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3301. What Do I Do When My Prayers Go Unanswered?

Deuteronomy 3:1-11, 23-26

Sermon

James Merritt

... those years studying the Word of God and learning more about the God of the Word. I have literally been on mountaintops and I have been in valleys. There have been times in my life that God was so real it was as if I could literally reach out and touch His face. There have been other times I've felt like God was so far away that I could not see Him with the Hubble Telescope. Today, I am going to talk about what is, at least to me, the toughest thing I have to deal with in my Christian ...

3302. Begin With the Blueprints

Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... one very run-down house, a needy family who deserves a better place to live, several opinionated designers, one week and what do you get? The answer is - Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It is not only a fascinating show to watch, but it will touch even the hardest of hearts. Each episode features a race against time on a project that would ordinarily take somewhere between 3-4 months to achieve. A team of designers, contractors, and several hundred workers have just 7 days to totally rebuild and remake ...

3303. It’s Time to Grow Up

Ephesians 4:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... came to Socrates, the great teacher, and said, "Socrates, will you be my teacher?" Socrates told the young man to follow him and he turned and walked into the ocean. The young man followed him into the sea and they kept walking until the water was just touching their lips. Socrates then turned around and put both hands on the young man's head and pushed him under the water. The young man wanting to be a compliant student stayed there for awhile, but soon he began to spit and sputter and thrash about trying ...

3304. Marriage 101

Ephesians 5:22-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... what a wife needs is just a husband that will give her his ear and his eyes and his full undivided attention. Secondly, they need our affection. Men, when I talk about affection don't think about the "s" word. I'm talking about just affection—a touch, a hug, a kiss. They need verbal affection. You need to tell them consistently that you love them. One man was very unaffectionate with his wife. She was looking out the window one day and saw a honeymoon couple who were very affectionate living next door to ...

3305. American Idol

Exodus 20:4-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... to worship an idol. Think about it. Israel broke the first two commandments before they even knew what they were! Do you know why they made this golden calf? They had to have a visible image; they had to have something they could see and something they could touch. Think about this - it takes less faith to worship a "little god" that you can see, than to worship the real God that you can't see. That is the real problem with idols, because idols do two things - Idols limit our faith in God They limit the ...

3306. Is God Pleased With Me?

Hebrews 11:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... to believe that God is there even though you cannot see Him. You must believe that God is there even though you cannot hear Him. You must believe that God is there even though you cannot feel Him. You must believe that God is there even though you cannot touch Him. In a concentration camp over in Germany, during the Second World War, there was a prisoner who had been there for several years with no hope of release and on his prison wall he had scratched out these words. "I believe in the sun, even though I ...

3307. What Child Is This?

Isaiah 9:6-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... psychiatrist, Robert Cole, said this: "Nothing that I have discovered about the makeup of human beings, contradicts what I have learned from the Hebrew prophets such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Amos. From the book of Ecclesiastes and from Jesus and the lives of those He touched, anything that I can say as a result of my research into human behavior, is a mere footnote to the lives of those in the Old and New Testaments."[2] The greatest counselor you can ever have is the Son of God; the greatest counsel ...

3308. Are You A Satisfied Customer?

John 6:35-42

Sermon

James Merritt

... how much money you have, you will always want more. No matter how many Krispy Kreme doughnuts you eat, you will always want more. Have you ever had this experience at Thanksgiving? You sit down about three inches from the table and you eat until you are finally touching the table? Then, you get up from the table and say to yourself, "I'm so stuffed I don't care if I ever eat anything again and that's it for me." You are totally satisfied. What happens about three hours later? You are in the refrigerator ...

3309. Mary: The Promise Conceived

Luke 1:26-55

Sermon

James Merritt

... an earthly mother, He would have been born in sin, just like everyone else and He could not have lived a perfect life and could not have died a perfect death had He not been virgin born. When God by-passed the father and became Himself the father and touched the womb of Mary with supernatural power so that the baby born in that womb was supernaturally conceived, that baby was never tainted with human sin. There is an even greater reason of why He had to be born of a virgin and that is - because God promised ...

3310. Broken Pieces

Matthew 1:3, 5, 6

Sermon

James Merritt

... the sin of adultery. This is a story that is as despicable and disgusting as any in the Bible. At least the other two women did not break up a marriage, prove unfaithful to their husbands or marry their husband's murderer! Somewhere, someway, somehow God touched both David and Bathsheba. They repented and got right with God. Even though the first baby died, Bathsheba conceived again and bore a son named, Solomon. Solomon became the next link in the divine chain of the Son of God. Think about what we have ...

3311. Standard Building Codes

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... give up anything you have to, to protect your heart, your body, your soul, your purity, and if you are married, your marriage. The word for "sin" in verse 29 is a word that was used to describe a bait stick that would spring a trap whenever an animal would touch it. The idea is that anything that would morally trap you or cause you to fall into sexual sin should be eliminated from your life. To put it another way, if you have ever had a garden, you know the one thing that is necessary for your garden to ...

3312. The “Gratitude Salute”

James 1:19-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... But here’s the reason we Christians gather for worship week after week: We worship to wake up. We worship to come alive and take notice of the presence and power of God in the world, in our lives, in everything we see and do and touch and feel. The Latin “re-ligare” from which we get our word “religion” has the root “lig” — which scholars have traced back partly to meaning “pay attention.” Any religious service, any religious act, should make us sit up, shake our heads, and focus in on ...

3313. A Little Dirt Is Good for You

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... constantly picking things up from the floor or ground and putting them in their mouths,” writes Ms. Brody, “and chances are they’ll say that it’s instinctive that’s how babies explore the world. But why the mouth, when sight, hearing, touch and even scent are far better at identifying things?” Here’s the conclusion of many scientists: eating dirt is good for you. In studies of what is called the hygiene hypothesis, researchers are concluding that organisms like bacteria, viruses and even worms ...

3314. Which Flowers Are Real?

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Illustration

Brooks Ramsey

... detect them from real flowers. She put them in a vase on Solomon's table, in his throne room next to his flowers. As he came in, the queen of Sheba is reported to have said, "Solomon, you are the wisest man in the world. Tell me without touching these flowers, which are real and which are artificial." It is said that Solomon studied the flowers for a long time and spoke nothing, until finally he said, "Open the windows and let the bees come in." There are ways to tell the artificial from the real—let ...

3315. At Least the Bucket Is Moist

Mark 7:1-23

Illustration

Cliff Richard

... . In his book about his conversion to Christianity called Which One's Cliff?, he tells how "the first morning, I must have washed my hands a dozen times. Whenever we stopped, I made a beeline for the communal tap or the well; I didn't want to touch anything, least of all the people. Everyone in those camps, even the babies, was covered in sores and scabs. "I was bending down to one little mite, mainly for the photographer's benefit, and trying hard not to have too close a contact, when someone accidentally ...

3316. The Great Divide

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... the most expensive spices that money could buy, and wrapped in the finest linen, and be placed in the costliest of graves. But the bottom line still is "he died and he was buried." Once again we are reminded that the finger of death plays no favorites. It eventually touches everyone on the shoulder and says, "It's time." I was reading the other day about an 80 year old woman up in New York who was attacked and killed by two pit bulls that she had raised since they were pups, and had never shown any threat ...

3317. Hotline to Heaven

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... the telephone. He's on the other end of the line even though you can't see Him, but He's listening." About that time a little boy piped up and said, "What's His number?" Well, that is a good question. Because do you know how to get in touch with God? Or maybe you feel like the cartoon character, Ziggy, which showed him one time standing on a mountain, and he was staring right up into the sky. The sky is dark; there's only one lonely cloud up there, and frame after frame after frame shows Ziggy just ...

3318. Don’t Sweat the Big Stuff

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

James Merritt

... trouble." (v.34) Abraham Lincoln once said, "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." The only day that you ought to be concerned about is today. Yesterday is gone; you can't change it. Tomorrow is not here; you can't touch it. All you can do is live in the present. You see, Jesus knows the most important period of time is always "the now." He knows that your "nows" will soon become your yesterdays. If you will live each "now" well you will have no regrets. Your "nows" will ...

3319. Anxiety Alert – The Fear of the Future

Matthew 6:34

Sermon

James Merritt

... great work in the future if you are not willing to step out in faith in the present. I want you to remember something as we talk about the past, the present and the future. Yesterday is gone, you can't change it. Tomorrow is not here, you can't touch it. All you can do is live in the present. The best thing about the future is it only comes one day at a time. The only day you need to be concerned about is today. I want to close by sharing a couple of thoughts with you. First of ...

3320. Life on the Rock

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... And so it was, when Jesus had ended these sayings, that the people were astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes." (vv. 28-29) No one had ever heard teaching like the teaching of Jesus. No one ever touched the heart, the head, and the home like Jesus Christ. We are concluding our teaching on the Sermon on the Mount that we have entitled "The Only Way to Live." The Sermon on the Mount is the largest body of the teachings of Jesus recorded consecutively in ...

3321. Smooth Out Your Day

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... basis we can learn from the life of Jesus. You think you carry a heavy load? From the day that Jesus Christ was born, He carried the weight of the entire world's sin, sorrow, and suffering on His shoulders. Everywhere He went people were standing in line crying out touch me, bless me, heal me, hear me, help me, and teach me, but He never lost His peace and He never lost his patience. He was always cool, calm and collected. That is why He can say, "If you come to Me, I will give you rest." That word rest ...

3322. Men in Black

Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43

Sermon

James Merritt

... ; help somebody through charity because when you do it has been recorded. I go to parties; see a bunch of good-looking girls. I take a box of matches with me. I see a girl I want to flirt with, which is a sin, so I light my matches. (he touches his finger and says ‘ooh") Hell hurts worse than this. Buy a box of matches and carry them with you. Put one on your finger and see how long you can hold it, but just imagine that is going to be hell. Hell is hotter and for all eternity. So ...

3323. Does Jesus Have a Health Plan?

James 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... come down with H1N1 virus? The church has always been in the health care business. Jesus spent his three years of ministry preaching, teaching and healing, but Jesus was most known among the people as a healer. The crowds that followed him requested a healing touch more often than a holy word. And Jesus didn’t discount the diseases of the body. He offered wholeness and health to those who were in pain, in distress, in the darkness of blindness or the disarray of a troubled mind and spirit. He provided ...

3324. The Passion of the Christ – The Rest of the Story

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

James Merritt

... of murder in the United States.We all know the premise behind fingerprint evidence was unscientific and inadmissible, four officers testified that the pattern of ridges on a person's finger, you can conclude with scientific certainty that this individual has touched that object. There is a set of prophetic fingerprints in the Old Testament which establishes to an unbelievable degree of certainty that Jesus was the Son of God and the Messiah. These prophecies form a figurative fingerprint that only the ...

3325. Finishing Strong

Nehemiah 9:38--10:39

Sermon

James Merritt

... 10: 32-33, NKJV) Now the money the people gave was to be used for the work of the house of God. The reason is simple - the way God finances His work is through His people. Do you notice the extent of the Lord's claim on their lives touched everything that they had - their children, their cattle, their produce, their wine, their oil? In fact, their giving was to go deep. "And we made ordinances to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of ...

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