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3101. Jesus: The Promise Received

Luke 2:10-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... . We all live in sin and apart from Jesus Christ, we all die in sin. I know not everyone agrees with that. Billy Joel, the extremely talented and popular musician once said this, "I wasn't raised Catholic, but I used to go to mass with my friends and I viewed the whole business as a lot of very enthralling hocus-pocus. There is a guy...nailed to a cross and dripping blood and everyone is blaming themselves for that man's torment, but I said to myself, ‘Forget it. I had no hands in that evil. I had no ...

3102. God's Christmas Gift

Luke 2:10-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... colors including yellow, pink, and two shades of blue - one for everyday of the week. After all - what is a measly $21 million dollars for the woman of your dreams? How about a penthouse in New York City, with his and her bathrooms and a breathtaking view of the city that looks down on Trump Tower? You can say "Merry Christmas" to that lucky person for only $31million dollars. Would you like to know what is on record as the most expensive Christmas gift in the world? It is the Phoenix1000 - [See if ...

3103. Broken Pieces

Matthew 1:3, 5, 6

Sermon

James Merritt

... is even more startling. Remember—no person is beyond God's supernatural grace. II. God Can Change What We Are The second woman that we read about is found in Joshua. "Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly from Shittim, saying, 'Go, view the land, especially Jericho.' So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there." (Joshua 2:1, NASB) The story of Rahab is found in Joshua, Chapter 2. You are not going to believe this, but the second woman that ...

3104. When I Am Tempted

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

I was a freshman in college when what was billed then and still is known as "the fight of the century" took place. I was so excited, because I could only get updates on the radio. This was far and long before cable or pay-per-view TV. It was the talk of the entire campus. For the first time in history, there was going to be a match between an unbeaten, former, heavy-weight boxing champion against the current, unbeaten, heavy-weight champion. It was March 8, 1971, and it was the first fight between Smokin' ...

3105. Standard Building Codes

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... revenue of pornography is larger than the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball combined. There are over 2 million known porn site URL's on the internet. More than 2, 500 new sites are coming online every week. 9 out of 10 children ages between 8 and 16 have viewed pornography on the internet. 25 million Americans visit cyber-sex sites between 1-10 hours per week. Another 4.7 million visit cyber-sex sites in excess of 11 hours per week. [[6]] That is why I want you to write down 3 websites to go to that will ...

3106. Don’t Be a Hypocrite

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... anger and to bitterness that plagued him throughout his life. Later, he left Germany and went to England to study. He began to think about what he thought life was really all about. He wrote a book and in that book he introduced a brand new world view that was inevitably to change the world. This man, in that book, describes religion as "the opiate for the masses." He urged people who followed him to forget all about God and live life without Him. At one time, his ideas became the norm for the governments ...

3107. Will the Real Christian Please Stand Up?

Acts 11:26

Sermon

James Merritt

... the things that were involved: 185 countries participated by satellite. The event was broadcast in 117 different languages. It took over 300 hours of transmission time from 10 uplink antennas to 29 time zones, using 30 different satellites. 1 billion people viewed the broadcast television special in 117 countries all at the same time. It took 10 miles of video and audio cable. 45 digital beta cam recorders (the most in any one location of the world) Digital trans-Atlantic satellite transmission 75 technical ...

3108. The World Is Not Enough

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... had asked him where his wealth had come from he would have told you, "I worked for it and I earned it." After all, he had plowed the fields, he had planted the grain, he had tended the soil, he had gathered the harvest. That's not the way Jesus viewed it. You notice Jesus did not say, "A certain man worked very hard and accumulated a great fortune." No, He said, "The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully." (v.16) In other words, it was God that had given him his harvest. It was God that had given ...

3109. The Dream Work of Teamwork

Nehemiah 3:1-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... stand with them for a solemn moment of remembrance and then lead them out the side door. He proceeded to do that, but unfortunately it turned into a disaster when he picked the wrong door. The result was they marched with military precision into a broom closet in full view of the mourners and had to do an about face to get out of the church. Now that true story illustrates two things. First of all, if you are going to lead, you had better make sure you know where you are going. Secondly, if you are going to ...

3110. With The End In Mind

Philippians 3:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... . I Would Want To Know God In My Private Life Paul makes an incredible statement in verses 7 and 8. "But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ." (Philippians 3:7-8, NASB) As Paul looked back on his past life and all of his many achievements ...

3111. I’m Movin’ On

Philippians 3:12-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... will take more than just inspiration, aspiration, and even perspiration to get you to where you need to go; it will take determination. You must keep pressing on. You see that's where we baby boomers have a problem. We have been raised to view success as something easy, and our generation doesn't know a whole lot about determination, perseverance and endurance. Our generation has the attitude that when the boss gets unreasonable you quit; when the subjects get too difficult, you just drop out of the class ...

3112. Know Fear: The Fear of God

Proverbs 1:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... Solomon blew a big part of his life getting away from the fear of God. It cost him and it cost him dearly. He wrote about that bitter experience in the book of Ecclesiastes. After burning up four decades of his life, he looked back in the rear view mirror and wrote these words. "Here is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey His commands, for this is the duty of every person." (Ecclesiastes 12:13, NLT) Franklin Roosevelt once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He was wrong. When you fear ...

3113. Jealousy: Cancer of the Heart

Proverbs 27:4

Sermon

James Merritt

... swans; children throwing them bread and sailing model boats, flying kites; young lovers walking hand-in-hand beneath the trees. There were flowers, green grass, games of softball and volleyball; people lying out in the sunshine picnicking and reading. All behind it was a fine view of the skyline of the city. Well, the man on his back would listen to all of this and enjoying every minute, and just loved being told about the beautiful outdoors and all that was going on outside. In fact, it got to the place ...

3114. Good for the Soul

Proverbs 28:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... Sin The message translates the first part of this verse this way, "You can't whitewash your sins and get by with it." (Proverbs 28:13a, MSG) Whitewash is a good way to put it, because the word cover literally means, "to smooth over" or "to hide from view." There is a procedure that everyone uses to cover up sin. Everybody uses a three step process that is old as creation itself. The Apostle John, who wrote the Gospel, also wrote three other letters known as I, II, and III John. In the first chapter of I ...

3115. Being What We Are

1 Samuel 8:4-20

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... things from this experiment. We have added some excellent new music and songs to our repertoires and loosened up some of the stiffness that had dominated worship. We have become more conscious that not everybody responds to one mode of worship, and we have enlarged our view of how God can be worshiped and praised. But in the end, which we have not quite reached yet, we will have to say, "No," to the plea to "make the church like the entertainment world." Those are three examples, but hardly the only pleas ...

3116. Misled By Beauty

1 Samuel 15:34-35, 16:1-13

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... new lows in the quality of broadcasting, and one of the more unwholesome — and dare I say even ungodly — notions they have reinforced is that what you look like is a measure of your value as a person. Two shows in particular promote this view: Extreme Makeover and Average Joe. On the first of these, Extreme Makeover, from the more than 10,000 applications the show receives for each opening, a person who is not especially good-looking is selected for a Cinderella-type experience. Using plastic surgeons ...

3117. The God of War and Peace

1 Samuel 17:(1a, 4-11, 19-23) 32-49

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... , where evil is defeated by the forces of God, depicted as "the rider on his horse and ... his army" (Revelation 19:17-21). We too want peace, and we want it desperately. But this is a dangerous world, and we must deal with that reality. One way to view God is as the Lord of hosts, and here's the application of that I see for today: Right now, a good number of America's sons and daughters are serving in harm's way, in dangerous places, carrying weapons, and being targeted themselves. They are there in ...

3118. The Thick Darkness

1 Kings 8:(1, 6, 10-11) 22-30, 41-43

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... , Jesus calls God "Father" but this is an analogy, a way to express indirectly what cannot be directly expressed. But we have sometimes inferred from that analogy that God is like a great daddy. Consider how some of the adults in the Old Testament viewed God, especially those in our scripture reading this morning. Under King Solomon, the people of Israel have finally been able to build a great temple as the house of God. Our reading tells about the day that the priests brought the Ark of the Covenant ...

3119. April Love

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... to document their passion, the researchers then placed them in MRI machines and performed brain scans on them while showing them an assortment of pictures, including shots of their lovers. They found that compared to seeing photos of mere acquaintances, viewing pictures of the lovers activated parts of the so-called reward system in viewers' brains. This reward system involves brain responses that use the chemical messenger dopamine, so the sponsor of the study concluded that this dopamine is what creates ...

3120. The Spiritual Gateway

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... possible exception of people whom psychology would class as psychopaths or sociopaths, everybody in the world has a spiritual side to their personality. That is a pretty sweeping statement and I imagine that you can immediately bring to mind several people who you would view as having no spiritual nature. But notice that I did not say that all persons are spiritually minded. I am simply saying that almost everybody has a part of themselves where values reside, where a conscience exists, even if it is only a ...

3121. Stewards of Power

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... your intentions. Wisdom of Solomon 6:1-4 (Jerusalem Bible) Yes, those words are addressed to people in high places, but the reality behind them, that power is a gift from the Lord, applies to us all. Since all of us have power over somebody, power is best viewed as a trust from God. We need to be good stewards of power and use it wisely. Part of what happened during the time of Jesus' temptations was that he took the time to decide how he was going to deal with people. He possessed great power, but ...

3122. The Underlying Mercy

Job 1:1, 2:1-10

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... that the phrase meant that the psalmist's life had been a sign to others of God's favor. If he were the recipient of many blessings, others would assume he was an especially righteous person. Recall that in the story of Job, his initial prosperity was viewed as a sign that God was pleased with him. But when that was withdrawn, Job's friends urged him to admit that he had sinned. But for a third possibility, consider that The Jerusalem Bible translates the phrase as, "To many I have seemed an enigma." Given ...

3123. Putting God to Work in Your Life through Peas, Squash, Lettuce, Thyme

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... disciples proved that they could listen to others did Jesus ask them to listen to their own hearts — “Who do YOU say that I am?” The divine work is done in communities that are diverse, not homogenous, communities where there will be lots of different views, lots of different voices. We need to hear those voices — but they also know the sound that resonates within our own heart and soul. Hearing others is good. Hearing Jesus is imperative. There is a third planting that needs to be done to put God ...

3124. Why Must We Carry a Cross? - Sermon Starter

Mark 8:27-38

Illustration

Brett Blair

... time, is about training, trying, suffering, and even dying (adapted from James Emery White, Rethinking the Church, Baker, 1997, p. 55-57). Peter took Jesus aside and rebuked him. Why? Peter believes the kingdom of God can be obtained instantly by force. Peter has a worldly view of the Kingdom and Jesus is speaking about a heavenly kingdom. For a moment I would like you to listen to this story with new ears and see Jesus through the eyes of Peter and the rest of the disciples. Get rid of all your notions ...

3125. Repentance Is Relationship!

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... to stop walking toward selfishness, self-centeredness, and a life that is centered upon what the self desires. It means to make a 180-degree turn, start walking toward God, his vision, his aim, and his goal for your life. When Jesus came into the world, the dominant view of sin was going through one of God's red lights. Sin was doing something wrong. But Jesus helped us to see that sin was more than just doing bad things and not doing good things. Sin is missing the mark, missing God's purpose, goal, and ...

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