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251. From Greed to Generosity

Mark 10:17-27

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J. Howard Olds

... only had a chance, I might win a million dollars. I could be a millionaire, if I were lucky enough to answer that question. We all want to be greedy, don't we? We like it. It feels good. My problem with the lottery is that it preys on people's need for ... as well be you! So, we educate our children by chance financed by somebody's bad luck. When greed infects religion it stoops even lower. God wants you to be rich and to live in His favor. Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Send in your gifts ...

252. Envision: The Great Commission

Mark 1:14-20

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James Merritt

... going to talk about the last part of our mission as a church which is sharing your story. We believe if you love God, you want others to know about the love of God, so they, too, will love God. It was in Vacation Bible School. A young boy was six ... look at your home as a place that God could use in an incredible way to reach your neighbors and your friends for Christ. We want you to get this mentality in your heart that it is everyone, everywhere, everyday. Believe it or not, it is not that hard. How difficult ...

253. While You Wait

Mark 1:1-8

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Charley Reeb

... a second. That’s .25 seconds! That’s way too long for any normal person to wait! We don’t like to wait! We want what we want now! The other day I was running late and when I got to the office I realized that I forgot my cell phone charger ... see where this is going. If you are someone who has been waiting for God to answer your prayer and you are desperate you might want to take a serious look at your life, your heart, your motives, and the reason behind your prayers. This may not be the reason why God ...

254. Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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Will Willimon

... , worked hard all my lifetime, got no help from my friends, o Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.” Prayer as, “Give me, Give me.” No. For us now, in worship, joining our voices in intercession for the world, prayer is a means of getting what God wants. A woman lay in a hospital bed, body inflamed by the spread of cancer. Day after day we prayed for healing. Each day I could see her silent disappointment that she was not being healed. Then one day she said, “Today let's not pray that I’ll be ...

255. Proper 23

Genesis 3:1-24

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George Paul Mocko

... there no matter what the sin; the grace of God is there in sin being perpetrated, the grace of God is there in sin bringing tragedy and suffering and the grace of God, there as this whole tangled thing of power that we, at the same time, want and don't want, the grace of God is reaching down, in and with this little sign. He made clothing for them. Oh, God says that in big, up-front ways too - the Exodus, the Resurrection, Pentecost. He says it in mysterious, backward, twisted ways in the captivity and the ...

256. One Thing

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Raymond Gibson

... imperatives now. Now is not only the acceptable time and day of salvation; but now is the only time we have to do what Christ wants us to do in sharing the good news of God’s reconciling love, of reaching out to the lonely and the alienated, of visiting the ... , with God’s help - as a pastor, as a husband, as a father, and as a churchman - is to be as nearly like Christ as Christ wants me to be. Moment-by-moment discipleship is not easy. Neither is day-by-day doing of the gospel. But it was the way of Jesus ...

257. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... Jesus -- His gifts to us: to us who think we have everything, are to us when we think we have nothing. Our theme hymn today forces another focus. The question is not "what is God's Christmas gift to us?" But what is our gift to God? What does Christ want from us? It isn't that our Scripture asks that question. The Isaiah passage which we read at the lighting of the Advent Candle is a call to receive. The meaning of the word preach is "proclaim like a herald", or like a medieval town crier, with a loud voice ...

258. The Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1-14

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Charles L. Aaron

... courage for our anxiety. We do not know the future, but we trust that God holds the future in divine hands. The people of Israel wanted gods who would go before them. We have a Savior who went before us. Our Lord Jesus went before us to the cross. Christ not ... we can trust in God's future, even if it seems hazy to us. We get no guarantees that everything will work out the way we want it to; we only get the assurance that God is with us in the journey. God has shown us grace in Jesus Christ. God is with ...

259. I Like Brussels Sprouts, but...

Matthew 9:9-13, Matthew 9:18-26

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Leonard Sweet

... eat them." We Christians like a lot of things - peace, love, harmony. But not enough to actually do something about them. Of course no one in church this morning wants hatreds and prejudices to grow; wants ignorance and despair to flourish; wants violence and poverty to define the life cycles of any of our children; wants creation to be vandalized and destroyed by greed and gluttony. But do we really care ENOUGH to DO something about prejudice, about ignorance, about violence, about greed? This week ...

260. Preach the World and Reach the World

2 Timothy 4:1-5

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James Merritt

... gums were very sore, and I could only preach for fifteen minutes." "The second time I just got my new dentures and they didn't fit very well and they hurt, so I could only preach for half an hour." They said, "We can live with that, but what we want to know is why you preached for three hours?" He said, "I'm sorry about that, I got my wife's teeth in by mistake." The fact is, for a lot of church members today tact is more important than truth, diplomacy is more important than doctrine, and being polite ...

261. Going For the Gold

Joshua 1:1-9

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James Merritt

... day, it took them fourteen years. You see, Canaan is occupied territory. The Christian life is not a frolic, it is a fight. It is not only a blessing, it is a battle. The Ship of Zion is not a luxury liner, it is a man of war. If you want victory in the Christian life, you must fight. Have you ever thought about the fact that when Israel was in the wilderness they didn't fight one battle? They didn't have to, there was no enemy to fight. Many Christians rarely face the devil, and even more rarely fight ...

262. God's Will: Don't Leave Home Without It

Romans 12:1-2

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James Merritt

... will we serve?" The chicken said, "Well, why don't we serve ham and eggs?" The pig said, "That's easy for you to say, you're making a token commitment, you're asking me for a total sacrifice!" Well, that is exactly what the Lord demands from us. He wants a total sacrifice, a complete surrender of our life to Him. I was in a store not long ago that was having a going-out-of-business sale. As I walked into that building I saw a huge sign that said, "No refunds, no returns, all transactions final." That is ...

263. What Excites God

Mark 2:1-12

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James Merritt

... salary. Why don't we put all the salaries together, divide the total by seven, and all of us can live by faith." Well, I want to tell you today that nothing excites God more than to see people live by faith, and specifically faith in Him and His word. ... willing to bring this man to Jesus. I call them friends because you'll never have a greater friend on planet earth than someone who wants to bring you to Jesus. Do you know why they did it? Because they cared. The first step to sharing is caring. No matter how ...

264. When God Speaks You Better Listen

Jonah 1:1-17

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James Merritt

... heaven I'll ask Jonah." The man said, "What if Jonah is not in heaven?" The preacher said, "Then you can ask him." What I want you to understand is, this whale was really a woodshed where God took Jonah and whipped him for his disobedience. You see, it was God ... book teaches us is this: When God speaks you better listen. Wherever God tells you to go, whatever God tells you to do, whoever God wants you to be, you had better obey Him and submit to His will and do what He tells you to do. One of my favorite ...

265. Growing Up Is More Than Showing Up

1 John 2:12-14

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James Merritt

... produce the fruit of Spirit in our lives? By putting us in the exact type of circumstance to force us to bear the fruit that is needed in that particular situation. Do you know any people around you that you work with, or live next to that are unlovable? God wants to use those people to teach you how to love. You ever had your heart broken by a girl or a guy, or a death in the family? God brings sorrow into your life to teach you joy. Anybody here in the middle of a storm, having difficulties, people upset ...

266. When the Bills Come Due

1 Timothy 6:6-10

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James Merritt

... ." (Psalm 50:9-12, NLT) This is the key question you have to answer and answer correctly or else you will never be able to handle your money properly. Is it my money or is it God's money? II. Be Committed In How You Share Money "But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves ...

267. How to Preach a God-Sized Message to a Media Filled World

2 Timothy 4:1-5

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James Merritt

... if your ministry is going to count, it is going to cost and the ministry that counts the most costs the most." c. Be Aggressive Paul says, "Do the work of an evangelist." (II Timothy 4:5, NASB) What is the work of an evangelist? To preach the Gospel. I want to emphasize as I come to a close that above all things if you are going to preach a God-sized message to a media filled world, we must never get away from the plain unadulterated truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Which is why I believe Paul finished ...

268. Me - A - Missionary?

Acts 1:8

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James Merritt

... John 3:16. There may be some of you who do not know it, so here is what it says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." (John 3:16, NASB) I want you particularly to pay attention to three key words in this verse, because these three words actually form the basis of everything we are going to be talking about over the next two weeks. The first is the word "God". The second is the word "loved" and the third is ...

269. Framing Values – Part Two

Daniel 1:1-21

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James Merritt

... have to teach your kids to say, "No", but your teenagers have to learn to say, "No." You can't make them say, "No." I don't want you to sit there and feel guilty if you've got teenagers who haven't had the courage at the right time to say no. You just ... our teens. II. How To Reach Your Teens You can't teach who you can't reach and you can't reach unless you teach. I want to give you three words to remember that I guarantee will help you reach your teenagers. a. Love Them Above all things your teenager has to ...

270. In God We Trust – Or Do We?

John 4:46-54

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James Merritt

... first time he realized just how little power, influence and money means when you have a loved one lying at death's door. I want you to think about something. This man probably would have never bothered coming to Jesus had it not been for the trouble that ... question. Which would be the greater miracle; would you rather see and which would you still be talking about months from now? What I want you to understand as this story goes along is that Jesus wasn't nearly as concerned about this man's feelings as He ...

271. My Mission from God

John 17:18

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James Merritt

... church] a mission in the world." (John 17:18, MSG) Last week, I talked about how you need a ministry in the church. Today, I want you to know that you need a mission in the world. God has given us a ministry, primarily to believers, but has also given us ... unchurched. We are determined to reach people while they are young, because that is when they are most open to the Gospel of Christ. I want to share with you an email that I got from a man back when we were meeting in the high school, about eight months ago ...

272. The World Is Not Enough

Luke 12:13-21

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James Merritt

... not found in possessions; life is found in a person and his name is Jesus. That's why you must be sensitive to what you want. II. Be Satisfied With What You Have Now Jesus tells a parable about a rich fool. It was a man who was foolishly rich but ... mind, and strength, and He is more important than all of this world put together. I pray that you will be rich toward God. I want you to imagine that you are living in the South during the Civil War, and you had accumulated a large amount of Confederate currency. ...

273. RSVP—By Invitation Only

Luke 14:15-24

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James Merritt

... you would if you had to buy it. No, the problem with this man was that he did not go to the banquet because he did not want to. Then the last excuse was this one: "Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'" (v.20) Now this may ... people, he would like for me to come back as often as I liked for another helping from God's grace. He made it clear that he wanted me to spend as much time with Him as possible. As it drew near time for me to go back outside into the "real world" He ...

274. With The End In Mind

Philippians 3:7-11

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James Merritt

... one desire is - "That I may know Him." (Philippians 3:10, NASB) That is kind of strange when you think that when Paul wrote this he had met Jesus Christ almost thirty years earlier. What did he mean when he said, "I may know Him?" What he meant was he wanted to know Him better. Everything you do once you become a Christian should be in order to help you know Jesus Christ better. You ought to read the Bible so you can know Jesus better. You ought to pray so you can know Jesus better. You ought to share Jesus ...

275. Just a Crazy Story

Philippians 2:1-11

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Larry Lange

... : the fact that he had an Arabic-sounding name, the fact that he had offered them a billion dollar bribe, the fact that he thought he was God, or the fact that he had failed to pay a parking ticket back in 1974. Since even Adam and Eve had wanted to be God, the officials decided that wasn't a punishable offense, just proof that he was crazy as a loon. Since Zack was crazy as a loon, he obviously didn't understand that attempting to bribe an entire room full of governmental officials was a felony, so they ...

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