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351. Got Milk?

1 Peter 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... to shut down until they died. It is not that they were not eating. The problem was they were eating the wrong kinds of food. I want to be very frank and open and honest. The reason why we find it so hard to cultivate an appetite for God's word is because ... the spirit, denies the Lord, and disgraces the Lord Jesus Christ and then we wonder why we have no appetite for the Word of God. I want to make a practical suggestion. Very few of us find it difficult at all to make sure we get three meals a day and maybe a ...

352. Until He Comes

2 Timothy 4:7-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... , be faithful to the end. Let me give you two motivations to stay faithful. First of all, remember what we are running for—the crown. "Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness…" (v.8a) Paul knew he not only faced the Lord's appraisal; what he wanted was the Lord's approval. That's why he said to he Ephesian elders, "But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to ...

353. Why Me?

Proverbs 16:4, Colossians 1:16

Sermon

James Merritt

... without purpose really isn't a life worth living. If you think about it, regardless of what other underlying reasons there are, there can only be one bottom line reason why people would commit suicide and that is they really think there is no other purpose in their life. I want to go ahead and give you the punch line. If you take God out of the question, you will never be able to answer it. If you take God out of the equation, you will never be able to solve it. I love to go into bookstores and just browse ...

354. When I Grow Up

Ephesians 4:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... third purpose is - to make you like Jesus Christ. We call that purpose discipleship. Ephesians 4:15 which is our text for the day says, "God wants us to grow up…like Christ in everything." (Ephesians 4:15, MSG) God's will for you is that you grow up. Do you remember as ... At that moment, Joseph had a choice. He could compromise what he knew to be right or he could be faithful to what God would want him to do. The Bible says he left the house so fast, he left his cloak literally in her hands to get away from ...

355. No Doubt about It

John 20:24-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... like the way Lee Strobel put it. He said, "We could divide Christians into three groups. The first would consist of those who have doubted. The second would be those who haven't doubted yet, but who will. The third group would be those who are brain-dead." [[2]] I want to put your mind at ease. There is nothing wrong with doubt. Faith presupposes doubt and by the very nature of what faith is it has to be preceded by doubt. After all, if there is no room for doubt, there is no place for faith. I like the way ...

356. Your New Home

Joshua 24:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... serves some god. I heard about a little boy, named Robert, who was too young to be an usher at a wedding, but he really wanted to participate someway, somehow, so an older man took him aside and explained to him the etiquette of escorting people at a wedding. He ... side are you on?" Everybody is on one side or the other. you are either serving God or you are serving somebody else. If you want to have an extreme home makeover you lead your family to work for the Lord. III. The Family Must Be Lead To Walk With ...

357. Mary: The Promise Conceived

Luke 1:26-55

Sermon

James Merritt

... cousin, Elizabeth, understood that. She said, "You are blessed because you believed that the Lord would do what He said." (Luke 1:45, NLT) I want to tell every one of you here this morning if you are not experiencing the blessings of God in your life like you would ... she made one other choice that we also must make if God is going to use us. III. Desire To Prioritize God's Worship I want you to learn something about worship, because a lot of you come to church every Sunday and you sing the same songs and you ...

358. The Kingdom Is Not K-Mart

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... are going to follow Him. In fact, it almost seems as if the Lord Jesus instead of trying to build up a crowd is trying to thin one out. He had no interest in popularity and could care less about being a celebrity. He meant business with people and He wants people to mean business with Him. If you intend to be a true follower of Jesus Christ, if you intend to be one of His disciples you are going to have to answer three questions. I. What Priority Will I Place On Following Jesus? "If anyone comes to Me and ...

359. Never Give Up On God

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... backed up, and as she was leaving said, "That's how it is when you're old and rich." No, the golden rule says, "Therefore whatever you want men to do to you do also to them." I can tell you right now there would be peace in the Middle East today if those ... what they were asking for it, and that night they got a call from the owner of the house who said, "We've decided we don't want to sell the house after all; we're going to stay where we are." Well, the next Sunday I got up in the pulpit and just simply ...

360. Walking First Class

2 Corinthians 3:12-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... would call this Sanctification or Sanctifying Grace or going onto Perfection. Today, as it relates to Walking First Class I want to talk about three distinct kinds of Christians. There are weeders, waders and walkers. I. Weeders A. Jesus describes ... First Class. There are enough weeders and waders in the world today. They've had enough time to influence the world. What God wants, what the church needs, what the world needs to see are walkers. Children of God who have experience First Class Freedom in Christ ...

361. No Instant Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... spiritual maturity we are to find, any sainthood, is to be found where we are, in the process of living, in the performance not profession, not somewhere else in some other place at some other time, but where I am is my arena for growth. We have a tendency to want to run away for growth. I believe in retreats and profit greatly from them. But if I can’t grow where I am, if I can’t be renewed in my daily involvements, my maturity will forever elude me. It is so popular that is has become trite, yet it ...

362. Does Prayer Make Any Difference

Matthew 26:36-46

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... I am?” “How may I fit into that plan?” I don’t know about you, but I usually ask of God a road map. I want every turn and every move mapped out for the rest of my life. God does not work that way. God is not interested in a road ... That is true in your life, too, my friends. When you get ready to pray to God, “Lord, whatever you want and where ever you want it, whenever you want to, that’s what I want, too.” When you are ready to surrender like that, you will be set free. I believe that with all ...

363. Out Into The Deep Water

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . We must act now." And the wife replies: "Yes, while selection is good." The husband says: "We need to stop watching so much TV." And the wife says: "Yes, later. Now we must hurry in to take advantage of these fantastic deals." For the most part, that is how advertising wants us to react. And I think that's why we need to look at their message and compare it to the message of Christ and what's in Scripture. I. Lays Potato Chips Let's look at the Lays Ad: I think that's a hilarious commercial because it's ...

364. When God Says, “No”

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Steven Molin

... what Jesus has invited us to do. The fatal flaw comes when we wait to see if God will answer those prayers; if God will answer those prayers. It seems to me that God always answers prayer. God always answers prayer, but when the answer is one we don't want, we tend to think it's a non-answer. What's more difficult for you; when the answer is, "No," or when there is no answer? For the remainder of our time together this morning, let me try to describe the ways that God answers prayer, and how those answers ...

365. Coffee Shop Christmas Eve

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Julia Ross Strope

... morn, rise up shepherds and follow! Ryan: There were shepherds. Sarah: And astronomers. Max: And nifty gifts! Lee: And more travel, this time to Egypt! Sarah: Ah, the Sphinx. Lucy: I bet Jesus loved to crawl up the paws of the Sphinx! Lee: I bet they just wanted to be at home — like me. (Jeanne gets loaf of bread out of her shopping bag, takes a piece and passes it to the others.) Grandma: Umm, this would be especially good with a cup of hot chocolate. Lee: House special. Coming right up. (goes to get ...

366. Follow the Directions

Psalm 119:9, 18, 89

Sermon

James Merritt

... the day he was in the morgue and the Geneva Bible Society owned his house and used it as a place to store Bibles. I want you to appreciate the miracle of this book. I hold in my hand the book written by forty different authors. The first book was written ... known that before I got married” or “I wish I was aware of that before I entered into that partnership.” Do you know what I want to say to those people? It was all right there before you. You could have known it. You could have had it. You didn’t ...

367. All In: Betting the Ranch

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... have said, “Take up the electric-chair” or “Take up the gas chamber.” If you ever saw anybody carrying a cross they were going to die. When you take up the cross in your life it means you are having a funeral. You put yourself, your ego, your desires, your wants, your ambitions and you put it in a casket. You close the top and you bury it. If you are going to follow Jesus, you’ve got to have your own personal Gethsemane, you’ve got to go to your own personal cross, and you’ve got to die to ...

368. All In: The Winning Hand

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... of legalism. They felt and were taught that they had to keep the law to be right with God. From the moment that Paul met Jesus Christ he realized he was no longer under law, but he was under liberty. Liberty does not mean you get to do what you want to do, but it means you get to do what you ought to do. Paul was still under God’s moral law, but he was no longer under the ritual law. He understood that being right with God was not dotting every religious “i” and crossing every ritualistic “t”. Yet ...

369. The Knot: Frayed (Part 2)

1 Peter 3:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... may be the head of the home, but the wife is the heart of the home and she is to be put on a pedestal. I want you husbands to notice this has nothing to do with her performance. It is all about her position. It has nothing to do with what she ... with honor and respect. Let me tell you what that means in practical terms. Don’t ever be critical of your wife in public. If you want to tear your marriage apart tear your wife down in public, make fun of her, shame her, or be condescending toward her. Don’t do it ...

370. Everything Must Go: The Treasure Principle

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... used to refer to anything that is left behind. Interesting trivia – the oldest will ever discovered was found by an archeologist during an excavation in a tomb in Egypt and it dated back to 2500 B.C. I have to be honest. When I read my document I so badly wanted to write two words in front of the word, “last” and that was “next to.” I wish I could do a “next-to last will and testament.” I have to admit it would be kind of cool to die, see how your loved ones handle your possessions once you ...

371. Paradise Lost

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... . It is the second chapter in the story of the Bible known as “The Fall.” Today, rather than giving you positive things to do, I want to give you negative things not to do, because when you do them you will experience the same kind of fall that Adam and Eve did ... out of the goodness of our heart. We don’t look at that sign and say, “I am going to obey the speed-limit, because I want to make this world a better and a safer place to live in.” Do you know what motivates us to obey the speed limit? It is ...

372. If There is A God, Why Is There Suffering In the World?

Jeremiah 12:1, Romans 8:18-28

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows.” Did you see that? He carried our sorrows. He carries our sorrows. I want you to hear that today. Wherever you are, whatever you are going through, whatever pain you are in God carries your sorrows. He shares it with you. He cries with you. He aches with you. He loves you too much for you to deal with it alone. You ...

373. Fleeced

Judges 6:1-40, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... thing we do as humans, as babies, is learn to reach out and touch, grab, hold. And what’s the first thing we do after that? [Allow people to answer.] Yes, we try to eat it! We put everything into our mouths, so that we can also taste it! We want to see it, grasp it, feel it, taste it. This gives us a tangible experience to connect with the way we perceive that object. We also learn what not to touch –a hot stove, a growling dog, a sharp knife. But sometimes, we are not correct in our perceptions. We ...

374. Pilate's Ruse

Matthew 27:1-26 · Luke 22:66--23:25 · John 18:28-40; 19:1-16 · Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... old school, because we follow Jesus. So we become afraid, and we back away. It’s hard to follow Jesus in a world of nones and dones. It can get you into trouble with a lot of people. We like to be good people, but we don’t want trouble. But Jesus? He’s definitely trouble . . . trouble with a Capital “T.” He was then and still can be now, depending on whom you’re talking to. Now Pontius Pilate (the Roman Governor at the time Jesus ministry was in full swing) had a particularly interesting way of ...

375. A Restless Spirit

1 Samuel 28:1-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we tend to look for the answers to our most important questions in the people and places that will tell us exactly what we most want to hear. Am I right? [pause…] Think about it. You have an argument with your friend, or your co-worker, or your spouse. The first ... daughter does to us. We try again elsewhere! We take matters into our own hands and go to where we think we’ll get what we want. We pretty much like to be in charge, to make God’s decisions for us, and then rant and rail when God doesn’t do ...

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