. Being Christ

Ephesians 1:15-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... from Christ. Christ is not all of God, as the newborn baby is not the entire mother. But in Christ, God gives birth to God. (The Christian Century, Dec. 19, 1979) We may extend the use of that image for our life in Christ, for in us the Incarnation continues. I am not all of Christ, even as the newborn baby is not the entire mother and even as Jesus Christ is not all of God. But by an incomprehensible work of grace, Christ is alive in me, and to the degree of my yieldedness to his indwelling presence ...

2369. Imitators of God

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Maxie Dunnam

... in my mind and heart these days with the nature of the church and the nature of Christian discipleship. My preoccupation flows from my commitment to the rich heritage of ATS – in terms of theology, ethos, mission and our spiritual formation dynamic. You will continue to hear what you have often heard from me during the past five years: “The seminary is the servant of the church.” We have no reason for being apart from the church. At the heart of preparation for ministry is formation as Christian ...

2370. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... . As soon as she finished seminary she returned to India. Miracle after miracle has happened. I don’t have time to tell it all. But the crux of it is that she now operates a home -- she calls it Grace House – a home for homeless children. She continues her same pattern of prayer and total trust in the Lord and the Lord is providing. Tammy is growing spiritually in unusual ways. Her life is a powerful testimony. She writes her friends via email about every two or three weeks, maybe once a month. I always ...

2371. The Nature of the Church and Christian Discipleship

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... meaning unlike anything they have known comes to them. They discover a lifestyle of serving that adds a new dimension to their life. We could go on and on – and the witness is multiplied in this student body over and over again – what Christ has done and continues to do in our lives – so we proclaim the wonderful deeds of Him who called us out of darkness out of his marvelous light. III Then there is the third question: Where is our power? We get stuck, don’t we? We feel inadequate, our identity is ...

2372. Keeping Our Souls

John 13:18-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... search their hearts. But that’s not the only bomb He set off that evening. A second bomb was detonated in the personal encounter He had with Peter. We didn’t read it in our Scripture lesson. The story is that Judas went out into the night and Jesus continued to talk -- to talk about what was going to happen to Him. “I am with you for a little while,” He said, “but I am going to leave . . . and where I am going you cannot come.” Well, you can imagine what a mysterious and shocking word that was ...

2373. Samaria and Our Spiritual Journey

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... jumped into the conversation. “I first experienced the love of God,” she said, “in the orphanage.” Mother was an orphan. We have no idea who her biological parents were. She was adopted from the orphanage at age 15. “Someone was reading from the Bible,” she continued. “They read, ‘When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.’ My father and my mother did forsake me,” she said, ”and the Lord did take me up.” I was stunned. I knew mother was an orphan, but she ...

2374. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... Holy Spirit in a measure not known before. It was a signal, sanctifying experience in my life – changing forever the direction of my ministry, challenging me to allow Christ to minister through me, rather than my struggling to minister for Christ. Over the years since, I have continued to ask myself, “Do I want to be holy?” And I have constantly reminded myself that I am as holy as I want to be. Paul calls us to be nothing less than “imitators of God.” (Eph. 5:1); this is possible through the Holy ...

2375. The Work of An Evangelist

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... Aleida responded, “Oh honey, we have got to be more urgent in sharing Jesus. We have got to reach them and tell about Jesus before they die, and it’s too late.” Carlos, amazed at this wife’s courage in the midst of evil, was strengthened to continue in the battle. Life has always been difficult for them but Carlos testifies, “Christ, the Master Craftsman, has an object of beauty of mind when He begins to chisel away in our lives. The blows in life many times do not make sense. But it is as when ...

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