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David Dunn
Contributing sermons since Jun 19, 2014
Newest Sermons
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Pergamum: When Faithfulness Is Misplaced
Contributed on Jan 28, 2026
Living near power, Pergamum remained faithful yet misdirected loyalty, until Christ’s word called repentance, restored authority, and promised hidden sustenance and identity.
Pergamum is the third letter to the seven churches in Revelation, and by the time we arrive here, the pressure has changed again. Ephesus dealt with something that faded quietly. Smyrna faced pressure that came from the outside, loud and unmistakable. Pergamum is different. The danger here is ...read more
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Smyrna: When Faithfulness Is Not Safe
Contributed on Jan 28, 2026
Faithfulness does not deny suffering; it refuses fear’s authority, trusting Jesus with loss, future, and life itself when allegiance becomes costly.
Smyrna is the second letter, and it immediately feels different from the first. Ephesus dealt with something quiet — love thinning over time. Smyrna deals with something loud — pressure that does not pretend to be gentle. This letter is not about erosion from within; it is about weight pressing ...read more
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Comparison Loses Its Grip: The Triumph Of Weakness
Contributed on Jan 28, 2026
The cross triumphs by re-centering the self in Christ, turning anxious self-reliance into grateful boasting in the Lord.
The cross wins. That sentence is easy to say. It’s familiar. It sounds settled. But if we pause long enough to let it register, we begin to feel how strange it really is. Because nothing about the cross looks like winning. Nothing about it fits our instincts about power, success, or effectiveness. ...read more
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Ephesus: When Faithfulness Outlives Love
Contributed on Jan 26, 2026
Jesus speaks to faithful people whose love has thinned, not to shame them, but to invite a return to relationship.
– First Part: Listening Posture Most of us don’t think of ourselves as drifting. Drift is what happens to other people — people who stopped caring, stopped believing, stopped trying. Drift feels dramatic from the outside. From the inside, it feels responsible. It feels like showing up, doing what ...read more
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A Peculiar People: On The Road
Contributed on Jan 26, 2026
Faithfulness is tested not by abstract obedience, but by whether truth walks with mercy among those who bear its greatest cost.
Adventists know how to talk about obedience. We are fluent in it. We have inherited a vocabulary shaped by commandment-keeping, faithfulness under pressure, and clarity in a confused world. Obedience, for us, is not an abstract ideal. It is a marker of identity. It tells us who we are and, just as ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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Listening To Jesus: Letters To The Churches
Contributed on Jan 28, 2026
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Lifted Up
Contributed on Jan 18, 2026
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Songs From Dark Places
Contributed on Nov 27, 2025
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Reclaiming Jesus
Contributed on Nov 23, 2025
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Finding God In Your Story
Contributed on Nov 11, 2025
Newest Sermon Illustrations
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Push Or Pull
Contributed on Jan 26, 2026
Two people were trying to move a heavy piece of office furniture—a large cabinet—from one room into another. It was solid, awkward, and just wide enough to be a problem. They managed to get it to the doorway, and then everything stopped. They strained. They pushed harder. They adjusted their ...read more
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Singer Or Dancer
Contributed on Jan 22, 2026
A lonely man longed for companionship without responsibility. He wanted something warm to welcome him home after work—no drama, no noise, no emotional complexity. “I have just the thing,” the pet shop owner said. “A canary. Sings all evening.” The man brought it home, thrilled. The music was ...read more
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Jesus Satisfies
Contributed on Jan 22, 2026
More than a century ago, a young woman named Clara Tear Williams lived in a shack far from luxury. A dirt floor. A thin roof. A day’s supply of food. No prospects. No wealth. No comfort. By Solomon’s standards, she had nothing. But she possessed something Solomon spent years searching for—the ...read more
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I Quit
Contributed on Jan 22, 2026
It was the six-year-old boy’s first day of school. His one life ambition? Have as much fun as humanly possible. He marched through the gate with the bold confidence that only a child possesses, ready to squeeze joy out of every moment. But at noon there was a knock at the front door. There ...read more
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Grass On Your Path
Contributed on Jan 21, 2026
Prayer sharpens perception. It tunes the heart so you sense danger before it speaks. John Bunyan once wrote, “Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.” Both can’t thrive in the same heart. Early African believers understood this. Each had a path ...read more
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