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451. Did You Know...That You Can Be Perfect?

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... is not a single person in all the earth who is always good and never sins." (Ecclesiastes 7:20, NLT) I know that nobody is perfect, but that is not the question. The question I am asking is this. Did you know you can be perfect? Now that is a trick question in a way, because the answer is a qualified yes. No, you cannot be perfect in this life, but you can be perfect in the life to come if you are a child of God. That statement doesn't include everybody because contrary to popular opinion, not everybody is ...

452. We Are At War

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... that we are to "stand against the wiles of the devil." (v. 11, NKJV) Now the word "wiles" is a very interesting Greek word. It gives us the English word "method." It literally means deceit or trickery. The Living Bible translates it this way: "Watch out for the tricks of Satan." Satan is the master of deception. The devil has even deceived us in the way we think about him. We conjure up the picture in our mind of a little man wearing long red underwear, with horns on his head, a forked tail and a pitchfork ...

453. Who's Number One?

Exodus 20:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... take you back to a story that happened in the life of Jesus. There was a lawyer who came to Jesus and he was trying to test Him and he asked Him this question, "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" (Matthew 22:36, NASB) This was a trick question, because there were Ten Commandments as the lawyer well knew and he was trying to get Jesus to tell which was the greatest of all. Listen to the brilliant answer that Jesus gave. "And He said to him, 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR ...

454. The Clone Zone: The Bible and Cloning

Genesis 1:26-28

Sermon

James Merritt

... will have to defend reproductive cloning. Now this is how research cloning works. You take a donor egg from a woman, remove its nucleus, and inject the nucleus of a cell from another person. It has already been shown in animals that you can trick the egg in the injected nucleus into becoming an un-differentiated cell, and return to its original state as a beginning cell that could become anything in the body. In other words, that cell becomes the equivalent of the fertilized egg in normal procreation ...

455. God’s Guidance System

John 16:12-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... He remembered one time hearing an older preacher get up and say, "The happiest days of my life were spent in the arms of another man's wife." Then he paused for dramatic effect, and added the words "my mother." Well, this young preacher thought that would be just the trick to start out his message. The only problem was he forgot to tell his wife, who was a hot-tempered redhead, what he was going to say. So he got up, nervous enough as it was, and said, "The happiest days of my life were spent in the arms of ...

456. Keep Your Eye On The Ball

Nehemiah 6:1-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... I have not been carrying on with Mrs. Kelly. Until yesterday she was my housekeeper, but she quit. [[1]] Well this is somewhat akin to what these three guys were doing to Nehemiah. We would call it today - political hardball, negative campaigning, dirty tricks. They were getting down and dirty and pulling out all the stops trying to destroy Nehemiah, his integrity and his work. This was nothing but pure slander. Did you know the word, "satan" literally means slanderer? Whenever you slander someone, you are ...

457. People Skills

Proverbs 12:26

Sermon

James Merritt

... People. In that book, he says this, "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." Parents, you can teach your children just a few little tricks, early in their life that will really carry them a long way in building personal relationships and in developing good people skills. Let me just list them for you. Eye contact - when you talk to people look them in the eye. A smiling face - it takes ...

458. Whose Inheritance Is It?

Ephesians 1:11-23

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... given, determined and wildly open and free. There is an old saying that every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts that stood their ground. Often we interpret a quote like this as saying that we make ourselves by our decisions. It could be that the real trick to being human — much less being a saint — is that we stand in our created ground and light. We know God makes us. We know that it is God who has made us and not we ourselves. Saints align themselves as spiritual inheritors: we know of whom and ...

459. The Hard Sell

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... too highly. To be separate and distinct as holy people somehow gets translated into “I am better than you are.” The devil is much at work (and play) here! His twists and turns seem never to stop, as he persistently seeks to trick us into becoming more abomination than blessing. We are never truly big enough within ourselves to handle these fabrications and machinations. The Holy Spirit must be present. It is always wise to remember that wherever the greatest spiritual success comes into being, there ...

460. Shoots of Tomorrow

Jeremiah 33:14-16

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... of Noah, the boat builder, and the rainbow. Abraham and Sarah are travelers who journey to a distant new land to make a home for God's people. Isaac has a close call, but God always keeps promises and comes through for us. Jacob's own sons trick him, the trickster, as his favorite son, Joseph, becomes a missing person. Moses is a basket case until a burning bush calls him to deliver the slaves from Egypt. The Israelites walk through the Red Sea and God lays down the law at Sinai. Joshua takes over where ...

461. The Easter Era

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... the world, and all the time God is hollering at us to get out there, get into the ball game, and bring people in. If you don't want to bring people into the church, at least have the good grace to get out. The resurrection is not just a trick or a wonder. It's an alteration — to the world, to society, to us. It's either the most important thing that has ever happened, or it is time to be honest about things and do something else on Sundays. It happened. There are witnesses. We are transformed by God ...

462. Jailhouse Rock

Acts 16:16-34

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... , John sees martyrs like Willems rejoicing in heaven, vindicated as part of the heavenly choir singing to God's glory, doing just fine, thank you very much. That's the point of Easter, and the Easter season, when you come down to it. It's not simply a trick, a dog and pony show, an amazing act. Jesus is not raised from the dead to amaze us, but to transform us, to change the way we look at the world, and each other. The book of Acts follows the early church as people are changed, as racial barriers ...

463. A Day of Singing

Zephaniah 3:14-20, Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... tender. Somehow the singing wore down all the boundaries and distinctions that kept me so isolated. Sitting there, standing with them to sing, sometimes so shaky and sick that I felt like I might tip over, I felt bigger than myself, like I was being taken care of, tricked into coming back to life. But I had to leave before the sermon. (One day), she writes, I went . . . to church . . . so hung over that I couldn’t stand up for the songs, and this time I stayed for the sermon, which I just thought was so ...

464. Does Truth Matter?

John 18:33-37

Illustration

Brett Blair

George Orwell wrote in Time and Tide, 6 April 1940: "Reading Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, The Thirties, I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a wasp. He was sucking jam on my plate, and I cut him in half. He paid no attention, merely went on with his meal, while a tiny stream of jam trickled out of his severed esophagus. Only when he tried to fly away did he ...

465. A Stone’s Throw From: Heaven

Matthew 16:13-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... as the Hulk. When the family got to the church, big brother went with some friends, Mom passed out candy and Dad took the three-year-old around. Dad stayed in the background, as the little boy walked up to one of the cars with a friend manning the trunk. "Trick or treat." As the man reached out with a hand full of candy, he asked, "So you're the Hulk, right?" The little boy nodded his head "Yes." Then the man asked,"Why aren't you wearing a mask?" The three-year-old looked up at the man and answered ...

466. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it as well because of reruns. It literally burst on the scene as a mid-season replacement which aired on two separate nights, Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday always ended with the cliffhanger ending which was resolved on Thursday. Will Batman fall victim to the Joker's tricks or will the joke be on the Joker. Tune in Thursday for the exciting conclusion. It became an overnight smash hit and a cultural phenomenon. It was the "IN" thing to watch. It was a satire of the then popular comic book of the same name ...

467. Unstoppable Determination

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He was present and gave his assent to the stoning of Stephen, the first Christian martyr. Then Paul met Christ on the road to Damascus and became a follower of Christ. Not too surprisingly, the church at first rejected him. They were afraid it was a trick. After he was finally accepted by the church, though, he was persecuted by his fellow Jews and his fellow Roman citizens for his new-found faith. There was a lot that St. Paul had to get past. There were many emotions guilt, anger, fear associated with ...

468. The Character Of Christmas; Herod: The Not So Great

Matthew 2:13-22

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, [15] and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, "Out of Egypt I have called my son." [16] When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men. [17] Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet ...

469. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

470. The Adventure Begins

Ephesians 1:15-23, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... as He calms the storm, heals the woman with the issue and has lunch with a Tax Collector named Zaccheus whose life is so changed by that one meal that he repays fourfold any who he has cheated. We listen with curiosity as the Sadducees and Pharisees try to trick Jesus on fine points of the law and laugh when He entangles them in their own snare. We marvel when Jesus compares the Kingdom of God to a lost coin, a lost sheep and lost son. We find ourselves strangely drawn in when we hear the words "Once there ...

471. Amazing Authority

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... to Him, like everyone else. Why? Because His words rang true. His words sprang from the heart and they resonated with power and authenticity. It was as if He had a direct line to God. And that's what amazed His listeners. There were no gimmicky tricks or false promises to get folks to open up there wallets to support His ministry. There was no phony manipulation. Jesus was truly concerned about everyone who came to hear Him. Jesus wanted them to understand, to know, to learn about God's love and forgiveness ...

472. Guard the Good Treasure

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... found. So, what's with the optical illusions? Well, there are a lot of people who live their faith like optical illusions. They aren't really what they appear to be. They're like one of the illusions where everything seems to be moving, it's all a trick of the eyes. They are what John Eldredge in his book "Wild At Heart," calls "posers." In the sixties we called them "plastic." My son just calls them phonies. They are sort of like hollow chocolate Easter bunnies. A lot of promise but not much substance. In ...

473. Being the Lord's Instrument

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us to be the Lord’s instrument, as Moses was. There are two things necessary if we are going to be the Lord’s instrument. One, we have to have a sense of our own uniqueness. As Charlie Brown would say, “Even the two of clubs wins a trick now and then.” How different was Moses and Aaron. They became the Lord’s instrument in their uniqueness. Central in my theology is the conviction that each one of us is a unique, unrepeatable miracle of God. There are no carbon copies in God’s family. Some of ...

474. Come Forward to God's Throne Where There Is Grace (Relief for Guilt)

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on one big point which I think is crucial. We’ll center on that in a moment. For now, let me simply enumerate some principles for dealing with guilt. One, clarify your guilt feelings. Now this sounds simple, but it isn’t. Our minds and consciences play tricks on us. As long guilt remains that vague, unnamed, oppressive, painful stirring within, we can’t deal with it. Be very specific. Why am I feeling guilty? What have I done that would bring on these feelings? All sorts of emotions build up within us ...

475. Out of the Miry Bog (Dealing with Depression)

Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we need to honestly locate ourselves before the Lord. One of the problems with Christians is that we think there is something bad wrong with our Christian experience if we admit that we’re not on top. Somehow, and I think the devil has played a trick on us - somehow, the prevailing notion is that a Christian must always be glowing, always be on top, never down, and certainly never in doubt about God’s presence. I think this shows how powerful the devil is - causing masses of Christians to adopt a model ...

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