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2451. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

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Maxie Dunnam

... has followed the same patter of choosing their own will over against God’s will, rebelling against God. And all of us, at one time or another, find ourselves east of Eden, driven from the garden, and that’s bad news. I like the cartoon character, Brother Juniper, created by Father Justin McCarthy. I don’t know whether you’ve seen that cartoon or not, there are collections of them published in little paperback books. Brother Juniper is such a human little monk, I hope there are a lot like him ...

2452. Being Christ

Ephesians 1:15-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... this is the real reason why even among professing Christians there are so many strained faces and weary hearts and captive unreleased spirits. And that’s the reason some folks say that sinners are far more attractive than saints. These people have meditated on Jesus’ character and then they’ve risen up to seek to follow him in their own power, and they can’t do it. So disappointment is heaped on bitter disappointment. The great example becomes a dead weight that beats us down and buries us into the ...

2453. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... favorite symbol, and you know that Peanuts is my favorite cartoon. One Peanut cartoon was an interpretation of the dance as a symbol for life and a challenging for us. Snoopy the Hound of Heaven is the one who does the interpretation, and he’s my favorite character in those cartoons. In the first frame, this Hound of Heaven, Snoopy, ears begin to wave as he begins to leap about, “To dance is to live,” he says with gusto. In the next frame he’s twirling around and he concludes to himself, “For me ...

2454. What If God Is Dependent Upon Our Praying?

2 Chronicles 7:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... write a story for little Kay, and illustrated it with some of the most beautiful water colors she has ever done. Once each week for eight or ten weeks, she sent little Kay a sequel to the story. A story about a little girl named Kay who played with imaginary characters down by the creek behind our house. One of the most precious things she’s ever done. Jeri never heard from Kay. She even tried to get in touch with her by phone, but was unable to do so. I’m quite certain that little Kay died. But I’m ...

2455. Why I Believe In Tithing

Malachi 3:6-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... diseases from ravaging our lives. Money or the lack of it is no key to holding marriages together. Money or the lack of it cannot shield us against the early death of a marriage partner, and the loneliness that follows. You see, we don’t buy character, meaning and direction in life. We can’t put piece of mind on a Visa card. A sense of fulfillment, understanding, and wisdom are not in the arena where money is the medium of exchange. We can’t purchase eternal life. Death is the great equalizer ...

2456. Miracles In Contrast

John 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... ’t talk about the Bethlehem drama with Mary and Joseph and the baby, the shepherds, the wise men, and the angels, though even there the witness to miracles in contrast is our gift, but rather John began to make some stupendous claims about the life and character of Jesus, this one who came at Christmas time. These are assertions are flung down in a kind of wild abandon and confidence as though the writer is stumbling over himself, rushing hurriedly on, trying to get down on paper every thought that he has ...

2457. Servants Of The Servant Who Was Lord

Mark 10:35-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... than yourselves. Look to each other’s interests and not merely to your own. And now in our scripture lesson today, verses 5-11, he shows us clearly what that means. He gives us one of the most beautiful pictures in all scripture of the nature and character of Christ, and one of the most demanding challenges to those who would be his followers. Let’s live with that passage for a while today, as we seek to probe and appropriate its meaning. Focus first on Jesus. If we begin with Jesus, the chances of ...

2458. The Fourth Day Comes

Luke 24:13-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... to rescue Israel. They’re the words of men whose hopes are dead and buried. And then Jesus came and talked with them and the meaning of life became clear to them as he opened to the scripture and the darkness became light. A storyteller makes one of his characters say to the one with whom he’s fallen in love – I never knew what life meant until I saw it in your eyes. It is only in Jesus, even in the bewildering times, that we Christians learn what life really means. Then the third thing to note is ...

2459. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

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Maxie Dunnam

... died, his body was placed in a rough, hand-made casket. Even though no preacher was among them, the family and friends gathered for a funeral and their minds inevitably turned to God in the mystery of death. And one of them turned to Penny, the one character in the book who stands out and stays clean in the midst of that primitive surroundings of hardship. And that one said, Penny, you’ve had Christian raising, we’d be proud that you’d say something. Penny stood at the open grave and lifting his fact ...

2460. The Eternal Question

Matthew 27:11-26

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Maxie Dunnam

... man may have the face of Jesus – his love, his humility, his strength, his kindness, he is free to choose the kind of life that develops that kind of person. But then he makes another decision, goes another way, and turns into a despicable character, like Judas. Who is responsible? Society? Yes, society plays a great role in molding our life. The family – ah, yes, we can tell that the family has an almost limitless power upon different members of it. But, press the question – who is really responsible ...

2461. Justification By Grace Through Faith

Galatians 2:11-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... , far from home, if we’re trying to deal with sin in any other way but by confessing it, repenting of it, and pleading the mercy of God. And remember, sin is not just those glaring acts of immorality we usually label such, though it is that. A character in one of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories said, “Did you ever look inside yourself and see what you are not? Well did you? Did you ever look inside yourself and see what you are not?” That’s sin. That’s sin. Denying or neglecting who God ...

2462. Living Deliberately

John 10:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... position with no physical activity save the moving of his jaw as he spoke in a kind of slow fashion. The captions accompanying the 12 frames become a kind of soliloquy against our indecisiveness. Our shiftless and undirected lives. As he lies flat on his back, unmoving, the character says, ‘pretty soon I’ll have to get up. It is not healthy to lie here. Got to rouse myself. Got to get up. Got to get involved. Now, right now. Or am I rationalizing. Perhaps I don’t want to really get up. Perhaps I feel ...

2463. Saints In The Light

Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... quality of the new people in Christ is that they can have guidance for all of life’s decisions and challenges. But that spells responsibility. Guidance is not for the collection of ideas, but for the living of a life which reproduces the Savior’s character. It is that challenge that Paul presses on.” (Lloyd John Ogilvie, Loved and Forgiven, Regal Books, pp. 20-21). III. But not only discernment in perceiving God’s will, those who are saints in the light receive power for performing God’s will. In ...

2464. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (i)

Psalm 137:1-9

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Maxie Dunnam

... to us. But it's obvious that Old Testament scripture writers did not see God as the Gospel writers or Paul and other New Testament writers did. In the pages of the Bible, understanding of God changes as people come closer to the full revelation of his character in Jesus Christ. So, the God who is often described in the Old Testament as vengeful conduct that would even turn the stomachs of those who make no noble moral claims, the same God -- the one who is the same yesterday, today and forever, came to be ...

2465. A Love For All Seasons (i)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... us a mental image of how God covers our wrongdoing. It is the way of love. "But "to bear" also has the meaning of carrying the burden and blame of another on your own shoulders. Do you remember that word of prophecy in Isaiah 53 that describes the coming and character of the Messiah: "Surely he has borne our grief and carried our sorrows" (Isa. 53:4a). It is the meaning of the cross. "And the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isa. 53:6b). "The burden for our sin has been lifted and carried by ...

2466. The Ministry Of Making Many Rich

1 Timothy 6:11-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... you: “But as servants of God, we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance and afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger;...” But then he talked about how they had sought to act — their character in the midst of those circumstances. Look at verses six through eight: “By purity, knowledge, forbearance, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love, truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness, for the right hand ...

2467. Walk In Newness Of Life

Romans 6:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... is good. We've just been talking about kindness, and kindness and goodness are very close together. We often use the words somewhat interchangeably. My friend, Ellsworth Kalas, has shared the fact that a few years ago, he preached about one of his favorite Biblical characters, Barnabus. He called him, "a gardener among human beings" because of the way he nurtured the lives of others and brought out the best in them. The Bible says of him that he was a "good man, full of the Holy Ghost and faith." Ellsworth ...

2468. God's Hello People

1 John 1:5--2:14

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Maxie Dunnam

... from another famous person, Herb Gardner. Mr. Gardner's most famous play was "A Thousand Clowns". But he had another play which lasted only about three weeks on Broadway. It was entitled "The Goodbye People." There is a marvelous scene in this play where the lead character is trying to get financial help for his failing business from his friends and relatives. He calls them up one after the other on the phone. As soon as they discover what he's after, they grow very cagey -- they back off, get cool -- and ...

2469. The Day Is Not For Sleeping

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

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Maxie Dunnam

... the Holacaust was "a Jewish holiday." Many couldn't locate the United States on a world map.Others had never heard of the Federalist papers." But Walters, to her credit, probed beyond academic performance. "The real crisis she argued, "is one of character. Today's high school seniors lead in a world of misplaced values," she said. They have no sense of discipline. No goals. They care only for themselves. In short, they are becoming a generation of undisciplined cultural Barbarians." (Charles Colson, Against ...

2470. Don't Mess With Mr. In-between

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... is a failure to trust God for who God really is. Look at the way James describes him in verse 5: He gives "to all men generously and without reproaching." As we study the word of God, it is obvious that God delights in giving. He is generous; His very character is to give. Love is His motive for giving. In fact, He loved enough to give His very best. "God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son..." (John 3:16). (Cedar, Ibid., p. 28). The reason we do not receive wisdom, the reason we don't ...

2471. The Trance Of Non-renewal

Zechariah 9:9-13, Matthew 24:36-44

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Maxie Dunnam

In John Gardiner's book on leadership, he uses a marvelous phrase: "The trance of non- renewal." He uses it in relation to institutions and organizations. He says that members of these institutions can get into what he calls "the trance of non-renewal," which means they get so accustomed to a flaw in the organization that they just stare right past it. They don't even see it. They get accustomed to living with it. That's called "the trance of non-renewal." You see it everywhere, and I've seen it in the ...

2472. Repentance: The No That Is A Yes

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... me" (page 56). One Unitarian pastor said, "We are guiltless children before God, not a guilty child of the ego." What a fallacious claim! What a lie! None of us are guiltless children of God. We are deceived when we fool ourselves in this fashion. There is a character among Charles Schulz's personalities that speaks to us here. He is the little boy they call "Pig-pen." He is always dirty-- as dirty as a little boy can get. In one cartoon series, Pig-pen is at the sink in a bathroom, washing, washing, and ...

2473. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

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Maxie Dunnam

... core values of life: honesty, caring for others, being willing to sacrifice, never taking yourself too seriously or thinking more highly of yourself than you ought to think, working in a way that is worthy of your pay -- those core values, and much of what I am in character -- I learned because I trusted the instructors, my mom and dad. If we are going to be disciples, we have got to trust the instructor. We have got to trust Jesus. Later, we are going to sing the hymn, "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus". Do ...

2474. He Comes As He Came

Luke 19:28-44

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Maxie Dunnam

... that story has to say to us who would be on the road of faith. I want us to look at Jesus' "march" to Jerusalem through this lens: He comes as He came. There are three scenes in this Palm Sunday story as Luke recorded it -- scenes that depict the character of Jesus, how He came to the city of his destiny, and how He comes to the world today, and to us. Let's look at these scenes, and learn for ourselves what the road of faith was like for Jesus and what that teaches us. I. The first scene ...

2475. On The Road Again (emmaus)

Luke 24:13-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... one who was going to rescue Israel." They are the words of men whose hopes are dead and buried. And then Jesus came and talked with them, and the meaning of life became clear to them, and the darkness became light. A story teller makes one of his characters say to the one with whom he has fallen in love, "I never knew what life meant until I saw it in your eyes." It is only in Jesus, even in the bewildering times, that Christians learn what life means. (Barclay, Daily Bible Study, The Gospel of Luke, page ...

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