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4051. An Emmaus Experience

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Mark R. Smith

... ’re enjoying someone’s company and we would love for them to come over for supper, we fail to invite them because we don’t feel like our house is clean enough. If our house is a little messy, we don’t want people to think it is like that all ... t been mopped in a few days. Oddly enough, that is the same reason many people are hesitant to invite Christ into their lives. They feel as though their lives are too messy to have someone as perfect and powerful as Jesus come in. What do you think would have ...

4052. The Most Important Job in the World

2 Timothy 1:5

Illustration

James W. Moore

... intimidated and sometimes even questioning her own self-worth. Tony said to her: "Well, honey, why don't you come up with something you could say when you meet people that will let them know that you strongly value what you do and you feel that it is dramatically, urgent and crucial and important. Not long after that, They were at a party… when a woman said to Peggy in a rather condescending tone, "Well, my dear, what do you do?" Tony Campolo heard his wife say: "I am nurturing two Homo Sapiens into ...

4053. Whose Boy Are You?

2 Tim 1:5; Eph 6:1-4; 2 Ki 4:8-37

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Brett Blair

... recess and lunch time because the things they said to me cut me so deep. What was worse was going to town on Saturday afternoons and feeling like every eye was burning a hole through me, wondering just who my father was. "When I was about 12 years old, a new preacher came ... and slip out early. But one day the preacher said the benediction so fast I got caught and to walk out with the crowd. I could feel every eye in the church on me. Just about the time I got to the door I felt a big hand on my shoulder. I ...

4054. Don't Worry! Be Happy!

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... for 80 years over planting a firecracker on a railway track. The man had planted the firecracker on a track at his local railway station in 1926, and ran off when he was spotted by railway police. Ever since then, he confesses, he has been tormented with guilty feelings. He claims it was the only bad thing he had ever done--and he decided to turn himself in. He went to the local police station and confessed, asking officers if they still had a file on the case open and asking what his punishment would be ...

4055. Someone Who Loves You

Eph 6:1-4

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King Duncan

... emotions I felt when my mother showed me the crumpled photo were the very same emotions I felt that February night in a college dorm room when I first believed in a God of love. Someone is there, I realized. Someone is there who loves me. It was a startling feeling of wild hope, a feeling so new and overwhelming that it seemed fully worth risking my life on."

4056. Getting a Grip on Fear

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... and she wrote a poem which she mailed the next day to Charles Gabriel, who put music to it. Singer Ethel Waters made the resulting song famous, so famous that she used its name as the title for her autobiography. Perhaps you have heard it: Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come, Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heaven and home, When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He: His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me; I sing because I’m happy, I sing because ...

4057. A Morning Greeting

Matthew 10:40-42

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Andrew R. Wolfe

... respond to that and they are nice in return." Now that's such a simple kind of thing, isn't it, but how profound that is. Hospitality is simply the ability to make another person feel welcome in a sincere kind of way. In a lonely world where people are rushing to one place or another, these busy motorists were made to feel welcome in the world by this man who stood there on the corner waving to them - someone who dared to break through that barrier of isolation and dared to offer a sign of hospitality.

4058. The Death That Ends All Death

1 Peter 3:18

Sermon

James Merritt

... Christ did. I am reminded of a little old lady who was theologically ignorant, educationally illiterate, but she had a passionate love for Jesus Christ and the Word of God. An infidel asked her one time, "Can you even tell me what it feels like to be saved?" She thought for a moment and said, "Well, it feels to me as if the Lord stood in my shoes, and now I'm standing in His!" III. It Was a Sufficient Death for Salvation Peter goes on to say, "For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust ...

4059. The Supreme Worth of the Second Birth

John 3:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... if Billy Graham were your father, and Joan of Arc were your mother. Neither pedigree nor parentage makes a person a Christian. The second birth is "not of the will of the flesh." It is not of human desire. It has nothing to do with the fervency of your feelings. You were not born because you wanted to be; you were born because God wanted you to be. What is true physically is true spiritually. You don't decide when you are born again; you don't decide where you are born again; God does. By the way, God ...

4060. Getting Rid of Grudges

Luke 23:34

Sermon

James Merritt

... forgiveness, we can never be right with Him. II. The Sympathy That Is Expressed If anyone ever had a right to be bitter it was Jesus. He was crucified for something he did not do (sin) by the very ones who did it (sinners). Do you ever feel unappreciated? Do you ever feel like nobody cares about what you do for them? Well, think of this: The Lord Jesus was not only dying for those who were crucifying him, but there was no sympathy for him at all. Look at the crowd around the cross: There were the skeptics ...

4061. Let Me Tell You about the Birds and the Bees

Proverbs 5:15-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... put Planned Parenthood in charge of traffic safety they would teach your children how to dodge cars instead of staying off the freeway. Our problem is we are teaching our children how to shoot a gun without teaching our children how to use a gun. How would you feel if your children were taught they could shoot a gun at anybody they wanted to as long as that person was wearing a bullet-proof vest? That is exactly what we are teaching our kids. What we are not teaching them is what to do in case the person ...

4062. Doing Right When You Have Been Done Wrong

Ephesians 4:31-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... . Now one of the reasons why we don't find forgiveness sometimes to come naturally, is because it very rarely comes easily. The word forgiveness literally means "to let go" or "to send away." Forgiveness is when you release to the Lord any bitterness that you might feel you have a right to have toward someone else. It is the willingness to send both the offender and the offense away into the hands of God, and let God take care of the matter. Psychologists and ministers alike now agree that there is only one ...

4063. Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win (Fruit of the Spirit: Patience)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... be slow to anger, rather than being quick-tempered. God is this way. Ps. 103:8 says: "The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy." Someone has said that "patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears." Now please understand that patience is not passivity. It is not indifference. It is not at that fatalistic attitude toward life which sits back, twiddles its thumbs, and simply says: "Whatever will be, will be…." Patience does not mean that ...

4064. Courage Under Fire

Jude 1:22-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... gospel if it were shared with them. Now the strategy here is care. Jude says "on these have compassion." The word compassion is a compound word coming from the prefix, com, meaning "with" and the word passion, meaning "to suffer or feel" and it literally means "to feel with." Compassion is inward sympathy that results in outward service. We have three great problems in our church today concerning lost people. The first problem is the vast majority of Christians today are not winning the lost. But that is ...

4065. Who's In Charge Here

Judges 21:24-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... freedom." The bottom line of the society in which we live, is this: "Nobody is going to tell me what to do, and if it feels good I am going to do it." Social responsibilities have been replaced by personal rights. So I want to approach this subject of authority from ... of the low esteem group had created insecurity and dependence by their permissiveness. Their children are more likely to feel that the rules were not enforced without discipline, because no one cared enough to get involved (if you are left ...

4066. It Was the Birthday of a King

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... think I would bring the baby do you? Why he would ruin the whole party." Many people will throw office parties this Christmas, but they won't invite Jesus because He would ruin their party. How would you feel if someone threw a birthday party for you, and at the party everybody got a gift but you? How would you feel if somebody threw a party for you, but you were not even mentioned, in fact, you were not even invited. We have managed to make Christmas a $15 billion industry. Half of the toys sold in America ...

4067. Thou Shalt Not Judge - True or False?

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... a person does it. Judgment is wrong when you judge by the wrong standard, and in the wrong spirit. You see, there is only one standard we are to use to judge other people, and that is the Word of God. When you judge others based on your opinions, your feelings, your standards, then you are wrong. But you are wrong not to judge others when your standard is the Word of God. It is never wrong to call wrong wrong when God calls it wrong. But judgment can still be wrong even if you use the right standard, if you ...

4068. Manual Labor Is Not the President of Mexico

Proverbs 6:6-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... generation perhaps the most spoiled in American history. Many young people (and adults unfortunately) do think Manual Labor is the President of Mexico. Where welfare was once a dirty word, it has now taken on the tag of "entitlement." Our children (at least mine at one time) feel they are "entitled" to an allowance, and see parents as human ATMs. Young people even get the idea that if they are made to work it is somehow un-American. One young lady was trying to be a little hip, and walked up to her dad and ...

4069. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... work I go!" It reminds me of a handyman who had been called out to a millionaire's mansion to refinish her floors. The woman of the house said, "Be especially careful of this dining room table. It goes back to Louis the XIV." The handyman said, "Lady, don't feel bad." He said, "If I don't make a payment by Friday, my whole living room set goes back to Sears the sixteenth." Someone has described a modern American as a man who drives a bank-financed car, over a bond-financed road, on gasoline he bought with a ...

4070. Our God Is an Awesome God

Psalm 139:1-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... your skin a bare .00004 inch. See either a small candle flame from thirty miles away at night, or 300,000 different colors in the light. Smell one drop of perfume defused through a three-room apartment. Taste .04 ounce of table salt dissolved in 530 quarts of water. Feel the weight of a bee's wing falling on your cheek from less than half an inch away. Gaze the direction of a sound's origin based on a .00003-second difference in its arrival from one ear to the other.5 This body is a physical miracle that ...

4071. How to Rub People the Right Way

Acts 4:36-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... it's true about all of us. Whenever you hear someone putting himself down, he is usually asking you to help build himself back up. Sometimes we just don't pick up on it. I was talking to Teresa the other day and I was just kind of feeling down and I said, "Teresa, I feel old, flabby, wrinkled, useless, and stupid." She smiled and said, "Don't be silly, you're not old." May I just take a moment here and encourage all of us to be encouragers. When people come to church they ought to find bridges going up and ...

4072. Faithful Fathers Fortify Families

Deuteronomy 6:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... Lord faithfully—"with all of our soul." The soul is the seat of the mind, the will, and the emotions. In other words, we are to love God to the very core of our inner being, to the very depths of our mind, to the very nerve center of our feelings. We are to love the Lord firmly—"with all of our strength." In other words with all that we are physically, mentally, and emotionally we ought to love and it ought to be obvious to our children that we love God. I heard about a preacher that was talking to ...

4073. The Secret of Self-Esteem

Ephesians 1:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... Beloved." You know people are hungry for acceptance. People want to be accepted by their peers and by the so-called "group." When people feel rejected, what should have been a heart soft as silk, can turn into a heart as hard as steel. Just this past week ... young men at Columbine High School; they were social rejects, they were picked on, they were bullied, they were outcasts; they did not feel accepted. I couldn't help but think what a difference it would have made in the lives of those young men if they ...

4074. Let's Get Ready to Rumble

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... is we've got too many soldiers asleep in the barracks, and many Christians surrender without even firing a shot. As a matter of fact, there are some of you sitting here right now wondering what I'm talking about, because you never feel like you're in a war. The reason why many of you don't feel like you're in a war is because you have laid your weapons down and you've basically gone the way of the world. The reason why you and the devil get along so well is because you're traveling in the same ...

4075. Turn Right with the Right Turn

Luke 13:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... to a department store an anonymous letter, and said, "Dear Sir, I have just become a Christian and I can't sleep at night because I feel guilty. So here's $100 that I owe you." He signed only his first name and then put a P.S. at the bottom of ... is to literally reverse the engines. There's nothing quite like that roar you hear when those jet engines are reversed. You can immediately feel the affect on your body as the plane is literally being taken in effect in a different direction so it can slow down and ...

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