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Colossians 1:1-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... these days. There is a sense in which all of us need to be cultural anthropologists – we need to know the setting in which we serve, the life of our community, who are the people that we might be able to reach. I hope you will read George Hunters two books: Reaching Secular People and The Church for the Unchurched. (NOTE TO MAXIE: Add a little bit to this point) But it is not enough to be able to critique the culture. We must identify with and have compassion for those with whom we would share ...

2. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... us need to be cultural anthropologists – we need to know the setting in which we serve, the life of our community, who are the people that we might be able to reach. I don’t have time to talk about this, so I simply urge you to read George Hunter’s two books, Reaching Secular People and Church for the Unchurched. But it is not enough to be able to critique the culture. We must identify with and have compassion for those with whom we would share the gospel. There are people all around us who are dying ...

3. The God Who Is Near

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... man could reveal the character of God is truly astounding. But that is the Good News of the Gospel. Dr. George Hunter in his book, . . .AND EVERY TONGUE CONFESS, tells about Bill Alexander; one of the prominent preachers of the 1930s, and ... , HOW CAN I FIND GOD? (Revell Company). (2) Stephen F. Olford, GOING PLACES WITH GOD, (Wheaton: Victor Books, 1983) (3) Dr. George Buttrick. (4) Nelson L. Price, FAREWELL TO FEAR, (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1983). (5) Susan Russell, quoted in Arthur Tonne, WITH PARABLES, ( ...

4. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... ); Dale C. Allison, The Sermon On The Mount (New York: Herder & Herder, 1999); David Dockery & David Garland, Seeking the Kingdom (Wheaton, ILL: Shaw, 1992); Georg Strecker, The Sermon On The Mount (Nashville, TN: Abington, 1988); Jan Lambrecht, S.J., The Sermon On The Mount (Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier, 1985 ... an extraordinary, and often neglected, insight. 14. PreachingToday.com search under Matthew 5:1-12. 15. Idem. 16. See George Hunter, The Celtic Way of Evangelism (Nashville, TN: Abington, 2000).

5. Being the Lord's Instrument

Exodus 17:1-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... of Jesus Christ in so many areas of concern. But not all of us can do that, yet of can act deliberately in our routine life what God is calling us to do by intentionally being about his business day in and day out. My friend, Dr. George Hunter, tells one of the loveliest stories about how this happened with one woman which can inspire us all. “Three years ago in the First Baptist Church of Albuquerque New Mexico, at the conclusion of the Sunday evening service, at the singing of the 32nd or 33rd verse ...

6. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... at death, see Jerry Walls, “Purgatory for Everyone,” First Things 122, April 2002, 26-30. 3. Two books that have pushed me over the edge on this issue are Gregory Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Nation (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005) and George Hunter III, Christian, Evangelical & Democrat (Nashville, TN: Abington, 2006). 4. The four classic marks of the church from the Nicene Creed. 5. Matthew 6:1-4. 6. Matthew 6:16-18. 7. For a development of this idea, see Stephen Seamands, Ministry In The Image ...

7. Outrageous Parties

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Will Willimon

... that one of the major products of Honduras is rum." It was at that moment that I remembered where I had first met George. When I was a graduate school student at Emory, I supported myself by serving two nasty little rural churches on weekends, many miles, and ... well. I was so depressed. One afternoon, I poured out my story to my professor of Pastoral Counseling, Dr. Rodney Hunter. I told Dr. Hunter about the fights after the board meetings. I told him about the messes that our families had made of themselves ...

8. What Do You Want To Be Like When You Are 65?

Proverbs 3:1-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... off. But unfortunately, the plane soon crashed. As they stumbled from the wreckage, one hunter asked the other if he knew where they were. "Well, I'm not sure," replied the second hunter, "but I think we are about two miles from where we crashed last year ... it be?" This was Shaw's response: "If I could relive my life in the role of any person I desired, I would want to be the man George Bernard Shaw could have been, but wasn't." Do you get it? We can be the sort of person we want to be if we make that ...

9. Argument Attacks

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The 18th-century British physician John Hunter, who was a pioneer in the field of surgery and served as surgeon to King George III, suffered from angina. Discovering that his attacks were often brought on by anger, Hunter lamented, "My life is at the mercy of any scoundrel who chooses to put me in a passion." These words proved prophetic, for at a meeting of the board of St. George's Hospital in London, Hunter got into a heated argument with other board members, walked out, and dropped dead in the next ...

10. A Woman's Place

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... primitive societies this was a practical means of dealing with the needs of the family. The man was the hunter. He was generally bigger, stronger, aggressive; the woman more vulnerable not only because of her size and physical strength ... and say, "Now George, without my money we wouldn't be here." Then as the brand new furniture was delivered she said, "Now George, remember without my money that furniture wouldn't be here." Whenever they would take a trip she would always say, "George, remember without my ...

11. The Lonesome George Church

Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... had obviously been hacked by a poacher. In the face of the numerous other resources for food available to hunter, Pritchard declared, in his own words, a perverse and evil man had made the long journey to [Pinta], climbed ... some scholars have heard echoes of Psalm 90:12: “Teach us to number our days aright,/that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (NIV). “Lonesome George” . . . his days are numbered. When the Bible teaches us to number our days, it doesn’t mean that OUR days are numbered. It means that ...

12. When Jiggling Wires Is Not Good Enough

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Messiah, can he?" And perhaps the most amazing thing of all is that the townspeople believed the witness of the woman and followed her back to the well to meet Jesus. This gives us a model of evangelism. "Authentic evangelism," writes George G. Hunter, "flows from a mindset that acknowledges the ultimate value of people ” forgotten people, lost people, wandering people, up-and-outers, down-and outers ” all people. The highest value is to love them, serve them, and reach them." (3) "Then the woman left ...

13. Authentic Evangelism

Jn 4:1-26

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George G. Hunter

"Authentic evangelism," writes George G. Hunter, "flows from a mindset that acknowledges the ultimate value of people - forgotten people, lost people, wandering people, up-and-outers, down-and outers - all people. The highest value is to love them, serve them, and reach them." "Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city." ...

14. Walk in Light

Isaiah 2:1-5

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Far above the cool, clear waters of New York State’s Lake George, looms Black Mountain, the highest of the mountains guarding that deep, clear lake. I spent five summers on ... rusty iron and has to burn off our rust. We are tarnished gold to be polished with God’s Word and Law. I once spent some time in a restaurant in Virginia, where many hunters gathered. A young man of eighteen or so walked in ahead of me. He had just shot his first deer. I heard him say to the woman at the cashier’s table: "I never ...

15. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... woman, enrolled that day as a freshman. Federal troops ensured her entrance, but the doorway was blocked by Governor George Wallace. Holding out for segregation, the governor ultimately failed, and Ms. Malone became the first African-American to ... so many open doors that he now breezes in and out of their psyche with no barriers whatever, a master of destruction and finally death. Hunter said of himself, “I sense it first, and before I have completely turned around he is there. He is me." You don’t want ...

16. A Taste of God's Tomorrow

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Glenn L. Borreson

... scandalous past, the man ridiculed for being "no man" - they all came, and not casually either. They came with the pursuit of a treasure hunter who has finally found what he spent his life searching for. And what do they find when they arrive? Compassion. At the table of ... of your life, then I'm going to stay here with you." Schmidt says this is what happened. "After fifteen minutes of eternity, George decided we would crawl out and join the rest of the folks. His mom gave us cookies and milk. It felt like a ...

17. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

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T. A. Kantonen

... means not only to be "in communion with Christ" but also to be "in the community of Christ" which is his body, the church. As Archibald Hunter puts it, "What Paul has in mind is changed men and women living in a changed society, with Christ the author of the change in the ... , New Testament Theology (New York: Macmillan, 1955), 181-184, 305. 19. Adolf Deissmann, Paul (New York: George H. Doran, 1926), 28. 20. Rudolf Bultmann, op. cit., 328. 21. Op. cit., 34. 22. Ibid., 36. 23. Herman Gunkel, Die Wirkung ...

18. Time To Walk On The Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Fred, I leave my stocks." "And finally, to my cousin George, who always sat around and never did anything, but wanted to be remembered in my will, I want to say, `Hi, George.'" I've known folks like George, haven't you? Folks who sit around and never do ... people with good intentions. Soren Kierkegaard once told a frightening parable about a wild goose that was brought down by a hunter's shot one day. Fortunately, only his one wing was wounded, and he landed in a barnyard. Naturally, the domestic ducks ...

19. When Jacob Got a Vision

Genesis 29:15-28

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... son, and Jacob is the smooth child loved especially by his mother. When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, an outdoorsman, a gameplayer enjoyed by his father, while Jacob was a quiet person living in the tents. Jacob would become ... solely to provide them busy work and as an excuse to feed them, the men grew listless and stopped singing. And commenting on the incident George Moore said, â€˜The roads to nowhere are difficult to make. For a person to work well and sing, there must be an end in ...

20. Building An Understanding Of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the Texas Rangers baseball team once said about his warm relationship with Yankee owner George Steinbrenner and manager Billy Martin. Rivers is quoted as saying, "Me and George and Billy are two of a kind." (1) Well, that's quite an accomplishment. The ... the earthquake or the November storm in the Aegean, watching over every society of men congregated for any purpose, guarding the solitary hunter or traveler in the Alps or the Sahara." (3) Is that what we mean by the Trinity--that we worship three gods? ...

21. I Believe In Jesus Christ

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to this place today. I invite you to listen to a beautiful solo entitled, “Give Me Jesus.” As you listen to the words of the song, perhaps those words will become the desire of your heart. (Solo is sung- “Give Me Jesus.”) (1) Hunter, George G., III, How to Reach Secular People, (Abingdon: Nashville,1992), p. 94. (2) Howell, James C., The Life We Claim, (Abingdon: Nashville, 2005), p. 41. (3) Friedman, Thomas L., From Beirut to Jerusalem. (4) Jones, E. Stanley, a Song of Ascents, (Abingdon: Nashville ...

22. The Master Has Come - And Is Moved With Compassion

Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45

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... ." No, we do not need any more pity. We have had enough of that. What the world longs for is compassion. George Buttrick, in The Interpreter’s Bible, wrote that the word we translate as "compassion" is a much stronger word, meaning "the ... people of compassion. Saint Paul said, "Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children." Much of our world today is unfeeling, uncaring, unconcerned. Two hunters paid a high price for a bird-dog. They took him out for a field test. After an hour one said, "This dog is ...

23. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... and that the rebellion goes on from generation to generation. This insight is lost in the attempt to take Genesis 3 as literal history. In the words of Archibald Hunter, "we know that Adam is Hebrew for a human being or mankind collectively, and that Genesis 3 is to be regarded as a ‘true myth,’ that, though Eden ... ’s" (1 Corinthians 3:21-23). 24. James Denney, The Christian Doctrine of Reconciliation (New York: George H. Doran, 1918), 179. 25. Op. cit., 94. 26. Expository Times, September, 1955, 369.

24. Mary's Revolutionary Song

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... proud of the fact that he is one/eighth Cherokee Indian. We often say that is why he is such a good woodsman and expert hunter. But what if he were one\eighth African American rather than Cherokee. Would he and we feel the same way about it? I don't think ... feel-good" club for the pious and the proud. Historians still consider the successful American Revolution as something of a miracle. George Washington and his little rag- tag army had to fight the mighty British and their hired troops from Germany. Not ...

25. The View from the Mountaintop

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:2-13

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David E. Leininger

... Superintendent, Jane Bonavita has a big one today (Lordy, Lordy, Jane is...). Our Director of Music, Debbie Hunter has an even bigger one Thursday (Isn't it nifty, Deb's turning ...). Am I in trouble? Here ... fired by John Wilkes Booth. The lines between Lincoln and his Confederate counterpart, Jefferson Davis, were as clearly drawn as the line in the desert between George Bush and Osama bin Laden. Lincoln wrote words which sound as if they could have been written for President Bush's speech to the nation ...

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