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401. The Only Way to Fly

2 Timothy 3:15-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... said he was one of the three best known men in all of the world. May I tell you that when he died, the only thing that mattered was this: Did he know the Prince of Peace? In 1937 Douglas Corrigan applied to the Bureau of Air Commerce for permission to make a solo flight across the Atlantic in his 1929 MonoPlane. After inspecting the aircraft, the Bureau refused permission on the grounds that it could not condone suicide. His plane lacked any safety devices, had no radio, no beam finders, the instrumentation ...

402. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... nitroglycerin: handling it is not morally wrong, but, especially if you do not know what you are doing, it is extremely risky. It seems as if everywhere you look, there is a warning label of some kind on toys, cigarettes, diet soft drinks, even air bags! Perhaps it would be a good idea to put a warning label on dollar bills, certificates of deposit, and credit cards. Perhaps nothing has been the ruin of more people, marriages, and friendships, than the failure to handle money properly. Dad, next to teaching ...

403. What Church Is All About

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... U. S. dollar a day.[3] We eat more food in a day than much of the world will eat in a month. We drive air-conditioned automobiles, forgetting that billions of people have never even seen one car. Yet, the vast majority of Americans will sit down to eat today ... you'll have to pay me the $100. The farmer said, "You've got a deal." Well, he took off, and when he got up into the air he started doing loop-the-loops, figure eights; he would go into a steep dive, a sharp bank; he'd fly the plane upside down. He did ...

404. Just a Closer Walk With Thee

James 4:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth." I was reading the other day about the lung. The lungs are two sponge-like organs consisting of three lobes, or sections, on the right and two lobes on the left. Air enters through the nose or the mouth and is sucked down through the trachea and into the deepest parts of the lung through what is called the tracheobronchial tree which resembles an inverted tree. The "tree" branches out into thousands of small tubes and subdivides into millions ...

405. Hazardous to Your Wealth: Myths about Money

Malachi 3:7-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... into. The multimillionaire, if he eats oatmeal in the morning, will have to eat the same brand of oatmeal we have to eat. If he eats fruit, the apple he eats will cost the same amount of money as the apple that we eat. The air that he breathes is just as free to him as the air that we breathe. To put it simply, you don't have to keep up with anyone you're not in a race with, and you're not in a race with the Joneses. Myth No. 4: My net wealth determines my net worth. That ...

406. The Perfect Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... they run into the storm. "And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling." (v.3) Now you may wonder how this happens, but the Sea of Galilee is like a basin surrounded by hills and mountains. Cold air from the mountains will hit the hot air coming up from the water and a storm can rise very quickly. That is the way it is in life. You can be sailing along in the ship of your life and the sea of circumstances can be as smooth as glass, but just one phone ...

407. With Malice toward None, With Charity for All

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

James Merritt

... them their food in due season. You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing." Think about this: The sun shines on Afghanistan just like it shines on America. It rains in Iraq just like it rains in America. God gives air to the Muslim just like He gives air to the Christian. God sent Jesus to die for the terrorist just like He sent Jesus to die for the diplomat. In fact, anything good that comes to anyone anywhere, comes from the hand of God. You know we have a little saying here, "God ...

408. Why You Should Be Afraid of Sin

Numbers 32:23

Sermon

James Merritt

... causes it to travel around an arc right back to the thrower. If you throw the boomerang downward or parallel to the ground, it will reach a height of over 50 feet. You can even throw it so that one end strikes the ground, and it will ricochet into the air at terrific speed, spinning end-over-end until once again it becomes horizontal and completes a circle of about 50 yards. Now as I read about that, it hit me that sin is Satan's boomerang. You can throw it long, far, high, and hard. It might even go out ...

409. Pulling Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... Second World War. At one point in the novel Billy Pilgrim turns on a television and begins to see a movie about the war except he sees it in reverse. Use your imagination for a moment and visualize a war movie played backwards. Planes are in the air over a city that is in flames, but the bay doors beneath the planes open and rather than destroying the city below they actually seem to rebuild the city. As the planes fly backward away from the city, they seem to extinguish the fires. Meanwhile bombs, rather ...

410. Imperceptible Things Have Real Influence

Matthew 13:31-35

Illustration

Brett Blair

... of us probably remember those dramatic films of the plane somersaulting down the runway in a ball of fire, killing half of those who were aboard. The cause of that crash is now known. It was revealed that when the titanium fan hub was being manufactured an air bubble "the size of a mustard seed" was made in the metal. This bubble went unnoticed for 20 years and six inspections. The imperceptible bubble lead to a crack and the crack lead to a fracture and the fracture brought the entire plane down. How can ...

411. Finishing Strong

Philippians 3:12-14

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Force will say, ‘We met the enemy in the skies and we won.’ What will you be able to say? Will you be able to say that you dug the coal that provided the power for the factories that produced the tools for our victorious army, navy, and air force? What will you be able to say?” There was one old grimy coal miner sitting down front listening hard. Tears began to make clear little paths down his dirty face. Suddenly he jumped up and shouted, “Let me out of here. My country needs coal.” He almost set ...

412. Moses: On the Manna Diet

Exodus 16:1-5

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... , we discover that at the very core of our lives there is a basic need for daily sustenance. Daily dependence on God for the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. Daily dependence on God for the very gift of life. In my files, I ... , or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value then they? And why are ...

413. In Celebration of American Thanksgiving

Philippians 4:2-9, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Illustration

... over the world, wherever allied troops are fighting in bivouacs and dugouts, on battlefields, on the high seas, and the highest air. Always this annual festival has been dear to the hearts of the American people. Always there has been that desire for ... other communities – when we see that in three or four years the United Sates has in sober fact become the greatest military, naval, and air power in the world – that, I say to you in this time of war, is itself a subject for profound thanksgiving. We are ...

414. Wake Well, Wake Welcome

Romans 13:8-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Union. But are we really sleep deprived? Or are we just waking badly? Before the comforts of electricity, central heat and/or air conditioning, sleeping “through the night” was unheard of. Think back to the last winter (or storm) power outage your home experienced. If ... to be divided into a day of “work” and a night of “two sleeps.” When the sun set and the warmth left the air, it was time for the “early sleep.” But the demands of keeping a warm house, tending to children, or just keeping an ...

415. This Little Light of Mine

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... the rig sank deeper and deeper into the sea, the lights went out and the room where Darrel was trapped began filling with water. Thrashing about in the darkness, Darrel made a life-saving discovery a huge air bubble was forming in the corner of the room. He kept his head inside that bubble of air and prayed that someone would find him. As he prayed, Darrel felt Christ’s presence there with him. For twenty-two hours the presence of Christ comforted Darrel, but deep down Darrel knew that the oxygen supply ...

416. Christ the Apple Tree

Isaiah 11:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . The tree grew great and strong, its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the ends of the whole earth. Its foliage was beautiful, its fruit abundant, and it provided food for all. The animals of the field found shade under it the birds of the air nested in its branches, and from it all living things were fed. (Daniel 4:10-12) Christmas is a holiday especially suited to trees. Earl W. Count's 4000 Years of Christmas (New York: Henry Schuman, 1948) is an old book brimming with new insights into our ...

417. The Gravity of Grace

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... firmly grounded in a life of moral gravity. The unmistakable pull of this gravity of grace is the reason for the great hymn read in today's epistle text. From an experience of the tug of God's grace in his own life, the writer discovers a new, fresh air of joy all about him. To open yourself up to the gravity of grace in your life is not to subject yourself to some narrow tethering of your freedoms. Rather it is only in that grace-infused atmosphere that we can experience the wonder, the joy and the thrill ...

418. Say What?

Luke 9:28-36 (37-43)

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... make (Luke 9:33). So he babbles. Peter always has to say something _ even when vision is obstructed, when silence is what is called for and when experience eludes understanding until one is off the mountain. 2. There is little growth on the mountaintops. Air gets thinner, trees get shorter, foliage gets scarcer, the higher one climbs. On the top of the mountain itself, there is only the stark beauty of rock and dirt. For growth, one has to go into the valleys, where an abundance of water produces lushness ...

419. Dream Reality

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of us. Above this din of hate speech and death discussions, we need to sound anew, stronger, insistent notes of hope. We must free our good dreams, not keep them to ourselves. We must let good dreams become as prevalent and pervasive as the air-fouling nightmares that others are belching forth. We need more daydreamers and fewer nightmarings. 1. Word-Dreamers The only effective way to combat the "war of words" that nightmare-purveyors assault us with is to dream a whole new vocabulary. What would happen if ...

420. Out of the Box Gifts

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to come over and do some work. He offered to drain out the hot water tanks and outside pipes ahead of the blast of arctic air headed our way. “Odie” wasn’t trying to drum up any business for himself. In fact, if all our pipes burst he would make a ... aromatics which are kept bottled up, unused, “saved,” are useless. The primary function of an aromatic is to disperse into the air. Keeping it bottled up, or as was the case with the chunky, resinous myrrh and frankincense, keeping it boxed up, negates ...

421. Mark 4:26-34

Mark 4:26-34

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... . Human understanding cannot fathom how, out of the tiniest of all seeds, the mysterious powers of generation bring about such astounding growth that the mustard shrub should be "the greatest of all." So phenomenal is this growth that the "birds of the air" find shelter and shade in its huge branches. Here it seems that this Markan parable is concerned with the theological focus the ability of God to bring in the kingdom of heaven from tiny, apparently insignificant beginnings. The method of this phenomenal ...

422. Matthew 5:13-20

Matthew 5:13-20

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... to the greater community. Just as salt must be mixed well into the soil in order for it to be beneficial, the flame of a single light must be exposed to the surrounding air in order for it to have sufficient oxygen to burn brightly. The salt in the midst of the soil and the lamp in the midst of the dark night air, both need their surroundings in order to alter them - to fertilize and to bring light. Verse 16 reminds listeners that salt and light do not exist simply for their own sake, but that ...

423. Ephesians 2:1-10

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... 's evil course in distinctly personal terms. To understand the reference to this "ruler of the power of the air," we must recall some of the ancient cosmology of this letter's original audience. The blueprint of the first-century ... ) have gotten so low we are now found groveling in the dust, bowing at the feet and doing the will of the evil "ruler of the air." But instead of well-deserved condemnation, there is a wondrous gift offered to all the children of wrath. Out of rich mercy and fathomless love, God ...

424. Death Has Been Conquered

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... of peace, even of joy. “Something has happened here,” she said to the mother. “I can sense it.” To which the mother replied, “This morning my sister and a neighbor came to visit me. They asked me to go out into the garden to get some fresh air. I became almost hysterical at the thought of going into that garden. But convinced that it would help me, they insisted, so eventually I went out with them. Slowly we walked down to the place where the fire had happened. As we approached the spot my whole ...

425. I'm a Leper, You're a Leper

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... playing in the kitty litter, eating in the dog bowl, don’t jump up and rescue them. Let them get “down and dirty.” Too many antibiotics for sniffles and plugged ears . . . Too many hermetically sealed households that don’t let air in and don’t let air out . . . Too many antibacterial, antimicrobial, antiallergenic substances . . . All end up making us bulls-eyes for bugs. You heard it right: Wet-Wipes are making us bulls-eyes for bugs. What’s that about? We are really healthy, until we aren ...

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