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226. A House for Our Home and a Home for Our Faith

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... musicians had the same kind of beginning – tough, tough start. But Ellington said that wasn’t so with him. Mike Douglas was surprised and said, what do you mean; you didn’t starve? You didn’t have tough times? And Ellington said, no. I started out doing exactly what I wanted to do, writing music. I had faith in myself. And then he added this, when I was a little boy, I was loved so much and held so often that I think I was 7 years old before my feet ever touched the floor. Now it’s not difficult ...

227. You Can't Fool God: Ananias and Sapphira

Acts 4:33 - 5:11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the real healing begin to take place. I don't care what kind of guilt you carry. I don't care what kind of problem you have. God wants to help. Does that mean you won't have to do some hard work. No. You have to do your part, too. That's part of our Christian ... her mother, "I think Jesus was the only one who ever dared to live his life inside out." (6) That's what God wants for us. God wants us to drop our masks and live our lives inside out like Jesus. But that's only possible through Jesus and the Grace ...

228. Envision: The Great Commandment

Matthew 22:34-40

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James Merritt

... you can give without loving, but you can love without giving. One of the ways that you know your love for God is really getting to where it needs to be is when you start giving to God financially, not because you feel like you have to, but because you want to. You don’t give it for a tax break. You give it simply, because you love God. There is still another dimension to this commandment that we haven’t yet touched on and it is the horizontal dimension. Jesus goes on to say this, "The second is like it ...

229. Pop Verses: Jeremiah 29:11

Jeremiah 29:11

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... God has great plans for me, I wish he would let me in on it!” Inevitably, when this verse is brought up many people want to know how to discover God’s hopeful plan for them. “If God has these wonderful plans of hope, then what are they? I would like ... with God. In that relationship you will discover the hope and future you need and desire. Here is today’s message: If you want to know the will of God, you must first seek the heart of God. That’s the problem. Many people are after God’ ...

230. Flatliners

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... just don't know what to do." "I'm a sophomore." "I'm a junior." "I'm in college." "I just don't know what I want to do with my life." I say, "Great. This is a great opportunity." I would like us to be able to say to that young person ... . If we don't know that difference we need to decipher that difference and to seek it with our whole hearts. What is the difference God wants in us? The courage to create the life of the spirit, in a culture that turns its back on it, by getting people to look through ...

231. The Heart Of The Matter

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... to do the will of God. There will be no contest of wills, no conflict of interest. Doing the will of God will be part of their nature. That is the promise of God. In the new covenant, not only will the people of God want to do God's will, but it is promised that they will know God. Knowing God is an important prophetic theme. Ignorance of the Lord is a frequent criticism made by the prophets. It was Hosea who said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge ..." (Hosea 4:6). People ...

232. The Future Of The Church!

Matthew 11:25-30

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... who? Oh, I guess any Mary who calls. Anyway, you can see what I mean. She is busy. So, that must mean that the Church is growing, right? It's growing all right. You should hear my dad. (REV. WILLIS ENTERS) Oh, I forgot. You already have. We don't want to go through that again, do we. (REV. WILLIS EXITS) I've got to do my talk. (BARNEY STOPS STRUMMING) "The Future of the Church." It's funny, when I was preparing this speech, I got to wondering, does the Church have a future? I wonder ... (HE STRUMS AGAIN) I ...

233. Greed - Putting Things In Their Proper Perspective

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... times have you heard it said, "If I only had more, life would be better." But as Mr. Atwater said, "You can acquire all you want and still feel empty." Think of a hand glove. By itself the glove is limp and lifeless; it can't pick up anything. But slide ... to underline any important sentences and make notes in the margins. Make use of the book to get at the subject, although I wouldn't want any pages cut out of it." She then replied, "Are you serious? I was always taught not to write in books. I can't imagine ...

234. The Doubting Sum

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

... means. I know a young man who has been "trying to quit smoking" cigarettes for years. He hates them. He knows they affect his wind and he wants to jog every day. And he simply hates to be addicted to anything. But he can’t quit. Why? Because he’s going about it the ... : Why don’t you just calm down? It is easy for us to tell others what to do, isn’t it? But if you and I want to change we need help. This help comes not in a quick fix or a fad diet. It comes rather in a changed attitude. Change requires ...

235. For He Shall Save His People

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Staff

... salvation. Indeed, I think that we even resist salvation. Oh, it is true that we sing songs in church like Rescue The Perishing but the problem is that we usually don’t have us in mind when we sing it. We have someone else in mind. Who of us wants to be counted among the fallen, the erring, the perishing. We rebel at the thought of being snatched in pity from sin. That is the truth of the matter. This morning I would like for us to look at several reasons why we reject this great rescue mission that God ...

236. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... to dial) It’s a little business proposition. But it’s nothing confidential; you don’t have to leave the room. JAREL Never intended to. SETH Suit yourself. (Speaking into the receiver) Hello, Harbinger, Seth Ajax here. Sorry I didn’t call earlier, but I’ve been tied up. I want you to sell all the Tymco when it reaches 48. And pick up as much Arizona Oil as you can lay your hands on. But don’t go above 15 and 1/2. And keep in touch. (He hangs up) JAREL Now, what was that all about? SETH It’s ...

237. The Authority of Scripture: God's Breathed Word

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... need to get that long hair cut.” Six months passed and the young man came back to his father. “Dad, It has been six months now and I want you to know I’ve made a lot of improvements. In fact, I am getting three A’s and a B this semester. So you see, I have ... out.” Could it be that his concern has become reality? The same thing is true of each one of us. We are as holy as we want to be. So, do you believe in the authority of scripture? If you do, you know that the Bible is more than a book – it is ...

238. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I noticed a bumper sticker on the car in front of me. In large letters, it said, “I AM A GENERIC CHRISTIAN.” Well, that got my attention. I never thought about anyone being a generic Christian. I saw that something else was written on the bumper sticker and I wanted to know what it was. I’m afraid I got dangerously close to the rear end of the fellow, so that I would be close enough to read what was there. It said, “Ask me what I mean.” That intrigued me even more. What was this person trying to ...

239. Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... addicted to drugs or to any destructive habit. Many of them will go to desperate measures for a fix. “The monkey on my back,” is what heroin addicts call their addiction, a habit which grows to the point that it nearly squeezes the life out of them. Christ wants us to be free! An army chaplain tells the story of reaching a young man just before he died on a battlefield in Vietnam. It was evident as he held the boy’s hand that the young soldier had been mortally wounded. These were the last moments of ...

240. The Problem with Promises

Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7

Sermon

James L. Killen

... and feel and do and who we are every day of our lives and in all of the relationships of our lives. As if to emphasize that point, the writer of the New Testament book of Hebrews, who also had a lot to say about faith, said, "Do you really want to know what faith is? If you do, look at the people in the Old Testament who lived trusting the invisible God; look at Abraham who ventured out trusting God" (Hebrews 11:8-19, abbreviated and paraphrased). We are going to look at Abraham, or Abram as he was first ...

241. Righteousness Exalts a Nation - The Fourth of July

Sermon

James McCormick

... gone wrong”. And they say it not with smug satisfaction, but with a tear in the heart if not in the eye. The only critics I want to hear are loving critics. But, it is true that, if we love our nation, we must be critical when we are less than our best. I ... not pleasing to God, God will stand in our way. You can count on it. If we as a nation are heading in one direction and God wants us to go in another direction, we can still go in that direction because God has made us free, but it will be hard for us, ...

242. Just the Right Touch

Mark 5:25-34

Sermon

James Merritt

... not understand his badness apart from Jesus Christ. This woman had long ago lost her pride. She didn't care who, when, or how, she just wanted to be healed. A patient will never be cured until he admits he is sick, and a sinner will never be saved until he admits he ... peace of mind, and you can have it with just the right touch. You may think you're just one in a crowd today, but I want to tell you that Jesus is passing by. He is waiting on you just to reach out and touch Him. Because when you reach out and ...

243. The Truth about Trouble

2 Timothy 4:16-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... the class tell me what that means?" A little boy raised his hand and he said, "I know what it means teacher." The teacher said, "What?" He said, "That means when there is only one of us, there is really always two of us!" That little boy was right. I want to tell you in your deepest darkest dungeon, you may feel lonely, but you are never alone. Because the very Son of God Himself said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." The Rock of Ages, like a rock, will stand with you in all of your troubles. b ...

244. The Thrill of Victory Beats the Agony of Defeat

Judges 7:1-17

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James Merritt

... Gideon some wonderful lessons on warfare and how to have victory against the enemy that could enable us, as a church, to be victorious in our spiritual warfare against the enemies we face, and could even help us turn this nation back to God. As we study these lessons, I want to warn you that some of them might surprise you. For you are going to learn that as far as God is concerned it is not the biggest army, it is the best army that matters. I. Excuse the Cowards Gideon had an army of 32,000 men. They were ...

245. Why Were the Wise Men Wise?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... about this star is that it moved from north to south. For they came from Jerusalem in the north to Bethlehem in the south. Now normally stars travel across the horizon from east to west, but this star traveled from north to south. That tells me that if a person wants to find Jesus, God will move heaven and earth to make sure that he does. You know how I know that a man that is looking for Jesus will find Him, because Jesus is looking for the man that is looking for Him. The Bible says, "You will seek Me ...

246. Whatever It Takes

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

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James Merritt

... was under new management. He no longer had a legalistic relationship to God; he had a loving relationship to God. Where others today chant "I want my rights" Paul said, "I am willing to give up my rights for what is right." The souls of men and women and boys and ... 'll be as the weak." Among the Gentiles, on the other hand, there were those who had been saved out of idolatry who didn't want to have anything to do with meat that had been offered to idols. Now Paul knew there was no such thing as an idol. He ...

247. I Don’t Like My Options

2 Kings 5:1-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... never fear confronting people without God with their need for God. It takes a man of God to confront a man without God about his need for God. When you deal with people there is another option you won't like. You'll be tempted to tell people what they want to hear, but oftentimes you need to tell them what they need to hear. Elisha said, "Naaman, I don't care about your reputation or your recommendation. You are sick and you are sinful. You need to be healed and you need to be saved." God deserves for us to ...

248. Being a Woman of God

Acts 16:11-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... was my vision for a Women's Ministry in our church that brought me to her, and brought her to us. There is no one I love, or respect more both as a Christian and as a student and teacher of the Word of God than Gerry Sisk. But I want to make something very very plain. Neither Gerry Sisk or James Merritt nor Beth Moore is a substitute for your personal study of the Word of God. Some of you, quite frankly, are too guilty of saying, "Well, Gerry said this." Or, "Well, the Pastor said this." Hopefully, what we ...

249. Who's Number One?

Exodus 20:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... rules to my kids so they would be my kids; I gave these rules, because they were my kids. These rules simply reflected how I wanted my kids to behave. Now you will see why the first commandment is not only the first commandment, but it is foundational to the other ... I hang out with Buddha, Krishna...all those guys...I am a Buddhist, I am a Muslim, I am a Christian. I am whatever you want me to be...It all comes down to the same thing...They are all the same God and it is this conviction and spirituality that ...

250. In God We Trust

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... 6, NASB) There are really two simple parts to this passage - our part and God's part. Our part is trusting. God's part is guiding. I want to show you how we should trust God, why we should trust God, and what it will mean if we do trust God, because when I ... phrase for a moment - "He shall direct your paths". You can live your life on one of three levels. Level 1 is this - I do what I want to do. Frankly that is the level where most of the world lives today. Level 2 is this - I think I do what I ought to ...

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